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Wi-Fi TV Inc. has announced that it will participate in two major forums addressing the future of television and the Internet. The founder and chairman of Wi-Fi TV will speak on both panel discussions and they will be televised on the Internet at www.Wi-FiTV.com.

The shows will also be available for on-demand viewing at www.Wi-FiTVNewsblog.com following each event. Media, business leaders, venture capitalists, TV and Internet experts and industry professionals will be in attendance to view the forums.

The first panel discussion featuring Wi-Fi TV will be at the Digital Living Room Conference produced by iHollywoodForum.com. The topic of the forum will be: One Video, Multiple Platforms.

Programming is quickly divorcing itself from specific technologies and contexts. Movies, TV episodes, user-generated media, branded entertainment are all time and place shifting across Web, TV, theaters, discs and handheld devices. How will the new cross-platform eco-system change video content and production? Is it possible to build new media brands on the Web, DVD and mobile and expect them to move onto the TV, too?

Will the 60-minute drama and 30-minute sitcom survive being wrenched from a leisurely prime-time schedule? And how will any of these properties market themselves to an audience that cherry picks its media so ruthlessly?

The second panel discussion featuring Wi-Fi TV will be at the Broadband TV Summit, which will be part of the NAB Show, the ultimate destination for a global audience of media professionals who seek to deliver enriched content from concept to consumption. It will occur on April 16 at 11:30 to 12:15 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The topic of the forum will be: Video Search for Unlimited Channels.

It’s hard enough finding what you want on TV when your cable provider gives you a few hundred channels. The problem becomes infinitely worse in an IPTV world of unlimited channels–including community channels, video-on-demand, video from the web and family videos. The solution lies in a combination of user interface and search algorithms.

You can watch the above-mentioned panel discussions on www.Wi-FiTV.com. They will be accessible from the Wi-Fi TV ClickerTape at www.Wi-FiTV.com and on-demand at www.Wi-FiTVNewsblog.com following the events.