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Conference Day One: 12th March 2008

Registration and Morning Coffee
8.30

THE DEATH OF MOBILE TV? DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE! LESSONS LEARNT AND THE MONETIZATION OF MOBILE TV

Speed Networking
9.00

A chance to get to know your peers before the start of the conference and set a relaxed atmosphere.

Chairman's Speech / Industry Overview
9.10
  • Moving from technological option to customer aspiration
  • How can myths within the industry be exploded? Concurrent usage - realities!
  • Redefining mobile 'TV': understanding the legacy of TV terminology and how it can both limit and enable mobile TV/video uptake.
  • Mike Short, Vice President, Research and Development, 02, UK
High Profile Mobile TV Failures and What They Tell Us
9.20
  • Assessing the importance of a balanced business model before going to market
  • Options and uptake: personalising mobile TV for better user-experience and interest
  • How can we learn from previous experience to move forward as an industry?
  • Nick Lane, Founder, Direct 2 Mobile, UK

KNOWING THE CUSTOMER, PROVIDING THE CONTENT: HOW TO MAXIMIZE OPPORTUNITY BY UNDERSTANDING WHO AND WHERE THE VIEWER IS AND WHAT IT IS THEY WANT

What Are Commercial Trials Feedbacks Telling Us About Viewing Appetite? How Can the Industry Access Customer Information to Best Effect?
9.45
  • Break down of viewer demographics and tastes - which channels, programmes and formats are successful and why
  • Accessing crucial operator information and mining it effectively to granular level
  • Establishing a common audience data collection system
  • Employing effective audience measurement techniques to understand viewing patterns and re-schedule broadcast content accordingly
  • How can operators track and consolidate consumption of specific content across different platforms?
  • Getting to know the pre-paid market
  • Gian Paolo Balboni, Head of Innovation Trends, Telecom Italia; Member, Arena (Multiplatform Audience Measurement Co-operation), Italy
What Makes Content Compelling?
10.10
  • What genres lend themselves to consumer satisfaction?
  • How many channels is enough, 2 stems or 16 to a bouquet?
  • How can regional content be supplied when channel allocation is limited?
  • Interactivity - how to engage the viewer and maximise revenue. Applicable success stories from the internet (user-generated and viral campaigns).
  • Guns, gadgets and girls: can there be more provision for the female market?
  • Does the sector need to move towards a more 'mobile first' attitude to content?
  • Which compelling content is the most lucrative?
  • Dan Whiley, Commercial Vice President of Digital Media, MTV International, UK
PANEL DISCUSSION 
What is the Most Desired Format for Compelling Content from the Consumer Perspective?
10.35
  • What is the best mix of live broadcast TV and VOD and how can it be delivered to the consumer in a quality format? Cellular as backhaul?
  • What are the editorial decisions and post-production applications which = repeated viewing and revenue?
  • Is familiar linear viewing experience what consumers want on mobile?
    Effectively adapting 'home TV' to mobile and utilising one off events broadcasting.
  • Is made for mobile justified economically as a viable way to distinguish channel bouquets from other mobile TV providers across shared networks?
  • How would a holistic approach to mobile viewing experience work?
  • Moderator: David MacQueen, Senior Mobile Content Analyst, Screen Digest, UK
  • Melissa Goodwin, Controller of Mobile, ITV, UK
  • Jake Redford, Head of TV and VOD, Orange, UK
  • Sheena Peirse, Business Manager, Mobile, Channel 4 New Media, UK
  • Peter Mercier, Head of Mobile Digital Media Division, BBC Worldwide, UK
  • Dan Whiley, Commercial Vice President of Digital Media, MTV International, UK
Exhibition Visit and Networking Refreshments
11.15
Meeting Viewer Demands for Seamless Mobile TV
11.50
  • Meeting consumer needs for anytime, anywhere entertainment
  • How Unicast and Broadcast technologies combine to meet maturing market needs
  • Building successful mobile TV customer propositions that embrace key delivery mediums to provide a seamless customer experience for live, on-demand, interactive, and advertising driven mobile TV.
  • Miguel Blockstrand, Senior Product Manager Mobile TV, End to end Network Solutions, Ericsson AB, Business Unit Networks
A Case Study in Tailoring Content Regionally to Best Effect: What is the Landscape Like for EEMEA Content Providers?
12.15
  • What does the EEMEA viewing population enjoy watching and what affect is this having on global players in the value chain?
  • How is the opening and modernising market place of EEMEA providing opportunity for content providers and end-users?
  • What challenges are there in EEMEA distribution and editorial decisions?
  • How will a working revenue model be established effectively for mobile TV in EEMEA?
  • Jakub Brzeczkowski, Content Division, TV/VOD director, EEMEA region, Orange
The Mobile TV Electronic Service Guide
12.40
  • Lessons from Cable and Satellite
  • Unique demands of the mobile environment
  • Experience & lessons learned from early deployments
  • Vinod Valloppillil, Chief Marketing Officer, Roundbox
Networking Lunch Break
13.05
Using Hybrid Satellite /Terrestrial Solutions to Deliver Mobile TV
14.20
  • Wejdi Harzallah, Vice President of Commercial Operations, S2M

REVITALISING BUSINESS MODELS FOR MOBILE TV: HOW TO ADAPT TRADITIONAL BROADCASTING AND NEW INTERNET SUCCESS-STORIES TO MOBILE-MEDIA PLATFORMS

Lessons learned from Asian Mobile TV Stories
14.45
  • Channels, accessibility and choice! Assessing factors which drive consumption of mobile TV in the Asian region
  • Effective marketing campaigning and driving uptake to break even points within a tangible time framework
  • Dr. Gordan Starcevic, Director, Business Development, European Region, SK Telecom, South Korea
Is 'pay-TV' the Prevalent Business Model for Mobile TV? Sky Mobile -Lessons from Europe's Largest 3G Mobile TV Service
15.10
  • The mobile value chain - key factors to a successful roll out
  • Embedding mobile within an integrated multi-screen strategy
  • A coherent content experience and how to achieve it
  • The importance of core TV fundamentals
  • What content works - and who's watching?
  • The economics of mobile TV - will consumers pay for it?
  • Stephen Nuttall, Director of Business Development, BSkyB, UK
Exhibition Visit and Networking Refreshments
15.45
Italy and the Commercial Trial of DVB-h: Experiences and Lessons Learnt
16.25
  • Forecasts and reality - how to roll out the service, increase uptake and break even
  • Learning from the Italian viewing public habits and adapting to new markets
  • Dina Ravera, Chief Operating Officer, 3 Italia, Italy
Home-viewing: How to Maximise on Home Viewing Trends and Multiple Viewing Platforms Within the Home
16.50
  • Media on the [mini] move: using Femtocells and Wi-Fi technologies to extend mobile TV experience within the home
  • Utilising the top-box: will place-shifting technology divert attention away from mobile broadcast TV?
  • How to maximise user control of content through mobile and tob-box interaction.
  • How can the mobile device remunerate value better than the top-box by offering persistent upgradeable quality and innovation?
  • How will problems of network congestion and diverted revenue streams be solved?
  • Will extreme data-charges put off most mobile users?
  • Stuart Collingwood, VP of Europe, Sling Media, USA
PANEL DISCUSSION 
Building Essential New Partnerships Within the Value Chain to Achieve Return on Investment
17.15
  • Working with global players of pay TV to achieve the best leverage for gaining rights and compelling content across the globe
  • culture shock: aligning the protective regionalism of broadcasters with operator trans-nationalism to expand business opportunity
  • Mobile TV as a revenue generator for content providers as well as operators: best practices in creating extra distribution and content brand awareness across multiple platforms
  • Network infrastructure sharing practices and how differentiation of service can be maintained in an outsourced environment
  • how can operators consolidate cost by converging content across a unified head-end?
  • Mark Watkins, Director, Mobile Media, National Grid Wireless, UK
  • J. Sibley Law, President, Producer, and Director, Saxon Mills, LLC - a media company, USA
  • Kennet Rådne, Senior Vice president Head of Partner Management Content, Mobility Services, TeliaSonera, Sweden
  • Alex Koppel, Commercial Director, 3g, Austria
IPTV and Mobile TV World Party!
17.55

Conference Day Two: 13th March 2008

Registration and Morning Coffee
8.30
Speed Networking and Chairman's Speech
9.00

A chance to get to know your peers before the start of the conference and set a relaxed atmosphere.

Chairman's Speech / First Day Evaluation
  • Chairman: Ian Andrews, Managing Consultant, PA Consulting Group, UK

STANDARDISATION AND REGULATOR IMPACT: WHO'S AFRAID OF VIVIANE REDING?

What impact will the European Commission's desire to standardise DVB-H have on companies across the value-chain?
9.10
  • Are partnership breakdowns between operators and non-DVB-H solutions providers a sign of things to come? Or is the EC's opinion inevitably too late and invalid?
  • The argument for technological neutrality: bringing down the walled gardens and allowing adaptable services tailored to regional markets
  • What do South East Asian markets with a mass uptake tell us about the benefits of a no-standards policy?
  • Christophe Forax, Member of Cabinet, European Commission (Information Society and Media), Belgium
PANEL DISCUSSION 
The Technology war: is it time for a hybrid solution?
9.25
  • Is a shift to broadcast networks essential or will mobile TV survive over cellular methods? What opportunities will operators miss if they don't invest in future technologies now?
  • What are the most effective intermediary solutions for mobile TV broadcasting before the release of further spectrum?
  • The impact of Wimax (unicast and multicast) on mobile TV: Will Wimax complement or prove disruptive to existing business models?
  • Switching channels - which technological solutions meet the need for live mobile TV consumption and delivering quality brands across current limited bandwidth?
  • Is DVB-H and free-to-air terrestrial broadcast competitive to operator needs?
  • Is DVB-SH going to challenge or to complement DVB-H for cost-efficient and universal Mobile TV coverage?
  • 3G as a data back channel to cope with interactivity features
  • Complimentary delivery services for a niche and mass market
  • Bosco Fernandes, Chairman, UMTS Forum
  • Professor Claus Sattler, Executive Director, Broadcast Mobile Convergence Forum
  • Serge Ferre, Vice President, Corporate; Head of EU Representative Office, Brussels
  • Director of Strategy, Multimedia Global, Nokia, Europe
  • Jerry Hanley, Director of Business Development - Europe and Latin America, QUALCOMM | MediaFLO Technologies, USA
  • Herbert Mittermayr, Vice President, Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent Mobile Broadcast
  • Quentin Howard, President, WorldDMB
  • Sungoh Hwang, Chairman, OMA Bcast Forum
  • Pierre-Emmanuel Struyven, CMO, Streamezzo
How to Mediate Regulatory Problems to Bring Mobile TV to the Consumer - TDC's Experience in Denmark
10.05
  • Adapting with market circumstances to survive
  • MVNO's and cross technological delivery of service
  • Bernd Reul, Strategy Consultant, Business Development, TDC Mobil, Denmark
Helping Mobile Operators to Secure Their Mobile TV Business Model
10.30
  • The need for managing access to Mobile TV content
  • Smart card-based Service Protection technologies to face piracy threats
  • Using remote management systems to maintain long term high quality Service
  • Protection Enabling end-to-end security on multi-applicative SIM cards
  • Gabriel Rangoni, Mobile TV Product & Marketing, Gemalto, France
Beyond Standards: the advantages of place-shifting
10.55
  • Paul Friedman, President, US Operations, Monsoon Multimedia
Exhibition Visit and Networking Refreshments
11.20
Mobile TV - Overview of Key Audiences and Service Offerings
11.35
  • Breakdown of the 3 different types of video data that we track (Broadcast TV/Video; Video downloaded onto handset; User generated content video used on handsets)
  • Service offerings: An Analysis of the myriad of existing business models.
  • Usage as a % of installed base of devices - broadcast enabled handset Vs video enabled handset
  • A close look at top performing markets
  • First look at M:Metrics' newest market - China: what does the Chinese viewing population enjoy watching.
  • Paul Goode, Vice President, Product Development and Senior Analyst, M:Metrics, UK
China - Which Technology Will be Standardised and Who Will Benefit?
12.00
  • Is the standardised technology likely to be imported or home-grown?
  • What will be the effect of a standardised technology in China?
  • China has over 100 million Internet subscribers and over 450 million mobile subscribers: how can operators and broadcasters infiltrate this handset-ready market?
  • Will expansion into this area prove profitable?
  • What problems are there to overcome in this huge market? Will content provision/advertising be limited by censorship?
  • Charles Henshaw, CEO and Business Director, China Mobile Peoples Telephone Company Ltd, China
The Legal Case: How to Anticipate the Disruptive Effects of Nu-media Law on Mobile TV Opportunities
12.25
  • How will Intellectual Property Rights and Talent Royalties block new mobile TV business models and ROI?
  • Will content rights really be an issue before the mass take-up of mobile TV? What can players do to ready themselves legally before the market expands?
  • How can members of the value-chain ensure that new rights arrangements and distribution avenues do not cannibalise existing and profitable revenue sources?
  • Who will benefit from regulatory intervention and who will be held back?
  • How can legal solutions be synchronised across territories?
  • Duncan Calow, Partner, DLA Piper UK LLP, UK
Networking Lunch Break
12.50
Delivering mobile TV over 3G with MBMS - an operator case study
13.50
  • establishing the beneficial aspects of TDtv solutions compared with broadcast alternatives
  • TDtv and 3G operators - building a profitable business model for mobile TV
  • Analysis of a European operator experience of deploying a commercial TDtv network
  • Jon Hambidge, CMO and EVP Marketing and Business Development, NextWave Wireless, Network Products Division
Is Mobile TV really mobile?
14.45
  • Balancing conditional accessing and content rights with the need to create a globally interactive mobile TV infrastructure with sharing opportunities
  • Islands of mobile TV: how can we-rejoin the fractured mobile TV ecosystem?
  • Is mobile roaming a tangible prospect and if so how can it be achieved?
  • (Maintaining coverage through converged networks).
  • Is standardisation or technological neutrality best to achieve economies of scale?
  • Is roaming only ever going to be an option for global players - what are the licence negotiations that local content providers must make to extend globally? How can GPS location based services provide possible solutions?
  • Transporting customer profile and content across borders.
  • David Fagelston, Director, Mobile Business Development, NDS, Israel
Is your Mobile Content Secure and Accessible?
15.10
  • Does Mobile content need to be secure?
  • Different standards for mobile security - advantages and disadvantages to different methods and making security upgradeable and renewable
  • Security solutions for Mobile TV currently available
  • Jazzing up the program guide - Advanced Mobile Graphical User Interfaces
  • Why be limited to Mobile!
  • Bernd Hoogkamp, Head of Global Mobile Community, TeliaSonera International Carrier, Spain
Exhibition Visit and Networking Refreshments
15.05
Securing revenues from Mobile Broadcast services
15.35
  • Sebastien Chen, Business Development Manager Mobile, Irdeto, The Netherlands

ADVERTISING AND MOBILE TV:WHAT ROLE CAN ADVERTISING PLAY IN PROVIDING A BETTER END-USER EXPERIENCE?

Media Mobility: A user-driven examination of how convergent technologies can provide a holistic experience that excites users, increases adoption, and drives revenues.
16.00
  • An insight into what users want: technology does not matter
  • But, technology does matter: an overview of the essential complementary technologies: Unicast, Multi-cast, Broadcast, etc.
  • The Ultimate Mobile TV experience: the "Convergent" building blocks:
    • Video of Demand (VoD)
    • Personal Video Record (PVR)
    • context-driven personal Advertisement
    • Communities and Participatory Applications
  • Media Mobility from a holistic device perspective: cache-and-carry and the mobile set-top box
  • Bilal Saleh, Director, Mobile TV Business Development EMEA, Motorola
Mobile Advertising: A Huge Opportunity for Brand
16.25
  • Potential for mobile advertising - why brand will dominate the mobile advertising space
  • What form will mobile ads take - looking at TV, internet and new media models
  • The problems of TV Ads (DVRS, clutter) and the benefits of mobile TV advertising (targeting factors, frequency control, minimal skipping)
  • The effectiveness of some types of advertising over others in the mobile space
  • Measuring success of campaigns on mobiles
  • The state of the mobile advertising market - value and challenges of transactional and brand ads to date
  • Owen Hanks, Senior Director of Operations, Rhythm NewMedia, UK
PANEL DISCUSSION 
What are the Best Models for Advertising on Mobile TV?
17.15
  • How can applications and interactivity, product placement and sponsored programming lead to advertising and content being considered as one?
  • How can advertising move from mass to targeted campaigns? What cost implications are there and will the ROI justify the shift?
  • Television without frontiers and product placement - what can we expect?
  • (Telescopic ads/One-click purchasing trials)
  • What are the opportunities for making mobile TV brand power as all encompassing as home TV brands?
  • Damian Mulcock, CEO, Mobix Interactive, UK
  • Ian Mullins, CEO, Yamgo TV, UK
  • Ajey Anand, Global Partner Manager, Rubber Duck Media Lab, Norway
  • Alan Moskowitz , Director, Mobi TV
  • Andy Smith, Sales Director EMEA, Admob, Germany
End of Conference
17.55
 

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