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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
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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
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