Justin Kan is a founder and President of Justin.tv, the web's leading live video site which lets anyone broadcast and watch live video with chat for free. Justin founded Justin.tv with Michael Seibel, Emmett Shear, and Kyle Vogt in 2006, which has since grown to support hundreds of thousands of live broadcasts and millions of viewers a month. He currently serves as Justin.tv's Chief Product Officer, managing the product and technical teams, recruiting talent for the company, and evangelizing Justin.tv's website and API. In the past, he has written large parts of Justin.tv's code base and written the first versions of a number of products, including the API.
Aliza Beckett, Business Development, Web, Mobile & New Platforms, Channel 4
Aliza Beckett is an experienced media strategist with over 10 years experience working within the sector. In her current role as Business Development Manager at Channel 4 she is responsible for driving Channel 4’s commercial activities across the business, with a focus on opportunities in VoD, online, IPTV, mobile and other emerging platforms. Her position informs the strategic development of Channel 4’s activities and drives the delivery of new partnerships and business initiatives across Channel 4’s brands and audiences.
Tom’s 14-year career started in games and post-production. After becoming a developer during the dot-com era, he was one of the first specialists in creating data-driven and multi-user Flash applications. In 2003 he co-founded Monterosa with the ambition to bridge the gap between the entertainment and online worlds. Monterosa developed the online components to a string of prime-time BBC gameshows such as Test The Nation. Today the London-based team works with broadcasters, media companies and brands to create realtime social applications. As Creative Director, Tom leads the company's concept development and business strategy.
John Cole, Managing Director, Adknowledge UK Ltd
An entrepreneur with 9 years experience in online advertising. John has founded and run an SEO start-up, an online ad network and an online publishing business. After the sale of Mediarun ad network to Adknowledge Inc in 2007, he now specialises in the Social Networking & Social Applications space for Adknowledge in the UK & EU. John has been a panellist at Adtech and Internet World and has written articles for NMA and other UK online magazines. John was previously an officer in the British armed forces for eight years. www.adknowledge.com
Dick Rempt, CEO, Talents media
Serial entrepreneur & company builder with a back ground in New Media and Venture Capital. He loves to discover and develop potential in people and businesses. Dick’s specialty is building companies with business models creating competitive advantage. He’s thrilled by the potential power of social media for brands to interact with their environment or ‘brand community’.
Dick: ‘We are just beginning to understand the potential power of social media for brands and media companies to really engage people long term. Companies and brands unable to master these new media are very likely to face tough times.’
Dick is married, has 4 kids and lives in The Netherlands. Beware of his terrible jokes.
Rahul Chakkara, Controller TV Platforms, BBC
Rahul Chakkara, Controller TV Platforms is responsible for all new media products and services on various TV platforms including emerging IPTV platforms. He provides leadership to the product team who design, engineer, test and deliver these products and services in the BBC.
Rahul is responsible for the leadership of the BBC Red Button service which reaches more than 10 million adults on a weekly basis, and delivers popular interactive television services like Wimbledon, Formula 1, CBeebies etc. He is also responsible for delivering BBC iPlayer on TVs e.g BBC iPlayer on Virgin Media which has received more than 200 million views since launch.
Ian Kegel heads the Future Content Group, a team of 10 researchers whose role it is to supply BT with the product ideas, technology and foresight which it needs to help its customers take full advantage of the world of digital content.
Tom Weiss is CEO of TV Genius, the company he founded four years ago to solve the growing challenge of content search and discovery in the TV space. With a strong software engineering background, Tom was previously VP of key service introduction at T-Mobile, where he was responsible for creating ARPU increasing and churn reducing programs, such as the pan-European mobile TV service for the Euro 2004 football championships. Tom has an MA in Physics from Oxford University.
Phil Walder, COO, IP Vision
Phil Walder has been involved in a number of IPTV and web TV projects in the last 9 years. He has a wide experience of the hybrid DTT/IPTV market having run Netgem's UK office for 5 years, developing the market for successive generation's of their devices and creating relationships with UK broadcasters. He has also been head of business development for UK IPTV software company Oregan Networks having previously founded and run publishing and broadcasting companies.
Richard Griffiths, Director of TV & Entertainment, Eircom
Richard Griffiths is one of Europe’s leading telco TV authorities. He joined the Irish telco eircom in July 2008 as Director of TV and Entertainment after four years at BT as Director of Technology Strategy and Development of BT Vision.
Prior to BT, he was on the management teams of two internet start-ups including the pioneering
McCartney and Lennox Lewis. In the 1990s, he launched four cable TV channels and worked for the BBC, Channel 4 and GMTV. He has an MBA from London’s Imperial College Business School.
Miroslaw Smyk, General Manager TV Business Division, Romtelecom
Mirek has almost 10 years hands-on experience and international exposure in strategic and operational management in pay-TV and telecom in Balkans and CEE.
Aged 29 he was appointed the youngest General Manager of DTH platform worldwide and during recent 2 years grew Romtelecom Dolce platform to more than 1.2 million set-top-boxes deployed.. Moreover he is among few people in IPTV industry that conceptualized and launched two different IPTV platforms in two different markets (O2 TV in Czech Republic and Dolce Interactiv in Romania).
Robert Marsh, Head of talkbackTHAMES Digital, FremantleMedia
Robert Marsh heads up the newly established talkbackTHAMES Digital, a joint partnership between FremantleMedia Enterprises and talkbackTHAMES, providing a centre of excellence to pursue digital opportunities from new and existing FremantleMedia brands in the UK. He reports into Rupert Brankin-Frisby, Commercial Director, talkbackTHAMES and Dominic Burns, Senior Vice President, Licensing UK, FremantleMedia Enterprises.
Robert is responsible for driving the UK strategy for the extension of broadcast properties onto digital platforms, as well as across digital licensing, telephony and bespoke online commissions. In his previous position as VP of Interactive & Telephony, he played a prominent role in the digital development of a wide variety of high profile programmes including Family Fortunes and the award winning Britain’s Got Talent, The Bill, The X Factor, and The Apprentice. In his current role he will continue to focus on extending new on- and off-air opportunities whilst working with current commercial partners and broadcasters to bring fans closer to their favourite brands and offer a true 360° experience.
As Head of Digital Media Studios, Pasa has been instrumental in the development and delivery of ground breaking new online formats such at Bebo’s The Gap Year and music show Beat for Bebo and Samsung.
Andrew Kearney, Vice President TV Products, UPC broadband
Andrew Kearney is Vice President TV Products for UPC broadband, looking after TV products in UPC's 9 countries.
Starting his career as a founding member of the BBC's interactive TV team, Andrew was then head of design & production and creative director at Carlton Television before joining ITV Network as Head of Interactive Creative and Content. Prior to joining UPC, he was Senior Director, iTV and eTV at Chellomedia - a sister company of UPC.
Andrew has been working in various forms of digital television and new media for 15 years, and has a particular interest in the viewer and how he or she consumes television.
Andrew is married with two sons and lives in the Netherlands.
Kevin Baughan, Director of Technical Strategy, Virgin Media
Kevin Baughan is an experienced and innovative telecoms professional with a proven track record of delivery for both UK and European service providers. In his current role, Kevin is responsible for technical strategy across Virgin Media. He is actively involved in understanding the business opportunities resulting from new technologies and in the overall evolution of Virgin Media’s communication and entertainment portfolio.
Prior to Virgin Media, Kevin co-founded a start-up carrying out pioneering research into novel networking technologies for the US Air Force Research Labs with colleagues at the University of Birmingham. Kevin has also had a distinguished career with Nortel Networks, in both R&D and as the company’s chief architect for cable operators across Europe. Kevin is an Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham where he advises the communication networks research team and holds an MBA with distinction from Imperial College.
Nicolas Bry, Senior VP, Orange Vallée
Immersed in digital services since the start, Nicolas Bry has worked for strategic consulting firm Braxton, and then joined SFR Cegetel as Marketing Manager, where he launched first alternative ADSL offering in 2000. He joined Club-Internet as Chief Marketing Officer, and he specifically committed in Television on demand: he completed first worldwide deployment of Microsoft TV service in 2005, and launched next-generation VOD in 2008.
He’s now involved as Senior VP at Orange Vallée, a new entity dedicated to rapid innovation, and leads projects relative to Television (www.transmedialab.org) and Social Networking. Nicolas holds a master degree in telecommunications from French Grande Ecole Supelec, and an Executive Master from HEC Business School. He’s a regular speaker hi-tech marketing classes, and media forum (nbry.wordpress.com).
Dr William Cooper, Founder & Chief Executive, informitv
Dr William Cooper is the Founder and Chief Executive of informitv. A specialist in interactive media services across multiple platforms, he advises clients ranging from start-up companies to major corporations, providing a practical operational perspective.
A regular contributor to international conferences, with papers published at both IBC and NAB, William is a recognised commentator on interactive media and publishes the online news service informitv.com.
Chi-chi Ekweozor, Director, RealFresh.tv
Chi-chi Ekweozor is a gifted communicator with nearly 4 years experience in creating original content for the web.
Her company, Real Fresh TV, published Europe’s first live music video podcast in 2006 and now advises companies as varied as PUMA and The Gate Films on how to execute cross platform campaigns though a number of social media sites including content partners YouTube and Bebo. Chi-chi also developed and delivers the UK's first Social Media Starter Course, designed specifically for media professionals. She was short listed for a Channel 4 4Talent Multi-Platform Award in 2008 and her widely read multi-platform marketing blog is at www.realfresh.tv. She twitters at twitter.com/realfreshtv.
Guillaume de Saint Marc, VP R&D New Initiatives, NDS
Guillaume de Saint Marc is VP R&D New Initiatives at NDS for the UK and France.
New Initiatives is a worldwide R&D group exploring and developing innovative solutions to establish NDS into emerging activities.
Guillaume joined NDS in 2003 where he initially held the position of VP Marketing for Middleware Solutions, and later became VP Advanced Development & Architecture at NDS France. Before that, he was with Canal+ Group for 7 years where he was in charge of several product design and project management activities across the different generations of the Digital TV platform, notably Canal+ first PVR set-top box.
Paul Bristow, Vice-President of Strategy, ADB
Paul 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.
Paul is also ADB Group’s key representative within the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) consortium. He has been pushing forward the MHP and GEM specifications for twelve years
Previously, Paul was the Chief Technology Officer at Osmosys, where he spent 5 years defining and deploying standards-based software solutions in DVB, tru2way & Blu-ray markets. Prior to this he spent seven years driving technology strategy for Philips, working on interactive digital television, wireless home networking, personal video recording and internet services. He went to Philips from Olivetti Personal Computers where he worked on the Olivetti Envision, the first real consumer PC with Video CD playback.
Paul qualified in Electronics and Telecommunications at the Southampton Institute of Higher Education in the UK.
Dan Cryan, Head of Broadband, Screen Digest
Dan joined Screen Digest in 2004 and played a key role in the development of the company's digital media coverage. As Head of Broadband he specialises in online content and the technical issues surrounding the distribution of digital entertainment.
As part of Screen Digest's broadband team Dan led the development of the forecasting models used in the online Broadband Intelligence service including online movies, TV, music and user generated content. He has also been involved in a wide range of consultancy projects for clients including national broadcasters and the European Commission
Simon Spanswick, Chief Executive, Association for International Broadcasting
Simon Spanswick is a founder director of the AIB. His career spans both public and commercial sectors and for many years he has been closely involved in digital broadcasting. Having contributed as a freelance journalist to BBC World Service English output since 1981, Simon joined the BBC in 1986. He spent time with BBC Monitoring, and was part of the specialist team that formed part of the UK delegation to WARC 92, safeguarding the BBC's interests in terms of short wave and satellite broadcasting frequencies. In 1993, Simon moved to World Service Corporate Affairs, working on press and public relations initiatives, while at the same time continuing to present the World Service English media programme, Waveguide. He was the Project Manager for the Digital Radio Worldwide consortium that brought together international broadcasters with an interest in satellite-delivered digital radio services.
Richard Lindsay-Davies is the chief executive officer of the Digital TV Group, with responsibility for the organisation's overall growth and development. With over 20 years of television industry experience, Richard drives the DTG's unique collaborative culture bringing a spirit of insight, creativity and excellence to the Group's activities. Richard joined the Group as Director of Public Affairs in 2004 working with government and stakeholders to establish the UK digital switchover body, Digital UK. He was appointed Director General in 2006, establishing a new vision and operation before transferring to Freesat as Commercial Development Director where he played an integral role in the successful launch of the platform.
Damien is a relatively new addition to the telecoms sector having spent the majority of his career covering marketing and commercial roles in FMCG and retail, working for companies such as Woolworths, Homebase, Blockbuster and Britvic.
Claudio’s professional background includes operational, research and standardization roles in the ICT domain. He is coordinating Telecom Italia’s effort and contribution to the achievement of W3C Social Web Standards. He has been investigating Mobile Social Networking dynamics from both the technical and business perspective and contributing to the definition of Telecom Italia’s positioning in chasing this market opportunity. He is currently involved into several international ICT projects aimed to probe enhanced Mobile Social Networking experiences by leveraging on Mobile Operators’ assets and related exploitation opportunities.
Martin Jarrold, Chief, International Programme Development, GVF
Martin Jarrold was appointed GVF Chief of International Programme Development in June 2001. His responsibilities include outreach to the 230+ member organisations of the GVF located in 100+countries, and the further development of the profile of the Forum within the satellite communications industry, and across the global telecommunications policy and regulatory community. This extends to the development and delivery of programmes focused on understanding and promoting the use of satellite-based communications in various key vertical markets, in connection with which Martin is Chairman of the GVF Oil & Gas Communications Conference Series and the GVF Broadband Maritime Conference Series. Other vertical market Conference Series are in preparation.
He is a frequent contributor to various telecommunications publications, and speaks at many telecommunications conferences and symposia around the world.
Sebastian Moeritz, President, MPEGIF, CEO dicas
Sebastian is an entrepreneur with an extensive business and corporate experience in a number of international markets.
He is an internationally recognised figure in the field of digital video coding and its various applications. With an extensive network of contacts across the technology, media and telecommunications sectors as well as in the financial community, he combines business acumen and corporate experience with technological knowledge providing a practical perspective and strategic commercial approach. After studies in social sciences and economics, he previously specialised in property and investment with a specific focus on Russia.
Benjamin Schwarz, Owner, CTO Innovation Consulting
Benjamin Schwarz has over 20 years of international experience in consulting and Telco & Media organisations.
He spent 8 years with Orange, whom he joined in 2001. Benjamin started with Orange Labs focusing on video technology, QoE and new business models to take advantage of the few-to-few broadcasting that DSL was enabling. These premise to social TV were trialled in 2002 as various community based services.
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Justin Kan is a founder and President of Justin.tv, the web's leading live video site which lets anyone broadcast and watch live video with chat for free. Justin founded Justin.tv with Michael Seibel, Emmett Shear, and Kyle Vogt in 2006, which has since grown to support hundreds of thousands of live broadcasts and millions of viewers a month. He currently serves as Justin.tv's Chief Product Officer, managing the product and technical teams, recruiting talent for the company, and evangelizing Justin.tv's website and API. In the past, he has written large parts of Justin.tv's code base and written the first versions of a number of products, including the API.
Aliza Beckett is an experienced media strategist with over 10 years experience working within the sector. In her current role as Business Development Manager at Channel 4 she is responsible for driving Channel 4’s commercial activities across the business, with a focus on opportunities in VoD, online, IPTV, mobile and other emerging platforms. Her position informs the strategic development of Channel 4’s activities and drives the delivery of new partnerships and business initiatives across Channel 4’s brands and audiences.
An entrepreneur with 9 years experience in online advertising. John has founded and run an SEO start-up, an online ad network and an online publishing business. After the sale of Mediarun ad network to Adknowledge Inc in 2007, he now specialises in the Social Networking & Social Applications space for Adknowledge in the UK & EU. John has been a panellist at Adtech and Internet World and has written articles for NMA and other UK online magazines. John was previously an officer in the British armed forces for eight years.
Serial entrepreneur & company builder with a back ground in New Media and Venture Capital. He loves to discover and develop potential in people and businesses. Dick’s specialty is building companies with business models creating competitive advantage. He’s thrilled by the potential power of social media for brands to interact with their environment or ‘brand community’.
Rahul Chakkara, Controller TV Platforms is responsible for all new media products and services on various TV platforms including emerging IPTV platforms. He provides leadership to the product team who design, engineer, test and deliver these products and services in the BBC.
Ian Kegel heads the Future Content Group, a team of 10 researchers whose role it is to supply BT with the product ideas, technology and foresight which it needs to help its customers take full advantage of the world of digital content.
Tom Weiss is CEO of TV Genius, the company he founded four years ago to solve the growing challenge of content search and discovery in the TV space. With a strong software engineering background, Tom was previously VP of key service introduction at T-Mobile, where he was responsible for creating ARPU increasing and churn reducing programs, such as the pan-European mobile TV service for the Euro 2004 football championships. Tom has an MA in Physics from Oxford University.
Richard Griffiths is one of Europe’s leading telco TV authorities. He joined the Irish telco eircom in July 2008 as Director of TV and Entertainment after four years at BT as Director of Technology Strategy and Development of BT Vision.
Mirek has almost 10 years hands-on experience and international exposure in strategic and operational management in pay-TV and telecom in Balkans and CEE.
Robert Marsh heads up the newly established talkbackTHAMES Digital, a joint partnership between FremantleMedia Enterprises and talkbackTHAMES, providing a centre of excellence to pursue digital opportunities from new and existing FremantleMedia brands in the UK. He reports into Rupert Brankin-Frisby, Commercial Director, talkbackTHAMES and Dominic Burns, Senior Vice President, Licensing UK, FremantleMedia Enterprises.
As Head of Digital Media Studios, Pasa has been instrumental in the development and delivery of ground breaking new online formats such at Bebo’s The Gap Year and music show Beat for Bebo and Samsung.
Kevin Baughan is an experienced and innovative telecoms professional with a proven track record of delivery for both UK and European service providers. In his current role, Kevin is responsible for technical strategy across Virgin Media. He is actively involved in understanding the business opportunities resulting from new technologies and in the overall evolution of Virgin Media’s communication and entertainment portfolio. 
Immersed in digital services since the start, Nicolas Bry has worked for strategic consulting firm Braxton, and then joined SFR Cegetel as Marketing Manager, where he launched first alternative ADSL offering in 2000. He joined Club-Internet as Chief Marketing Officer, and he specifically committed in Television on demand: he completed first worldwide deployment of Microsoft TV service in 2005, and launched next-generation VOD in 2008. 
Dr William Cooper is the Founder and Chief Executive of informitv. A specialist in interactive media services across multiple platforms, he advises clients ranging from start-up companies to major corporations, providing a practical operational perspective.
Chi-chi Ekweozor is a gifted communicator with nearly 4 years experience in creating original content for the web.
Guillaume de Saint Marc is VP R&D New Initiatives at NDS for the UK and France.
Paul 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.
Dan joined Screen Digest in 2004 and played a key role in the development of the company's digital media coverage. As Head of Broadband he specialises in online content and the technical issues surrounding the distribution of digital entertainment.
Simon Spanswick is a founder director of the AIB. His career spans both public and commercial sectors and for many years he has been closely involved in digital broadcasting. 
Richard Lindsay-Davies is the chief executive officer of the Digital TV Group, with responsibility for the organisation's overall growth and development.
Triona is a director and founder of the audiovisual company Campbell Ryan Productions Ltd and Be Entertainment UK.
Damien is a relatively new addition to the telecoms sector having spent the majority of his career covering marketing and commercial roles in FMCG and retail, working for companies such as Woolworths, Homebase, Blockbuster and Britvic.
Claudio’s professional background includes operational, research and standardization roles in the ICT domain. He is coordinating Telecom Italia’s effort and contribution to the achievement of W3C Social Web Standards. He has been investigating Mobile Social Networking dynamics from both the technical and business perspective and contributing to the definition of Telecom Italia’s positioning in chasing this market opportunity. He is currently involved into several international ICT projects aimed to probe enhanced Mobile Social Networking experiences by leveraging on Mobile Operators’ assets and related exploitation opportunities.
Martin Jarrold was appointed GVF Chief of International Programme Development in June 2001. His responsibilities include outreach to the 230+ member organisations of the GVF located in 100+countries, and the further development of the profile of the Forum within the satellite communications industry, and across the global telecommunications policy and regulatory community. This extends to the development and delivery of programmes focused on understanding and promoting the use of satellite-based communications in various key vertical markets, in connection with which Martin is Chairman of the GVF Oil & Gas Communications Conference Series and the GVF Broadband Maritime Conference Series. Other vertical market Conference Series are in preparation.
Sebastian is an entrepreneur with an extensive business and corporate experience in a number of international markets.
Benjamin Schwarz has over 20 years of international experience in consulting and Telco & Media organisations.
