[MPEGIF News] MPEGIF and Open IPTV Forum presenting unique conference session on 11 September 2008

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

 

Free MPEGIF Master Class "The Transition to a New Television Experience" at
IBC 2008

MPEGIF and Open IPTV Forum presenting unique conference session on 11
September 2008

 

IBC 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 4 September 2008 - The MPEG Industry
Forum (MPEGIF), the largest advocacy group for MPEG technologies in the
world, in cooperation with the Open IPTV Forum, are presenting a free full
day MPEGIF Master Class titled "The Transition to a New Television
Experience" on Thursday 11 September 2008 between 10am and 5.30pm bringing
together industry experts representing the most influential players in next
generation video entertainment, multimedia and standards-based video
delivery.

 

In this MPEGIF Master Class, television service providers, network operators
and content owners will exchange their views on the progress and evolution
in technologies and business models (including an insight into IP delivered
personalized video and the latest trends for targeted, perfect profile
advertising) that are fundamentally changing the way digital Television is
created, delivered and monetized. For a complete program agenda and speaker
bios, please visit: 

 

 <http://www.mpegif.org/exhibitions/IBC2008/agendaIBC.php>
http://www.mpegif.org/exhibitions/IBC2008/agendaIBC.php

 

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

*	Roderick Snell, Founder, Snell & Wilcox
*	Yun Chao Hu, Chairman Open IPTV Forum
*	Thomas Staneker, Executive VP, T-COM
*	Luca Pesando, Standardization  Manager for Fixed Access, Transport
and IPTV,  Telecom Italia

 

PANELISTS:

*	Roderick Snell, Founder, Snell & Wilcox
*	Yun Chao Hu, Chairman Open IPTV Forum
*	Thomas Staneker, Executive VP, T-COM
*	Luca Pesando, Standardization  Manager for Fixed Access, Transport
and IPTV,  Telecom Italia
*	Nick Hopkins - Head of Technology, Virgin Media
*	Clyde Smith - Senior VP Global Broadcast Technology & Standards,
Turner Broadcasting Systems
*	GianPaolo Balboni - Head, Innovation Trends, Telecom Italia
*	Dieter Engel - Head of Product Development, T-Online
*	Mikhail V Seslavinsky - Head, Federal Agency for Press and Mass
Media, Russian Federation
*	Eduard M Sagalaev - President,  National Association of   Television
and Radio Broadcasters of Russia
*	Yury I Pripachkin - President, Russian  Association of Cable
Television
*	Gerassim S Gadiyan -  President, The Association for High Definition
Television and Digital Cinema
*	Oleg A. Urushev - General Director ,Yugra
*	Gary Schultz - President, MRG Inc
*	Stephen Christian - VP Marketing, Verimatrix
*	Sven Reuter - Representative for Standards, TV and Media
Applications, LG Electronics
*	Mats Nilsson - Director Portfolio Management, Ericsson
*	Thomas Stockhammer - Senior Researcher, Digital Fountain

 

This free MPEGIF Master Class will be chaired by:

*	Sebastian Moeritz, President MPEGIF / CEO, dicas
*	David Price, Vice President MPEGIF / Vice President, Harmonic
*	Monika Gadhammar, Vice Chair Open IPTV Forum Marketing Workgroup

 

 

About IBC 2008 

IBC is the leading event for professionals involved in the creation,
management and delivery of entertainment content, attracting over 46,000
attendees from more than 130 countries worldwide. With over 1,300 exhibitors
including the world's key technology suppliers and a world-renowned
conference, IBC is an event not to be missed. For more information go to
<http://www.ibc.org/> www.ibc.org

 

 

About MPEGIF

The MPEG Industry Forum (www.mpegif.org <http://www.mpegif.org/> ), the
world's largest advocacy group for MPEG technologies, represents around 40
international companies and organizations from diverse industries and
promotes the adoption of MPEG standards. MPEGIF, founded in 2000, has played
a significant role in facilitating the widespread adoption and deployment of
MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 as the industry's standard video compression technology
powering next generation television and most mainstream content delivery as
well as consumption applications including packaged media. MPEGIF, with more
than 2500 people subscribed to its mailing lists, serves as a single point
of information on technology, products and services for these standards,
offers interoperability testing, a conformance program, marketing activities
and is present at international trade shows and conferences. 

 

MPEGIF is also running the MPEGIF Logo Qualification Program, which is
designed to help guide interoperability among products and technology. The
program, based on a self-certification process, is free of charge and open
to all companies using MPEG technology, not just members of MPEGIF although,
membership is encouraged. Qualified products have the right to display the
MP4 Qualification Mark and also list their status in their documentation,
literature, and advertising. They will also have their product listed in the
MPEGIF Product Directory (http://logo.mpegif.org). 

 

About Open IPTV Forum:

The Open IPTV Forum is a pan-industry initiative with the purpose of
producing end to end specifications for IPTV that will take the next
generation of IPTV to the mass market. The Forum is fully open to
participation across the communications and entertainment industries. 

 

Today the Open IPTV Forum has 37 members that have joined the effort to
develop this "tool", an open, end to end specification for IPTV based upon
existing technologies and open standards that could help to streamline and
accelerate deployments of IPTV technologies and help to maximize the
benefits of IPTV for consumers, network operators, content providers,
service providers, consumer electronics manufacturers and home and network
infrastructure providers.

 

 

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Media Contact: Nicola Wissler, MPEG Industry Forum Coordinator,
+1.510.492.4028, nicola.wissler-8/[email protected]   

 

 

MPEGIF is managed by Association Management Solutions: www.amsl.com
<http://www.amsl.com/>

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