First-Ever P2P MEDIA SUMMIT Silicon Valley to Be Held Next Month

Was about time! Peer-to-peer finally gets its first MEDIA SUMMIT: The Distributed Computing Industry Association (www.DCIA.info), a trade organization including over one-hundred Member companies representing p2p and social networking software providers (P2Ps), content holders, Internet service providers (ISPs), and service-and-support companies, announced yesterday the schedule and the list of the first speakers for its approaching P2P MEDIA SUMMIT Silicon Valley.

The convention series is due on August 4th in Salons IV-VI of the San Jose Marriott, and is being held in tandem with Building Blocks, which is produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) in cooperation with Digital Hollywood.

DCIA CEO Marty Lafferty was the one to announce - “We are thrilled to be able to present a program devoted to the latest technological innovations and newest business models being introduced in the rapidly emerging P2P marketplace.”

The press releases from DCIA reveal the names of those who will attend the summit. Here are the first speakers announced:

Abacast's Michael King, ARTISTdirect's Jonathan Lee, Bingham's Joshua Wattles, Brand Asset Digital's Joey Patuleia, Comcast's Barry Tishgart, Cloudshield's Peter Jungk, Digicorp's Jay Rifkin, Double V3's Martine Groulx, EM Syndication's Laura Tunberg, Getback Media's Chris Dominguez, GridNetworks' Jeffrey Payne, Hiro-Media's Daniel Leon, Jambo Media's Rob Manoff, Kontiki's Eric Armstrong, LimeWire's Brian Dick, MediaDefender's Chris Gillis, Motorola's John Waclawsky, Octoshape's Stephen Alstrup, Ono's Fabian Bustamante, Oversi's Eitan Efron, Packet Exchange's Chuck Stormon, Pando Networks' Robert Levitan and Laird Popkin, PeerApp's Eliot Listman, Ultramercial's Dana Jones, Verizon Communications' Doug Pasko, and YuMe Networks' Rosanne Vathana. There will be further announcements with regard to some other speakers.

The main topics highly expected to be addressed at the P2P MEDIA SUMMIT Silicon Valley are:

- global policy in the post MGM v. Grokster world – new Rules for P2P; technology development for file sharing and related distributed computing applications – the evolving distribution chain, business models – what's working and what's not, artists and rights holders – P2P for content creators, solutions development - creating the commercial P2P ecosystem, and the next frontier – business practices and open standards.

To learn more on the subject, go to http://www.dcia.info/activities/