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ABU Digital Broadcasting Symposium 2014

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28 Feb – 4 Mar, Kuala Lumpur
DAB+ TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP AND TRANSMISSION DEMONSTRATION
DAB+ Workshop Attendance is Free 

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MEET THE SPEAKERS 




   

Dato’ Yasmin binte 
Tan Sri M Yusuff
 
Radio Deejay/TV Host
Patrick Hannon

President

WorldDMB
 Dr Javad Mottaghi

Secretary-General

ABU
 Dr Amal Punchihewa

Director Technology

ABU
 

Joan Warner

CEO

Commercial Radio

Australia
Dr Les Sabel

Managing Director

& Owner

S Comm
Kathryn Brown

Strategic Development

Commercial Radio
Australia
Wilson Ng
Digital System 
Technologist
Commercial Radio
Australia
 


Chris Grey
Manager
SONY
Jacky Chung
Product Marketing 
Manager

SONY
Takeshi Shibagaki

4K Live Production
System Specialist

SONY
Charles Sevior
Chief Technology 
Officer

EMC Isilon


 
 Peter Bruce

Channel Management

Director, APAC

Grass Valley 
 Martyn Horspool

Product Manager

TV Transmission

Harris Broadcast
Dr Natee Sukonrat

Vice-Chairman

NBTC-Thailand 
Yahya Khaled
Senior RF

Engineer

ATDI 

Andrew Yeo
Publisher
APB
James Jinhak Jeon
TV Producer,
Entertainment
KBS-Korea
 Jin-Woo Kim

Senior Research 

Engineer

KBS-Korea
Won-Hyun Cho 

Senior Engineer

KBS-Korea
     
 Phil Laven

Chairman

DVB
Simon Fell

Director of Technology 

& Innovation

EBU
Dato’ Abu Bakar 

Ab Rahim
Dpty Director-General
(Broadcast Operations)


RTM-Malaysia
Masakazu Iwaki
Senior Manager
Planning & Coord Dept


NHK-Japan 

 


 
 
Kenichi Murayama
Senior Manager

Planning & Coord Dept
NHK-Japan 
Go Koshii

Engineer

NHK-Japan
 Shigeaki Mitsuya

Engineer

NHK-Japan
Shigeru Iino
Principal Program
Director

NHK-Japan 

 
 
 
 
  Femin John

Technical Director

ATEME
 Marc Wharmby
Vice President
Sales Engineering

Front Porch Digital
Hidetake Kimotsuki

Chief Engineer

IKEGAMI
Tuck Yeen Poon
Senior R&D Engineer

BBC-UK
 
     
 Toni Fiedler
Director of Marketing
& Business Dev APAC

Fraunhofer
 Jean-Paul Moerman
Intl Projects &
Application Manager

Salzbrenner Stagetec
John Abdnour
Regional Sales
Manager
Nautel 
 Lindsay Cornell
Principal Systems
Architect

BBC-UK

 
 
TAN Hock Leong
Manager, Broadcast
Solutions


Rohde & Schwarz 
 Li Bin, Eric
Regional Business
Dev Manager, AP

Rohde & Schwarz
Chao Yin Loong
Technology Manager

Rohde & Schwarz
 Nils Ahrens
Area Manager
PAC & SEA

Rohde & Schwarz
     
Reuben Verghese
VP, Asia

Accedo 
 Fintan McKiernan
CEO

Ideal Systems
 Sanjay Salil
Managing Director

MediaGuru
 Ruhi TAŞ
Electronics Engineer

   TRT-Turkey 
 
Luc Haeberlé
Managing Director

Colibrex GmbH 

   (LS telcom Group)    

Andy Stanton
Director Business
Dev

Wohler 
Aale Raza

Managing Director

Whiteways
 Gunnar Nessa
Technical Sales
Engineer
Appear TV
     
 Hermann Zensen
Sales Manager

DIGIDIA
Ray Sanders
VP Business
Development

GENCOM
 Oliver Linow
Deutsche Welle
Colin Prior
AP Sales Mgr

ENENSYS 
 
 
 
 Tatjana Medic
Chief Commercial 
Officer

Funke
 Milos Pavlovic
Sales Manager
Broadcast

LS telcom
 Boštjan Bedekovič
Key Account
Manager
Elti
Mohd Fauzi
Kamaruzaman
Technical Manager
TekMark 
 

Mats Ek

Technical Director

PROGIRA
 
 Stephen Lee

Sales Director

CONAX AS 
  Klaven Siow

Regional Product

Manager

Tektronix
 Mark Moore
Sr Regional
Sales Manager
EVERTZ 
 Alexander Zink
Senior Business
Development Manager
Fraunhofer
Matthias Stoll
Head of Transmitter
Product Development
 Ampegon
Geoff Love
Application
Specialist
AXON 
Michael Van Dorpe
President
Village Island 
 
 Jeremy Kung

CEO

TM Net

 Glyn Bartlett

Head of Sales
Vector 3

Naveendran Murthy
Sales Director


Aviindos 

 Greg Price
Broadcast Systems
& Support Engr
Dolby
 

Tony Moran
Head of TV for ANZ &
SEA, APAC
Ericsson
Khush Kundi
Head of TV
Compression 
Solutions, APAC
Ericsson
Haji Sayed 
Munawar 


Sayed Mustar

TV Host
Jérome David
Strategic Marketing
& Innovation
Programs
Thomson Broadcast
Mika Kanerva
Co-Founder & Chief
Operating Officer
Sofia Digital Ltd
Jerry Gui
Regional Senior
Staff Engr
Dolby 
Mathias Bendull
Sales Director
Dolby 
 David Porter

General Manager
– News & Public
Affairs

Channel Seven


   
 Neil (Noriaki) Ugo
Product Manager
Panasonic
 Tushar Kothari
Director &
Co Founder
WASP3D 

Pasi Toiva

Managing Director

      Labwise Ltd

 Haji Zulkifli Bin 
Abdul Rahim
Principal Assistant 
Director, Radio
Production Section
RTM
   
 Espen Myhre
VP Sales, APAC
Nevion
 Steve Ahern
Managing Director
Ahern Media & 
Training 

Paul Higuera
VP Global Sales
Digital TV Labs 
Shane Angelo
Broadcast Product
Manager
General Dynamics
Mediaware 

 






Embracing Technological Innovations

 



The present media landscape is changing rapidly in multiple perspectives. Technological changes have given rise to new challenges for broadcasters especially in their investment plans, in meeting the audiences’ growing demands of delivering the content beyond traditional platforms, and in adapting towards the fast evolving transmission technology.  

With better resolution in pictures, better quality in sound, better devices, and savings in operations at every point in the broadcast value chain, stakeholders are required to be proactive in responding to market trends and demands.

The key to doing well, to sustain, and to be relevant in the industry, requires stakeholders to be innovative and be adaptive.

This year ABU’s Digital Broadcasting Symposium will address how broadcasters could embrace latest developments in technology that can be used to survive and thrive in this dynamic digital media environment. The various sessions of the Symposium will address issues relating to the fragmented media market, new delivery mechanisms, quality of experience, and second-generation transmission technologies among others. There will also be panel discussions on multi-platform delivery and physical layer processing advancements. 

Embracing technological innovations can help broadcasters in achieving spectrum, production and power efficiencies that could make a difference in performance of a media organisation. Therefore, we look forward to your participation and fruitful discussions during the Symposium as stakeholders of the media industry.

Let’s collaborate to achieve success.


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