| Léa Besson Senior Media Analyst and Digital Lead in the Media Intelligence Service (MIS), EBU Léa Besson has been a Senior Media Analyst and Digital Lead in the EBU Media Intelligence Service (MIS) for five years. As the EBU's market research unit, the MIS aims to provide reliable data, trustworthy analysis, and relevant arguments to build the case for public service media. Her areas of research and publications focus on online media consumption, online platforms, and public service media digital strategies. She holds a master's degree in management and marketing and has worked in media and research for 12 years, with experience in media research institutes, ad sales houses, and FMCG companies.
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| Roland Beutler Responsible for programme distribution strategy, SWR Roland Beutler has a master's degree in physics from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and a PhD degree in mathematical physics from the Max-Planck-Institute for Metal Physics, Stuttgart. In 1993 he joined SWR to work in the frequency planning department and is currently responsible for programme distribution strategy. Between 1995 and 1996 he worked at the Università degli Studi di Lecce, Italy, under a Fellowship of the European Commission. Dr Beutler has been participating in EBU technical activities for more than 20 years and has chaired several EBU groups dealing with the future of broadcast distribution systems. He was chair of the several of EBU's Strategic Programmes and Project Teams. Currently he acts as chairman for the Strategic Programme on Distribution. This group coordinates the engagement of European broadcasters in 3GPP, the global standardization organization of mobile technology. Roland Beutler is actively participating in different 3GPP groups to support the requirements of broadcasters. He is also Vice-Chair of the 5G Media Action Group, a MRP of 3GPP, and Chair of 5G-MAG WG1.
Roland Beutler has been involved in ITU and CEPT work for many years and has been responsible for several of their working groups, both radio and TV related. He participated in RRC-06, WRC-12, WRC-15, and WRC-19. Moreover, he has published many articles and four textbooks.
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| Keran Boyd Consulting Manager, Caretta Research and Lead, IBC Accelerators Keran is a media technology consultant specialising in vendor selection and technology implementation in broadcaster, and media and entertainment organisations. With a rich history of working with organisations like IBC, Keran possesses an intricate knowledge of the media technology market, which she applies in her work. Most recently, Keran has taken on the role as a project lead in the IBC Accelerators program helping to bring together members of the industry to develop innovative proofs of concept. Keran is passionate about high-quality, usable data and driving sustainability in the industry.
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| Yann Bureller Project Coordinator, France Télévisions Yann Bureller began his career as a sound engineer in 2000 for the French public TV and radio overseas territories' network, working on numerous programs and major events (Olympics Athens 2004, Olympics Beijing 2008). He then led several technologically advanced projects to modernize radio production tools and to bring radio closer to new media (podcast, visual radio). He joined the engineering team nearly two years ago and works on projects relating to file exchange and workflow orchestration systems, video contribution, mobile satellite production and 4G/5G mobile transmission systems.
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| Maritza Delgado
Programme Officer, Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT), ITU
Maritza Delgado is a Program Officer in the Climate Change and Emergency Telecommunications Division of the International Telecommunication Union’s Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT). In her role, she supports countries in leveraging digital technologies for disaster risk reduction and management. This includes developing National Emergency Telecommunication Plans and creating an enabling environment through the implementation of regulatory, policy, and legal frameworks, as well as designing and implementing early warning and alert systems. She also contributes to projects, guidelines, and reports aimed at integrating digital technologies into disaster risk reduction efforts. Maritza holds a university degree in Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications and has over 20 years of experience in disaster management.
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| Emily Dubs Head of Technology, DVB Project The DVB Project is an industry-led consortium that designs open technical specifications for digital media delivery. As its Head of Technology, Emily leads on all technical and standardization matters within DVB, represents the organization around the world at conferences and tradeshows, and supports DVB's main modules and working groups. Emily has worked in the digital television industry for more than two decades, with expertise across both broadcast and broadband technologies. Prior to becoming DVB's Head of Technology, she worked in a variety of roles – including hardware development, technical marketing, product management and strategy – for companies including Harmonic, ENENSYS Technologies and SmarDTV.
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Luiz Fausto
Technology & Regulatory Specialist at Globo TV, Brazil
Luiz Fausto has over 20 years of experience in media technology. He has worked for Globo TV Network in Brazil since 2006, having held multiple positions, and is currently a Technology & Regulatory Specialist.
He has been the chair of the Technical Module of the Brazilian Digital Terrestrial Television Forum since 2020 and a member of the Brazilian Delegation in ITU-R Study Group 6 (and its Working Parties 6A, 6B and 6C), CPM, RA and WRC, and in the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL) Permanent Consultative Committee II: Radiocommunications (PCC.II) since 2013. He also participates actively in the Brazilian Society of Television Engineering (SET) and the Future of Broadcast Television Initiative (FOBTV).
In ITU-R SG 6 (Broadcasting Service), he is a Co-Chair of the Rapporteur Group on the Future of Broadcasting and in ITU-R WP 6B (Broadcast service assembly and access), he is the Chair of SWG 6B-2 (Multimedia).
He has a Professional Master's Degree in Applied Computing, an Executive MBA in IT, a postbaccalaureate in Networks and Video over IP, and a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in Electronics.
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| Ilham Ghazi Head of the Broadcasting Services Division at the Radiocommunication Bureau of ITU (From end of 2005 to present)
ITU-R activities Secretary for WG 6B responsible for agenda item 10 (future Conferences) respectively during WRC-23 and WRC-19, WG 5C responsible for fixed, mobile and broadcasting issues at WRC-12 and Appendix 4 revision at WRC-07.
Counsellor by interim to ITU-R study Group 6 and its Working Parties in 2018, in parallel to her responsibilities, from February to September 2018. Vice-Chair of RRC-06 IPG, representing Arab countries (from 2004 to end 2005). Vice-Chair of ITU-R and ITU-D JTG on Spectrum economical aspects (2002-2004). Regional broadcasting planning From 2010 and 2018, successfully led DTT frequency planning in Africa, Arab Region and Central America and Caribbean, to facilitate the Transition to DTT and enable the release of 700/800 MHz bands in those Regions. From 2019 to 2021, led the GE84 Plan optimization for Africa to enable more FM frequencies to respond to the increasing demand in FM radio or to transit to Digital radio. Other responsibilities Vice-president of the ITU appeal Board Interim to the BR Deputy Director in the ITU Appointment and Promotion Board, Prior to ITU Worked for near 10 years in Moroccan Agence Nationale de Réglemenation des telecommunications, with evolving level of responsibility that included Project manager for an automated frequency management System, head of national frequency planning and head of international frequency coordination Units. In addition to her Engineering degree, she completed an executive Master in Business Administration, in Ecole polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)-Switzerland in 2009.
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| David Hemingway Senior Distribution Manager • BBC, 2008 – Present
Vice-Chair ITU-R Study Group 6 and Vice-Chair of ITU-R Working Party 6A David represents the BBC on UK and international working groups on access to broadcasting spectrum, including at World Radio-communications Conferences. He also leads the BBC's spectrum policy work inside the UK and internationally. Current Positions Chair, EBU strategic programme on Spectrum Management since 2012, overseeing preparation of common broadcaster positions on spectrum matters of interest in the EU, CEPT and ITU. Vice-Chair, ITU-R Working Party 6A since 2016, chairing meetings and handling negotiations between stakeholders; drafting and editing texts for inclusion in ITU-R reports and recommendations. Co-editor of ITU-R handbook on digital television systems). Previous Projects Worked with Ofcom to redefine the UK's digital radio planning standards, providing a sound technical basis for the expansion of BBC and commercial DAB. Managed BBC's commercial relationships with digital radio service providers, including negotiations to define a roadmap towards a UK digital radio switchover Worked with consumer electronics and motor industry representatives to define broadcast radio receiver standards. From 2008 to 2012, worked on many aspects of the UK's digital TV switchover project, including devising the regionalised switchover timetable and developing the online coverage checker. Previous Roles Senior R&D Engineer • BBC (2002 – 2008) Led the BBC's TV planning team in preparations for the digital TV switchover. Participated in the ITU Geneva-04 and 06 digital TV planning conferences. Developed radio planning software for use in bilateral and multilateral coordination meetings. Field Manager • Nokia Networks (1999 – 2002) Managed a radio planning team deployed across Europe, as well as leading customer-facing mobile network planning contracts. Education Bachelor of Science – Physics (HONS) • 1988 • University of York, UK |
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| Mark Jordan International Policy Spectrum Manager at Arqiva, a member of Broadcast Networks Europe (BNE) Mark has been involved in broadcasting for 45 years having started his career in antenna design before moving, following the privatisation of BBC Transmission in 1996, into broadcast spectrum management and planning. He was Involved in the planning and coordination of DTT in the UK since its introduction in 1997. Presently co-chair of the EBU/BNE Spectrum Planning Terrestrial group with Dr Walid Sami.
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| David Klafkowski CEO, Tanooki Technologies Ltd. David is a visionary technologist and industry leader known for pioneering several groundbreaking innovations throughout his career. Most recently, he is the co-founder and CEO of Tanooki Technologies Ltd. tanooki.io is a platform transforming the media creation industry by revolutionising how content is produced, shared, and collaborated on. David's leadership journey began at Pearson, where he played a key role in the technical and operational launch of Channel 5. In 1998, he became a founding member of The Farm, serving first as Technical Director then rising to CEO. During his tenure, he spearheaded the UK's first high-definition (HD) facility in 2000, solidifying his reputation as a champion of emerging technologies. When the BBC relocated to MediaCity in Manchester, David led a successful bid to provide post-production and presentation services for the network's Sport, Sports News, and Children's programming. In 2014, he launched London's first fully tapeless, full-service facility, William. David continued to lead The Farm's expansion into Los Angeles and Bristol and played the lead role in the successful sale of the company to Picture Head Holdings in 2019. David uniquely bridges the gap between technology and corporate strategy, thriving in both environments while embracing entrepreneurial challenges. He has served on the broadcast advisory board of London's Ravensbourne College and is a sought-after speaker and panelist at prominent industry events.
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| Stefan Kollinger Chief Innovation Officer, Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) Stefan Kollinger is an experienced professional in the field of media technology and digitalization, currently serving as Chief Innovation Officer at ORF. In this role Stefan focuses on leading strategic initiatives from AI to Smart Producing to promote technological innovations and integrate digital solutions into the company's existing operational processes. His work involves close collaboration with various departments to ensure that ORF remains at the forefront of digital transformation and efficiently uses the latest technologies to enhance program quality and reach. Link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-kollinger/
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| Nataša Kuzmanović
Vice-Rapporteur ITU-D Study Group 1 Question 2/1 and Question 1/1
Ms. Nataša Kuzmanović has more than 20 years of unique mix of experience and expertise in the electronic-communications and broadcasting regulation, international relations, project management and strategic development. Having been employed by the Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ms. Kuzmanović has been engaged on different assignments ranging from the ex-ante market analysis and SMP regulation in line with the EU Regulatory Framework, developing reports and studies, as well as monitoring the market. Ms. Kuzmanović was also a member of the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) Forum of BiH, an expert body founded by the government to lunch digital terrestrial broadcasting in Bosnia and Herzegovina, participating in the Working Group for Social and Economic Aspects of the introduction of DTT.
Furthermore, Ms. Kuzmanović has a long-term international experience gained through representing the Agency in the Contact Network of the Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications (BEREC), as well as holding the position of member of the Permanent Secretariat of the Euro-Mediterranean Regulators Group (EMERG). As of 2022 Ms. Kuzmanović has been following IT -D Study Group 1 holding a position of Vice-Rapporteur for Question 1/1 and Question 2/1.
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| Richard Lindsay-Davies CEO, Digital TV Group (DTG) Richard is a relentless innovator, with expertise spanning technology, product design, marketing, commercial strategy, and governance. With a passion for people, products, and technology, he has pioneered UK world-firsts in flat-panel, widescreen, and digital TV. A design engineer by profession, and with 30 years of board expertise honed in businesses from global giants down to start-ups – from Sony to Freesat and more recently SafeShark - he's the perfect leader to push the DTG's collaborative culture to the forefront of UK television. Recognised by international institutions with numerous accolades, including a coveted Emmy, and being named the Royal Television Society Leader of the Year 2024, Lindsay-Davies has a reputation for navigating the complex landscape of digital media with a visionary's eye. He understands the importance of looking beyond immediate surroundings to embrace the broader narrative that shapes the industry's future. From the halls of Westminster to cutting-edge innovation labs, he's tuned into the seismic shifts driven by the landmark Media Act, new regulatory frameworks, and breakthrough innovations.
Under Richard's leadership the DTG is all about harnessing the transformative winds sweeping through media and technology. And, in crafting the future of television and digital media, striking a delicate balance between embracing radical technological advancements while preserving the core essence of the industry; to redefine storytelling and entertainment as we know it, ensuring no viewer is left behind.
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| Umberto Mascia
Director of the Unit for Technical Regulation and Spectrum Planning at the Ministry of Enterprise and Industry (MIMIT), Italy; Co-chairman of the RSPG working group 'Assessment of future usage of the frequency band 470-694 MHz within the EU'
Umberto Mascia is currently co-chairman of the RSPG working group 'Assessment of future usage of the frequency band 470-694 MHz within the EU', after having co-chaired the working group that prepared the opinion entitled 'Strategy on the future use of the frequency band 470-694 MHz beyond 2030 in the EU' in the previous cycle.
Within the Italian administration, he is currently Director of the Unit for Technical Regulation and Spectrum Planning at the Ministry of Enterprise and Industry (MIMIT). His Unit is responsible, among other things, for maintaining and updating the Italian NTFA and following the international activities of the ITU, CEPT, and the European Union on spectrum planning and management.
His background includes a degree in Telecommunications Engineering and a PhD in Information and Communications Engineering from La Sapienza University of Rome (Italy).
He spent almost 20 years in the private sector and in applied research, spanning several application fields (e.g., railway traffic control, satellite applications, telecommunications, automotive, environmental monitoring), then moved to the public sector, and from July 2020 was appointed to his current position at MIMIT.
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| Hemini Mehta Sustainability Lead, European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Dr Hemini Mehta is the Sustainability Lead at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) where she leads several teams focused on sustainability for Public Service Media, Green Productions, Cloud Sustainability and Green AI. As Sustainability Rapporteur at International Telecommunications Union (ITU part of UN), Hemini has authored numerous articles and reports as well as organised and contributed to several conferences and events focused on sustainability in the media sector. |
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| Sarah Milton Chief Product Officer, Everyone TV Together with Joint Chief Product Officer Carl Pfeiffer, Sarah sets the strategy and direction for Everyone TV's customer-facing propositions, including Freeview, Freesat and the new streaming service Freely, which launched in 2024. They lead the Product and Operations teams and ensure that Everyone TV brings the best possible free-to-air TV experience to viewers while delivering value for content providers and other partners. Before joining Everyone TV, Sarah worked at Channel 4 for over 15 years. During this time, she was at the forefront of its digital transformation as one of the original team that developed and launched its ground-breaking video-on-demand service, 4oD – and more recently, as Head of Product, responsible for the functionality and UX of All 4 across all platforms and devices. Sarah has also worked in business development and strategy at ITV, and at internet start-up Webrewards. She began her career at the management consulting firm McKinsey.
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| Marcelo F. Moreno Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brazil Marcelo F. Moreno is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), a position he has held since 2011. He earned both his Master's and Ph.D. in Informatics from PUC-Rio. In 2022/23, he served as a Visiting Professor at the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, a collaborative institute between Friedrich-Alexander Universität (FAU) and Fraunhofer IIS in Germany. From 2009 to 2024, he held leadership roles within various standardization study groups at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), focusing on IPTV and Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Integrated Broadcast-Broadband Systems (IBB), and immersive media coding for metaverse. Since 2015, he has coordinated the Middleware/Application Coding Working Group for the Brazilian Digital TV System Forum (SBTVD). |
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Madeleine Noland
President of the Advanced Television Systems Committee Inc.
Madeleine Noland is the President of the Advanced Television Systems Committee Inc. A 20-year industry veteran who is widely respected for her consensus-building leadership style, she chaired the technology group that oversees the ATSC 3.0 next-generation broadcast standard before being named ATSC President in May 2019. Previously, she chaired various ATSC 3.0-related specialist groups, ad hoc groups and implementation teams since 2012.
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| Pilar Orero Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) Professor Pilar Orero, PhD (UMIST, UK) works at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) in the TransMedia Catalonia Lab. She has written and edited many books, near 100 academic papers and almost the same number of book chapters –all on Media Accessibility. Leader and participant on numerous EU funded research projects focusing on media accessibility. She works in standardisation and participates in the UN ITU IRG-AVA – Intersector Rapporteur Group Audiovisual Media Accessibility, ISO, SAGA, and ANEC. She has been working on Immersive Accessibility for the past 4 years first in a project called ImAc, which results are now further developed in TRACTION, MEDIAVERSE, MILE, and has just started to work on green accessibility in GREENSCENT. She leads the EU network LEADME on Media Accessibility.
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| Jaroslaw Ponder
Head of the ITU Office for Europe, ITU
Mr Ponder is Head of the ITU Office for Europe at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (Geneva, Switzerland). Within the last years Mr. Ponder has been carrying out numerous projects, activities and initiatives at national, regional and international levels. He has been taking lead role in many international conferences and summits dealing with fostering ICT innovation and development of ICT ecosystem, information society, and advancements of digital economy worldwide, while setting strategies and ensuring their timely implementation. Along the professional career Mr. Ponder held official positions in the public sector and was a contributor to the legislative projects having impact on the public policy. Since 2014 Mr. Ponder has been working for ITU, in Market, Economics and Finance Unit (MEF/ITU), Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU/ITU), Project and Initiatives Department (PRI/ITU). From year 2008 upon his former duties he has acted as Europe Officer (EUR/ITU) as well as Project Manager for European Centres of Excellence Network (CoE-EUR). In August 2008 he was appointed as Coordinator for Europe. After successful recreation of the coordination for the region in 2009 he moved to the General Secretariat becoming Strategy and Policy Coordinator and one year later Senior Strategy and Policy Advisor with the objective to lead the ITU activities on World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS; United Nation Process on ICTs) and its 10 year review, amongst the others successfully establishing prime platforms, i.e. WSIS Forum, WSIS Prizes, WSIS Stocktaking, and organizing WSIS+10 High Level Event (2014) that resulted in negotiated texts. In parallel, since 2011 he has been working as Coordinator for Europe strengthening coordination and implementation mechanism. In 2017 he became the Head of ITU Office for Europe, directing actions, projects, initiatives, experts groups targeting 45 countries and representing ITU in Europe.
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| Elena Puigrefagut Coarasa Senior Project Manager, European Broadcasting Union (EBU); Vice-Chair ITU-R Study Group 6 Elena Puigrefagut Coarasa, Senior Project Manager at the European Broadcasting Union, co‑ordinates joint technical activities undertaken by EBU Members on frequency planning and spectrum management and regulation and, in particular, frequency planning studies for terrestrial broadcasting systems. She represents the EBU in a number of international committees as the CEPT, EC and ITU including ITU World Radiocommunication Conferences. Prior to joining the EBU, Elena worked at Eutelsat, a global satellite operator, as a frequency planning engineer in the Operations Department. During this period, she was responsible for the planning of the satellites that supported the launch of digital TV across Europe in the mid-1990s.
Elena holds a Master's degree in Image and Sound (ENST, Paris) and a M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ETSETB Barcelona).
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| Amy Rajaonson Broadcast Engineer, France Télévisions Amy previously worked in the defense industry as an antenna engineer for five years before joining France Télévisions four years ago. She is part of the Exchange Engineering Department, which manages all communication systems within the company, including RTC, workflow automation for content delivery across France Télévisions, support, satellite and 4G/5G transmissions. Unsurprisingly, the latter is her favourite area to work in.
The first major project she was involved in took place on July 26, 2023 (one year before the Olympic Games), where she collaborated with TVU Networks to set up a cloud-based production workflow. The continuation of this work occurred during the Olympic Torch Relay on May 9, 2024.
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| Erik Reinhard Distinguished Scientist, InterDigital Erik Reinhard is Distinguished Scientist at InterDigital since June 2019. Before that, he held the same position at Technicolor R\&I since July 2013 prior to holding various academic positions at universities and research institutes in Europe and North America. He was founder and editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, and authored books on high dynamic range imaging, color imaging, computer graphics and natural image statistics. He has published more than 100 papers, and was member of more than 50 program committees. He was program co-chair of 6 conferences and workshops, including the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2011. He delivered key notes at Eurographics 2010, the Computational Color Imaging Workshop 2011, the IS\&T European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging and Vision 2012, the IS\&T Color Imaging Conference 2022 and the ACM/SIGGRAPH Conference on Visual Media Processing 2022. He is co-chair of the Rapporteur Group on Energy Aware Broadcasting at ITU-R, and co-chair of the Group on Energy Efficiency at DVB.
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| Dom Robinson Director, Co-Founder and CBDO: www.id3as.com
Providing Ultra-High Availability Live Streaming Software for Operators of CDN, Telco, Cloud, and Broadcast Workflows. Founder and Exec Chairman: www.greeningofstreaming.org
Reducing energy wastage in streaming systems.
Dom Robinson has spent over 25 years focussed specifically on the complex challenges facing the live ‘Streaming Media’ market. Today he leads business development for pioneering live streaming software specialists id3as.com where the company specialises in delivery of ultra high-availability, scalable delivery of all elements of live streaming. id3as software has been underpinning much of the financial market fair disclosure live webcast coverage for a decade or more, with numerous significant deployments in broadcast, OTT and webcast arenas, with platforms scaling to many hundreds of thousands of events and reaching many millions of users with carrier grade SLAs.
A pioneer in the sector, he was responsible for the propositioning, architecture, technical design and implementation of many, now well established, online media publishing workflows. He has always had a strong focus on live / linear content delivery, which requires not only a deep understanding of the computational issues involved, but also of intricacies of network provisioning.
He founded the first large-scale Content Delivery Network in Europe. This CDN was pioneering in its focus on driving IP Multicast adoption in the consumer markets, and between 2001 and 2009 it grew to carry over 150m streams each month for clients as diverse as Sky Sports, RT News and over 60% of the UK’s Internet Radio. He was responsible for putting the UK Parliament, Number 10 Downing Street, Glastonbury Festivals (for the BBC) and FatBoySlim online; in many cases breaking new ground while doing so, both technically and in terms of providing entirely new consumer propositions. He produced the world’s first 3D webcast (for Universal, broadcasting a Keane concert) and coauthored several Patents that now underpin many common media workflows. He also began using Satellite IP for Contribution and Distribution models in 1998, building a satellite-based CDN for Enfocast / Microsoft in 2001/2002 and consulting with Eutelsat and Astra on several of their deployments. Widely recognised as a sector visionary, he holds several International Awards for his work, and regularly Chairs or speaks at conferences ranging from Cloud TV, SDN/NFV, CDN, Distributed Compute, OTTTV and IPTV. He has been a Contributing Editor of StreamingMedia.com (and its print magazine) for 20+ years, and has been published by Wiley Academic Press.
More recently he founded industry special-interest group www.greeningofstreaming.org which is bringing together industry actors to focus on energy efficiency and sustainability best practice in CDN and video delivery architecture.
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| Andy Quested Acting Chair ITU-R Working Party 6C; Lead EBU QC Group, European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
Andy Quested started working for the BBC in 1978 becoming a video-tape editor in 1985 where he worked on many comedy, children's and documentary series. Moving to a new technology department he, worked on introducing non-linear editing, stereo, widescreen, the BBC's first HD programme Planet Earth I and the first UHD programme, Planet Earth II. Andy has been a Rapporteur for ITU Working Party 6C investigating the use of 3DTV, the Global Broadcasting Platform and image quality. He is a Co-Chair of the joint group on Accessibility and has chaired several Rapporteur Groups including the group that developed the High Dynamic Range (HDR‑TV) Recommendation which was awarded a technical Emmy in 2023. In 2015 he became chair of Working Party 6C itself where he initiated new areas of study on Advanced Immersive Sensory Media Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Energy Aware Broadcasting as applied to content production and international programme exchange. In WP 6B, Andy led the group formalizing the use of componentized content creation that led to a new Recommendation. Andy left the BBC at the end of 2020 but is still leading standards work in the ITU and EBU. He is also an active member of SMPTE, becoming a Fellow in 2014 for work relating to standards. |
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| Walid Sami
Senior Project Manager, European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
    Dr Walid SAMI is Senior Project Manager at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Geneva, with responsibility for co-coordinating studies on frequency planning and spectrum sharing issues. He represents EBU in several European and International Forums dealing with Spectrum Management. He has served as Vice Chair of ITU-R Study Group 6 (Broadcasting) for two study cycles and he is mostly active in Working Party 6A (Terrestrial broadcasting delivery). Dr SAMI has also a significant role in developing cooperation with Arab States Broadcasting Union and African Union of Broadcasters as well as Administrations members of ITU-D. Prior to joining EBU, Dr. SAMI worked in spectrum management and frequency planning of Digital Broadcasting systems at Télédiffusion de France (TDF) and CSA (Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel) in France.
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| Jenny Weinand Head of Media Law, European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Jenny Weinand is Head of Media Law at the Geneva-based European Broadcasting Union, where she works in the field of media and communications law. Jenny has been interested in European media regulation even before joining the EBU's Legal and Policy department. At the University of Luxembourg, she researched on the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive, under the supervision of Prof. Dr Mark D. Cole. Jenny holds a PhD in Law and an LL.M. from the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg and a B.A. in European Studies from the University of Maastricht.
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| David Wood Consultant, Technology and Innovation, European Broadcasting Union (EBU) David Wood graduated from the Electronics Department at the University of Southampton in the UK, and obtained a Master's degree and a PhD from the Popov Institute in the Ukraine. His PhD thesis concerned methods of evaluating image quality. He has also studied management at the Harvard Business School in the United States. David Wood worked at the BBC Research Department and Independent Broadcasting Authority in the UK before joining the Technical Department of the European Broadcasting Union in Belgium and Switzerland. His work has largely been associated with the coordination of media standards and research and development of media systems. He has received a number of awards for his work including from several of the world's broadcasting unions and the highest award from the US Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. He has led a number of standardisation activities in the ITU-R concerned with technology standards, particularly concerned with digital television and radio standards. He has written a large number of technical papers and been associated with several brooks on technology. His recent work has concerned working with the EBU group on media technology futures, and development of the management tools of integrated enterprise architecture for media companies. He is a lifelong enthusiast for 3D and a rather poor musician.
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