Business Briefings
rise of OTT video, the content landscape has become extremely congested and consumers are finding it hard to discover programming beyond what is familiar to them, or what is ‘pushed’ to them - via advertising, for example. Topic: Content discovery in the 2000 channel universe. The need for, and benefits of, relevant content discovery engines will be examined from the perspectives of the consumer, operator and content owner. Speaker: Tom Weiss, CEO, TV Genius.
Topic. Next-generation user interfaces and programme guides. With the aid of live demonstrations, this presentation will explore how operators deploy search and recommendations engines, what next- generation user interfaces and EPGs will look like and answer the question how will consumers interact with and explore their available content? Topic: Integrating search with middleware for the next consumer experience. The session will conclude with a discussion on how middleware will work with search and therefore how the landscape is likely to evolve to further enhance the consumer experience.
Sunday 12 September: 10:00-11:30
The Armchair Revolutionary – Episode 3 iPlayer, iPhones, iPads, iEverything, iEverywhere: enabling the connected home. Chair: Joe O’Halloran, editor of C2M magazine. Overview: Enabled by the mass availability of high bandwidth network infrastructures - including satellite and cable as well as DSL, fibre and 3G/wireless - TV and video content is now being consumed everywhere around the home, arriving to set top boxes and other receivers and delivered at acceptable levels of quality to state of the art TVs, PCs, laptops, netbooks, media tablets (such as the iPad), mobile phones, games platforms and portable media players of all description. Topic: The Connected Home ecosystem. What will the new Connected Home ecosystem look like? What types of devices are consumers buying and how are these being integrated within the new world of content consumption around the home? What are the implications and opportunities for the broadcast industry? Speaker: Roderick Snell, Video Convergence Forum.
Topic: New alternatives to the television. How many more new device types will be used to consume video content and which will be the most popular? How will the emergence of such devices affect the strategy of content providers? Are consistent user interfaces required? Can a universal EPG by constructed? Speaker: Nick Thexton, SVP, R&D, new initiatives, NDS.
Topic: Next generation networks. Can today’s wired and wireless networks support the demands of tomorrow’s TV consumers? To what extent will bandwidth considerations influence the balance of consumption between real time streaming and time- & place-shifting via download? What will be the relative importance of Wi-Fi, 3G or 4G? Can HD be successfully distributed around the home to multiple devices? Will the ability to manage quality-of-service be the unique selling point for IPTV? Speaker: Eran Rom, CEO, Jungo.
12:00-13:30
The convergence of TV and telecoms - Episode 2.
The Connected Home of Tomorrow Chair: Martyn Warwick. Overview: The ‘Connected Home of tomorrow’ - what are the innovations being worked on at the moment that will shape our homes and the way we consume media in the near future.
Monday 13 September: 10:00-11:30
The Armchair Revolutionary – Episode 4 Enhanced TV experience for the user, enhanced profit for the industry? Chair: Neil Nixon, editor of IBE. Overview: Given the likely new paradigm that users are demanding and the types of device that they are using around the home, what will be the winning business models? But can all of the participants in the ecosystem make money? Topic: TV or not TV? That is the question. Who buys a mobile phone these days to make phone calls? In the near future people won’t be buying a TV set just to watch TV there will be buying something tat will become a hub for leisure activities, especially once TVs are connected directly to the web. In the connected world there will be so much more to TVs than video. Does this mean though that traditional broadcasters will become disinter mediated as they battle to get their content on to tomorrow’s TVs which will be the key to a whole new media world? Speaker: Yahoo.
Topic: The business of the Connected Home. Is there a genuine business opportunity in distributing content to all platforms around the home? What are the business ramifications of such a move? How can operators deploy a consistent monetisation strategy? Who will ‘own’ the customer and what will be the revenue split between the network firms/device manufacturers/content owners? Speaker: Ved Sen, CEO, ThinkPlank.
Topic: Premium content – realising maximum true value. What does the Connected Home mean for the consumption of premium
12:00-13:30 Chair: Ian Volans, industry consultant. Topic: The technical challenges of providing a high quality on-line video aggregation service across multiple devices. OTT distribution, DRM, rights management, advertising and varied device characteristics are among some of the challenges that Arqiva will discuss in this examination of the role of video aggregation in the world of multiple consumer devices. Speaker: Amos Manasseh, SeeSaw (Arqiva).
Topic: Smarter integration of web technologies, broadcasting & non-PC devices. The explosion of the mobile device market demonstrates how consumers have come to expect and rely on access to the network from anywhere, at any time, including from mobile computers, phones, automobiles, and more. Though consumers do not yet have the same expectations about their televisions, this will surely change in the near future given the importance of television in people's lives, ongoing display and feature improvements, and the opportunity for new services created by increased connectivity. Speaker: Philipp Hoschka, W3C.
Topic: OIPF Release 2 specifications. Free-of- charge standards-based specifications for end-to-end IPTV services will make a major contribution to the creation of a mass market for IPTV. This presentation will briefly recap the scope of the OIPF Release 1 specifications before focusing on the functional extensions included in Release 2. Also included will be a brief description of the extended Forum activities which help vendors and operators bring the specifications to the IPTV market in a tangible way. Speaker: Yunchao Hu, chairman, Open IPTV Forum.
14:30-16:00
The convergence of TV and telecoms - Episode 3.
Working (and making money) in the digital world. Chair: Martyn Warwick. Topic: ‘The Connected Home of the future’ - a look into the future at what we haven't even thought of yet!
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content and pay TV providers? Can premium content be distributed within a household while remaining protected from piracy? Speaker: Steve Oetegenn, chief sales & marketing officer, Verimatrix.
Topic: Social media: nice to have or essential component? The latest Facebook and Twitter usage figures show just how popular social media is among connected consumers. What is the role of social media in broadcast, what investment does it require and how will it generate a return? Speaker: Colin Donald, Futurescape.
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