Innovation Boot Camp September 2018

Phil McKinney is President and CEO of CableLabs. In this capacity he heads the research and development organization responsible for charting the cable industry’s technology and innovation roadmap.

Prior to joining CableLabs, he was the vice president and chief technology officer of the $40 billion (FY12) Personal Systems Group at HP. He was responsible for long-range strategic planning, research and development (R&D) and product roadmaps for the company’s PC product lines, including mobile devices, notebooks, desktops and workstations. In addition, Phil was founder and leader of HP’s Innovation Program Office (IPO). The IPO was chartered to identify, incubate and launch adjacent and fundamentally new technologies, products and services that would become the future growth engines for HP.

Recently (February 2012), Phil released his first book on innovation and personal creativity titled Beyond The Obvious, published by Hyperion. The book is available in hardcover, digital and audio formats. The book will soon be available in Russian, Chinese, Portuguese (Brazil), Korean and Japanese.

His influence on innovation and creativity includes:

• Sharing his expertise in innovation and creativity, free of charge (in an approach he refers to as “paying it forward”) through his award winning podcast Killer Innovations™ (available on iTunes). It has been named by CIO Insight as a “must listen” podcast.
• Vanity Fair named him the “The Innovation Guru”
• MSNBC and FOX Business both call him “The Gadget Guy”
• His uncanny ability to predict what’s coming next caused him to be dubbed as the “chief seer” by The San Jose Mercury News.
• He was named as one of the “25 Most Influential People in Mobile Tech” by LAPTOP Magazine.
• He is a contributing columnist for Forbes where he writes the column “The Objective” for Forbes.com

Phil serves on the:

• Advisory Board for Hacking Autism
• Board of Directors for The Computer History Museum
• Executive Board of the Santa Clara County Council for the Boy Scouts of America

Scott Brown is a long time technologist and entrepreneur with a strong history of building companies from inception to profitability. Currently, Scott leads startup/venture capital relationships for the global cable industry as part of CableLabs. In addition, Scott is the Managing Director of UpRamp, a new type of startup accelerator sponsored by CableLabs that is designed to help emerging technology companies find true product market fit with the cable & broadband industry. Previously, Scott was the CEO/Founder of bounce.io – the bounce intelligence company, CTO/Founder of Kronovia, a Compliance Cloud Service for Social Content and Relationships, and the SVP & General Manager of the messaging division of Bakbone Software. Scott was also the CTO & Co-founder of ColdSpark, a messaging infrastructure company that specialized in high-performance email systems for global financial services companies. Scott holds numerous patents related to email messaging, infrastructure, marketing and compliance technologies. He was named one of the 2010 40 under 40 by the Boulder County Business Review and has been recognized as a leading technology innovator.

Lori is a Colorado native with a passion for human development. Lori spent 18 years in the field of Human Resources in the healthcare industry before joining CableLabs as the Talent Development Partner. Holding a Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership, she has created meaningful, memorable and motivational Leadership Academies and team building strategies for professional development which help people learn new information and then apply that knowledge into behavior change. When not at work, Lori is passionate about music which includes singing, fostering her 4th and first grader’s love of music and attending Bluegrass music festivals with her husband.

Dan Smith is the Patent Director at CableLabs working on everything from optical and quantum computing, virtual reality, self-organizing networks, data backhaul systems, wireless communications and co-existence, etc. In this role he facilitates brain storming sessions in all technology areas, works with Jud Cary to manage CableLabs’ intellectual property (IP), and drafts and prosecutes CableLabs’ patents. Dan is also the CEO of The Cairn Group, a patent prosecution company which provides a business perspective to IP for start-ups and small companies, and founder of The Spot Bouldering Gym.

Lisa Warther has over 20 years’ experience implementing innovation projects and ideas at companies of all sizes, from Start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. She loves taking an idea and figuring out how to make it work in reality. Lisa’s passion, determination, and love of learning merges together as she works to implement her innovation projects. She is a Certified Project Manager and Scrum Master and leverages agile methodologies in implementations.

When Lisa is not busy implementing new ideas, you can find her on some sort of adventure. She enjoys travel, skiing, mountain biking, hiking, and camping. She enjoys going out on photography adventures with her oldest son, Austin (17) or working with her son Evan (15), building his movie studio quality Star Wars Clone Trooper armor.

An 19-year veteran of SCTE•ISBE, Derek DiGiacomo has been responsible for management of the organization’s Energy Management Program, most notably the Energy 2020 program. Energy 2020 is an industry-wide effort that set out to help shape what energy will look like for cable in the year 2020 and beyond.

DiGiacomo also is project manager for the Energy Management Subcommittee (EMS) in the SCTE Standards Program. The EMS team is responsible for writing best practices and standards pertaining to energy reduction and system availability; EMS standards address such areas as: Facilities, Fleet, Network Operations; Access Network, Alternative Energy; and Cooling.

Under Derek’s leadership, SCTE•ISBE has seen a dramatic 50% reduction in the dependency of grid-supplied power at its Exton, PA headquarters. Derek also oversaw installation of a microgrid consisting of hydrogen fuel cell, photolytic system, batteries, natural gas generator and grid that enables SCTE•ISBE’s critical system to achieve seven plus days of runtime in the event of a grid power interruption.

In addition to his Energy Management activities, Derek serves as a continuity planning subject matter expert for SCTE•ISBE on the Network Operations Subcommittee Working Group 3 responsible for Business Continuity.

He holds a Master’s of Science degree in Telecommunications and Network Management from Syracuse University and is an alumni of the National Renewable Energy Labs (NREL) Executive Leadership Academy Class of 2017.

John Weiss has spent his twenty year career fully immersed in design, spanning multiple agencies and disciplines, with a singular focus on how to create compelling and rich experiences that are rooted in elegant design, innovative technology, and create lasting relationships and shape the future. His work is guided by purpose, passion, simplicity, beauty, innovation and surprise.

After the acquisition of his own design agency in 2008, John went on to build and lead high performing design teams as Director, Experience Design at the worlds second largest privately held PR firm (WE-Communications) and the nations largest independently owned digital agency (SMITH), and as Executive Creative Director at WebMD Health Services. John left his stint at Crispin Porter + Bogusky in 2013 to co-found Human Design, a full service design agency working with clients that include the UN, Discovery, Twitter, Nike, Vulcan Inc, Adidas and several start-ups spanning multiple verticals.

John’s an active investor, advisor, university guest lecturer, and speaker at conferences and events.

Mark Dzuban is continuing a career-long commitment to driving change that improves performance, reduces cost and increases customer satisfaction for the cable industry. Since joining SCTE•ISBE in February 2009, he has been instrumental in transforming the organization into a next-generation leader in workforce education, energy management and other areas. Dzuban has driven the industry’s Energy 2020 program, designed to slash energy cost and consumption, and has spearheaded the expansion of educational opportunities, including: new training and certification programs; “boot camps” for DOCSIS 3.1 and FTTX; and SCTE•ISBE Leadership Institute programs with the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business. Under Dzuban, SCTE•ISBE also was named to receive a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award and significantly increased its technical and training expertise.

A 2011 recipient of the Vanguard Award, cable’s highest honor, Dzuban has been recognized throughout his career as a thought leader, particularly in the development of cable telephony and other two-way services. Working across legislative, financial and engineering areas, Dzuban pioneered the concept and market acceptance of the voice services that today contribute significantly to cable’s bottom line and was granted a patent for an approach to enhancing cable network survivability for lifeline services such as telephony. With AT&T’s Broadband Consumer Services group, he engineered the first full-motion MSO-to-MSO video telephony call in 1993.

Dzuban began his career in 1968 as a design engineer for Vikoa, and advanced to leadership positions in such organizations as Clear Cable and Cross Country Cable. With AT&T, he drove deployment of more than 500,000 cable telephony lines after being promoted to senior vice president of AT&T Broadband Telephony Operations and Engineering. Prior to joining SCTE, he had served as Vice Chairman of Cedar Point Communications, a developer and manufacturer of innovative VoIP switching equipment. Dzuban also has served in advisory positions to a variety of vendors to the cable industry, including ARRIS, Net2Phone/IDT and Broadcom.

Dzuban served in Korea as a Combat Logistics Specialist in the United States Army and was named a Veteran of Influence by the Philadelphia Business Journal in 2016. He and his wife, Shawn, now live in the Philadelphia western suburbs.

Beau has a 10-year history helping businesses from start-ups to Fortune 500s make big waves in their industries through innovative approaches to marketing. He began his career under the mentorship of Bob Thacker, the originator of the most viral campaign of the 2000’s, Elf Yourself, and architect of Target’s ascension as a market leader. As his understudy, he launched 14 private label brands across OfficeMax’s channels and went on to launch a celebrity endorsed product line that went on to be featured on Oprah, Rachel Ray, and many other national outlets. Along with the store-in-a-store team. Beau went on to co-found Clymb Marketing, a digital marketing agency that not only doubled every year for 4 years straight, becoming one of the fastest growing agencies in Colorado but also double several clients businesses along the way. In 2016, Beau was recognized as one of Boulder’s 40 under 40. In 2017, Human Design acquired Clymb Marketing and brought his team in-house to better serve their clients including, Netflix, Nike, the Discovery Channel and UN. Collectively, the team was recognized by DigitalMarketer as the Agency of the Year.