23 - 25 October 2007, Café Royal , London, United Kingdom
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Conference programme       


Day One - 24th October 2007
Day Two - 25th October 2007
Pre-conference masterclass - 23rd October 2007

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Day One - 24th October 2007
UPDATING THE BUSINESS MODEL FOR THE NEW ENVIRONMENT
09.00Chairman’s opening remarks
 
William Cooper, Founder & Principal Consultant,
Informitv

09.10Keynote 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
 
Sushel Bijbanath, Chief Executive,
RTL Online

NEW CHALLENGES, FRESH OPPORTUNITIES
09.50Keynote 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
 
Robert Blair, Senior Vice President Northern Europe,
Warner Bros International Television Distribution

10.20Panel 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
 
Antonio Campo Dall'Orto, CEO,
Telecom Italia Media
Alex Holt, Head of Media,
Cable & Wireless

11.00Coffee break
 
11.40Keynote 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?
 
Tim Pearson, Director, IPTV,
Orange UK

THE FUTURE OF THE BROADCAST NETWORK
12.20Positioning 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
 
Rahul Chakkara, Controller, BBCi and Creative Director, iPlayer,
BBC

13.00Lunch
    
 
14.30Deepening 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
 
Bart Becks, Senior Vice President New Media,
SBS Broadcasting

15.00Speed networking

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15.40Coffee break
 
NEW CONTENT FOR NEW PLATFORMS AND VIEWERS
16.10Panel 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
 
Jonathan Sykes, Managing Director Content Strategy,
Tiscali TV
Martin Blackstad, Head of New Media,
Granada International
Andrew Watt, Head of Interactive Media,
UKTV

16.40Collaborating 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
 
Alex Habdank, General Manager, On Demand,
Chellomedia

17.10Close of day one
    
 
17.20Networking drinks reception
    
 
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Day Two - 25th October 2007

09.00Chairman’s opening remarks
 
William Cooper, Founder & Principal Consultant,
Informitv

09.10Keynote 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
 
Simon Kenny, Content Director,
Babelgum

THE PROSPECTS FOR IPTV
09.50Panel 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


 

 
Paolo Agostinelli, Head of Media and TV,
Fastweb
Markus Gisi, Head of TV Services,
Swisscom Fixnet
Gunther Vogelpoel, Managing Director Consumer,
Tele2
Richard Griffiths, Director, Technology Strategy and Development,
BT Vision

10.30The 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?
 
Jean Charles De Keyser, Chairman and CEO,
Belgacom Skynet

11.10Coffee break
 
WHERE NOW FOR TV ADVERTISING?
11.40Delivering 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
 
Jeremy Tester, Marketing Director,
BSkyB

12.00Panel 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
 
Chloe Wilkinson, Interactive Advertising Controller,
BSkyB
Neil Hughston, Managing Director,
Saatchi & Saatchi Interactive
Guy Lambert, Managing Director, UK,
OgilvyOne Worldwide

12.40Lunch
 
14.10The 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?
 
Suranga Chandratillake, Founder and CTO,
Blinkx

THE MOBILE TV CONUNDRUM
14.50Getting 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? 
 
Nicholas Wheeler, Managing Director,
ITN ON

15.40Coffee break
 
16.10Panel 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
 
Michiel de Gooijer, Head of Mobile TV and Video,
Endemol International
Gabriele Elia, Head of Broadcast Solution Innovation,
Telecom Italia
Jake Redford, Head of Partnerships & Services TV & VOD,
Orange UK
Mark Cullen, CEO,
etv
Peter Northing, Director of Products and Services,
3UK

16.40Adapting 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.

 
Ingrid Silver, Partner - Technology, Media and Telecoms,
Denton Wilde Sapte

17.00Close of conference
 
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Pre-conference masterclass - 23rd October 2007
09.00Registration and coffee
 
09.30Session 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?
 
10.00Session 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?
 
10.40Morning Coffee
 
11.20Session 3 - Business models that provide
  • What is the optimal business model? 
  • Segmentation and targeted pricing strategies
  • Attracting early adopters with subsidized equipment pricing
 
13.00Networking Lunch
 
14.20Session 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
 
15.00Session 5
  • Key points for success
 
16.00Close of workshop
 


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