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congress_1 27/02/2015 16:11 Page 1 l BBC World News Presenter Babita Sharma as Master of Ceremonies able Congress returns this year to Brussels to focus on the interplay between platforms and content in a converged world. The industry’s leading business figures and technologists will explore strategies to deal with new challenges and opportunities in this era of convergence, emerging business models and hyper competition. Cable Europe executive chairman Matthias Kurth said that the last year would go down in cable history as one of strategic shifts, featuring greater investments in mobile and new partnerships with content and technology players. “Cable has always been a technology C l An exclusive interview with Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries by CNN’s Becky Anderson l Keynote presentations by Guillaume de Posch (Co-CEO, RTL Group) and Philipp Humm (Regional CEO Europe, Vodafone) l Views from the top with leading executives Giorgio Stock (Turner Broadcasting System), Manuel Cubero (Vodafone and Kabel Deutschland), and Matt Brittin (Google), and Wilfried Urner (SES Platform Services) l A CEO panel on Central & Eastern Europe featuring Severina Pascu (UPC #1 priority’, will include speakers such as Marcus Banks, executive director of customer experience & retentions, Virgin Media. The Technology sessions at Cable Congress 2015 will explore new trends affecting the European cable industry today and for the future, in particular how mobile will change the services from cable companies and how to plan an operator’s virtualisation strategy. The dedicated Technology Track on Thursday 12th and Friday 13th March will host sessions including ‘It’s a brave new virtualized world’ With important policy debates under way on such vital topics as net neutrality and spectrum, it is fitting that this year’s Cable Congress - the flagship gathering of the European cable industry - is taking place at the heart of its political decision making in Brussels. Here’s a flavour of what will be discussed and what delegates can expect on ѡ