See You Tonight At VideoSchmooze and Tomorrow for Akamai Webinar

I'll be hosting the next "VideoSchmooze" Broadband Video Leadership Evening from 6pm-9pm tonight at the Hudson Theater in New York City. The event includes networking, open bar, hors d'oeuvres and a full educational program. You can buy a ticket online until 3pm today or at the door (cash and check only) - both options are the same price of $75.

We have a great panel discussion, which I'll moderate, whose title is "Money Talks: Is Online Video Shifting to the Paid Model?" Panelists include:

• Jeremy Legg - SVP, Business Development, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

• Damon Phillips - Vice President, ESPN3

• Avner Ronen - CEO and Co-founder, boxee

• Fred Santarpia - General Manager, VEVO

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There is no shortage of topics to discuss; just in the past few weeks there has been news of Hulu's planned subscription service, Turner collaborating with CBS on a long-term $10.8 billion "March Madness" deal, Conan moving to TBS, Netflix signing 28-day DVD release deals with Fox and Universal (plus adding 1.7 million subs in Q1 '10), and lots of other activity. The landscape for online delivery of premium is changing rapidly; our panel will help us make sense of where the market is heading.

We'll also have a 15-minute stage-setting presentation by Emily Nagle Green, President and CEO of Yankee Group, a leading industry market research and consulting firm. Emily is the author of the recently published book, "Anywhere - How Global Connectivity is Revolutionizing the Way We Do Business." Emily will share key data from Yankee's research and her book, which will set the stage for the panel to follow.

From 6-7:30pm, prior to Emily's presentation, we'll have open bar (wine/beer/soda), hors d'oeuvres and networking. We have a very large group, with executives from many key media companies like MTV Networks, Rainbow Media, HealthiNation, CBS Interactive, NBCU, Scripps, HBO, NBA, 5Min, Disney, Comcast, Epix, WWE, Fox Sports and many others, plus tons of industry technology providers.

Thanks to lead sponsor Akamai Technologies and supporting sponsors FreeWheel, Horn Group, Irdeto, NeuLion, Panvidea and ScanScout for their support. Once again VideoSchmooze is being held in association with NATPE. You can follow VideoSchmooze and get updates that evening on Twitter at hashtag #vidooze.

I look forward to seeing you tonight!

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Whether or not you're able to make it tonight, please join me for a complimentary live video webinar Akamai is hosting tomorrow at 1pm ET, "Constructing the Ultimate Online Video Experience - From the Inside Out." On the panel with me will be:

• Emil Rensing - Chief Digital Officer, Epix

• Glenn Goldstein - VP Media Technology and Strategy, MTV Networks Digital Media

• Karsten Weide - VP Digital Media and Entertainment, IDC

• Eric Black - NBCU

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