2nd Annual Digital Media Conference To Be Held in McLean, Virginia on June 17th; CEA's Gary Shapiro, MPAA's Fritz Attaway, EMI's Ted Cohen and WeatherBug's Robert Marshall to Keynote at Industry Leading Digital Media Conference

Business Wire, May 24, 2005

WASHINGTON -- Digital Media Wire, the industry's leading mobile and digital entertainment news, events and information provider, today announced speakers for the 2nd Annual Digital Media Conference (http://www.digitalmediaconference.com) to be held in McLean, VA on June 17, 2005. The event, co-produced by Potomac Tech Wire, is considered a "must-attend" event for media, entertainment and technology businesses, educational institutions and government agencies involved in the digital distribution of media, content & entertainment products. The conference was recently described by the Washington Post as "a confab of powerful communicators and content providers in the region."

Registration information, along with a complete agenda, is available at: http://www.digitalmediaconference.com

Industry-leading executives joining the line-up of speakers and presenters include: Gary Shapiro, President & CEO of Consumer Electronics Association, who will open the event with a keynote address, Fritz Attaway, EVP & Washington General Counsel of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA), who will speak in a one-on-one interview with Drew Clark a Senior Writer for National Journal's Technology Daily, Ted Cohen the SVP of Digital Development & Distribution of EMI Music, who will speak in a one-on-one interview with Ned Sherman, CEO of Digital Media Wire, and Robert Marshall, CEO of AWS Convergence Technologies, parent company of WeatherBug, the leading provider of weather information services.

The one-day event includes thought-provoking panels on cutting-edge business, technology, legal and policy topics including Copyrights v. Technology, The "New" FCC and the Future of Digital Media, The Evolution of Radio, Mobile Entertainment, Digital Living, The Changing Face of Television, MGM v. Grokster and Video Games. Speakers are from the leading companies and associations in digital media, including Verizon, XM Satellite Radio, TiVo, America Online, Napster, PaymentOne, RealNetworks, National Journal's Technology Daily, RIAA, Digital Media Association, CNET's News.com, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, Public Knowledge, SoundExchange, Motorola, CTIA, Sorrent, PlayFirst, Frank N. Magid Associates, National Geographic Channel and Tangent Mobile, among others.

The confirmed speaker list includes:

KEYNOTES
Gary Shapiro, President & CEO, Consumer Electronics Association
Robert Marshall, President & CEO, AWS Convergence Technologies
 (WeatherBug parent)
Fritz Attaway, Executive Vice President & Washington General Counsel,
 Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA)
Interviewed by: Drew Clark - Senior Writer, National Journal's
 Technology Daily
Ted Cohen, SVP of Digital Development & Distribution, EMI Music
Interviewed by: Ned Sherman - CEO, Digital Media Wire

PANELISTS
Lee Abrams, Chief Programming Officer, XM Satellite Radio
Jeffrey Carlisle, Former Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau, FCC
Phil Corwin, Partner, Butera & Andrews (Kazaa counsel)
Mark Desautels, VP, Wireless Internet Development, CTIA
Sarah Deutsch, VP & Associate General Counsel, Verizon Communications
John Dietsch, Producer/Director & CEO, Castle Creek Productions
Adam Eisgrau, Executive Director, P2P United
John Ford, EVP, Programming, National Geographic Channel
Marc Freedman, CEO, RazorPop (owner of TrustyFiles)
Eric Goldberg, Managing Director, Crossover Technologies
Ramana Gottipati, Sr. Dir., Product Management & Marketing,
 RealNetworks
Gary R. Greenstein, General Counsel, SoundExchange
Mark Jacobs, President & CEO, Mythic Entertainment
Christy C. Kunin, Partner, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary
Marty Lafferty, CEO, Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA)
David E. Leibowitz, Managing Partner, CH Potomac
Ed Lichty, VP, Business Development, TiVo
Larry Linietesky, SVP of Worldwide Business Development, Napster
Reno Marioni, President, Tangent Mobile
Steve Marks, General Counsel, RIAA
Declan McCullagh, Chief Political Correspondent, CNET's News.com
Tom Meredith, CEO, P2P Cash
Elaine Reiss, Former Gen. Cnsl., Ogilvy & Mather
Robert Nashak, VP of Production, Sorrent
Les Ottolenghi, CEO, INTENT MediaWorks (owner of iPeer)
Michael Pickrum, COO, BET Interactive LLC
Jonathan Potter, Executive Director, Digital Media Association
Russ Reeder, CEO, RightsLine
Ralph Rivera, VP & GM, AOL Games, America Online
Rich Roberts, VP, Sales & Business Development, PlayFirst
Jeremy Rosenberg, SVP, Technology, Music Choice
Mika Salmi, CEO, AtomFilms / Shockwave.com
Scooter Scudieri, Internet Rock Star
Paul Sherman, President & Publisher, Tech Wire Media Group
Brad Singer, Vice President of Products & Markets, PaymentOne
Gigi Sohn, President and Co-Founder, Public Knowledge
Andrew Steele, VP, Marketing & Bus Dev, Terayon Communication Systems
Sarah Lai Stirland, Sr. Writer, National Journal's Technology Daily
Tess Taylor, President, NARIP
Dave Ulmer, Director of Marketing, Motorola Media Solutions
Mike Vorhaus, Managing Director, Frank N. Magid Associates
Sean Wargo, Director of Industry Analysis, CEA
Matthew Zinn, VP, General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer, TiVo