Opening Session
Welcome Address
Dr Javad Mottaghi, Secretary-General, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union
Opening Address
Mr Shashi Vempati, Vice President, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union and Chief Executive Officer, Prasar Bharati-India
Industry Keynote
Mr Mohamad Helmi Harith, Group Chief Executive Officer, Altel Holdings
11:45-12:45 | Workshop 1 : Importance of Viewership and Key Technologies in MYTV’s Developments
Mr Mazlan Mahadi, Chief Executive Officer, MYTV Broadcasting Sdn Bhd
Adiwati Zainuddin, Head of Content and Strategy, MYTV Broadcasting Sdn Bhd
14:00-15:10 | Session 1: Industry Developments and Standards Update
Moderator: Hamid Dehghan Nayeri, ABU Technical Committee Chairman, Director, International Technical Affairs & ABU Technical Liaison Officer, IRIB-Iran
DAB+ global update and developments
Lindsay Cornell, Principal Systems Architect, BBC Digital
DRM-Smart Radio Enhances Lives
Ruxandra Obreja, Chairman, DRM Consortium
DVB Native IP: Enabling the convergence of OTT and Broadcast Technologies
Tom Christophory, Senior Manager, SES
Régis Moulin, consultant, Eutelsat
NDI, Changing the game on the move to IP
Fintan Mc Kiernan, CEO, IDEAL Systems SEA
15:15-16:10 | Session 2: Evolving Business Strategies for Broadcast and Media
Moderator: Zhong Shi, Anchor, China Global Television Networks (CGTN)
Convergence continue to drive FAST changes in OTT
Mardhiah Nasir, Executive Director, IPSB Technology
Radio 2022 and beyond: meeting the commercial imperative
Joan Warner, Chief Executive Officer, Commercial Radio Australia
DRM Energy Efficiency: Cutting the Cost of Broadcasting
Simon Keens, Sales and Business Development Manager, Ampegon
16:15-17:10 | Workshop 2 : Innovation and Extension of DRM in FM
Moderator: Ruxandra Obreja, Chairman, DRM Consortium
Speakers
Alexander Zink, Vice Chair, DRM Consortium and Sr Business Development Manager, Fraunhofer IIS
Yogendra Pal, Honorary Chairman of the India Chapter, DRM Consortium
11:00-12:30 | Session 3: Media Solutions: Implementation and Use Cases
Moderator: Aale Raza, Director, Whiteways Systems
Mobile Journalism (MOJO) Implementation for News Reporting in RTM
Ahmad Shafiq Mirza Mansor, Assistance Director of Engineering, RTM
Making technology to be a new kind of content
Pan Ming, Director of Content Department, 5G iMango Radio
RTM’s Use case: Leveraging CDN in surging OTT demand
Nurulhusna Mohamad Kasim, Principal Assistant Director, RTM
The Digital Transformation of TV
Martin Webb, Product Director, Cloud TV Comcast Technology Solutions
14:00-14:55 | Session 4: Cyber Security & Media on the Cloud
Moderator: Peter Bruce, Director of Business Development, Elevate Broadcast
AI Network Security, Detection & Respond made easy for any Enterprise
Michael Lok, Regional Director, Enterprise & Channels (Asean), Arista Networks
Moving to Software-based technology for DTT networks
Colin Prior, VP Sales – APAC, ENENSYS
Post-quantum cryptography and the security challenges of the Internet broadcasting services
Mohammad Paknahad, Senior Researcher, IRIB R&D
Moderator: Sunil, ABU Technical Committee Vice-Chairman and Additional Director General (Engineering), Prasar Bharati-India
SD to HD Video Format Conversion using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
Mohieddin Moradi, Assistant Professor, IRIB University
Leveraging AI to proactively manage media operations and ensure maximum availability and quality of service
Ben Vandenberghe, CEO, Skyline Communications
Big Data Ecosystems for Broadcast Applications
Negin Ayoughi, Senior Researcher, IRIB R&D
Speakers
Sam Bogoch, CEO, axle ai
Mardhiah Nasir, Executive Director, IPSB
Farikh Ikram, Head of Technology, IPSB
11:00-12.30 | Session 6: Advances in Media Delivery – 5G and Beyond
Moderator: (TBC)
Linear Television Broadcasting over 5G Networks
Les Sabel, Chair, S-Comm Technologies
Peter Walop, Executive Partner, Convergence Consulting Company
5G Broadcast / Multicast – Redefining the future of content delivery
Nils Ahrens, Area Manager Broadcast, Rohde & Schwarz
Antenna systems for 5G Broadcast
Prasanna D Meemaduma, Head and Salesperson- APAC, Kathrein Broadcast
Modern DAB+ Broadcast Transmitter
Oscar Hu, Regional Sales Manager, Gates Air
14:00-15:10 | Session 7: Broadcasting on the Cloud – Evolving Workflows
Moderator: Fintan Mc Kiernan, CEO, IDEAL Systems SEA
You’re ready to move your media workflows to the cloud – but at what cost
Rahul Goyal, Country Manager-India Malaysia Thailand, Dalet
The Economics of Cloud Workflows
Shad Hashmi, Media and Entertainment Partner Lead-APAC, Amazon Web Services
AEQ technology over IP for remote broadcast operations in radio and television
Antonio Perez, APAC Area Manager, AEQ
Broadcasting on the cloud
Subodh Aggarwal, Sr- Director Solutions APAC/SAMEA, TVU Networks
Moderator: Peter Siebert, IEEE BTS
AI, 5G and Big Data Applications in Media
Zhang Shilei, Deputy Director, CGTN Digital
Mobile 8K contribution using 5G
Tatsuya Tobe, Sales Engineering Expert, LiveU
5G Remote Production is Setting a New Standard for Live Sports Broadcasts
Ronan Poullaouec, Chief Technology Officer, Aviwest
Moderator: Les Sabel, Chairman, WorldDAB Asia Pacific Technical Group
Speakers
Patrick Hannon, President, WorldDAB
Joan Warner, Vice President, WorldDAB and Chair, WorldDAB Asia Pacific Committee
Chris Weck, Former Head of the Technical and Infrastructure Department, Deutschlandradio
Bernie O’Neill, Project Director, WorldDAB
11:00-12:30 | Session 9: Advances in Production Technologies and Applications
Moderator: Masashi Kamei, ABU Technical Committee Vice-Chairman and Senior Research Engineer, NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories, NHK-Japan
Camera person-oriented focus control system for UHD filming
Yuichiro Asami, Senior Manager, NHK
AI-based Audio Codecs
Mohammad Reza Hasanabadi, Senior Researcher, IRIB R&D
Remote 2110 & Cloud Production techniques
Dennis Breckenridge, CEO, Elevate Broadcast
AR, VR & XR Implementation – Design Perspective
Hazizul Jaya B Ab Rahim, Assistant Director, RTM
14:00-14:55 | Session 10: NextGen Technology Developments
Moderator: Les Sabel, Chair, S-Comm Technologies
XR Technology and immersive experiences
Aale Raza, Director, Whiteways Systems Pte Ltd
Commercial and technical aspects of Next Generation Video Coding (NGVC) technologies for broadcast and broadband
Peter Siebert, IEEE BTS
DNA Based Data Storage
Mohammad Nozari Pak, Senior Researcher, IRIB R&D
Moderator: Mardhiah Nasir, Executive Director, IPSB
Common Media Client Data – A new paradigm for combining client-side data and CDN logs
Yin Loong Chao, Technical Solutions Architect, Akamai Technologies
Interoperability, A necessity for success of HbbTV
Fatemeh Fallahi, Senior Project Manager, IRIB
Updates and developments in the field of HbbTV
Mika Kanerva, COO, Sofia Digital
Moderator: Kazim Pektas, ABU Technical Committee Vice-Chairman and Chief Engineer, Studio Planning Department, TRT-Turkey
Multi-Camera Remote Production Over the Public Internet
Oriol Icart, Solutions and Operation Director for Europe and CIS, TVU Networks
DVB-I: Embracing IP technologies to offer pathways to a new media delivery paradigm
Emily Dubs, Head of Technology, DVB
Managing Remote Productions with Virtual Desks – A personalized experience for each user, at all times, in all places
Thomas Gunkel, Market Director-Broadcast, Skyline Communications
Speakers:
Eliot Christian, Developer of Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)
Pro Bono Consultant to IFRC, ITU, WMO and the U.S. Agency for International Development