Programme

The 2012 Conference Agenda

Connected Home Global Summit 2012 confirms case study presentations and lessons learnt from operators and content providers who are making the Connected Home a reality.


CONFERENCE DAY ONE - Tuesday 24th April 2012

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08.30 Registration, morning coffee and light refreshments

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09.00 Chairman’s Welcome and Opening Remarks

Ted Laverty, European Representative, DLNA

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09.10 Panel Session: Driving Adoption of your Connected Home Service

• How is the Connected Home ecosystem developing?
• What is driving adoption?
• What are the biggest challenges facing service providers?
• Who will win the battle for the living room?
• How do operators position themselves to excel in this sector?
• Consumer insights into user behaviour and how to add value
• How would personalising and customising the Connected Home Mix benefit the end user?

Moderator:
Ted Laverty, a representative of DLNA & Director of World Wide Licensing, Broadcast, DTS
Panellists:
Guilhem Poussot, Head of Connected Devices, Vodafone Group Services
Sylvain Thevenot, Marketing Director, Everything Everywhere
Michel Arrede, Head of Marketing, Amdocs Connected Home
          

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10.00 Delivering the Connected Home

• How the Connected Home enhances telco ARPU Services
• Evolution of the video experience @ Home
• Real multiscreen experience
• From video services to home services
• How we simplify the Connected Home

Fabio Griffo, Head of EU Strategy Marketing & Solution Management, Huawei

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10.30 Coffee and Networking Break

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11.15 An External View of BT’s Fibre Investment Case

• Explaining BT’s competitive position relative to cable, Sky, unbundlers, OTT providers etc.
• Describing what BT can achieve with fibre
• Look at how the pricing environment is likely to develop
• What it means for competitors in terms of product competitiveness, future product development and margin
• What sort of a return BT can make from fibre and why?
• Will the same case work for other operators?

Steve Malcolm, Analyst, Arete Research

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11.50 The Impact of the Cloud on the Connected Home

Rick Schwartz, Director of Connected Home Software, PacketVideo

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12:10 Harnessing the Moving Parts of the Connected Home Service Experience for Profit, not Headaches

• How will the connected consumer manage their increasingly complex labyrinth of connected devices, content sources and services?
• What are the key technology components and business processes that are "must haves" to serve the millions of households and billions of devices?
• How can businesses educate, energize and engage the consumer to accelerate adoption of their products and services?

Melissa Simpler, CEO and Co-Founder, Affinegy

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12.40 Networking Lunch - kindly sponsored by Radialpoint

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13.40 Panel Session: The Battle for the Living Room – Game Console vs. Connected TV vs. STBs, vs Telcos vs Tablets

• Key industry challenges and opportunities in a multi-platform world increasingly shaped by new players and richer consumer interaction
• How do you tie in the TV and social networking in together to create a new and fuller TV experience?
• How will social networking play a role in how we access TV and video content – do you deliver the complete experience?
• What products will the service provider need carry to gain Connected Home market share?
• Search for the Killer Application for the Connected Home
• Will apps on your TV have the potential to become the channels of the future?

Ed Candy, Chief Technology Officer, Three UK
Sidharth Jayant, Content Service Manager, Samsung Electronics
Kerstin Mogull, Chief Operating Officer, BBC Future Media
Sarah Pearson, Managing Director, ACB Research
                 

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14.40 Smart TV and Pay-TV: Developing new revenue from connected devices

• With the proliferation of connected devices and cross-platform delivery, new business models are possible based on the collaboration between pay-TV operators and manufacturers
• How can pay-TV operators and manufacturers work together within new business models?
• What are the benefits for each stakeholder?
• Examples of collaborative projects in USA and Europe
• New innovations that lie ahead which would impact the balance of power!

Vassilis Seferidis, Director, Business Development, Samsung  Electronics

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15.15 Networking & Refreshment Break

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15.45 Accelerating a Mass Market for Connected and IPTV through Open Standards and Open IPTV Forum Specifications

• Why is such significant time and effort being invested by leading businesses, end-to-end of the IPTV value chain?
• The development of Open IPTV Forum Specifications and the OIPF Certification process
• Introducing the new OIPF initiative that enables smaller App Development and Service Provider enterprises to participate as members in Forum activities

Nilo Mitra, President, Open IPTV Forum

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16.15 Case Study: TV Multiscreen Strategy – Moving Onto New Monetisation Initiatives & Business Models

• New market trends & consumer profiles
• Moving onto a TV everywhere strategy
• Traditional pay-TV offer vs. new TV multiscreen offers
• Product roadmap
• Devices strategy

Nicolas LeCocq, Product Manager - Video Multiscreen, Telefónica Espãna

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16.45 Does the role of the TV change in connected homes?

• With a browser on the TV, we have another way to get online, to share stuff and to consume content.
• Does this change the role of the TV in the home? Should we forget about being a couch potato and plug in a mouse and keyboard?
• Or can we combine the advantages of a two-way connection with the traditional entertainment role of the TV?
• This session will present a case study of a new consumer experience on Connected TVs from a major content producer that seeks to answer these questions.

Bill Scott, Chief Operating and Commercial Officer, easeltv

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17.10 Closing Remarks from Chairman & End of Day 1's Presentations

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18.30 Pre-Dinner Drinks Reception

19:30 Connected Home Industry Awards & Gala Dinner
Connected Home 2012 delegates receive a ticket for the Connected Home Global Industry Awards & Gala Dinner as part of their ticket price





CONFERENCE DAY TWO - Wednesday 25th April 2012

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08.30 Registration, coffee and light refreshment

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09.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks

Duncan Bees, Chief Technology and Business Officer, HGI

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09.10 Panel Session: Advanced Home Gateway – Can one box rule?

• How do gateways fit in the wider home networking context?
• Functionality & services: how open should a gateway be?
• Is the market destined for fragmentation?
• Integrated vs stand-alone gateways
• Will there be a media gatekeeper to the digital home?
• Game Consoles as TV Service Gateway
• Standards activity and business models
• Importance of software, middleware and Conditional Access/Digital Rights Management
• Is there evidence that deploying a gateway would help reduce churn and further differentiate overall offerings?

Moderator:
Duncan Bees, Chief Technology and Business Officer, HGI
Panellists:
David Thorne, Chief Broadband & Access Strategist, BT Innovate & Design
Jason Wong, Director of Product Marketing, TiVo Inc.
Bill Scott, Chief Operating and Commercial Officer, easeltv
      

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10.00 Digital Feng Shui: how connectivity is shaping homes and lifestyles

• Assessing how the ‘Age of Austerity’ is impacting consumer demands and expectations
• Identifying the key services and applications enabling a digital lifestyle
• Reliance on the Cloud – benefits and risks of taking life online
• What next? How far will digiphiles take their connected lifestyles?

Denise Parkinson, Head of Entertainment, Yahoo!

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10.30 Coffee and Networking Break

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11.00 Services Beyond Entertainment

• Why British Gas is interested in Connected Homes
• The role of Energy in the Connected Home
• Why partnerships are key to success
• Lessons to date, engaging and educating customers on the smart homes

Gayle Terry, Head of Innovation Delivery, British Gas

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11.30 Case Study: Home Energy Management Overcoming the
Commercial and Technological Challenges

• The home energy management ecosystem
• What are the business models?
• How do you introduce it to the market?
• What is the value to the end user?
• Coordinating stakeholders: a viable business model for utilities and their partners
• Which standards will win?
• What’s preventing demand response?
• Market trends and driving forces – selected regional comparisons
• Understanding consumer awareness and attitudes regarding energy management
• What will the consumers pay for? A comparison across six countries

Bill Ablondi, Director – Smart Home Strategies, Strategy Analytics

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12.00 The Evolution Of Children’s Entertainment Within The Connected Home

Stephen Hodge, EVP of New Media, ToonGoggles

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12.30 Networking Lunch

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13.40 Machine-to-machine: Open yet Connected

Nataliya Gencheva, Partner Development, Deutsche Telekom AG Products and Innovation

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14.00 QIVICON - The Home Management Platform of Deutsche Telekom

Thomas Knops, Head of Marketing & Sales, Deutsche Telekom

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14.20 Roundtable Session: Future Connected Home Services

• What is the future of home entertainment?
• What will be the most lucrative future service opportunities the Connected Home
• What products will the service provider need to carry to gain connected home market share?
• Taking home entertainment out of the home; in-car and access through the cloud
• Examining the latest developments and in Smart appliances and their consumer proposition for the Connected Home
• From Home Health to a full suite of eHealth services
• Integrating Home Security into the Connected Home toolkit; lightweight home monitoring versus premium emergency services-integrated monitoring
• How will operators succeed in delivering the Connected Home
• The Smart Home ecosystem and emerging business models
• The remote home monitoring and control opportunity
• The Smart Home market, how big and how fast?

Panellists:
Bill Ablondi, Director – Smart Home Strategies, Strategy Analytics
Markus Doetsch, Head of Products & Technology, Swisscom Participations
Nick Sim, Head of Connected Home Research, BT
Dr Wenbing Yao, Head of Solution Marketing, West European Marketing, VF, Huawei
Gayle Terry, Head of Innovation Delivery, British Gas
Jordan Socran, Vice President - Business Development, Radialpoint EMEA
Christian Nord, Senior Manager, Industry Collaboration & Asset Management, Sony Mobile Communications
                           

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15.15 Panel Session: Tackling the Challenges in Delivering Content Anytime Anywhere

Featuring the Connected Home Roundtable Leaders

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16.00 Chairman’s Review of the Day and End of Conference

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