How to prosper in the new TV ecosystem?

Assessing the benefits for A-la carte TV packages

The implications from offering content online vs via pay TV services for content owners

The importance of content bouquets for customer appeal

What can be done to increase the consumer service uptake?

The latest efforts at Magyar Telecom to achieve service excellence

IP networks to offer extensive creative freedom

The leadership of studio brands in content appeal

Protecting your brand by offering premium content

Expanding on portfolio of partners to extend content reach

Future strategies for premium content offered via Internet

How will content creation help multimodal programme watching through interactivity?

Creating immersive worlds to drive extended exposure to favourite programmes

Advertising as an important part of the new content production

Social media used for content recommendation

How to optimise distribution across different platforms?

The appeal of mobile TV and OTT offerings for the content producer

Looking at how studios, channels and OTT platforms analyse the rights territories

Recognising the early release windows for increased revenues through VoD

Launch plans for new branded channels and challenges of existing ones

Increasing returns through versatile services

Adding value to user subscription through unique products

Creating your business case based on the market feedback

The importance of the market knowledge to help attract higher viewer base

Opportunities for talent contetsts, sports, reality Tv and game shows

Taking voting, poling, and quizzes to the next level

Twitter feed aggregation and live rating in real time

Overcoming advertising revenue dips via micropayment offering

Monetising Online content through a range of pay systems

The importance of getting the consumer proposition right for successful launch

Leveraging unique social channels and word of mouth to deliver benefits

Benefiting from higher conversion rates and average spend per user

Achieving enhanced user experience through safe and easy payments

Expanding global reach by rolling out in new countries

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Changing the way the consumer engages with the programme

Adapting to real time responses of consumers on other devices

Integrating social media networks into long term strategy

Targeting the modern consumer through a transmedia marketing strategy

Positioning Comcast as more than a cable operator to the modern consumer

Partnering with the major broadcasters to drive innovation in the multi-screen home

Giving the consumer greater freedom in how they choose to consume content via Comcast services

Producing hybrid content for the companion screen

Speaker to be announced, Chunghwa, Taiwan

Assessing strategies to encourage the consumer to interact with the viewing experience

Analysing whether broadcasters should be planning for a dual screen viewer demographic

Anticipating the growth on convergent strategies

Exploring the potential future advertising revenues device interaction brings

Understanding how Shazam are creating a paradigm shift in the way viewers engage

Exploring the commercial opportunities of a transmedia app

Giving the consumer the incentive to use the app through digital sweeteners

Assessing the role of Sky news app as a game changer in the industry

Understanding the power of the app to drive viewing figures

Taking advantage of the dual screen focus of our applications

Understanding the possibility of integrating the companion screen into the programme

How can you embrace the dual screen in established programmes?

Creating synergies between devices for a real time user experience

Embracing disruptive technologies in order to evolve brand perception

Encouraging the use of the companion screen to interact digitally with sporting events

Explaining the innovative approach of the Heineken Star player app

Delivering an interactive consumer experience that adds to the sporting experience

Targeting a specific demographic in order to build brand awareness

Converging gaming and the viewing experience

Assessing how broadcasters need to evolve, with the changing nature of the home and the consumer

Can the second screen engage more than disrupt?

Will the impact of the second screen impact on programming strategies for popular entertainment?

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Maximising results through effective business model management

Optimising technology to provide optimal content discovery and recommendation

Flexible Rights Management issues

Advocating a unified user interface and operatorbranded UI across multiple screens

Providing high-end subscribers with access to a broad range of services including VOD, catch-up TV, widgets, DVR functionality and recommendations

Incorporating tablets and second screens and how this will change the UI and EPG moving forward

Calling for extension and centralisation of metadata, removing silos associated with different services and delivery types

Utilising the UI to increase brand loyalty, prevent churn and keep customers long-term

Italia 2’s Social TV application, driving content discovery for viewers

Increasing the personal element by enabling audiences to comment on shows

Shifting from the wisdom of crowds to the wisdom of friends – making the people brand ambassadors for content

Why relying on social channels as a means for discovering content - whether it's on a PC, mobile device, or TV - is rapidly on the rise

Utilising IntoNow's technology to check-in to what a consumer is watching, engage in conversations, and find related content

What do viewers at home expect and how can service providers accommodate their needs most effectively?

Encouraging user-generated content and reviews

Reducing churn through ensuring better discovery, better viewing and better quality of experience for viewers

Creating an EPG which reorders itself depending on what others are watching

Enabling instant analytics as people move from channel to channel

Integrating with Facebook and Twitter into the new EPG for a more social viewing experience

Highlighting interactive programming such as PCCW’s mass market quiz viewer participation games

The challenge of synchronizing content and apps across all devices

Incorporating a number of changes to PCCW’s EPG to make content discovery easier, including panels involving recommendations

Call for dynamic customer profiling to understand and serve consumers better

The Need for Traditional EPG Grid to Catch Up with the Fast-Moving UI Revolution

Why EPGs are starting to use enhanced, rich TV metadata, with high resolution photos and what effect this is having

Making content discovery more effective for viewers at a personal level

Making the EPG a valuable proposition for advertisers as it becomes more responsive, interactive and personalised

Operators degrading the picture quality of their content in order to transport the video correctly across the DSL line

Access capacity enhancement to maximise video throughput

Increased bandwidth consumption caused by feedback mechanisms in intelligent streaming technologies

STB technology that can render SD streams in quality approaching that of HD

STB affordability issues for low-bandwidth DSL networks in developing markets

The need for DSL operators to deliver more flexible and differentiated IPTV services, rather than trying to replicate incumbent cable/DTH operators’ business models

Arnet Play – allowing Telecom Argentina to offer entertainment content to its more than 1.5 million broadband subscribers

Issues for OTT TV provided by a telco, from customer experience to sales channels

Technology challenges on every level

Investing in tactical QoS to ensure delivery of OTT adaptive streaming through network gateways

The need for flexible, high-quality encoding for live IIS Smooth Streaming and other adaptive bitrate technologies

Investigating how HTTP adaptive bitrate streaming content can be delivered directly to internetconnected televisions

Delivering increasing volumes of OTT content to consumers on a variety of devices – suitability of adaptive streaming technology for mobile video delivery (3G, 4G, WiFi)

Ensuring that solutions to dynamically adapt video are themselves flexible enough to adapt rapidly to changes in the market

Moving away from IT and Network domains, towards a third domain

Analysing the OTT providers’ delivery and how this can be leveraged by operators

How different SDPs interact between each other

Examining architecture and protocols for IPTV applications

Inter-destination media synchronisation as an IMSbased IPTV enabler

WIMS 2.0 - converging telecom and Web 2.0 technologies to generate a new breed of innovative, appealing and user-centric applications

Standardised interfaces and architectures provided by IMS and SDP can accelerate IPTV development and deployment with minimum impact on operations and network resources

Decreasing duplicative functions (billing, digital rights management and asset management) while exploiting the inherent advantages of a standardised IP infrastructure in the core

Enabling the development of applications that integrate IPTV, voice and mobile services so each of them adds to the value of the other, such as:

Business models for the deployment of multimedia applications over broadband IP networks