Annual Conference on the State of Telecom
Building the Next Generation of Media: Online Platforms and Cloud Content
October 19, 2015
Agenda
8:30-9:00am Registration and Breakfast
9:00-9:15am – Welcome, Introduction of Topic, and Report on CITI’s Project on Cloud-TV
- Eli Noam, Professor, Columbia Business School and Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
9:15-10:30am – Session 1: Content
Views from industry and academia on several questions: As the technology and delivery methods evolve, will the impact be to transform content to include interactivity, immersion, individualization, virtual reality? What new types of content are emerging? The changing significance of sports and UGC?
- Terry Denson, VP- Content Strategy & Acquisition, Verizon Communication
- Coleman Breland, President, Turner Content Distribution
- John Pavlik, School of Communications and Information, Rutgers University
- Evangeline Morphos, School of the Arts—Film, Columbia University
- Moderator: Darcy Gerbarg, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
10:30-10:45am – Coffee Break
10:45-12:00pm – Session 2: Infrastructure and Technology
Noted innovators and implementers in technology and technology policy will discuss some of the following topics: What are the technology building blocks for Cloud-TV? What are the infrastructure needs? Are technologies like 4K likely to be successful?
- Milo Medin, VP of Access Services, Google
- Greg Harper, President, Harpervision
- Robert Pepper, VP-Global Technology Policy, Cisco
- Andrew McLaughlin, Partner, betaworks
- Moderator: Robert Atkinson, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
12:00pm-1:00pm – Lunch
1:00-02:15pm – Session 3: Policy and Regulation
A panel for distinguished current and former policy makers and analysts will discuss some of the following: What legacy rules will survive or vanish, and which new rules will emerge? What are likely rules on interoperability, privacy, consumer protection? Is there a role for supranational harmonization and what should be its limits? In a world with different laws on content, how will providers of new types of content comply? How does 'net neutrality' affect cloud providers? What are the copyright and licensing issues associated with global online video? What is the role of public service broadcasters in an online video world?
- Matthias Kurth, Executive Chairman, Cable Europe
- Christopher Yoo, Professor, and Director of Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition, University of Pennsylvania
- Alison Neplokh, Deputy Chief Technologist, Federal Communications Commission
- Moderator: Heather Hudson, University of Alaska Anchorage
2:15-2:30pm – Coffee Break
2:30-3:45pm – Session 4: Trends of Concentration in Platform Industries: a Problem? What are Policy Approaches?
A global panel of distinguished professors discussing market concentration in the OTT and online network platform industries around the world, as well as in related internet and content industries. Business drivers, consumer interests, competition, and policy issues. What are the impacts on vertical integration? Of globalization? What are constraints on innovation and investment?
- Daeho Kim, Professor of Media and IT, Inha University, Korea
- Raul Katz, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
- Moderator: Ben Compaine, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
3:45-5:00 pm – Session 5: Business Models and Industry
Leading financial and corporate analysts and investors will discuss the business dimensions of the emerging media and telecom environment. What are the investment and cost issues for next-generation video content and infrastructure platforms? For consumer prices and market penetration? Will the current flat-rate and bundled model continue to be dominant? What are the licensing, and monetization issues of multi-platform distribution video? What are the factors that explain the high market shares of leading firms? What is the business potential for peer-to-peer and user-generated for-profit video? Who are the likely big players?
- Brent Olson, Vice President - Public Policy, AT&T
- Tuna Amobi, Director and Senior Equity Analyst, Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ
- Craig Moffett, Principal, MoffettNathanson
- Harold Vogel, Principal, Vogel Capital Management
- Gordon Goldstein, Managing Director - Head of External Affairs, Silver Lake
- Moderator: Judith O’Neill, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
5:00pm Conclusions and Reception