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SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES Optical Disc

Customer Event

Technology & Market review 2013

and Future outlook/

MediA-TecH Year-end event

Dear Business Friends,

SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES

welcomes you

for the Optical Disc Customer Event “Technology & Market Review 2013 and Future Outlook/MEDIa-TECH Year-End Event”

with speeches from experts from all around the globe.

Dr.-Ing. Stefan Rinck, CEO, and Sylvia Hitzel, VP Sales & Marketing SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES are pleased to invite you to join

the Evening Networking Dinner at the Hotel Zeller in Kahl.

We are looking forward to meeting you.

Dr.-Ing. Stefan Rinck & Sylvia Hitzel

EVENT PROGRaM

Day 1: December 4, 2013 | Location: SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES Headquarters

Time Topic Speaker/Company

10.00 am Welcome Coffee

10.30 am Welcome Dr.-Ing. Stefan Rinck, SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES

10.40 am SINGULUS Review 2013/Outlook 2014 Sylvia Hitzel, SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES

10.55 am Keynote Speech: Physical & Digital, The Codependent Future

Steve Brown, Cinram Group

Optical Disc Market sessiOn, MODerateD by JiM bOttOMs

11.20 am The Challenges in a Changing Market of Optical Disc Media

Sven Deutschmann, arvato Entertainment Europe

11.35 am Blu-ray Recordable Kenny Yeh, U-Tech Media Corporation/Ritek

11.50 am MEDIa-TECH Overview Frank Hartwig, MEDIa-TECH association

12.05 pm OLED Display – Technology & Trends alexander Biebel, Merck, Performance Materials Division

12.20 pm LIvE DEmO Of OLED DISpLAy – DEEpEr, rICHEr COLOrS/STUNNING CONTrAST!

12.30 pm Lunch & Networking

02.00 pm Optical Disc Market Michael Boreham, Futuresource

02.15 pm Localized Optical Disc Manufacturing – On Demand

Daniel Doll-Steinberg, Tribeka

02.30 pm Pure audio Blu-ray/Next Generation Blu-ray

Jim Bottoms, Gifla associates

02.45 pm NETwOrkING wITH pUrE AUDIO BLU-rAy DEmONSTrATION

02.50 pm Coffee Break

Future MeDia sessiOn, MODerateD by Marcel GOnska

03.15 pm Ultra-HD: Introducing a New Television System Marcel Gonska, WLC

03.30 pm 4K TV: Just add Content Paul Gray, DisplaySearch | Solarbuzz

03.45 pm SINGULUS Blu-ray Update & Future Peter Knips, SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES

04.00 pm LICHTMOND – Why advanced Multi- media Projects need Physical Storage Media (4K Blu-ray)

Giorgio & Martin Koppehele, blu phase media

04.15 pm 4k/7.1 LIvE DEmO – ENTEr THE mAGIC wOrLD Of LICHTmOND

04.25 pm Coffee Break & Networking

Future technOlOGy sessiOn, MODerateD by sylvia hitzel

04.45 pm Injection Molding of Optical Parts – New Trends and Challenges

Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. Philipp Nikoleizig, Institut für Kunststoffverarbeitung

05.00 pm SINGULUS Optical Coating Solutions – applications and Technology

Kilian Kruse, SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES

05.15 pm Printed Electronics – Enabling Electronics Everywhere

Dr. Klaus Hecker, Organic and Printed Electronics association

05.30 pm New Technology from Mitsubishi Electric Peter Mischitz, Mitsubishi Electric Europe

05.45 pm Closing Sylvia Hitzel, SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES

06.00 pm End of Event, Transport to Hotels

07.00 pm Welcome Reception at Hotel Zeller

08.00 pm Evening Networking Dinner at Hotel Zeller

Day 2: December 5, 2013 | Location: Hotel Zeller, Garden room

MeetinG MeDia-tech assiciatiOn

09.30 am mEDIA-TECH member meeting

10.15 am mEDIA-TECH Special Interest Group (SIG) for Disc Licensing (This meeting is only open to members of the SIG.)

Now entering his fifth year, Mr. Brown was a veteran of the contract manu- facturing sector, having worked for many years as CEO of a significant supplier to the major North American and European automobile manufacturers. He started his career in the United Kingdom where he was raised and has worked extensively in Europe, North America and Asia which

has provided him with a great deal of knowledge and understanding of the European and North American business cultures where Cinram has major opera-tions. Over the recent years Brown has taken Cinram into the Digital arena, with award winning success, and taken the company from the public sector to a verystrong financial footing in the private sector.

eVenT SPeAKerS

1992 Sales, topac1996 Managing Director, topac2003 Managing Director, Sonopress GmbH2005 CEO, Sonopress Western Europe

2007 CEO, arvato digital services Manufacturing EMEA2011 CEO, arvato Entertainment Europe Sonopress GmbH2013 Executive Vice President, arvato Entertainment

1. On Nov. 1996, established Ritek Australia Pty Ltd in Sydney, as the Managing Director. Major replicating product was CD-RW.2. In 2003, change the core biz from CD-RW replication to DVDs duplication to serve local movie studios; in the mean

time, also rename the company name to U-Tech Media Australia Pty Ltd. He still acts as the Managing Director.3. Mar 2011, back to Taiwan as the Vice Chairman of U-Tech Media Corporation in Taiwan.

Frank Hartwig joined CDA in March 2012 as a Chief Executive Officer. Prior he worked as Vice President and Managing Director for one of the largest European Optical Disc Manufacturers. As economist

and business data processing specialist, Frank Hartwig has gained nearly 20 years of professional experience in management positions in manufacturing companies.

Steve Brown cinram group

Sven Deutschmann arvato entertainment europe

kenny yeh U-Tech Media corporation

frank Hartwig MediA-TecH Association

Dipom Wirtschaftsingenieur1997-2002 Schott: R&D Planing Department

2002-2005 Schott AG: Business Development Manager OLED Project 2005-now Merck KGaA: Assoc. Director Sales & Services OLED

Alexander Biebel Merck, Performance Materials division

Michael joined Futuresource in 1990 and is lead analyst on the Optical Disc Manufacturing and Supply Chain Service and is responsible for providing research, analysis and insight on the disc manu-facturing and distribution sector. Michael works closely with the Futuresource Home Entertainment Group and provides

support to a variety of clients including disc manufacturers, capital equipment companies, trade associations, major stu-dios and music companies, raw materials suppliers and the financial community. Michael is a business studies graduate from the University of Bedfordshire.

michael Boreham Futuresource

Daniel is CEO and founder of Tribeka Ltd, creator of a revolutionary and world leading solution for the local delivery of software and entertainment product (DVD movie, music and games). Its technology delivers a physical and/or digital product in minutes either at or close to point of sale, whilst contributing to the environment by reducing packaging

and eliminating transport and waste.Tribeka has agreements with most major labels, studios and publishers worldwide, and its technology is being deployed by leading retailers and distributors around the world.

Daniel Doll-Steinberg Tribeka

Jim Bottoms has been an industry analyst, focussing on the home entertainment sector, for more than three decades, including both Understanding and Solutions and Futuresource Consulting, two companies he co-founded. Through- out this time Jim has worked closely with his clients, all senior level decision makers and global leaders, in Music, Video, Optical Manufacturing, Broadcast, Retail and Consumer electronics. More recently,

Jim has been using his expertise, industry knowledge and unrivalled reputation to become an industry advocate, helping to drive new entertainment products, technologies and services. This includes working with the Blu-ray Disc Association, the High Fidelity Pure Audio industry group and the Media and Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) to help these groups and their members exploit the true revenue potential available.

Jim Bottoms gifla Associates

Marcel is the founder and CEO of WLC. He is a professional video consultant with more than 15 years of business experience, covering the fields of video technology, content production, consumer electronics, R&D, MARCOM,

press organization, sales & training. He worked from home theater stores to publishing companies to Samsung’s R&D department in Suwon-City, South Korea and sees himself as a „Business Punk“ and „Videophile“.

marcel Gonska WLc

Paul Gray is Director of European TV Research for DisplaySearch. He also covers digital broadcast, signal processing and semiconductor technology. He is heavily involved in analysis and forecasting of connected TV and 3D. Paul has worked his entire career in the TV supply chain, and has more than 15 years of experience in market intelligence, marketing and product management. His work includes forecasting, product strategy and investment and R&D

decisions. Before joining DisplaySearch, Paul worked at NXP Semiconductors as a market intelligence manager and also as product manager for TV semi- conductors. Before NXP, he held positions of increasing responsibility at Philips Display Components (later LG.Philips Displays), including Director and International Account Manager in both Asia and Europe. Paul started his career as a production shift leader in a CRT factory.

paul Gray displaySearch | Solarbuzz

Studies in Mechanical Engineering, majoring in Plastics Technology at RWTH Aachen University. Since 2000 in the field of Optical Media business:- Data Disc Robots GmbH in Würselen, Process Engineer, 2003 Head of Application Technology

- 2005 SINGULUS Molding AG Schaffhausen (CH), Technical Manager- Since 2008 STAG, Head of Product Management

peter knips SingULUS TecHnoLogieS

Since many years the constant success of the producer team Avenue Music, consisting of the brothers Giorgio und Martin Koppehele, continues. With their audiovisual ambient-pop musical project LICHTMOND they just have conquered the USA. The Planetarium Hamburg, where LICHTMOND celebrated their world premiere in March 2013, recently licensedthe 4K planetarium show to the well-known Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City. Further licenses to planetariums in Russia, China, UK, Greece and other planetariums in North America are currently being negotiated.

For LICHTMOND they established the label blu phase media GmbH together with CEO Prof. Dr. Manfred Gröger.In the course of their career Martin and Giorgio wrote and produced for Placido Domingo, Bro‘Sis, Suzie Quatro, C.C. Catch, Shari Belafonte, Chris Thompson (singer of Manfred Mann’s Earth Band), Splash, Odyssey, Nicole, Lou Bega and others, receiving many gold and platinum awards. They wrote and produced advertising jingles, dance projects, music for movies, TV series, soundtracks and exhibitions, like TITANIC exhibition in Hamburg.

Giorgio & martin koppehele blu phase media

Philipp Nikoleizig, born 1984 in Duisburg, Germany, studied Business Administration & Engineering, Mechanical Engineering with the career field of Plastic Technology at RWTH Aachen University between 2005 and 2011. Since 2012 he is working at the Institute of Plastics Processing

(IKV) at RWTH Aachen as a scientific assistant. He is leading the workgroup mould technology inside the injection moulding department. Main research activities include mould tempering, thermal mould design and injection moulding simulation.

philipp Nikoleizig institut für Kunststoffverarbeitung

Kilian Kruse (born 1974) studied Engineering with a major in Automation Technology at the Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule in Darmstadt. In 2003 Kilian Kruse joined the SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES AG where he started his career as Technical Commissioning Engineer. From 2006 to 2008 he worked as Key Account Manager in the area of

Optical Disc responsible for CD, DVD and HD DVD Technology. In 2008 he was appointed as Product Manager Optical Disc for Pre-Recorded Media in the division of Technical Sales and Marketing. In 2010 Kilian Kruse was appointed as Product Manager for New Business Applications at SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES.

kilian kruse SingULUS TecHnoLogieS

Dr. Klaus Hecker is Managing Director of the OE-A (Organic and Printed Electronics Association) at VDMA since 2005. He joined VDMA in 2003 as project manager for the planning of a OLED-pilot-production, where he was responsible for technology evaluation, research planning and public funding. Before his affiliation with VDMA, Klaus Hecker worked at the Institute

of Microtechnology Mainz GmbH (IMM), responsible for the flat panel display projects and the preparation and build-up of the DFF. He received his doctorate degree in solid state physics in the field of electrical transport in nanostructured metallic and superconducting systems from the University of Cologne.

klaus Hecker organic and Printed electronics Association

During his 29 years lasting career at Mitsubishi Electric Peter Mischitz built up Project Departments, the Technical Department and departments for Product Marketing and Software Development in sequence. As Key Account Manager he was responsible for several branches.

In 2003 he became Head of the Industrial Automation Sector. From the year 2006 he was Head of the Operation Division of the Factory Automation European Business Group. Since 2009 Peter Mischitz is responsible for the strategically important sector Expansion of OEM Business.

peter mischitz Mitsubishi electric europe

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