17 October 2011
Hilton London Olympia

The industry event for investors, broadcasters, media companies, analysts, telcos, ISPs, cable operators, and streaming technology vendors

Building on the success of last year’s inaugural event, the Content Delivery Summit differs from other content delivery events by offering a participatory, focused experience. The Summit provides an opportunity for those at the coal face of the content delivery challenge to meet, share, and discuss new ideas.

Content Delivery Summit’s morning sessions will provide insights into the biggest challenges for solutions providers with a specific focus on Europe. The afternoon sessions break out into panels and audience participation, facilitating discussion on the technologies, commercial developments, and today’s central issues for the industry.We end the day looking at CDN federation, providing a platform for all parties to explore the need for, and viability of, coming together.

Advance Programme [PDF]

Monday 17 October 2011 09.40 - 10.00 Keynote: BBC iPlayer – Because of the Unique Way We Are Funded Richard Cooper, Controller Digital Distribution & Operations, BBC The BBC's controller of digital distribution and operations offers a firsthand insight into meeting the challenging demand for content created by the iPlayer and other digital distribution requirements generated by the BBC.   10.00 - 10.20 Online Distribution Challenges for European Broadcasters Michael Sandbichler, Head of Technology, Prosieben Sat 1 Digital To continue the contextualisation of the content provider within the CDN market in Europe we explore the challenges faced by Prosieben. We look at the specific issues this company has faced and explore how CDNs have helped them. 10.20 - 10.45 Joint Q&A; Richard Cooper, Controller Digital Distribution & Operations, BBC Michael Sandbichler, Head of Technology, Prosieben Sat 1 Digital Your chance to explore the similarities and differences between the challenges in the UK and continental Europe. 10.45 - 11.15 Coffee Break 11.15 - 11.45 Meeting the Demand in Europe Chris Townsley, Director of European Sales, Limelight Networks UK Ltd Chris talks about the nuances Limelight sees that are specific to Europe, looking at both commercial and technical challenges, and how the approaches differ for one of the largest global CDNs when targeting the Europe market. 11.45 - 12.30 Being a Tier 1 Telco in the CDN Market:Telcos Adapting to Offer CDN services Derek Gough, Director, Product Management, European Markets Group, Level 3 Communications As telcos increasingly adapt their network and service offerings to introduce CDN services, we ask the longest running and largest tier 1 global 'TDN' to advise regional telcos on their strategy as they adapt to new service models. 13.45 - 14.35 Technology Infrastructure Trends: Death Star, Distributed, TDN, or Cloud? Moderator: Andreas Heidoetting, Global Head of Webcast Technology, Markets Division, Thomson Reuters Dane Streeter, Director, Sharpstream Simon Orme, Strategy Director Content Services, BT Wholesale Matt Wood, Technical Evangelist Europe, Amazon Web Services Marc Latouche, Manager IBSG, Cisco USA This panel session provides an opportunity for those building CDNs to hear from a range of vendors who can provide the technology to help them achieve their goal, and we contextualise this looking at two of the poles of the CDN space, cloud and telco. 14.35 - 15.25 Application Trends: Providing Platforms for CDNs' Next Gen Services Moderator: Tim Siglin, Chairman, Braintrust Digital Charlie Good, CTO, Wowza Media Systems, Inc David Mallinson, Senior Technical Trainer, RealNetworks Steve Allison, Senior Technical Evangelist, Strategic Alliances (EMEA), Adobe Oliver Quero, Sales Director, Flumotion Arjen Wagenaar, CTO, CodeShop We hear from vendors of the core platforms and review and preview their latest innovations in the application layer. After the success of last year’s panel we aim to repeat this unusual and important opportunity for all the vendors to engage with the CDN space together. 15.25 - 16.00 Coffee Break 16.00 - 16.20 The State of the Stack - Sponsor Session 1 Sean Iraca, Director, Content & Digital Media, Equinix Chris Townsley, Director of European Sales, Limelight Networks UK Ltd Case Study: The benefits of deploying with a global network-neural data centre provider. 16.20 - 16.30 The State of the Stack - Sponsor Session 2 Khurram S Siddiqui, Vice President and GM Europe, EMEA, iStreamPlanet Ltd. Jonathan Wood, Segment Head - Digital Media, Interxion iStream Planet and Interxion discuss the role of the data centre in digital media workflow. 16.30 - 17.30 CDN Federation Panel Stef van der Ziel, CEO, StreamZilla Marc Latouche, Manager IBSG, Cisco USA Is there a way forward for CDN federation? A blue sky session for all delegates - and what could become the first of an annual meeting series for the proposed CDN Federation. 17.30 - 18.30 Beers for Peers Join us for informal drinks at the close of the Content delivery Summit. A chance to review the day and network with you global colleagues.

Content Delivery Summit Europe 2011 Keynote

Richard Cooper Controller Digital Distribution & Operations BBC