Canoe Ventures, Comcast, Cox Communications, & Cisco to Keynote at Light Reading's Cable Next-Gen Video Strategies Conference

Canoe Ventures, Comcast, Cox Communications, & Cisco to Keynote at Light Reading's Cable Next-Gen Video Strategies Conference

NEW YORK, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM TechWeb's Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the largest research-led media company serving the global communications marketplace, and Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com), its prestigious market research division, will host their third annual Cable Next-Gen Video Strategies conference on June 24, 2010, in Atlanta.

Moderated by Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Alan Breznick, Light Reading Cable Site Editor Jeff Baumgartner, and Heavy Reading Cable Industry Insider Contributing Analyst Craig Leddy, Cable Next-Gen Video Strategies: Winning the Three-Screen Battle is a one-day conference that will take a comprehensive look at the cable industry's attempts to generate fresh revenues and succeed in the emerging three-screen universe by deploying next-generation video technologies, applications, and services. Cable Next-Gen Video Strategies 2009 in Atlanta was one of the most successful cable live events in 2009 with 115 attendees, of whom over 60 percent were from cable operators and programmers. Expected attendance for the 2010 conference is between 100 and 150 attendees.

Cable Next-Gen Video Strategies: Winning the Three-Screen Battle will feature keynote speakers from four of the cable industry's leading organizations: Jay Kreiling, VP of Video Services for Comcast; Arthur Orduna, Chief Technology Officer for Canoe Ventures; Lisa Pickelsimer, Executive Director for Video Product Development at Cox Communications; and Charles "Kip" Compton, Senior Director & General Manager, Video & Content Platforms Business Unit, Cisco Systems.

"We will have major cable operators, programmers, equipment vendors, analysts, and advertising agencies addressing such critical industry issues as multi-screen video, 3DTV, IP video, interactive TV, and advanced advertising," Breznick says. "This is easily the biggest, most diverse speaker lineup we've ever put together for this conference. So we expect some important news to come out of it."

Other featured speakers include Rob Aksman, EVP Client Management & Experience Design, BrightLine iTV; Scott Barton, Executive Director, On Demand, Starz Entertainment; Kathleen DeBenedictis, Director of Product Management, Comcast Spotlight; Colin Dixon, Senior Partner, Advisory, The Diffusion Group; Jeff Finkelstein, Director of Network Architecture, Cox Communications; Joseph G. Fiveash, Executive VP, The Weather Channel; Paul Gagnon, Director, North American TV Research, DisplaySearch; Michael S. Kazmier, CTO, Avail-TVN; Steve Necessary, VP Video Strategy & Product Management, Cox Communications; Michael Quigley, VP Business Development & Multi-Platform Distribution, Turner Broadcasting System; and John Vartanian, CTO, iN DEMAND.

Speakers from sponsoring companies will also be presenting. Sponsors include Super Platinum Sponsor Cisco; Gold Sponsors Arris, Ericsson, Motorola, SeaChange, and Vip-TV by EchoStar; Silver Sponsor Smith Micro Software; and Association Sponsors CTAM Southeast, Multimedia Over Coax Alliance, and Women in Cable Telecommunications - Atlanta.

Registration for press and analysts is free. To register for Cable Next-Gen Video Strategies: Winning the Three-Screen Battle conference in Atlanta, please visit: www.lightreading.com/cableatlanta.

Contact:
Amy Averbook
Light Reading
212 600-3373
averbook@lightreading.com

About Light Reading (http://www.lightreading.com/)

Founded in 2000, Light Reading is the leading online media, research, and focused event company serving the $3 trillion worldwide communications market. Lightreading.com is the ultimate source for technological and financial analysis of the communications industry, leading the media sector in terms of traffic, content, and reputation. Light Reading's research arms, Heavy Reading and Pyramid Research, provide the most comprehensive communications research, market data, and technology analysis in close to 100 markets around the world. Light Reading produces nearly 20 targeted communications events including TelcoTV, and TelcoTV Asia, Ethernet Expo New York and Ethernet Europe, and The Tower Summit @ CTIA, as well as focused one-day events tailored for cable, mobile, and wireline executives in the US, Europe, India, and China. Light Reading was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005 and operates as a unit of TechWeb.

About UBM TechWeb (http://www.ubmtechweb.com/)

UBM TechWeb, the global leader in technology media and professional information, enables people and organizations to harness the transformative power of technology. Through its core businesses - media solutions, marketing services, and professional information - UBM TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed brands, applications, and services in the technology market. More than 14.5 million business and technology professionals (CIOs, IT and IT Support managers, Web and digital professionals, software and game developers, government decision makers, telecom providers and business executives) actively participate in UBM TechWeb's communities. UBM TechWeb brands include: global face-to-face events such as Interop, Game Developers Conference (GDC), Web 2.0, Black Hat, and VoiceCon; large-scale online networks such as InformationWeek, Light Reading, and Gamasutra; research, training, and certification services, including HDI, Pyramid Research, and InformationWeek Analytics; and market-leading magazines such as InformationWeek and Wall Street & Technology. UBM TechWeb is part of UBM, a global provider of media and information services for professional B2B communities and markets.

About United Business Media Limited

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetisation of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities -- from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists -- with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to http://www.ubm.com/

Source: Light Reading

CONTACT: Amy Averbook, Light Reading, +1-212 600-3373,
averbook@lightreading.com

Web Site: http://www.lightreading.com/

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