David Lynch, Hilary Rosen, Frank Biondi, Mark Cuban, Bill Gross, Bert Ellis, Ian Clarke to Speak at Digital Coast 2000, Sept. 12-14 at the Director's Guild of America.Business/Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 23, 2000 Digital Coast Awards on September 14 Will Recognize Excellence in Digitally Delivered Entertainment Rising Tide Studios Rising Tide Studios (RTS) is an American company that has produced news and events related to online business-to-business ventures. Founded by Jason McCabe Calacanis in 1996, their first publication, the Silicon Alley Reporter (RTS (Request To Send) An RS-232 signal sent from the transmitting station to the receiving station requesting permission to transmit. Contrast with CTS. 1. (operating system) RTS - run-time system. 2. ) today announced the speakers and agenda for Digital Coast 2000 (DC2000), a three-day conference exploring the digital transformation of the entertainment industry. The conference, which will be held September 12 to 14, 2000, at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles, will unite the artists, executives, technologists, venture capitalists, and visionaries who are building Southern California's dynamic Internet-driven industries. To date, speakers include award-winning television and film director David Lynch; idealab! CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and Chairman Bill Gross; Hilary B. Rosen, President and CEO, RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America, Washington, DC, www.riaa.com) A membership association of music recording companies. Its goal is to promote the record label industry and protect the rights of copyright owners. It was a major contributor to the SDMI digital distribution system. ; Mark Cuban, founder and CEO of Yahoo's Broadcast.com (Nasdaq: YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ); Rodney Brooks, director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory The MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory was an interdisciplinary research entity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which became one of the most influential and accomplished in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. ; WaterView Advisors Managing Director Frank J. Biondi Jr.; Massive Media Group CEO Howard Weitzman; Romp.com co-founder and Co-CEO Bruce Forman; Honkworm founder and CEO Johan Liedgren; Icebox.com Co-founder and CEO Steven Standford; directors and executive producers of George Lucas In Love, 405 The Movie and The Blair Witch Project, and special international guest Gordan Paunovic, co-founder of RadioB92 Belgrade. "Los Angeles, and Southern California in general, has developed into one of the most important and dynamic hubs of Internet innovation in the world," said Jason McCabe Calacanis, CEO of Rising Tide Studios, editor of Digital Coast Reporter, and co-chair of DC2000. "Digital Coast 2000 is dedicated to showcasing the talent, companies, and business models that are driving not only the digital-entertainment sector, but also the high-growth e-business sector. I'm looking forward to a truly historic gathering of the traditional and new-media leaders at the forefront of this transformation." Panels on the e-business track include an e-services CEOs roundtable with Jeff Dachis of Razorfish (Nasdaq: RAZF), Bert Ellis of iXL (Nasdaq: IIXL), Robert Bernard of marchFIRST (Nasdaq: MRCH MRCH Initial Death Rate of Chapel Hill (Carolina Environmental Program) ), Bob Gett of Viant (Nasdaq: VIAN), and Scott Mednick of Xceed (Nasdaq: XCED); a "Digital Coast Enterprise Success Stories" panel examining how mature companies are re-engineering through Internet technology and new, networked operational models; "Internet Book Publishing and Online Literature" with leading executives and e-published authors; and a panel of top Digital Coast VCs on the state of venture capital in Southern California. Topics on the Digital Coast 2000 Convergence Track include "The e-Biznification of Hollywood," in which leading executives from major and independent motion-picture studios examine the Internet's impact on the film industry; "The Animation Renaissance," featuring exclusive premiere screenings from leading online animation producers; an Interactive and Enhanced Television panel showcasing live demos from award-winning enhanced TV content creators and the American Film Institute American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase ; "Talent Rights: Artists, Agencies, and the Risks and Rewards of Online Opportunities," covering the new Internet agreements with leaders of the DGA, SAG, and WGA; and panels such as "The Future of Intellectual Property" and "Music, Money, and The P2P See peer-to-peer and point-to-point. Revolution," including EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA, www.eff.org) A non-profit civil liberties organization founded in 1990 by Mitchell Kapor and John Perry Barlow. It works in the public interest to protect privacy and freedom of expression in the arenas of computers and the Internet. co-founder John Perry Barlow John Perry Barlow (born October 3, 1947) is an American poet, essayist, retired Wyoming cattle rancher, political activist and former lyricist for the Grateful Dead. Biography Born in Sublette County, Wyoming, Barlow attended elementary school in a one room schoolhouse. ; FreeNet inventor Ian Clarke; Scour.net President and co-founder Dan Rodrigues; Gene Kan of InfraSearch, AppleSoup CEO Bill Bales, and Evolab Co-Chairman Jim Griffin. This second annual conference will also premiere "The Digital Coast Awards" in a closing-day ceremony September 14 to recognize excellence in digitally delivered entertainment projects including, but not limited to, online animation, short films, and interactive games. "We've observed phenomenal growth over the past year in the sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. and volume of online entertainment," explained Xeni Jardin, co-chair of DC2000, Rising Tide Studios' VP of conferences, and Digital Coast Reporter senior editor, "so we've created a new showcase devoted solely to this evolving sector--there won't be awards for 'best travel site' or 'top e-commerce portal,' on September 14, just the best in Internet entertainment for Web and wireless." DC2000 is sponsored in part by AdLink, Akamai, Beyond Interactive, Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP, Communities.com, Concrete Media, Cruel World, Cysive Inc., Deloitte & Touche, DoDots, dotTV, Epoch Internet, Eureka Broadband, Evoke Communications, FirstLook.com, Guidance, iBeam Broadcasting, Intertrust, iXL, Julien J. Studley, Inc., KPE, Latham & Watkins, L90, marchFIRST, Microsoft, Public Film Works, Radical Mail Communications, Razorfish, Redwood Partners, Shockwave.com, Soundbreak, SpiderDance, TellSoft Technologies, TrafficStation, Veon, Inc, Xceed, Yazam, Zentropy Partners. DC2000 is produced in association with The Directors Guild of America and NATPE NATPE National Association of Television Programming Executives with the support of Variety and is a production of Rising Tide Studios, a New York-based integrated media company that produces business-to-business intelligence online, in print, and in person. RTS publishes two print magazines: Silicon Alley Reporter Silicon Alley Reporter was an American trade publication focused on New York's Silicon Alley. Founded by Jason McCabe Calacanis in 1996, then was renamed the Venture Reporter in 2001 and was eventually sold to Dow Jones in 2003. and Digital Coast Reporter, and produces five online publications: Silicon Alley Daily (www.siliconalleydaily.com), Digital Coast Daily (www.digitalcoastdaily.com), iHealthcareWeekly (www.ihealthcareweekly.com), Digital Music Weekly (www.digitalmusicweekly.com), and Pervasive Weekly (www.pervasiveweekly.com). In addition to its publications, RTS produces annual events including the upcoming Silicon Alley Venture Capital Summit (www.venturecapitalsummit.com), Oct. 11 to 12 in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Silicon Alley 2000, Internet Healthcare 2000, The International Network 2000, and Rising Tide Summit III. Rising Tide Studios is privately owned and headquartered in New York, with an office in Los Angeles. For a complete conference agenda, speaker bios, information on submitting a project for the Digital Coast Awards and press credentials, please visit www.digitalcoast2000.com. |
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