CSTB. Telecom & Media’2018 celebrates its 20th anniversary with a significant extension of conference program’s topics and glad to announce a totally new project for Russian market - CONTENT SUMMIT RUSSIA. “Russian content: tendencies and prospects” which will become a significant step towards not only for exhibition development but for the whole TV industry. 

CONTENT SUMMIT RUSSIA. “Russian content: tendencies and prospects” - is a working platform for key international participants of TV and telecom industry which will be gathered at one place for discussion of actual problems and industry’s prospects. Leading producers, distributors, Russian sellers and buyers of content are invited for participation in the conference programme.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

10:30-10:45

CONFERENCE OPENING CEREMONY

SYLVAIN FAUREAU – Senior Sales Director, TV Division, Reed MIDEM
DARIA PETROVA – Deputy CEO, MIDEXPO company

10:45-11:40

SECTION «Researches of Russian content market»

MODERATOR: NINA ROMODANOVSKAYA, chief editor and head of professional portal PROFICINEMA.

Researches on TV content market in Russia

MARIA ERKOVICH, KVG RESEARCH company

Research «Children. Media consumption. 2017»

KIRILL TANAEV, Director of Momri institute

Demands and trends in production and distribution of children's content

VERA OBOLONKINA, Director of Department of children's and youth's programmes, Channel One Russia Worldwide

JUZBASHEVA JULIA, Director, ValidataKIDS.

12:00-14:00

Discussion «Russian content entrance to international market»

MODERATOR: NINA ROMODANOVSKAYA, chief editor and head of professional portal PROFICINEMA

During last several years Russian TV and movie industry enter international market with confidence, asserting itself on whole new level. Producers of the most successful companies and holdings will tell their experience of exclusive content production and its promotion on world market in this section and also how to correspond with world quality level.

Topics for discussion:

• Main tendencies of Russian content market development and its promotion abroad;
• Aspects of Russian content market promotion in CIS countries and on foreign markets;
• Analysis of specific cases of Russian serials performance at largest world venues;
• Secrets of production of universal content, top requested all over the world;
• What should know the beginning producer so to sell his content abroad successfully;
• What markets are interested most of all in Russian content and in what markets Russian producers are mostly interested

Invited speakers:

• Aleksandra Modestova, official representative of Reed MIDEM in Russia and CIS
• Aleksandr Tsekalo, General producer of production company "SREDA"
• Vlad Ryashin, founder, General producer of Star media
• Aleksey Trotsuk, General producer of Yellow Black and White
• Vasiliy Soloviev, Russian TV and film producer (Russia – 88, Icebreaker), recipient of Kinotavr festival grand prize for a movie Good Boy
• Gevond Andreasyan, motion picture company "Enjoy movies"

14:00-14:10

BREAK

14:10-15:30

NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND TRENDS OF MEDIA INDUSTRY FUTURE: VIDEO IN 360° FORMAT AND VR

MODERATORS: EVGENIY BORISOV, CEO VORTEX. PICTURES
EKATERINA FILATOVA, Head of Association of augmented and virtual reality AVRA

Supported by Association of augmented and virtual reality AVRA

Topics for discussion:

• VR-technologies in world film industry
• Broadcasting of sport events in 360° format
• How media companies see VR application in media industry
• How VR transforms consumption of kid's content today

Invited speakers:

• Dmitry Mednikov, Deputy General Director of VGTRK channel
• Ekaterina Filatova, Head of Association of augmented and virtual reality AVRA
• Georgy Molodtsov, creative director of VRability project
• Svetlana Klimkina, Head of development, marketing and promotion Panoramic video RT360 Department RT Channel

15:30-15:50

BREAK

15:50-17:30

DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN TV CHANNELS ON INTERNATIONAL MARKETS

MODERATOR: Yana Belskaya, chief editor of web portal Cable man

Supported by web-portal «Cable man Eurasia» 

Topics for discussion:

• Which Russian content is demanded abroad?
• Experience of entering foreign TV markets by Russian TV channels and distributors
• CIS and Baltics countries as an advanced direction of development of Russian content. Problems and solutions
• Channels of content promotion abroad
• Adaptation of Russian content for foreign TV channels
  

Invited speakers:

• Mikhail Kovalchuk, CEO Signal Media
• Andrey Reih, СEO Kartina.TV
• Andrey Salnikov, Director of Channels' Distribution, CIS and Baltic States, Channel One Russia Worldwide
• Naira Papanyan, Director for international distribution, National Media Group and CTC Media
• Dmitry Povetkin, Head of distribution department of RT channel
  

Representatives of communication providers and broadcasters' non-governmental associations of CIS and Baltics countries:

• Ararat Arushunyan, president of Association of Armenian cable broadcasters
• Saule Sarsembaeva, General Director of Silk Way Media, Kazakhstan
• Vladislav Gurman, member of the board of Open Agency, Latvia
• Tamara Lalazashvili, General Director of T3Concept Ltd. Company, Georgia
• Aider Bekirov, president of media group "Europe", Kyrgyz Republic
• Tatyana Elnina, director of TOO Eurasia Media Distribution, Kazakhstan.

17:30-18:30

SESSION Q&A

Traditionally at CSTB. Telecom & Media a lot of attention payed to content topic. Exhibitors of the exhibition are the leading world media giants and Russian content providers which are meeting at CSTB space to negotiate on cooperation and announce new TV channels and projects.

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS