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IBC tutorial 2008

Time

11:30 - Start
13:00 - Networking reception

Location

Room A, RAI Centre, Amsterdam, Holland

Programme

11:30 Chairman’s Opening Address

Dr Leonardo Chiariglione,
CEO, CEDEO.net, Italy

11:35 Content to the home: now, next and on the horizon

Stephen Lowe
Chairman, Broadband Communications Research Consortium, UK

‘We’re halfway along the road to full convergence and we have voice networks struggling to deliver data and data networks trying to deliver voice and video’
Stephen Lowe, June 2008

Hear first-hand from the Chairman of the Broadband Communications Research Consortium how the industry proposes to deliver content for the consumer of the future:

• Realise the current means for video, audio and data delivery to the home
• Discover broadband wireless systems in their role as fixed wireless access technologies
• Be amongst the first to hear plans for new developments; VDSL2, WiMAX 2 and DVB-T2, new network topologies including passive optical networks and peer to peer systems

12:15 Content on the move

Gerard Faria
Executive Director and co-Founder, TeamCast, France

• Experience an overview of today’s main delivery platforms and services to mobile terminals.
• Learn about the present situation with terrestrial broadcast systems below 1GHz (T-DAB/DMB, DVB-H, FLO, ISDB-1seg, C-DMB) and terrestrial and satellite systems above 1GHz (T-DAB/DMB, S-DMB, CMMB
• Hear firsthand about new developments in DVB-NGH and ATSC-M/H and the scenarios for hybrid systems (DVB-SH).
• Explore the latest proposals for services on mobile telecoms and wireless broadcast platforms including TDtv using MBMS, MXtv on WiMAX and 3G long term evolution LTE

12:45 Q&A
Moderated by Leonardo Chiariglione
CEO, CEDEO.net, Italy

13:00 Close

Our Presenters

Tutorial Moderator

Dr Leonardo Chiariglione

Dr Leonardo Chiariglione is CEO of CEDEO.net, a company advising a number of multinational companies in the area of digital media. Leonardo’s latest initiative is the Digital Media Project.

Leonardo is the recipient of several awards, including the Eduard Rhein Foundation Award, the IBC John Tucker Award, the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award and the Kilby Foundation Award.

Leonardo obtained his PhD degree from the University of Tokyo in 1973. During his career Leonardo has launched several significant initiatives, including MPEG in 1988, DAVIC in 1994 and FIPA in 1996.

Speakers

Stephen Lowe

Chairman of the Broadband Communications Research Consortium and the Broadband Wireless Association, Stephen is an active member in a number of pivotal communications groups including the Electronic Communications Recovery and Resilience Group, Lancaster University's Broadband Communications Research Consortium project and as chairman of the Broadband Wireless Association. Stephen works with the Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network; a group sponsored by the Technical Strategy Board.

Stephen began his career at Mullard Research Laboratories where he worked on the masers for the Telstar trans-Atlantic television satellite and moving to the BBC in 1968, in the videotape section of Engineering Designs. In 1977 Stephen joined Television News where he helped to develop the Electronic News Gathering systems and high speed film processing equipment. 

Stephen then went onto become a Worldwide Training Manager for Ampex Corporation, providing technical and operator training on their range of broadcast and military equipments. Next for Stephen came his time as Project Director for the construction of Eurobell, now known as Virgin Media. During his time as Product Development Director for Eurobell, Stephen led teams in a number of European wireless broadband projects including the construction of a 40GHz broadband and television system in Moscow.

Gerard Faria

Gerard is Executive Director and co-founder of TeamCast in Rennes, France. Gerard co-founded TeamCast in 2003 as a company whose aim is ‘to be the preferred partner of the Digital Broadcast actors.’ Gerard is currently involved in numerous European Collaborative Research projects dealing with Digital Broadcast and Mobile TV.

A prolific member of the DVB forum, Gerard has participated extensively in DVB Technical works: in 2004 he wrote the DVB-H Physical Layer specifications ETSI EN 300 744 v1.5.1 (2004-11) and in 2005 Gerard co-ordinated the DVB-H Validation Task Force work and produced its report ETSI TR 102 401 v1.1.1 (2005-06).

Since 2007, Gerard has co-ordinated a large Eureka/CELTIC project “B21C” which involves 35 partners from six European countries, working in liaison with DVB on “Broadcast for the 21st Century” embracing DVB-H / DVB-SH and DVB-T2.0.

A graduate of the Technical University of Paris VI, France, Gerard co-founded the ITIS Company, where he managed the R&D engineers, conceived most of the company’s DAB and DVB products and participated in major European Collaborative Research projects working on Digital Radio and Digital TV broadcasting systems: VALIDATE, MOTIVATE, iTTi, Witness, MCP and IM4DTTV.

Complimentary Networking Reception | Heineken Terrace at The Beach | 13.00 – 14.45

IET invite you to join us after the Digital Delivery tutorial for a Networking Reception!

Enjoy a refreshing beverage and refreshments while mingling with the tutorial speakers and other key personnel present at IBC 2008.

The first 150 people will receive an invitation to the reception when they register their conference place. To register for this event and guarantee your place please contact:

All attendees of the IET Networking Reception will be entered into the IET’s prize draw to win a Sony PS3

Organiser

This event is organised in association with WorldDMB