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February 16, 2005

Internet protocol (IP) technology is revolutionizing the telephone business, with voice-over-IP promising to quickly replace traditional circuit-switched telephony. Now, IP technology promises to bring the same radical transformation to the television business, withcontent providers, telephone companies and even cable companies drawing up plans to transmit programming via IP over broadband connections.

But, will multichannel IP video becoming a reality any time soon, or are the technological,business and even legal barriers so high that years, or even decades, will pass before IP video arrives? Will video-over-IP, with its capacity to transmit unlimited content from centralized servers, ever replace traditional multichannel video programmingdistribution technologies such as cable or satellite? What would happen to traditional television business models if video-over-IP becomes a meaningful distribution platform?

Pike & Fischer’s communications analyst Cynthia Brumfield questioned leaders whoare pushing the video-over-IP envelope, including Josh Goldman, CEO of Akimbo Systems, Bob Greene, SVP of Advanced Services for Starz Entertainment Group and Jeremy Allaire, Chairman and Founder of Vidmark. This 90-minute event included 25 minutes of interactive Q&A.

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What Was Covered:

The latest plans by phone, and even cable, companies to distribute video-over-IP.
How quickly content providers are willing to embrace this new mode of distribution.
How video-over-IP could make government licensing of broadcast stations and cable systems obsolete.

Who Attended:

Cable, broadcast, telecom, wireless, satellite and technology vendor executives
Ad agencies, media buyers and strategic planners
Program production and business planning executives
Internet content suppliers and aggregators
Financial analysts
Legal and regulatory professionals

About the Speakers:

Moderator: Cynthia Brumfield - is Director of the Communications Media Analysis Group at P&F. Ms. Brumfield joined P&F with the company’s acquisition of broadband media consulting firm, Broadband Intelligence, which she founded in 1999. Ms. Brumfield is a veteran media and communication industry analyst, having served as a Senior Analyst at Paul Kagan Associates, V.P. of Research and Policy Analysis at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association and Director of Research for The Media Institute.

Jeremy Allaire - is Chairman, Founder and President of Vidmark. As President of Vidmark, Mr. Allaire leads the company’s technology, marketing and business development strategy. Prior to founding Vidmark, Jeremy worked as a technologist and entrepreneur-in-residence for Cambridge, MA-based venture capital firm General Catalyst, where he worked on companies and investments in broadband media, mobile content, e-commerce software and digital identity. Before General Catalyst, Jeremy was Chief Technology Officer of Macromedia, where he helped define and launch the Macromedia MX platform for Rich Internet Applications. Jeremy joined Macromedia with its merger with Allaire Corporation, where Jeremy was a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer.

Josh Goldman - is CEO of Akimbo Systems, which he joined after serving as entrepreneur-in-residence of Sprout Group. Mr. Goldman previously served as President and CEO of Internet comparison-shopping service mySimon, overseeing the sale of the service for more than $730 mil. to CNET Networks, after which he served as President of CNET’s consumer division. Mr. Goldman received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s of science degree with honors in Computer Science from Tufts University. Founded in 2002, Akimbo delivers video-on-demand to televisions via broadband-Internet connections. Akimbo is a privately held company funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Sprout Group and Zone Ventures.

Bob Greene - is SVP of advanced services for Starz Entertainment Group LLC (SEG), where he is responsible for development of new, advanced distribution vehicles, including broadband delivery systems for SEG products, such as STARZ! Ticket on Real Movies, a premium television subscription-based on-demand movie download service. Prior to joining SEG, Mr. Greene served as CEO and Chmn. of Digital Lava Inc., a provider of streaming media software and services used by corporations for marketing, sales, corporate communications and financial presentations. Before joining Digital Lava, Greene was SVP of Lightspan Inc., a San Diego-based developer of interactive educational software delivered over cable and telephone networks. He served for 13 years at Showtime Networks Inc., rising to SVP of sales and marketing. A native of Tenafly, NJ, Greene graduated from the University of Virginia.

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