IBM to Address Open Standards Infrastructure Solutions and Video Convergence at TRENdS '05 Digital Management Forum and Digital Media Summit.MONTEREY, Calif. -- IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) is determined to provide "anytime, anywhere" access to media and entertainment content through converged open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced systems. IBM will offer its new breakthrough digital infrastructure and video content convergence solutions at the TRENdS '05 Digital Media Convergence Media convergence is a theory in communications where mass mediums merges together to create a new product offering a variety of the properties of each. Such an example is that of the internet. executive conference, Four Seasons, Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Monday, September 12. Amy Lipton, Director of Marketing, IBM Media and Entertainment and Digital Media and George Cappadona, PMP See point-to-multipoint and portable media player. PMP - Portable Media Player , Global Offering Executive, IBM Digital Media Solutions will host a seminar titled "Overcoming Challenges in a Converged Marketplace" at the TRENdS '05 Digital Management Forum. The IBM team will discuss how companies can reduce risk with open standards architectures, and accelerate time-to-market with pre-integrated components and connectors. The seminar will address how companies can lower costs with industry standard platforms and reduce customer churn with improved management of rich media, enabling the foundation for a complete Triple or Quad Play offering -- on demand. Saul J. Berman, a partner at IBM Business Consulting Services, and strategy and change leader for IBM's Global Media & Entertainment industry, will present a keynote presentation and Q&A session at the event's concurrent Kagan Digital Media Summit. Dr. Berman's presentation "Video Convergence is Here" will speak to key challenges and futuristic strategies for the mid-term future video industry. At this momentous turning point in the industry, IBM's Institute for Business Value, under the leadership of Dr. Berman, has looked at the opportunistic and disruptive industry trends facing economic models and key participants. Dr. Berman purports that technology inflection points Inflection Point An event that changes the way we think and act. -Andy Grove, Founder of Intel. Notes: For example, the fall of the Berlin Wall was an inflection point in global politics and the commercialization of the Internet was an inflection point in technology. are breeding business model inflection points as never before -- and are impacting television and video arguably ar·gu·a·ble adj. 1. Open to argument: an arguable question, still unresolved. 2. That can be argued plausibly; defensible in argument: three arguable points of law. more than any other media segment. Dr. Berman has over 20 years consulting experience advising senior management of large corporate organizations, as well as start-up companies, on a broad range of strategy, organizational transformation and operations issues. He also leads IBM's team of business consultants who are specifically dedicated to helping the world's leading media and entertainment companies tackle complex business problems. Voted one of Consulting Magazine's "Top 25 Most Influential Consulting Leaders of 2005," Dr. Berman has authored numerous articles and publications, is quoted regularly in media outlets and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. seminars. The annual TRENdS '05 Digital Media Convergence connects leading digital content owners, distributors and technologists seeking partnerships, monetization and ways to deploy. The three-part event features the Digital Media Summit for senior level executives exploring strategies and synergies; the Digital Management Forum for management executives looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. solutions and deployments; and the Digital Trends Showcase, a kiosk-based demonstration pavilion. The event includes the two-day Kagan Digital Media Summit for top executives and strategic planners and the Digital Management Forum for solutions executives in the area of digital technology management. Demos of new content and solutions will be featured at the event's Digital Trends Showcase.
Event Location:
FOUR SEASONS Hotel, Las Vegas
3960 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas, NV 89119
Call: (702) 632-5000; Fax: (702) 632-5195
Registration and more information: For a complete up-to-date program and speaker roster and to register for this event, please visit the TRENdS '05 Web site at http://www.kaganevents.com or call (800) 307-2529. Members of the press are invited to apply for attendance. About Kagan Research, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . Kagan Research consulting and publishing services offer exclusive financial data and analysis, relevant market advisories and proprietary 5- to 10-year projections on cable and DBS (Direct Broadcast Satellite) A one-way TV broadcast service from a communications satellite to a small round or oval dish antenna no larger than 20" in diameter. , broadcast television and radio, movies, entertainment and sports, digital, wireless and Internet technologies and media finance and law. Kagan Events Web site: http://www.kaganevents.com Kagan Research Web site: http://www.kagan.com |
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