Future TV Ads

If you are interested in speaking at the Future of TV Advertising Forum then please contact:

The Conference Team
Tel: +44 (0) 845 519 1230
info[at]keynoteworl[dot]com

Arild Sletner, Head of Research, Viasat

Simon leads Starcom MediaVest Group's awarded Research division. He has pioneered launches of many of SMG's leading research properties including their proprietary new media trend programme Emerging Spaces, in-house social network The Street and leading research application SpaceID, winner of Research Breakthrough of the Year at the MRS Awards in 2009.

John has worked in the media industry for over 14 years. He quickly progressed within Starcom to become TV Group Director, responsible for the TV planning and buying across over £100m of client TV billings, including McDonald's, Cadbury, United Biscuits, Barclays and Honda.

Stewart is CEO of Starcom MediaVest Group UK. His role involves the management of the UK Group Board and the operation of the two UK businesses, Starcom and MediaVest.

Paul Maraviglia is VP Sales Director, EMEA at CNBC.  He is responsible for leading the advertising sales teams across the region, for opening up new and emerging markets and developing the commercial aspects of new franchises.

Ed joined Channel 4 in January 2007, with responsibility for the commercial growth of channel4.com and 4oD. He has been instrumental in managing a significant increase in year on year advertising revenues across the business.  As one of the first broadcasters to introduce bespoke, ad-funded content on its website, Ed has worked closely with leading UK brands including BMW, Egg, Ford and the Energy Savings Trust to produce a series of compelling and award-winning Advertiser funded programmes.  

Barry Flynn is a Principal Consultant at Farncombe Technology. Journalist by training, Barry first worked in a variety of television production, direction and systems operation roles at TV companies, before becoming an analyst and consultant specialising in digital TV.

Nigel is Managing Director of Decipher the media strategy consultancy, and Chairman of the Decipher Group of companies, which includes iBurbia Studios, the interactive media research lab. Founded in 1998, Decipher works with large advertisers and with media companies to understand the commercial implications of new consumer technologies.

Rhys McLachlan, Managing Partner – Implementation & Futures Investments, Mediacom

Benjamin Faes, Head of YouTube and Display, EMEA, Google

Bjarne Thelin is Chief Executive of BARB, the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board, which is the UK's industry standard television audience measurement service.

Bjarne took up his role at BARB in January 2004 with the principal focus of overseeing the delivery of the research contracts which form the BARB service.
 

Tim Hussian, Head of Video and Mobile Advertising, BSkyB

Jeremy is Communications Director at Sky Media. He joined Sky Media in 2005 and his remit covers the development and execution of the business-to-business marketing strategy in the division of Sky responsible for generating advertising revenue.

Nick Burfitt, Global Director: RapidView, Kantar Media Audiences

Nicole Yershon, Director, Innovative Solutions at Ogilvy Group Advertising

Gary Knight, Branded Entertainment and Digital Sales Director, ITV

Julian Clover is a Media and Technology journalist based in Cambridge, UK. He has two decades of combined experience in online and printed media.
Julian is an editor of Broadband TV News and New Television Insider.

David Mercer, VP, Principal Analyst, Strategy Analystics

Oli Newton, Emerging Platforms, Starcom MediaVest

Shirlene Chandrapal, Director, Business Development, Yahoo! Connected TV

Javier Campos Zabala, Chief Technology Officer, HavasMedia

Simon Thomas, Strategic Systems Director EMEA, GroupM/MEC

Adam Rattner has worked in Media and Communications planning for ten years.  In previous roles he has been a strategic planner at Carat and Manning Gottlieb OMD, advising clients on advertising strategies. 

Philipp Scheidegger, Head of Advertising, Swisscom

Dan Saunders heads up the content services team at Samsung Electronics Europe. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. Dan is responsible for content strategy across a range of different devices with a current particular focus on Connected TV.

A marketing professional with twelve years experience, Rachel joined FMCG Company Unilever at the end of 2005 as New Media & Marketing Services Director for the whole UK portfolio. 

Andrew Kerney, Vice President TV Products, UPC Broadband

Richard Kastelein, CEO, Agora Media Group

Mark Simpson is Marketing Director of Ford of Britain, a position he has held since October 2008.  Based in Brentwood, Essex, Mark is responsible for all the company's marketing programmes, campaigns, advertising, sponsorships and other activities in Britain – the company's second largest market globally after N America.

Edd Uzzell is Sony Europe’s Proposition Development Manager, a roll which is focused around defining Sony’s UK hardware, content and services line-up to the consumer. A self confessed ‘techaholic’, he was previously heavily involved in technology evangelism for Sony VAIO notebooks and worked extensively around educating consumers on the Blu-ray format.

David Porter, Vice President, Cox Media + Exec of Canoe Ventures

Angelo Pettazzi, Head of DTT Content Factory, Mediaset S.p.A. Angelo joined the broadcasting operations of Videotime, a company of the Mediaset Group, in 1981 as a technician.

Jordy Egging, Director, Philips Net TV

Olivier Van Wynendaele has 20 years of business and marketing experience working across two very successful global brands – Philip Morris and Toshiba. Olivier is currently Senior Manager, Product Planning and Business Development for Consumer Products at Toshiba Europe GmbH and has been with the Company for 17 years.

Norm has been involved in interactive marketing since graduating from Chicago's Northwestern University in 1988. Following this Norm was a consultant at Accenture, where he led a team that developed one of the earliest interactive shopping destinations for a large US retail client.

Sabine Eckhardt, Managing Director, SevenOne AdFactory, ProSiebenSat.1 Group

Michael Harp, Brand Director, Channel Executive, Publicis Entertainment

As Campaign and Events Manager at The Co-operative Food, Amanda Collins led the launch of Good with Food across all media including TV, press, sponsorship and internal communications. The strategy continues to be delivered across Amanda’s key areas of responsibility including Fairtrade and Ethical Trading initiatives and The Co-operative’s Diet and Health campaigning.

Cesar Bachelet, Senior Analyst, Analyst Mason

Sandra Pinto Mota, Head of Media, Optimus (Portugal Telecom)