The Media and Entertainment Product Line Director for Akamai Technologies, Tim Napoleon, will be giving the opening keynote at iTVCon - Internet Video Conference & Expo next month in San Francisco. Prior to joining Akamai, Napoleon worked closely with Adobe to launch the Flash Video Streaming service at a content delivery startup, so he is uniquely well qualified to cover the most burning topics du jour, including Silverlight versus Flash as the Internet video platform of choice.

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Akamai is synonymous today with the EdgePlatform technology that currently enables companies and government agencies to deliver Web content and applications, such as ads, video, and other high-bandwidth content

Napoleon has an accomplished record as a marketing and business professional in the online and media and entertainment industries. In his current position he is responsible for providing services to digitally deliver music, movies and video, games, sports, and news for businesses such as Apple iTunes, Major League Baseball, XM Satellite, MTV, CNET, and Newscorp.

He launched Pacific Life's online web portal which supported several billion dollars in transactions and provided consulting services to a number of high tech and media & entertainment businesses. Napoleon has authored multiple industry white papers regarding digital entertainment and online video. He is an avid supporter of the arts by volunteering on several independent films screened at Sundance and producing a DVD series on classic drawing skills. Napoleon is an MBA graduate from the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, and a communications graduate from the University of California at Fullerton.

Akamai's Tim Napoleon heads a star-studded inaugural iTVCon speaker faculty, including:

• Steven Bernstein - Producer for and Co-Founder of iAccessTV
  
  
• Ted Briscoe - CEO of Vibe Solutions Group
  
  
• Suranga Chandratillake - Founder of blinkx
  
  
• Justin Chapweske - Founder & CEO of Swarmcast
  
  
• Jesse Ezell - Lead Developer, Articulate.com
  
  
• David Graves - Chairman & Founder of PermissionTV
  
  
• Greg Kostello - CEO & Founder of vMix
  
  
• Kate Purmal - GM & SVP of Digital Content Solutions for SanDisk
  
  
• Safi Qureshey - CEO & Chairman of Quartics
  
  
• Karl Rasmussen - Chief Technical Officer of iAccessTV