31 March 2010 London United Kingdom

"Enabling the future of the digitally-connected Home"

As the broadcast industry continues to make progress in making the connected home a reality, the variety of content is growing exponentially to match the many different uses and devices that need to interoperate and exchange information.

The Connected Home market will develop rapidly in 2010. Consumers increasingly want to use VoIP and advanced entertainment such as IPTV, web and video-on-demand. E-health and wellness are new markets with many opportunities. Now the prices of the required products are favourable and the (broadband) connections almost perfect, nothing stands in the way of success.

Speakers Include:

Bill Scott COO and Founder Easeltv (Summit Chair)	Dan Cryan Senior Analyst Screendigest (Moderator)	Cesar Bachelet Senior Analyst Analysys Mason (Moderator)
Sarah Rose Head of VOD and Channel Development Channel 4	Lucas Bauge Head of Strategy Orange	Peter Bale Executive Producer MSN UK
Dr. Mohammed Dadas Vice Chair OIPF	Dan Fahy Distribution & Development Eurosport	Steve Plunkett Director of Customer Innovation Red Bee Media
Jeanette Carlsson New Media Leader IBM	Steve Morris System Architect ANT SOFTWARE & Hbbtv	Alex Gulland Creative Partner OGILVY ENTERTAINMENT & MD, CONTENTED BRANDS
Melanie Stewart Director Wireless Technologies Turner Broadcasting System Inc	Troy Head of Content Release BBC Vision	Dave Wilkinson Director of Network Architecture ECI Telecom

This summit will attempt to answer some of the following questions:

• How is "catch up TV" and video on demand impacting consumers viewing habits?
• Is the linear TV broadcast schedule becoming redundant?
• What types of content are consumers most likely to pay for?
• What are the attitudes of consumers to online advertising?
• How interested are consumers in movies online, and what is driving this interest?
• How can service providers respond and monetise the multi-screen world?
• What are the challenges of a multi-platform, multi-device content delivery?

Key Themes at this Summit Include:

• Challenges multi-platform, multi-device content delivery
• Managed on demand Networks, VOD, Catchup TV, PVR,start over TV and other Broadband gateways
• Multi-format digital content and re-purposing
• DRM and Content Protection
• Quality of service (QOS)
• P2P and other network storage models
• Other sustainable business models
• Future of pay TV
• Hybrid networks to provide capacity and connectivity
• Role of new advertising format and brand relationship
• Future strategies

As the uptake of internet and mobile video increases, broadcasters, content owners and service operators are looking at distributing their offering in multiple formats, via a growing number of platforms and to a host of devices. There remains little doubt that this is the way that consumer habits are moving.

As an industry, there is a clear roadmap towards multi-platform on-demand covering the TV, PC and mobile. Companies understand how consumer demands are changing and that younger viewers especially expect content on their own schedules and which is also available on any screen.

The digitally-connected home concept is ready to explode and starts with providing the right back-end infrastructure to deliver the required services.

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