Saturday, October 11, 2008

 Evening Schedule
Location: Renaissance Pere Marquette Hotel
 7:30 p.m.
  • Lobby Bar: Informal Gathering (no-host)

Sunday, October 12, 2008

 Location: Tulane University, Building 40
 8:30 a.m.
  • Meet in Lobby at Renaissance Pere Marquette to board bus
 8:45 a.m.
  • Bus to Tulane
 9:00 a.m.
  • Continental Breakfast
    • Location: Room GW2 4132 (4th floor)
    • Sponsored by IBM
 9:30 a.m.
  • Welcome/Agenda Overview
    • Location: Room GW2 3111 (3rd floor)
    • Patty Sullivan, education solutions executive, IBM
 9:40 a.m.
  • Welcome to Tulane University
    • Angelo DeNisi, dean, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University
 9:50 a.m.
  • ResearchChannel Update (Slides - PDF)
    • Amy Philipson, executive director, ResearchChannel
 10:40 a.m.
  • Break
 11:00 a.m.
  • Communications Team (Slides - PDF)
    • Phillippa Kassover, senior director, Development and External Relations, ResearchChannel
 11:30 a.m.
  • Viewer Metrics (Slides - PDF)
    • Yonah Karp, streaming & web metrics analyst, University of Washington
 11:45 a.m.
  • Closed Caption Workflow (Slides - PDF)
    • Jack Hoffman, director, Production Services, University of Washington
    • Laurie Thompson, lead, Media Distribution, University of Washington
 12:00 p.m.
  • Buffet Lunch
    • Location: Room GW2 4132 (4th floor)
    • Sponsored by IBM
 1:30 p.m.
  • Encouraging Faculty Participation (Slides - PDF)
    • Location: Room GW2 3111 (3rd floor)
    • Sharon Pitt, executive director, Division of Instructional Technology, George Mason University
 2:00 p.m.
  • Meeting Wrap-Up Day One/Dinner Details
    • Patty Sullivan, education solutions executive, IBM
 2:05 p.m.
  • Tulane Update/Campus Tour
    • William Hydrick, director, Media Services, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University
 3:15 p.m.
  • Bus Back to Renaissance Pere Marquette Hotel
 3:30 p.m.
  • Free Time
 6:15 p.m.
  • Meet in Lobby at Renaissance Pere Marquette
 6:30 p.m.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Location: Renaissance Pere Marquette Hotel, Storyville Room
 9:00 a.m.   Continental Breakfast
 9:30 a.m.
  • Day Two Agenda Overview
    • Patty Sullivan, education solutions executive, IBM
 9:35 a.m.
  • Campus Update/Production Management: From Concept and Production
    to Distribution and Marketing of ResearchChannel Projects     (Slides - PDF)
    • Lance Cunningham, director, Video Solutions, Office of Information Technology, University of Minnesota
    • Susan Tade, Production Manager, Video Solutions, Office of Information Technology, University of Minnesota
 10:30 a.m.   Break
 10:50 a.m.
  • Research1 Update
    • Jim DeRoest, director, Technology Initiatives, ResearchChannel
 11:10 a.m.
  • Keynote: IPTV and Its Impact on Content Distribution (Slides - PDF)
    • Brian Benz, ceo, Campus TeleVideo
 11:45 a.m.
  • IPTV Panel Discussion: Digital Television is Here
    • Gates Rhodes, director, Penn Video Network, University of Pennsylvania
    • Dave Devereaux-Weber, network consultant, DoIT, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    • Pradip Patel, data engineering manager, ITCS, University of Michigan
    • Danny Ignacio, network analyst, ITCS, University of Michigan
    • Brian Benz, ceo, Campus TeleVideo
 12:30 p.m.
  • Buffet Lunch
    • Sponsored by Campus Televideo
 2:00 p.m.
  • Keynote: Speech Transcription for Business, Academic, and Societal Advantage (Slides - PDF)
    • Sara Basson, Ph.D., program director, Speech Transcription Strategy, IBM Research
 2:45 p.m.
  • Engineering Update: iHDTV, Ultragrid (Slides - PDF)
    • Jim DeRoest, director, Technology Initiatives, ResearchChannel
    • Petr Holub, Ph.D., researcher, CESNET; Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University
 3:00 p.m.   Break
 3:15 p.m.
  • Production Management - Roundtable
    • Arlene Krebs, director, WeTEC, California State University, Monterey Bay
    • Rob Smith, senior producer, Audio Visual Group, Office of Public Affairs, University of Virginia
 4:45 p.m.
  • Meeting Wrap Up
    • Patty Sullivan, education solutions executive, IBM
 6:30 p.m.
  • Internet2 Welcome Reception
    • Location: Sheraton New Orleans Hotel - Room Armstrong/Cornet

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Internet2/ResearchChannel Sessions

Location: Sheraton New Orleans Hotel
 7:30 a.m.
  • Internet2/ResearchChannel Working Group
    • Room Napoleon A1/A2