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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
08.30 Registration, morning coffee and light refreshments
09.00 Chairman’s Welcome and Opening Remarks
09.10 Operator 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?
Ted Laverty, a representative of DLNA & Director of World Wide Licensing, Broadcast, DTS
Guilhem Poussot, Head of Connected Devices, Vodafone Group Services
Sylvain Thevenot, Marketing Director, Everything Everywhere
10.10 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
10.30 Coffee and Networking Break
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?
Andrew Beale, Analyst, Arete Research
11.50 The Impact of the Cloud on the Connected Home
Rick Schwartz, Director of Connected Home Software, PacketVideo
12.10 Networking Lunch
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
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!
Vassillis Saferidis, Director, Business Development, Samsung Electronics
15.15 Networking & Refreshment Break
15.45 Case Study: Social TV – Blending internet services with
TV viewing
• Companion screen and social TV apps: User trends & competitive offering
• Content discovery, participation TV, and device control: adding value to the conversation
• A new innovation path: collaborative design
Nicolas Bry, VP, Orange Vallée
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
Ismael Calleja Baldominos, TV Service Manager, Telefónica Espãna
16.45 Could Apple’s iTV transform the Connected Home market in the same way iPhone transformed mobile?
• How would an iTV play from Apple raise the bar in terms of user experience, integration with iTunes and seamless transfer across multiple screens?
• Usability lessons learned from the refreshed navigation of Goggle TV’s UI
• IMS Research’s forecasts for the $68bn Connected TV market in 2011, rising to $122bn by 2016; where will adoption be fastest, what features will consumers actually use?
Veronica Gonzalez-Thayer, Market Analyst, Consumer Electronics Group, IMS Research
17.10 Closing Remarks from Chairman
17.30 ‘til late Drinks reception, Gala Dinner and Connected Home Global Industry Awards!
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
08.30 Registration, coffee and light refreshment
09.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Duncan Bees, Chief Technology and Business Officer, HGI
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?
David Thorne, Chief Broadband & Access Strategist, BT Innovate & Design
James Wong, Director of Product Marketing, TiVo Inc.
10.10 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!
10.40 Coffee and Networking Break
11.10 Services Beyond Entertainment
• How connected devices can control the home
• Can your brand extend into new services
• How ready is the market for smart home applications?
• How to create the right environment for Smart Homes
Gayle Terry, Head of Innovation Delivery, British Gas
11.45 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
12.20 Networking Lunch
13.40 Case Study: Connected Home – quo vadis?
Carsten Otto, VP Connected Home, Deutsche Telekom
Nataliya Gencheva, Partner Development, Deutsche Telekom AG
Products and Innovation
14.15 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
Carsten Otto, VP Connected Home, Deutsche Telekom
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
Chris Rhodes, Vice President, Radialpoint EMEA
15.15 Coffee and Networking Break
15.45 Panel Session: Tackling the Challenges in Delivering Content Anytime Anywhere
• Hybrid TV – the move from linear to personal content
• Achieving interoperability between devices
• Adapting content delivery for multiple screens
• Meeting the challenges of Digital Rights Management across multiple screen devices
• Can HTML5 discover and deliver services seamlessly to
multiple screens?
• Enabling customer support
Featuring speakers from throughout the conference plus Christian Nord, Senior Manager, Industry Collaboration & Asset Management, Sony Ericsson
16.15 Chairman’s Review of the Day and End of Conference
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