Digital Future Symposium 2008 - focusing on content protection and consumers

Singapore - Held in conjunction with Asian Television Forum, this year's Digital Future Symposium 2008, held on December 10 at Suntec Singapore, will carry the theme ‘This Business of Content Protection: Movers, Shakers, and Direction Makers' and will focus on the needs and expectations between content protection companies and their consumers.

Distinguished keynote speaker, Yangbin Wang, founder and chief executive officer of Vobile Inc. will share some insights and latest developments in the field of online content recognition and how it will shape the next phase of secure distribution of content online.

Key highlights also include - Live Technology Demo presented by Fabrice Moscheni, CEO of Fastcom, who will take on the typical deployment scenarios for IPTV, home networking and digital broadcast TV.

Other speakers at the event include Ernst Kelting, VP sales, Asia, Ipoque; Bradley Hunt, president, Digital Media; Wu Genliang, CEO, Pomoho; Zhao Li, secretary-general, China DRM; Alvin Lee, director, international relations and strategic policy, Asia-Pacific, Time Warner; Vidar Sandvik, product manager, advanced security, Conax AS; Jim Williams, senior VP and chief technology officer, Motion Picture Association of America; Steven Christian, VP of marketing, Verimatrix; Steve Weinstein, CEO, Movielabs; Shawn Ambwani, VP of marketing, Intertrust; Francois Galy, VP Asia, Viaccess; Fabrice Moscheni, CEO, Fastcom; Youji Itagaki, IPR supervising director, FujiTV; Chris Hibbert, VP media technologies and standards, Walt Disney; and Frank Rittman, director, Centre for Content Protection (CCP).