Upcoming Events
Social TV World Summit
Social TV is growing to be a major issue in the connected entertainment industry. International broadcasters, OTT and IPTV providers are encouraging viewers to be more interactive through social media platforms. 2011 has seen the establishment of major social TV apps and software, with Consumer Electronic companies also introducing the next generation of Smart TV.
Now in its 8th Year the IP&TV World Forum has established itself as The event in Connected Entertainment. It has shifted its focus increasingly away from traditional IPTV onto multiscreen and multiplatform services. Social TV is a central part of this year’s forum and so warrants a conference focused exclusively on this topic.
Key companies driving the Social TV revolution will be represented in attendance at the inaugural Social TV World Summit, including Shazam, MTV, NBC Universal and AKQA.
From: May 22 2012
To: May 23 2012
Location: Royal Garden Hotel, London
MEDIA-TECH Conference Europe 2012
www.media-tech.net/europe12-hamburg.html
The MEDIA-TECH Association is welcoming the Media & Storage Industry to take part in a 1.5-day event.
The MEDIA-TECH Conference Europe will feature all of the key players within the Packaged Media market and will look at the current marketplace and future business models. The event will discuss all aspects of Blu-ray technology to redefine the link between physical and digital media.
From: May 22 2012
To: May 23 2012
Location: Hamburg, Germany
ANGA Cable Show
www.angacable.com/index.php?id=eventprofil&L=0
Europe’s leading Trade Fair for Cable, Broadband and Satellite.
From: June 12 2012
To: June 14 2012
Location: Cologne, Germany.
Digital Home World Summit 2012
The Digital Home World Summit 2012 rebranded from last year’s Connected-Home World Summit is being held from the 19 – 20 June 2012 at the Thistle Marble Arch, London. The event covers a number of topics relating to The Digital Home with a quality conference agenda, more speakers than ever before plus an exhibition area. The event will look at TV and media services on multiple devices inside the home and how best to connect them to access same or different content for maximized customer experience. The position of home gateways will also be explored – types of devices that will offer the best location to residential gateways to manage the future digital home and technologies that will enable fastest and easiest connectivity.
From: June 19 2012
To: June 20 2012
Location: Thistle Marble Arch Hotel, London
DCM East
The premise behind DCM East is simple: to help media & entertainment experts improve processes, build audiences, create relationships…in short, anything which enables you to monetize your digital content.
DCM is designed to bring you closer to the projects that are making waves at the forefront of content monetization.
Navigate the complex maze of devices, multiple platforms, new partnerships and cutting edge technologies. The DCM East agenda covers all aspects of content monetization.
The Future of Entertainment Summit
Futuresource Consulting and Intellect have teamed up to bring you a new ‘must attend’ event to help shape the future of digital entertainment.
The Future of Entertainment Summit will provide a platform for industry leaders, policy makers, entrepreneurs and those driving innovation in digital entertainment and consumer electronics to share best practices and shape strategy.
From: June 20 2012
To: June 20 2012
Location: London
IQPC’s 2nd Anti-Piracy and Content Protection summit
www.iqpc.com/redhome.aspx?region=home
Anti-Piracy and Content Protection summit
From: June 25 2012
To: June 27 2012
Location: Los Angeles, USA.
MEDIA-TECH Asia - DATES TBC - Fall 2012
www.media-tech.net/en/scasia12-taipei.html
The event will center on Blu-ray Disc, the influence of 3D and the technological developments of Recordable & Rewriteable Blu-ray (BD-R / BD-RE).
Taiwanese speakers from the industry and international speakers as well as MEDIA-TECH Association members will provide the latest information about the trends and developments of Blu-ray Disc and the optical media industry.
From: September 01 2012
To: October 31 2012
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
IBC 2012
IBC is the premier annual conference and exhibition for professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of electronic media and entertainment content worldwide. Attendees can mix with over 50,000 of the industry’s finest minds and wisest investors from across the international electronic media spectrum to do business, debate, share insight, network and lead.
From: September 06 2012
To: September 11 2012
Location: RAI, Amsterdam
Past Events
Connected TV World Summit
If you care about what the post-convergence TV experience looks like and how it should be delivered, and which stakeholders could win or lose from the growing propensity to watch TV through multiple connected devices, there is one event you should not miss in 2012: The Connected TV Summit.
From: May 02 2012
To: May 03 2012
Location: London
Packaged Media and Beyond 2012
www.media-tech.net/welcome/lasvegas12.html
Joint event with Colonial Purchasing, AIMMA, and the MEDIA-TECH Association
The Packaged Media and Beyond Conference will be a must-attend event for anyone who is trying to navigate physical media through this ever-changing media landscape.
Digital media has become a part of consumer’s daily lives and they have become accustomed to viewing content and connecting with people wherever and whenever they want. As consumer media usage evolves, traditional media manufacturers are also transforming their business models. The Packaged Media and Beyond conference program is designed to deliver sessions to help replicators and duplicators find new revenue streams and avenues in the new media marketplace.
For two exciting days in amazing Las Vegas the MEDIA-TECH Association, AIMMA, and the Colonial Purchasing Cooperative are joining forces to bring together their vision, passion, and expertise, to share their ideas, to discuss latest trends and to focus beyond packaged media manufacturing.
2012 NAB Show
www.nabshow.com/2012/about/default.asp
From Broadcasting to Broader-casting®, the NAB Show® has evolved over the last eight decades to continually lead this ever-changing industry. While the solutions at your fingertips have changed to keep pace with consumer habits and technologies, your aspirations to produce and deliver memorable content have remained constant. From creation to consumption, the NAB Show has proudly served as the incubator for excellence – helping to breathe life into content everywhere.
From: April 14 2012
To: April 19 2012
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada USA
PEVE Entertainment 2012
www.screendigest.com/events/peve
Solid business advice for a complicated future - The expertise of leading global media analysts Screen Digest, combined with Europe’s longest-running and best-loved video conference, has created a unique independent forum for informed analysis and constructive debate about the key issues facing this global business.
From: March 27 2012
To: March 28 2012
Location: British Museum, London, UK
IP&TV World Forum
IP&TV World Forum is unique in uniting the varied players in the broadcast landscape to advance the opportunities presented by IP delivery. The event brings together broadcasters from a wide variety or platform backgrounds – smart TV, OTT, cable, satellite, terrestrial, & telco–to-network, compare experiences and brainstorm solutions. The conference is incredibly rich in service provider case studies: not only did 180 different service providers present in 2011, but the conference attendance was over 50% service provider companies, providing a uniquely high value networking experience.
From: March 20 2012
To: March 22 2012
Location: Olympia Exhibition Centre, London, UK
BV Expo
Emap Connect is the UK’s leading organiser of trade exhibitions. EMAP Connect brings more than 200,000 decision makers together and many millions of pounds worth of business is conducted every year at these leading shows. Connect exhibitions provide vital buying platforms, education and networking opportunities for the retail, fashion, health, education and built environment sectors. Emap Connect is headed up by Malcolm Gough.
From: February 14 2012
To: February 16 2012
Location: Earls Court, London
Multiscreen 2012
Deliver a robust second screen strategy to increase usability, secure delivery and avoid fragmentation across multiple devices
The major content owners, broadcasters, pay TV operators, technology vendors, OTT providers, telcos, service providers and OEMs come together to establish their role in the multi-screen revolution! Be at the heart of this new TV era and concrete your strategy
From: February 08 2012
To: February 09 2012
Location: Berlin, Germany
DCM Europe
If you haven’t signed up for DCM Europe yet - what are you waiting for? The agenda looks great, there are tons of new features such as the Start Up Showcase and the sooner you sign up, the sooner you can log into our meetings facilitator to see who’s there and arrange to meet them at the event.
From: January 17 2012
To: January 19 2012
Location: London
CES
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the owner and producer of the International CES. CEA is the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the $186 billion U.S. consumer electronics industry. More than 2,000 companies enjoy the benefits of CEA membership, including legislative advocacy, market research, technical training and education, industry promotion, standards development and the fostering of business and strategic relationships. All profits from CES are reinvested into CEA’s industry services. Find CEA online at CE.org and Innovation-Movement.com.
From: January 10 2012
To: January 13 2012
Location: USA
Content Protection Summit 2011
www.contentprotectionsummit.com
Variety magazine and CDSA, the International Content Security Association, announce the return of the Content Protection Summit 2011 on Dec. 8 at the Universal Hilton in Universal City, California. The industry’s largest and most influential gathering of executives from across entertainment will deliver an update on the global environment of piracy, cyber-attack and showcase how content holders are grasping the challenge as an opportunity with the launch of new, disruptive business models, and remarkable innovation.
From: December 08 2011
To: December 08 2011
Location: Hilton Los Angeles, Universal City
Current Issue
Magazine Features
DOING IT IN DIGITAL - Repeating the physical success of home entertainment
Fireside chats, rock star moments, and consumer panels were the highlights of this year’s PEVE conference, and D2D reports on some of the many topics covered at the event.
Every conference has its rock star moment, and this year’s PEVE was no exception. Danny Kaye, keynote speaker on the first day, took to the stage to the rousing strains of Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love, which brought goofy smiles to just about everyone (at least everyone of a certain age) in the audience. Kaye, the EVP Global Research & Technology Strategy, Twentieth Century Fox, showed a video clip of some of Hollywood’s latest and greatest movie moments and declared, “It’s this kind of content that compels consumers to buy.”
Reducing seasonal susceptibility - The merger of two packaging giants
AGI Media was bought by Atlas Holdings last year, changed its name and identity and then merged with Shorewood. Tony Garnish, European CEO of AGI Shorewood, tells Elizabeth Toppin how the company has overcome various associated challenges – but isn’t yet ready to reveal a new name.
LINES OF DEMARCATION Old and new technology models at NAB
This year’s NAB event focused on looking forward to 3D, second screens, and Smart TV - whatever the heck that is, Dan Daley muses. New technologies offered a refreshing focus after a year spent on seemingly endless legal and legislative issues.
The NAB Show in Las Vegas (16th-19th April 2012) showed decent stats: exhibitor numbers rose slightly to just over 1,600 and they splayed out over more space (815,000 square feet versus 745,000 in 2011). Attendance was flat, though, at 91,932 from 151 countries, according to NAB’s preliminary figures, and substantially below the 108,000-plus who attended in 2007, just before the recession hit.
DIGITAL OR BUST IN VEGAS? The physical media market under scrutiny
A realization that maybe it’s time to figure out a way to jump on the digital bandwagon dominated the proceedings at Packaged Media & Beyond 2012, reports Larry Jaffee.
Maybe it was the Association of Independent Media Manufacturers Association (AIMMA) joining forces with the Media-Tech Association (MTA) and the Colonial Purchasing Co-operative to produce a US show like the latter did in the two previous years. Or maybe it was the zany Day Two keynote presentation by Troma co-founder Lloyd Kaufman whose oldest running US independent movie studio has been making independent, non-mainstream movies for nearly 40 years.
HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD - Paramount and Universal Turn 100
Two major studios celebrate their centenaries this year and a lot has changed since they were both founded. Jill Bilzi looks at how they are coping with box office fluctuations, changes in home entertainment delivery, and the increasing power of social media.
