PLENARY SESSIONS

24 november 2005

08 : 30
Greeting, registration, coffee

09 : 00
Value creation, Business Models and Rights Management

In digital distribution, is value created or transferred? How can the same service (music, TV, VoD, games, etc.) be marketed using very different business models? What forms of collaboration is there between the pipeline players, portals and networks? What are the primary areas of competition? How do the different players perceive the stakes involved in DRM?

Round-Table 1 : New players on the content industry delivery

As broadband continues to spread, new operators are entering the content market. What strategies are they employing? What position are they taking up?

Chair:
» Agnès Touraine, Managing Partner, Act III
» Patricia Langrand, Executive Vice President Content Division, France Telecom
» Philip Plaisance, President, WonderPhone
» Carlo d’Asaro Biondo, CEO, AOL France
» Christian Vanderborght, Business Director, PlateformeTV
» Dominique Vidal, Regional VP & Managing Director, Yahoo! Europe

10 : 15
Coffee break

10 : 45
Round-Table 2: The impact of broadband on content industries

How do traditional media players perceive the opportunities and threats to their business inherent in digital distribution?

Chair:
» Gilles Fontaine, Deputy General Manager, IDATE
» Simon Kenny, EVP & Managing Director, Warner Bros International Television Distribution Europe
» Shane O’Neill, Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer, Liberty Global & President, Chellomedia
» Gerry O'Sullivan, Director of Product Management, BskyB
» Bruno Bonnell, Chairman, CEO & Chief Creative Officer, ATARI

KeyNote
» Jean-Bernard Lévy, CEO, Vivendi Universal

12:45
Lunch


14:30
Understanding the new user habits

While, on the whole, the adoption of new consumption patterns is taking place at a slower rate than technological changes, there has nonetheless been a marked shift over the past few years in households’ time and financial budgets, in these patterns’ segmentation according to social class and age group…

KeyNote
» Michel Maffesoli, Directeur du Centre d’Etude sur l’Actuel & le Quotidien, La Sorbonne

New Frontiers for business strategies and Competition Regulation

Session 1- Telecom new frontiers
Leading operators need to devise strategies that will guarantee them a certain level of growth, in a situation where European mobile markets have reached relative maturity, and where fixed telephony revenues are dropping more or less quickly: how does the growing penchant to market triple play and mobile TV offers fit into this context? Going from there, how do telcos perceive the future shape of their business, the sector’s performance, the innovation process and the electronic communication industry’s organisation?

14:50
KeyNote
» Pierre Danon, Senior Advisor, JP Morgan

15:15
Round Table
Chair: Francis Lorentz, President, IDATE
» James Britton, Director, Telecoms Equity Research, Lehman Brothers
» Jean-Hervé Lorenzi, Conseiller du Directoire & Senior Banker, La Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschield Banque
» René-Philippe Mantrand, General Manager Communications Sector, Microsoft EMEA
» Dimitri Ypsilanti, Head, Telecommunications Unit, Directorate for Science, Technology & Industry, OECD

16:15
Session 2 -  Content & Networks: Where are the problems for the regulators?
With the growing ubiquity of IP, the rise of both fixed and mobile broadband, and the integration of content, regulators will be facing a variety of new issues: how far does operators’ responsibility extend over the use that is made of the access they provide? What competition mechanisms should be applied to new infrastructures? Should spectrum allocations continue to be managed based on categories of application?…

KeyNote
» Paul Champsaur, Président, ARCEP

17:00
Closing Speech
» Kanichiro Aritomi, Vice-Ministre des Affaires Intérieures et des Communications (MIC) du Japon

17:30
Closing cocktail

Contact:
Raphaël Moro
r.moro@idate.org
Tel : +33 (0)467 144 455

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