Friday 9th September – TRANSFORMATION 

11am – How 5G will revolutionise sport.   

  • Matt Stagg, Director of Mobile & Immersive Strategy, BT Sport. 

11.30am - Balanced Computing: choosing the right balance between on prem, edge and Cloud deployments.   

  • Alex Redfern, CTO, EVS.
  • Oliver Parker, VP Commercial/International, Blackbird PLC. 

12pm - Ukraine in Focus: Escalating Social Media’s Role for More Timely Collaborative News Production.   

  • Andreas Pongratz, CEO, X-News.
  • Craig Wilson, Product Evangelist – Video & Media Platform, Avid.  

12.30pm - Optimising user engagement and experiences through accelerated and accurate content discovery. 

  • Martin Prins, Head of Product, Media Distillery.
  • Sander Kouwenhoven, CTO, NLZIET.

2pm - Business of M&E in the Cloud. 

  • Thomas Edwards, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS.

2.40pm – How data transformed ITV into a digital leader.  

  • Tom Griffiths, Director of Technology, Content Supply & Distribution, ITV.


Sunday 11th September – RESILIENCE  

11am – UK Member Council discussion around supply chain resilience and skill shortages in the M&E industry.   

  • Chris Smeeton, Managing Director, Argosy Components.
  • Jon Morgan, CEO, Object Matrix.
  • Bob Boster, President, Clear-Com LLC.

11.40am – Mitigating the risks of ransomware on TV production. 

  • Paul Glasgow, Managing Director, Marquis Broadcast.
  • Menno Drenth, Manager Production Facilities, VPRO.

12.30pm – Data & Privacy: Enabling the use of first-party data.   

  • Carlos Octavio Queiroz.

2pm – The Future of Content Security: One Size Does Not Fit All.   

  • Andy Shenkler, CEO, TMT Insights.
  • Terri Davies, President, Trusted Partner Network. 

2.30pm –  New and future business resilience, looking at how to build an agile operation that has the ability to quickly shift and change direction to deal with the unexpected. 

  •  Ben Vandenberghe, CEO, Skyline Communications.
  • Larissa Görner, Senior Director Product Line Management, Grass Valley.
  • Thomas Müller, CTO, Qvest.
  • Clive White, Chief Technology Officer & Transformation Officer, Arqiva.


Monday 12th September – FUTURE TRENDS  

11am – Delivering greater impact with smooth SDR & HDR conversion.   

  • Tania Pouli, Deputy Lab Manager of the Advanced Media Content lab at the b-com Research & Technology Institute in Rennes.
  • Peter Schut, SVP Media Infrastructure, EVS. 

 11.20am – Achieving true cross-vendor interoperability with Catena.    

  • Chris Lennon, Executive Director, OSA. 
  • Amanda Holtstrom, Product Manager, Ross Video. 
  • Thomas Gunkel, Market Director Broadcast, Skyline Communications.  
  • Eric Piard, VP Research & Development, Florical.

12pm - Delivering engaging event watching experiences from Live Sport to Gen Z viewers.  

  • Christof Haslauer, CEO, NativeWaves GmbH. 

2pm – Hyperconvergence – It worked for the cell phone; how about media?   

  • Chris Lennon, Ross Video.