Please join us for a candid discussion on the Stanford campus of how innovation and demand for new digital media services (streaming video, music, ringtones, games, etc.) are forcing adaptation to new business models and network architectures.

Confirmed speakers include:

Jeremy Allaire, Founder/Chairman & President Brightcove; Co-founder Allaire Corp. Tony Aoki, Vice President, Corporate Technology and Strategy, Sony Electronics Greg Ballard, CEO, Sorrent John Cioffi, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Kenny Frank, Senior Vice President & CTO, Alcatel North America Bernd Girod, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Rob Glaser, Chairman & CEO, RealNetworks Andrea Goldsmith, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Bob Greene, Senior Vice President, Advanced Services, Starz Entertainment Group Veikko Hara, SVP & Head of R&D, TeliaSonera Reed Hastings, Founder and CEO, Netflix Moshe Lichtman, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft TV Balan Nair, CTO, Qwest Sean Parker, President/COO and Co-founder, The Facebook, Cofounder, Napster and Plaxo Dan Rosensweig, COO, Yahoo! Adam Tom, CEO & Co-founder, RGB Networks David Weinberg, VP, Business & Legal Affairs, Universal Music Group, eLabs Bill Wolfe, VP Strategy, Standards & Technology and CTO - Server Division, Openwave

Past speakers have included: Andy Bechtolsheim, Co-founder, Sun .. Bill Coleman, Cofounder / former CEO, BEA Ken Goldstein, SVP & GM, Disney Online .. Diane Greene, Cofounder / Pres, VMWare Jonathan Schwartz, COO, Sun Mark Cuban, Founder/CEO, Broadcast.com Rob Burgess, Chairman, Macromedia

This 13th special Symposium will explore and highlight emerging business and technology trends and potential obstacles surrounding next generation media networks. Questions include:

Which hyped services will make it and which will not? What are the protection, privacy and rights demands? What are the technical challenges for deploying home networks? Will power shift toward content owners? How will content be appropriately protected?

This special symposium exploring Next Generation Media Networks is cosponsored by SNRC and Accel Partners.