Day One - 24th October 2007
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| UPDATING THE BUSINESS MODEL FOR THE NEW ENVIRONMENT |
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| 09.00 | Chairman’s opening remarks
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| 09.10 | Keynote address: embracing new distribution technologies to broaden your audience and revenue opportunities
- Using new distribution technologies to reach a new audience and develop awareness for linear programming.
- Choosing strategic partners to ensure your content reaches the right people
- Striking the balance between protecting your content and ensuring that it is seen by as many eyes as possible
- Analysing the impact of, and opportunities created by on demand programming
- Exploiting the potential offered by new advertising formats
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| NEW CHALLENGES, FRESH OPPORTUNITIES |
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| 09.50 | Keynote address: spreading content and broadening your audience through strategic partnership
- Treating content as a core offering that can be repackaged and marketed to offer new experiences through dynamic, modern services
- Using online content as an additive to promote traditional programming and encourage viewer interaction
- Designing additional revenue streams through the creation of ‘spin-off’ content offered through interactive distribution partners
- Exploiting the interactive nature of online formats to gauge the reaction of community thought leaders to content offerings
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| | Robert Blair, Senior Vice President Northern Europe, Warner Bros International Television Distribution
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| 10.20 | Panel session: examining the challenges and opportunities provided by converged services
- Assessing, adapting to and predicting the viewing habits of the multi-channel consumer
- Shaping development of content and the methods of distribution to fit converged platforms
- Analysing the future of the channel brand in the on demand environment
- New service and marketing opportunities provided by a bundled media package
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| 11.00 | Coffee break
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| 11.40 | Keynote address: exploiting the potential of the internet as a delivery mechanism for converged services
- Moving beyond the bundled package to a total media package over IP
- Developing a multi platform content strategy
- Offering premium services to deliver content to multiple platforms over IP
- How is ROI to be generated?
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| THE FUTURE OF THE BROADCAST NETWORK |
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| 12.20 | Positioning the TV network as gateway to the wider world of media
- Becoming the ultimate search tool – a one stop shop for audiovisual content and beyond
- Loading the dice: distinguishing your offering with the right content and distribution partners
- Making your numbers pay through inventive, advert supporting business models
- Providing additional content and options across diverse platforms to increase take up and brand awareness
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| 13.00 | Lunch |
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| 14.30 | Deepening relationships with customers by offering a personalised experience and service
- Using the on demand format as a tool to increase interactivity with viewer
- Making the most of niche interests fitting the content offer to the format
- Focusing on long-term growth and partnership opportunities rather than initial audience numbers
- Structuring the output to handle varying customer demands and behaviour
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| | Bart Becks, Senior Vice President New Media, SBS Broadcasting
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| 15.00 | Speed networking
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| 15.40 | Coffee break
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| NEW CONTENT FOR NEW PLATFORMS AND VIEWERS |
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| 16.10 | Panel session: integrating content offerings across multiple platforms
- Making your content work harder through distribution across multiple media channels
- Creating additional revenue and branding opportunities through interactivity and premium services
- Analysing successful multi-platform content – why was it successful and how is success measured?
- Refining the business model – is generated revenue a supplement to existing
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| 16.40 | Collaborating on content development
- Determining what content works on what platform
- Opportunities for broadcasters in multi-platform distribution
- Creating a symbiotic relationship between creative companies and digital distributors
- Lengthening content lifecycles through collaboration on development and distribution strategy
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| 17.10 | Close of day one |
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| 17.20 | Networking drinks reception |
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Day Two - 25th October 2007
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| 09.00 | Chairman’s opening remarks
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| 09.10 | Keynote address: delivering consumers choice and interactivity by offering on demand content through peer-to-peer streaming
- Adapting to changing consumer demands and expectations by offering content at their convenience
- Packaging disruptive technology as productive technology: inducing content owners to cooperate
- Creating a community with advertisers, content owners and viewers forming a symbiotic relationship
- Combining advertisers market data with viewer profiling to create intelligently targeted advertising
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| THE PROSPECTS FOR IPTV |
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| 09.50 | Panel session: growing the IPTV product in a mature market full of alternatives
- Matching satellite and cable in the key battlegrounds: content, HDTV, VOD and accessibility
- Leveraging existing voice and broadband customers
- Overcoming the challenges of HD over IP
- Getting the most from VOD – IPTV’s potential differentiator killer app
- Using interactivity to profile a diverse audience
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| 10.30 | The future of IPTV as a consumer product
- Will IPTV change how we watch television? If it doesn’t, will it fail?
- IPTV’s progress to date: customer and advertiser reaction
- Selling the on demand platform to advertisers
- Getting customer numbers to a critical mass for advertisers
- HD on demand – the game changer?
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| 11.10 | Coffee break
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| WHERE NOW FOR TV ADVERTISING? |
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| 11.40 | Delivering targeted advertising through VOD platforms
- Exploring targeted advertising opportunities provided by niche programming and the on demand platform
- Using the online advertising model: targeting through geographic, demographic and behavioural analysis
- Using the promise of a focused and committed audience to make viewer control the killer app
- Determining whether on demand advertising should be viewed as complimentary to the linear model or as it’s successor
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| 12.00 | Panel session: reinvigorating the traditional revenue stream: creating an effective platform for advertisers
- Moving beyond traditional audience measurement models to assess the value of programming in terms other than audience size
- Utilising new technologies to deliver targeted advertising to key profiles
- Exploiting audience fragmentation and the rise of niche programming
- Examining the potential of interactive advertising
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| | Guy Lambert, Managing Director, UK, OgilvyOne Worldwide
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| 12.40 | Lunch
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| 14.10 | The role of the PC in a converged, multi platform television product
- How search and navigation changes in the TV 2.0 experience
- Analysing the factors that will drive online TV take up
- What content works? What are consumers willing to pay for?
- How does this impact revenue streams for networks and channels?
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| THE MOBILE TV CONUNDRUM |
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| 14.50 | Getting the offer right: providing customers with compelling content in a consumer-friendly package
- Developing formats that encourage viewer interaction
- Is free-to-view, advertising-funded content a realistic proposition in the mobile TV space
- What can the mobile platform learn from web TV and online video sharing sites?
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| 15.40 | Coffee break
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| 16.10 | Panel session: thinking creatively: making money from mobile video
- Examining the mobile consumer’s preferences: what content do they wish to consume and how do they wish to consume it?
- Balancing the investments required with the estimated returns
- Examining the plausibility of carrying advertising on an already premium service – or can ads alone make it viable?
- Creating ‘water cooler’ content that encourages discussion and participation
- Utilising mobile TV as a one-to-one marketing tool
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| | Gabriele Elia, Head of Broadcast Solution Innovation, Telecom Italia Jake Redford, Head of Partnerships & Services TV & VOD, Orange UK
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| 16.40 | Adapting to TV Without Frontiers
A brief presentation covering the salient points resulting from the overhaul of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, with particular reference to its impact on mobile content.
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| | Ingrid Silver, Partner - Technology, Media and Telecoms, Denton Wilde Sapte
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| 17.00 | Close of conference
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Pre-conference masterclass - 23rd October 2007
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| 09.00 | Registration and coffee
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| 09.30 | Session 1 – Where are we today?
- Market drivers: creating robust and relevant services
- Ecosystem dynamics and success stories
- Emerging threats
- How will broadcasters respond to IPTV?
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| 10.00 | Session 2 – Case Studies: Content and advertising
- The value proposition of good content
- Incorporating interactivity of content
- The use of non-exclusive content
- Real ROI from advertising: where can it be found?
- How can service provider’s best position themselves?
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| 10.40 | Morning Coffee
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| 11.20 | Session 3 - Business models that provide
- What is the optimal business model?
- Segmentation and targeted pricing strategies
- Attracting early adopters with subsidized equipment pricing
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| 13.00 | Networking Lunch
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| 14.20 | Session 4 IPTV Economics
- IPTV economics overview (revenues and cost)
- Interactive review of impact on key cost lever
- ROI: CAPEX and on-going OPEX considerations
- Profitability boosting strategies
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| 15.00 | Session 5
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| 16.00 | Close of workshop
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