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He joined advises clients on convergence and Infonetics in 2005, after four years digital media strategy and implementation. as senior product marketing manager with VolP Previously, as head of interactive at BBC Broadcast, switch equipment startup SentitO Networks, and he operationally managed the launch and delivery of two years as marketing communications manager its online and interactive TV services, William began with telecoms infrastructure manufacturer Tellabs. his career as a broadcast journalist and is a regular contributor to international conferences, with papers John Moroney published at both IBC and NAB, John is a founding director of Octegra, which provides Dirk Jaeger independent market research and Dirk acted as technical director at EuroCablelabs strategic advice for companies in the from Oct 2OO1 to Dec 2OO7. He is co-ordinating telecoms, lT and media sectors, John has 25 the EU-funded project ReDeSign and is active as years of industry knowledge. Prior to setting up chairman of technical committees of standardisation Octegra, John was a principal consultant at various bodies and associations, Has been Ovum, an associate director at Gartner and a appointed into various advisory committees, He is a senior executive with BT. member of FKIG (Germany) and SCTE (UK) and has published a number of papers on aspects of Ken McCann cable, digital television and communications Ken McCann is a director and co- technologies in various journals. founder of ZetaCast, an independent technology consultancy company specialising in digital TV and A :l]lff:'fi"J research w*h rn-stat, multimedia, Ken contributed significantly to the f * where he leads the company's Mobile development of the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 , .*S;"l ' lnternet research practice at. Prior to standards and has chaired the DVB technical ryi that. he was co-iounder and chief group responsible for audio visual coding research officer at MultiMedia lntelligence, He has specifications (TVI-AVC) since its inception some in-depth expertise in focus areas including internet 1 4 years ago. Prior to founding ZetaCast, Ken ry lPry VoD home networking, mobile video and was technology director at NTL Broadcast, content platforms. Mark Kirstein Dr George T Waters Mark is co-founder and president at Dr Waters joined RTE, the lrish public broadcaster, analyst firm MultiMedia lntelligence. in 1956 as a member of the team that prepared He has 20 years of industry the launch of television in 1961, He was also experience. director of the technical department at EBU, a co- Prior to founding MultiMedia lntelligence, Mark founder of the lnternational Academy of founded the market research company, Minova Broadcasting and is its president since 1993, He Technology, which subsequently became the also chaired the DVB World conferences for eight foundation of iSuppli's multimedja research years, Dr Waters is a life fellow of the SMPTE and a coverage, lead by Mark. Previously, Mark was VP fellow of the IEI and general manager of ln-Stat. pege fiiby foun CSI magezina, Awardg ww, csimagazine. com Westminster Cable TV Videotron, Cable & / r. \ rr \ I I ]fi; Wireless and DIVA. ttI a----rl(-]<_-ltl I I !h [1iJ;:i"T'":#i,x. " tU tn\___-_, - J ltt Ll na'ies Sebastian Moeritz \- e@@9 AWARDS BEI ii! i;Ix',r,,Til:fi :il,,';.'rd f " sebastran ts an tnlernattonatty &i:#ifi:ffi-:.. involved in a number of lT-related ventures and joined dicas, a developer of ISO MPEG-4 real-time as its N#-fi-iffisatellite, cable, IPW DTT set-top boxes, and video coding solutions, based in Germany, compression technologies. CEO in the beginning of 2OO1 , the Shane's area of expertise includes lP delivery of Since 2004, Sebastian has been president of payW services, including telco TV and internet W MPEG lndustry Forum (MPEGIF)' ln addition, Shane covers worldwide developments of HDW equipment and services. Anver Anderson With over 25 years experience in the Neil Dormand communications induskY, Anver Neil spent over a decade working in manages Anver Ltd, a full service BBCTV studios in engineering roles, solutions agency for the satellite and as well as general manager of broadcast industry. Anver has worked for global technology and production services. satellite operators and service providers and has Following retirement from the BBC in 2OOO' Neil experience in business development and product became technology consultant to the marketing centred on sport and news gathering, Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. He has also held a number of directorships in Dr Helmut Stein broadcast related companies and is an associate Helmut's professional career started in of the Bakewell House Consultancy. Neil is a 1973 aI Robert Bosch in Stuttgart, for member of the IBC Conference Committee and Later he has been a board member ln 2OO1' Chairman of the Thames Valley Centre of the R&D in BlaupunK and Nokia. Premiere as COO Royal Television SocietY. he joined German payW operator to help restructure the comPanY Phil Reed He has been in the board of European research Phil Reed is a freelance engineer and projects like Eureka 95 (HDTV), PALplus (16:9) DVB in 1991/l993. journalist with over 38 Years of and a founding member of experience in the broadcast industry, Since then he has been a member of the DVB He started as an engineer, working for Steering Board and Chalrman of the Promotion and the BBC and moved into systems wlth Ampex and Communication Module (PCM) since its creation, Sony, He has worked for both facility and production Today he runs his own comPanY, ISDM Media) companies and has a thorough knowledge of (lnternational Strategies for Digital at today's equipment and operational practices. Helmut studied Physics and Radio-Astronomy the University of Bonn, GermanY. Dr Roger BlakewaY Dr Blakeway is president of the SCTE Philip Hunter (Society of Telecommunication Philip is a technologY journalist Engineers), a post which he has held coverlng W broadcasting and content for the last 12 years. The SCTE technologies. Coming from an lT serves the technicians and engineers involved in background as a former Programmer placed to the cable telecommunications and allied fields Dr and software test analyst he is well to a Blakeway has been involved in the cable understand the current migration of content writes for communications industry for over 20 years, digital platform served on demand. Philip holding engineering director positions in C5/ on a varietY of toPics. page fifty five CSI magazinB, Awards l-_ ?'o,OSl l Awands shoFtlist / (_* .J\/ r___j=<\ i it| I \i | \-/f -!- -\Jlll broadcast technology or service \J-J! 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