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OCTOBER 4, 2018: NY GAMES CONFERENCE DIGITAL MUSIC FORUM ​ ​ ​

8:30am – 9:30am NY GAMES CONFERENCE DIGITAL MUSIC FORUM 1 hour REGISTRATION REGISTRATION Main Lobby Main Lobby

9:30am – 9:35am 10 min NY GAMES CONFERENCE DIGITAL MUSIC FORUM WELCOME & INTRODUCTORY REMARKS WELCOME & INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Safra Hall Events Hall

SPEAKER SPEAKERS Ned Sherman, Counsel/Director, Manatt Digital; Tinzar Sherman, CEO & Co-Founder, Digital Media ​ ​ ​ Founder, Digital Media Wire Wire ​

9:35am – 10:00am 25 min OPENING PRESENTATIONS: OPENING PRESENTATIONS:

Three visionary presenters give their perspectives on the Three visionary presenters give their perspectives on the future of the games business followed by Q/A (8-minute future of the music business followed by Q/A (8-minute presentation TED-Talk style). presentation TED-Talk style).

The Future of Gaming and Robotics Presenter: Jeff Bronikowski, SVP, Business ​ Presenter: Nader Hamda, CEO, Ozobot Development, Head of Innovation & Emerging Tech, ​ ​ The State of Interactive Entertainment in 2018 Presenter: Joost van Dreunen, CEO & Co-Founder, Music has always been at the center of innovation in ​ SuperData Research content consumption. From ringtones, to downloads, to music videos being the first online video category to How Blockchain is Changing Business Models generate billions of views, to subscription streaming and Presenter: William Quigley, CEO, Clearstone Ventures, Hologram concerts, music is the OG of content ​ ​ OPSkins, and WAX Innovation. And despite mass fragmentation of most other forms of media, it remains incredibly powerful and culturally relevant.

Presenter: Russ Crupnick, Managing Partner, ​ MusicWatch

Do You Remember Rock n Roll Radio? In a world obsessed with music streaming and podcasts does broadcast radio get enough respect? Radio remains one of the most important modes of music consumption. Radio trumpets how it serves local audiences and advertisers, offers engaging personalities and drives music discovery. Is anyone listening? We’ll take a quick tour through a few key metrics for radio, see how radio stacks up against music streaming options and explore what radio needs to say to stay competitive with pure play music streaming services.

10:00am -10:35am 35 min VIEW FROM THE TOP: VIEW FROM THE TOP: THE FUTURE OF THE DIGITAL GAMES MARKET THE FUTURE OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS

Industry leaders discuss the future of the games industry The overture to the Digital Music Forum. Hear from the as the business continues its transition towards a people who are leading the charge, staying ahead of the multi-platform future. What does it take to make a curve, and forging pathways to a greater music successful game these days across platforms? What economy. emerging platforms will be the most important in the years to come? How do you acquire and retain users and PANELISTS make money in this increasingly complicated gaming Jim Mahoney, GM, U.S., Merlin ​ universe? Marci Allen, President & Founder, MAC Presents ​ Lori Feldman, EVP Strategic Marketing, Warner Bros. ​ PANELISTS Records Jon Radoff, CEO and Founder, Disruptor Beam Moderator: Jason Lipshutz, Editorial Director, Billboard ​ ​ ​ Julian Walshaw-Vaughan, VP of Engineering, Developer, Roblox Tim Fields, CEO, Kabam ​ Moderator: Eric Goldberg, Managing Director, Crossover ​ ​ Technologies

10:35am -11:00am 25 min FIRESIDE CHAT Dr. Songyee Yoon, President, NCSOFT West ​ Interviewer: Mike Vorhaus, President, Magid Advisors ​ ​

11:00am – 11:30am MORNING BREAK MORNING BREAK 30 min

​Safra Hall Classroom Events Hall Cafe 11:30am – 12:00pm GOT GAME? BLOCKCHAIN GAMING 30 min STRATEGIES FOR REVOLUTION GAMER CONTENT This panel will discuss ACROSS THE VIDEO how ICOs and blockchain ECOSYSTEM disrupting the gaming and entertainment industries. This panel will discuss the growth of game-related PANELISTS content on video platforms, Wes Levitt, Head of the networks that provide Strategy, Theta ​ the content, and the William Quigley, CEO, communities of gamers WAX and OPSkins around the world that are Stu Levy, Founder, ​ tuning in great numbers to TOKYOPOP, POP view gameplay videos, Comics, POP Crypto trailers, original series, live Moderator: streams, and news. What Stephane Panyasiri, are the opportunities — Advisor, Cachette Capital ​ both for marketing and monetization — to connect with the gamer generation through video content?

PANELISTS Curt Marvis, CEO & Co-Founder, QYOU Media ​ J.R. McCabe, Chief Digital Officer, Poker Central, ​ PokerGO and ESP Gaming Dan Murray, President, Skybound Interactive

Amber Allen, CEO, Double A Moderator: ​ Johanna Salazar-Cumming, Co-Founder & Chief Media Disrupter, Two Goats, Inc. ​

12:00pm – 12:30pm CREATIVITY RULES: GAMING REALITY: AI AND INVESTING IN MUSIC 30 min MAKING SUCCESSFUL AR/VR, Mixed Reality VOICE-ACTIVATION: GAMES FOR MOBILE CREATION TO Investing in music has PLATFORMS This panel of leading CONSUMPTION always come with a set of game and entertainment challenges, but with the This panel will discuss how executives and investors From AI developed songs upswing in global to make a successful will discuss the future of to smart speakers and revenues, we've seen game for iOS, Android and VR and AR for the game in-car dashboards, the numerous mergers and emerging mobile and entertainment evolution of AI and catalogue acquisitions, platforms. How important industries. What voice-powered systems are IPOs, and startups. What is creativity? What are the investments are being changing the way artists are the services helping metrics that matter when made by VCs? What are can create music to how the artist and label royalty judging product success? the major Hollywood consumers can access payouts? Where is the studios and media music. What is the effect industry headed, what do PANELISTS companies doing in these services and devices you have to give up, and Amir Lotan, Creative VR/AR? What’s have on artists and the end what type of ROI can be Director and Head of happening with mixed user. How can labels and seen? Production, FTX Games reality location based artists make sure they’re ​ Tom Rassweiler, VP of experiences? What does on the right playlists to be PANELISTS Content Reinvention, the future hold? called upon, and what does Hale Boggs, Chairman, Arkadium the future hold for for these Investment Committee, Tiffany Zhong, Founder PANELISTS platforms? Manatt Venture Fund and CEO, Zebra Chris Donahue, Senior Nari Matsuura, Partner, ​ Intelligence Director, Strategic PANELISTS Massarsky Consulting Moderator: Josh Brooks, Alliances, AMD John Rosso, President, Jason Sklar, Managing ​ ​ SVP, Brand Strategy & Stephanie Llamas, Head Market Development, Director, Shamrock ​ Marketing, Jam City of XR, SuperData Triton Digital Capital Advisors ​ ​ Research Drew Silverstein, CEO, Andrew McInnes,Owner & John Sutyak, Executive Amper Music CEO, TMWRK ​ Vice President of Sean Gibbons, SVP Moderator: Allen ​ Business Development, Product & UX, SiriusXM Bargfrede, Managing ​ Digital Development Scott Ryan, VP, Music, Partner, PDX Media ​ Management Gracenote Partners Moderator: Brian Pass, Kyle Smetanka, Senior ​ Partner, Sheppard Mullin Product Manager, ​ Metadata, TiVo ​ Moderator: Howie Singer, ​ Special Technology Consultant, Universal ​ Music Group

12:30pm - 1:45pm LUNCH BREAK LUNCH BREAK 1 hour 15 min VIP LUNCH (INVITE-ONLY) VIP LUNCH (INVITE-ONLY)

1:45pm – 2:15pm GAMES & ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY MARKETING WITH VIDEO AND LIVE STREAMING, DEAL-MAKERS ROUNDTABLE HOW THE SOCIALS HAVE EVOLVED

This panel of leading game and entertainment executives No longer is it a just posting an image. No longer is it a will discuss the future of the game business as it link to view. These days video has taken center stage in continues to grow and reach new heights. What kind of connecting with your audience. Whether you're an artist, deals are being done today? How is the business venue, festival, service, or influencer, this is the new era changing as more entertainment brands and talent are of content creation and audience engagement. What type getting involved in the business? What does media of investment is required, how can you generate revenue,

consolidation mean for the business? What does the and what can you do to stand out? future hold? PANELISTS PANELISTS Grace James, Vice President, Marketing, Atlantic ​ Matthew Wang, Managing Director, Evercore Records ​ Jon Goldman, Managing Partner, Skybound; Venture Jacob Pace, CEO, Flighthouse ​ ​ ​ Partner, Greycroft Brandon Martinez , Vice President, Live Nation Video ​ Paul Martino, General Partner, Bullpen Capital Network, Live Nation Entertainment ​ ​ Colin McCafferty, Managing Partner, McCafferty & Ina Burke - Vice President, Original Content, ​ Company LLC iHeartMedia Moderator: Ned Sherman, Counsel/Director, Manatt Moderator: Brian Anthony Hernandez, Senior Editor of ​ ​ ​ Digital; Founder, Digital Media Wire Music & Culture, ONE37pm.com ​ ​ ​

2:20pm – 2:50pm FIRESIDE CHAT FIRESIDE CHAT: 30 min Simon Sim, President, US Shahendra Ohneswere, SVP Content Development, ​ Interviewer: Annie Pei, Associate Producer, CNBC ​ ​ Interviewer: Chris Denson, Founder, Crush Industries, ​ ​ ​ Host, Innovation Crush ​

NY GAMES CONFERENCE DIGITAL MUSIC FORUM DIGITAL MUSIC FORUM Events Hall Safra Hall Cafe

3:00pm – 3:30pm DATA: WHAT DOES IT STATE OF MUSIC 30 min MEAN TO YOU? STARTUPS

Nearly every platform Picking up from the offers some sort of insights Investing in Music to your posts, videos, Discussion, you will learn downloads, streams, et. al. more about the current With so much information market for Music Startups. to acquire, knowing what What are the challenges, you're looking at, and how growth strategies to to interpret it can generate sustainable sometimes be user-base, what are overwhelming. How can investors looking for, and you best breakdown the types of exit strategies? key data points to understand your audience PANELISTS and how something is Mike Jbara, CEO, MQA ​ performing? Dick Wingate, Principal, DEV Advisors PANELISTS Damian Manning, Founder Fabrice Sergent, Managing & CEO, Hifi ​ Partner, BandsinTown John Funge, CEO and ​ Jeff Ratner, Chief Media Co-Founder, The Music Officer, iCrossing Fund ​ Jon Bahr, VP, Creator Moderator: Wesley ​ Services, CD Baby A’Harrah, Head of ​ Sheryl Allen, Director of International Development Next Big Sound, Pandora and Marketing, Music Ally ​ ​ Moderator: Joan Solsman, ​ Senior Writer, Digital Media, CNET ​

3:30pm - 4:00pm 2018: The Year Brands THE NEW ERA FOR STARTUP PITCHES 30 min Finally Noticed Game STREAMING SERVICES (Three 5-min pitches) Advertising Streaming services have PRESENTERS From new engaging ad been expanding their core formats and platforms and operations to include more Nate Casey, VP Business

even new types of games, types of content. We now Development, Digital ​ brands are realizing the see music streaming ReLab value of advertising in services offering tickets, game environments. artists analytics, original Driven by a desire to video content and video engage with consumer in services adding music. more organic and native How are companies and ways and, importantly, in labels leveraging these brand safe environments, new formats to create more game advertising is taking marketing opportunities off by leaps and bounds. and adding value for Hear from IAB Game artists, services, and fans Committee leaders from alike? Activision Blizzard Media, Electronic Arts, Unity, PANELISTS Zynga, and more discuss Jeff Zuchowski, VP, today’s game advertising Industry Relations and landscape and what we Artist Marketing, Pandora ​ might expect in the years Jordan Bromley, Partner, , to come. Manatt, Phelps & Phillips Tony van Veen, CEO, AVL ​ PANELISTS Digital Group / CD Baby / Gabrielle Heyman, Head Disc Makers of Global Brand Partners, David O'Brien, CEO, Zynga Founder, Humbolt ​ Julie Shumaker, VP, Moderator: Seth ​ Business Development, Schachner, Managing Unity Technologies Director, Strat Americas ​ Jonathan Stringfield, Global Head of Business Marketing, Measurement, and Insights, Activision ​ Blizzard Vida Myslon, Sr. Director, Brand Sales & Marketing, Electronic Arts Moderator: Susan Borst, ​ Vice President, Mobile, IAB

4:00pm – 4:30pm AFTERNOON BREAK AFTERNOON BREAK 30 min Panel Full 4:30pm – 5:00pm THE FUTURE OF ESPORTS: THE OPPORTUNITY FOR 30 min BRANDS, AGENCIES & MARKETERS BRANDING IN A DIGITAL WORLD: CONTENT & STORYTELLING Providing a potent mix of real-life spectatorship and digital entertainment, today the worldwide phenomenon Cross-partnerships can help an artist or a brand reach a of competitive gaming counts over 200 million spectators wider audience, but what is involved in the storytelling annually and presents a unique, new avenue in the era. What unique ways are artists, labels, and brands entertainment market. This panel will discuss best of working together to create a genuine engagement brand activations of eSports teams, leagues, competitive strategy. What works, and where is it going? gamers and streamers. What is the opportunity for brands, agencies and marketers? PANELISTS Jeff Clyburn, Managing Director, Mass Appeal Records ​ PANELISTS Matthew Yazge, VP, Head of Brand Partnerships, Matt Edelman, Chief Commercial Officer, Super League Nielsen Entertainment ​ Gaming Raymond Roker, Head, AEG Studios, AGE, Global Damon Lau, Head of Esports, United Talent Agency Partnerships, AGE ​ ​ Ari Segal, President & COO, Immortals LLC and Los Danielle James, Head of Fashion and Beauty ​ Angeles Valiant Partnerships, iONE Women's Division, Founder, Model ​ ​ ​ Craig Levine, Global Chief Strategy Officer, ESL Citizen ​ Moderator: Moderator: Jesse Kirshbaum, CEO, Nue ​ ​ ​ Harold Goldberg, Founder & Editor in Chief, ​ Videogame Critics Circle

5:00pm – 5:30pm GAMES CRITICS ROUNDTABLE BLOCKCHAIN & MUSIC: IT’S HERE, WHAT YOU 30 min NEED TO KNOW PANELISTS Dan Ackerman, Section Editor / Reviews - PCs & Tokens, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Ethereum are Laptops, CNET words that are becoming more mainstream in today's ​ Sherri Smith, Staff Writer, Tom's Guide lexicon. Learn how new platforms are simplifying ​ Kimari Rennis, Intern, New York Videogame Critics distribution and revenue generation and how companies ​ Circle and artists can best utilize these services. Matt Gerardi, Former Games Editor, A.V. Club ​ Moderator: Harold Goldberg, Founder & Editor in Chief, PANELISTS ​ Jesse Grushack, Co-founder, UJO New York Videogame Critics Circle ​ Christoffer Wallin, Founder & CEO, Pindify ​ Allen Bargfrede, Managing Partner, PDX Media Partner ​ Matt Medved, Founder, Billboard Dance ​ Moderator: Alexandra Bear, Associate, Sheppard Mullin ​ ​

5:30pm – 6:30pm NY GAMES CONFERENCE RECEPTION DIGITAL MUSIC FORUM RECEPTION 1 hour

6:30pm – 8:30pm TribalScale Speaker Dinner 2 hours Thalassa in Tribeca

OCTOBER 5, 2018: FUTURE OF TELEVISION RIGHTS TECH SUMMIT ​ ​ ​

8:30am – 9:30am FUTURE OF TELEVISION RIGHTS TECH 1 hour REGISTRATION REGISTRATION Main Lobby Main Lobby

9:30am – 9:40am 10 min WELCOME & INTRODUCTORY REMARKS WELCOME & INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Safra Hall Events Hall

SPEAKER SPEAKER Ned Sherman, Counsel/Director, Manatt Digital; Paul Sweeting, CEO, Concurrent Media; Editor & ​ ​ ​ ​ Founder, Digital Media Wire Co-Chair, RightsTech ​ ​

9:45am – 10:10am 25 min OPENING PRESENTATIONS: OPENING PRESENTATIONS AND FIRESIDE CHAT: THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION RIGHTSTECH SUMMIT

PRESENTERS: PRESENTERS Kirstine Stewart, President and CRO, TribalScale Pete Mathias, Bertelsmann Entrepreneurs Program, ​ Bertelsmann What it Takes to Transform: Going Beyond Process Vaughn Mckenzie-Landell, CEO & Co-Founder, JAAK ​ and Practice and Looking at Culture Organizations need to adapt to a market and media Pioneering Music Blockchain Pilot: Learnings & landscape that is complex and ever-changing; this Application For The Wider IP Industries requires continuous innovation, agility, and The complexities of copyright and IP management have transformation. The agile way of thinking is easy enough the in a stranglehold, affecting creators, for a given project or a single team, but to release digital rights holders, and those who license music – but products and experiences that keep pace with the media blockchain offers a potential solution, a unified framework industry, organizations must keep the user in mind. to collaborate on a single view of rights. -based Leadership and whole cultures must evolve and adapt, tech start-up JAAK is laying the foundation for an humanistic development and design is the way. In this industry-wide solution with their blockchain-based rights session, Kirstine Stewart, President and CRO of network KORD, with the goal of providing a single global TribalScale, discusses the must-dos for successful view of intellectual property information. With a successful transformation. Spoiler alert: it’s much more than pilot including key music industry players behind them, the processes and practices, it’s about humanistic mindsets potential gains are huge and extend beyond music into and values. broader IP and content industries. JAAK CEO Vaughn McKenzie-Landell and Bertelsmann’s Pete Mathias Seth Geiger, President, SmithGeiger discuss the outcomes of the music pilot and the wider ​ implications for the creative sector. The Battle for Screen Time: Key Trends in the Attention Economy Dr. Seth Geiger will explore the different ways media consumers are shifting their consumption patterns. These trends are accelerating with a concurrent explosion of screen time and an accompanying set of challenges for traditional and emerging media platforms.

Gabrielle Gibbs, Global Marketing Communications Manager,

10:20am -10:50am VIEW FROM THE TOP: VIEW FROM THE TOP: 35 min THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION CRYPTO, CODE AND COPYRIGHTS: THE FUTURE OF MEDIA RIGHTS MANAGEMENT This panel of industry leaders will discuss how video content will be made, distributed, marketed, consumed Media and technology industry leaders offer a big-picture and monetized in the future. What are the key factors view of the current state of media rights management and contributing to the continued growth of revenue? What licensing for rights owners and users, how technology is developments are expected in the value-chain for changing the way rights are cleared and paid for, and content monetization? What areas are poised for the whether new technologies such as crypto and A.I.can greatest growth? What innovations and business models make rights markets more efficient, scalable and will fuel growth in the marketplace? transparent.

PANELISTS PANELISTS Jonathan Barzilay, Chief Operating Officer, PBS Jarrod Dicker, CEO, Po.et ​ ​ Dwayne Benefield, Vice President, Head of PlayStation Lillian Ruiz, COO and Co-founder, Civil Media Company ​ ​ Vue Deep Ghumman, Principal, Advisory Services, EY ​ Kristen Finney, EVP, EMEA, Television Distribution, 20th Jesse Grushak, Co-founder, Ujo ​ ​ Century Fox Moderator: Christopher Kenneally, Director, Business ​ ​ David Beck, EVP, Corporate Strategy and Operations, Development, Copyright Clearance Center ​ Turner Moderator: Todd Spangler, New York Digital Editor, ​ Variety

10:50am– 11:15am Fireside Chat with and PRESENTATION: Eve Sussman 30 min Tom Gorke, EVP, Head of Distribution & Business Artist Spotlight: Eve Sussman Development, Viacom ​ Andrew McCollum, CEO, Philo Eve Sussman is a Brooklyn-based artist working in film, ​ Moderator: Joan Solsman, Senior Writer, Digital Media, video, and installation. Sussman will present a preview of ​ ​ CNET 89 seconds Atomized, a re-invention of her well-known video artwork, 89 Seconds at Alcázar.

89 Seconds at Alcázar is a continuous seamlessly looping video that imagines that space and the characters in Diego Velazquez’s painting Las Meninas. It was first shown at the 2004 Whitney Biennial. All editions of the piece are in museums (MoMA, Whitney) or private collections. Sussman is now appropriating her last artist proof to make a new work: 89 seconds Atomized, and presenting it to the crypto community via an interactive project on the blockchain in collaboration with Snark.art.

The artist will tell the back-story of this project and give a preview of this blockchain experiment.

MORNING BREAK MORNING BREAK 11:15am – 11:45am

30 min

FUTURE OF TELEVISION VR/AR RIGHTS TECH I Safra Hall Cafe Events Hall

11:45am – 12:15pm THE MELTING POT OF THE X[R] FACTOR: The Enumerated 30 min OTT, CABLE, AND CREATING IMMERSIVE Manuscript: Unique IDs, LINEAR TELEVISION EXPERIENCES FOR Metadata and Registries TELEVISION The lines between linear Machine-to-machine rights television and OTT This panel of leaders will management requires

services are blurred more discuss the hardware and machine-readable rights than ever with digital software, including sensory data. A look at how services offering interfaces, applications, different media industries network/cable streams with and infrastructures, that are tackling the challenge DVR capabilities. are enabling immersive of assigning standardized, Alternately, traditional content creation for virtual machine-readable linear services have their reality (VR), mixed reality identifiers and metadata to own apps and are buying (MR), augmented reality creative works, how those into OTT services and (AR), and cinematic reality data are registered and content. What does this (CR). How are these tools made available, and the say about the viewing being used to generate relationship between habits of today’s new forms of reality by private registries and consumers? Are bringing digital objects into public records. broadcasters and the physical world and distribution companies bringing physical world responding effectively? objects into the digital PANELISTS: Where do advertisers fit in? world? The panel will focus Jacob Varghese, Founder on what is available in the & Director, Noctil ​ PANELISTS market today. What are the Daniel Doubrovkine, CTO, Bernarda Duarte, Director, available apps, content, Artsy.net Content Acquisition, Roku devices, and headsets? Michael Simon, President, ​ Domenic DiMeglio, SVP of What is the current state of Rumblefish; CEO, Harry ​ ​ Distribution and consumer adoption? Fox Agency LLC Operations, Digital Media, Mario Pena, Product CBS Interactive PANELISTS Manager, Safe Creative L ​ Jonathan Skogmo, Alexander Rea, Creative Moderator: Maurice ​ ​ Founder and CEO, Jukin Technology Officer, DDB Russell, CEO & Founder, ​ ​ Media Russ Schafer, SVP & Media Rights Moderator: Colin Dixon, General Manager, Management ​ Chief Analyst & Founder, Technology, THX ​ nScreenMedia Lee Simpson, Head of TV & Entertainment, ustwo ​ Jared Goodman, AR/VR Commercialization Lead, Google Moderator: Michael Gold, ​ CEO and Cofounder, Holojam

12:15pm – 12:45pm INVESTING IN VIDEO INNOVATION IN MOBILE: One of a Kind: Staking a Claim: 30 min INNOVATION & WHAT DEVELOPMENTS Engineering Digital Authorship, Attribution, TECHNOLOGIES WILL FUEL FUTURE Scarcity with Blockchain and Authentication GROWTH? This panel of investors, Digital technology did From photographs and who are actively investing The mobile video market away with scarcity, paintings, to musical work in digital media companies, continues to grow at a upending many media sand poetry, the value of discusses the latest record-breaking pace. This industry business models. many types of creative investment trends, is panel will discuss what is But the economics of works lies in their attribution valuations and recent deal required today to make a scarcity may be poised for and provenance. But the flow with a focus on video successful video content a comeback thanks to lack of reliable records of innovation and for IOS, android and blockchain. This panel will ownership and authorship technologies. emerging mobile platforms. explore how artists, makes buying and selling How important is entrepreneurs and them risky and leaves PANELISTS storytelling, creativity and developers are leveraging authors and creators Todd Klein, Partner, innovation? What blockchain technology to uncredited and often Revolution developments are create new businesses unpaid. This panel will Rick Heitzmann, Founder expected to fuel future around digital collectibles, examine how entrepreneurs & Managing Director, growth in the market? limited editions and unique are leveraging blockchain FirstMark Capital digital assets. and other technologies to Sophie Liao, Managing PANELISTS create verified records of a Partner, Oyster Ventures Peter Soldinger, Sr. PANELISTS: work’s origin and history. ​ Sim Blaustein, Partner, Director of Strategy, Stu Levy, Founder, Bertelsmann Digital Fullscreen TOKYOPOP, POP PANELISTS: Media Investments Benoit Vatere, CEO & Comics, POP Crypto Robert Norton, CEO & Andy Weissman, Managing Co-Founder, Mammoth Misha Libman, Co-Founder, Verisart ​ ​ Partner, USV Media Co-Founder & Head of Jackson Turner, Partner, ​

Moderator: Mike Vorhaus, Shane Rahmani, Chief Product, Snart.art Soundchains ​ ​ President, Magid Business Officer, CH Mark Willis, Co-Founder & Drew Waters, Vice ​ ​ Advisors Media Chief Design Officer, President, VEVA Sound ​ Preeya Vyas, Managing Texel Jessica Sobhraj, CEO, Partner, Digital, Saatchi & Alex Bulkin, Co-Founder & Cosynd ​ Saatchi New York Chief Alchemist, Moderator: D.K. Smith, ​ ​ Moderator: Gretchen CoinFund CMO and Co-Founder, ​ ​ Tibbeis, Former President Moderator: Paul Sweeting, dxDigital.com ​ & COO, LittleThings, CEO, Concurrent Media, ​ Founder, GMT Consulting Editor & Co-Chair, ​ RightsTech

12:45pm - 2:00pm LUNCH BREAK LUNCH BREAK 1 hour 15 min VIP LUNCH (INVITE-ONLY) VIP LUNCH (INVITE-ONLY)

2:00pm – 2:30pm VIEW FROM THE TOP: TV & ENTERTAINMENT View From the Top: Copyright Reform in the U.S. and 30 min INDUSTRY DEAL-MAKERS ROUNDTABLE Europe

This panel of leading television and entertainment Copyright legislation in the U.S. and Europe is poised to executives will discuss the future of the video business as bring the most sweeping changes in to how media it continues to grow and reach new heights. What kind of content is distributed, licensed, and used. Industry leaders, deals are being done today? How is the business policymakers and legal experts will discuss how the evolving? What does media consolidation mean for the changes will the changes affect artists, rights owners, business? What does the future hold? content users, and consumers, and where the debate goes from here. PANELISTS Marty Moe, President, Media PANELISTS: ​ Tom Christie, Chief Operating Officer, Showtime James Lorin Silverberg, Esq., Director, Multi-District ​ Networks Litigation, The Intellectual Property Group, PC ​ Christy Tanner, Executive Vice President & General Ben McEwen, Commercial Director, ICE (London) ​ Manager, CBS News Digital Alisa Coleman, Chief Operating Officer, ABKCO Music & ​ ​ Allison Goldberg, SVP & Group Managing Director, Records, Inc. WarnerMedia Investments, WarnerMedia Sarah Howes, Director and Counsel, Government Affairs ​ Moderator: Ned Sherman, Counsel & Director, Manatt and Public Policy, SAG-AFTRA ​ ​ ​ Digital / Founder, Digital Media Wire Moderator: Keith Kupferschmid, CEO, Copyright Alliance ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

2:30pm – 3:00pm FIRESIDE CHAT FIRESIDE CHAT 30 min David Gandler, Co-Founder & CEO, FuboTV Merck Mercuridias, CEO, Founder, & Managing Partner, ​ Interviewer: Jean Ellen Cowgill, GM of TicToc and Global Hipgnosis Songs Ltd ​ Head of Strategy and Business Development, Nile Rodgers, Grammy Award-Winning Producer, Bloomberg Digital Songwriter, Musician, and Singer INTERVIEWER: Robert Levine, Author, Freelance Writer

VIDEO/TV/MOVIES BRANDS/ADVERTISING RIGHTS TECH I RIGHTS TECH II Safra Hall Cafe Events Hall Classrooms A/B

3:00pm – 3:30pm THE RISE OF ESPORTS THE EVOLUTION OF What’s it Worth? Mixes, Mashups and 30 min BRANDS, CONTENT, Investing in Rights and UGC Competitive gaming AND MARKETING Royalties tournaments have been Many uses of copyrighted packing stadiums and Content marketing is Leaders from the worlds of works in mixes, mashups drawing record viewers essential to building and finance, startups, and and user-generated online for some time, and maintaining a loyal venture capital provide an content go uncounted and are increasingly becoming consumer base. Today overview of the M&A and uncompensated. Others part of the network and more than ever, brands investment climate for rights never happen because cable television mix. What need to produce engaging, management companies, they can’t be licensed.

do the next few years look shareable content to and discuss the valuation of This panel will explore how like for the growth of connect with consumers. rights and royalties and their entrepreneurs and eSports leagues in This panel will provide potential as an asset class developers are tackling television broadcast, live examples of how brands in their own right. some of the most event, and online settings? are creating engaging confounding and complex Does eSports need linear content and building social PANELISTS: challenges in rights broadcasting? Do the community and the impact Daniel Dewar, Founder, management. television networks need it has on customer Paperchain eSports? relationships and brand Virginie Berger, Managing PANELISTS: loyalty. Partner, DBTHCap JJ Rosen, EVP of Music ​ PANELISTS Ventures Strategy & Industry John Lasker, Vice PANELISTS Moderator: Sun Jen Yung, Relations, Splice ​ ​ President, Digital Media Zihla Salinas, CEO, Partner, Head of Digital Jonathan Skogmo, Programming, ESPN Trailer Park Group Media, Nfluence Partners Founder & CEO, Jukin ​ ​ ​ Seth Ladetsky Sarah Stringer, SVP, Head Media SVP, Sales & Head of of Innovation, Carat USA Noah Becker, President, ​ Digital Sales Strategy and Soniya Monga, Global AdRev Revenue, Turner Sports Agency Partnerships, Rasty Turek, CEO, Pex ​ ​ David Clevinger, Senior Snap Moderator: Chauncy ​ Director of Product and Jennifer Prenner, Global Jackson, President, Siri ​ ​ Strategy for eSports and Head of Marketing, Growth Music Group Sports, IBM Watson & Engagement, ​ ​ Media Fire TV Moderator: Daniel Brad Spychalski, Creative ​ Schnapp, Partner, Strategy Lead, ​ Sheppard Mullin Moderator: Paul Kontonis, ​ CMO, WHOSAY ​

PANELS 3:30pm - 4:00pm VOICE-ACTIVATED AI THE FUTURE OF NEXT Show Me the Money: DIY Tools and Financing 30 min FOR MEDIA & GEN OTT AND Bringing Transparency to for Artists ENTERTAINMENT MONETIZATION Residuals and Royalty Payments Artists and entrepreneurs Voice-activated artificial While Netflix continues discuss how technology is intelligence (AI) is going grow its market share, The music business has its enabling creators to beyond telling you the there are a growing notorious “black box” money manage and finance their weather and turning on number of video services problem, but creators and own careers and retain your lights – it’s now with programming and licensors in many control of their work. helping you navigate media business models designed rights-based industries lack and entertainment for targeted audiences that effective tools to track the PANELISTS: experiences. What is are gaining traction. This money their works generate Dae Bogan, CEO & possible when media and panel of experts in as it makes its way back Founder, TuneRegistry ​ entertainment companies Over-the-Top (OTT) upstream. This panel will Cheryl Potts, Founder and begin to tap the power of monetization will discuss examine how CEO, Cleerkut ​ voice-activated devices? monetization strategies entrepreneurs, developers, Rick Goetz, Marketing How are consumers being used by successful artists and agents are trying Director, ONErpm ​ reacting to the new services today, both to bring greater G. Thomas Esmay, technologies, including subscription based and transparency to the system Director of Business Amazon Echo, Google advertiser supported. of accounting and Development, Home and voice-based What’s working and what payments. SingularDTV set-top boxes, consoles not? How is programming Moderator: Georgii ​ ​ and smartphones? What being designed and rolled PANELISTS: Speakman, Founder, does the future hold for this out to attract and retain Danny Anders, CEO & Out.Li.Er exciting area of innovation? new audiences. What are Founder, ClearTracks ​ some of the best strategies Razi Rais, Subject Matter PANELISTS for monetizing video Expert (Blockchain), Chuck Fletcher, Chief content in the OTT Microsoft Technology Officer, ecosystem? Cédric Cobban, President Barbarian and Founder, PeerTracks ​ Rob Aksman, Chief PANELISTS Inc. Strategy Officer & Jeff Shultz, Chief Business Eugene Mopsik, CEO, Co-Founder, BrightLine Officer, Pluto TV American Society for ​ ​ Grady Miller, VP, Strategic Thai Randolph, EVP & Collective Rights Growth, National General Manager, Laugh Licensing (ASCRL) ​ ​ Research Group Out Loud Moderator: Christopher Doug Robinson, Founder Bill Sondheim, President, Kenneally, Director,

and CEO, Cinedigm Entertainment Business Development, FreshDigitalGroup Group Copyright Clearance Moderator: David Moderator: Rick Howe, Center ​ ​ Berkowitz, Head of The iTV Doctor, Marketing, Storyhunter Interactive TV Today ​

4:00pm – 4:30pm AFTERNOON BREAK AFTERNOON BREAK 30 min

4:30pm – 5:00pm A.I.: What to Make of Machine-Made Art? 30 min VIEW FROM THE TOP: ORIGINAL VIDEO CONTENT LEADERS ROUNDTABLE Courts say monkeys can’t own copyrights, but what about machines? As artificial intelligence systems increasingly Quality video content is in demand with digital, television are used to create music, photographs, news articles, and and cable networks competing to capture and retain artworks, who or what owns the copyrights? If not that viewers. This panel of industry experts will discuss the machine then whose creative input controls and how formats, genres and storytelling techniques that are in should it be credited? Can an A.I. system join a CMO? most demand, how competition is driving innovation and creativity and the winning formulas for success. PANELISTS: Christopher Sprigman, Professor, NYU School of Law, ​ PANELISTS Co-Director, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and ​ Rafi Fine, President and Co-Founder, FBE Policy ​ Daniel Tibbets, President & General Manager, El Rey Taishi Fukuyama, Co-founder, COO, Amadeus Code ​ ​ Network Ahmed Elgammal, CEO, Artrendex ​ Evan Shapiro, Founder, eshapTV ​ Moderator: Sahil Patel, Senior Reporter, Digiday Moderator: Ed Klaris ​ ​

5:00pm – 6:00pm 30 min FUTURE OF TELEVISION RECEPTION RIGHTSTECH RECEPTION