The Entertainment Technology Center is a consortium that brings together the top entertainment, technology and Consumer Electronics companies to explore opportunities for new consumer entertainment offerings today and into the future. Our goal is to bring next generation consumers to the table to understand the impact of new technology on the consumer and all aspects of the entertainment industry - technology development and implementation, the creative process, and existing business models.

The ETC was founded in 1993 at the University of Southern California, with help from George Lucas, with the goal of bringing technology and entertainment visionaries together to collaborate on the future of entertainment technology.

Our sponsoring participants comprise the major studios: Disney, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Viacom/Paramount, and Warner Bros.; along with Cisco Systems, Sharp Corporation, Alcatel-Lucent, Volkswagen, Thomson, TATA Consultancy Services, Deluxe Laboratories, and Lucasfilm.