Digital Radio Show 2008

Speakers are being invited from the key sectors involved in the digital radio market including key European broadcasters, content providers, technology providers and many more.

If you are interested in speaking at the Digital Radio Show 2008, please contact:

Verity Tarrant,
Conference Producer
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2007 Speakers:

After graduating from Durham University (with a BA in English) Andrew started his career at Procter & Gamble in 1987 holding various Brand Manager and Marketing Manager positions. By 1996, Andrew was Marketing Director for P&G's Health & Beauty Care business in Portugal, before returning to the UK to be Marketing Director for Hair care.

Mr. Krueger has 23 years of experience in satellite systems development, during which he has directly managed the development, launch and operations of 67 satellites and 16 launch vehicles

As Director of Radio, Nathalie is responsible for all radio and DAB multi-media at Channel 4. Nathalie joined Channel 4 at the end of 2005 to launch Channel 4 Radio and lead the development and operation of the radio business, including their bid for the licence to run a new national digital radio multiplex.  Nathalie is also Chairman of the national digital station, Oneword Radio.

Mark is responsible for the development of BBC radio and music brands and content on digital platforms and devices, including DAB, the internet, digital television and mobiles.  He also leads the BBC’s DAB Digital Radio activity and is a board member of the Digital Radio Development Bureau. 

Mr. Prashant Panday, joined Entertainment Network India Limited in August 2000.

Tim Ayris is head of marketing at WRN, the London-based transmission service provider that has pioneered the use of satellite radio platforms around the world.

NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) or Norwegian Public Broadcaster is the biggest broadcaster in Norway. Producing Radio, TV, Web and services for mobile phones.

Emma Lloyd is Managing Director for BT Wholesale’s BT Movio venture, with executive responsibility for business development and delivering the BT Movio strategy.

Eugenio La Teana currently work as “Head of Research & Development” in RTL 102.5 Hit Radio.

The experience in IT technology, gives the opportunity to Mr. La Teana of seeing the media from a different point of view.

Larissa Anna Erismann works for Swiss Satellite Radio, a branch of the Swiss public broadcaster (SRG SSR idée suisse) which produces three ad-free, music-only radio stations: Radio Swiss Classic, Radio Swiss Jazz and Radio Swiss Pop. These three stations form an important part of the DAB-only offer in Switzerland.

Les is Vice President of Technology at Radioscape having joined in July 2002. He is responsible for Research and Development of new broadcast products, applications, emerging technologies and standards, as well as a variety of business development activities.

Will joined GCap Media in August 2006 as Group Strategy and Development Director, responsible for strategic planning, corporate development and growing GCap’s non-traditional revenue streams.

Quentin Howard, the original "Digital Evangelist”, is the UK’s leading expert on commercial digital radio and acknowledged as the author of Britain’s world-dominating position in digital radio broadcasting. 

Since 1965 with Deutsche Welle, Germany and after 16 years abroad he was in charge of all terrestrial and satellite networks. In 1994 he became first chief engineer, than Director Distribution and since 2006 he is DW’s Director DRM.

Glyn Jones oversees Digital One’s key operational functions including marketing and management of its national network of transmitters, the largest digital radio network in the world, as well as working on strategy development with Digital One’s Chief Executive, Quentin Howard.  

Ole Mølgaard was born in 1963 and grew up in Aarhus, Denmark, where he studied political science and later on Literature.

On moving to Copenhagen, Ole became radio host at the biggest youth channel P3 and later producer and journalist on the current affairs channel P1.

Since 2000, Yannick ANDRE-MASSE is the Chairman of VDL, one of the three digital network providers for DAB/DMB in France.

Peter is Director, Radio & Convergent Media at Ofcom the UK’s regulator for the radio, television and telecoms industries.

Kath has worked on the digital radio project since 2000.  Now Project Manager, she works with Commercial Radio Australia’s engineering digital technical advisory committee and policy and regulatory team to develop the technical and regulatory framework to commence the roll out of digital radio services in Australia by 1 January 2009. 

Nick is the Digital Content Manager at Gcap Media plc, the UK’s largest commercial radio operator, representing 40% of UK commercial radio listening and owning stations including Classic fm, Capital 95.8 FM, XFM, Planet Rock and 50 local and regional stations.

London-based Chris Forrester is a well-known entertainment and broadcasting journalist. He reports on all aspects of the TV industry with special emphasis on content, the business of film, television and emerging technologies.

Harpreet (better known as Harp) was appointed Category Buyer for audio products in January 2006 from his position as Marketing Manager for computing products, held since 2002.

Simon Mason is Head of New Product Development at Arqiva. He joined the BBC at Pebble Mill in 1984 as a graduate engineer in radio and television studies.

Frank - born 1963 - made his diploma at the Technical University Braunschweig.
In 1994 he led Clarion into the Eureka 147 DAB Project. DAB became the core element of his professional career. In 96 Frank changed to Panasonic, where he initially managed the DAB Pilot Project Hessen. Today he is Project Leader for DVB-T2, DAB and DMB. In this position he took over more and more strategic tasks.

Bryan joined VT Communications in June 2002 as Customer Relations Director within the Broadcast division, before taking over as General Manager, Broadcast.

Tony has been with National Grid Wireless since 2003 but has been involved in the broadcast industry since 1999 when he joined ONdigital as Director of Interactivity, where he developed their interactive  services across a number of platforms, including games and text services on  DTT and their Internet on TV service, ONnet/ITV Active.
 

Brendan Dowling is the founder and original visionary behind iO™ global limited.  As an experienced telecoms entrepreneur, Brendan has the perfect blend of financial, technological and strategic market development experience for the creation of a new service offering within the mobile arena.