Join us September 10-12 in Los Angeles and experience our invaluable
conference sessions yourself!
TV is becoming an essential service to supply and if you ever dream of competing with cable companies who are stealing voice market share, you must offer TV. IPTV is an area you must explore if you are serious about competing with the other service providers in the market. There is a major drive by service providers to bundle services and if you have no bundle you will lose share. You need a bundle and TV is the first service to put on your wish list. Come to this summit to learn about the opportunities in IPTV and how to take advantage of them.
Track: IPTV (tp)
WELCOME (IPTV-01)
Monday - 09/10/07, 9:00am
Chairman's Opening Remarks
Presented by:
Lee McCabe Director of Sales / North America Braxtel Communications
Hear first hand how the leading service provider in the IPTV space has designed its business model. Discover how it’s overcoming the technical challenges and barriers to entry into the pay TV space.
Panel Session: IPTV or online video, what’s the next generation of TV? (IPTV-03)
Monday - 09/10/07, 9:45-10:30am
As telecoms slowly roll out their television services to markets scattered throughout the U.S., online video services are effectively stealing eyeballs from the once impervious TV screen. IPTV providers need to demonstrate to consumers why they should pay for an alternative pay TV service when they can on demand the video they want online.
Presented by:
Mitchell Berman (Moderator) Industry Pioneer
Chip Gaskins Prsident Elevation Wireless
Mark Langford VP Marketing & Business Development Technicolor Electronic Distribution Services
Scott Stelzer VP, National Accounts, Content Distribution MTV Networks
Jeff Richards VP, Digital Content Management Services VeriSign
Doug Sylvester Chief Operating Officer TVN Entertainment
Last year franchise rights were top of mind for the IPTV industry, and as legislation changes that process IPTV providers need to understand how the new process will affect their service rollout. Other legal issues like content access and acquisition need to be mastered by budding IPTV providers. What other regulatory or legal issues will the telcos face in the year ahead?
Panel Session: Monetizing applications beyond TV (IPTV-05)
Monday - 09/10/07, 11:45am-12:30pm
IPTV service providers understand that their networks provide for more interactivity between TV viewer and service provider than ever before, that’s why many are looking to offer services like gaming, embedded caller ID, interactive shopping services as well as mobile extensions to their core offerings. While it sounds like a throwback to 1999, these interactive applications could prove lucrative for the leading IPTV service providers. Discover which interactive applications will make the cut.
Presented by:
Laura Buddine CEO, Iacta LLC & Architect, Games4TV
Evan Young Director of Broadband Services TiVo Inc.
Robin Mersh (Moderator) COO DSL Forum
Bernardin Arnason Managing Partner & Founder Pivot Media LLC
Glitches in network rollouts and heated licensing negotiations with content providers have slowed down the growth of IPTV across the U.S. during the past year. The hot button issues of content security and network scalability will be tackled in this session. Join us for these presentations and learn best practices from security and QoS experts in the IPTV sector.
Presented by:
Jose Alvear (Moderator) Editor/IPTV Analyst Multimedia Research Group
Brian Caskey VP Marketing UTStarcom Inc.
Deepesh Arora Director, Application Testing Ixia
Deb Lenart VP & Client Industry Executive, Global Communications, Media & Entertainment Industry EDS
Andrew Sachs Director of IPTV Strategy, IPTV Service Assurance, CommTest/T&M JDSU
Panel Session: Lessons learned from Tier 2 and Tier 3 IPTV Deployments (IPTV-07)
Monday - 09/10/07, 2:15-3:00pm
Hear from tier 2 IPTV service providers who launched IPTV services early on in the game. What types of services have proven the most effective? Do they compete with cable on price or content offerings? How has bundling helped win over potential subscribers? Attend this session to tap their pioneering experience and hear the real world case studies.
Presented by:
Bill DeMuth Senior VP & CTO SureWest
Ken Pyle (Moderator) Managing Editor The Viodi View
Trevor Bonnstetter CEO West Kentucky Rural Telephone
Content Provider Roundtable: The IPTV Opportunity (IPTV-08)
Monday - 09/10/07, 3:00-3:45pm
While the driving force behind the rollout of IPTV services across the U.S. are the telcos, who are looking to stay competitive with the ever increasing services from cable companies, content providers also see IPTV as a unique opportunity for their viewers. Attend this session to understand how IPTV will change the way content is developed, delivered and viewed from a content provider’s perspective.
Presented by:
Scott Carnevale (Moderator) Vice President, Multimedia Content and Distribution iSuppli
Josette Bonte Vice President Digital Media Cookie Jar Entertainment
Mariana Danilovic Vice President of Business Development MediaZone
Kevin McFeeley VP of Affiliate Sales & New Media Anime Network
Steven Goore Vice President, Western Region Affiliate Sales & Marketing A&E Television Networks
Panel Session: ISO the perfect Electronic Programming Guide (IPTV-09)
Monday - 09/10/07, 3:45-4:30pm
Users are increasingly willing to pay a premium for a better user experience, which makes the electronic programming guide (EPG) all the more essential to a successful IPTV rollout. Join this panel to drill down into the subject of the EPG, including best practices for its design, functionality as well as the research that supports its all-importance. In age of “long tail” content aggregation, users need a way to easily navigate through the sea of video now available to them. Learn how to enable your subscribers to do just that.
Presented by:
Dilshan De Silva Director of Product Management Espial
Mark Kirstein (Moderator) President & Co-Founder Multimedia Intelligence
In this closing keynote session, one of the top directors of content acquisition in the IPTV business outlines best practices for content providers looking to forge content licensing deals with service providers as well as the big service providers’ views towards user-generated content, interactive programming, VOD, place-shifting, time-shifting and more.
Presented by:
Lee McCabe Director of Sales / North America Braxtel Communications
