June 6, 2019

HbbTV Symposium and Awards 2019: Call for Sponsors

Geneva, June 6, 2019 – The 8th HbbTV Symposium and Awards, taking place on November 21-22, 2019 in Athens, Greece, will provide a unique platform to reach top-level executives from the global broadcast and broadband industry. The HbbTV Association, which hosts the event in conjunction with Greek public broadcaster ERT and the Greek Ministry of Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media, has compiled several attractive sponsorship packages for promotional activities.

Details on the sponsoring and promotional packages at the HbbTV Symposium and Awards 2019 can be found under Call for Sponsors. Interested companies are encouraged to secure their commercial arrangements quickly as the opportunities are limited, ensuring great visibility for the participating partners.

Contact details for sponsoring
Greek companies: Yiannis D. Vougiouklakis (ivougiouk@ert.gr), ERT
International companies: Heinrich E. Haase (heinrichhaase@t-online.de), HbbTV Association

“With over 300 delegates from 27 countries, the HbbTV Symposium and Awards 2018 in Berlin reached a new record number of visitors and speakers. We will build on that during this year’s event in Athens which will again provide a great opportunity for sponsors to reach a large number of high-profile executives from around the world at the annual key event of the connected TV world,” said Vincent Grivet, Chair of the HbbTV Association.

The HbbTV Symposium and Awards 2019 targets platform operators, broadcasters, advertisers and adtechs, standards organisations and technology companies. The focus will include the first commercial rollouts of the game-changing HbbTV OpApp, the latest HbbTV deployments worldwide, new features of the HbbTV specifications, HbbTV as an enabler of targeted and addressable advertising and further opportunities offered by HbbTV to broadcasters and platform operators for expanding their business and opening new revenue sources.

The event will also host the third edition of the HbbTV Awards, featuring a wide range of categories designed to acclaim best practice and excellence in the HbbTV community.