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Tuesday May 30th, 2006 |
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09/05/06 15:58 |
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8 am Registration & Morning coffee
9 am Opening remarks
Opening speech – Pacome Revillon, Managing Director, Euroconsult
State of play and prospects for pay-TV & video services
Leading pay-TV platforms: Strategies for value creation
Chief executives from multimillion subscribers’platforms will discuss growth strategies for subscribers and ARPU, new services, diversification activities and the perception of emerging competitors as well as capex control and expenditure.
Georg Kofler, CEO, Premiere
Graham Hollis, COO, Liberty Global Japan
Nimrod Kovacs, Chairman, UPC Central Europe Group
Philip Snalune, Managing Director, Consumer Products, NTL – Telewest (invited)
Eric Pradon, Executive Vice President, Finance, Canal+ Group (invited)
Private equity panel: Market strategy in the pay-TV & media business
The discussion panel will look at strategies for private equity funds in the pay-TV and video market. Hot issues such as growth potential, positioning on the TV and video value chain, digitisation, consolidation, investment time and growth financing (capital expenditure) will be considered.
Nicolas Paulmier, Partner, Cinven
Joseph C. Schull, Managing Director, Warburg Pincus
Ken Goldsbrough, MD Global Media & Communications, Europe, GE Commercial Finance
John Hahn, Managing Director, Providence Equity Partner (expected)
12.30 Official lunch hosted by NDS
14.00 Finance panel: Investment prospects in the pay-TV sector
In a fast changing digital TV & video environment, international financial communities will share their viewpoints on current and future issues such as IPOs, private equity and debt financing. Valuations of subscribers and companies, as well as growth prospects for existing and emerging services will be extensively discussed.
James McCummings, Managing Director, Global Communications Banking, CityGroup
Philippe-Olivier Rousseau, Managing Director Media Telecom Finance, BNP Paribas
Charles Harman, Managing Director, JP Morgan Cazenove
Gavin Owston, Executive Director TMT, ABN Amro
David Arlettaz, Deputy Head, Media and Telecoms Group, Commerzbank
David Filippone, Principal, Banc of America
European pay-TV platforms: New growth phase
Top executives from European pay-TV platforms will discuss the current market environment in Europe and strategies for growth, including the management of TV rights, the development of new applications and prospects for the business model of pay-TV operators in the coming years.
Jos Molenkamp, CEO, Casema
Jarl Soderman, COO, Canal Digital AS
Anu Nissinen, CEO, Helsinki Television
Dominik Libicki, President & CEO, Cyfrowy Polsat
Zeinal Bava, CEO, TV Cabo (invited)
Fernando Martinez, CFO, Sogecable (invited)
18.00 Cocktail hosted by Discovery Networks International
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
9 am Pay-TV prospects in Asia & the Middle East
With over 15 million digital TV homes, Asia has begun to deliver its promise to pay-TV platforms. In the Middle East, pay-TV, challenged by the huge development of free-to-air digital TV, still has to realize its full potential. The heads of leading pay-TV platforms will present the dynamics of their core markets, their development strategies and performance and discuss strategic issues to support of long term growth.
Henry Lee, Managing Director/Corporate Planning Group, SkyLife
Ofer Bloch, CEO, Yes Satellite
Peter Einstein, CEO, Showtime
Sgourdos Vasili, CFO, UBC
Sander Hamersma, Co-Head Asia Pacific, Telecom, Media & Techn., ABN Amro HK
Sandeep Pahwa, Global Sector Head – Media & Entertainment Investment Banking, HSBC
Marcel Fenez, Chairman, CASBAA
Subhash Chandra, CEO, Zee (invited)
The rise of IPTV
Top executives from companies currently at the forefront of the developing IPTV market will present their initial feedback on experience, their investment and service strategies to make the IPTV promise become a major component of the digital TV and video landscape.
Dan Marks, CEO Television Services, British Telecom
Tony Kelly, Chief Executive Officer, On Demand Group
Paul Berriman, Head of Strategic Market Development, PCCW
Patricia Langrand, Manager in charge of the Content Division, France Telecom (expected)
12.30 Official lunch
14.00 Strategies for programming: Platforms speak
Content and programming executives of pay-TV platforms will discuss their strategies for the development of their TV and video offers, including new TV channels, on demand content, criteria for selection and financial negotiations and shared promotion of TV brands.
Sunil Khanna, CEO, Dish TV
Kathryn Fink, Director of Programming, Sky Italia
Jongha Kim, Manager, SkyLife
Pablo Romero, Director of Programming, Sogecable
Luke Beermann, SVP Programming & Production, Showtime Network
Growth strategies for leading thematic TV brands
Top executives from leading international thematic TV brands will look at strategies for business growth, including diversification strategies and models for the increasing number of delivery networks. International distribution and relationships with the pay-TV platforms in the different markets will be discussed.
Philippe Cayla, Chairman & CEO, Euronews
Chris Cramer, EVP & Managing Director, CNN International
Dawn McCall, President, Discovery Networks International
Clare Cooke, Head of Media Distribution, Bloomberg
Lindsay Oliver, Commercial Director, Al Jazeera |
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