Ian Harris is S3 Group’s Director of Product Management for the TV Technology Business Line. Ian’s role involves understanding the industry requirements for the range of TV Technology products, managing development as these products become reality and the deployment and support of them once they have been delivered to customers. Having worked for many years in the broadcast industry, Ian’s previous roles include heading engineering at an Australian cable and satellite operator as well as senior business roles in companies providing services and products in the digital TV space.

Matthieu de Chanville is a graduate from HEC Paris. He is a seasoned strategy and management consultant, with a focus in Media and Telecoms. Matthieu has worked for numerous telcos and media players across EMEA over the past 15 years, on a wide range of topics from growth strategy to operational excellence. A member of A.T. Kearney Innovation Management practice. Matthieu has developed a strong expertise in TV, new business models and digital transformation of media companies.

 

 

Clive Hudson has more than 20 years of experience building European businesses for international communications technology firms. Since 2011, Clive has served as the vice president and general manager of Europe at Roku, maker of streaming players designed to bring Internet entertainment to the TV.

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Thomas Teckentrup has 15 years of experience in the IT market and internet business. He is responsible for overseeing and implementing Toshiba’s strategy for software and content services across EMEA. His current primary scope of activities is focused at Toshiba’s portfolio of digital connected devices including Connected TVs, mobile PCs and Tablets. Thomas began his career with Toshiba in 1997, where he worked for three years, before returning in 2001 and has since held various positions in product marketing and business development. Prior to joining Toshiba, Thomas was COO at the internet marketing services provider welivit AG and has held marketing positions at Philips and Muelhens GmbH & Co. Thomas lives with his wife and three children in Germany.

Brian Whitton has 30 years of experience building and commercializing emerging telecommunication networks and multi-media technologies.   Starting in 2004, Brian has been responsible for overseeing development of Verizon’s FiOS network technology. In his current capacity, Brian is responsible for directing development and deployment of Verizon’s video and home networking technologies, including linear and VOD programming network solutions, video content management, advertising technology solutions, and connected and OTT services.

 

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Suveer currently heads up Global Distribution partnerships for Google TV, working with consumer electronics manufacturers for device launches across the world. In his time at Google, Suveer has helped launch Mobile Ads, Google Checkout and Display advertising across EMEA. Since YouTube was acquired in 2006, Suveer developed the monetization plan for Europe, and set up and rolled out active sales efforts across the region. Most recently, Suveer led the YouTube and Display team across the Nordics and Emerging markets in EMEA.

Prior to Google, Suveer worked as a strategy consultant with Booz and Co. He holds a first class degree in Economics and Management from Oxford, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

Christian Bombrun is a graduate student from Telecom Management School and Paris Dauphine. He began his career as a strategy consultant in Accenture. He joined the Canal + group as Marketing and Bus Dev director for New Media, and launched Canalplay, Canal Vod offer. He worked for this company during 8 years, where he was involved in new medias initiative, including PVR boxes and ITV. He is now deputy general manager of M6 Web, where he leads the business units, including M6 Mobile (MVNO Offer), M6 web sites (13 M UU), M6 Replay (catch up), Content portals and the gaming division

As the Head of New TV, CEO of SevenSenses GmbH and CEO of maxdome, Christoph Bellmer is responsible for the TV activities of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group that are not funded by advertising revenues. They include pay-TV, IPTV and mobile-TV (SevenSenses) and video-on-demand (maxdome). He comes to ProSiebenSat.1 from MEDIA BROADCAST, where he was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) in charge of new business development, among other responsibilities. Prior to that, he was the COO of Unity Media, one of the leading providers of media and communication services via broadband cable. In this position, Bellmer was responsible for the launch of the pay-TV channel arena and for the operating business of the cable provider. He has also held senior management positions at T-Systems and General Electric.

Jean-Marc Racine has 18 years’ experience in the media technology market and started his career designing the world’s first real-time MPEG-2 encoder that would lead the emergence of today’s digital television.
Jean-Marc held several executive positions and played a lead role in the expansion of CANAL+ Technologies as a world leader, and remained a member of the executive team until its acquisition.

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Eun-Kyung Park, born in Wiesbaden in 1978, studied Business Administration at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Koblenz from 1997 to 2001, majoring in international business relationships, marketing and production. During her studies she spent semesters abroad at the Korea University and at the EDHEC Nice in France.

Before joining ProSiebenSat.1 Digital GmbH Eun-Kyung Park was employed with the Bertelsmann Group, where she held the position of Director of Business Development and was responsible for the development of the company DirectGroup. Her duties focused on the development and analysis of growth strategies for the division, with a particular emphasis on online and new business fields. Prior to this position, Eun-Kyung, who holds an MBA, spent many years in China and France for the Bertelsmann Group where she held a variety of managerial positions. During this time the Korean was responsible for the establishment and management of a Korean-Chinese start-up in Shanghai that focused on child education, and the management of a chain bookstore that was active throughout China.

Mrs. Park has been Managing Director of ProSiebenSat.1 Digital GmbH in Unterföhring since April 2009.

Hakan Kutlu, received his MBA degree in 1996 on top of Masters of Science QM degree from University of Sunderland in United Kingdom.

He has been working in Vestel Group of Companies since 2000. During the time, his duties focused on international product management of display products. Operating in the fields of consumer electronics, white goods and information technologies, Vestel Group of Companies, which is the flagship of Zorlu Group, comprises of 30 multinational companies.

Since 2006, he has been Deputy General Manager in Vestel Foreign Trade responsible for international marketing, branding, online sales, and product management.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In this role JB has responsibility for the product development and management of Telstra’s extensive portfolio of new media properties (across online, mobiles and IPTV) and fixed and mobile applications.Prior to this role JB was Executive Director of Telstra Media where he had operational and commercial responsibility for Telstra’s content properties (Sports, News, Entertainment and Lifestyle) and secured a number of key content deals.

JB was also on the board of some of Telstra’s new media investments in China including China-M and SharpPoint.

Prior to joining Telstra, JB had an extensive career in new media and telecommunications. He was the CEO of IP telephony start up, Interline (prior to it being sold to a Nasdaq listed competitor). JB was also an Executive Director of the Australasian Media and Communications Fund where he was a Board member and oversaw investments in Austar, Looksmart, Seek, Red Sheriff, Astracon and FreeOnline.

JB’s career also included consulting (Booz-Allen), merchant banking (Turnbull and Partners) and entertainment (Disney).

JB has been living in Australia for the last 16 years. He holds a an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of management (USA) and a Masters Degree in Engineering from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France).

JB is married with two children.

Renaud Di Francesco has started his career in telecommunications, as a researcher in signal processing and coding (PhD and Patent), as a manager of new service and network development (satellite, fixed core network backbone, etc). He has then moved on to media, content, cinema, TV and Internet, mobility, 3D. He is currently divisional director for technology standards of Sony in Europe.

As Chief Technology Officer at Sony Pictures at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Spencer Stephens helps lead the studio’s use of technology in support of the creation and distribution of movies, television and other entertainment content.

 

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Juan A. Latasa is currently responsible for the Vodafone Internet TV Project recently launched in Vodafone Spain, a quite successful and innovative hybrid TV service, combining the strength of DTT and Internet  / OTT content, as well as Media Center capabilities, into a single TV proposition for Broadband customers. This project is currently being planned to launch in other European markets.

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Matthias serves as Head of Marketing in Vodafone’s Home TV Competence Centre. In this role, he assumes global responsibility for the TV customer proposition and product management, with a particular focus on usability and interaction design. Over the past 18 months, Matthias built a diverse Marketing team of domain experts and oversaw the development of Vodafone TV from its inception to launch in February 2011.

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Harish is a Principal Consultant at IBB Consulting, a premier boutique consulting firm serving leading broadband-related product and service providers in the Cable, Mobile, Media and Technology industries. Harish has over 12 years of experience helping executives develop business, operating, and technical strategies for companies ranging in size from startups to Fortune 100. 

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Casey manages the teams, shared services and central commercial fetwork Too, BOING!, TCM, TNT and Tru TV. Commercial areas of the business which Casey is responsible for include: Turner’s Digital Development Group, its European Advertising Sales Team (TMi), Consumer Products, Research and Affiliate Development, including Branded Programme Sales.

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 Daniel Danker is General Manager, Programmes and On-Demand in the BBC’s Future Media division.

Joining the corporation in September 2010, Daniel is responsible for the strategy and delivery of BBC's iPlayer, Radio & Music and Red Button products, working in partnership with the BBC's editorial teams. He also delivers underlying platforms for media, social, blogging, television, and mobile experiences across the BBC Online product portfolio and is a member of the Future Media Group Board.

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Anthony is Managing Director & Senior Vice President of Business Development Alticast EMEA (2007 – Present Day) has been involved in emerging digital technologies since entering the British Royal Air Force as a telecommunications engineer in 1976.  He moved into civilian life in 1991 when ISPs began to emerge and modems ran at 96KBps. 

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Randolph Nikutta started his career at Deutsche Telekom in 1996 at a R&D subsidiary. Between 2002 and 2008 Dr. Nikutta has been working for Detecon International GmbH (consultancy subsidiary of T-Systems International). Since April 2005 Dr. Nikutta has been assigned to Deutsche Telekom Laboratories which he joined in April 2008 on a permanent basis. He is responsible for the project field “New Media” dealing with IPTV, mobile TV, 3D TV, Web TV and OTT, Convergent TV, TV Apps and also more mid- to long-term related innovation topics like Free Viewpoint TV.

With over 30 years of TV viewing experience, Stacey is currently the head of LG Electronics Smart TV organization where he has helped develop the core connected device proposition and strategy for the UK and Europe. 

Before LG Stacey was Joost's senior vice president of international content acquisition and business development. As such, he was responsible for identifying opportunities for Joost's expansion overseas as well as developing strategic partnerships. He also led the international content acquisition team. Stacey joined Joost in 2006 as vice president of content strategy and acquisition. In that role, he led the company's content strategy and acquisition efforts and negotiations.

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Toby Russell is the founder and CEO of 3Vision.  He is responsible for the strategic direction of the business as well as managing the company’s high level content provider relationships.

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Founder of the digital media consultancy informitv, William provides thought leadership and advises on strategy and implementation around broadcast and broadband convergence. Clients range from small start-up ventures to major multinational corporations. Supported by an international network of industry specialists, informitv provides confidential consultancy services worldwide.

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Olivier has 20 years of business and marketing experience working across two very successful global brands – Philip Morris and Toshiba. Olivier is currently Senior Manager, Product Planning and Business Development for Consumer Products at Toshiba Europe GmbH and has been with the Company for 17 years.

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Barry Flynn is a Principal Consultant at Farncombe Technology. A journalist by training, Barry first worked in a variety of television production, direction and systems operation roles at TV companies such as ITN, Diverse Production and Granada Television, before becoming an analyst and consultant specialising in digital TV.

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Jay Chinnadorai is Founder and Managing Director of Sumtotal, a strategy & technology consultancy specialising in the converging sectors of Device, Media and Networks. Clients include Orange, Sony, Accenture, BT, Siemens, Philips, Scottish Enterprise as well as several start-ups in Europe and the US. Jay also sits on the Advisory Boards of several companies.

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Michael Lantz is the CEO of Accedo Broadband, which he jointly founded in 2004. He has extensive experience in the converging telecom and media industries. Since founding Accedo Broadband, Michael has been heavily involved with creating innovative content offerings for IPTV service providers.

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Paul Bristow is Vice-President of Strategy at ADB, with specific focus on middleware and consumer experience. Paul concentrates on making digital television more enjoyable for consumers, while simultaneously making business easier and more profitable for pay TV operators.

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Vassilis Seferidis is Director of Business Development for Samsung Electronics Europe responsible for product planning and business development for the European market.

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Immersed in digital services since its beginnings, Nicolas BRY worked at SFR Cegetel as Marketing Manager, where he launched the first alternative ADSL offering in 2000 and at Club-Internet as Chief Marketing Officer, where he completed Television on demand design, first worldwide deployment of Microsoft TV service in 2005, and next-generation VOD service in 2008.

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Edd Uzzell is Sony Europe’s Proposition Development Manager, a roll which is focused around defining Sony’s UK hardware, content and services line-up to the consumer.

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Alessandro Petazzi, MD, OnCubed

Dan Saunders is responsible for content services strategy at Samsung Electronics Europe with a particular focus on Connected TV.

Lovelace Consulting operates at the intersection of traditional broadcast media with the internet and telecoms, providing a broad range of insightful services (including bespoke research and intelligence, reports and strategic advice) that guide organisations through the convergence maze.

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Anthony Rose, CTO & Founder, Zeebox