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| THURSDAY, April 19, 2001: | |
 4:00 p.m. � 6:00 p.m. � Registration � Apollo Ballroom Foyer If you're in town early enough to register on Thursday afternoon, please do so. Registration sponsored by:   | |
| FRIDAY, April 20, 2001: | |
| 7:00 a.m. � 5:00 p.m. � Registration � Apollo Ballroom Foyer Video projection presentation equipment provided by  | |
| 7:00 a.m. � 8:30 a.m. � Breakfast � Apollo Corridor Breakfast sponsored by:  | |
| 8:30a.m. � 9:00 a.m. � Opening Plenary Session: Apollo Ballroom Welcome and Introductions - Lew Zager, WETA Opening Remarks - Ed Caleca, Senior Vice President, PBS Technology and Operations | |
| 9:00 a.m. � 9:30 a.m. Keynote Address: "What Will The Home Of The Future Look Like?" - Gary Shapiro, President, CEA | |
| 9:30 a.m. � 10:15 a.m. Digital Interfaces Including ASI and SMPTE-310 - Andy Butler, PBS | |
| 10:15 a.m. � 10:30 a.m. Recognition of the Engineering and IT Committee Members | |
| 10:30 a.m. � 11:00 a.m. � Break Break sponsored by:  Engineering sessions are in the Apollo Ballroom. IT sessions are in Athena. Conference registrants may choose to attend either session. | |
| 11:00 a.m. � 11:45 a.m. � Engineering Breakout (Apollo) DTV ATSC 8VSB Standard Review Michael Isnardi, Head of the Compression Systems Group, Sarnoff Corporation | 11:00 a.m. � 11:15 a.m. � IT Breakout (Athena) IT Conference Opening Remarks Michael Hunt, PBS |
| 11:45 a.m. � 12:30 p.m. � Engineering Breakout A New 8VSB/COFDM/NTSC Demodulator Jacob Tanz, President and CEO, Oren Semiconductor | 11:15 a.m. � 12:00 noon � IT Breakout Keynote Presentation: André Mendes, Former VP and CIO, PBS |
| 12:00 noon � 12:30 p.m. � IT Breakout ROI on IT Projects - Tony Myers, CPB | |
12:30 p.m. � 1:45 p.m. � Lunch � Parthenon Terrace Lunch sponsored by: | |
| 1:45 p.m. � 2:30 p.m. � Engineering Breakout PSIP - Gomer Thomas, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Triveni Digital | 1:45 p.m. � 2:30 p.m. � IT Breakout (Athena) How Do You Spell Relief ? Paul Shapiro, PBS |
| 2:30 p.m. � 3:15 p.m. � Engineering Breakout MPEG 2, 4, and 7: A Review MPEG Compression Techniques, Uses and the Implication for Public Broadcasting Dr. Paul Moroney, Vice-President, Advanced Technology, Motorola Broadband Communications | 2:30 p.m. � 3:10 p.m. � IT Breakout Navigating Wireless / Mobile Jeremy Roberts, PBS; WHYY |
| 3:10 p.m. � 3:15 p.m. � IT Breakout IT First Day Wrapup Kate Butcher, Nebraska ETV | |
 3:15 p.m. � 3:45 p.m. � BreakBreak sponsored by: | |
| 3:45 p.m. � 4:30 p.m. � Apollo Ballroom CableTelevision, Set-top Boxes, Data Services, and Interfaces Mike Hayashi, Time Warner Cable | |
| 4:30 p.m. � 5:15 p.m. New PBS Interconnection Plans Bruce Jacobs, TPT and John Tollefson, PBS | |
| 5:15 p.m. � 5:30 p.m. Day One - Conference Wrapup | |
 5:30 p.m. � 8:30 p.m.Poolside at the Alexis Park !! Event sponsored by: | |
| SATURDAY, April 21, 2001: | |
| 7:00 a.m. � 5:00 p.m. � Registration � Apollo Ballroom Foyer Video projection presentation equipment provided by | |
| 7:00 a.m. � 8:00 a.m. � Breakfast � Apollo Corridor Breakfast sponsored by:  Engineering sessions are in the Apollo Ballroom. IT sessions are in Athena. Conference registrants may choose to attend either session. | |
| 8:00 a.m. � 8:15 a.m. � Engineering Breakout Day Two: Perspective and Introductions Lew Zager, WETA | 8:00 a.m. � 8:10 a.m. � IT Breakout (Athena) Day Two: Perspective and Introductions Michael Hunt, PBS |
| 8:15 a.m. � 9:00 a.m. � Engineering Breakout Adaptive Digital Equalization - Understanding Both Linear and Non-Linear Components Dan Dickey, Director of Engineering, ADC Broadcast Systems Division | 8:10 a.m. � 9:00 a.m. � IT Breakout (Athena) e-Customer Relationship Management (CRM in a non-profit World) Cate Twohill, CommerceOne |
| 9:00 a.m. � 9:45 a.m. � Engineering Breakout DTV Encoding, PSIP and Station Traffic Interfaces George Anderson, Thomcast Communications, Inc. | 9:00 a.m. � 9:30 a.m. � IT Breakout (Athena) ASP's Pros and Cons David Shomette, PBS |
| 9:45 a.m. � 10:15 a.m. � Engineering Break Break sponsored by:  | 9:30 a.m. � 10:00 a.m. � IT Breakout (Athena) Linux Perspective J.R. Wessels, Nebraska ETV |
| 10:15 a.m. � 11:00 a.m. � Engineering Breakout Compressed Video Data Manipulation Jerry Berger, AgileVision and Terry Smith, Sarnoff | 10:00 a.m. � 10:30 a.m. � IT Break Break sponsored by: |
| 11:00 a.m. � 11:30 a.m. � Engineering Breakout XDS, V-Chip and Closed Captions Gregory Forbes, PBS | 10:30 a.m. � 11:15 a.m. � IT Breakout (Athena) Windows 2000: Managing The Possibilities Michael Cazier, PBS and Ron Hetrick, WITF |
| 11:30 a.m. � 12:00 p.m. � Engineering Breakout PBS Announcements and Q&A John Tollefson, PBS | 11:15 a.m. � 11:45 a.m. � IT Breakout (Athena) Messaging Platforms: A Panel Discussion Craig Given and Orin Love, PBS; Lisa Robertson, MPBC; Ron Kain, WITF |
| 12:00 p.m. � 12:15 p.m. � Engineering Breakout DTV Pioneer Awards Jerry Butler, PBS | 11:45 a.m. � 12:30 p.m. � IT Breakout (Athena) Streaming Media 101 Kent Osborne, SDPTV and Jeremy Roberts, PBS |
| 12:15 p.m. � 12:30 p.m. � Engineering Breakout PBS Excellence in Engineering Awards Ed Caleca, PBS
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| 12:30 p.m. � 1:45 p.m. � Lunch � Parthenon Terrace Lunch sponsored by:  | |
| 1:45 p.m. � 2:30 p.m. � Engineering Breakout FCC Regulatory, Must Carry, DTV Transition issues, and Funding Marilyn Mohrman-Gillis, APTS; Bill Cooperman, PTFP; CPB; Ed Caleca, PBS | 1:45 p.m. � 2:15 p.m. � IT Breakout (Athena) Backup Strategies David Creekmore, CPB |
| 2:30 p.m. � 3:15 p.m. � Engineering Breakout NAB / MSTV Field Test Report LynnClaudy, Senior Vice President, Science and Technology, NAB | 2:15 p.m. � 3:00 p.m. � IT Breakout (Athena) Could Network Attached Storage (NAS) Be The Answer TO Your Station's Storage Needs ? Ken Walters, PBS |
| 3:15 p.m. � 3:30 p.m. � IT Breakout (Athena) IT Conference Closing Remarks Michael Hunt, PBS | |
| 3:15 p.m. � 3:45 p.m. � Break Break sponsored by:  | |
| 3:45 p.m. � 4:30 p.m. � Apollo Ballroom The ABC's of Enhanced Television - Bruce Jacobs, TPT | |
| 4:30 p.m. � 5:15 p.m. � Apollo Ballroom Interactivity: A Panel Discussion - Bruce Jacobs, TPT, Moderator; Scot Boyd, Program Manager: Tools, Microsoft; Nandu Nandhakumar, VP of Engineering and CTO, Triveni Digital; Bill Hendler, VP of Interactivity, Chyron; and additional panelist, to be announced later. | |
| 5:15 p.m. � 5:30 p.m. � Apollo Ballroom Day Two - Conference Wrapup | |
 7:00 p.m. � 10:00 p.m. Madame Tussaud's Celebrity Experience There will be a limited number of buses leaving from the hotel between 6:30 and 6:45 pm for those conference registrants who are staying at the Alexis Park, but given the end of the conference at 5:30 and the beginning of the party at 7:00, other conference registrants are free to hit the strip or return to their hotels and find their own way to the party. Technology Conference name badges are absolutely required for all participants including registrants and guests. Event sponsored by: | |
| SUNDAY, April 22, 2001: | |
| 7:00 a.m. � 8:30 a.m. � NETA Breakfast � Alexis Gardens For NETA member-station engineers . . . . | |
| 7:00 a.m. � 8:30 a.m. � CPB Transition Fund Breakfast � Athena for any Transition Fund station personnel who are applying for CPB's financial assistance for participation at the Conference | |
| 7:30 a.m. � 11:00 a.m. � Registration � Apollo Ballroom Foyer Video projection presentation equipment provided by | |
| 7:30 a.m. � 8:30 a.m. � Breakfast ( for the rest of us!! ) � Apollo Corridor Breakfast sponsored by:  Longshore Systems | |
| 9:00 a.m. � 5:00 p.m. � DTV Studio Technology Seminar � in Athena This event is open only to those who have registered specifically for this seminar. | |
| 9:00 a.m. � 5:00 a.m. � DTV RF Transmission Seminar � in Zeus A This event is open only to those who have registered specifically for this seminar. | |
| 8:30 a.m. � 8:45 a.m. � Apollo Ballroom Day Three: Perspective and Introductions Lew Zager, WETA | |
| 8:45 a.m. � 9:30 a.m. � Apollo Ballroom Keynote Address: The Future of Moving Video and Other Data into the Home Sid Ahuja, Director, Bell Labs Multimedia Communications Research Lab | |
| 9:30 a.m. � 10:15 a.m. � Apollo Ballroom Asset Management: A Panel Discussion Moderator: David Liroff, WGBH; Panel: Artesia, Bulldog, EMC | |
| 10:15 a.m. � 10:45 a.m. � Break Break sponsored by:  | |
| 10:45 a.m. � 11:30 a.m. Video Applications Powered with Storage Area Networks Greg Reitman, LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc. | |
| 11:30 a.m. � 12:15 p.m. Trends In The DTV Transition David Liroff, WGBH | |
| 12:15 p.m. � 1:30 p.m. � Lunch � Parthenon Terrace Lunch sponsored by:  | |
| 1:30 p.m. � 2:15 p.m. � Apollo Ballroom Keynote Address: What TV Can Be Ed Graczyk, Communications Group Manager, Microsoft TV | |
| 2:15 p.m. � 3:00 p.m. � Apollo Ballroom HUB - Combined Master Control Facilities Bob Luff, NBC | |
| 3:00 p.m. � 3:30 p.m. DTV - ATP: A Progress Report Geraldine Evans, Accenture | |
| 3:30 p.m. � 3:45 p.m. Conference Closing | |
| 4:00 p.m. � 6:00 p.m. DTV - ATP Steering Committee Meeting Meeting will be held in Suite 2301, near the far-end of the Alexis Park property (the buildings are marked with suite numbers). | |
| 6:30 p.m. � 10:00 p.m. Engineering Professionals Dinner Dinner in SkyView 5 and 6, 26th floor at Bally's, on "the Strip". Buses for conference registrants staying at the Alexis will depart at 6:00 pm. Others should plan their own transportation. See details on Hospitality page and a map at Bally's. Sponsored by | 7:00 p.m. � 9:00 p.m. Information Technology Professionals Dinner Dinner is at Lawry's Prime Rib, on Howard Hughes Blvd. not far from the Alexis Park Buses for conference registrants staying at the Alexis will depart at 6:30 pm. Others should plan their own transportation. See details on Hospitality page and a map at Lawry's. Sponsored by |
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