The 4th annual Tech Leaders' Briefing is a two-day conference and networking event bringing together the supplier and content provider community.
30 senior executives from major media organisations will share exclusive intelligence about their priorities. No other industry event provides so much focused insight in one place, all tailored to suppliers and content providers.
Speakers
Robert Amlung
Head of Digital Strategy, ZDF
Andy Beale
Chief Engineer, BT Sport
Tim Bertioli
VP International Operations, VICE
Jamie Bolding
Founder & CEO, Jungle Creations
Juliet Bramwell
Strategic Account Manager, Google
Kate Burns
CEO, Brave Bison
Gordon Castle
SVP Technology & Operations, Eurosport
Mario Cavestany
Vice President - Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment Industries, IBM
James Crossland
SVP International Operations, Warner Media
Jessica Dahan
Head of Growth, Imagen
Florian Diederichsen
CTO, DAZN
Craig Dwyer
VP Global Cloud & SaaS Practice, Avid
Simon Farnsworth
EVP Global Head of Broadcast Technology & Operations, Discovery Communications
Emily Farnworth
Head of Climate Change, World Economic Forum
Eliza Filby
Speaker, Writer, Consultant - Generations Expert and Historian of Contemporary Values,
Barry Flanigan
Chief Product Officer, COPA90
Grant Franklin Totten
Head of Media & Emerging Platform, Al Jazeera
Richard Friedel
EVP - Engineering, Operations and Technology, Fox
Bevan Gibson
CTO, ITN
Adde Granberg
CTO, SVG
Sinead Greenaway
Chief Technology and Operations Officer, UKTV
Tom Griffiths
Director of Technology - Operations & Distribution Platforms, ITV
Carys Hughes
Design Engineer (Emerging Technologies), Sky
Renard Jenkins
VP Operations, Engineering & Distribution, PBS
Megan Johnston
Commercial Manager, Splice
Anshul Kapoor
EMEA Business Development Lead, Media, Google Cloud
Rainer Kellerhals
Managing Director - Media and Communications EME, Microsoft
Darren Long
Group Content Processing Director, Sky
Ian McLaren
Technical Director, Reuters
Del Parks
SVP & CTO, Sinclair Broadcast Group
Noel Penzer
VP - EMEA, Fastly
Matthew Postgate
Chief Technology & Product Officer, BBC
Tamar Riley
Vice President - Audience, Refinery29
Mark Rogers
General Manager - Europe, BuzzFeed
Usman Shakeel
Head of Global Media and Entertainment Solution Architecture, Amazon Web Services
Glyn Smith
Head of International Product for Media and Entertainment, Alibaba Cloud
Helen Stevens
Operations Officer, Content Supply & Distribution, ITV, ITV
Peter Sykes
Strategic Technology Development Manager, Sony
Francois Vaillant
Engineering & Architecture Executive Director, CBC / Radio-Canada
Martijn Van Dam
Member of the Executive Board, NPO
Orpheus Warr
Chief Technology Officer, Channel 4, Channel 4
Matt Westrup
VP Operations, A+E Networks
Stephanie Wheeler
Key Account Manager, Deluxe
Carrie Wootten
Director, Rise
Day One
What we learnt at the Tech Leaders' Briefing 2018
Mark Harrison
Managing Director
DPP
Tomorrow's News
What it means to be a news provider is changing. The ability to work at speed is generating new audience engagements. These are companies living right in the fast lane of content creation.
Bevan Gibson
CTO
ITN
Tim Bertioli
VP International Operations
VICE
Ian McLaren
Technical Director
Reuters
Mark Rogers
General Manager - Europe
BuzzFeed
Lunch
What EMEA Broadcasters Want (Part 1)
The EMEA market may be the most complex in the world – with some of the greatest opportunities. You can’t afford to miss what these companies have to share.
Adde Granberg
CTO
SVG
Grant Franklin Totten
Head of Media & Emerging Platform
Al Jazeera
Darren Long
Group Content Processing Director
Sky
The Story So Far
Industry professionals from the Rise membership debate the key themes emerging on Day 1
Helen Stevens
Operations Officer, Content Supply & Distribution, ITV
ITV
Stephanie Wheeler
Key Account Manager
Deluxe
Megan Johnston
Commercial Manager
Splice
Jessica Dahan
Head of Growth
Imagen
Carys Hughes
Design Engineer (Emerging Technologies)
Sky
Special Announcement
The DPP is proud to share an exciting new talent initiative from Rise
Carrie Wootten
Director
Rise
Afternoon Break
Keynote
'Demographic Disruption: Changing beliefs and behaviours in the new generational landscape'
Eliza Filby
Speaker, Writer, Consultant - Generations Expert and Historian of Contemporary Values
Transforming Sport
Sports content is where innovation tends to happen first. These may be the most important trendsetters of all.
Florian Diederichsen
CTO
DAZN
Barry Flanigan
Chief Product Officer
COPA90
Andy Beale
Chief Engineer
BT Sport
Live Tech Trends Review
See the trends emerging on Day 1 build before your very eyes!
Networking Reception
Join our speakers and attendees for drinks and quite possibly the best industry networking of the year. Enabled by:
Day Two
Welcome to Day Two
Mark Harrison
Managing Director
DPP
On the Shoulders of Tech Giants
The world’s biggest companies are tech companies. And they now also sit at the heart of the whole media ecosystem. Hear their unique perspectives.
Usman Shakeel
Head of Global Media and Entertainment Solution Architecture
Amazon Web Services
Rainer Kellerhals
Managing Director - Media and Communications EME
Microsoft
Glyn Smith
Head of International Product for Media and Entertainment
Alibaba Cloud
Mario Cavestany
Vice President - Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment Industries
IBM
Anshul Kapoor
EMEA Business Development Lead, Media
Google Cloud
What EMEA Broadcasters Want (Part 2)
This second session will brilliantly demonstrate the complexity and opportunities of the EMEA market.
Martijn Van Dam
Member of the Executive Board
NPO
Matt Westrup
VP Operations
A+E Networks
Robert Amlung
Head of Digital Strategy
ZDF
Lunch
What the Networks Want (Part 2)
The second of our North American sessions brings together some of the most famous broadcasters in the world.
Simon Farnsworth
EVP Global Head of Broadcast Technology & Operations
Discovery Communications
Renard Jenkins
VP Operations, Engineering & Distribution
PBS
Richard Friedel
EVP - Engineering, Operations and Technology
Fox
Keynote
'Can we avoid extinction?'
Emily Farnworth
Head of Climate Change
World Economic Forum
Special Announcement
Be the first to hear of an important new industry initiative from the DPP
Social Revolutionaries
These are companies that get billions of video views a month - redefining what it means to be a content provider.
Kate Burns
CEO
Brave Bison
Tamar Riley
Vice President - Audience
Refinery29
Jamie Bolding
Founder & CEO
Jungle Creations
What the UK Broadcasters Wnat
The UK tech leaders always give it to us straight. Hold tight for a lively session.
Matthew Postgate
Chief Technology & Product Officer
BBC
Tom Griffiths
Director of Technology - Operations & Distribution Platforms
ITV
Sinead Greenaway
Chief Technology and Operations Officer
UKTV
Orpheus Warr
Chief Technology Officer, Channel 4
Channel 4
Live Tech Trends Review
The final trends are in! Join four senior industry leaders as they analyse what the last two days tell us.
Craig Dwyer
VP Global Cloud & SaaS Practice
Avid
Juliet Bramwell
Strategic Account Manager
Peter Sykes
Strategic Technology Development Manager
Sony
Noel Penzer
VP - EMEA
Fastly
Sponsors
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Who's Attending?
The DPP Tech Leaders' Briefing is exclusively for DPP members.
All these companies are now signed up to attend. Is yours?
01T
A+E Networks
Adstream
Akamai
Alibaba Cloud
Al Jazeera
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Arqiva
Ateme
Atos
ATP Media
Avid
BASE Media Cloud
BBC
Bitmax
Bitmovin
Blackbird
Blackmagic Design
Brave Bison
Brightcove
BT Media & Broadcast
BT Sport
Buzzfeed
CBC/Radio-Canada
CenturyLink
Cerberus Tech
Channel 4
Clippn
Comedy Central
COPA90
Covatic
DAZN
Deluxe
Discovery
Dolby
Dropbox
DTG
EditShare
EIDR
Eluvio
Endemol
ENVY Post Production
Epic Labs
Equinix
eTribez
Eurofins Digital Testing
Eurosport
Evolutions
Fastly
FeedForward AI
Film Locker
Foundry
Full Frame Technology
Fusion Media
GBC
GBGG Productions
Globecast
Gorilla
Grabyo
GrayMeta
Group IMD
Hampermill Associates
High Green Media
Idonix
Imagen
IMG Media
Interra Systems
InSync
ioGates ApS
ITN
ITV
Jungle Creations
Limecraft
M2A Media
Make.TV
Marjan Television Network
Marquis Broadcast
Marshall Info Tech
Masstech Innovations
Media Minds
Mediadatrics
Meta Data Systems
MG ALBA
Microsoft
Mirriad
MX1
Nellcote
Nemorin
NEP Media Solutions
NIIT Technologies
Nine
NPO
Object Matrix
Oomami
Ostmodern
Overcast
Ownzones
PBS
Peach
Perform
Perimeter Pictures
Piksel
Prime Focus Technologies
Qvest Media
Q3 Media Training
Red Bee Media
Redacted Shiny
Refinery29
Remodus
SafeCast
SCISYS Media Solutions
SDI MEDIA
SDVI
Secoran
Sense the Future Pictures
Signiant
Simplestream
Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sky
Slator
SMPTE
SoCloudMedia
Softserve
Sohonet
Sony
Splice
Sundog Media Toolkit
SVT
Take 1
Tektronix
Telestream
Telstra
The Dock Leaf
The Farm Group
The Film Dept
The Filter
The Finish Line
The Football Association
The Forbidden Plateau
The Walt Disney Company
Thomson Reuters
Timeline Television
TinkerList.tv
Transfermedia
Turner
TVT Media
UEFA
UKTV
University of Surrey
V-Nova
VICE
Virtual Post
Vizrt
Vubiquity
Warner Media
Wirewax
x.news
Zayo
Why Delegates Attend
You'll get access to:
- 30 technology leaders from 30 major content providers and global technology companies who'll provide exclusive, individual briefings for suppliers, on their three key priorities for suppliers.
- Unparalleled intelligence on what key technology buyers are looking for in the short to medium term, and what it means for the supply chain.
- The latest in future thinking from inspirational keynote speakers.
- Networking with 500 senior-level delegates drawn from the supplier, technology and content provider community.
- Club Lounge business space in which your company can hold high quality meetings with key contacts.
But don't take it from us...
"Partnership is key to the success of vendors – and this event is unique."
Renard Jenkins, PBS
"This event has truly made me think about our solutions and how to market them to the industry."
Lisa Lavender, Adstream
"The industry is responding to what we’ve asked for – and that’s come from the DPP community."
Matthew Postgate, BBC
"The ethos of the DPP is writ large at this event - and lots of people have wanted to talk to us."
Darren Baker, MX1