Biography: Vincent Grivet, is a graduate from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris France) and Paris Tech Telecom. He worked for eighteen years for the international activities of the Orange Group, including a time as Chief Executive Officer of Wanadoo, Orange’s internet services unit in Belgium. In 2006, he was a co-founder of Maxtel, an entrepreneurial Wireless Broadband start-up which obtained significant spectrum rights in a competitive bid. He currently works for the TDF Group, where he is in charge of Broadcast Development and Innovation.

Biography: Paul Gray is a Research and Analysis Director within IHS Technology. Gray joined IHS in November 2014, when IHS acquired DisplaySearch, a leader in primary research and forecasting on the global display market. At DisplaySearch, he served as director of European TV research and also covered wearable devices, digital broadcast and semiconductor technology. He conducts in-depth analysis and forecasting of connected TV and 4K Ultra HD.  He has over 20 years of experience in market intelligence, marketing and product management. His work includes forecasting, product strategy, investment and R&D decisions. He has been cited as an expert by Nikkei, Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, Financial Times, Electronics Times, The Korea Herald and other publications.

Biography: Carine Léa Chardon completed her legal training in Germany and France with a focus on media law and media management.

She joined the Kirch Group in 2001 as a media policy officer, was then responsible as Contract Manager at EM.TV AG for the licensing contracts for TV and merchandising, including for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. From September 2004 on, she held the position of Senior Counsel Regulatory Affairs at Premiere AG (now Sky Deutschland AG) – among other things, she worked on the development of Premiere’s media policy network at the European Union and in Austria.

Since July 2008, Carine Chardon has been Head of Media Policy / Media Law at ZVEI – Zentralverband Elektrotechnik- und Elektronikindustrie e.V. (German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association). In this function, she represents the interests of the members of the consumer electronics industry vis-à-vis legislative bodies and supervisory authorities at national and European level. She also heads the Consumer Electronics Team and represents the Managing Director of the ZVEI Consumer Electronics Association.

In addition, Carine Chardon has been the managing director of the German TV Platform since August 2008. The association is committed to the overall interests of digital broadcasting companies, in particular the introduction of new technologies based on industry standards, such as interactive television with the HbbTV or Ultra HD standard.

Biography: Product Manager at Cellnex Telecom, Treasurer and SG member at HbbTV Association and Associate Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Xavi Redon has been involved in Terrestrial Television evolution in Spain since 1996 moving forward projects like UHD DTT transmissions, TDT Híbrida certification, TDT SAT, ASO or the Spanish DTT network.

Biography: Matthew has over 20 years of experience in developing solutions, services and products for digital and interactive television, starting with video-on-demand trials in the early nineties. His most recent role was as CTO of Freesat, where he led the definition, development and live operations of Freesat products and services. Matthew strove to position Freesat as an innovation hub for free-to-view television, in the UK and across the globe.

A popular satellite, cable and technology speaker, Matthew has the ability to clearly articulate the essence of complex technical issues to general and business audiences. He has written and spoken extensively on interactive television technology.

Matthew holds a first class honors degree in Computer Software Technology from the University of Bath. He has a number of pending and issued patents and has served on the boards of several industry groups.  He currently resides in London, with his wife, Abigail, and daughter, Amelia.

Biography: Florian is working for the RTL II saleshouse EL CARTEL MEDIA in Munich since 2014 – he is Senior Productmanager in the Media Solutions department, creating customer individual ideas and concepts for special ads in TV and crossdigital.
Besides the website RTL2.de, the VOD service TVNOW and several mobile apps for different RTL II tv shows, HbbTV and especially Addressable TV is one of the focus topics in his daily business.
He also is project lead of the EL CARTEL MEDIA AD LAB, where the sales house is developing new advertising forms for TV an digital.

Biography: Andrea Duerager is a media research specialist within the Red Bull company, especially focused on TV research regarding ServusTV Austria and Germany. Her main responsibilities lie on the evaluation of the programme performance, the realization of quantitative and qualitative studies, and the enhancement of the HbbTV tracking measurement, that has been developed and refined by Red Bull in cooperation with Fraunhofer since 2016. In the past she worked for the University of Salzburg as a researcher and lecturer within the Department of Communication Studies and is still teaching basics of statistics and empirical quantitative work. She holds a Doctor in Philosophy, Master degrees in Communication Studies and Pedagogics and an MIM (Master in Management).

Biography: Jörn Krieger has been working as a freelance journalist, specialised in digital media, broadcast technology, convergence and new markets, since 1992. His articles are published by German and international industry publications such as Broadband TV News, InfoDigital, Digitalmagazin, Cable!vision Europe and Medien Bulletin. Jörn also takes up University lectureships, conducts workshops and seminars and hosts panel discussions at industry events such as Deutsche TV-Plattform Symposium, ANGA COM, Medientage München and IFA Berlin.

Biography: As Head of International Business Development and Innovation, Oliver is in charge of developing international markets as also portfolio innovation through R&D initiatives. In the Media sector specifically, he is involved in multiscreen video distribution, multimodal UX design, Interactive TV, Addressable TV Advertising, IoT, VR/AR, Big Data and Advanced Analytics, applied to OTT and to Audience Segmentation and UX Personalization. He is also UK Territory Manager.

Biography: Andy oversees all the CE and relationships that Freesat has. Entrepreneurial by nature, Andy’s leadership harnesses the technology investments inside Freesat setting the product strategy to create economies of scale for our global CE partners. Central to Andy’s capability and personality is his ability to build strong relationships with silicon companies, product companies, software partners, infrastructure providers and content owners.

Early in Andy’s career, he was part of the first story for establishing digital television in Sony, as standards and industry emerged into existence. Starting and growing his own Set Top Box company TVonics in 2004 and winner of the IET Start up award in 2007. Andy’s professional network brings more than twenty years of experience in the television and media industry.

Biography: Managing a team of 80+ employees staff engineers journalists, electronics, production and post production staff, etc. with a budget over of 1.5 million euros. The company today boasts several technology projects that have been implemented to enable multimedia to enjoy multimedia content through a variety of devices and applications such as mobile phones, tablets, pc’s, laptops, SmarTV, etc.

The pinnacle of technological developments is the deployment of hybrid TV (HbbTV) services by ERT for the first time in Greece but also in the Balkans. Hybrid TV and the interactive services it offers are now available to citizens by ERT free, interactive. We currently offer for free at least seven apps like: 24 Plus, On Demand, App for the 27 live radio stations, EPG, ERTPlay’s (thematic channels), Whether app, App for the Football League. Latest we lunch services such as subtitles selection and multicam viewing of sport events.

The ERT is devoted to making public service media. In a continues process my division supports and strengthen public service media, provide first-class media services and offer our customers innovative solutions.

Biography: Jack Lacy is Senior Vice President, Standards and Community Initiatives at Intertrust.  He is also Secretary and Treasurer of the Marlin Developer Community and the Marlin Trust Management Organization, the two operative branches of the Marlin Open DRM Standard.  Mr. Lacy has been at Intertrust since 1999 and has served in several executive roles in research and development and standardization.  In
addition Mr. Lacy has held lead positions at various standards including MPEG, SDMI, and the Coral Consortium.

Prior to joining Intertrust, Mr. Lacy spent 18 years as a research
scientist at Bell Laboratories, Bell Labs and AT&T Labs working in a variety of areas related to networking and computer security, including systems for sending voice over IP networks, cryptography, and secure systems architecture. He is a co-inventor of Cryptolib, a widely distributed cryptographic library, and Policymaker, an AT&T developed approach to specifying and interpreting security policies, credentials, and relationships. Mr. Lacy holds graduate degrees in Physics and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin and NYU respectively.

Biography: Fabian Birgfeld is the CEO and co-founder of the digital design agency W12 Studios with offices in London. With over 20 years of experience he has designed, developed and launched next generation digital experiences for companies such as Bertelsmann, Intel, Citibank, and the BBC, among others, prior to founding W12. He was awarded the D&AD yellow pencil and the TV of Tomorrow’s Individual Leadership Prize. He is also an IntelCapital mentor. He holds a BA in Economics from Harvard University and a graduate degree in Architecture from Princeton University.

Biography: Nicolas Moulin-Fournier is SVP New Video Services at Eutelsat. He is in charge of the Eutelsat CIRRUS service, an end-to-end video distribution solution over satellite and OTT. Nicolas joined Eutelsat in 2011. Prior to this, he had 12 years of experience in the space industry, strategy consulting and software industry.

Biography: Carlos Antonio Navarrete-Puentes is a Colombian lecturer, researcher and tech entrepreneur with a Master degree in Software Engineering from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá (Colombia). He has worked in human-computer interaction and new media content production for Digital TV and since 2011. His experience as a software development lecturer and his interests in entrepreneurship, education, culture, music and technology, has allowed Mr. Navarrete-Puentes to lead projects that ease and promote content creation addressing the design of new viewers’ experiences, in which he has developed, applied and tested in @mhp and HbbTV standards. He is currently leading a project of a HbbTV based full interactive TV show with the participation of Universidad de los Andes, the Colombian IT Ministry, Colombian National TV Authority (ANTV), Señal Colombia important Colombian audiovisual producers.

Biography: Peter Neumann studied Electrical Engineering and received the Dipl.-Ing. degree (2009) as well as the Dr.-Ing. degree (2017) from Technische Universitaet Braunschweig (Germany). In 2010 he started his career as a researcher at the Institute for Communications Technology of Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, where his research interest was on system theory and technology for heterogeneous broadcast/broadband networks enabling cost-effective and spectrum-efficient content delivery (Dynamic Broadcast). In 2016 he joined the Platform Solutions department of CBC Cologne Broadcasting Center GmbH. Since then he has been working in the field of program distribution with a focus on hybrid broadcast/broadband TV (HbbTV) and addressable TV (ATV).

Biography: I am Pasquale Marinaro, born in Benevento on 31/07/1986. I graduated with a master’s degree in Computer Science in 2012. My first job was at Intelligentia, a university spin-off in Benevento in 2010, during my master’s degree. At Intelligentia, I developed a platform for business process management and a platform to optimize the management of cash in ATM, using AI techniques. In 2012 I started to develop interactive applications on SAT STB for a Sky Italy.
In June 2014, I started working for MediaMotive, as a software architect, continuing to work in the media environment, in particular on SKY IP STB for a product that was launched in 2015, in Italy. In the 2 nd semester of 2015 I started working as a software architect and project manager to design anddevelop interactive applications for the new Sky STB: Sky Q. This product
was launched in Italy in 2017. Afterwards, I moved to a new company called Kineton, a company set up by the top management of MediaMotive, acting as technical manager concerning the media world, in particular, on HbbTV ecosystem.

Biography: Mirko Nedeljković is CEO at Suitest, a spinoff of mineus, and has been working in the interactive television industry for more than 19 years.

Suitest is the first and only object-based solution for automated end-to-end and user interface testing of TV apps across all living room devices including HbbTV/FreviewPlay, Tizen, webOS, Android TV, Apple TV, Xbox, Roku and many others. At Suitest Mirko is defining the product strategy and developing partnerships with broadcasters, manufactures and organisations.

Prior to founding mineus and Suitest, Mirko worked at razorfish in Hamburg and New York as producer, client partner and head of broadband/future TV.

Mirko has been working on cross platform software projects for broadcasters, cable network operators and content providers. At mineus he has been overseeing implementations of HbbTV/teletext CMSs, HbbTV apps for e.g. ProsiebenSAT.1 Germany /Austria, swisstxt (SRG SSR), a comprehensive advertising SDK for HbbTV and various SmartTV platforms and numerous second screen apps.

Biography: Dr Bob Campbell is chair of HbbTV’s Improving Interoperability Task Force (IITF) and Director of Engineering at Eurofins Digital Testing, a leading digital media and device testing specialist. The IITF seeks to address interoperability issues raised by industry in implementing HbbTV, wherever possible, within the HbbTV Association’s remit and scope. As a result of feedback it gathered, two new tools are now available for the HbbTV ecosystem which will be the subject of this presentation. At Eurofins, Bob is responsible for the team that delivers Eurofins Digital Testing Products including the CI+ Test Tool, Ligada HbbTV test harness and HbbTV test suites used around the world. Bob is also responsible for Eurofins participation in a wide range of standards bodies and he is their representative at the HbbTV Association Steering Group, CTA WAVE, ATSC and a number of other organisations. Prior to joining Eurofins, Bob worked in a variety of industries including at IBM and Siemens Rail and holds a PhD from Bristol University.

Biography: Jon Piesing is the vice-chair of HbbTV. He played a major role facilitating the convergence of the original French and German initiatives which together become HbbTV. He is a member of the Steering Board of the DVB project and the Steering Committee of the CTA Web Application Video Ecosystem (WAVE) project. Jon has been a leading figure in the development of specifications for integration of TV and interactivity for more than ten years. This has included being the chairman of groups in DVB, the Open IPTV Forum and the UK DTG.
Jon is now Director, Standardisation for TP Vision (who manufacture Philips TVs for Europe and a number of other territories). He has previously held senior positions related to standardisation in several different units of Philips.

Biography: Robert Briel has been an international media journalist for many years, contributing to both Dutch and international trade publications. He is co-founder, co-owner and editor and publisher of Broadband TV News.

Robert was for many years editor-in-chief and creative director of Veronica TV Magazine, Holland’s biggest selling weekly.  From December 1999 until January 2002 Robert was head of international press & PR at the UPC media group and responsible for the international and external contacts for the various thematic channels from UPC across Europe.

As a senior consultant at RGB Media he worked for Canal+, Bookmark, Sky Radio, CineNova the movie channel, the Dutch DVB-T broadcaster Digitenne, BBC Worldwide, SES-Astra, Philips, the NOS communications department and other blue chip media companies.

Robert is also the author of a number of books on music, travel and the media.

Biography: Dr Marcus Dimpfel leitet die Strategische Unternehmensentwicklung der Mediengruppe RTL. Damit verantwortet er die Strategieentwicklung und -umsetzung sowohl für das Kern- als auch für das Diversifikationsgeschäft. Zuvor leitete Dr. Marcus Dimpfel bei RTL interactive die Unternehmensentwicklung, arbeitete als Senior Director im Bereich Corporate Controlling and Strategy der Bertelsmann AG in Gütersloh und promovierte am Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationsmanagement der Universität St. Gallen.

Biography: Stuart has been involved in the world of TV middleware since the 1990s and helped deliver the first interactive Red Button service at Sky in 1999. Since then he has worked with a variety of TV middlewares and systems including OpenTV, Liberate, TwoWay TV, MHEG and now HbbTV. Stuart chairs HbbTV’s Supplier Evaluation Working Group and has been a Steering Group member since 2014. He is currently Director of R&D for LG Electronics in Europe.

Biography: Peter MacAvock is Head of Delivery, Platforms and Services, EBU Technology and Development and DVB Chairman. At EBU, he heads the team responsible for innovation projects relating to delivery technologies, spectrum management and software platforms. Amongst other things, he is responsible for spectrum matters and high level projects related to Hybrid Radio and Television including HbbTV, DVB, RadioDNS and others. In July 2016, he was elected Chairman of the DVB Project, and retains a role as co-chair of the HbbTV Reuqirements Group. He is an Irish national living and working in Switzerland.

Biography: In his role as Associate Director, Ian leads the DTG Testing operation, including test material development and testing services, overseeing technical architecture and project design and management, ensuring quality delivery to specification, deadline and budget.

Ian joined DTGTL from interactive TV specialists Strategy and Technology (S&T) where he spent over a decade in a variety of roles, culminating in Head of Development – Client Systems, leading a group of engineers based in the UK and Hong Kong developing interactive middleware (MHEG) for digital television receivers.

Ian chairs a number of industry groups within the DTG, including the Technical Oversight Group which oversees all technical activities within the DTG.

Ian started his career as a Test Software Engineer at aviation firm Smiths Industries before spending three years at Pioneer’s Digital Design Centre creating test and verification software for a variety of MPEG-1, MPEG-2 video, VSB, and QAM silicon designs.

Biography: Pascal-Hippolyte Besson, CEO of DOTSCREEN, is a digital TV veteran with more than 20 years in this industry. Prior to co-founding DOTSCREEN in 2011, he created, designed and developed with his team more than 300 applications on STBs (games, VOD, EPG, native UI etc.) for prominent digital networks around the world such as Dish Network (USA), Bell (Canada), Sky (UK), Multichoice (South Africa and Greece), Digiturk (Turkey), Austar (Australia), SkyNZ (New Zealand), Etisalat (U.A.E) and more. DOTSCREEN is one of the leading European, truly “multi-screen” agencies that creates, designs and develops custom applications on any Internet-connected mass-market device such as smartTVs, OTT boxes (including Roku, AndroidTV and AppleTV), set-top boxes, game consoles (PlayStation and Xbox), HbbTV devices, smartphones, tablets, connected car-radios, smartwatches and smart-speakers. Its customers are ESPN, HBO, CBS News, BeIN Sports, Turner, Fox, Disney, Orange, Telefonica, Vodafone and more. Regarding HbbTV, DOTSCREEN has been involved since its launch and has deployed many applications and portals for France Television, TF1 (France), France24, Fransat, Freenet (Germany), SVT (Sweden) and more. Pascal-Hippolyte holds an Engineer diploma in computer sciences (Université de Paris-Sud Orsay) with a specialization in User Interface. He also holds a MBA from Essec-Mannheim (DE).

Biography: Arturo Larraínzar was born in Madrid in 1982. He has a degree in Business Administration and Management from Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros (CUNEF). Additionally, he complemented his training with a Master’s Degree in Audiovisual Company Management from the EAE Business School, and a Master’s Degree in Economic Research from the UNED.
He commenced his professional career at Deloitte, where he carried out audit and consulting projects in the Media and Telecommunications sector. In 2008, he joined the Antena 3 Group as a market executive and in 2010, he was appointed Market Analysis and Business Development Director at Atresmedia Publicidad. In March 2014, he was appointed Strategy Director of the Atresmedia Group, a post which he occupies at present.

Biography: Stefanie Lüdecke is Member of the Executive Board of ProSiebenSat.1 Digital. Her area of responsibility covers the red button services and HbbTV activities. For this reason she is responsible for the direct digital distribution of the video inventary of ProSiebenSat.1.

Stefanie has longtime experiences in the entertainment and digital industry. At last she managed Shopkick in Germany and Europe. Further stations were leading positions at zanox (Axel Springer), TUI Germany and SPIEGEL.

Biography:  Klaus graduated from the Technical University Munich in telecommunications engineering in 1992 and then joined the IRT as scientific engineer. Since 1995 he is engaged in various working groups in the definition and market introduction of open and interoperable platforms for digital interactive television.
With various standardisation activities being an important part of this work, he was deeply involved in the launching phase of the HbbTV initiative in 2009. He coordinates IRT‘s activities related to HbbTV and is still active in contributing to the further development of the HbbTV standard.
Beyond standardisation, many of his activities are related to the practical application of HbbTV in operational market environments. This includes support for both public and commercial broadcasters in all questions related to the practical use of HbbTV, specifically in the context of new service types or new HbbTV features.

Biography: Martin Prins is Product Owner at Media Distillery, an Amsterdam based startup specialized in using AI to understand what’s inside video. With an R&D-background in streaming and broadcast media, Martin is currently responsible for Media Distillery’s Deep Understanding Platform, which helps broadcasters, operators and media organisations leverage AI to improve the user experiences of (broadcast) video services. Martin has over 10 years of experience in creating innovations for the broadcast and media industry. Prior to joining Media Distillery, Martin worked as Senior Media Consultant at TNO, a leading Research Institute in the Netherlands. In this role he helped broadcasters and operators with media innovations such as OTT content delivery, HbbTV, UltraHD and Addressable TV. Martin was involved in HbbTV, as spec editor of HbbTV Application Discovery over Broadband, and was also actively involved in DVB’s standardisation activity for Targeted Advertising.

Biography: Louay Bassbouss is a scientist and senior project manager R&D in the business unit Future Applications and Media (FAME) of the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communications Systems (FOKUS). He works on Future Web Applications, Multiscreen Technologies & Standards, and 360° Video Technologies.

Louay has actively participated in various standardization activities at W3C, particularly in the Second Screen Working Group. He is the test facilitator of the W3C Presentation API.

Biography: Francesc Mas is Engineer Consultant & Project Manager at Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals (CCMA S.A.), Spain. He graduated in 2001 as Telecommunications Engineer, and upgrade his skills with a Master in Digital TV in 2002 and an Executive Master of Business Administration in 2007. He’s specialized in TV & Radio News IP contribution, multi-platform delivery and broadcast & broadband TV services (DTT, OTT, Hybrid TV). Francesc Mas collaborated in TV-Ring European project focused on innovative multi-camera TV services and Hbb4All European project about TV accessibility for impaired people. He also took part in the project for the deployment of Digital TV and HbbTV in Colombia. Nowadays Francesc Mas is participating in two European projects, both focused on accessibility, with the target to foster wider availability of accessible media offerings including also the new immersive 360º contents.

Biography: After working with Freesat as Chief Solutions Architect, Raj Patel founded Yotta Media Labs with Gary Knowles (ex NDS and OpenTV). Raj has worked in the media industry over the last 18 years, primarily focusing on Interactive Services on TV across multiple platforms and successfully launched the 2nd generation Freesat platform & service called “freetime”. Recently, he has contributed, his efforts to the HbbTV Operator Application Specification and now assisting over the pond in implementing ATSC 3.0 next generation TV.

Biography: Jeong-Deok Kim obtained the B.S. and M.S. degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from POSTECH, Korea, in 1994 and 1996 respectively. In 1996, he joined the R&D Institute of KBS. He is now a director in the Research and Planning Department and IBB Chair at Future Broadcast and Media Standards Forum in Korea. He has devoted himself to developing new broadcasting services across multiple TV platform and he is also interested in AI, data analysis and VR/AR.

Biography:  Masaru received B.E and M.E degree from Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan in electrical engineering in 1987 and 1990 respectively. He joined NHK in 1990, and since then, he started his research work in various technical area at its Science and Technology Research Laboratories. His research takes an important role for the development of digital broadcasting systems in Japan from its early age, in particular, the protocols and receiver architecture for multimedia services.
He is also active for standardization. He made many important contributions for interactive TV standards including BML and ARIB-J and led standardization of Hybridcast for 2K and UHDTV, and ARIB-TTML. He also led global standardization in this area as the Sub Working Group chair and the Rapporteur at ITU-R and ITU-T.
Currently he is seconded to NHK Engineering System Inc. for the development of technique toward harmonization of applications between Hybridcast and HbbTV 2.

Biography: Teun van der Veen is Senior Consultant in the Networks department in TNO. In this position he leads the Media Networking team and is responsible for R&D projects in the Dutch and European telecom markets. Teun chairs a number of informal European operator work groups on broadband and IPTV.
He leads the TNO-initiative on HbbTV Operator Applications and works with operators and manufacturers towards deployment in 2018 and beyond. He is supporting HbbTV in its marketing activities, for instance by driving the publication of the recent whitepaper on the OpApps standard. Teun has coordinated a consortium of HbbTV members to create and review test assertions for this standard.
He founded TNO’s Ultra-fast Broadband seminar, a world-leading event on technical developments in broadband that celebrated its 10th edition in 2018, illustrating the fact that Teun has always enjoyed connecting people and knowledge.
Before joining TNO in 2003, he was lead photonic chip designer at C2V, Alcatel Optronics and Kymata Netherlands.
Teun holds an MSc degree in Applied Physics from the University of Twente in The Netherlands.

Biography: Alberto Sigismondi is an expert in digital television, he works for Mediaset as Director of Digital Platforms Development. In 2008 he has been appointed CEO of Tivù S.r.l., the JV between RAI, Mediaset, Telecom Italia Media.
He has been working in television since 1978, with different roles including Strategic Marketing Director. He is 59, lives in Milan, married with two children.
Graduated in Philosophy, he taught Media Studies at University of Milan.
He has chaired the Free TV Alliance recently created among the main european free to air satellite broadcasters.

Biography: Patrice Silvant acts as the strategic role of VP Sales & Partnership in EMEA. Patrice comes to SERAPHIC with more than 20 years’ experience in technology, sales development and innovative projects in DTV industry, with roles spanning from software development to technology licensing.

Patrice initially joined the inception of digital TV at Technicolor and the world first internet connected TV: the Thomson-TAK project. Patrice then partnered with the key DTV technology companies worldwide to source the best technologies as Director of Software Sourcing at Technicolor, and then joined DivX and Opera TV business team before joining SERAPHIC.

Biography: Jens Johann has been involved in the development of digital TV since its planning in the early 90’s and he is currently acting as Senior Manager in the area of multimedia and broadband services at Deutsche Telekom. In this position he manages standardization activities for Deutsche Telekom Group in close collaboration with research and product development. For more than 25 years he represents his company’s interests in several standardization bodies and fora as ITU, ETSI, DVB, DECT, i3Forum and also in HbbTV. Jens holds a diploma and a PhD from Technical University of Darmstadt, both in communications engineering.

Biography: Erik Gazzoni is currently in charge of Product Management for SmarDTV Global.
As such he’s looking after the DVB-CIPlus roadmap to define next generation Conditional Access Module Product Line.
Before he was Head of Cable and IPTV products where he led the Product definition for two-way networks.
Prior to SmarDTV, Erik was Director of Marketing Digital TV for SCM Microsystems Inc., Fremont CA. where he managed several Digital TV projects (first WW USB/1394 PC DTV receiver, CableCARDs for both US and Korean markets).
He has been involved in various Standardization/Engineering committees and Working groups like Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE Digital Video Subcommittee) and OpenCable to DVB-CI/CIplus initiatives.
He received his Master of Computer Sciences and Electronics from one of the top of French Higher School of Engineering (Ecole Centrale).

Biography: Frode Hernes is SVP, Product Management at Vewd, where he leads product development of Vewd’s core products, including our award-winning HbbTV products.

He has more than 35 years of experience with office- and consumer software delivered to B2B customers. Since 2010, he has spearheaded Opera/Vewd products for the TV industry, from the first pioneering HbbTV 1.0 solutions, and the latest HbbTV 2.0.1 solution with advanced Media Synchronization, to the latest introduction of the complete turn-key smart TV solution, Vewd OS. Frode has a broad knowledge of the HbbTV ecosystem, technology and markets and has been a member of the HbbTV Steering Board since 2012.