Past MPEGIF Master Class Programs:

NAB 2003
IBC 2003
IBC 2004
NAB 2005
IBC 2005
NAB 2006
IBC 2006
NAB 2007
IBC 2007
NAB 2008
IBC 2008
NAB 2009
IBC 2009
CES 2010

Past MPEGIF Master Class Speakers (2003 - Present)

   


Gian Paolo Balboni, Head, Innovation Trends, Telecom Italia
(2008)



Giampaolo Bandini - FW Labs MIT Planning Manager, Fastweb
(2007)



Hanno Basse, Viceppresident of Broadcast Systems Engineering for DIRECTV, Inc.,
(2009)



Kevin Baughan, Director of Technical Strategy, Virgin Media
(2009)



Andy Bechtolsheim, SVP and Chief Architect Network Systems Group, Sun Microsystems Inc.
(2005)



Ross Biggam, Director General, Association of Commercial Telvision in Europe
(2009)


Robert Bleidt, StreamCrest
(2004)



Nicolas BRY, Head of Product & Services, T-ONLINE France
(2006)


E. Tab Butler, Director of Broadcast, SeaChange International Inc
(2005)



Leonardo Chiariglione, Telecom Italia, Convener ISO/IEC MPEG
(2003)



Robert B. Clasen, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Starz, LLC
(2009)



David Cole, CEO, IPTV
(2007)



Stuart Collingwood, Vice President EMEA, Sling Media
(2009)



William Cooper, Chief Executive, Informitv
(2009)


Pierre Costa, Lead Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Laboratories
(2007)



Dr Glenn Craib, CTO NXVision
(2008)



Robert X. Cringley
(2003)


Eric Dewannain, World Wide Director of Business Development, Broadband Communications Group, Texas Instrument
(2005)


Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Diepold, Munich Technical University
(2003)



Thomas Dove, CEO & Founder, Vqual
(2005)


Julie Dutrisac, Chief, Innovations and Development, National Film Board of Canada
(2003)



Gabriele Elia, Telecom Italia
(2007)



Dieter Engel, Senior Vice President, Product Development Media Services, Deutsche Telekom AG, Products & Innovation
(2009)



Thierry Fautier, Director of Convergence Solutions, Harmonic Inc
(2010)



Boris Felts, Director of Product Development at Envivio
(2004)



Justin Fielder, Research Development and Customer Technology Director, BSkyB
(2007)



Yuval Fisher, CTO, RGB Networks
(2010)


Jon Folland, Nativ
(2003)



Marco Frazier, ESPN Classic Europe
(2007)



David Frerichs, VP and GM US Operations, Coding Technologies
(2003)



Harold Fuchs, Senior Engineer, Fraunhofer IIS
(2005)



Dr. Marco Fumagalli, Leader, Video System engineering Group, Fastweb
(2008)



Gerassim S. Gadiyan
(2009)



Mr. Alvaro T. Gazzolo - President and CEO, IPTV Americas
(2008)



Stefan Geyersberger, Director of Business Develpment, Fraunhofer IIS
(2005)



Bob Giddy, Chief Executive Officer, Amino
(2007)



David Gillies, Director of Technology, Pace Micro Technology
(2008)



Professor Kontsantin Glassman, Head of Video Systems Department at St. Petersburg Stat University of Film and Television
(2009)



Kamil A. Grajski, Ph.D. - President, FLO Forum / Vice President, Engineering, QUALCOMM
(2007)



Peter H. Guglielmino � CTO Media & Entertainment Group, IBM
(2008)


Manuel Gutierrez, Chief Executive Officer and PResident, TDVision Systems
(2009)


Peter Gutman, Video Networks



Dr. Randy Hank, Chief of Staff for Video Planning at AT&T Services
(2009)



Kit Harvey, European Business Development Manager, Playboy TV UK
(2007)



Casey Harwood, Senior Vice President Turner Europe, Turner Broadcasting
(2009)



christine Heckart, General Manager of Marketing and Business Development, TV, Video & Music Business, Microsoft Corp.
(2010)


Nick Hopkins � Head of Advanced Technologies, Virgin Media
(2008)



Charlie Horrell, CEO, Packet Vision
(2007)


Yun Chao Hu, Open IPTV Forum Steering Group Chairman, Open IPTV Forum, Antipolis, Cedex, France
(2009)



Matthew Huntington, Vice President of Product Marketing, OpenTV Corp.
(2009)



Lalurent Jabiol, Co-Founder, Neotion
(2005)


Helen Jay, Via Licensing
(2004)



Kay Johansson � Chief Technology Officer
(2009)



Rob Koenen, President, M4IF, VP InterTrust Technologies Corp.
(2003)


Oleg Kolesnikov, Techincal Director of Broadcasting, NTV-Plus
(2009)



Sebastian Kramer, CEO Quative Limited (Kudelski Group Company)
(2007)



Mark Krivocheev, Chief Scientist, State Radio Research & Development Insitute (NIIR) Moscow
(2009)



Kaliu Kukk, Deputy General Director, Join-Stock Company "Telecom" Moscow
(2009)


Jim Kutzner � Chief Engineer, Public Broadcasting Service
(2010)



Didier LeGall, Vice President of Home Media Products, LSI Logic
(2003)



Christophe Lenaerts, Founder & CEO, Telemak
(2007)



Helmut Leopold, Director of Platform and Technology, Telekom Austria
(2008) Forum



William G. Leuhrs, Corporate Executive Vice President & President, ADB
(2005)


Rhys Lewis, BBC
(2004)


Bob Luff, EVP & Chief Engineering Officers, Nielsen
(2009)



Dr. Ajay Luthra, Senior Director, Motorola
(2010)



Roger Lynch, Chairman and CEO of Video Networks Ltd
(2006)


Gudjon Mar Gudjonsson, Chief Executive Officer, Industria
(2007)



Andy Mathieson, Director, Latens
(2008)



Rich Mavrogeanes, Founder, VBrick
(2005)



Sean McCarthy, Board Member, MPEGIF / Chief Scientist, Modulus Video
(2006)



Jeff McSchooler, VP of Engineering, EchoStar Broadcasting Corporation
(2009)



Andre Mendes, Chief Technology Integration Officer, Public Broadcasting Service
(2006)



Satish Menon, Chief Architect, Yahoo Media Group
(2008)



Richard Mizer, SMPTE (2003)



Myra Moore, President and Chief Analyst, Digital Tech Consulting Inc.
(2006)




Sebastian Moeritz, President, MPEGIF / CEO, dicas
(2006)


John Moulding, Editor, Chable 7 Satellite International
(2005)



Mats Nilsson � Portfolio Manager, EricssonJoined Ericsson 1987 as Systems Engineer and Project Manager
(2008)


John Setel O'Donnell, CTO, Equator Technologies
(2005)



Shelly Palmer � Managing Director, Advanced Media Ventures Group & Host of MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer
(2009)



Silvio Perich, Senior Vice President, Sales, Sigma Designs
(2005)


Marty Picco, Vice President, Systems & Technology, Harmonic Inc.
(2008)



Harald Popp, Department Head for multimedia realtime systems, Fraunhoffer
(2005)



David Price Vice President, MPEGIF / Vice President, Harmonic Inc.
(2006)



Dr. Yury I.Pripachkin
(2009)



Tassilo Raesig - Head of Production and Operations, Sony
(2008)



Jens Rieken - Executive Director Product Development, Core Media
(2007)



Tom Rosenstein, Vice President of Business Development, SeaChange
(2005)



Toby Russell, Chief Executive Officer, 3vision
(2007)



Sven Reuter � Representative for Standards, LG Technology Center Europe
(2008)


Tim Schaff, VP, Engineering Interactive Media Group , Apple
(2005)



Robert (Rob) Schumann, General Manager, Cinea, Inc (a Dolby Company)
(2007)



Gary Schultz, President/Principal Analyst, MultiMedia Research Group
(2009)



Tiaan Schutte, General Manager, Software Service Platform, Networks & Integration Solutions Business Unit, Thomson
(2008)



Benjamin Schwarz, VP Business Development, Orange Labs
(2007)



Mark Selby, Vice President Multimedia, Nokia
(2006)



Mike Short, O2
(2004)



Robert P. Seidel, Vice President, CBS
(2007)



Julien Signes, President, CTO, Founder, Envivio
(2005)


Rick Sizemore, Chief Strategy & Development Officer, MultiMedia Intelligence, Scottsdale, AZ
(2008)



Dean Skandalis, Director, Licensing for MPEG LA (2003)



Clyde D. Smith, Senior Vice President of Global Broadcast Technology and Standards for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
(2008)



John Smith, Manager, Pervasive Media Management Group IBM
(2003)



Roderick Snell - Founder and Research Director, Snell & Wilcox Ltd
(2009)


JC Spierer, DistanceVision, Inc.
(2003)



Thomas Staneker, Executive Vice President, Web-on-TV T-Com Innovations, Deutsche Telekom
(2008)



David Strehlow, Director of Marketing, Media Solutions, Huawei
(2010)



Prof. Dr. Robert Strzebkowski, Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Department Computer Science and Media
(2008)


Gary Sullivan, chairman of the Joint Video Team (JVT),Microsoft Corporation
(2003)



Joanne Tracy, Publisher, Focal Press
(2005)


David Trescot � Vice President Rhozet Business Unit, Harmonic Inc
(2007)



Alexander Umbitaliev, Direct, Television Research Institute, St. Petersburg
(2009)



Oleg A. Urushev - General Director TV&Radio company �Ugra� (Khanti-Mansiisk)
(2008)



Ivan Verbesselt is Senior Vice President and head of Marketing, Nagravision
(2007)



Charles Van Dusen, CTO, Tut Systems
(2005)



Alty van Luijt, Philips
(2004)



Andrew Wajs, CTO, Irdeto
(2005)



Ian Walker - Vice President, New Business Development, Advanced Digital Broadcast
(2007)



Jeffrey G. Weber, Vice President, Product & Strategy, AT&T Operations, Inc.
(2006)



James Wendorf, VP, Senior Manage Technology & Standards, Philips Electronics
(2005)



Bob Wilson, General Manager, Networked Video Solutions Group,Broadband Home Solutions, Motorola Home and Networks Mobility
(2009)



Paul Whitehead, Executive Director, Video Planning, AT&T
(2010)



Robin Wilson, Vice President, Business Development, Nagravision
(2009)



Tim Wu, Professor, Columbia Law School
(2007)



Bob Zitter,Executive Vice President & CTO, HBO
(2010)



Brane Zivkovic, Founder and CEO, Soundball
(2003)