Please keep checking back for updates on speakers for 2010

If you are interested in speaking at the IPTV Forum Americas 2010, please contact  gavin.whitechurch@informa.com.

Palestrantes estao neste momento a ser convidados de sectores chave do mercado de IPTV, empresas de telecomunicacoes, produtores de equipamentos, providenciadores de conteudo para canais de televisao, ISPs, entre outros

Se estiver interessado em participar como palestrante neste evento por favor contacte  gavin.whitechurch@informa.com.

2009 speakers included :

Heliomar Medeiros de Lima, Director, Digital Inclusion Dept, Ministry of Communications, Brazil
Mr. Heliomar is responsible for the GESAC Program, the major Brazilian Program of Digital Inclusion covering more than 3.500 locations. DESID has been sponsoring several public Digital Inclusion projects. He was responsible for the project and installation of Banco do Brasil networks which include Satellite, Business TV, Voice and Data Domestic, with more than 10.000 branches, and International network in 26 countries outside Brazil.

Marcelo Claure, Chief of Licensing, SITTEL
University professor, an engineer in electronics systems and master in business administration as well in education.

Specialist in telecommunications systems, being delegate in various events held in different countries such as Japan, USA, UK, Canada, Brazil and others.

Marcello Borges, Sales Business Development Manager for IPTV in LatAm, Cisco
Marcello Borges is graduated as System Analyst by PUCCAMP and has a MBA degree in Enterprise Management by FGV-BI. He has been working with IPTV business development in LATAM since 2004 supporting trials, showcases, conferences, trainings and worked in companies like Lucent Technologies and OnDemand Group.

Frédéric Maymil, Product Marketing Manager, Thomson
Frederic Maymil is responsible for the product marketing of the Thomson SmartVision TV video service platform for IPTV, cable and video on-demand solutions.

Prior to joining Thomson, Frederic held several positions in engineering, project management and product marketing both for Telecom operators and Telecom Manufacturers (Newbridge Networks, Alcatel, Orange-Equant). Frederic has been working on many flavors of DSL technologies and most broadband applications since 1997.

Frederic focused his activities on Video and IPTV when joining Thales Broadcast & Multimedia in 2003 to promote the SmartVision Service Platform (a worldwide IPTV leading platform), as pre-Sales Manager and Business developer.

Jacques Bourgninaud, President & CEO, Wyplay
Jacques has worked as Vice-President Finance and Operations in the Satellite DVB box market from 2002 to 2006, where he also managed the creation of a Chinese subsidiary and its development. Prior to that, Jacques gathered twelve years of experience in financial and administration management, accounting, fund raising, and consolidation in various sectors. Jacques holds a Master’s degree in Service Activities Management and a Master in Accounting and financial Techniques from Aix en Provence University.

Thierry Fautier, Director of Telco Solutions, Harmonic Inc.
Thierry Fautier is Director of Telco Solutions at Harmonic Inc., responsible for IPTV market development. Before joining Harmonic, he was Vice President of Marketing for Vsofts and held various positions at Philips. Mr. Fautier was one of the primary drivers at Philips in the creation of MPEG technology and in the development of MPEG-2 STB system on a chip solutions. An experienced speaker, he has presented at several industry conferences throughout the world.

Mr. Alvaro T. Gazzolo, President and CEO, IPTV Americas
Mr. Gazzolo, the founder of IPTV Americas, has given the Telecommunications and Cable Operators in Latin America a satellite solution to offer triple play with their present network infrastructure that considerably improves the Time to Market their IPTV or Digital Cable service. The services consist of a bundle of top 80 video signals in Latin America. In addition, IPTV Americas provides a complete technical solution including the STB, Middleware and Conditional Access to reduce the Operators’ cost of providing IPTV or Digital Cable services to customers. Mr. Gazzolo is one of the few executives that have all around knowledge of the IPTV market in the world: from the content, operators’ infrastructure, the technology required and regulatory issues for deployment of IPTV services in the Region.  With numerous international conference appearances worldwide: IBC Amsterdam, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), IPTV World Forum, Broadband World Forum, Informa (telecom & media) and many others, Mr. Gazzolo is well known and respected in the IPTV  & Satellite market. 

Mr. Gazzolo was instrumental and one of the original key executives (General Manager Latin America & Sr. Corporate Vice-President for Europe, Latin America, Middle-East, Africa and Euro-Asia and member of the Executive Team of PanAmSat.) in PanAmSat’s early marketing, sales and regulatory efforts following the 1988 launch of the first satellite until 2001.  He developed the largest content distribution channel for Cable-TV and DTH in Latin America.

Mr. Gazzolo holds a M.Sc. and B.Sc. (Honors) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from London and Cambridge University.

Marc Bédoret, Head of Sales, Viaccess
Heading Sales activities at Viaccess on a global basis, Marc Bédoret is responsible for extending Viaccess broadcast operators and Telecommunication companies customers within the digital TV content protection marketplace.

Steven Hawley, Principal Analyst and Consultant, TV Strategies
Steven Hawley is Principal Analyst and Consultant for tvstrategies™ (Advanced Media Strategies LLC). (www.tvstrategies.com). Since 2001, he has provided consulting services, subject matter expertise and industry analysis in the areas of IPTV and multi-platform broadband television, for firms that supply products, services and strategic information within the telecommunications industry.

Huw Price-Stephens, Ambassador, Open IPTV Forum
Huw is an independent IPTV consultant and Ambassador for the Open IPTV Forum, an influential consortium of industry-leading vendors and operators committed to simplifying and standardizing end-to-end IPTV solutions. A pioneer and evangelist in IPTV for over 14 years, Huw has previously occupied senior technical and business development roles with several leading IPTV vendors.

Guilherme Goehringer, Video Manager, Accenture, Brasil
Guilherme Goehringer has more than 10 years of experience in Digital TV, having worked in the past two years in IPTV projects and proposals, since joining Accenture. He is currently a Video Manager of Accenture Brazil. Guilherme holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from  Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and a M.S. in Communications Systems from CETUC / PUC-Rio.

Jean-Marc Harion, Vice President of Busines Development Americas, Orange (France Telecom)
Mr. Harion brings more than 20 years of leadership and  experience to his role as vice president, business development for France Telecom North America, where he is responsible for anticipating opportunities and developing knowledge of the U.S. market for the France Telecom Group, one of the world’s largest telecommunications firms.

Carlos Watanabe, Director of Business Development & Video Communication, Brasil Telecom
Carlos Watanabe is the Director of Business Development and Video Communication at Brasil Telecom, an integrated telecommunications company offering fixed, mobile, data transmission, long distance, data center and internet services.  Mr. Watanabe is responsible for product design, commercial launch and operation of IPTV at Brasil Telecom, as well as all media related initiatives.

Carlos Sanchez, Executive Director Latin America, Warner Bros. Digital Distribution USA
In his current position Mr. Sanchez is responsible for developing the digital media distribution business for Warner Bros. in Latin America. Mr. Sanchez oversees the licensing and marketing of Warner Bros. content among various digital lines of business including electronic sell-through (download-to-own) and transactional video-on-demand.  He is charged with placing WB content on various platforms that provide consumers with a satisfactory exerience in terms of flexibility and portablity.

Alfredo Muñoz, Director of New Technologies, CANtv Venezuela
Mr. Muñoz has for 13 years been involved in Information Technology, from Research & Development to implementation of large scale, mission critical applications in the Financial, Oil & Gas, & Telco industries.

Rodrigo Duclos, Innovation and Development Dircetor, Net Serviços, Brasil
Rodrigo Modesto Duclos graduated in Electric Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and holds an MBA from the same university where he developed a structural analysis of the Brazilian Cable industry in 1999.

Ariel Barlaro, Director, TVTelco Latam
CEO of TVTelco Latam, the leader media & research company focused on IPTV, Mobile TV, and Interactive TV in Latin America. Journalist and analyst with more than 10 year at the forefront of TV and telecommunications business in Latin America.

Mihai Crasneanu, CEO, Grey Juice Lab
Mihai Crasneanu is the founder and CEO of Grey Juice Lab, dedicated to assisting telecom, cable and mobile operators worldwide in defining their digital content strategy, conceiving their IPTV and VOD offering, negotiating with the major studios and the specific right owners, implementing and launching the service, and accompanying the operator in the day to day operations of the service from a customer, marketing and content perspective.

Janaína Aragão, IPTV Service Manager, Petrobras, Brasil
Janaína Aragão is a MBA in E-business at FGV, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was the project leader during the Petrobras IPTV’s development.