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Anthony Wood, Founder, CEO, Roku delivers a keynote at Streaming Media West on the future of television and the convergence of media.

Segway inventor Dean Kamen once said about entrepreneurs, “It’s not that they’re brilliant or well-educated…They work all the time. They don’t let failure demoralize or destroy them. They pick themselves up and keep going and eventually, every once in a while, one of your ideas actually breaks through and works, and makes all that stuff seem worthwhile.”

Joel Dreyfuss, Former Editor-In-Chief of Red Herring lead a panel of experts to discuss the challenging business climate for companies in 2009. The panel includes an entrepreneur and a suite of advisers from the legal, accounting and financing professions.

Arianna Huffington, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Huffington Post, sits down with Ashton Kutcher, Actor and, increasingly, new media producer to talk about a hollywood / web 2.0 shotgun wedding.

Video: Energy efficiency investments are becoming more and more cost effective. The return on investment is one of the safest returns any organization can expect. Traditionally, energy has accounted for around 2% of a healthcare facilities operating costs. That has been increasing over the past few years in an industry that typically earns slim profit margins to begin with. Money that used to go towards utilities can now be re-invested to provide better patient care.

Video: How true is the notion that B2B information companies are somehow different than consumer media? What should the likes of Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, Reed Elsevier, McGraw-Hill see in the changing consumer landscape?

Video: In what some analysts are predicting will become a $95 billion industry in the next few years, what are the best opportunities for enterprise-oriented publishers to take advantage of cloud computing’s cost-effective strengths for the enterprise? Is cloud computing a boon for publishers or is this just another complication in trying to define premium value points for enterprise content audiences?

Video: How do you make money by combining content and technology? Nowhere is the promise of info-commerce more apparant than in Evidence-based medicine (EBM) and point-of-care delivery.

Video: How are converging media technologies redefining traditional distribution methods? How are interactive and on-demand services changing? How is entertainment and news video being consumed?

Video: Despite many valiant efforts, there has yet to be a breakthrough in solving the problem of valuation and monetization of online video. Targeted at both advertisers and publishers, this panel touches on the real challenges businesses face when implementing an online video component (distribution strategies audience targeting, etc.) and discuss the issues that surround monetizing this blossoming industry.