Separate ticket purchase required. For more information contact: Danny McGlone or Sandra Girado at (212) 594-5985.

A Technical Breakfast Hosted by Communications Technology. Breakfast discussion topic: "TV Unplugged: Content Delivery, Multi-Platforms and DOCSIS 3.0".

Hosted by NCTA and CASBAA.

Presentations of real-world deployment lessons and new approaches - including cloud-based solutions and XML template definitions - for coaxing enhanced performance from the interactive software platform.

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Available to all international delegates, the International Business Center provides a great meeting place to conduct business and to meet with other delegates from all over the world.

Located in the Cable Courtyard are Conference Archives and the Publications Kiosk.

Separate ticket purchase required.

Partners: CTAM

Thought leaders from cable, social networks and content sectors describe visions for a new media experience building on conversation, community and contribution. Discovery points:

• Research and findings surrounding integration of social media and traditional television
• Implications of changing viewing patterns including multi-tasking and live chat
• Creative ideas for incorporation of interaction and conversation elements with traditional content

Separate registration required. For more information visit www.walterkaitz.org/supplierdiversity.

Partners: Walter Kaitz Foundation

Exhibitor List | Interactive Floor Plan

Senior technologists and executives from television networks and consumer electronics leaders describe and evaluate new dimensions in content creation and delivery spawned by a variety of emerging video technologies, from Internet streaming to social networking to 3D display. Discovery points:

• Consumer appeal and adoption rates for new video technologies
• Assessing consumer media devices and their place in an expanding video delivery marketplace
• Evaluating Internet-connected TVs, Blu-ray players and other living room platforms for television consumption

Produced in partnership with SCTE.

Representatives from leading cable operating companies in a roundtable-style discussion of real-world ideas and tactics for dealing with rising energy prices and evaluating alternative energy sources. Discovery points:

• Hear how cable providers are reducing energy demand and adopting alternative energy sources
• Understand financial impacts of energy consumption
• Learn about approaches and practices that can save money

Produced in partnership with Cable in the Classroom.

Against a backdrop of widely available broadband service and prolific digital communications tools, a panel of experts from industry, academia and the non-profit world addresses the importance of raising children as “digital citizens.” Discovery points:

• Media literacy and digital literacy as resources in the development of digital citizens and in broadband adoption projects
• Ethics of digital citizenship
• Cable’s role in helping families manage media content from multiple sources
• Public policy benefits in supporting digital citizenship education

Against a backdrop of a challenging retail economy, experts from the cable and retail industries examine ways to strengthen cable-retailer partnerships to achieve positive impact for both sectors. Discovery points:

• Understanding of current and emerging retail issues and opportunities
• Impact of the Internet, social media and mobility on the brick-and-mortar retail experience
• The ideal cable-retail relationship…and what it takes to create it

Media measurement experts and advertising industry executives explain the need for fresh approaches to audience measurement that transcend dated demographic models, and describe how they’re coming to form. Discovery points:

• New technologies and platforms for measurement of TV viewing
• Implications for advertisers, TV networks and advertising sales approaches
• Scientific expression of viewer engagement and what it means for advertising

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Cable industry policy representatives offer updates and perspectives around the highly competitive broadband landscape and the issues affecting the industry, ranging from network neutrality to retransmission consent. Discovery points:

• Understand implications of the broadband stimulus program
• Learn how the National Broadband Plan may influence demand and public perceptions around high-speed Internet services and availability
• Gain critical insight into current regulatory thinking and directions around set-top box "gateways," cable-broadcast business relationships and more

Produced in partnership with CAB.

Tips, ideas and current viewpoints on how local cable advertising can thrive within a shifting mix of advertising options. Discovery points:

• Explanations of advertising-supported platforms, from Internet and mobile to VOD and iTV applications…and more
• Competitive advantages and differentiators for cable advertising
• Positioning and selling your medium for maximum advertiser appeal

Produced in partnership with SCTE.

Best practices and actionable information to help engineering pros understand and maintain DOCSIS 3.0 networks. Discovery points:

• DOCSIS 3.0 technology overview and explanation
• Troubleshooting and impairment assessment tips and techniques
• Key DOCSIS 3.0 attributes and service-enablement approaches

Explanation and assessment of various platforms and technologies used to deliver viewer-controlled, time-independent television to includes set-top DVRs, network DVRs/RS-DVRs, video on demand, and Internet video. Presenter is author of the recent Focal Press book, Digital Video Recorders: Changing TV and Advertising Forever. Discovery point:

• Pros, cons, assessments, and evaluations of each platform, offering a tutorial for the New Age of Television.

For newcomers and veterans alike, a big picture view of cable’s infrastructure, product mix, challenges for today and expectations for tomorrow. Discovery points:

• Explanation of fundamental technology underpinning a variety of products/services
• Industry history, development and key inflection points
• Projections and assessment of future growth opportunities