Speakers
DTV Outlook 2009: The 3 Screens Challenge – Aligning TV, Broadband & Mobile

Alessandro Petazzi, Fastweb
Head of Media & IPTV

Alessandro has been heading the Media & IPTV business unit of FASTWEB in the past 12 months. He joined FASTWEB at the start (2000) in the Strategic Planning Dept. and has subsequently (2001-02) been in charge of the company's relations with investors and financial/industry analysts; in 2004-05 he has been responsible for the creation, pricing and marketing of IPTV services; since 2006 Alessandro has also been granted full responsibility over the company's content and rights acquisition efforts, prior to being appointed to his current role. Prior to joining FASTWEB, Alessandro was a strategy consultant with Bain & Co, where he started his career after a BA graduation at the Bocconi University of Milan.

Christian Klasen, Microsoft
Senior Business Development Manager

In 2007, Christian joined Microsoft where he develops innovative business models and concepts together with customers and partners. At Microsoft he has a strong focus on the retail and media industry. Following his studies of Economics in Trier and Maastricht, he started his career as a consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, followed by a position as Senior Business Consultant and Project Manager at Intershop, where he was involved in the development and realisation of well-known e-commerce platforms and web-portals. After this, he used his considerable experience of eCommerce to start his own business in eCommerce consulting with a small team.

Christoph Urban, MySpace
Director Marketing & Content

After holding a position as Assistant to the Marketing Director of Nestlé Germany AG, Maggi GmbH in Frankfurt in 1998, he moved on to the music broadcaster MTV. Following various stations in marketing, he was responsible for all mobile and online activities of the Viacom family (MTV, Viva, Nick, Comedy Central) as Head of Digital Business until 2007. Now, he holds the position of Director Marketing & Content at MySpace / Fox Interactive Germany and is in charge of all marketing activities and content co-operations of the world’s most successful social network in Germany.

Colin Dixon, The Diffusion Group
Practice Manager

Colin is an Executive Consultant to the Digital Media industry. He has held senior positions at companies including Microsoft/WebTV, Liberate and Oracle and is currently the Practice Manager for Broadband Media at The Diffusion Group. He has overseen the successful delivery of products such as Electronic Program Guides and Video Servers and created Interactive TV Games services and Broadcast Interactive Systems. Colin has a Masters Degree from the University of Florida and has post-graduate business education experience from Stanford. He is a published author.

Claus Bülow Christensen, TomorrowNext Media
Consultant

Claus Bülow Christensen has a broad background in both the Danish media and telco industry, having had leading positions at both the Danish public service station, TV 2, as well as at the Scandinavian IPTV and triple play company, Bredbandsbolaget (B2 Bredband). He is today a self-employed consultant in his company, TomorrowsNextMedia Consultancy, that focuses on business strategies for digital media distribution, with clients within both the media industry and the telco sector. TomorrowsNextMedia Consultancy is also working with implementing user friendly technology concepts for The Digital Home, as the company has a strong focus on usability for the emerging digital lifestyle.

Christina Hirsch, Sony DHME / tvtv
Manager New Services

Christina is responsible for the business development of new services on top of EPG/ metadata. Before joining Sony, she was product manager at Vodafone Germany where she was in charge of DVB-H rollout amongst other products. She specialised in innovation management, market research and intercultural communication during her studies at Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilian-University.

Damir Tomicic, Axinom International
Co-Founder & Managing Director

Damir is co-founder and managing director of Axinom International (www.axinom.de), the leading European technology integrator recently recognized with “IPTV Award 2008”. Axinom creates value for its customers by leveraging cutting edge technologies to design, build, and deploy scalable and reliable WebTV platforms and End2End media solutions. Damir is Microsoft Regional Director and member of Board of Directors at International Association of Software Architects.

Daren Gill, vtap
General Manager

As GM of vtap, Daren Gill leads the rapidly growing free consumer mobile video service which is driving over 5 million video views per month on mobile devices. Daren is a pioneer in the area of content discovery and personalisation in this world of convergence across web, mobile and the tv. Before joining Veveo to extend their innovative search technology into consumer offerings across mobile, web and IPTV, Daren was SVP of Product Development at ChoiceStream building personalisation and recommendations solutions for partners such as Yahoo!, Apple, Comcast, DirecTV, Blockbuster, and AOL. Early in his career, Daren was the co-founder of the Hear Music record label which was acquired by Starbucks.

David Whittaker, NDS
Director of Business Development and Advertising Technologies

David has particular responsibility to ensure that digital television technologies are designed to deliver real world business benefits to consumers, broadcasters and advertisers. He has been closely involved with the development and deployment of NDS’ XTV secure DVR technologies in platforms including BSkyB, DIRECTV and Sky Italia. He is also involved with the deployment of improved "return path data" viewing measurement methods to enable TV ratings to report new and increasingly fragmented TV viewing behaviours such as time-shift and personalised on-demand services.

Dr. Dirk Kleine, SevenSenses
Managing Director

Dirk studied Business Administration at the University of Cooperative Education in Mannheim and has a MBA from Lancaster University and Vienna University and a Ph. D. from the University St. Gallen. Before joining ProSiebenSat.1 Group in 2002, Dirk worked as an Internal Strategy Consultant at BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH and as Head of Business Development at Kirch Intermedia’s Sport1.de. At ProSiebenSat.1 Group, he was Head of Business Development at SevenOne Intermedia GmbH until September 2004. Since then, he has been Head of Business Development and Digital TV at SevenOne Intermedia GmbH. In March 2006, he was appointed Managing Director of SevenSenses GmbH.

Dr. Ralf Weisser, McDermott Will & Emery
Partner

Ralf is a partner in the law firm of Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater LLP. He is the head of the German telecom, media and technology (TMT) practice group and the co-head of the firm’s TMT group. His practice focuses on advising companies and financial investors in the media, entertainment and telecommunications industries on the drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts, in M&A transactions, regulatory matters and litigation. Ralf has authored several law review articles and regularly speaks and presents panel discussions at industry conferences. He is recommended in many legal guides as leading in the field of media and telecoms.

Dominik P. Matyka, Plista
Founder & CEO

Dominik P. Matyka, born 1982, is a serial entrepreneur and business angel. He is founder and CEO of plista.com, a personalisation and recommendation startup company from Berlin and CEO of u25 ventures GmbH. Previous to that, he was co-founder of hiClip.tv, a video technology and advertising company sold to Adconion Media Group, and new.fm, an online music and media distribution network. Parallel to that he is a Ph.D. student at the University of St. Gallen specialising in media and communication. Mr. Matyka holds a M.Sc. in innovation and technology management from the University of Vienna and Cass Business School, London.

Frank Strässle-Wendelstein, Bayerische Medien Technik
Managing Director

Frank is Managing Director of bmt as well as Head of DVB-T Project Office in Bavaria, responsible for communication and information about implementation, launch and technology of DVB-T. Previously, he was Manager TV Solutions for a Full Service Advertising Agency, responsible for the development of new kinds of TV contents for the B2C market. As Director of Programming he also developed and realised „Savings Banks TV“, the first digital special interest TV channel for private finance distributed via digital satellite. Before this, he gained extensive broadcast experience at Bavaria Film and Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Horst Stipp, Ph.D., NBC Universal
Sen. Vice President

Horst Stipp is Sen. Vice President, Strategic Insights & Innovation in the Research department of NBC Universal in New York where he oversees strategic marketing and consumer research for NBCU’s TV networks as well as the new digital platforms. Stipp received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University and has been involved in media research for over 30 years. His publications, in English and German, cover a wide range of topics. Recently, he has written in journals and contributed to books on the development of the media in the digital age. Since 2000, he has been teaching a seminar on media metrics at Columbia University’s Business School.

Gianluca Ferremi, Waterjug
Founder

With nine years of experience in the digital media and video markets, four of which in a management role, Gianluca has launched a hardware product line and has been responsible for strategic sales and partners ecosystems. He was also part of a core team that conceived and developed the strategy and business model for a Web 2.0 start-up focused on digital video services targeted at Internet users. His expertise, coupled with his technology background, brings the ability to translate technological innovation into business value. In January 2008, Gianluca created WaterJug. He is fluent in three languages, and currently lives in Barcelona.

Luc Uytterhoeven, Devoteam
Business Line Manage

Luc joined Devoteam in 2007 and is currently Business Line Manager in Devoteam Telecom & Media Belgium, responsible for the interactive digital TV services addressing the Telco, Enterprise and Media market. Before this, he had already a 20 year career experience. Starting as software engineer at Agfa-Gevaert and later Siemens Atea, he successfully continued as system architect, project manager and line manager in Siemens NV, Siemens Com and NokiaSiemensNetworks. Luc holds a Master Degree in Computer Sciences.

Moritz Viehweger, mediapeers GmbH
Managing Partner

Moritz holds a MSc and PhD in Communication Science from the University of Arts Berlin. He worked for ten years as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where Moritz led the German speaking media sector. As a partner he advised primarily broadcasters in Europe and Middle East as well as technology companies in the States. In 2006 Moritz co-founded Azist, a business communication service provider in Buenos Aires, as well as mediapeers in Berlin. mediapeers operates with the mediapeers exchange an online B2B marketplace for audiovisual content und supports licensors and licensees in the international distribution resp. sourcing of their offering.

Sebastian Moeritz, dicas digital image coding GmbH
CEO

Sebastian is an internationally recognised figure in the field of digital television, video compression and its various applications. He is chief executive of dicas digital image coding GmbH, a German company which specialises in developing MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 real-time video coding software and hardware systems. As President of the MPEG Industry Forum (MPEGIF), he leads the world’s largest not-for-profit organisation promoting the adoption of open MPEG standards, representing around 40 international member companies.

Stephan Noller, nugg.ad
Founder & CEO

Stephan Noller, born 1970, was one of the three founders of nugg.ad AG. As Chief Executive Officer he is not only responsible for the ongoing development of the nugg.ad platform to fit the requirements of the market, but also for the development of nugg.ad as a whole. Stephan Noller studied Psychology in Cologne, earning honours for his work on "Mental Models and Web Navigation." He has contributed to various scientific publications and research projects with his research into the conclusions that can be drawn from users' online behavior. Before nugg.ag he worked at TNS Emnid, assigned with developing a new process for measuring internet coverage for the industry association AGOF, in 2005/2006 he also developed a targeting system for TNS for online advertising based on automated profiling.

Stefan A. Jenzowsky, moreTV
Managing Director

Stefan is CEO of moreTV Broadcasting GmbH, the market leader for TV-based Services in Germany with more than 250.000 users to date. Before, Stefan worked as a scientist at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, teaching media psychology, media and advertising effects, and entertainment research. After this, Stefan was VP and Head of Business Innovation within Siemens Communications, heading a Business Innovation Think Tank for fixed and mobile communications. After leaving Siemens, Stefan became Partner at trommsdorff + drüner innovation + marketing consultants, consulting on strategies of business innovation, new product development and innovation marketing. Stefan has authored and edited various scientific publications and books circling about the effect of digital technologies on innovation and the future of media.

Stefan Schneiders, Nokia Siemens Networks
Business Development Manager Mobile TV & Mobile Advertising

Stefan Schneiders supports the business development for Mobile TV & Mobile Advertising within the Consulting and System Integration Business at Nokia Siemens Networks. He continues his activities as Senior Vice President for Siemens Networks, where he was responsible for the business development of Mobile Broadcast since 2005. Before his current assignment he was COO for the international consortium PayCircle and supported the Open Mobile Alliances M-Commerce Working Group as Vice Chairman.

Toby Russell, 3Vision
Founder & CEO

Toby is responsible for the strategic direction of the business as well as managing the company’s high level content provider relationships. 3Vision is a leading specialist content consultancy based in the UK, offering a range of services including Content Acquisition, Strategy Development and Marketing advice as well Recruitment services through sister company 3Vision People. Prior to 3Vision Toby worked for the international TV division of Walt Disney for 10 years and represented the company on the board of HBO Central Europe as well as working for IPTV pioneer Yes TV.

Torsten Ahlers, wunderloop
CEO

Before joining AOL Torsten Ahlers led the marketing and sales divisions of Tomorrow Focus Sales GmbH. Before this position he was responsible for leading online sales as project manager at Gruner + Jahr EMS, which creates and merchandises websites for the publisher’s print magazines. Torsten Ahlers was born in Bremen, studied business economics at the University of Hamburg and started his career with a traineeship at Axel Springer Verlag.