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Confirmed Speakers;

Since Siemens' acquisition of Myrio Chris Coles is responsible for the worldwide management, strategy and success of Siemens SURPASS Home Entertainment.

Herbert Becker has been involved with the evolution of IPTV since before it began, in 1995. He is the patent/copyright holder of BOIP (broadcasting over internet protocol).

Theo Langton, Cisco Systems, is responsible for Broadband & Network Convergence Solutions & Business Development for Cisco's Service Provider Wireline Business in Europe, and has 20 years experience in Service Provider as well as Enterprise Networking.

In 1986, Gavin joined BT Laboratories working on the design of an ISDN Basic Access transceiver chip. He was subsequently involved in research and development for High-rate Digital Subscriber Loop (HDSL) transceivers.

Paolo's experience ranges from the design of optoelectronic devices to advanced residential/ SOHO networking solutions. He managed several national and international projects in the broadband home networking domain designing as well advanced architectures, network nodes, services and devices.

Luc Heripret is a multimedia senior consultant, specialized in new audiovisual technique, and more especially in IPTV. 

Antonio Schuh is head of special projects at Telefonica Internacional, and is in charge of the IPTV project office. Previously, he was a management consultant, having worked with DiamondCluster (principal) and Arthur D. Little (manager) in strategy assessments and new product launches for telecom and media companies.

Miroslaw Smyk Graduated with distinction from the Warsaw School of Economics with the main area of specialization in telecom sector value chain dynamics.

Andy has been involved in new media business development for more than 25 years founding and operating ventures in pay TV, PPV, NVOD, on-line magazines and video on demand.

Jeremy is Managing Director of Playboy TV UK, overseeing 11 channels broadcast from the UK including the new FTA service, Playboy One, which launched at the end of 2005, and one in Europe.

Having worked in ITV Airtime sales for 8 years Peter helped to set up Granada Interactive for 3 years which looked at exploiting the new online opportunities that were emerging at the time.