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he countdown is on,”
organisers of the ANGA
COM have declared.
Europe’s leading Exhibition and
ANGA COM’s opening discussion is
titled: ‘Broadband, Television, Online –
Business Models for the Connected Media
World’. Participating in the panel discussion
on behalf of the network operators will be
Michael T. Fries (president & CEO, Liberty
Global), Dr Manuel Cubero (CEO, Kabel
Deutschland and managing director,
Vodafone Deutschland), Wolfgang Elsäßer
(managing director, Astra Deutschland),
Michael Hagspihl (managing director
marketing, Telekom Deutschland), and
Ronny Verhelst (CEO, Tele Columbus
Group). Broadcasters will be represented by
Conrad Albert (member of the Executive
Board, ProSiebenSat.1) and Peter Weber
(corporate counsel, ZDF).
This will be followed by the NRW Media
Summit, held in co-operation with the
ANGA COM congress programme. It starts
with keynote addresses by Tom Buhrow
(director General, WDR) and Thomas
new broadband business models beyond the
flatrate, platform regulation, copyright, pay
TV and competition with new online offers
(OTT). Topics of the nine international
technology panels, held entirely in English,
include fiber optics expansion, multiscreen,
IPTV, DOCSIS 3.1, CCAP, RDK,
recommendation engines, and Wifi.
On the third day of the event there will
be a total of seven panel events, including
four expert panels of the ‘Connected Home
Special’. Now in its second year, the
Connected Home Special is once again
organised in cooperation with BITKOM, the
German Federal Association for Information
Technology, Telecommunications and New
Media. The event’s highlight is the
Connected Home Summit. This
international summit discussion features:
Thomas Braun (president, ANGA
Association of German Cable Operators),
Wilhelm Dresselhaus (CEO, Alcatel-Lucent
Congress for Broadband, Cable and
Satellite will take place at the Cologne
Trade Fair, May 20-22. There will be
450 exhibitors and the event, now in
its fifteenth year, will offer the most
multifaceted congress programme
ever.
The 450 companies from 34 countries
matches the previous year’s record mark.
With topics from traditional television
reception technology to latest fibre optics
and IP networks to multiscreen and TV
Everywhere solution it covers the entire
product range of broadband and video
distribution.
The diversity of topics between
broadband and media is also reflected in the
numerous co-operations for the programme
of the accompanying congress: This year, in
addition to cooperating with leading
industry associations (BREKO, German TV
Platform, SCTE, VATM, VPRT, and ZVEI),
ANGA COM also cooperates with
Medienforum NRW, an event sponsored by
the federal state government of North
Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). Kick-off is a joint
opening with a welcome address by NRW´s
Premier Hannelore Kraft.
Lindner (chairman of the
Board of Directors, FAZ).
Joined, among others, by
Dr Marc Ja