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Two years ago in August 2009 Levira’s 3rd Digital Broadcasting Conference gathered again over 200 participants from more than 20 countries worldwide. Various topics related to Digital Broadcasting where discussed during two days event giving an insight into what is on in the industry and what can be expected in short as well as in long term. In December 2006 Estonia became the first country to introduce MPEG-4 AVC only commercial Terrestrial Digital-TV services. On March 31st 2007 an Estonian island Ruhnu become first region within new EU countries where analogue TV transmissions where switched off. On July 1st 2010 Estonia became the first Eastern-European country to switch off all analogue TV transmitters – everything Digital.  |  |
Another two years have passed and it is a time again to come over to a beautiful city of Tallinn, Cultural Capital of Europe 2011. Last week of August 2011 Levira’s 4th Digital Broadcasting Conference shall be held in Tallinn. During those two days you will hear many outstanding speakers and industry professionals from the east and the west; meet colleagues, vendors and regulators at the conference, exhibition and evening reception. Conference shall take a deeper look at different Digital Broadcasting issues with a particular attention on today’s hot topics: OTT & Non-linear Services, Tapeless Production & IT Broadcast Workflow, Digitalization & Archiving, ASO & the future of DTT and other topics of Digital Reality & Digital Future. |
Conference Programme
Day 1, Thursday, August 25th
Keynote Speech:
11:00 - 11:30 "Everything Digital... Really?" | Mr. Jeffers Engelhardt, Assistant Professor, Anthropology of Music, Amherst College (USA) |
Digital Switchover in Europe: | Moderator: Mr. Linnar Viik, IT-College |
11:30 - 12:10 “Switchover deadline 2012 is approaching. Can Europe meet it?” | Dr. Florence Hartmann, Analyst for the MAVISE project, European Audiovisual Observatory (France) |
12:10 - 12:30 "Welcome to Digital Estonia" | Mr. Tõnu Nirk, Director, Communications Department, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications |
12:30 - 12:50 “Estonia – Done! One year after Analogue Switch-Off.” | Mr. Jüri Pihel, Former Head of Governmental Digital Television Committee (Estonia) |
HD TV, 3D TV: | Moderator: Mr. Urmas Ruuto, Ericsson |
14:20 - 14:50 “Where we stand – Development of HD and 3DTV in Europe” | Mr. Benny Norling, Senior Manager, Market Development SES Astra (Sweden) |
14:50 - 15:10 “Standardization of 3D Television and the related process” | Mr. Torkel Thoresen, Chief Technologist, Telenor (Norway) |
15:10 - 15:40 ”3D: what we do not know. The psychological impact of stereoscopic 3D” | Mr. Clyde DeSouza, Partner, Real Vision (UAE) |
DVB-T2: | Moderator: Mr. Stan Baaijens, Funke Antennen |
16:40 - 17:00 "Building a commercial VHF SFN DVB-T2 network – lessons learnt” | Mr. Marcel Van Der Vliet, Solution Manager TV and Media, Ericsson (Finland) Mr. Olli Knuuttila, DVB-T2 & HDTV Specialist, DNA (Finland) |
17:00 - 17:20 "Benefits of Multi PLP ja MISO” | Mr. Peter Knidlberger, Rohde & Schwarz (Germany) |
17:20 - 17:40 “T2-MI: a show stopper for DVB-T2 advance architecture?” | Mr. Richard Lhermitte, VP Sales & Marketing, ENENSYS (France) |
17:40 - 18:00 “Non-linear applications over DTT.” | Mr. Francois Hernandez, Director, Business Development, Logiways (France) |
Conference Programme
Day 2, Friday, August 26th
Multiscreen Environment: | Moderator: Mr. Jörgen Nilsson, TV Plus |
10:00 - 10:20 "3 most important factors behind a successful OTT platform” | Mr. Helge Høibraaten, CEO, Vimond Media Solutions (Norway) |
10:20 - 10:40 “How can Broadcasters succeed on Web and Mobile - lessons learnt from the SVT-Play Success in Sweden” | Mr. Rami Alanko, Country Manager, Qbric (Finland) |
10:40 - 11:00 “Multi-screen solutions and back office to handle VOD” | Mr. Carl von Eckermann, Sales Director, SeaChange (Netherlands) |
11:00 - 11:45 Panel Discussion: "OTT: niche or mainstream? Impact on a broadcasting world“ | Moderator: Mr. Jörgen Nilsson, TV Plus (Sweden) Panellists: Mr. Helge Høibraaten, Vimond (Norway) Mr. Carl von Eckermann, SeaChange (Netherlands) Mr. Eric Matsgård, CEO, Qbric (Sweden) Mr. Joachim Bergman, Ericsson (Finland) Mr. Harold van Stipdonk, Stream Group (Netherlands) |
Broadcast Engineering: | Moderator: Mr. Petteri Pulkkinen, Mediatrade |
13:15 - 13:35 "Cost Effective Restoration of Archive Material in Real Time” | Mr. Martin Blum, Snell Group (Germany) |
13:35 - 13:55 "What AmberFin learnt from Toyota about Media QC" | Mr. Simon Adler, VP of Technology and Solutions, AmberFin (UK) |
13:55 - 14:15 "The importance of independent systems integrators in IT and broadcast engineering projects" | Mr. Mark Errington, CEO, OASYS (UK) |
14:15 - 14:30 "Channel One Russia: Tapeless Migration / Advanced News Production" | Mr. Olivier Dwelshauvers, Project Manager Broadcast, EVS (Belgium) |
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Conference: | 25.08.2011: 10:00 – 18:00 26.08.2011: 10:00 – 15:30 |
Exhibition: Vendors and distributors of broadcasting and related equipment and services will have an excellent occasion to introduce their products and services and to discuss potential business opportunities with industry leaders and decision makers from the Eastern and Western Europe and beyond. Please contact Levira at conference@levira.ee for further information and participation conditions. Attendees: Top Management of Broadcast and Telecommu-nication companies, organizations and authorities from the Baltic countries, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Poland, Hungary and other Eastern- & Central European countries as well as from Scandinavia and Western Europe, represen-tatives of respective EU and governmental organizations. |  |
 | Reception & Dinner: 25.08.2011: 20:00 – 24:00 The occasion will give an opportunity to celebrate and have a nice discussion with colleagues/customers/suppliers in relaxed environment. After-conference program: Guests planning to stay over the weekend can enjoy pre-arranged sightseeing-, enter-tainment- or shopping tours in Tallinn or a day trip to summer capital Pärnu or to an open-air museum at Rocca al Mare or to try out golf grounds around Tallinn. |
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For further information please send your question to conference@levira.ee or call: +372 680 4000. |
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