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Extending the Ecosystem, 25th-27th March 2009
Welcome to the IPTV World Forum Technical Symposium. The Symposium is a new feature of the World Form for 2009, and is one of our innovations to help build the ecosystem for IPTV. The purpose of the symposium is to provide a level of technical content not previously addressed by the Forum, and to engage an even wider range of companies and personnel in the event. The content will be available to conference delegates, but will also be available to exhibition day visitors for only £249 per day.
The Technical Symposium is presented in Association with the 
Today the Open IPTV Forum has 44 members who have joined the effort to develop an open, end to end specification for IPTV based upon existing technologies and open standards. The specification is intended to help streamline and accelerate deployments of IPTV technology, and will help maximise the benefits of IPTV not only for consumers, network operators, content providers and service providers, but also for consumer electronics manufacturers, IPTV-related technology vendors, and home and network infrastructure providers.
The Open IPTV Forum founding members are Ericsson, France Telecom, Nokia Siemens, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung Electronics, Sony Corporation, and Telecom Italia.
Technical Symposium Programme
Quality of Experience for IPTV
Wednesday, 25th March 2009
As the IPTV market evolves and services are commercially deployed on a meaningful scale, assuring end to end IPTV quality of experience (QoE) is rapidly becoming a top priority for service providers & the IPTV technology community.
How can operator best manage the video load on their network, and how can quality of service be effectively managed? And looking beyond pure IP QoS, what other factors can effect the end user experience and how may they be controlled?
Enabling service innovation through creating an Open Application Environment for IPTV
Thursday, 26th March 2009
IPTV has the opportunity to generate new revenue streams by creating a wide range of new services built on its benefits of broadband managed interactive, operator customer relationship and billing and commerce capability. To maximize the potential for service innovation, the industry needs to engage the energy and creativity of the application development community. And to engage this community, the industry needs to create a uniform environment where APIs are clear and easy to interact with, and service can be "write once, run anywhere", creating as large as possible a market. What further evolution is required in IPTV to make this happen?
EPG 2.0: Content Search & Discovery
Friday, 27th March 2009
The modern TV consumer is starting to face a crisis of choice. As the consumer is offered greater and greater range of programming, they can increasingly face a challenge in locating their preferred programming, or of discovering new programming that might be of interest. What can the industry learn from successful internet examples such as recommendation engines and social networking references to make it easier to consumers to engage with a wider range of content?
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