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Marty Shindler moderated Spotlight on 3D Content as one of the Super Sessions at CES 2012 on January 10, 2012. Panelists included Bryan Burns, ESPN; Tom Cosgrove, 3Net; Bob Zitter of HBO; and, Vince Pace of The CAMERON | PACE Group.

The panel was recorded and is available for streaming.

See a picture of the panel and one of Marty Shindler at the podium.

Marty Shindler moderated two panels again at Digital Hollywood. Both were on Tuesday, October 18, 2011. The first, from 7:45 AM - 9 AM, was entitled "Cross-Platform Content - Analysts and Investment: A View from the Street - From Tablets and SmartPhones to 3D TV." It covered a wide range of topics with leading industry analysts from Barrington Research, Piper Jaffray, Roth Capital Partners, Shamrock Capital ande Wedbush Securities. Thanks to Jay Ankeny, freelance journalist for providing a photo of the panel.

Panel two at 12:30 PM was entitled "The 3D Industry: The Explosion of 3D in Feature Films and Television." Leading industry executives, as we have done in the past, comprised the panelists.

The Annual Forum of the Previsualization Society Previs 2011 was Saturday, October 22, 2011 at Hollywood Highland. Marty Shindler moderated a panel that served to summarize many of the day's events. Panelists included Alex Cannon, Yuri Neyman, ASC, Richard Taylor, Kurt Williams and Hoyt Yeatman, ASC.

The 3D Summit was held Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at Hollywood and Highland where Marty Shindler's panel was entitled "Winning Over Wall Street: Has 3D made the Grade?” Panelists included Andy Howard from Shamrock Capital, Christian Donohue of Tennenbaum Capital Partners, Joe Hovorka from Raymond James and Bill Hageman of JP Morgan Securities. Thanks to Sarah Lally of 3D Entertainment Summit for providing a photo of the panel and one of Marty Shindler moderator.

The Spring 2011 Digital Hollywood s Marty Shindler involved in moderating two panel discussions, both on Tuesday, May 3, 2011.

The first at 7:45 AM was entitled "3D in TV and Film - Analysts and Investment: A View from the Street." Panelists included Marla Backer of Hudson Square Research, James Dix of Wedbush Morgan Securities, Jeffrey Logsdon of BMO Capital Markets - US, James Marsh of Piper Jaffray & Co. Warren Franklin of Rainmaker and Richard LaBerge of Sensio.

The second panel at 12:30 PM was "The 3D Industry: The Explosion of 3D in Feature Films and Television." Panelists included executives from AEG, Spectacle 3D, Digital Domain, THX Ltd., Cinedigm/The Bigger Picture and the stereographer from Avatar and other high profile movies.

Digital Hollywood Spring 2011 was held at The Ritz Carlton Hotel, Marina del Rey, California.

The Entertainment Technology Center at USC in partnership with the Los Angeles Professional Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH presented the first 3D panel discussion that Marty Shindler moderated on September 29, 2005. It seems like ages ago and was in some respects, yet in other respects it was like "yesterday," as we are seeing continued growth in the stereoscopic format.

Join Marty Shindler and LA ACM Siggraph on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 for another 3D panel entitled Stereo 3D Essentials: Capture to Conversion. Four essential subjects will be covered - stereo capture, stereo editing, stereo compositing, and stereo 3D conversion - with three outstanding presenters: James Neihouse, IMAX Stereographer and DP; Steve Wright, 20 year veteran and master Nuke trainer; and Jonathan Karafin, Director of Production Operations for Digital Domain's new stereography department in Florida.

Marty will provide an overview from the business perspective as to how the industry has changed since 2005, provide a snapshot as to what it is today and provide a look to the future.

This event was held at Gallery Theatre at Barnsdall Art Park.

The coming decade will see new storage architectures developing including home storage virtualization, cloud and remote storage as well as new models for mobile storage.

Join Marty Shindler as he moderates a discussion at this event, with a panel entitled Content Delivery Where Ever and When Ever starting at 2:30 PM on Wednesday January 5, 2011 during the 2011 Storage Visions Conference at the Riviera Hotel Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Find out about the latest trends in physical content distribution including optical and solid state approaches. Learn about how digital signage depends upon storage. Hear about technologies that promise to provide comprehensive and reliable network access to commercial and personal content. Can physical distribution compete against or live with content downloading?

Speakers include Cheng Li and Vivian Sultan, CSU-LA; Igor Vezmar, Ascent Media Group; Joe Zipperer, MOD Systems; Terence Swee, muvee; and James DePuydt, Imation. Additional panelists for the ensuing discussion include Anand Pai, MaxTier Systems and Thomas Isakovich, Nimbus Data Systems.

Digital Hollywood Fall is once again on the agenda. The panel is entitled "Beyond Avatar: The Explosion of 3D - 3D Platform for Feature Films and Television".

This panel includes executives from Sony/Discovery, AEG, IMAX, Reliance Mediaworks, Technicolor, the USC Entertainment Technology Center and the stereographer from Avatar.

The last DH had the highest audience attendance of any prior Digital Hollywood 3D Panel in which Marty Shindler has been involved. This panel promises to be as large or larger.

The forthcoming event will be at Loews Santa Monica on October 19, 2010.

Due to an unavoidable, last minute change in circumstances, Marty Shindler was not able to moderate the panel. Marty thanks Phil Lelyveld of the Entertainment Technology Center of USC for filling in at the last minute.

On August 3, 2010, Marty Shindler moderated the end users panel for the 2010 Creative Storage Conference to be held in Los Angeles at the Radisson Hotel West Los Angeles in Culver City, CA. The theme of the day is Storage in the Third Dimension. Panelists are from 21st Century 3D, FotoKem, Legend Films, Light Iron Digital and Paramount Pictures.

For a discount ticket to the conference, click here and click on the link at the bottom.

Keeping with tradition, Marty Shindler once again moderated the 3D panel at Digital Hollywood, Spring 2010. With the sharp increase in 3D, this panel had a different focus from prior panels. This panel, entitled Beyond Avatar: The Explosion of 3D - 3D Platform for Feature Films and Television included one of hte best line ups yet of panelists, including John Rubey, President, AEG LIVE, Greg Foster, Chairman and President of Filmed Entertainment of IMAX Corporation, Buzz Hays, Senior Vice President, Sony 3D Technology Center, Sony Corporation of America, Angela Wilson Gyetvan, VP, Marketing and Sales, 3ality Digital, Chuck Comisky, 3-D Stereo VFX Supervisor, Avatar, Keith Melton, Director, Mummies 3-D: Secrets of the Pharaohs, Jonathan Dern, President, Cinedigm Entertainment Group, and Jim Hannafin, SVP - Business Development - North America, Reliance MediaWorks USA, A Reliance MediaWorks LTD Company

Digital Hollywood Fall 2009 found Marty Shindler moderating the 3D panel entitled The Arrival of 3D - Digital 3D Platform for Feature Films and Television on Tuesday, October 20, 2009. Panelists were from Lipton 3D, Wedbush Morgan Securities, Imax, 3Ality, Kerner New York and NVidia.

The Korea - US Vision Council held an event on Wednesday evening, October 21, 2009 at Digital Hollywood. As a co-founder of the Korea-US Vision Council, Marty Shindler made introductory remarks at the event entitled:

Read press coverage of the Korea US Vision Council event.

Digital Hollywood – Once again, Marty Shindler moderated the Digital Hollywood Spring 2009 panel on 3D, entitled, The Arrival of 3D - Digital 3D Platform for Feature Films and Television. Panelists were from 3Ality, Cinedigm, Imax, Kerner New York, Lipton 3D, Mitsubishi and Wedbush Securities. This panel was held May 5, 2009.

Press coverage of this panel may be found at Celluloid Junkie, click link or PDF version and at Video Business with this article entitled Digital Hollywood: 3D needs to make money on DVD.

Digital Hollywood was also the site of a second panel discussion moderated by Marty Shindler. The purpose of the Korea strategic sessions was to foster mutually beneficial business relationship among U.S. Korean, Korean American companies.

Jean Chung, president of Better Communications & Consulting, the organizer of Korea sessions produced a complete program handout with bios and photos.

This was held on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 and was entitled:

On April 19, 2009, the day preceding the beginning of NAB, at the Creative Storage Conference in Las Vegas, Marty Shindler moderated Case Study: Digital Storage in the Visual Effects Society Awards. Panelists were from Sohonet, 1:1 Ratio, Technicolor and the Visual Effects Society. Click for more information.

The 3D Entertainment Summit was certain to be a premier event on December 1-2, 2008 at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles and it was in every respect, meeting all expectations. Marty Shindler's panel was entitled Will 3D Win Over Wall Street: Where is the 3D Market and Just How Big is it? Click for the seminar and speaker information online or the PDF. For panel pictures, click here.

Digital Hollywood is one of the premier events of the year, with panels covering all manner of hot topics. Once again, Marty Shindler moderated the 3D stereoscopic panel in this burgeoning and evolving industry. The Arrival of 3D - Digital 3D Platform for Feature Films and Television will be held on Tuesday, October 28, 2008. Panelists were from Imax, 3Ality Digital, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics, Pace, Quantel and Microspace.

Marty Shindler's Digital Hollywood appearance also included Looking to the Future: US-Korea Collaboration on Wednesday, October 29, 2008.

This panel, comprised of animation and visual effects professionals from both the US and Korea, discussed recent collaborations in creating compelling entertainment content using Korean facilities on US product. The panelists discussed the pros and cons of working in Korea and provided their thoughts on the future of collaboration efforts between the two countries, creating win-win strategies between the US and Korea.

Panelists included a leading visual effects supervisor and executives from Enemes, Semologic, Motif RMC and Desert Panther Productions.

On Saturday, October 25, 2008, Marty Shindler appeared at the Fresno Filmmakers Forum Conference. His presentation was entitled They Don't Call it Show Business for Nothing. According to the press release (PDF version) wrap up, it was well received.

TV programs, Films, Animation and New Media are the topics at the annual Broadcast Worldwide Conference & Exhibition 2008 (BCWW) in Seoul, Korea. Marty Shindler presented Entertainment Business From the Hollywood Perspective on Thursday, September 4, 2008.

UCLA Extension invited Marty Shindler to speak to a group of visiting Korean business people under the auspices of KOCCA. Mr. Shindler spoke on Practices and Trends in Hollywood on August 18, 2008.

On August 2, 2008, Marty Shindler moderated two panels at the annual Directors Guild (DGA) Digital Day. One was 3D UPDATE: The 3D Pipeline and Workflow and the other was 3D AND THE TV VIEWING EXPERIENCE: Moving 3D into the Media Mainstream. Leaders from the burgeoning 3D stereoscopic industry participated on each of the panels. Here is the entire program as well as the photo montage from the DGA Monthly for September 2008.

On April 15, 2008, Marty Shindler moderated a panel discussion at the The Creative Storage Conference, held in conjunction the annual NAB Conference in Las Vegas. The panel was entitled Entertainment and Media Users Session. This session includes notable end users of digital storage from the entertainment and media industry discussing their uses and issues with digital storage in this industry. Panelists included executives from Thomson, Microsoft, Turner/CNN, ABC and Stargate Films, with others expected to also participate. Further updates will be posted here when available.

Digital Hollywood - 3D is a hot topic and it is an evolving business from many points of view, from image acquisition to post production and visual effects to digital exhibition and very soon to the home. On May 6, 2008, once again, Marty Shindler and a panel of industry experts will discuss the current and the future world of 3D under the banner of The Arrival of 3D - Digital 3D Platform for Feature Films and Television. Panelists will be representing 3Ality Digital, The Bigger Picture, Dynamic Digital Depth (DDD), Kodak, Real D and Sony Pictures Imageworks.

The second annual Asia Pacific Entertainment & Media Summit (APEM) was held October 17 - 18, 2007 at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. Marty Shindler moderated a panel on IPTV. IPTV represents a growing content delivery system. Panelists included executives from Microsoft, NBC Universal and KT Corporation.

Digital Hollywood continues to be one of the most innovative and forward thinking conferences. Marty Shindler will moderate a panel discussion on Tuesday, October 30, 2007. at the Fall conference October 29 - November 1, 2007. The Fall conference is moving to a new, larger venue, The Grand Ballroom at Hollywood and Highlands and the adjacent Renaissance Hollywood Hotel. Due to its success at the Spring conference, we have been asked to repeat the panel entitled The Arrival of 3D - Digital 3D Platform for Feature Films and Television with a great group on the panel.

On July 28, 2007, Marty Shindler moderated a panel discussion entitled 3D: The Next Generation of Digital Production at the annual Directors' Guild (DGA) annual Digital Day. The session included compelling content as well as a discussion on how this exciting trend will impact the next generation of digital production and exhibition. This year's theme for the day was The Future Of The Future: What's Next In Digital? See pictures of the event here and see our panel on this link.

Digital Hollywood is the epicenter of the global entertainment and technology disruption! As a part of Digital Production World at Digital Hollywood - Entering a New Universe, Marty Shindler moderated The Arrival of 3D - Digital 3D Platform for Feature Films and Television on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 from 10:45 - noon at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel. Click here for panelists' names and bios.

Marty Shindler moderated a panel discussion entitled "End Users Views on Digital Storage in Content Creation and Distribution: Challenges and Solutions" as a part of the 2007 Creative Storage Conference held in conjunction with the Media-Tech Expo Expo 2007 at the Long Beach Convention Center on May 15, 2007. Panelists were from Electronic Arts, PlasterCITY Digital Post, Stargate Films, SyncCast and Thomson.

On Sunday January 7, 2007, Marty Shindler attended the Storage Visions 2007 Conference at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Marty moderated a panel discussion entitled Digital Content in the Age of Global Archives. The theme of the conference was Digital Storage Democratizes Content. Read the recent press release for more details.

In September 2006, Marty and Roberta Shindler attended the The 2nd China (Nanjing) International Software Product Expo. Marty addressed the conference on the topic of Global Trends in Computer Animation and Software Tools and the Shindlers attended the opening ceremonies. He also attended a group meeting of the Nanjing animation industry where he presented an expanded version of the address to the specialized and attentive audience. In addition to visiting several animation facilities in Nanjing, the Shindlers also visited animation and post houses in Shanghai.

On June 13, 2006, Marty Shindler moderated a panel entitled IMAX VFX: Design and Execution for the LA Professional Chapter of ACM Siggraph. See the postcard announcement in PDF.

Covering Your (Digital) Assets is the title of a panel discussion that Marty Shindler moderated at iHollywood Forum's Digital Media Summit on June 6, 2006. Scroll down to see the impressive line up of panelists. It was a lively discussion on what is a very hot topic.

Marty Shindler led a seminar for local entertainment industry personnel and students for DIP, the Daegu Digital Industry Promotion Agency in Daegu, Korea in April 2006. The topic was Entertainment Business From a Global Perspective.

In November 2005, Marty Shindler was invited by the KIPA - Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency (part of the Ministry of Information and Communications) to speak at its Digital Content @ Convergence Conference in Seoul Korea. His topic was Global Trends in Digital Content Production and Distribution. See other coverage from CGLand, including their pictorial coverage.

Digital Cinema and 3D: Business, Production, and Distribution Trends

Presented by The Los Angeles Professional Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH in cooperation with the Entertainment Technology Center at USC's Digital Cinema Lab.

Read the press coverage of this event from Box Office Magazine , The Hollywood Reporter or Information Week.

Pathway International Digital Film Festival

Marty Shindler speaks on The Business Impact of New Technologies - September 2005

BYOB: Be Your Own Boss January 2005, a panel discussion at the monthly meeting of LA ACM Siggraph.

Marty Shindler moderates The Future of the Digital Studio at iHollywood Forum

Web site links to various prior speaking engagements that have been retained are listed below. This is just a select portion of all prior engagements.

The Business of Effects: Generating Income, Not Just Images, panel moderated by Marty Shindler for LA ACM Siggraph, April 2001

The Next Wave: Digital Production in Large Format

Marty Shindler was a moderator as well as co-chair of the event sponsored by LFCA - The Large Format Cinema Association in May 2000.