- Chaired by: Toby Russell, CEO, 3 Vision
9.10
Plenary Keynote Session: TAKING THE BEST OF THE WEB TO ENHANCE PERSONAL TV: MONETISING CONTENT THROUGH INNOVATION & IP
- Topic
- How the demands of the new generation of consumers are, shaping your services, shaping you network and shaping your market.
Myles joined The Walt Disney Company in 2000 and has held a variety of commercial, technical and product leadership roles within the European and International arms of the Disney Interactive Media Group and its predecessor organisations. Presently Myles has general management responsibility for Disney Online in EMEA. This encompasses the business operation of: 14 ad supported consumer facing Disney branded web destinations that allow guests to explore Disney information and play Disney entertainment; Disney branded WAP destinations across Europe; premium subscription online services such as the Toontown.co.uk virtual world; and the new parent oriented destination UKFamily.co.uk. Myles is also the Managing Director of Walt Disney Hungary Ltd where most of his web operations are based. Before Disney, Myles worked in major telecoms and internet organisations in roles as diverse as semiconductor optoelectronic device engineering and leadership of BT’s eCommerce product division. - Topic
- Rik Missault is currently heading Alcatel-Lucent’s Multimedia & Ventures Product Group.
He joined the company in 1992 and has been involved in the worldwide marketing and business development of Alcatel’s DSL business since 1996. Since 1999 he has driven several of Alcatel’s key acquisitions, resulting in Alcatel’s industry-leading end-to-end solutions capabilities. Rik is often invited to speak at industry events, represents Alcatel-Lucent in standardization bodies and contributes articles to industry magazines. He graduated in electronics engineering at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and completed an executive Masters in Business Administration at the Vlerick School for Management in Gent (Belgium). - Topic
- Griff Parry leads Sky’s On Demand operations which encompass TV, PC and mobile. Reporting into Sky’s Commercial Group, Griff has responsibilities for services such as Sky Player and the wider development of Sky’s on-demand proposition. He also leads the team working on Go!View, the joint venture with Sony Europe which offers on demand content to Sony PSP owners.
Griff joined BSkyB in 1998. Before taking up his current role in April 2006 he held a senior role in Sky’s business development team, focussing on the company’s activities on new distribution platforms. He previous worked in Sky’s strategic planning team and in its Sky Networks and Sky Productions content divisions.
Before joining BSkyB in 1998, he spent three years in as a business analyst and consultant with the international management consultancy, Arthur D Little. - Topic
- Julie Meyer, CEO Ariadne Capital
- Simon Cornwell: Since joining Amadeus in 2001, Simon has worked on a number of investments for the firm and sits as a non-executive director on the board of several portfolio companies. These include three Stockholm-based companies, PacketFront, a market leader in European fibre-to-home networks; Transmode, which makes data transmission equipment; and Edgeware, which makes highbandwidth solid-state servers for the IPTV and other markets. Simon also sits on the board of Intune Networks, a Dublin-based company developing next-generation equipment for telecommunications networks, and Velocix, a Cambridge-based company building a next generation peer-assisted network for delivering video and other large files over the internet. Simon also manages Amadeus' investment in Xelerated, a networking semiconductor company based in Stockholm. Simon joined Amadeus from Two Way TV, a digital TV entertainment and technology company, where he was chief executive. Simon holds five patents in digital and interactive TV.
- Julie Meyer: Julie is Chief Executive of Ariadne Capital, the investment and advisory firm she founded in August 2000. Ariadne backs entrepreneurs in the life services (consumer financial services, e-health, digital home), media (music, broadcast, publishing, advertising, gaming), communications and net development sectors. Julie is well-known for founding First Tuesday, the largest global network of entrepreneurs, which many credit for igniting the Internet generation in Europe. Previously with NewMedia Investors (later Spark Ventures) she helped several companies, including lastminute.com, WGSN and Arc Cores, to raise significant venture capital financing and internationalise their operations. Ariadne Capital is backed by 46 entrepreneurs, including the founders of betfair, worldpay, hotmail and SES Astra. Ariadne Capital was an early advisor to Skype (sold to Ebay) and Espotting (sold to MIVA), two of Europe’s biggest VC-backed successes in the early 21st century. Julie advises leading corporates such as British Telecom, CarPhone Warehouse, EMAP, Morse and Sage, as well as a portfolio of start-ups including Monitise, SpinVox and Zopa.
- 11.30
- 11.30
- Topic
- 11.40
- FTTH in Europe – market & chances for IPTV
- next generation IPTV on FTTH: 3D-TV and holographic projection
- the strategy for FTTH
- why is FTTH needed for the IPTV-household?
- how will the FTTH marked for IPTV develop in the next years?
- Magnus Johansson, Group Director Broadband, Digicel Group, Carribean
- Why broadband wireless? – identifying the demographic and geographical coverage of Digicel
- Assessing the capability of broadband wireless for delivering IPTV – what level service is possible?
- WiMax vs other wireless solutions
- Conclusions & business plans
- Marko Fojkar, Business Consultant, Globtel, Slovenia
- Services to be considered
- Bandwith considerations in regarding wireless environment
- When wireless technology is beneficial, where are limitations
- Business plan considerations and example of a business plan
- 12.40
- Anders Brandt, Marketing Manager, Lyse, Norway
- Steve Kingdom, Vice Chair, Marketing Committee, Broadband Forum
- Lisa Di Feliciantonio, Head of Content and IPTV Regulation, Fastweb, Italy
- Ludovic Centonze, Vice President, IPTV & Media Business Development, Sofrecom, France
- Is fibre the future?
- What is DSL ultimately capable of?
- What role can wireless access play?
- When is it appropriate to make the huge investment in fibre?
- How to build a business case, how to phase the deployment, and how to rapidly monetise the new network?
- 13.10
- Topic
- 14.15
- Miguel Blockstrand, Senior Product Manager IPTV, End to end Network Solutions, Business Unit Networks, Ericsson AB
- 14.40
- Ataru Koboyashi, Senior Manager, Global Solutions and Products, Network Services Systems Division, NEC Coporation, Japan
- 15.00
- Sebastian Kramer, CEO, Quative - Kudelski Group
- 15.20
- Thomas Grota, Managing Consultant, Detecon International, Germany
- Centralized Platform for Service Delivery and Content Handling
- Const saving while providing enhanced service experience
- From service planning to life deployment
- 15.40
- Joe Trainor, Senior Director of Offer Management, Level 3, UK
- Steven C. Hawley, Principal Analyst, tvstrategies
- Building the business case for deploying IPTV & SDP
- Which service elements are essential to service deployment
- Can any elements be phased to match user uptake
- Future proofing network investment and architecting to allow low cost upgrade
- 15.50
- Topic
- 16.45
- Peter Somos, Head of CRM Development, Magyar Telekom, Hungary
- Matching pricng schemes and billing capability
- Overcoming the challenges in unifying CDRs and IPDRs
- Avoiding bill shock and increasing clarity
- Creating a future proof billing system
- 17.10
- Andy J. McClelland, Product Marketing Manager Transmission, Contribution & Distribution, Harris Corporation
- In the complicated world of linear and non linear transactional based media consumption in IPTV systems, no one company can provide the entire range of products and services to satisfy the needs of the operator's and service provider's varying business models. How can partnerships benefit not only the vendor but also operator and service provider when we leverage each partners unique strengths in an IPTV Ecosystem?
- 17.30
- Curtis Howe, President and CEO, Mariner
- Dave Milham, Senior Programme Manager, Customer Experience/Service Quality Management Programme, TeleManagement Forum
- Danny Wilson, President, Pixelmetrix Corporation
- Anupam Sahai, Vice President, Marketing, Ixia
- Providing a user friendly but cost effective customer support system
- Service support and customer self provisioning
- Who will help the customer overcome the complexity of the new networked home environment?
- Clarifying the role of retail and service networks
- 18.00
- 18.10
- Stream
- 11.30
- 11.35
- Julia Glotz, Editor, New Media Markets
- Topic
- 11.40
- Rahul Chakkara, Controller, Future Media TV Platforms, BBCi
- iPlayer – key features that drive usage
- Communicating the value to consumers
- Consumer reaction & uptake
- Lessons for the future & next steps
- 12.00
- Understanding the interplay between OTT & IPTV
- Exploiting OTT as a market penetration strategy
- Monsitising IPTV in a niche target market
- 12.20
- understanding usage patters and establishing new usage paradigms
- Target audience psychographics
- Establishing content partnerships
- Developing new business models
- 12.40
- Which are the challenges and success factors for the use of Corporate IPTV?
- How can brands use this channel to create a unique User Experience and even become the medium?
- Presentation of cases studies like Mercedes-Benz.tv
- 12.50
- How can IPTV & on line video content consumption be synergised to build value for consumers, content providers and telcos?
- What new business can be created to monetise this relationship?
- How far can (and should) OTT and IPTV be integrated?
- 13.20
- 14.15
- Anders Blauenfeldt, VP, Product Development, YouSee, Denmark
- Leveraging on line video to create service awareness
- Integrating the OTT & IPTV offer
- 14.40
- David Price, Vice President of Business Development & Marketing Communications, Harmonic Inc.
- Is Internet TV content getting better in terms of video quality and availability?
- What are the capabilities of IP-based set top boxes as a key delivery platform for Internet TV streaming?
- Is the PC the right platform for long-form video consumption?
- 15.00
- Paul Gainham, Director of Service Provider Marketing, EMEA, Juniper Networks
- Turning over-the-top services from threat to profit
- Adding value by increasing the quality of experience for on-net and off-net applications
- Allowing the delivery of micro-SLAs via an application-network transaction
- The role of security, policy management and network openness (Open APIs, SDKs, etc.)
- 15.20
- Practical lessons learned from delivering real world digital customers Experiences working with clients such as Sky, ITV, Cannel 4, AT&T, Starhub and the BBC
- 15.40
- Dr. Vlaho Kostov, Business Development Manager, Panasonic Europe Ltd
- Dr. Regina Bernhaupt, Director User Experience Lab, Ruwido, Austria
- Richard Bullwinkle, Chief Evangelist, Macrovision
- Oliver Botti, Sales Director, TXT Polymedia
- Where and how do we expect video to be consumed with the personalised TV home?
- How will devices evolve – will users demand integrated or specialised devices?
- What is the role of the home gateway?
- 16.10
- Topic
- 17.10
- Session Chair: Jack Davison, 3 Vision
- Content consumption is changing rapidly, and the future generation are now developing habits that will define your future business. In this unique IPTV world Forum feature, a panel of pupils from the local Laytmer Upper School will give you their views on what the industry is does right, what it does wrong, and
- 17.40
- 18.10
- Stream
- 11.30
- 11.35
- Dr Roger Blakeway, President, SCTE
- Topic
- 11.40
- Nick Fieliberts, CTO Europe & APAC, Service Provider Video Technology Group, Cisco
- 12.00
- Delivering interactivity – allowing cable operators to offer value-added interactive services in the same way as a telco IPTV provider as well as adding complementary services to e.g. the PC, mobile
- How can cable operators differentiate themselves from their competitors in a crowded market?
- What can cable operators offer the customer – network reliability, availability of signal, ease of multiroom television, picture quality for HDTV, more on-demand options?
- Focusing on the customer experience
- 12.20
- Increasing business competitiveness through strategic positioning
- Integrating technology into new and emerging markets
- Focusing products and services to maximize revenue
- 12.40
- How important is IPTV for Cable Operators?
- What are the business models for content?
- How expensive is it for a previously successful cable operator to migrate to an end-to-end IP architecture?
- IP versus DVB: when to switch, how to start? Why?
- 13.10
- Topic
- 14.15
- Johan Flykt, CEO, Welho, Finland
- What are the bottle necks when introducing on demand services?
- Anything, anytime, anywhere?
- New cash flow or simply a must-have service?
- 14.40
- Dr Johan Vounckx, Senior Manager, Innovation and Business Development, Telenet, Belgium
- TV landscape in Flanders
- Delivering VoD
- Delivering integrated EPG
- Delivering customer satisfaction with bandwidth and service quality
- Interactive TV with broadcasters' applications
- Interactive TV with partner applications
- 15.00
- Guy Kehila, Strategic Sales Manager, Harmonic Inc, USA
- What are the benefits of going all IP?
- Why cable operators use or build IP cable
- Is it cost effective to build an IP network?
- How can IP cable make operators more competitive?
- How can operators capture and generate more revenue by using IP cable?
- Why cable operators actually have some pretty good reasons to build IP cable
- 15.20
- Moderator: Peter Percosan, Industry Expert
- David Price, Vice President, MPEGIF
- Simon Amselem, SVP Channel Distribution EMEA, Disney- ABC-ESPN International Television
- Bhavneet Singh, Managing Director & Executive Vice President, MTV Networks Europe
- Jongbae Hong, Chief Researcher, Technology & Convergence Korean Radio Promotions Agency
- How can Cable Operators and Content Providers successfully collaborate?
- How is cable innovating and positioning itself to win the video customer?
- Distribution within the home - enabling content delivery to support any screen devices/multiple devices around the home
- How will the industry respond to the different content trends and distribution methods?
- 15.50
- Topic
- 16.45
- Jan Stolte, Manager Product Development, CAiW, The Netherlands
- Which services distinguish IPTV from ‘ordinary’ television?
- Why did CAIW choose IPTV for interactivity?
- How is the IPTV platform constructed?
- Future developments
- 17.10
- Steve Christian, VP, Marketing, Verimatrix, Inc, USA
- The pervasive influence of IP technology in cable networks
- The trend towards hybrid networks
- The benefits of IP based security architectures
- Strategies to capitalize on the multi-screen future
- 17.30
- Luis Mayans, Executive Director, European Leveraged Finance, GE Corporate Financial Services Europe
- Christophe Haschka, Director, UBS Investment Bank
- Jan Stolte, Manager Product Development, CAiW, The Netherlands
- Jagjit Singh Kohli, CEO, Digicable Networks, India
- Speaker to be announced – Espial
- What are the investment opportunities and requirements for cable operators?
- What are the credit markets outlook on cable?
- How can these best be managed?
- How will cable operatorsmanage investments to upgrade their infrastructure and introduce new technologies?
- 18.00
- 18.10
Content Consumption in the Youth Market
Myles MacBean, Vice President, Disney Online EMEAMonetizing Content Through Innovation
Rik Missault, Vice President, Multimedia & Ventures Carrier Business Group Alcatel-LucentMaintaining a customer focus in the delivery of an integrated home entertainment and communications experience
Griff Parry, Director of On-Demand, Sky Broadcasting Commercial Group BSkyBCredit Crunch Investment Challenge Session: IPTV – Where do the Good Opportunities Lie?
Simon Cornwell, Partner Amadeus Capital
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STRATEGIES & MARKETS
Welcome & Speed Networking
Chairman’s Introduction
Benjamin Schwarz, Principal Consultant, Francombe TechnologySession One: Access Network Strategies
IPTV on FTTH – bringing TV-Services to the Next Level
Joeri van Bogaert, President, FTTH Council, Europe
12.00
Evaluating the Capability of Broadband Wireless for Delivering IPTV
12.20
How to deliver triple play wireless Services comparable to IPTV cable based triple Services
Panel Session: Aligning Access Strategy, Content Strategy & Market Conditions
Lunch, Networking & Exhibition
Session Two: Core Network Strategy
Supporting IPTV Service Delivery through IMS
IMS-based IPTV: Making Superior Technology A Reality
Monetising IPTV convergence through next generation SDP
Multi-Platform Services: increase Service Provisioning and Decrease Costs
Credit Crunch Challenge Session:
Deciding the Appropriate Level of Core Network Investment to Support IPTV
Refreshment Break & Exhibition Visit
Session Three: Managing Quality of Service
Converged Billing Challenges in IPTV
IPTV Ecosystem partnerships, Vendors playing to their strengths
Audience Soapbox Session:
Providing Effective Customer Support in a Converged IPTV Environment
Summary & Close
VIP Analyst Briefing
ENHANCED CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE:
Welcome & Speed Networking
Chairman’s Introduction
Session One: Harnessing the Success of On-Line Video
Keynote Case Study: Understanding the Success of On Line Video
Internet Video within an Integrated Content Strategy
Marcus Liassides, CEO, Inuk NetworksCase Study: Monetising On Line Video
Michael Comish, CEO, BlinkboxCorporate Web-TV Solutions for Premium Brands
Peter Reichard, Executive Technical Director, Scholz & Volkmer, GermanyPanel Session: Leveraging the Interaction Between On Line Video & IPTV:
Understanding the Evolving Business Models
Mike Greenall, VP Channel and Partner, Amino Communications
Robin Ashton, Director, ESPN
Ian Locke, VP, Global Communications, Envivio Inc.
Lunch, Networking & Exhibition
Examining the balance between TV and on line TV, as an integrated solution
Optimising the Internet TV Experience for Multiple Screens
Over-the-top Services: A valuable asset to the Service Provider portfolio
Delivering a World-Class Customer Experience.
Nigel Manton, Business Development Director, ioko, UKFutureVision Session: Understanding Future Usage Models: Enabling the Networked Home
Refreshment Break & Exhibition Visit
Session Three: The Future of IP Video Consumption
Pupil Panel: Understanding Your Future Consumer
Summary & Close
VIP Analyst Briefing
SUBSCRIBER ACCESS STRATEGIES
Welcome & Speed Networking
Chairman’s Introduction
Keynote Session One: Mapping the Changing Cable Landscape
The Cable Success Story
The Rise of IPTV: How Should the Cable Operators Respond?
Manuel Kohnstamm, Managing Director of Public Policy and Corporate Communications, Liberty Global Europe, The NetherlandsWhat does the Emerging Broadband Revolution mean for Cable Operators?
Rouzbeh Yassini, CEO, YAS Corp, USAPanel Session: Clarifying the Business Case for IP Cable
Dr Philipp Geiger, Managing Director, Solon Management Consulting GmbH, GermanyDr Matthias Krieb, Director Strategy & Planning, cablecom GmbH, Switzerland
Richard Broughton, Analyst, Screen Digest
David Keeley, CTO, Motorola Home & Networks Mobility EMEA
Joseph Haddad, Chief Executive Officer, Netgem, France
Lunch, Networking & Exhibition
Session Two: How to Deliver an Enhanced User Experience with IP Cable?
Case Study: VOD-Services- the Next Growth Generator for Cable?
Case Study: Advanced Interactive Digital Television over Cable
Answering the Big Question: Why IP Cable?
Panel Session: How is the Relationship Between Cable Operator and Content Owner Evolving?
Refreshment Break & Exhibition Visit
Session Three: How to Deploy Effective Cable IPTV Solutions?
Case Study: How to Deploy Cable IPTV Solutions?
Expanding Business Opportunities in Cable with IP Video
Panel Session: What are the Key Investment Issues for Cable?
Summary & Close
VIP Analyst Briefing
