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German Panels With English simultaneous translation
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
10.00 - 10.30 a. m. | Opening Room A
Welcome Addresses
Thomas Braun
President, ANGA Association of German Cable Operators
Hans-Joachim Otto MdB
Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Economics
and Technology
10.30 - 12.00 a. m. | Strategy Summit Room A
Cable, Satellite and IPTV:
Competing Digital Platforms
Presenter: Frank Thomsen, Editor-in-chief, stern.de
Dr. Andreas Bereczky
Director Production, ZDF
Thomas Braun
President, ANGA Association of German Cable Operators
Dr. Marcus Englert
Executive Board New Media and Diversification, ProSiebenSat.1 Group
Lutz Freitag
President, GdW
Dr. Adrian v. Hammerstein
Chief Executive Officer, Kabel Deutschland GmbH
Werner Hanf
Chief Executive Officer, NetCologne GmbH
Christian P. Illek
Group Executive Management T-Home,
Marketing, Deutsche Telekom AG
Ferdinand Kayser
President and CEO, SES ASTRA S.A.
Dr. Herbert Leifker
Chief Commercial Officer, Unitymedia Group
Martina Rutenbeck
Managing Director, Eutelsat visAvision GmbH
1.00 - 2.15 p. m. | Strategy Panel Room A
Broadband Politics:
Internet for Everybody – and via every Pipe?
Presenter: Dr. Karl-Heinz Neumann, General Manager and Director,
WIK Wissenschaftliches Institut für Infrastruktur und Kommunikationsdienste
GmbH
Jürgen Grützner
Managing Director, VATM e.V.
Dr. Iris Henseler-Unger
Vice President, Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas,
Telecommunication, Post and Railway
Martin Herkommer
Head of Press and Public Relations, Kabel Baden-Württemberg
GmbH & Co. KG
DI Thomas Hintze
Chief Executive Officer, UPC Austria GmbH
Dr. Isabel Tilly
Regulation Strategy and Law, Vodafone D2 GmbH
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
1.00 - 2.15 p. m. | Technology Panel Room B
Digital Headends enhancing Network Performance
Presenter: Richard Pohl, Managing Director, RFC Radio-Fernseh-
und Computertechnik GmbH
Optical Satellite Reception Systems: Ready to Go!
Joachim Knör, Vice President Commercial Development,
Networks & Distributors, ASTRA Deutschland GmbH
Ultra flexible Platform for Applications in CATV Headends
Ralf Schmitz, Chief Technology Officer,
ASTRO Strobel Kommunikationssysteme GmbH
Multiplexing System for Digital Data Streams
in Multimedia Applications
Dr. Piero Kirchner, Managing Director Technology,
Blankom Antennentechnik GmbH
IP based Signal Processing in CATV Headends
Frank Fuhrmann, Techninal Sales Support / Project Manager
International, GSS Grundig SAT Systems GmbH
2.45 - 4.00 p. m. | Strategy Panel Room A
Switch-Off, Simulcast and HD –
Where is the High Road to Digitization?
Presenter: Werner Lauff, Management Consultant and Publicist
Dr. Christoph Clément
General Counsel / Member of the Managing Board, Kabel Deutschland
GmbH
Prof. Dr. Carl-Eugen Eberle
General Counsel, ZDF
Dr. Hans Hege
Director, State Media Authority Berlin-Brandenburg /
Chairman of Regulatory Affairs Commission (ZAK)
Dr. Tobias Schmid
Head of Department Media Politics, Media Group RTL Germany
4.15 - 5.30 p. m. | Technology Panel Room B
HDTV – Best Practice from the Market Partners
Presenter: Dr. Norbert Thöry, Managing Director,
Cable & Media Consult
Best Practice from ZDF to introduce HDTV Services
Thomas Urban, Manager Modernization Broadcast Infrastructure,
ZDF
Infrastructure Upgrade for HDTV
Reinhard Sauer, General Manager Tele Columbus Service & Technik
GmbH, Tele Columbus
HD+, A Model for an open Platform in horizontal Environment
Alexander Sacher, Vice President Receiver Technology,
ASTRA Platform Services GmbH