Speakers

Malika Aït Gherbi has a Masters Degree in Business Management from the I.A.E. (Paris) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Film and Audiovisual Studies from the Sorbonne, where her research focussed on the films of Nanni Moretti and Jean Eustache. After working as a lecturer and managing a cinema, she joined the staff of the A.F.C.A.E. (French Association of Arthouse Cinemas) and then worked for three years for an intercommunal authority in the Paris area. She is now chief executive of the Pôle Audiovisuel Cinéma Multimedia du Nord Parisien.

Pierre Alexandre is a writer, a journalist and a businessman. He is the founder and CEO of New York Financial Press, a media company based in Wall Street, inside the Stock Exchange.

Pierre Alexandre graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (IEP) and from IPJ, a famous french journalist school.

Pierre Alexandre is a renowned journalist and financial reporter. He is a benchmark for his profession, especially in the fields of finance and economics. His records include working with France Info, Capital, L’Express and BFM. He was also editor in chief of Strategies.

In 2000, he becomes the correspondent in Wall Street for TF1 (the first french tv channel) and later for LCI. Now, he works with France24, the worldwide news channel.

In 2005, Pierre Alexandre creates New York Financial Press (NYFP). NYFP produces on line videos with a financial content. With NYFP, Pierre Alexandre created an international and multilingual network, available in French, English, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese and German.

Nicolas Andrieu is Vice President, Worldwide Sales at Expway. He is responsible for creating strategic and tactical plans that maximize growth and development and for accelerating the company’s global expansion efforts.

Nicolas started his career in Yemen at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1995. In 1995, he relocated to Paris and joined Dassault Electronique where he was heading Middle East business development and sales for the electronic warfare products. He was hired in 1997 by Thales, the French defence electronics giant, and put in charge of the sales development for electronic and intelligence warfare in Middle East and North America.

He then joined CANAL+ Technologies in 2000, the technology arm of Vivendi Universal, as General Manager for Asia Pacific Sales and Operation. He supported and managed the sales process for several TV digital platforms in this region until the acquisition of the company in 2004. Following that and prior to joining Expway in 2005, he co-founded a company for internet VOD.

Nicolas is a graduate from the Institut Supérieur de Gestion (ISG) in Paris and holds an Executive MBA from ESSEC Business School.

Mr. Aritomi is President of Foundation for MultiMedia Communications (FMMC).

He graduated from the Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo. In 1972, he started his bureaucratic career in the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT). Since then, he filled various posts in succession for 35 years, such as Director of Computer Communications Div., Director of Communications Policy Div., Director-General of Telecommunications Bureau, and Vice-Minister for Policy Coordination of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC). In 2007, he assumed the office of President of FMMC and President of ITU Association of Japan Inc. He has been taking active parts in various international seminars and conferences as a speaker of the recent trend of ICT in Japan.

Chem Assayag is head of Business Development for Qualcomm MediaFLO technologies, covering the Europe, Middle East and African regions.

Chem is a senior executive with more than 15 years experience in the digital TV and media industries. He joined OpenTV, a leading provider of convergent media solutions, as one of its first employees in 1995 as sales manager. He then became sales and marketing director for the EMEA region before running overall EMEA operations – the largest region for the company - as General Manager until 2003.

Most recently Chem was Vice President for Sales and Business Development at NDS (France), a News Corporation company. Chem had global responsibility for managing accounts dealing with middleware technologies in the digital TV arena, as well as expanding the company’s reach in areas such as IPTV or mobile.

Chem graduated from the Lyon Graduate School of Business (EM Lyon) and holds a post graduate degree in Media Management from ESCP-EAP (Mastère Spécialisé).

Qualcomm Incorporated is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on the Company’s CDMA digital technology. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Qualcomm is included in the S&P 500 Index and is a FORTUNE 500® company traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market® under the ticker symbol QCOM.

Albert Asséraf, 48, has a master degree in information science and technical systems. He began his career in 1985 with Comecon, an outdoor advertising consultancy firm. He continued with Carat Comecon Affichage where in 1990 he was appointed Director of Studies and Tools. In 1993, he became Managing Director of Carat Expert Affichage then in 2001, Managing Director of Carat Expert Affichage and Médias Locaux.

In addition since 1994 he has taught marketing, advertising and media at UFR Communication des Entreprises at Paris XIII. Albert Asséraf is also a member of the board of IREP, a member of the board of CESP and of the CESP billboard collegiate.

He is Member of the France Management Commitee.

Gilles Babinet successfully created and managed various successful businesses as CEO. At the age of 24, he set up Absolut, a consultancy firm specializing in product design and marketing that became, under his management, a major consultancy group in its field in France. Through Absolut, Gilles was involved in the emerging Entertainment mobile market from the very beginning and sold Absolut at the beginning of 2000 to Euro-RSCG, a worldwide communications group, in order to fully dedicate himself to the creation of Musiwave. In 5 years, Musiwave has become the leading European provider of mobile music and entertainment services to telecommunication operators and media (presence in more than 17 countries throughout the world along with 30 mobile operators). Musiwave has been sold to Openwave -a public American company - for $121M in Jan 2006. Gilles serves as non executive director in the Mobile Entertainment Forum as well as in the company Digicompanion.

Christine Balian est ingénieur des mines.

Après 3 ans d’expérience à La Poste à la direction des grands comptes courrier, elle rejoint en 1997 France Telecom où elle occupera des fonctions d’ingénieur commercial et de consultant marketing stratégique sur le segment Business-to-Business jusqu’en 2005.

En janvier 2006, elle intègre l’administration à la Direction Régionale de l’Industrie, la Recherche et l’Environnement en Ile-de-France sur une fonction d’adjoint de chef de division en charge notamment des pôles de compétitivité (DRIRE).

Depuis mars 2009, Christine Balian est chef de la division développement industriel de la Drire Ile-de-France.

Guillaume Blanchot is Director of New Media at the "Centre National du Cinéma" (CNC) since 2007. Born in 1973, he graduated from French National School of Administration (Ecole nationale d’administration - ENA) in 1999. He started his career in 1999 at the French Ministry of Finance; he was in charge of economic relationships between France and North African countries, and then of agriculture trade negotiations in the WTO. He has joined the CNC in 2003 as project manager at the finance and legal affairs department. He became deputy director of new media in February 2006 and was appointed director in February 2007.

Né le 25/09/1948
Maîtrise de Droit Privé
DES Sciences Politiques
Executive MBA/HEC
Président de V C F
Vice Président de la FICAM (Fédération Française des Industries du Cinéma, de l’Audiovisuel et du Multimedia en charge du Flux Télévision

Philippe Bouquillion est professeur de sciences de l’information et de la communication à l’Université Paris 8, chercheur au Cemti et à la Maison des sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord où il est co-responsable du thème « Socio-économie de la culture et de la communication ». Ses travaux de recherche portent sur l’économie politique de la communication et, plus particulièrement, sur les industries culturelles et créatives, ainsi que sur les rapports entre communication et territoires.

Derniers ouvrages : Les Industries de la culture et de la communication. Les stratégies du capitalisme, Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 2008 ; Les Industries de la culture et de la communication en mutation (co-dir., avec Y. Combès), L’Harmattan, 2007 ; Le déploiement des technologies d’information et de communication dans les territoires (avec I. Pailliart), Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 2006.

Xavier Brachet chargé au sein de la commission technique de la Ficam de l’animation du groupe de travail « Dématérialisation ».

Diplômé en techniques audiovisuelles en 1984 de l’Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut Cambrésis. Actuellement en charge au sein de la société de post production Mikros Image de la supervision de l’exploitation ainsi que de la ligne d’affaires « Laboratoire Numérique et délivrables ». Entré au sein de cette société en 1999, il a notamment encadré un projet pilote RIAM (HDmat) portant sur la livraison « immatériel » aux diffuseurs de programmes en Haute Définition (MXF/DMS1). Après avoir participé au sein de la commission technique Ficam aux « Recommandations Techniques PAD Diffuseurs », il collabore au coté de la CST et du HD Forum à l’élaboration « des spécifications techniques des fichiers PAD » Il débute sa carrière professionnelle à Vidéo Communication France et rejoint ensuite diverses société de production en tant que directeur technique en charge des nouvelles technologies (Studio virtuel et animation 3D temps réel).

Born in 1949, an engineer by training (he earned an advanced degree in telecommunication engineering from Telecom ParisTech in 1972), Alain Chaptal is a fellow of Université Paris 8 and a researcher at both the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord (MSH Paris Nord) and LabSic Laboratory at Université Paris 13. He earned his PhD in Information and Communication Sciences from University Paris X in 1999. His research analyzes the issue of efficiency of ICT for education, comparing French and American approaches. He serves in the “Services” committee of the French Business Cluster for Digital Content Creation and Knowledge Management, Cap Digital Paris-Region.

A columnist in the AV professional press, he writes on emerging technology such as IPTV, mobile TV, compression issues or 3D Stereoscopic.

He heads the ‘Arts, Sciences, Technology’ Platform (http://plate-forme-ast.mshparisnord.org/) with a mandate to develop the relationships and foster collaboration between research laboratories and SMEs in the field of cultural industries with a special focus on AV and communication.

Philippe is Marketing Manager at Expway, in charge of mobile TV and video products. He has been involved in several mobile TV projects since joining Expway in 2005, acting as standardization manager in DVB and OMA, and as pre-sales manager for Japan.

Philippe holds an engineering degree and a Ph.D. in telecommunications from Telecom ParisTech.

David Cutts is Managing Director and co-founder of Strategy & Technology Ltd. He holds a degree in Physics from Bristol University and gained an MBA, specialising in Strategic Marketing, from the UK’s Manchester Business School. He has been closely involved with the development of digital TV since the early 1990s, working for some years on Pay-TV technology, including leading DVB’s effort on Common Interface for CA.

David was an active member of the DVB Steering Board from 1994-2004. He took a prominent role, working largely with Sun Microsystems, in the core development of MHP. He has been a member of the Council of the UK DTG since 2000 and has been concerned with strengthening its role as guardian of the technology and quality and conformance regimes for the UK DTT platform. He currently chairs a number of working groups on interactivity using the MHEG-5 standard in DTG, including the Interaction Channel Working Group, and is also a member of the DTG’s Audit Committee.

He co-founded Strategy & Technology in 1996, focusing the company on the creation and implementation of public standards. S&T provides key carousel transmission equipment to the US Cable industry and is an important actor in the interactive TV deployment in the UK.

Sébastien started his carreer in 1988 at HDM (Havas Dentsu Marsteller) where he managed clients such as L’Oréal, Crédit Agricole, Chanel, CPC ... In 1991, Eurocom, the holding company of HDM, merged with RSCG to create the largest european advertising group, and Sébastien was appointed International Media Director ; he coordinated the international clients of the Group (PSA, LVMH, France Telecom …) and participated to the creation of the worldwide join venture with Young & Rubicam : Mediapolis. Sébastien was then hired by Carat, as Client Services Director for International clients (Danone, Philips, Chanel …), where he stayed for 2 years.

In 1997, Sébastien decided to come back on the domestic market and took the position of Chief Executive Officer Zenithmedia France, and in 2002 Chief Operating Officer of the enlarged Group, ZenithOptimedia. He becomes CEO of ZenithOptimedia in december 2007 and supervise also activities for ZenithOptimedia Bénelux.

Dominique Delport, graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Lyon, is laureate of the Moot Corp MBA Entrepreneurship (Austin, Texas).

He began his career in 1994 as deputy chief-editor of TV channel M6 Lyon and was later appointed as editor-in-chief of M6 Lille. Between 1996 and 2000, he directed local and national news show “6 minutes” and oversaw the editorial staff of M6. In April 2000, Dominique joined Streampower, a cross-media production company, and became its Chairman. A specialist in the production of new media for TV, internet and mobile, Streampower has been a subsidiary of Bolloré group since October 2001.

In addition, from 2006 to 2008, Dominique Delport had a weekly TV programme, “8-FI” dedicated to new media.

He joined MPG as Chief Executive on February 1, 2006, while keeping his position as Chairman of Streampower. He was appointed CEO of MPG France in June 2006. Since February 2007, he has been CEO of Havas Media France which consists of five networks: MPG-Euromedia, Havas Digital, Havas Sports and Havas Entertainment.

At the same time, since March 2008, he is a professor at the Sciences Politiques Institute, in charge of teaching a course on “media 2.0”

In February 2009, he was appointed to the Presidency of UDECAM, which collects all the French Media Agencies.

Sylvain DELTEIL is in charge of the Media sector at Adobe France, a major software editor, a leader in digital content creation, distribution, and monetization. Working in close contact with the heads of strategy and finance in large Media groups, his mission consists of facilitating new video, web, and mobile platform use, while developing strong business relations in this key sector.

Prior to joining Adobe in 2005, Sylvain was the Sales Manager at Matrox, an industry leader in graphic solutions, for five years. Facilitating European Western countries (France Benelux & Switzerland), he helped guide client companies through several major technical and structural transitions, such as moves from Analog to Digital, from a SD to HD and the arrival of affordable postproduction tools.

For more than 15 years, Sylvain DELTEIL has been developing business in the IT landscape, acquiring a strong expertise in digital Video, RIA (Rich Internet Applications), and the media convergence to mobile devices.

Mathieu Demy is a French actor, born October 15, 1972 in Paris. He is the son of Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy. In 1999, he is named as one of the European Film Promotion’s Shooting Stars.

Renaud Di Francesco is General Manager of Sony’s Europe Technology Standards Office located in London. The areas addressed range from content to electronics and energy, environment, accessibility. Strategic technology and standards issues for the business of Sony include device connectivity (from 3G to 4G), entertainment experience (large venue cinema theatre to home and personal entertainment), new combination of services and features (beyond HD: immersive and interactive entertainment, including 3D; mobile, broadband & broadcast in the home or on the go).

As a chair of Digital Europe’s Broadcast Group he coordinates the trade association for industry wide positions and proposals on convergence, HDTV (e.g. the Digital Europe HDTV labels used on all TV sets sold in Europe, helping customers and dealers at the points of sale), 3D, digital radio (id. Digital radio labels guiding customers to products with pan-European digital reception features).

As a member of DVB Steering Board he contributes to the orientation of standardisation of converged entertainment, including television, with a global impact.

He has held positions in 5 countries and worked for companies in the semi-conductor area, in the telecommunication sector, satellite business, before joining Sony as the director of R&D partnerships for Europe in 1998. He holds a PhD from Telecom Paris, and a patent in speech coding. He has degrees from Ecole Polytechnique Paris and Telecom Paris (MSc).

ETSI is a leading ICT standards organization whose mission is to enable the emergence of global open standards for telecoms, broadcast and IT. The 700+ member companies design the work programme with their input and participation to technical committees. ETSI is located in Sophia Antipolis, France.

After holding various positions in the IT and banking industry, Margot Dor joined ETSI to launch a market intelligence unit. Since mid-06, she is working in the Director General team, in charge of strategic projects.

Margot was born and raised in Marseille (France). She graduated in Political Science and International Public Law and holds a Post-graduate Degree in strategic marketing.

Gerard FARIA is CTO and co-founder of TeamCast in Rennes, France. He graduated in 1978 from the Technical University of Paris VI (France) In 1988, he co-founded the ITIS company where he managed the R&D engineers team, conceived most of the company’s DAB and DVB products while participating to major European Collaborative Research projects focused on Digital Radio & Digital TV systems (VALIDATE, MOTIVATE, iTTi, Witness, MCP, IM4DTTV).

In 2003, Gerard FARIA with Jean-Luc PAVY & Eric SPAMPINATO, founded TeamCast, a startup Company aiming “to be the preferred partner of the Digital Broadcast actors”. Within TeamCast, Gerard participated to numerous European Collaborative Research projects focused on Mobile TV (WingTV, Mobim@ge, TVMSL, Mobile TV World, SME42) and since 2007, Gerard FARIA co-ordinate “B21C – Broadcast for the 21st Century” a large Eureka/CELTIC project involving 35 partners from 6 European countries, and working in liaison with DVB on DVB-H / DVB-SH and DVB-T2 technologies.

Gerard FARIA is the company’s representative to International conferences, Technical seminars and International Forums specifying the Terrestrial Digital Broadcast standards. Within the DVB forum, he took an active role in specifying numerous standards : DVB-H, DVB-SH and more recently DVB-T2. Gerard FARIA is also the elected Vice-President of the “Images & Reseaux” French competitiveness cluster and member of expert committees of the European Commission (FP7 projects evaluation) and the French “Agence Nationale de la Recherche” (ANR).

Rémy Fekete is a partner at Gide Loyrette Nouel. Over the past fifteen years, he has developed the Firm’s international practice in the field of law and regulations governing audiovisual, telecommunications, and Internet matters. He acts on behalf of the television industry (broadcasters, producers, distributors) and regularly advises several major telecoms groups in some forty countries across the globe. Rémy Fekete also advises numerous governments and regulatory bodies on drafting and implementing legislation, granting licences, privatising / restructuring operators, and developing new technologies. His expertise is particularly recognised by international institutions (e.g. European Union, World Bank, International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

Mr. Ferré Serge is graduated from ESSEC (Graduate School of Business Administration) (1972/major Finance & Accounting), holds a Master degree in Law (1972/major Business Law), Paris C. University, an MBA from University of Toronto, Canada (1974), and a Finance and Certificate in Investment Banking - Institute of Canadian Banking (1974).

1985-1991 : Mr. Ferré Serge Worked at BANG & OLUFSEN France as Managing Director, he was Member of Group Strategic Committees (Product Development/Distribution)

1991-2003 : he joined NOKIA France where he served as Managing Director, (Nokia Mobile Phones) and Directeur Général, Nokia SA.

2003-2006 : he was appointed in April 2003 Vice-President Strategy, Multimedia (Global)/ Infrastructure (E.M.E.A.) & Délégué Général Nokia France.

In January 2007, as Corporate Vice President, he became Head of Nokia EU Representative Office in Brussels in charge of Nokia EU Affairs.

He is also Knight in the Order of Arts & Lettres.

Gilles Fontaine is IDATE’s Deputy CEO in charge of consulting and market research, having previously headed up the Media Economics department. Prior to joining IDATE, and after a stint with the Ministry of Culture and the French radio broadcasting company SOFIRAD, Gilles worked for the national deposit and consignment office, La Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, monitoring investments in a large number of media and multimedia companies. Gilles has also been involved in developing thematic TV channel operations.

Mr. Fontaine holds a degree from the highly reputed French business school, HEC (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, 1983) and from the Institut MultiMédias (1984).

Serge Foucher has been with Sony Europe since 1990. Prior to this assignment he was deputy Managing Director of Sony France and Director of Finance of Louis Vuitton in Paris. He started his career at Winchester International in the USA and also had working experiences in Canada and Italy.

He graduated from the “Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris” in 1971 and attended the Advanced Management Programme of INSEAD in 1987.

In addition to his European responsibilities he is also Chairman of Sony France.

He received two distinctions from the French Government: “Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur” and “Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite”. Serge Foucher was also nominated Counsellor for the French Foreign Trade in 2003.

Serge Foucher is married with 3 children

In 1997 Markus Fritz joined ASTRA Marketing GmbH, Germany, as Manager for Trade Marketing & Marketing Services. After working for 2 years as Director Marketing Corporate & Electronic Banking with BFG Bank A.G, Germany, he returned to ASTRA in 2000. First as Vice President & Managing Director at ASTRA, Germany, before being appointed Vice President & General Manager, Marketing at the ASTRA headquarters in Luxembourg in 2004, where he is responsible for the Commercial Strategy & Planning, the Brand & Market Communications, the Market Research and the Strategic Market Development. In addition to the mandates above, recently, in May 2009 he has been appointed Managing Director at SES ASTRA Italy.

Markus Fritz is a member of the Executive Board of the German Consumer Electronic Association (ZVEI) and Board member of DIGITALEUROPE (former EICTA). Since May 2009 he is elected Vice President at DIGITALEUROPE. DIGITALEUROPE is dedicated to improving the business environment for the European information and communications technology and consumer electronics (ICT and CE) sector, and to promoting the industry’s contribution to economic growth and social progress in the European Union.

Graduated from La Sorbonne and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Olivier-René Veillon has been Managing Director of TV Sport (Eurosport France), first thematic multilingual channel.

He took part in the creation of ARTE as the Communication, Development and Business Director of la Sept-Arte and headed up the Managing direction of its production subsidiary ARTE/VIDEO.

As the Executive Director of TV France International, he was in charge of the promotion of French audiovisual programs on the international market. International director of Téléimages group and Deputy Managing Director of MK2, Olivier-René Veillon is now film commissioner for the Paris Region, the director of the public structure “The Ile de France Film Commission”. Besides, Olivier-René Veillon teaches at “Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris” (top French management school) and at the Ibero-american University of Mexico.

He wrote several essays on visual arts and cinema, among others “The American Cinema” (Le Seuil éditeur).

Né en mai 1969, ancien élève de l’Ecole Polytechnique (X 88) et de l’Ecole nationale supérieure des télécommunications, M. Emmanuel GABLA fut notamment chargé de mission à la direction générale des postes et télécommunications et du commerce extérieur, de 1993 à 1995. Chef de bureau affaires européennes et multilatérales à cette même direction générale, de 1996 à 1997, il fut ensuite adjoint au sous-directeur chargé des affaires internationales du service des technologies et de la société de l’information au secrétariat d’Etat à l’industrie, de 1998 à 1999. Conseiller pour les affaires industrielles, chargé des télécommunications, de la société de l’information, de la poste et des aspects industriels du marché intérieur, à la représentation permanente de la France auprès de l’Union européenne à Bruxelles (1999-2002), M. Emmanuel GABLA fut, de juillet 2002 à avril 2004, conseiller technique pour les télécommunications et la poste au cabinet du Premier Ministre, M. Jean-Pierre RAFFARIN. D’avril 2004 à juin 2005, M. GABLA fut directeur adjoint du Ministre délégué à l’Industrie, M. Patrick DEVEDJIAN. De juillet 2005 à janvier 2009 , M. GABLA fut chef du service des technologies et de la société de l’information, au sein du ministère de l’économie des finances et de l’emploi. Depuis janvier 2009, Emmanuel Gabla est membre du Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisue

After university studies at the St Mary’s College, University of London, Irish born Peter Garland joined the publishing house Whitton Press as publisher for the title IBE (International Broadcast Engineer ) at the end of the 1970’s to 1985.

In 1985 he formed his own publishing house - The Hardware Magazine Company, where he launched Broadcast Hardware Magazine and UK Network. Complementary titles like Creation, Broadband and CM3 were purchased to add to the portfolio.

From 1994 to 2001, IBC (International Broadcasting Convention) appointed him publisher of the IBC Daily News.

In order to respond to structural changes within the publishing industry, Peter launched the Web Site www.thefuture.tv coinciding with a Weekly Mailed e-Newsletter that addresses his international Database of 85,000 contacts. By giving them a link to the Unique hits to the Site (Repeats hits are not counted), advertisers can view the International Geographical Coverage www.thefuture.tv/stats_main_...

Peter is, in conjunction with Web designers and software experts, working on a very exciting new project .

Vincent Grivet, who is now 46, is a graduate from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris France) and Paris Tech Telecom.

He started his career in Orange Group as a Product Manager in the Residential Marketing group and then in the Business Services marketing. He then joined the International M&A and Development function, where he has handled several projects and investments in North America, South America and Europe. In 1998, he joined the Management Board of Mobistar (Orange Belgium) and was appointed in 2000 as Chief Executive Officer of Orange’s internet services unit in Belgium, where he led a period of high growth and the fast development of broadband services.

He joined TDF Group in 2007 as Vice President for Telecom Development, a position in which he was responsible for the strategic consolidation of TDF WiMax assets with Bolloré Telecom. In 2008, he joined TDF SAS Management Board and became responsible for the development of the Mobile TV opportunity.

Born in Paris France, François started his career in Broadcasting with TDF (Télédiffusion de France) in 1978. Technical director of Sofratev in 1985, he was responsible of big engineering projects (production center, transmitter networks…) in Middle East and African countries. From 1988 to 1994, he left the broadcasting industry for telecommunications, and was leading a paging company (TDFRS) then he became marketing manager of the international netwoks division of France Telecom. Back in the broadcasting industry in 1995, he took several managing positions in France Televisions, the French public broadcaster group. After France 3 (the regional TV network) in 1999, RFO (TV and radio in the French overseas department) from 2004 to 2007, he is currently general manager of France 2. France 2 offers a mixed-genre television service with a wide range of high quality programmes. France 2 attracts 17% of the audience and is number 2 in ratings. France 2 is broadcasted in analog and digital, in SD and HD format.

Berrnard Heger a commencé sa carrière dans l’enseignement et au ministère des finances avant d’intégrer le syndicat de l’électricité, puis il a suivi Madame Edith Cresson, en tant que conseiller technique à son cabinet, en charge des questions relatives aux affaires industrielles et à l’audiovisuel ; sa carrière s’est poursuivie à la Fédération des Industries Electriques et Electroniques et de la Communication en tant que Directeur des Affaires Economiques, avant de devenir Délégué Général du Syndicat de l’Electronique Grand Public. Il est l’auteur de nombreux articles et d’un livre sur la production audiovisuel.

Il est notamment membre de la Commission Copie Privée, article L311-5 de loi audiovisuelle.

Rhiannon Hobbins is a television producer based in Paris with Zs2 Creative.

She has worked with a wide range of international clients including the BBC, Channel 10 Australia, France 24, The Travel Channel, The History Channel, CBC Canada, Getty Images, Christian Dior, McKinsey and Microsoft.

Rhiannon has a wide range of producing skills and has produced : News, Television Series, Documentaries, Music Videos, Commercials and Corporate Communications for cross media platforms. She also produced the award-winning viral communications campaign, USB Wine.

Rhiannon also currently works as the Event Coordinator at The European Independent Film Festival held every March in Paris.

She previously worked as a feature journalist at The Bangkok Post covering a wide range of international stories throughout South-East Asia. Rhiannon studied Media and Communications at the University of Sydney.

For more than 15 years Hadmut’s consulting company specialising in b-to-b market research and business consulting is operating in convergent media and IT markets. Hadmut has let several international strategic marketing studies for telecom operators, government agencies and ministries, as well as a number of missions for vendors, communication groups and television broadcasting companies. She anticipates new content & services related business models in emerging markets. She is currently working on the purchase of companies (IT sector) and innovation for user centric knowledge and social network intense services. Having organized different colloquiums in the cross media field, she is in charge of the program coordination of the Future TV 2009 conference in Paris.

She is member of OMIC (Observatory for Changes within Cultural Industries) and belongs to the research staff of MSH Paris-Nord (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris-Nord) that federates several French and international universities around projects in the field of creative and cultural industries.

With a DEA degree (research master) in philosophy from the University of Paris-I (Panthéon - Sorbonne), she teaches furthermore communication sciences at the University Paris 13. Hadmut speaks French, English and German fluently.

Dr. Klaus Illgner-Fehns received his diploma degree in electrical engineering with an emphasize on communications engineering at Aachen University of Technology, Germany, in 1991. Subsequently he got employed as a research assistant at the Institut for Communications Engineering, RWTH Aachen, where he conducted research in the area of digital image processing, and coding and transmission of digital video. In January 1998 he earned a doctorate with summa cum laude in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen for his thesis on "Scalable Video Coding".

The development of algorithms for processing of digital images in digital cameras and the implementation on specifically designed DSP based embedded systems on chip, as well as contributions to the design of those chips were the main topics of his work at Texas Instruments, Dallas, USA.

In July 2000 Dr. Illgner joined Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, in Munich, where he was responsible for a team developing new technologies in the field of multimedia communications in heterogeneous networks. Technologies for the utilization of networks with new service concepts, in particular including broadcast, were on the agenda. As a technical consultant he supported at management level the development of a company position on mobile broadcast and got the company involved in the relevant technical fora.

In November 2004 he was appointed managing director of the Institut für Rundfunktechink (IRT), Munich. As research institute of the public broadcasters in Germany, Austria and Switzerland the main focus is on building up strong expertise in new broadcast and media technologies but also telecommunications knowledge. IRT’s aim is to support the European broadcast community in technical issues including the economical impact on the market. In parallel he started to position the IRT internationally as a research and technology company.

Jean-Luc Jaquier is Vice-President at Nagravision, in charge of the Mobile Product Line worldwide, covering product strategy, product management and global mobile business.

He launched the Mobile TV product in 2005, pioneering Conditional Access and Digital Rights Management technologies for DVB-H, deploying with the first DVB-H Mobile TV commercial rollouts in Italy with H3G, Vodafone and TIM. In 2008, the solution was selected by the Chinese government for their nationwide Mobile TV rollout over CMMB broadcast technology.

Prior to this, Jean-Luc was responsible for the new markets at Nagravision, where he launched Nagravision’s IPTV and PCTV initiatives, with both cardless and card-based service and content protection solutions.

Jean-Luc holds an engineering degree in micro-technologies from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technologies (EPFL) and an Executive Management education from IMD in Lausanne.

Born on September 7th, 1950, in San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina. Graduated from National University of Cordoba, Faculty of Law.

Career development: Lawyer; Legal Affairs Manager at Bank of Jujuy, Vice-President of the Lawyers Association of Banks County; Manager of Televisora Provinciales; Director of Television Federal (TELEFE); President of Radiovisión Jujuy

Public work:
Provincial Congressmen (1995 - 1999);
National Congressmen (1999 - 2001) Member of the Committee on Freedom of Expression, Communications, Constitutional Affairs, Economy and Finance; National Senator (2001-2005) Member of the Committees on Communications (Chairman), Constitutional Affairs, Budget, Defense, Agriculture, Health and Sports;
National Senator (2001-2005) Member of the Committee on Freedom of Expression and Communications(Chairman), Foreign Affairs (Vice-Chairman), Constitutional Affairs, General Legislation, Budget and Finance, and Agreements;
Member of Trial Jury of the Council of Magistracy;
Member of the Mercosur Parliament (2006 - 2011) member of the Committees on Legal and Institutional Affairs (Chairman), and Budget;

Charles JUSTER is Director of Communication at Médiametrie.

Graduated from the Marketing and Advertising School (EFAP), he spent his career in the fields of advertising, IT industry and financial institutions. Since 1998, he joins the French inter-professional company of audiovisual and interactive medias audiences measurement.

He was also nominated President of the Information Press & Communication Association (IPC).

He is member of the EFAP Council and is taking active parts in various conferences and forums of several High Schools and Universities in France.

Ingénieur de l’Industrie et des Mines, Etienne Kalalo a débuté sa carrière à Sogea/Satom (Groupe Vinci) en tant qu’adjoint au directeur des travaux dans un projet international d’exploitation pétrolière. En 2001, il rejoint l’administration au sein de l’Autorité de sûreté nucléaire où il a la charge notamment du projet « Harmonisation-Réacteurs WENRA ». Depuis 2006, il est chargé de mission développement industriel à la DRIRE Ile-de-France, en charge du suivi du pôle de compétitivité Cap Digital.

Executive Director of Cyber Solutions Laboratory, Vice President NTT holding company.

He has a unique experience in NTT from the solid state physics of the magnetic thin film to the multimedia services.

From 1994 to 1999 he worked with NTT America as a vice president and general manager at IP HQs in the area of creating and promoting the Internet business both in US and in Japan. He coordinated ISP and Backbone between US and Japan.

He is now leading the IPTV service and technology development. He is now also Professor at University of Tokyo.

He has been a number of chair and member at Government committee which includes RFID regulation, IPR issue, Broadband Content Distribution, and Web Archive project. He now belongs to the committee of much government.

Janine Langlois-Glandier has filled many roles in the French television industry.

From 1980 to 1985, Janine Langlois-Glandier managed the SFP and the cinema subsidiary SFPC. From 1985 to 1990, she has been president of France 3 and La Sept, and of the INA (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel).

She was a producer, managing Pathé with Jérôme Seydoux in the 1990s. In 1994, Janine Langlois-Glandier founded Pathe Interactive. She is a former member of the CSA (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel), the high council for regulation of the French TV business.

Since 2004, Janine Langlois-Glandier is the President of the French Mobile TV Forum. The Forum TV mobile (Mobile Television Forum) brings together over 50 organizations in France. The creation of the Forum in 2004 was an initiative of the French Industry Ministry. The Forum, where ideas are shared and compared, seeks to promote mobile television that uses both broadband telephone systems and broadcasting networks. To know more about the Forum, please visit www.forum-tv-mobile.com

Jean-Bernard is former founder and pdt of FON in France. He’s now heading towards radio and journalism. After 54 years of intensive research he still doesn’t know if it’s Eric Clapton or Jeff Beck, The Rolling Stones or The Yardbirds, Dr.Dre or Jay Z. He might choose Clapton but still thinks Jeff Beck’s "Truth" is a fantastic album; he might choose the Rolling Stones but "Five Live Yardbirds" is one of his own personnal favourites; he might choose Dr.Dre but he loves Jay Z’s "Minority report". Still searching and kicking though... That’s who Jean-Bernard really is!

Matteo Maggiore is the BBC’s Group Controller of International Policy since January 2008. Matteo established the BBC’s European Affairs office in Brussels in 1992. He subsequently worked as reporter and producer for BBC News in Belfast (1993), then returned to Brussels as European Affairs Manager. In 1996 he moved to London as Head of European Affairs. Between 1998 and 2000 he worked at the EBU in Geneva as Deputy Director of Television, and between 2000 and 2001 he was Director of Media and Telecommunications with the Grayling consultancy. He rejoined the BBC in 2001 as Head of European Policy. Before 1992 Matteo worked as an international relations lecturer and researcher in Rome (1983-1984), as journalist and documentary producer in Berlin (1984-1988), with the European Commission MEDIA Programme (1988-89), and in the European Parliament (1989-1992), working on EU media policy and external relations.

Elizabeth Markevitch lives and works in Berlin. With over 20 years experience, she has served in many roles across the industry : as a consultant for private collectors ; head of the art fund, Artemis ; founder and head of the art advisory department of J. Henry Schröder Bank ; and senior manager of the paintings department at Sotheby’s Geneva.

In 1999 Elizabeth was one of the co-founders of eyestorm - an online gallery that for the first time made contemporary art accessible to an entire new audience.

Since, she has been focusing on building up new ways in order to deal and show art differently. The 46664 - 1 Minute of Art to Aids project brought to life the very first example of this concept by commissioning world’s leading artists one minute film representing their vision on HIV/AIDS (46664, The Event).

In 2006 she founded the innovative art television ikono.tv ; a High Definition television channel exclusively dedicated to the presentation of the visual arts. With its unique concept ikono.tv conquers the medium of television to become an alternative art exhibiting platform.

Graduated from higher school of advertising (Sup de Pub - Paris), Stéphane Martin, 42, is the Executive Director of the Syndicat National de la Publicité Télévisée - SNPTV (French Television Advertising National Trade Association) since 1998, after 8 years within the Marketing Direction of the #1 European Outdoor Advertising Group, Avenir.

Vincent Marcatté is Chairman of the "Images & Réseaux" worldclass cluster and is also Vice-President at Orange Labs.

Vincent is graduated from ESIGElec and ESSEC Executive MBA Program. He contributed to the creation of the first ISP platform of France Telecom and was representative of France Telecom at the W3C. He was Director of a R&D Lab aiming at the convergence of the Web and the TV worlds and he is was involved in the creation of 3 spin-off companies aiming at delivering Video, Rich Media and Web cutting-edge solutions (Envivio, Streamezzo, WokUp). He was then Vice-President at Orange Labs in charge of Technologies and he is now Vice-President in charge of Transformation programs.

Francisco Medeiros received an Engineering Degree (Electronics), a M.Sc. Degree (Telecommunications) and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of London (University College London) in 1981.

He was awarded the “Barlow Prize” by University College London for the most original contribution to research in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering during the academic session 1982/1983. He was a “Fulbright Scholar” in 1983 and an “ITU Fellow” in 1984 with the United States Telecommunications Training Institute (Washington DC).

In 1986 he joined the Radio Frequency Technology Division of ERA Technology Ltd, an independent research organisation based in Leatherhead (UK), where he worked on design and development of high performance reflector antennas and microwave & millimetre wave components and systems. He joined NEC Europe (London) in 1990 and became General Manager of its Telecommunications Technologies Division in 1996.

Francisco Medeiros joined the European Commission in 2000, where he has been with the Information Society and Media Directorate General, initially working on regulatory aspects in the areas of 3rd generation mobile communications. Later, he worked on the R&D side of the Commission services in the area of mobile & satellite communications. More recently, he has moved to the area of Networked Media Systems, where his current interests include "3D media and immersive experiences".

Francisco Medeiros is the Coordinator of the 3D Media Cluster of research projects, currently involving ten projects funded by the EU through its 7th R&D Framework Programme.

Jean-Dominique Meunier joined Thomson in 1989 as a specialist in sourcing and later worked in a variety of fields that included business development and R&D.

A recognized expert in international cooperative R&D, Jean-Dominique Meunier co-founded a joint public/private regional research cluster focused on Media and Networks in northwestern France in 2005 ((www.media-and-networks.com). He was named Director of Thomson Cooperative Programs in 2007 and became Executive Director of NEM (Networked and Electronic Media, www.NEM-initiative.com), a European Technology Platform.

He holds degrees in engineering and in business management.

Jean-Louis Missika has been successively Adviser to the President of the French public broadcaster Antenne 2 (1979-1984), Research Director at the Prospective Research Department of the INA (National Institute of radio and television) (1985-1986), Editor of the journal Médiaspouvoirs (1986-1988), Head of the Prime Minister Information Service (1988-1991), Director at the General Management of the Groupe de la Cité (1991-1993), Executive Vice-president and Managing Director of the SOFRES Media Department (1993-1995), Managing director of pollster BVA (1995-1998) and Vice-président of ILIAD (2007-2008).

In August 1998, Jean-Louis Missika created JLM Conseil, a consulting firm focused on three complementary activities : strategic consulting for media clients, socio-political studies, and corporate communication strategy. JLM Conseil has been part of the Altedia Group since April 2001. Altedia is a leading French consulting group specialising in corporate communication, corporate reengineering and human resources.

Jean-Louis Missika has been teaching Media Sociology since 1984 at the Post-Graduate Political Science Department of the Paris Institut d’Etudes Politiques.

Satoshi Miyaji is now a manager of FMBC network planning office, KDDI Corporation, Japan. He is responsible for future planning and prototype development of the next generation multimedia services taking advantage of KDDI’s Fixed, Mobile and Broadcasting Converged (FMBC) networks. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics and communications engineering from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan in 1993 and 1995, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2006 in his study of video transmission over IP networks.

He joined KDD (Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co., Ltd., currently KDDI Corporation) in 1995. He has worked in the Research and Development Laboratories of KDD. As an expert in digital video coding and video transmission over IP networks, he has developed a variety of innovative technologies such as video transmission over IP networks, very low bit-rate video encoding technology, objective video quality evaluation system, advanced applications for STB, and so on.

Since 1998, he began participating in ITU-T SG 9. In 2001, he was appointed as a Rapporteur for Question 11/9 "Requirements and methods for sound and television transmission over IP networks for purposes of contribution, primary distribution and secondary distribution (webcasting)." Since 2008, he has been a Vice Chairman of ITU-T SG 9 and Chairman of Working Party 1 of SG 9.

Jean-Pierre Mocky (born July 6, 1929) is a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. He appeared as an actor in the 1955 film Gli Sbandati and in many other movies, among which a lot of the films he also directed.

Keiya Motohashi has been working for promotion of terrestrial and satellite digital broadcasting in Japan and engaged in expanding internet-related service of NHK during this decade.

In 1982, he graduated department of political science, Faculty of Law, Keio University and joined NHK, Japan’s sole public service broadcaster. After working as news reporter and TV producer for current affairs’ programs in its local stations, he produced kids dramas and interactive contents in educational department of NHK Tokyo.

In 1990, he stayed in Rome for 4 months for producing long-hours’ special live programs related Italian culture and covering ‘World Cup football game, ITALIA90’, and the next year, launched NHK’s international TV broadcasting service in New York and then he has been continuously engaged in expanding transnational TV service via satellite and its digitization.

Graduated from Polytechnique School and National Superior School of Telecommunications, Bernard Pauchon joined the O.R.T.F. in 1974, and subsequently the S.F.P. (Société Française de Production) in 1975, one of the companies resulting from the split of the O.R.T.F.

There, he was in charge of Engineering of studios and post production, and participated in future strategic planning. That included the responsability of the first French production in HDTV presented at the Montreux Television Symposium in 1983.

In 1984, he joined TDF as Deputy Director International where he had to lead for French broadcasters and audiovisual authorities the international negociations for HDTV, DAB and DVB standards within the ITU process. In parallel, he was Vice-Chairman of the EBU Technical Committee and Chairman of the JTC EBU/ETC.

From 1994 to 1998, he was appointed General Manager of Cognacq-Jay Image, a facility house, subsidiary of TDF, providing services of playout, production and post-production which became the leader in France in this activity.

From 1999 to 2003,he was Director of the Digital Cinema program of France Télécom’s Division Entreprises Audiovisuelles (that included TDF and GlobeCast).

In 2004, he has been appointed Senior Vice President for the Development of Broadcast Services to Mobile Devices at TDF, and was Vice-Chairman of the bmco forum.

Since 2008, he has been appointed Senior Vice President Global Media, in charge of International Partnerships and TDF Group coordination for DTT, Mobile TV, Digital Radio, Digital Cinema, Contribution and Distribution and Multimedia (including Internet Delivery, IPTV and Playout facilities), including spectrum management related to these business lines.

He represents TDF at the steering Committee of the DVB consortium and at DigiTAG, where he chairs the Task force on the Digital Dividend and the future of the Digital Terrestrial Platform.

Jacques Peskine débute sa carrière en 1971, en intégrant l’INSEE. En 1979, il devient conseiller à l’Office Central de Statistiques (OCEI) à Caracas, puis, de retour à Paris en 1981, il met en place le bureau des statistiques de la protection sociale dans le cadre du Ministère de la Solidarité. Il s’oriente ensuite vers l’audiovisuel en devenant, de 1982 à 1985, le directeur administratif et financier de TF1. Il assure ensuite la direction générale de plusieurs groupes audiovisuels tels que Créativité & Développement, Syncom SA et AB Productions, en étant, parallèlement président de l’USPA (1988-1993). En 1994, il en devient le délégué général. De 2001 à 2003, il est secrétaire général de GMT et à nouveau président de l’USPA (2002-2003). Depuis 2004, il concilie la délégation générale de l’USPA, l’enseignement (Economie de l’audiovisuel à l’Université Paris I et au CEFPF), et la présidence de la Fédération des Entreprises du Spectacle vivant, de la musique, de l’audiovisuel et du Cinéma (FESAC).

Sascha Quillet started his career with his diploma thesis in media informatics at RTL Germany, where he started to develop applications and tools for IP based news exchange and Mpeg2 IP Stream monitoring. In 2006 he moved to the technical provider of RTL Group in Luxembourg where he finished his Master degree in Computer Science, at this position he invented new systems designs and applications for news, media management and playout. Since 2008 he leads the Research and Development team at BCE, the team developed Newslink for exchanging news worldwide over internet, Movie2me a very fast system to move HD video files through internet and D.Playout, a 4 channels server playout and recovery system.

A graduate in mathematics, he began his career at France Telecom in 1981 in the field of public infrastructure networks. In 1986, he joined IBSI consultancy within an entity that is independent from the head office, in order to set up the AUSY group. In 1994, he co-founded ITEMS International in order to develop strategic consulting activities in the ICT sector.

Among many other consulting activities for private companies, public institutions and local authorities, Hervé worked in 2005 with a Software vendor on a strategy to develop an Open Source framework in TV Platforms. Between 2007 and 2009, he carried out two major projects in the TV sector. He started a TV project for a media company including: TV concept definition, strategy, business plan, application for license. For a consortium of local authorities, he launched an Internet TV based project.

More generally, he had carried out many strategic studies in the field of telecommunications, Internet infrastructures, TV and software industry including: due diligence, marketing studies, business plans, services for citizens …In 2008, he assisted the French Government in the framework of the French Presidency of European Union to organize an EU Presidency Conference combined with a Ministerial Conference on the “Internet of the Future – Internet of Things”. In 2009, he assisted the European Commission in order to define a new Europe Strategy in the Software sector. Hervé is also managing an Internet TV project for a national channel.

Since 2006 : LG Electronics ; Business Development and Standardisation Manager Europe

1995 – 2006 : STELLA COM Germany ; General Manager, Business Development for the TV and satellite networks and TV studios of Mercedes-Benz (formally Daimler-Chrysler) Consulting for the private broadcasters Germany Satellite B2C networks Regulatory issues for the German Regulator Consultancy on DMB, DVB-H, HDTV, TV-Networks, Satellite Networks, etc. for several institutes and companies

1992 – 1994 : RTL Television ; Business Development for Broadcasting Networks for the TV channels RTL and RTL2

1988 – 1991 : Deutsche Telekom Darmstadt ; Responsibility for Satellite Communication for the broadcasters (TV and Radio)

1984 – 1987 : University Koblenz/Munich for Electronic Science

since 2003 : Administrator, European Commission, Digital Broadcasting
2002-2003 : Administrator, European Commission, Access and Interoperability
1997-2001 : Deputy head of section BNetzA (German Telco Regulator)
1996-1997 : Online-designer, Internet content-provider
1996 : Thesis on Network Externalities, Doctor of Economics, Technical University Munich
1990-1995 : Assistant professor, Technical University Munich

Prior to joining Dailymotion in the summer of 2007, Martin was head of the multimedia unit at the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. He also was in the staff of Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, France’s Minister of Culture and Communication where he was an advisor for the Minister on video games (creation of a state aid), intellectual property and digital rights (transposition of EU Copyright Directive). From 2000 to 2003, Martin Rogard was VP of Creation at Vibes, a video game development company.

Born in 1949, Pascal Rogard graduated in public law at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. He started is prodessional career with the creation of a theatre compagnie. From 1981 to 2003, he held various positions within professional organisations and in particular :

General Secretary of the trade union Chambre Syndicale des Producteurs et Exportateurs de Films Français ; General Secretary of the C.I.C.C.E. (Commission of Film and Audiovisual Industries within and outside the European Community) ; General Delegate of the A.R.P. (Authors, directors and producers’ society)

On 1 January 2004, Pascal Rogard was appointed Director General of the Society of Authors and Dramatic Composers. Since July 2005, he is President of the Lecturing Comity of the Commission for Audiovisual Production Support in the Rhône-Alpes region.

He received the following national distinctions : Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, Officier de l’Ordre du Mérite National and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.

Régis Saint Girons is leading OpenTV Sales and Professional Services activities in Europe. Prior to this, Regis was responsible for all OpenTV application business initiatives and activities throughout the world, as the Executive Vice President of OpenTV’s Application Business. Regis is a founding member of OpenTV and has established OpenTV in Europe as the leader in middleware and interactive television solutions.

He participated to the creation of OpenTV in 1995 from Thomson Multimedia which he joined in 1982. At Thomson he spearheaded the home computer division hardware development team, and oversaw Thomson’s research lab in Los Angeles. At that time, he was the Thomson leader for the MPEG standardization activity.

Saint Girons holds an engineering degree in electronics from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Toru Sano is head of business development of Mobile TV in Japan. He is now a chairman of mobile TV committee of DPA which is official organization of digital broadcasting in Japan membered by all mobile operator, all major manufacturer and all TV broadcaster.

He has over 8 years experience of mobile telecom and internet business industries at Mitsui & Co., ltd which is the biggest global business enabler in Japan.

He worked at 3 years at Vietnam Hanoi office as assistant general manager for Asian telecom industries. And he moved Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV) which is the first and biggest TV station in Japan as a business coordinator in 2000, then he became a leader of all TV broadcaster of Mobile TV Business in Japan and to be a negotiator and coordinator with all mobile operator from 2001. After Mobile TV launched on 1st April 2006, we successfully got perfect penetration and business. Mobile TV terminals has already sold more than 61million on June 2009.

Prof. Dr. Claus Sattler studied Computer Sciences. He worked 17 years in a scientific institute developing OSI network software. From 1991 – 2003 he was with Eutelis Consult GmbH in Ratingen, a consultancy for telecommunications and value-added services, during the last years as a managing director. From May 2003 until September 2004 he worked as the Broadcast_Mobile_Convergence project manager in Berlin, managing the first worldwide DVB-H pilot over a public broadcast network. Now he is working as the Executive Director of the bmcoforum, an international industrial relations activity to accompany and support the development of an open market environment for mobile broadcast services.

Rodrigo Sepúlveda Schulz, 38, is the co-founder and CEO of vpod.tv, an award company enabling corporations to create their own Internet TV channels on any device. Recent customers include GDF Suez, L’Oréal, Danone, Leroy Merlin, BNPParibas, BancSabadell, SFR, Ono…

Previously, he was the co-founder and managing partner of RISC Partners, a seed-stage investment boutique, where he was instrumental in the successful launch of glowria, a leading online DVD rental and VOD service, serving as interim CEO. In 2004, he also led the mobile strategy team for AOL Europe. Earlier, Rodrigo was a principal with Gemini Consulting, and a manager (founder of the e-business practice) at KPMG Consulting France, leading large scale European e-commerce and media projects. He started his career as a consultant to the European operations of Intel and Novell.

Rodrigo is a Computer Science Engineer from EPITA, a graduate from the Sorbonne MBA (IAE de Paris), and holds an MBA from INSEAD. He is a Chilean national, and settled in France over 20 years ago.

Michael Sharpe received his PhD from the University of Essex in the UK. Since then, he has worked at BBC Television, Ford Motor Company and the UK Radiocommunications Agency before joining ETSI in 1995.

Michael Sharpe is presently the Vice President of ETSI Standardization Projects, responsible for support to standardization activities carried out by ETSI Technical Committees, and for liaison with key regulatory bodies (e.g. the European Commission, the European Conference of Post & Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT), partner standards bodies (in particular CEN & CENELEC) and market organisations (e.g. TETRA Association, DECT Forum)).

Antoine Simkine is a co-founder and ex CEO of the internationally renowned visual effect company Duboi were he was involved as a visual effect executive producer on over 100 films including “Alien Resurrection” or “Amelie”. He also supervised the creation of the Duboicolor digital film lab, the first laboratory to propose a full digital intermediate service.

Since 2004, he’s an independent film producer and has joined the ACE program (Ateliers du Cinéma Européen). His next films are all European co productions.

I obtained a masters degree in Architecture at the Technical university of Delft, followed by a short career as an architect. After this I fulfilled several senior management functions in internet and media related companies. The past 9 years I have worked on innovation in telecom in an international setting. Area’s of work included mobile internet, i-mode, location based services, Standard and alliances, integrated messaging, DRM, Mobile TV, Media distribution, Advertisement, Presence and IPTV. I work as senior innovation manager for KPN, chair the board of the BMCO Forum and was recently elected to chair the MCD Technical committee in ETSI.

Frédéric Sitterle, graduated from EFREI (French School of Electronic and Computing) and the internationally renowned French Business School ESCP, started his career with Exodus Communications in the Silicon Valley in 1996. He then conducted Internet activities within the French Football Federation (1996-1998). In 1998, he created Sport24.com (a sports information website), which he headed in 2000. Financed by Dassault Development and Innovacom (France Telecom) the company was bought by the press group Figaro in 2005. Frédéric Sitterlé was then named Head of the Group’s New Media department. He led the Figaro’s Internet activities and coordinated external growth operations (AG Presse, Evene, Ticketac). Backed by this success, Frédéric Sitterlé has turned Group Figaro’s consultant, in charge of strategy, prospective and digital developments. Since October 2007, with the Group Figaro’s support, he is developing a new Internet project and cofounded in 2008 The Skreenhouse Factory and launched mySkreen.com in June 2009.

Tom Togsverd is Director of ITEK, the Confederation of Danish IT Industries, Copenhagen, since 1999. Prior to this, he worked as Senior Manger in the IT industry, Børsen, Copenhagen (1998 – 1999). He used to be Associate Director of Tele Denmark A/S, group management from 1994 to 1998. Between 1990 and 1994, he headed the Department “Danish Agency for governmental Management” in the Ministry of Finance. Prior to this, he had several functions within the Danish Ministry of Finance as Planning Manager in the Budget Department (1984 – 1989), Head of Budget Department (1980 – 1984), Administrator of the Budget Department (1976 – 1979). Tom started his career as Researcher (Ph.D Scholar) at the Technical University of Denmark, Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Operation Analysis (IMSOR) from1973 to 1976.

Member of the Telecommunications Council (from 1995-98 and again since 1999), Tom Togsverd holds a Ph.D. degree from the Institute for Mathematical Statistics and Operation Analysis (1976) and teaches also as Censor at the MBA program Global e-Management at CBS in Denmark since 2001.

Tun Van Rijswijck, born in 1960, married 2 children, has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of BCE in January 2002. He started his career as Industrial Engineer in 1983 at RTL Productions, where he became Head of Technical Operations in 1996. At CLT-UFA, the mother company of RTL Productions, he started in 1996 as responsible of the “Film & Tape Operations” department. When in 2000, BCE was created as a merger of different technical entities of the RTL Group, he became in charge of all the Production & Broadcasting activities in Luxembourg.

Henri Verdier is the Chairman of the Board of Cap Digital, the French European Cluster for Digital Content located in Paris Region.

Cap Digital gathers 500 SME, 20 big companies and more than 200 research laboratories in the fields of videogames, movies, SFX, robotics, data-mining, e-learning, web 2.0, free software or digital music. It blends a mix of start-ups and industry leaders, and invests more than €200M a year on R&D.

Aside from this position, Henri Verdier was the founder Director of "Edition Odile Jacob Multimedia," a publishing company in the field of e-learning, and the Executive Adviser for Innovation at Lagardère Group.

He his now the Director of Prospective for the Institut Telecom, and the CEO of Aliscans, a Consultancy Company.

Henri Verdier is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Biology and Social Sciences.