TECHNICAL ASSEMBLY 2014

TECHNICAL ASSEMBLY 2014
HOSTED BY CZECH TELEVISION
THURSDAY 12 JUNE
1. OPENING SESSION
09.00-09.10
Opening Address
Arild Hellgren
Simon Fell
09.10-09.20
Welcome address by the Director General
Chair, EBU Technical
Committee
Director of Technology &
Innovation
Petr Dvorak
CT
Petr Vitek
CT
2. CHANGES AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT
Chair: Arild Hellgren, NRK
09.20-09.55
Keynote
09.55-10.30
Digital TV and its Future Development
10.30-11.00
Tea, coffee & networking
11.00-11.30
Open Discussion with keynote speaker based on quickfire “postcard survey” results
Chair: Simon Fell, EBU
3. PROUD TO PRESENT (I)
Chair: Arild Hellgren, NRK
11.30-12.30
A series of short presentations from EBU Members about recent technology success stories.
A:
Stevie: When broadcasters join forces over
the top
Dieter Boen
VRT
B:
Video editing in an internal cloud
Pere Vila Fumas
RTVE
C:
Recent developments in Czech Radio
12.30-14.00
Lunch
CR
4. STRATEGIC FOCUS: SOLVING THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES IN PRODUCTION
Chair: Hans Hoffmann, EBU
14.00-14.20
The file interoperability challenge in the UK
Digital production partnership
Andy Quested
BBC
14.20-14.40
New architectures in news rooms
Simon Andrews
MMI
14.40-15.00
Gaps in the UHD chain
Frank Heineberg
RTL
15.00-15.20
FIMS and SOA are alive!
Anthony Caruso
CBC
15.20-15.30
Q&A
15.30-16.00
Tea, coffee & networking
TA 2014 – Provisional programme 29.04.2014
TECHNICAL ASSEMBLY 2014
HOSTED BY CZECH TELEVISION
5. STRATEGIC FOCUS: BACK TO THE FUTURE – WHAT WAS THE VISION FOR 2020?
Chair: Bram Tullemans, EBU
16.00-17.30
The Vision2020 project, involving over 100
EBU participants, was intended to predict the
media environment in 2020, and to suggest
what actions EBU Members need to take now
as a consequence. Six delegates and
Vision2020 participants will survey the
results.
Simon Fell
Thomas Saner
Klaus Illgner-Fehns
Egon Verharen
Petr Vitek
Kazimir Bacic
EBU
SRG SSR
IRT
NPO
CT
HRT
FRIDAY 13 JUNE
6. STRATEGIC FOCUS: THE STRATEGIES THAT WILL SHAPE OUR FUTURE
Chair: Peter MacAvock, EBU
09.00-09.25
How to make DTT services more attractive
Wieslaw Lodzikowski
TVP
09.25-09.50
How worried should we be about losing
spectrum?
David Hemingway
BBC
09.50-10.15
Progress in Net Neutrality
10.15-10.30
Broadcast radio distribution versus LTE
7: TC ELECTIONS
The period between 10.30 and 15.00 is set aside to run the Technical Committee elections. The timings of the sessions
during this period may change.
10.30-10.45
First round
10.45-11.15
Tea, coffee & networking
11.15-13.00
Election results and further election rounds
8: CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
11.15-13.00
13.00-14.00
Barbara Lange
Bob Plummer
Amal Punchihewa
Abdelrahim Suleiman
SMPTE
NABA
ABU
ASBU
Networking Lunch
9: PROUD TO PRESENT (II)
14.00-15.00
A series of short presentations from EBU Members about recent technology success stories
Preparing for 8k UHDTV broadcasting
15.00-15.30
Kohji Mitani
NHK
Tea, coffee & networking
TA 2014 – Provisional programme 29.04.2014
TECHNICAL ASSEMBLY 2014
HOSTED BY CZECH TELEVISION
10: EBU REPORTING SESSION
15.30-16.30
Report of Director of Technology &
Innovation and (outgoing) Technical
Committee Chair
Simon Fell &
Arild Hellgren
EBU
NRK
Chair: Incoming Chairman of Technical
Committee
Including presentation and endorsement of
Workplan 2014-2015
End of TA 2014
20.00-23.00
Farewell dinner
TA 2014 – Provisional programme 29.04.2014