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DTG Innovation Competition 2015

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  • Saturday, 12 September 2015
  • 09:12 - 09:12
  • Duration: 21 mins
  • Publication date: 09 Oct 2015
  • Location: NA, RAI, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Part of event IBC 2015

About the session

The DTG is pleased to announce, for the third year, that it is running the UK TV Innovation Awards, an open competition to expose innovative SMEs in our sector to global broadcast and media opportunities at IBC (11-15 September 2015). The competition is in partnership with UK Trade & Investment, IBC 2015, Institution of Engineering and Technology and Knowledge Transfer Network.

IBC unites the technologies and business models powering the creation, management and delivery of all forms of electronic media content to consumers in a world where content is everywhere.

From OTT delivery, mobile TV and Cloud production to the economics of Ultra HD, digital cinema innovation and the rise of social television, IBC sits at the forefront of all the recent major changes in the industry.


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  • Professor Alan Chalmers

    Professor Alan Chalmers

    goHDR

    Alan Chalmers is a Professor of Visualisation at the International Digital Laboratory, WMG, University of Warwick, UK. He has an MSc with distinction from Rhodes University, 1985 and a PhD from University of Bristol, 1991. He has published over 200 papers in journals and international conferences on high-fidelity graphics, multi-sensory perception, High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging, virtual archaeology and parallel rendering. He is Honorary President of Afrigraph and a former Vice President of ACM SIGGRAPH. Together with SpheronVR, a high-precision German camera company, he was instrumental in the development of the world's first HDR video camera, which was completed in July 2009. He is the Founder and a Director of the spin-out company goHDR Ltd., which aims to be the leader in the software which enables HDR technology.Chalmers' research goal is "Real Virtuality", obtaining physically-based, multi-sensory, high-fidelity virtual environments at interactive rates through a combination of parallel processing and human perception techniques.
  • Karoline Gross

    Karoline Gross

    Smartzer, Founder

    Smartzer is an interactive video player - consumers can click on anything in a video to see more information and to make a purchase. Smartzer has a focus on customisable design, user experience and creating the ultimate consumer journey allowing retailers to maximise conversions from their video content. With the ever increasing presence of on-line video and the constant challenge faced by online retailers to engage with their customers and to use data to better understand their customers, Smartzer offers a new generation video player coupled with an analytics platform. The analytics platform provides demand prediction data from product preview videos, as well as detailed engagement and sales analytics. Smartzer is a young, ever evolving company based in London. Their founder, Karoline Gross, famously appeared on Dragons Den in 2014 winning praise from the Dragons for her ingenious retail technology solution, which adds another layer to on-line videos to enable the consumer to click and then buy directly from the video.
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    Colin Moorcraft

    Twocashew Ltd, Co-owner

    When we talk about live TV we are not talking about "live"? linear TV schedules that aggregate and re-broadcast pre-recorded content - that content is increasingly a commodity that connected viewers can grab from an explosion of providers. We are talking about the crown jewels of broadcaster content: truly live broadcast events. Big competitive entertainment shows, hot news, sports ... You name it.The key to truly live content is spontaneity. Viewers don't know what will happen, but they care, and many of those with second screens will engage as events unfold - if they are given an opportunity. LiveScreens is the only platform that enables broadcasters and production companies to spontaneously manage interactive content that enhances the value of a live broadcast for viewers with a second screen. This includes quizzes, polls, informative content, voucher offers, other special offers and interactive ads.LiveScreens does more than provide interactive experiences to enrich the live viewing experience for viewers with second screens. It enables an operator in the studio to review photos and comments submitted by viewers and to pass selected content onto the device of a presenter or to an on-air graphics system - enhancing the experience of all viewers, not just those with second screen. It is a complete solution for the transition from the broadcast-only model to a value-added business model where live push broadcast is enhanced by interactive content managed in real-time.
  • Gianluca Ferremi

    Gianluca Ferremi

    Motive Television, Vice President Business Development

    Responsible for new business development (Latin America and South Africa) and strategic customers and partners.
  • John Funnell

    John Funnell

    Parabola Research, HEVC Specialist and Director

    Parabola was founded in 2011 with the embryonic HEVC video standard firmly in mind. A small company based close to London, UK, our team is passionate about customer service, quality, compliance and best practice.Parabola develops HEVC test software and undertakes bespoke algorithmic and software development for others in the field of video compression.
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    Bruno Pereira

    TV App Agency, Co-Founder

    Co-Founder of TV App Agency, responsible for the award winning TV App Engine and onboarding of new partners / Blue Chip clients, like Coca-Cola, Weather Network, du, MBC, Abu Dhabi Media, WuakiTV, etc.The TV App Engine that i took part in developing is a pioneer in cross platform development for Smart TVs and Set Top Boxes.Having worked in the Blue Chip world with companies like Intel, IBM, Accenture and startups – Service2Media and Grapplemobile, enabled me to learn how to take a Consultancy focused approach when talking from Board Level up techies, instead of going for the old school hard sell.My experience ranges from Software Architecture, Sales, Marketing to Channel development, also opening new regions for businesses (Europe, Middle East, etc) and more recently Strategic consultancy to Startups.
  • John Funnell

    John Funnell

    Parabola Research, HEVC Specialist and Director

    Parabola was founded in 2011 with the embryonic HEVC video standard firmly in mind. A small company based close to London, UK, our team is passionate about customer service, quality, compliance and best practice.Parabola develops HEVC test software and undertakes bespoke algorithmic and software development for others in the field of video compression.
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