IPTV World Forum 2009

Speakers are being invited from the key sectors involved in the Satellite sector; If you are interested in speaking at Satellite 2.0 please contact us at:

Jamie Harvie
Conference Co-ordinator
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Tyler Slocum is the current Director of iTV and DVR services in the Advanced Services and Content group at DIRECTV, Inc. in the United States. He is also an Emmy award winning Senior Producer with over eleven years of experience in the entertainment and satellite industries.

Jonathan Hurd joined Altman Vilandrie & Company in 2006.  He has more than 20 years of consulting and industry experience in communications, media and related technology sectors.  Jonathan's primary areas of expertise include business and marketing strategy, new business creation and launch, integrated consumer and business services, and customer and sales channel segmentation and targeting.

As the Chief Technology Officer of TVN Entertainment, Dom Stasi leads an engineering and operations team that is responsible for managing over 3,000 hours of content each month and keeping the company’s products and services at the forefront of the on-demand industry.

Itzhak Elyakim is the VP Engineering and Chief Technical Officer of YES, Israel's digital satellite multichannel television. Itzhak is one of the founders of the company. yes works in close contact with Israeli industry and often is the first to use their cutting edge technology.

Selim is the Chief Marketing Officer and VP Sales and Marketing of Digiturk, the digital platform of Turkey.  He has joined Digiturk in September 2006, and has helped with the rapid expansion of the platform to a subscriber base of over 1,850,000 subscribers, ca 40% increase over 1.5 years.  He has led the launch of Digiturk+Plus brand, which provides HD, PVR and VOD functions and DigiturkWebTV.

Director Program & Products Egil Perland has been with Canal Digital since 2001. Initially as a Key Account Manager in the Content Acquisition department, later as responsible for Packaging & Pricing in the Marketing department. Effective from February 2008 Egil also became responsible for Canal Digital Products in the new merged Telenor Broadcast organization.

Quative Limited (Quative) started end of 2005 as a fully owned subsidiary of the Kudelski Group with Sebastian Kramer as the founding CEO.

Bill Squadron is President of the IP PRIME division of SES AMERICOM, and a member of SES AMERICOM’s Management Committee.

Ron Clifton is the President and CEO of International Datacasting Corporation. Ron joined IDC in1997, and since then he has led the company into the growing market for digital video broadcast (DVB) and Internet Protocol (IP) technology for content distribution via satellite.

Jonathan Beavon has been at NDS since 1997 and is currently Director, Marketing Broadband Internet Group working on the NDS Synamedia IPTV and Video on Demand solution.

Martin Jarrold assumed the position of Chief of International Programme Development of GVF in June 2001. His responsibilities include outreach to the member organisations of the GVF and implementation of education and information dissemination programmes designed to educate and inform various “communities” about the products and services of the satellite communications industry.

Mark Holmes is associate editor of Via Satellite and Satellite News, two industry leading titles in the satellite sector. Mark has been at Access Intelligence eight years, working on a variety of titles in telecoms, broadband, digital TV and satellite.