Agenda: Connected TV World Summit 2024

Day 1: Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Day 2: Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Finsbury

THE CHANGING SHAPE OF PAY TV:

9:15 AM - 9:20 AM

Welcome

Sam Tidmarsh

Adwanted Events

9:20 AM - 9:40 AM

Global lessons from the landmark Charter/Disney renegotiation

Richard Broughton

Ampere Analysis

9:40 AM - 10:00 AM

What multichannel FAST brings to Pay TV on the road to more streaming

Richard Vivian

Virgin Media O2

Victoria Davies

Davies, Stoychev & Partners

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

Circular economy in action: Bouygues’ closed-loop success story

Andreas Waltenspiel

Waltenspiel Management Consulting

10:20 AM - 11:00 AM

Panel: The changing shape of Pay TV

COFFEE BREAK

NEXT STEPS IN SUPER-AGGREGATION:

11:30 AM - 11:50 AM

Competing for attention, hour-by-hour, with next-gen Pay TV curation

Jon Espen Nergård

Allente

11:50 AM - 12:10 PM

How Swisscom is taking super-aggregation to the next level

Andreas Waltenspiel

Waltenspiel Management Consulting

Dr Malte Probst

blue Entertainment AG, Swisscom

12:10 PM - 12:30 PM

Beyond super aggregation

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Fireside chat: Next steps in super-aggregation

Andreas Waltenspiel

Waltenspiel Management Consulting

LUNCH

REPLACING LOST BROADCAST AUDIENCES FOR ADVERTISERS:

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

The Smart TV business models designed to maximise share of TV advertising budgets

Matthew Bailey

Omdia

2:15 PM - 2:40 PM

How Banijay FAST channels complement existing TV, and find incremental audiences

Mary Ann Halford

Halford Media Advisory

Shaun Keeble

Banijay Rights

2:40 PM - 3:25 PM

Panel: Replacing lost broadcast audiences for advertisers

Davies, Stoychev & Partners

COFFEE BREAK

PARTNERSHIP & GROWTH IN SVOD & D2C:

3:50 PM - 4:05 PM

How the focus on profit impacts content strategies at studio/channel groups with D2C services

Jack Davison

3Vision

4:05 PM - 4:25 PM

Google TV: AI, content partnerships and emerging opportunities

4:25 PM - 4:40 PM

Growing up FAST: How Xumo has evolved through the development of FAST in the US, and its outlook on the future

Stefan Van Engen

Xumo

Gary Woolf

All3Media International

4:40 PM - 5:15 PM

Panel: Partnership, performance & profit in SVOD & D2C

Universal Pictures Content Group

5:15 PM - 6:15 PM

Networking Drinks - Sponsored by Wurl

Kensington

SMART TV TAKES ON MORE RESPONSIBILITY:

9:15 AM - 9:20 AM

Welcome

Steve Scaffardi

Adwanted Events & The Media Leader

9:20 AM - 9:35 AM

The Connected TV OS battlefield

Andreas Waltenspiel

Waltenspiel Management Consulting

Maria Rua Aguete

Omdia

Thierry Fautier

Your Media Transformation

9:35 AM - 10:00 AM

How independent Smart TV operating systems will win the OS wars

Mehmet Eroglu

Mission 1

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

The potential for Smart TVs to replace set-top boxes

Rob Collier

MTM

10:15 AM - 10:55 AM

Panel: How Smart TV takes more responsibility for content distribution

Dirk Wittenborg

Mission 1 Joint Venture Alliance

Paul Erickson

Erickson Strategy & Insights

COFFEE BREAK

NEXT-GENERATION NETWORKS AND OPERATIONS:

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

What a winning Pay TV technology architecture looks like

Ed Barton

Caretta Research

11:45 AM - 12:05 PM

Why MAUD is a significant technology breakthrough for live streaming

Colin Phillips

12:05 PM - 12:15 PM

AI and machine learning implications for TV distribution

Maria Ingold

mireality

12:15 PM - 12:35 PM

Next generation streaming quality and cost optimisation

12:35 PM - 1:00 PM

Mankind vs machines: Maximising efficiency with test automation for Connected TV

LUNCH

THE FUTURE EPG AND UX:

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

The DVB-I transition roadmap to more streaming and all-streaming

Digital TV Group (DTG)

Gordon Maynard

OnScreen Publishing

2:15 PM - 2:35 PM

AI + 'social discovery' = Hyper engagement + revenue growth

2:35 PM - 2:55 PM

Discovery and UX: Bolstering the FAST Proposition in Europe

2:55 PM - 3:30 PM

Panel: The future of the EPG and UX-wide streaming content discovery

COFFEE BREAK

AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT FOR BROADCAST+STREAMING:

3:50 PM - 4:05 PM

What happens to CFlight now it is a joint-industry tool

Luca Vannini

Barb

4:05 PM - 4:20 PM

The future of CTV on the media plan: Is measurement holding back innovation?

4:20 PM - 4:40 PM

Driving viewership, better user experience and value in connected entertainment

Gabriel Cosgrave

TiVo, an Xperi company

Zach Belmont

Paramount

4:40 PM - 5:15 PM

Panel: The next steps in cross-platform audience measurement

5:15 PM - 6:15 PM

Networking Drinks - Sponsored by Wurl

Finsbury

BROADCASTERS IN THE STREAMING WORLD:

9:20 AM - 9:25 AM

Welcome

Sam Tidmarsh

Adwanted Events

9:25 AM - 9:40 AM

The growing device reach of global OS ecosystems, and implications for broadcasters

Tom Morrod

Caretta Research

9:40 AM - 10:05 AM

Placing free TV and PSBs front-and-centre in the streaming age

10:05 AM - 10:20 AM

IP Transition: Specific socio-technical barriers

Ranjeet Kaur

Digital TV Group (DTG)

10:20 AM - 11:00 AM

Panel: Maximising reach and engagement for broadcaster streaming

Colin Dixon

nScreenMedia

Nicole Agudo Berbel

Joyn / Seven.One Entertainment Group

COFFEE BREAK

OPERATOR DIRECT-TO-TV STRATEGIES:

11:30 AM - 11:50 AM

Global expansion of Sky & Comcast’s Entertainment OS gathers momentum with Hubbl

Michelle Reglinski

Sky

11:50 AM - 12:10 PM

How HD+ pioneered direct-to-TV with HbbTV Operator Application

Lennart Sohst

HD+

12:10 PM - 12:50 PM

Panel: Making operator STB-less, direct-to-TV CPE strategies work

LUNCH

MAKING FAST A EUROPE-WIDE SUCCESS:

2:00 PM - 2:10 PM

The next 5 years: The growing global FAST market

Simon Murray

Digital TV Research

2:10 PM - 2:25 PM

Making a success of FAST in Europe

Marcus Kyte

Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates

2:25 PM - 2:45 PM

In conversation with Samsung and ITV Studios: The FAST experience 3 years on

2:45 PM - 3:05 PM

Can you count on FAST to deliver international growth?

Ben Keen

Rob Lewis

ROXi

3:05 PM - 3:55 PM

Panel: Taking FAST to the next level

4:00 PM

Close of Day 2

Kensington

ADDRESSABLE TV WHERE YOU WANT IT:

9:20 AM - 9:25 AM

Welcome

Steve Scaffardi

Adwanted Events & The Media Leader

9:25 AM - 9:40 AM

The value of context as a basis for targeting

9:40 AM - 10:00 AM

Preparing for an all-streaming future with SSAI

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

The privacy sandbox and what media owners can do to tackle targeting

Paola Colombo

MFE Advertising

Mary Ann Halford

Halford Media Advisory

10:20 AM - 11:00 AM

Panel: Taking addressable TV to the next level

COFFEE BREAK

NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO SEE, AND TO SELL:

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

‘P2F’ – the next market evolution in online video

Maria Rua Aguete

Omdia

11:45 AM - 12:05 PM

How we help clients avoid streaming-on-streaming audience duplication

12:05 PM - 12:50 PM

Panel: Creating new ‘opportunities to see’

LUNCH

1:15 PM - 1:55 PM

Lunch masterclass in Hall 2 with former BBC Movie Director Bill Britten: You never get a second chance to make a first impression

Bill Britten

Maynard Leigh Associates

Andreas Waltenspiel

Waltenspiel Management Consulting

AGENDA