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Kendra Initiative is an international media, technology, academic and industry alliance. The mission is to foster an open distributed marketplace for digital media (including films, music, images, games and text). The initiative researches, recommends and develops enhancements to the digital media marketplace that facilitate interoperability between and revenue generation for content owners and service providers; to enable consumers to use any device or application to browse, search and purchase content from any content catalogue, seamlessly. The cross-industry stakeholder group is currently investigating content description, search, visibility, discovery, delivery and payment whilst developing and trialing prototypes and promoting support. Its goals are to:
- Simplify and streamline buying and selling digital content by driving industry adoption of open protocols.
- Enable interoperability between service providers, media applications and devices - every link in the content value chain.
- Build a system where consumers can use any device or application to browse, search and purchase from the globally distributed collection of content catalogues.
- Create a more pleasurable buying experience for consumers and increase reach and revenue for content owners.
By bringing together content creators/owners and specialists from industry and academia Kendra Initiative is constructing a framework that will enable all organisations and individuals in the content distribution industry to exchange ideas and build this system. Join us.
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- TVBEurope , International Herald Tribune , The Institution of Engineering and Technology
- Overview: Read the executive summary.
Janet MacDonald - Atlas Communications & Media - NZ
Frans de Jong Senior Engineer - European Broadcasting Union - CH
Damian Glover Research Consultant - Insight Central - GB
Andrew Dubber - Birmingham City University - GB
Vladimir Virlan - ACV - MD
A-Sun Truth Founder - Universal Interactive Networks - US
Ed Pimentel Founder - GooWallet - US
Muhammad Ishfaq administrator - Private - GB
Crystal Haidl Civic Discourse Producer - UnConventional Works - US
Greg Deocampo Chief Technology Officer | Artists & Repertoire - Mediatronica - US
Roger Plummer Executive Vice president - International Engineering Consortium - US
Damon Young Director of Sales - ProjectLocker - US
Simon Knight - MansionMedia - GB
Panos Kudumakis Research Manager - Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary Univ. London - GB
Maria Goggin Marketing & Alliance Management - NWIX - GB
Broadband and Triple Play Services
- Daniel Harris talks:
Building An Open Distributed Marketplace For Digital Media
- Panel Discussion: Exploiting opportunities on offer with targeted content delivery
24-25/09/2007 - Sheraton Roma Hotel, Rome, Italy - ViB events
PICNIC'07
Kendra Initiative Cross Media Summit for Content Discovery
100 EUR discount for Kendra Initiative members
25-29/09/2007 - Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Netherlands - Cross Media Week
Streaming Media Europe 2007
20% discount for Kendra Initiative members
04-05/10/2006 - Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, United Kingdom - Streaming Media
Broadband World Forum Europe
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Broadband Content Forum
- Daniel Harris talks: Does DRM Work for Us or Against Us?
Associate Sponsor
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Exhibitor
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30% discount for Kendra Initiative members
08-11/10/2007 - Estrel Convention Centre, Berlin, Germany - International Engineering Consortium (IEC)
Digital Hollywood Fall
- Daniel Harris talks:
Next Generation P2P Music and Film - DRM, Paid for Pass-Along, Ad-Based and Other Legal Distributed Computing Models and the Entertainment Industries
29/10-01/11/2007 - Renaissance Hollywood Hotel, Los Angeles, United States - Digital Hollywood
Streaming Media West 2007
06-08/10/2006 - San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, United States - Streaming Media
Broadband World Forum Americas
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Broadband Content Forum
Associate Sponsor
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Exhibitor
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30% discount for Kendra Initiative members
03-06/12/2007 - ITM Expo, Sao Paulo, Brazil - International Engineering Consortium (IEC)
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