Agenda: Connected TV World Summit 2026

Stage One

The new distribution landscape:

Welcome

9:00 AM - 9:10 AM

James Longhurst

The Media Leader

Making sense of the global TV shake-up

9:10 AM - 9:25 AM

Richard Broughton

Ampere Analysis

Digital acceleration at TF1 Group, driven by TF1+

9:25 AM - 9:45 AM

Finding clarity in the noise

9:45 AM - 10:05 AM

Made of Here: How the BBC is doubling down on ‘local’

10:05 AM - 10:20 AM

Panel: Growing audiences and revenues in a hyper-competitive market

10:20 AM - 11:00 AM

Coffee & Networking

11:00 AM - 11:35 AM

New opportunities in Pay TV:

From TV platform to Living Ecosystem: Why television can’t thrive without broadband

11:35 AM - 11:55 AM

Ruben Senor-Megias

Deutsche Telekom

Andy Waltenspiel

Waltenspiel - Connecting the Dots

Making the operator the default home screen

11:55 AM - 12:15 PM

Frank Rippl

Vodafone Group

Andy Waltenspiel

Waltenspiel - Connecting the Dots

Panel: Creating a unique value proposition for Pay TV

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

Ivor Micallef

Telenet group

Andy Waltenspiel

Waltenspiel - Connecting the Dots

LSM - Latvian Public Service Media

Lunch

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Turbo-charging content discovery:

Streamers as aggregators and bundlers

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

François Godard

Enders Analysis

Harnessing LLMs to turbo-charge content discovery: Why and how

2:15 PM - 2:35 PM

Transforming content discovery with AI-powered SuperSearch

2:35 PM - 2:50 PM

Chris van der Linden

Liberty Global

Panel: Controlling discovery to control the customer: The operator’s path to owning the home screen

2:50 PM - 3:30 PM

Bernd Riefler

Veed Analytics

Sebastian Kramer

NAGRAVISION - Kudelski Group

Christoph Konrad

Magenta Telekom Austria

Kate Garland

Narrative Entertainment

Renáta Fülöp-Árvai

One Hungary

Networking break

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Growing studios and streamers:

The evolution of studio-broadcaster content licensing

4:00 PM - 4:10 PM

Jack Davison

3Vision

How All3Media International creates incremental revenues across FAST, AVOD and SVOD

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM

Gary Woolf

All3Media International

John Moulding

The Media Leader

Panel: The evolution of content and distribution strategies

4:30 PM - 5:15 PM

Networking drinks

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Stage Two

Boosting ad revenues:

Market forecasts, and implications for M&A involving ad-supported TV

11:35 AM - 11:50 AM

Matthew Bailey

Omdia

From Fragmentation to Integration. The Future of CTV

11:50 AM - 12:10 PM

Matt Bryan

Samsung Ads

How broadcasters make money from social media and video sharing platforms

12:10 PM - 12:25 PM

Panel: Growing advertising revenues in 2026-28

12:25 PM - 1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

More and better targeting:

Unifying the fragmented CTV opportunity with HbbTV

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Vincent Grivet

HbbTV

CTV - the unlikely hero of CRM

2:15 PM - 2:35 PM

Brand-building lessons from a new-to-TV advertiser

2:35 PM - 2:50 PM

Deirdre Mc Gettrick

ufurnish.com

Fatima Dowlet

Panel: Enabling more and better targeting on TV

2:50 PM - 3:30 PM

Networking break

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

TV as a performance powerhouse:

How ad-supported TV providers can create new revenues

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Tom Morrod

Caretta Research

Helping small-medium businesses harness the power of TV

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Callum Taylor

ITV

Panel: How TV takes a greater share of performance budgets

4:30 PM - 5:15 PM

Sarah Robson

On Device

Mary Ann Halford

Halford Media Advisory

Networking drinks

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM