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What Happens When Consumers 'Go Digital'?
Speakers, Companies With a Point of View - or an Enabling Technology or Product -
Now Being Sought for David Coursey's Digital Living Room Conference
SAN MATEO, Calif., March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Speakers who can inform and intrigue one of the industry's
most influential audiences are now being sought for David Coursey's Digital Living Room, a new executive
conference from Upside. Digital Living Room (DLR) is scheduled June 21 to 24 at the Ritz- Carlton Hotel Laguna
Niguel in Dana Point, California. Companies with leading edge technologies and products that expect to thrive
when the consumer experience goes digital are also invited to demonstrate products during the conference.
Co-presented by Upside magazine, Broadcasting & Cable magazine, Digital Television Magazine, and TWICE,
the conference will take a look into the future of technology, information and entertainment as they emerge more
completely in consumers' lives. Digital Living Room will include onstage presentations, debates and interviews as
well as selected product and technology demonstrations.
Submitting a Product or Speaker Proposal
The deadline for speaker proposals is March 20. Industry leaders (CEOs and senior-level executives) who have a
clear point of view are invited to provide a one-page abstract on the proposed topic, along with a biography of
the proposed speaker. ''I'm looking for speakers who will tell the audience something new - or help them shape a
clearer vision of a trend or technology they need to understand,'' explained conference executive producer David
Coursey.
''I want to hear from you if you have answers to questions such as: How will consumers respond as entertainment,
information, and related technology evolves? If we build it, will they really come? How does anyone make money
from the shift from analog to digital technology anyway? I also want to hear from you if you have a product or
technology that you believe will be essential in the all-digital world consumers will encounter soon.
''Some futurists predict that the living room of the future will be filled with devices that were the stuff of science
fiction only a few years ago. Others think that we'll see an evolution, where existing devices get smarter and add
functions. We want to showcase some brand-new technologies as well as those that add new twists to familiar
standards. Alpha, beta, still-in- development, or just beginning to ship products are welcome if they have the
potential to shape the consumer's digital future.''
Additional details about the conference and the selection process are available on the Digital Living Room web
site at digitallivingroom.com. Speaker proposals should be send to Rachel Latta at Upside Media,
Inc., via e-mail at rlatta@upside.com or via fax to (650) 372-1468.
The conference will also feature a product demonstration area featuring selected products that demonstrate an
innovative solution or vision for the future of the digital home. Each product will be personally selected by David
Coursey. Some products may appear on stage during an 8-10 minute presentation followed by questions from the
audience, while others will be selected for presentation in the demonstration areas only.
Applications for products to be shown at the conference can be submitted online at
digitallivingroom.com. For additional information about the product selection
process, please contact Tiffany Freeman via e-mail at tfreeman@upside.com.
Registering to attend Digital Living Room
Attendance is limited to senior executives of technology, entertainment or media companies interested in digital
technologies and their impact on consumer markets. Board members of these companies, venture capitalists and
members of the financial community are also welcome.
Early Bird registrations are discounted to $1,995 until May 15, 1998. To register, call (888) 33-UPSIDE
(338-7743) or register online at digitallivingroom.com.
Sponsors
David Coursey's Digital Living Room is a presentation of Upside Events, the conference production and
management unit of Upside Media Inc., publisher of Upside Magazine, and David Coursey, editor and publisher
of the influential coursey.com newsletter. Both companies are privately held and based in San Mateo, CA. Visit
the Upside web site at upside.com.
Digital Living Room sponsors and partners include Broadcasting & Cable, Computer Chronicles, Digital
Television, General Magic (Nasdaq: GMGC - news), IBM, (NYSE: IBM - news), Intel (Nasdaq: INTC - news),
TWICE, Upside Magazine, and ZDTV.
SOURCE: Digital Living Room |
