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Forum Chairman: Martin Salter, Broadcast Industry Consultant

Forum Moderator: Vitaliy Shub, Adviser to President, TransTeleCom

General sponsor - Harris

Official partner - МТS

Sponsor - Expert TV

7 February 2012
Round table. Cable TV Association of Russia Congress "Transition to digital broadcasting national standard. A new order of interaction between the market's players. The role of the Cable TV Association of Russia in representing the industry in legislative and executive power"
Supported by: Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation
11:30 - 14:00	Conference-hall 1
Moderator: Yuri Pripachkin, President of Cable TV Association of Russia
The scope of issues includes: The development of legislation in the field of mass media. a) The problem of introducing a universal license for broadcasting; b) The provisions concerning the procedure of distribution nationwide mandatory public television and radio channels. The degree of digitalization influence to broadcasting and the development of digital television in the domestic engineering industry. The decision of the Government Commission on September 22, 2011 about broadcasting standards DVB-T2: perspectives, expectations and challenges. The Policy-forming interrelations between operators and content producers in a changing market of pay-TV. The Replacement of overhead lines and air-cable transitions for underground communication lines in major cities: legislative support, the problem of fail-safe rendering of services, project financing.
Among the invitees are: Alexei Malinin, Deputy Minister, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Sergei Sitnikov, Head of RosComNadzor Sergei Ulyankin, Director of the Department for Digital TV and New Technologies on Mass Communications, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Nataliya Romashova, Deputy Director, Department of State Policy in the field of Mass Media, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Viktor Pinchuk, Deputy General Director, Network Management, Operation and Development, FSUE RTRS Pavel Chumakov, Vice-President, Innovations, “General Satellite” Corporation Nadezhda Vilkova, CEO MNITI, President, ARPAT Association Mikhail Silin, Vice-president, the Russian Association of Cable Television Victor Koresh, President, AKADO Group of Companies Vyacheslav Mordachev, President, Tricolor TV Artem Kudryavcev, President, TransTeleCom Andrey Semerikov, General Director, ER-Telecom Holding Dmitriy Bagdasaryan, Deputy General Director, MTS Sergey Kalugin, CEO, National Cable Networks Anatoliy Smorgonskiy, Marketing Director, Moscow region, VympelCom Roman Stolyarskiy, CEO, Red Media Nikolay Dubovoy, CEO, Channel One. Worldwide
Break
14.30 - 18.00	Session " Secrets of the thematic channels’ commercial success in pay-TV market"
Moderator: Yana Belskaya, Programme Director, Orion-Express
Time	Paper Title	Speaker
14.30 - 14.50	Pay-TV Channels. The numbers and statistics. The main problems of pay-TV channels through the eyes of spectators and operators.	Aleksey Byrdin, Editor-in-chief, "Cableman"
14.50 - 15.10	Thematic channel: the analysis of the success of the chosen development strategy.	Maria Kamenskaya, Head of research of thematic channels, TNS Russia
15.10 - 15.30	The usage of the results of sociological research to assess the popularity of thematic channels	Alexandr Silin, Director, ASCON
15.30 - 15.45	How to gain 10 million subscribers per 2 years	Sergey Koshlyakov, CEO, "My Planet" Channel
15.45 - 16.00	The reorganization of A-One channel. The actual questions of an updated audience forming	Vyacheslav Lugovykh, General Director, The First Alternative channel
16.00 - 16.20	5 reasons not to start a new channel	Konstantin Soloviev, EX General TV producer MAN TV
16.20-16.40	Cable operators, as a basis for commercial success of TV	Renat Galeev, Deputy Director for distribution, ZHIVI Media
16.40-17.00	The interaction of channel - operator line on the market. Problems and solutions	Olesya Konovalova, Head of Content Management, Rostelecom
17.00-17.20	The technology of Internet sales of advertising time on TV	Popova A.A., CEO, SNT:EX Leshok Y.N., Director of Business Development, SNT:EX
17.20-17.40	Influence of different factors to assess the commercial potential of a niche channel	Elena Krylova, Head of the Directorate of Regional Development and Monitoring, Expert TV
17.40 - 18.00	How to earn a maximum of what belongs to you free of charge: fine points of promotion of free-to-air thematic channels	Lily Sheroziya, Stragedy Director, TV3 channel; Alexandr Boikov, Creative Director, STS channel
Conference-hall 3
15.00 - 17.30	Session: "Mobile multimedia opportunities"
Moderator: Vitaliy Shub, Adviser to President, TransTeleCom
Time	Paper Title	Speaker
15.00 - 15.20	Moderator's opening speech	Vitaliy Shub, Adviser to President, TransTeleCom
15.20 - 15.40	Trends in content consumption and monetization of mobile TV services	Fedor Ezhov, Executive director, MobyWorld Media
15.40 - 16.00	Mobile Multi Media (M3) using DVB-T2	Gerard Faria, CTO, TEAMCAST
16.00 - 16.20	The practical application of adaptive bitrate technology to deliver video in mobile networks	Denis Nochevnov, Director of new technologies and servises, Megafon
16.20 - 16.40	Mobile TV. Reload	Alexey Bugay, Deputy General Director, Business Development, CTI
16.40 - 17.00	Developments in Global Mobile Wi-Fi	Alexandr Vlasov, Head of Moscow Regional Office, T-Systems
17.00 - 17.20	Leveraging the Cloud: how television service providers can take advantage of the cloud to cost effectively deliver multiscreen services	Dmitry Bronner, Responsible for Digital TV and smart card technology business, NAGRA Kudelski
Conference hall 4
14.30 - 17.30	MTS Conference
8 February 2012
Conference-hall 1
11.00 - 15.00	World Content Show
General sponsor: PARAMOUNT COMEDY
Sponsor: GULLI
Time	Represented channel	Speaker
Entertainment television channels
11.00 - 11.15	Paramount Comedy Drawing of prizes	Andre Gromkovski, Paramount Comedy Brand Head
11.20 - 11.30	Fox International Channels. We entertain people.
11.30 - 11.40	Amazing Life	Alexandr Arkharov, General Director Elena Mironova, Director/Regional Development
11.40 - 11.50	Fashion One
Family Television Channels
12.00 - 12.15	Digital TV Family of Channel One	Alexander Sablukov, marketing director
Music Television Channels
12.20 - 12.30	Russian Musicbox	Roman Mironov, PR Director
Information Television Channels
12.40 - 12.50	Expert-TV	Phiruz Karimov, General Director
12.50 - 13.00	BBC World News
13.00 - 13.10	France 24
13.10 - 13.20	Deutsche Welle
TV Channels for Children
13.20 - 13.30	Nickelodeon	Konstantin Vladimirov, Commercial Manager, Russia&CIS
13.30 - 13.45	Cartoon Network Drawing of prizes	Anton Zorkin, Lead of children's TV show "Ben 10: Super-task" Natalia Chikolini, Marketing Manager
13.45 - 14.00	TiJi, Gulli Drawing of prizes
Film Drama Television Channels
14.10 - 14.20	Amedia– TV channel of favourite TV series	Ekaterina Vorontsova, PR Director
14.20 - 14.30	Kinoluxe	Anna Nazarova, MaxMedia
TV Channels of Special Interests
14.40 - 14.50	NKS Media
14.50 - 15.00	Global Star TV
Conference-hall 1
16.00 - 17.00	SNT:EX business-seminars
Conference-hall 3
10.30 - 13.30	IP & TV Forum
Sponsor: Netris
Partner: Verymatrix
Moderator: Anatoly Smorgonsky, Chief Marketing Officer, TV Content and Services, VympelCom
Time	Paper Title	Speaker
10.30 - 10.40	Moderator's opening speech	Anatoly Smorgonsky, Chief Marketing Officer, TV Content and Services, VympelCom
10.40 - 11.00	OTT vs IPTV	Konstantin Ankilov, Partner, iKS-Consulting
11.00 - 11.20	Gathering statistics, advertising and other benefits of IPTV for building an effective operator business	Murad Efendiev, CEO, Netris
11.20 - 11.40	Converging IPTV & OTT: Creating a Multi-Network Security Solution	Alexandr Guitine, Sales Director for Eastern Europe, Verimatrix
11.40 - 12.00	Title to be advised	Anatoly Smorgonsky, Chief Marketing Officer, TV Content and Services, VympelCom
12.00 - 12.20	Universal service delivery platform as a new round of of paid TV	Irakli Nakashidze, head of the Russian Representative offices, Regional Director of Sales, NDS
12.20 - 12:40	Pay-TV services in passive optical networks. Is there any chance of traditional services?	Alexey Shishov, Vice President of Cable TV Association of Russia, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the "V-Lux"
12.40 - 13.00	The system of digital interactive television (the prospects of development).	Nickolay Fokin, The chief of video services, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Academician of International Academy of Communications, QWERTY
13.00 - 13.20	A compact solution for remote IP headend	Germann Geer, Sales Manager for Eastern Europe / Central Asia, ASTRO Strobel Kommunikationssysteme GmbH
Break
13.45 - 18.00	Session "Increase of cable TV operators’ revenues. Modern services in pay-TV networks (OTT TV, Personal Video Recorder, Video-on-Demand, Pay-per-View)"
Sponsor: OPERA SOFTWARE
Moderator: Leonid Konik, Editor-in-chief, COMNEWS
Time	Paper Title	Speaker
13.45-13.50	Moderator's opening speech	Leonid Konik, Editor-in-chief, COMNEWS
13.50 - 14.10	World experience and trends in the promotion of IPTV and OTT	Natalia Yashenkova, Marketing manager, Netris
14.10-14.30	The first phase of Multimedia project of TransTeleCom	Vitaliy Shub, Adviser to President, TransTeleCom
14.30 - 14.50	Connected TV: the race has just begun	Ilya Shpankov, Marketing manager, Opera Software
14.50 - 15.10	OTT new revenue streams	Sergey Lakham, CEO, Envivio
15.10 - 15.30	Maximising OTT in the IPTV market: the challenges and the opportunity	Igor Gusev, Business Developer, Nord Telecom Group,
15.30-15.50	The development of converged media for television of the future	Ekaterina Petukhova, CEO, Harris
15.50 - 16.10	Additional services - the monetization of the subscriber base and increase customer loyalty	Nicholay Gyubbenet, Director of Innovation, National Satellite Company
16.10 - 16.30	The Over-the-Top Tipping Point	Stéphane Le Dreau, Vice-president Business Development, NAGRA Kudelski
16.30 - 16.50	OTT Services. The convergence of technologies and services	Alexandr Kosarev , Deputy Technical Director, AKADO Group of companies
16.50-17.10	QoE/QoS Perfomance Metrics for Over-the-Top Video	Danny Wilson, CEO, PixelMetrix Corporation
17.10-17.30	OTT-a new benchmark for delivery and content	Konstantin Burykhin, Head of Interactive Services, Department of Business Development, CTI
17.30-17.50	Winning tomorrow's race today: OTT as the key to effective monetization service OTT and IPTV: or instead of? Options, opportunities, benefits	Alexandr Voskresensky, Director of International Sales and Business Development, SmartLabs
Conference-hall 4
11.00-13.00	Session " Production of Russian industry in digital TV market "
Оrganizer: ARPAT assoсiation
11.00 - 11.05	Moderator's opening speech	Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation
11.05 - 11.15	Prospects for the development of digital broadcasting after 2015	Alexandr Kalin, Head of Information and Analytical Center, FSUE "RTRS"
11.15 - 11.25	Prospects for the development of digital television technology	Konstantin Bystrushkin, Head of Section, ARPAT
11.25 - 11.35	The European experience of digitalization	Marco Almerigogna, Vice-President, “DMT-SYES”
11.35 - 11.45	Some features of the introduction of digital television broadcasting in Russia	Kalju Kukk, Chairman of Expert Council, ARPAT, MNITI
11.45 - 11.55	National standards for digital television as support for domestic manufacturers of television equipment for WTO accession	Alexandr Umbitaliev,CEO, "NIItelevideniya"; Sergey Tretiak, Deputy of Chief Engineer "NIItelevideniya"; Lev Polosin, Chief Scientific Officer, Inc. "NIItelevideniya"
11.55 - 12.05	Development of the sample digital set-top box based on the first national VLSI digital television signal decoder	Georgy Chumachenko, Head of Sector, "Module"
12.05 - 12.15	New interactive services in networks of digital television broadcasting	Konstantin Beliakov, Vice-President, Strategic Development, Elecard Devices
12.15 - 12.25	The measuring device TSV-03M Russian manufacturer NPO "Cable Networks" and its application to digital TV broadcasting radio	Stanislav Kozlovskiy, Chief technical officer, NPO "Cable Networks"
12.25 - 12.35	System of mobile multimedia broadcasting Ravis	Yuri Volkov, Chief Designer, "NIIDAR"; Dvorkovich Alexandr, Department head, General Radio Frequency Centre
Break
15.00 - 17.00	Session " Legal session. The new licensing procedure for broadcasters"
Schedule will be available after confirmation from of all the speakers.
9 February 2012
Conference-hall 1
10.00 - 15.00	Session "New technologies’ implementation (3D, HD). Realities and challenges. 3D Workshop
Organizer: Italian Association "Comunicare Digitale"
Moderator: Andrea M.Michelozzi, President, Comunicare Digitale
Time	Paper Title	Speaker
10.00 - 10.05	Moderator's opening speech	Andrea M.Michelozzi, President, Comunicare Digitale
10.05 - 10.20	3D via Satellite a Reality Throughout Europe	Michel Chabrol, Director, Sales Support & Customer Care, Eutelsat Commumications
10.20 - 11.20	Introduction on Stereoscopic 3D Broadcasting Production	Mark Jacobs, BBC Academy- Expert producer
11.20 - 11.35	The production of 3D content. The organization of stereo broadcasting	Bozhok Oleg, The Director, OCEAN TV
10.35 - 11.50	HDTV in Russia and abroad	Yana Belskaya, Development Director, TV Services, Orion-Express
11.50 - 12.20	Coffee-break
12.20 - 13.05	Round table
	Moderator: Graham Pitman, Chairman, Rapid TV
	3DTV, UHDTV the latest standardization efforts in areas	Chris Lennon, Harris Corporation - Engineering Director for SMPTE
	The next step - 3D without glasses	Alexey Polyakov, CEO, Triaxess Vision
	Overcoming the transmission challenges associated with 3D and HD	Steven Soenens , Director of Product Marketing of Broadcast Solutions , Newtec
13.05 - 14.05	Stereoscopic 3D Broadcasting Production Opportunities	Mark Jacobs, BBC Academy- Expert producer
14.05 - 14.30	Questions & Answers
Conference-hall 3
10.30 - 14.00	Session "Video and TV in the Internet"
	Sponsor: NGENIX
Moderator: Nikolay Orlov, Editor-in-Chief, Tele-Sputnik magazine
Time	Paper Title	Speaker
10.30 - 10.40	Moderator's opening speech	Nikolay Orlov, Editor-in-Chief, Tele-Sputnik magazine
10.40 - 11.00	Advantages and disadvantages of existing systems of paid broadcasting in the Internet	Valery Krylov, Director, Sinterra Media
11.00 - 11.20	Title to be advised	Ivan Ugryumov, Director, TNS
11.20 - 11.40	The general strategy of building video service	Belenov Alexandr, Director, TVzavr.ru
11.40 - 12.00	Video in the Internet - the Catch Up TV model: technologies, advantages and prospects	Dmitry Mineev, Director of Bisiness Development and Content, Zoomby.ru
12.00-12.20	HDTV in the Internet	Tatiana Mikhalevskaya, Project Manager of "TV Mir" portal, First HDTV
12.20 - 12.40	Title to be advised	Konstantin Chumachenko, CEO, NGENIX
12.40 - 13.00	Consumer Survey 2011: Digital Consumption Behavior have taken hold	Rob van den Dam, Global Communications Leader IBV, IBM
13.00 - 13.20	Strategies for broadcasting TV content on the Internet. Examples of successful implementation	Yaroslav Gorodetskiy, General Director, CDN-video
13.20 - 13.40	TV is everywhere: how to increase profits?	Andrew Silanchev, Director of Business Development, Irdeto
13.40 - 14.00	Social media and Internet broadcasting - as a driver of growth of regional TV audience	Vladimir Nabatov, Project manager, X-Media Digital
Break
14.15 - 17.00	Business seminars
	Moderator: Gadiyan Gerasim, CEO of Network HDTV-channel HD Media, President of Association HD Union
Time	Paper Title	Speaker
14.15-15.15	Harris' integrated solutions for broadcasters in multimedia environment - Cable, Satellite, Webcast	Vincent Tep, Product manager Contribution and Distribution, Harris
15.15-15.35	Internet broadcasting platform: from idea to realization	Alexandr Kabenin, Head of Network Architecture & Engineering, NGENIX
15.35-15.55	How to make services IPTV / OTT more attractive and accessible?	Natalia Yashenkova, Marketing manager, Netris
15.55 - 16.15	Digital TV solution for operators based on the platform Luminato and experience of its implementation	Leonid Soloviev, Head of Moscow Regional Office, Teleste Corporation
16.15 - 16.35	Portal VINTERA.TV: Internet TV, IPTV, TV-channels providers in real time on the TV Samsung SmartTV	Gadiyan Gerasim, CEO of Network HDTV-channel HD Media, President of Association HD Union, SPC «ERA» , Samsung
Conference-hall 4
11.00 - 13.30	Session "Satellite constellation development of Russian and foreign operators"
Moderators: Oleg Kolesnikov, Technical Director, NTV PLUS
Time	Paper Title	Speaker
11.00 - 11.10	Moderator's opening speech	Oleg Kolesnikov, Technical Director, NTV PLUS
11.10 - 11.30	Title to be advised	Yuri Prokhorov, CEO of FSUE "Space Communications"
11.30 - 11.50	The development of "Yamal" satellites constellation	Dmitry Sevastyanov, General Director, Gasprom space systems
11.50 - 12.10	The development of satellite constellation Eutelsat. New projects in Russia	Nikolay Orlov, Regional Director, Eutelsat
12.10 - 12.30	Title to be advised	Oleg Kolesnikov, Technical Director, NTV PLUS
12.30 - 12.50	The modern trend towards transmitting devices Ku- and Ka- band for satellite TV and VSAT-networks.	Sergey Burgomistrov, Chief technical officer, RuSat
12.50 - 13.10	Prospects for use VSAT Broadband by individuals	Sergey Pekhterev, CEO, AltegroSky
Break
14.00 - 17.00	Session "Marketing promotion of satellite and cable TV operators"
Sponsor: Orion Express
Moderator: Vitaliy Shub, Adviser to President, TransTelecom
Time	Paper Title	Speaker
14.00-14.20	Moderator's opening speech	Vitaliy Shub, Adviser to President, TransTelecom
14.20 - 14.40	The success factors of satellite television operator in Russia	Maria Zilina, Marketing Director, Orion Express
14.40 - 15.00	The usage of different business models, the organizations of paid TV abroad	Sergey Dolgopolsky, Department of Foreign Projects, General Satellite
15.00 - 15.20	Joint marketing and promotional campaigns and channel operator when starting a new brand (for example, channel TLC)	Gregory Lavrov, Marketing Manager Russia and North East Europe, Discovery Communications LLC
15.20 - 15.40	Title to be advised	Julia Shahmanova, Marketing Director, Tricolor TV
15.40 - 16.00	Title to be advised	Alexey Zhuravlev, Marketing Director, NTV-PLUS
16.00 - 16.20	Title to be advised	Maxim Chernov, Marketing Director, AKADO
16.20 - 16.40	The marketing strategy of cable operators	Mikhail Vorobyov, Deputy Director General for Commercial Affairs, ER-Telecom

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