P2P Market Conference to Focus on Revenue Generation

The Distributed Computing Industry Association, a trade organization with more than one-hundred Member companies representing peer-to-peer (P2P) and social networking software providers, content rights holders, and service-and-support companies, today announced the agenda, speakers, and sponsors for its upcoming P2P MARKET CONFERENCE.

This first-of-its-kind DCIA event is scheduled for Friday March 14th at the Princeton Club of New York, and is being held in conjunction with Media Summit New York (MSNY).

"We are pleased to announce a very exciting agenda of keynotes and panel sessions featuring industry leaders from all over the world as well as plans for a highly topical conference luncheon," said DCIA CEO Marty Lafferty in making the announcement.

"In addition to our primary focus at this global gathering on commercial development, we will also invest time to discuss the renewed debate over net neutrality, exploring the latest arguments from content providers and ISPs, and current actions by regulators and consumer advocates responding to these forces," he added.

P2P MARKET CONFERENCE keynotes include BitTorrent's CEO, Doug Walker; VeriSign's VP, Marketing, Media & Entertainment, Steve Condon; RawFlow's President & Co-Founder, Mikkel Dissing; Pando Networks' CEO, Robert Levitan; Move Networks' President & CEO, John Edwards; Zattoo's Co-Founder, Chairman & CTO, Sugih Jamin; 1-Click Media's CEO, Arthur Madrid; Trispen Technologies' Founder & CEO, Jaco Botha; TVU Networks' EVP, Business Development, Kap Shin; Microsoft's Director, P2P Networking, Windows, See-Mong Tan; and FTI Consulting¹s Senior Managing Director, Bruce Benson.

The conference luncheon will feature a report from the P4P Working Group (P4PWG) by its Co-Chairs Pando Networks' Laird Popkin and Verizon Communications' Doug Pasko; and a special address by QTRAX's Chairman & CEO Allan Klepfisz.

Panelists include Abacast's Mike King, AHT International's Mohan Nihalani, Azoogle Ads' Don Mathis, Brand Asset Digital's Joey Patuleia, DigitalContainers' Chip Venters, DoubleV3's Benjamin Masse, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz's Rick Kurnit, JamboMedia's Rob Manoff, Javien Digital Payment Solutions' Leslie Poole, KlikVU's Lowell Feuer, Manatt's Bill Heberer, MediaDefender's Chris Gillis, Media Global Intertainment's Jakob Schwertz, MediaPass Network's Daniel Harris, Oversi's Eitan Efron, PeerApp's Frank Childs, P2P Cash's Tom Meredith, Rebel Digital's Robin Kent, RightsFlow Entertainment Group's Patrick Sullivan, SafeNet's David Hahn, TAG Strategic's Ted Cohen, and Ultramercial's Dana Jones. More panel speakers will be announced.

There will also be a VIP networking cocktail reception with live entertainment.

The P2P MARKET CONFERENCE will highlight progress in advancing new business models and revenue generation at various levels of the emerging distributed computing industry.

In the business-to-consumer (B2C) arena, developments are now moving beyond conventional ad-supported, subscription, and paid download methods of monetizing the distribution of copyrighted works, as value propositions shift in response to increasingly empowered users.

In the business-to-business (B2B) arena, work is also now underway that similarly reflects the value of improved quality of service (Qos), speed of delivery, and dramatically reduced costs for participants at multiple points in the distribution chain, who are taking advantage of the latest P2P-relating offerings.

The P2P MARKET CONFERENCE is being held in conjunction with Media Summit New York (MSNY), and registration for both events yields a substantial savings for attendees. For more information, please visit www.dcia.info/activities/p2pmcny2008.

Pre-registration rates, which save attendees up to $325 end March 7th. To register please visit www.dcia.info/activities/p2pmcny2008/register.html.

P2P MARKET CONFERENCE sponsors include FTI Consulting, Javien Digital Payment Solutions, and QTRAX. For sponsor packages and speaker information, please contact Karen Kaplowitz, DCIA Member Services, at 888-890-4240 or karen@dcia.info.

About the DCIA

The Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) is a non-profit trade organization focused on commercial development of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing and related distributed computing technologies.

DCIA Membership is organized into three Groups: Content, Operations, and Platform. The DCIA conducts working groups and special projects, such as the P4P Working Group (P4PWG), P2P Digital Watermark Working Group (PDWG), Consumer Disclosures Working Group (CDWG), P2P PATROL, and the P2P Revenue Engine (P2PRE). It also publishes the weekly online newsletter DCINFO.

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