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PROGRAM

University of California, Los Angeles,Carnesale Commons, 3rd Floor Palisades Ballroom

September 29, 2015

Shekhar Kapur

The Future of Media and Entertainment in the Midst of Unpredictability

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Agenda

09:00 AM – 10:00 AM REGISTRATION

10:00 AM – 11:15 AM UNIVERSAL STORYTELLING AND LIFE PHILOSOPHY

In conversation with Shekhar Kapur, Deepak Chopra, and Nishith Desai followed by audience interaction

11:15 AM – 12:45 PM SQUARE TABLE SESSION I: CONTENT IN TODAY’S CONTEXT

§§ How is the concept of content changing? Is it possible to define it at all?

§§ Who is the creator and how are they defined? Are the lines of creator and consumer now blurred?

§§ What are new models for monetization of content?

§§ Is censorship possible anymore?

§§ Is copyright relevant anymore?

§§ How much of the responsibility needs to be defined by the laws of the land (managing regulation, non-regulation, self-regulation)?

12:45 PM – 02:00 PM Lunch

02:00 PM – 03:15 PM FUTURE OF STORYTELLING

Presentation by Mr. Alex McDowell RDI - Creative Director, 5D Global Studio; Professor of Practice at USC School of Cinematic Arts, USC World Building Media Lab

Mr. McDowell is an award-winning designer and storyteller work-ing at the intersection of emergent technologies and experiential media. He is founder and creative director of 5D Global Studio, where he and his team design immersive story worlds for indus-tries and institutions.

Alex has over 30 years of experience as production designer working in feature films, such as Fight Club, Minority Report, The Terminal, Man of Steel etc. and working with directors David Fincher, Steven Spielberg, Terry Gilliam, and Anthony Minghelia amongst others.

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03:15 PM – 04:30 PM SQUARE TABLE SESSION II : KEEPING UP WITH DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY

§§ How is content being funded in light of rapidly changing technologies?

§§ How can India and other growing countries benefit from the extensive reach of the medium?

§§ How is technology acting as a great social leveler?

§§ Net Neutrality?

04:30 PM – 05:00 PM Coffee Break

05:00 PM – 06:15 PM SQUARE TABLE SESSION III : GLOBALIZATION OF CONTENT COMPANIES

§§ What is the DNA of a global media player today?

§§ How does a media company continue to evolve amidst global change?

§§ What do companies do when they miss the intended market but hit the unintended one?

§§ How to manage growth and risks when they are completely unknown?

§§ How are new age companies creating value for all stakeholders?

§§ Is responsibility a key multiplier ?

§§ How to manage regulation versus non-regulation?

§§ In light of global monetization models – one world, one tax?

06:15 PM Cocktails and Reception


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About NDANishith Desai Associates (NDA) is a research based international law firm with offices in Mumbai, Bangalore, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Mumbai-BKC, New Delhi and Munich.

It specializes in strategic legal, regulatory and tax advice coupled with industry expertise in an integrated manner. NDA has pioneered some of the international and India based fund structures used for pooling India focused funds. NDA is known for its participation in working with funds industry participants for representation towards policy. NDA has close relationship with IVCA and continues to support it on tax, regulatory and policy initiatives.

NDA’s core practice areas include Fund Formation, Fund Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions, International Tax, International Tax Litigation, International Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Capital Markets, Corporate & Securities Law, Succession & Estate Planning, Employment & HR, Intellectual Property, Competition Law, JVs & Restructuring, General Commercial Law.

Our specialized industry niches include financial services, IT and telecom, education, pharma and life sciences, media and entertainment, real estate and infrastructure.

NISHITH DESAI ASSOCIATES WINS FINANCIAL TIMES AWARD FOR

‘MOST INNOVATIVE INDIAN LAW FIRM’ FOR 2014 & 2015.


SpeakersAlex Mcdowell5D Global Studio, Creative Director

Alex McDowell RDI is a narrative designer and creative director working in multi-platform experiential media.

Throughout his 30-year career of production design, McDowell collaborated with directors including Steven Spielberg (Minority Report, The Terminal), Tim Burton (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and David Fincher (Fight Club), among many others. In many ways, Minority Report solidified his process of world building, as the film’s broad requirements for empirical context (future reality, not science fiction) demanded the development of an entire narrative space, at the same time as new digital processes enabled revolutionary non-linear and immersive creative environments for design visualization.

He is Professor of Practice in Media Arts + Practice at USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he teaches world building. He is director of the USC World Building Media Lab (WbML), where McDowell and his interdisciplinary students engage in funded research to build immersive worlds for story-telling and vast collaboration for synchronous media technologies. The WbML was awarded the prestigious Future Voice Award at the 2014 Interaction Awards. He also leads the USC World Building Institute, renowned since 2007 as the preeminent knowledge space for designers and creators in cross-platform narrative media. He is recipient, from George Lucas, of the USC William Cameron Menzies endowed chair in Production Design.

McDowell’s 5D GlobalStudio at Wondros are high-end peddlers of modern-day magic. In a multi- platform, cross-discipline design studio practice, he and his team combine emergent technologies with highly interactive storytelling to create deeply immersive experiences that surprise, provoke and delight. 5D GlobalStudio imagines a clearer vision of the future for clients and creates holistic experiences that enact those futures--now. McDowell applies world building across multiple indus-tries with clients including Al Baydha Development Corporation, Boeing, Intel, Royal Shakespeare Company, Warner Brothers, among others.

As Visiting Artist to the MIT Media Lab (2005-2010) he designed the renowned robot opera “Death and the Powers” which premiered in 2010 at the Salle-Garnier in Monte Carlo. He is a Getty Research Institute scholar and an executive board member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Design Branch. In 2006, he was awarded Royal Designer for Industry by the UK’s Royal Society of Arts and, in 2013, was given the UK Designers & Art Director’s Presidents Award.

Bryan BarberVice President , Warner Brothers

Bryan Barber is Vice President of Global Business & Technology Strategy at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, where he focuses on digital distribution of entertainment content and other strate-gic initiatives. Prior to his role at Fox, Bryan served as Chief Executive Officer of Jettlink, Inc., Chief Financial Officer of Soundbreak, Inc., and Vice President at Universal Studios. He holds an MBA in Finance from Wharton and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas.


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Deepak ChopraChopra Center for Wellbeing, Founder

Founder of The Chopra Foundation and co-founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing is a world- renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism. He is the author of more than 80 books trans-lated into over 43 languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. Two of his books, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind (1993) and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (1995), have been recognized on The Books of The Century Bestsellers List. His upcoming book coauthored with Rudolph Tanzi, Super Genes, releases on November 10, 2015 (Harmony Books).

Chopra is the co-author with Rudolph Tanzi of the instant New York Times bestseller, Super Brain. He serves as Co founder of Jiyo, an Adjunct Professor at Kellogg School of Management at North-western University, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, Assistant Clinical Professor, in the Family and Preventive Medicine Department at the University of California, San Diego, Health Sciences, Faculty at Walt Disney Imagineering and Senior Scientist with The Gal-lup Organization.

TIME magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century”. The World Post and The Huffington Post global internet survey ranked Dr. Chopra #40 influential thinker in the world and #1 in Medicine.

Dina Madhani VP, Social Media & Marketing , MTV World

Dina Madhani is the Vice President of Social Media & Marketing for MTV World at Viacom Media Networks. She leads all social media, marketing, partnerships and events. In addition Dina also led the distribution strategy for MTV’s award winning Rebel Music series and the collaboration with the White House. Previously Dina worked as a Marketing Director at Bravo Media, in business develop-ment at Sony and marketing for MTV and VH1’s digital channels including MTV2 and VH1 Classic.

Gowree GokhalePartner, M&E Practice, Nishith Desai Associates

Ms. Gowree Gokhale heads the IP, technology, media and entertainment law practice of the multi-skilled, research-based international law firm, Nishith Desai Associates (www.nishithdesai.com). Her specialization includes pharma and life sciences laws, international litigation and dispute resolution, outsourcing contracts, franchising, commercial laws, HR laws.

She has assisted international media & productions houses in structuring of their India operations, including IP structuring, and advice on regulatory issues. She has spearheaded several M & A transactions in the media and entertainment space.

Ms. Gokhale regularly advises clients on IP management and protection strategy and has led


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several IP and technology related matters. She is also involved in devising IP litigation strategies for clients and has lead several IP litigations before different forums in India.

Ms. Gokhale has been practicing for last over 18 years. She is a Solicitor and a registered Patent & Trade Mark attorney. She is also a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Inter-national Masters of Gaming Law (IMGL) and a mentor and advisor at ZoneStartups India.

She was a visiting faculty at the Institute of Intellectual Property Law Studies at Mumbai. Ms. Gokhale has authored research reports and articles on variety of IP centric subjects and has presented at various national and international seminars and conferences on IP, pharmaceutical, media and technology laws.

Julie DemarignyVice President , Warner Brothers

JULIE DEMARIGNY is Vice President International - of Warner Bros. Digital Group since September 2011 and is based in Los Angeles. Responsible for international developments of consumer centric, social media & data strategy, CRM, loyalty programs, digital copy, UltraViolet and mobile apps.Relocated from France after 4 years as Executive Director France & Southern Europe of Warner Bros Digital Distribution, responsible for DTC and electronic distribution of the studio’s content over existing and emerging platforms, including electronic sell-through, VOD, mobile, pre-load and more.

Prior to that, Demarigny led Digital Business & Strategy during 7 years in the music business, serv-ing in succession as Head of New Media at Sony Music, Global Digital Business General Manager at Sony BMG and Director of Business Development and Strategy at Warner Music. In parallel, she taught “multimedia project management” and “digital marketing” to Master’s students at La Sor-bonne during 8 years.

Before that, she assumed the Production Director role at REEF, an internet software company, was Producer of the first French e-commerce website: 3suisses.fr and Manager of 3SuissesMusique/Noval music label.

Award-winner of Foundation 3 Suisses for a CD-Rom about design developed during its post-gradu-ate diploma in New Technology from Paris VIII University, Julie Demarigny began her career in 1995 at 3Suisses Multimedia as producer of Cyberbus, a moving event promoting multimedia and inter-net throughout France.

Specialties:

§§ Digital Business

§§ Consumer centric strategy

§§ Business organization transformation

§§ e-marketing, CRM and social networks

§§ Multiscreen and cloud

§§ Mobile application

§§ New digital revenue channels (online, mobile, IPTV)

§§ Audio and video digital content and rights


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Ken SilvermanSannam S4 Consulting, Pvt. Ltd. , Head, North America

Ken Silverman heads all North American initiatives for Sannam S4 Consulting, Pvt., Ltd., the preemi-nent India market-entry specialist. The company, with offices across India, has served more than 200 leading corporations, universities, and non-profit organizations. Representative clients include Unilever, TJ Maxx, AOL India, Airbnb, MIT, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Ken is a veteran international executive, entrepreneur, and strategist with more than three decades’ experience in the global communications, media, and entertainment industries. His clients and initiatives have also included the fields of technology, healthcare, education, and a diverse range of charitable institutions.

Since 1997 he has particularly focused on India, including 8 years representing US entertainment industry initiatives for Tata Elxsi, Ltd., the visual computing arm of the $100 billion p/yr. Tata Group, India’s oldest and largest industrial conglomerate. On behalf of Tata, and other Indian media clients, he secured, negotiated, and/or oversaw India-based assignments for the Walt Disney Company, DreamWorks, Liberty Media/Starz, MGM, Sony, 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, and others.

Mitra KalitaManaging Editor , Los Angeles Times

Mitra Kalita is the managing editor for editorial strategy at the Los Angeles Times.

She was previously executive editor of Quartz, the global economy startup of the Atlantic Media Co. Before that, she served as the site’s founding ideas editor, overseeing the section that produced the most popular pieces and redefined commentary for a digital age. She was also the force behind Quartz’s launch into India and Africa.Between 2008 and 2012, Mitra worked at the Wall Street Journal in a number of prominent roles. She directed coverage of the Great Recession, launched a local news section for New York City and reported on the housing crisis as a senior writer.

In 2006, Mitra moved to her parents’ native India as a founding editor of Mint, today the country’s second largest business newspaper. She worked as a reporter for the Washington Post, covering a range of beats from education to the economics of undocumented immigrants. As a business reporter at Newsday, she covered the terror attacks of 9/11, the New York City economy and Enron’s collapse. Her first job in journalism was at the Associated Press in Trenton, N.J., where she wrote about state government, casino buses, Bollywood movies and fights over garage sales.

Mitra is the author of “Suburban Sahibs: Three Immigrant Families and Their Passage From India to America” (Rutgers University Press, 2003) and “My Two Indias: Journey to the Ends of Opportunity” (Harper Collins India, 2010). She is at work on another book about schools and segregation.

Born in Brooklyn, Mitra was raised in Long Island, Puerto Rico and New Jersey — with regular trips to her grandparents’ villages in Assam, India. She has studied seven languages (English, Assamese, Spanish, Hindi, Bengali, Mandarin, French) but only speaks the first five with some fluency.


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Mitra attended Rutgers University, with a major in history and journalism and a minor in Spanish. She received her master’s from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she has, in recent years, also taught.

She previously served as president of the South Asian Journalists Assn. and has won numerous awards for her journalism. She is on the board of the New American Leaders Project, a member of the Pacific Council and a Spencer Fellow. She was named to Folio’s Top 100 Women in Media.

Nishith DesaiFounder & Managing Director, Nishith Desai Associates

Nishith Desai is the founder of the research-based strategy driven international law firm, Nishith Desai Associates (www.nishithdesai.com) with offices in Mumbai, Silicon Valley, Bangalore, Singapore, Mumbai – BKC, New Delhi and Munich.

Nishith himself is a renowned international tax, corporate, IP lawyer researcher, published author and lecturer in leading academic institutions around the world. Soon after India opened up its econ-omy to the outside world in 1991, he established the first five India Focused funds and pioneered the roots of asset management industry and the firm has now worked for over 900 funds across all classes of asset.

He as the core member of Securities and Exchange Board of India’s committee, helped draft Venture Capital Fund (including Foreign Venture Fund) Regulations and Employee Stock Options Regulations.

Nishith is an international tax and corporate law expert, researcher, published author and lecturer in leading academic institutions around the world. Recently, Legal Era, a prestigious Legal Media Group has recognized Nishith Desai as the Best Tax Lawyer of the Year (2013).

Nitin ChawlaDisney, VP Strategy & Business Development

Nitin Chawla joined Disney Consumer Products (DCP) as Vice President of Strategy and Business Development in March 2013. In this role, he leads the strategic application of new and ground-breaking technologies to be applied to future business opportunities, ultimately extending the Disney brand to consumers in new and innovative ways.

To accomplish this, Chawla partners with each of the DCP businesses to strategize how technology can be leveraged across multiple platforms to drive revenue and sustain future DCP growth. More specifically, he is responsible for the build out and launch of DCP’s Playmation initiative – a stra-tegic innovation venture that drives the convergence of inter-connected products with cloud based digital content. For this initiative, Chawla leads a cross-functional team of creative, product, content, R&D and technology talent from across the company.


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Most recently, he was a Vice President in The Walt Disney Company’s Corporate Strategy and Busi-ness Development organization in Burbank where he focused on new venture evaluation and identi-fying/pursing global M&A opportunities. Prior to his move to the United States in 2012, Chawla was in Mumbai, India, with dual responsibilities as Vice President, Strategy and Business Development and General Manager, Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG) for TWDC India. There, he helped define and execute the growth strategy for The Walt Disney Company in India, including five-year plan development, new venture evaluation, and strategic partnerships for existing lines of Disney businesses (Media Networks, Consumer Products, Films and Digital). Additionally, he led and managed the digital interactive business P&L in India for mobile, internet, and digital TV platforms.

Chawla has also held leadership positions at Deloitte Consulting LLP and Johnson & Johnson, spending his initial professional career in advertising at J Walter Thompson. He holds a Master’s of Business Economics from University of Delhi, India and an MBA in General Management from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Nusrat DurraniGeneral Manager , MTV Networks

Nusrat Durrani is the creator and executive producer of the Rebel Music series. Nusrat joined MTV Networks in 1996 and has served in key business and creative roles in the company including the launch of MTV.COM, VHI.COM and the creation of MTV World, Viacom’s global engine for content and innovation of which he is the General Manager and Senior Vice President. In this capacity he has helmed numerous projects including the award winning live music series The Music Experiment and The Best New Band in the World, as well as the multi-platform global music and pop culture channel MTV Iggy and the hyper-focused brands MTV Desi (South-Asian) and MTV K (K-Pop).

Nusrat is driven to find inventive ways to expose young audiences to music and culture from around the world as a way of connecting the world’s youth to each other and to the issues affecting them.

He believes sharing pop culture can go a long way to making the world a better place. In his own words, “modern media offers real opportunities to correct the great imbalance that exists in what we know of the world. There are refreshing alternative narratives out there about what’s really hap-pening today and we want to tell stories that deserve to be told, and not those dominated by the loudest, most powerful voices.”

Born in Lucknow, India, before joining MTV he was a marketing manager for Honda in Dubai, UAE and has also lived and worked in New Delhi. He was inspired to quit his job and travel New York to work for MTV by the 1983 video for David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance.” — and by his passion for new media and pop culture.

On October 17, the Asia Society honoured Nusrat’s work with MTV World with its Cultural Achieve-ment Award in New York City. Nusrat is also the recipient of the Pinnacle Achievement Award from The Asian American Business Development Center and the Trailblazer Award from South Asian Media and Marketing Association.


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Rajiv DalalTom Sherak MS Hope Foundation, Executive Director

Rajiv Dalal currently serves as the executive director of the Tom Sherak MS Hope Foundation. He was most recently an advisor to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, where he served as the city’s Deputy Film Czar and ran the Mayor’s Office of Motion Picture & Television Production. As Deputy Film Czar, Dalal played an integral role in helping pass California’s historic expansion of its film tax credit through the state legislature.

During that time, Dalal was named by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the 35 most influential executives in Hollywood under 35, and named Public Service Counsel of the Year by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel. He previously was executive director of Time Warner Inc.’s cor-porate affairs division in Asia-Pacific (working closely with subsidiaries Warner Bros., HBO, Turner, CNN and Time), and served as both strategic counsel and managing director (India) of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Dalal started his legal career as a capital markets lawyer at the international law firm of Dorsey & Whitney LLP.

Dalal earned his Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude, from Georgetown University, and holds graduate degrees from Columbia University School of International & Public Affairs, Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Oxford.

He is married to Divya Khanna Dalal, an executive at the Walt Disney Company, and resides in La Cañada Flintridge.

Roopak SalujaThe 120 Media Collective, Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Listed among the 2014 Campaign Asia-Pacific ‘40 Under 40’, Roopak Saluja drives The 120 Media Collective as Founder & CEO. Through its subsidiaries – Jack in the Box Worldwide, Bang Bang Films, Sniper and Sooperfly, the business creates, produces, distributes, monetizes, and engages audiences, and promotes multi-platform content globally.

Roopak turned entrepreneur in 2006 with the launch of Bang Bang Films- India’s International Production Company, which was named India’s second fastest growing company across all sectors (source: AllWorld Live) in 2010. The commercials production vertical evolved to become Sniper in April 2015.

In 2009, he launched Jack in the Box Worldwide, which has grown to be one of South Asia’s most reputed and heavily awarded digital agencies. The agency handles digital and content marketing mandates for some of the country’s and region’s largest and most prominent advertisers such as Unilever, PepsiCo, Reckitt Benckiser, Amazon, Novartis, Aditya Birla Group and the Taj Group among others.

With Sooperfly (a joint venture with UK-based Diagonal View), he has added to the parent’s reper-toire, building brands direct-to-audiences through video creation, distribution and monetisation.

Account management at Young & Rubicam Budapest marked the beginning of Roopak’s advertising career. He trained there on the Kraft Foods and Danone accounts. He also explored trance DJing, performing around the globe and co-founding his own trance label, Procyon Records (Budapest & Paris). In his next assignment at Ogilvy & Mather Paris, he ran the Motorola account for


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Europe, Middle East & Africa, and managed the development of the Hellomoto campaign.

His extensive experience has led to various speaker and jury positions as well as awards and recognitions globally (list in appendix below).

An MBA from INSEAD (where he is also a guest lecturer now), Roopak’s education, work and life have allowed him to live in ten countries on six continents and he speaks nine languages. His eclectic interests span Japanese cuisine, single malts, Tintin and trivia. He lives in Bombay with his wife and two sons.

Schuyler MoorePartner, Stroock

Schuyler M. Moore is a partner in the corporate entertainment department of Stroock, practicing entertainment, corporate, and tax law. Mr. Moore holds his undergraduate degree from UCLA (Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude) and his law degree also from UCLA (first in class).

Moore has been practicing in the entertainment industry since 1981, and he represents a broad spectrum of clients throughout the entertainment industry, including producers, sales agents, for-eign distributors, and financiers. He has handled some of the largest financing transactions in Hol-lywood, including Reliance’s investment in DreamWorks, the Ratpac-Dune slate financing for Warner Brothers, the Hemisphere slate financing for Sony and Paramount, and the Hunan Group slate financing for Lions Gate. He is the author of several books, including The Biz: The Basic Business, legal, and Financial Aspects of the Film Industry, a popular book in its 4th edition, Taxation of the Entertainment Industry, the leading treatise on that topic, and What They Don’t Teach You in Law School.

He was an adjunct professor at both the UCLA Law School and the UCLA Anderson School of Man-agement, teaching Entertainment Law and Finance for many years, and he is a frequent speaker and writer on a wide variety of entertainment subjects.

Mr. Moore has been named (a) one of the top 100 entertainment lawyers by the Hollywood Reporter, (b) one of the top 25 entertainment lawyers by Variety, (c) one of the top 100 lawyers in California by the Daily Journal and (d) one of top 3 “Most Influential Lawyers” in media by the National Law Journal.

William PfeifferCEO, Dragongate Entertainment

William Pfeiffer is Chief Executive Officer of Dragongate Entertainment, a film production, distribu-tion, and financing company launched with backing from Lionsgate. Dragongate produces major studio level feature films in English and Asian languages and raises corporate financing as well as film financing.

The company also produces and distributes television content. Pfeiffer is also Senior Advisor to Lionsgate and spearheads their film financing and strategic initiatives in Asia. From 2008-2012, Pfeiffer was founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tiger Gate Entertainment, a partnership among

Lions-


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gate Entertainment, Saban Capital Group, and Pfeiffer. The Hong Kong-based company launched three TV channels including KIX, a general entertainment TV channel featuring action, adventure, and martial arts content for Asian viewers; and Thrill, a movie channel focused on thriller, suspense, and horror films from Asia and Hollywood. Tiger Gate acquired the TV channels of Celestial Movies in 2012, and Pfeiffer is a significant shareholder of the merged entity: Celestial Tiger Entertain-ment. As Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong-based Celestial Pictures from 2001 - 2008, Pfeiffer launched an Asian-content media company with worldwide entertainment assets in the motion picture, television, and new media industries. Celestial Pictures owns and distributes Asia’s largest film library, including the Shaw Brothers films. Under Pfeiffer’s leadership, Celestial launched sev-eral television channels including Celestial Movies -- the most widely distributed Chinese-language movie channel -- and produced new Asian-language feature films and television programs.

From 1992-2001, William Pfeiffer was Managing Director, Asia, of Sony Pictures’ Columbia TriStar International Television and also Executive Vice President of Corporate Development for Sony Pic-tures. He was responsible for launching 20 television channel services across the region under 8 brands, including AXN, Animax, and Sony Entertainment TV, a leading Indian language group of TV channels. He also initiated and oversaw the production and distribution of over 3000 hours per year of local language television programming and the launch into feature film production in lan-guages such as Mandarin, Hindi, and Japanese. Prior to his appointment to Sony, Pfeiffer was Pres-ident of Japan and Managing Director, Asia, for The Walt Disney Company’s home entertainment business and established its television production business in the region.

Pfeiffer has lived in Asia for over thirty years. He studied at the University of Notre Dame and Sophia University (in Tokyo) as an undergraduate and at Stanford University’s GraduateSchool of Business. He is a board member of several global organizations.

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Established in 1927, FICCI is the largest and oldest not for profit apex business organisation in India. FICCI plays a leading role in policy debates that are at the forefront of social, economic and political change.

The Entertainment Division serves a vital link between the media & entertainment industry, Infor-mation & Broadcasting Ministry and global interests in this vibrant sector. Media & Entertainment Division is an active division organizing the FICCI-FRAMES, conducting & releasing pioneering studies in the sectors, assisting in policy decisions and helping scale up the industry through vari-ous initiatives.

FICCI-FRAMES has emerged as the biggest event of its kind in Asia. For more information on FICCI FRAMES 2011 visit us at www.ficci-frames.com.

Shekhar KapurShekhar Kapur is one of the very few international directors from India. After major critical and com-mercial success in India, he found appreciation world wide through his film Bandit Queen. Thereaf-ter, he directed ‘Elizabeth’ which was nominated for 7 Oscars including Best Picture.

While he continues to direct, his passion for new media and technology is very well known and he continues to be an evangelist for new media all over the world. He also founded a new media com-pany, Qyuki, in partnership with Cisco and composer AR Rahman.Until recently he served on the Innovation Strategy Advisory board for the Prime Minister of India. He is a member of the Outreach Program of the Academy.


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The U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) is the premier business advocacy organization representing America’s top companies investing in India, joined by global Indian companies, with an aim to deepen trade and strengthen commercial ties.

At the behest of the Governments of India and the United States, USIBC was formed in 1975 to enlighten and encourage the private sectors of both countries to enhance investment flows. The Council’s primary mission is to serve as a direct link between business and Government leaders, resulting in increased trade and investment to strengthen ties between the two nations.

Ajay Banga, President & CEO of MasterCard, serves as the current Chairman of USIBC. The Chair-man is supported by USIBC’s prestigious Board of Directors, representing decades of experience investing in India and Indian companies.

The Council is headquartered in Washington, D.C. with regional offices in New York, California and New Delhi.

NASSCOM is the industry association for the IT-BPM sector in India. A not-for-profit organisation funded by the industry, its objective is to build a growth led and sustainable technology and business services sector in the country.

Established in 1988, NASSCOM’s membership has grown over the years and currently stands at 1,400. These companies represent 95 percent of industry revenues and have enabled the association to spearhead initiatives and programs to build the sector in the country and globally.

NASSCOM members are active participants in the new global economy and are admired for their innovative business practices, social initiatives and thrust on emerging opportunities.


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The American India Foundation is committed to catalyzing social and economic change in India and building a lasting bridge between the United States and India through high-impact interventions in education, livelihoods, public health, and leadership development, with a particular emphasis on empowering girls and women to achieve gender equity. Working closely with local communities, AIF partners with NGOs to develop and test innovative solutions and with governments to create and scale sustainable impact.

Founded in 2001 at the initiative of President Bill Clinton following a suggestion from Prime Minister Vajpayee, AIF has impacted the lives of 2.5 million of India’s poor and aims to reach 5 million by 2018-19.

Tulsea is a strategic media and content management company that represents India’s leading writers, directors, producers, and companies. Tulsea’s clients work across platforms - ranging from motion pictures, television, new media, and publishing. Importantly, Tulsea allocates a significant amount of its resources to identify emerging talent that will be tomorrow’s premier storytellers. Tul-sea’s approach to its advisory services and talent management focuses on ensuring all stakehold-ers across the value chain benefit equitably.

The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley by a group of successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and senior professionals with roots in the Indus region. There are currently 11,000 members, including over 2,500 charter members in 60 chapters across 17 countries. TiE’s mission is to foster entrepreneurship globally through mentoring, networking, and education. Dedicated to the virtuous cycle of wealth creation and giving back to the community, TiE’s focus is on generating and nurturing our next generation of entrepreneurs. The foremost and most widely known event that TiE hosts is TiEcon, which is the largest professional and networking conference for entrepreneurs.

TiE also hosts a wide range of programs events catering to various industry verticals, educational events hosted by TiE Institute, TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) program to foster entrepreneurship in our youth, and TiE Women’s Forum for empowering women entrepreneurs.


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AttendeesSr. No. Name Company Designation

1 Ajay Dugar Hollywood Worldwide Entertainment, Inc. Digital Business Development

2 Akshat Verma Actor | Writer | Director

3 Alan Bardwell PZH Inc. CFO

4 Alex Mcdowell 5D Global Studio Creative Director

5 Aman Singha Inmetta US CEO

6 Amit Samuel Amit Samuel Productions Producer

7 Amrita Sen Artist & Entrepreneur

8 Anand Gandhi Latham & Watkins Attorney

9 Anirudh Shankardass Motion Picture Director

10 Anil Kripalani WirefreeCom Inc. President

11 Angela Alias CFO

12 Anupam Govil Avasant President AvaSense Partner Avasant

13 Arkesh Ajay UCLA TFT Graduate Student

14 Arvind David Ideate Media Head of Production & Development

15 Asma Chandani Dechert LLP Counsel

16 Azira Zainal Ideate Media Head of Legal

17 Babu Subramaniam Lakshmi Films, Inc. Director & Producer

18 Ben Rekhi Sikhya Entertainment Producer

19 Bryan Barber Warner Brothers Vice President

20 Charles Alvaré EP Wealth Advisors, Inc. Vice President

21 Dan Halperin Epiphany Pictures and LIVEGIVE Ventures Producer

22 Datta Dave Tulsea Pictures Co-Founder

23 David O. Higley Higley & Company LLC Managing Partner

24 David Robert Pixel Rays Entertainment Director

25 David Shapiro Iskcon Television, Inc. and Uplifting Cinema Pvt. Ltd. Director

26 Deepak Chopra Chopra Center for Wellbeing Founder

27 Dhanavathi Srinivas KESDEE Inc. Director

28 Dilip Patel Buzzle.com, Inc. President

29 Dina Madhani MTV World VP, Social Media & Marketing


30 Divya Kaushik Kohli Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles Director, Sponsorship

31 Dr. Puneet Chandak Silicon Valley Medical Imaging President

32 E.J. Kavounas Autopilot Entertainment Production Company

33 Ed Lantz Vortex Immersion Media President and CEO

34 Emily Barclay Ford Producers Guild of America Multi-platform Producer & Digital Media Executive

35 Eric Roth New Regency Productions EVP, Business Affairs

36 Everett Cowings Continuous LLC CEO

37 Gems Sanchez LFS Productions Entertainment Professional

38 Gingger Shankar Gingger Shankar Indian American singer

39 Gunjan Bhow The Walt Disney Company SVP and GM

40 Harish Rao Harvik CEO

41 Howard M. Frumes Alexander, Lawrence, Frumes & Labowitz, LLP Partner

42 Indra Gandhi

43 Iram Parveen Bilal Parveen Shah Productions CEO, Writer & Director

44 James Knight BAFTA Board Member

45 James Masi Annapurna Pictures Head of Technologies

46 James Veraldi Snapchat Head of Strategy and Partnerships

47 Jasmine Jaisinghani Independent Filmmaker Independent

48 Jason Resnick Independent Entertainment Professional Producer

49 Jay Patel Universal Entertainment Hub Founder

50 Jeff Most Most Film President

51 Jennifer Snyder Actress | Producer

52 Jeremiah McMillan Global Content Group Executive Producer

53 Joe Wallenstein USC Film School Head of Physical Production

54 John Heinsen Bunnygraph CEO & Executive Producer

55 John Hellmann BowerGroupAsia Senior Director

56 Jonathan Lennard Fastback Films Director

57 Jose Kunnappally Prime Focus Ltd. Senior VP and Chief Marketing Officer

58 Joshua A. Dawson USC / 5D Global Studio Designer & Researcher

59 Julie Demarigny Warner Brothers Vice President

60 Karen Robson Pryor Cashman LLP Executive Vice President Business Affairs

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61 Karl Mehta EdCast Inc. Founder, Chairman & CEO

62 Kate McCallum Vortex Immersion Media Producer & Writer

63 Kavi Virk KSV Media Executive Producer

64 Ken Silverman Sannam S4 Consulting, Pvt. Ltd. Head, North America

65 Kesey Hansen Virtual Reality Development Executive

66 Kiran Srinivasd Light Ray Capital President

67 Kunal Rajan Blackbox Entertainment Sound Designer

68 Kushal Kapadia Houlihan Lokey Director

69 Leena Jaisani FICCI Entertainment Division Senior Director & Head, Entertainment Division

70 Linda Michaelson Sheppard Mullin Partner

71 Manjari Makijany Mac Productions Filmmaker

72 Manjula Balaji VA Shiva Innovation Corps Volunteers Staff

73 Marigold Muppala Sony Business Intelligence Analyst

74 Mark Dayoub Pathbender LLC COO

75 Mark Nguyen Planet L.A. Records Strategic and Brand Marketing, Global Trade Advisor

76 Maura Kawai US Department of Commerce Commercial Service Sr. International Trade Specialist

77 Medha Jaishankar Prime Focus Creative Producer

78 Michael Green U.S.-India Business Council Senior Manager, Policy Advocacy

79 Michael Henrichs Die Gesellschaft DGS Managing Director & Producer

80 Michael LoBiondo Warner Bros. Records Sr. Director

81 Michael Meadows New Wave Entertainment Executive Producer & Director

82 Michael Peyser USC, School of Cinematic Arts Professor

83 Michelle Sugihara CAPE Executive Director

84 Mike Patel Watermark Ventures

85 Milan Agarwal Universal Pictures Manager, Film Strategy & Operations

86 Mitch Mallon Stadium Media Founder & CEO

87 Mitra Kalita Los Angeles Times Managing Editor

88 Munish Gupta PIO TV Chairman

89 Namit Malhotra Prime Focus CEO

90 Nayan Padrai 108 Production Film Maker

91 Neale Hemrajani Annapurna Pictures Production Executive of Creative Technologies


Attendees

92 Neeraj Khubchandani Ernst & Young LLP Senior Manager

93 Nilesh Bhakta The Remedy Pharmaceuticals Owner

94 Nitin Chawla Disney VP Strategy & Business Development

95 Nusrat Durrani MTV Networks General Manager

96 Pankaj Raval Law Offices of Pankaj S Raval Owner

97 Paresh Bhakta Globiwest Hospitality Group President

98 Paresh Ghelani 2020 Entertainment Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

99 Peter Shiao Orb Media Group CEO

100 Pintoo Shah NBCUniversal CFO of Studio Operations

101 Prem Akkaraju SFX Entertainment Chief Content Officer

102 Puneet Nanda Healthland LLC CEO

103 Raajeev Aggarwal Transorg Analytics, LLC President, North America

104 Radhika Chaudhari Blackbox Entertainment Director

105 Raghav Mani Ernst & Young LLP Global Knowledge Leader

106 Rahul Shantaram Rajkamal Entertainment Enter-prises Pvt. Ltd. Managing Director

107 Raj Singh

108 Rajesh Ramachandran Qube Cinema President & CTO

109 Rajiv Dalal Tom Sherak MS Hope Foun-dation Executive Director

110 Randy Greenberg The Greenberg Group Managing Director

111 Ravi Achar Synergy CEO

112 Ravi Ahuja Fox Networks Group Senior Vice President

113 Reena Esmail Shastra Composer

114 Rick Alexander Phenomenal Media, LLC CEO

115 Rick Ambros Lightsource Asia Media Group Partner

116 Rohit Batra Level Street Pictures Partner

117 Roopak Saluja The 120 Media Collective Founder & Chief Executive Officer

118 Roy Taylor AMD Corporate Vice President

119 Ruchika Mandhyan Indichicflix Writer & Producer

120 Rupa Masurkar Quantum Advisors Pvt. Ltd. Manager – Legal & Compliance

121 S.L.(Sam) Srinivasulu KESDEE Inc. Chairman

122 Sahirr Sethhi Gorky Films Founder

123 Salvy Maleki Pathbender LLC Producer & PGA Member


Attendees

124 Sanjeev Sardana BluePointe Capital Manage-ment CEO

125 Sanjit Das Watchwith Digital Media

126 Sarika Batra Andaaz Inc. Founder and CEO

127 Saurabh KikaniMr. Kicks and Lady Megs Pro-ductions, Sasquatch Punches Productions

Producer, Writer

128 Schuyler M. Moore Strook Partner

129 Shekhar Kapur Director

130 Shelly Presser Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.Retired Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer

131 Shiva Ayyadurai VA Shiva Innovation Corps Founder

132 Shivani Thakkar MKM Bollystars Dance Company Artistic Director

133 Siva Natarajan The Walt Disney Company Global Media Executive

134 Steven Adams Alta Entertainment Manager & Producer

135 Steven Blesoe 2274 Inc. Founder

136 Sumit Nanda Golden State Capital Chairman

137 Terri Lubaroff Meltdown Comics COO

138 Thomas Malayil Indo-Pacific Partners Managing Director

139 Tiffany L. gray Gray Day Productions Producer & Attorney

140 Ty Braswell JASH Comedy Network Digital Engagement Consultant-Mobile Strategist

141 Umesh Shukla Auryn Inc. Founder & CEO

142 Vandana Tilak Akshaya Patra Foundation USA Advisory Board Member

143 Varun Monga ESA Agent

144 Vasant Nath Self Employed Film Director & Screenwriter

145 Vera Kripalani WirefreeCom Inc. CFO

146 Vicangelo Bulluck Outreach at Oscars Academy MD

147 Vijay Chandran Cauvery Group Inc. President

148 Vivek Tandon EB5 Brics, LLC Founder & CEO

149 William Pfeiffer Dragongate Entertainment CEO

150 Nishith Desai Nishith Desai Associates Founder & Managing Partner

151 Dr. Mihir Parikh Nishith Desai Associates Strategic Thought Leader

152 Gowree Gokhale Nishith Desai Associates Partner, M&E Practice

153 Kartik Maheshwari Nishith Desai Associates Senior Associate – Private Equity and TMT


Attendees

154 Mansi Seth Nishith Desai Associates Head – US Office

155 Milind Mundankar Nishith Desai Associates Head – Technology

156 Ms. Swati Desai Nishith Desai Associates

157 Noopur Desai Nishith Desai Associates Member, Management Team

158 Priti Patel Nishith Desai Associates Senior Associate

159 Suril Desai Nishith Desai Associates Associate + Researcher


Research@NDAResearch is the DNA of NDA. In early 1980s, our firm emerged from an extensive, and then pioneering, research by Nishith M. Desai on the taxation of cross-border transactions. The research book written by him provided the foundation for our international tax practice. Since then, we have relied upon research to be the cornerstone of our practice development. Today, research is fully ingrained in the firm’s culture.

Research has offered us the way to create thought leadership in various areas of law and public policy. Through research, we discover new thinking, approaches, skills, reflections on jurisprudence, and ultimately deliver superior value to our clients.

Over the years, we have produced some outstanding research papers, reports and articles. Almost on a daily basis, we analyze and offer our perspective on latest legal developments through our

“Hotlines”. These Hotlines provide immediate awareness and quick reference, and have been eagerly received. We also provide expanded commentary on issues through detailed articles for publication in newspapers and periodicals for dissemination to wider audience. Our NDA Insights dissect and analyze a published, distinctive legal transaction using multiple lenses and offer various perspectives, including some even overlooked by the executors of the transaction. We regularly write extensive research papers and disseminate them through our website. Although we invest heavily in terms of associates’ time and expenses in our research activities, we are happy to provide unlimited access to our research to our clients and the community for greater good.

Our research has also contributed to public policy discourse, helped state and central governments in drafting statutes, and provided regulators with a much needed comparative base for rule making. Our ThinkTank discourses on Taxation of eCommerce, Arbitration, and Direct Tax Code have been widely acknowledged.

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Attendees

Life Cycle of an India Focused Fund: Tackling Disputes

Fund Structuring & Operations

Fund Governance

Private Equity and Private Debt Investments in India

The Indian Medical Device Industry

M&A Lab Select Case Studies

Corporate Social Responsibility

E-Commerce in India Convergence: Internet of things


Attendees

The Curious Case of Indian Gaming Laws

Bitcoin- A Global-Perspective

Dispute Resolution in India

International Commercial Arbitration

Start-Ups: What You Need to Know

Wealth & Estate Planning

Doing Business in India Investment in Education Sector

Data Protection in India – Critical Analysis

These research papers and much more are available on our Knowledge Site: www.nishithdesai.com

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PROGRAM

University of California, Los Angeles,Carnesale Commons, 3rd Floor Palisades Ballroom

September 29, 2015

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