About the Lecture

The Evolution of IPTV
Alan Delaney, IPTV Business Development Director, TANDBERG Television

IPTV is here to stay, in whatever format it eventually settles into. Consumers are becoming increasingly in control; and as users filter out unwanted content and continue to generate more content themselves the nature of video entertainment is changing. As a result the 30 second advertisement clip is becoming less and less effective.

This lecture from industry expert Alan Delaney will discuss the following questions:

• Is the mass market becoming the long tail with regard to IPTV?
• How can operators react rapidly to emerging opportunities with a controlled, flexible and well understood strategy?
• How does IPTV reflect on the future proofing of the infrastructure and platforms to meet those ever changing needs? … and can operators make any money doing so?

About the Speaker

Alan Delaney, IPTV Business Development Director, EMEA and APAC In his role as TANDBERG Television’s IPTV Business Development Director, Alan Delaney is responsible for building and maintaining the company’s relationship with telcos, operators and content owners in order to further the deployment and adoption of IPTV. Using TANDBERG Television’s award wining IPTV video head-end, on-demand and interactive TV solutions, Alan is able to provide IPTV operators with access to an extensive range of tools that allow them to introduce and drive new video business models.

Alan joins TANDBERG Television from Pace Micro Technology where he spent five years as IPTV Product Manager. During this period he developed and implemented a strategic business plan for the company’s IPTV services and maintained ownership of Pace’s IPTV product portfolio in terms of roadmap, pricing, customer requirements specification, profitability and timely platform delivery.

Alan started his career at Iomega Ireland where he worked in a variety of roles before joining Iomega UK, initially as OEM Technical Marketing Engineer. Then as European Field Application Engineering Manager where he took responsibility for the day to day operation of the European regional team which provided field application engineering support to Iomega’s European tier 1 OEMs.

He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and Applications from Queen’s University, Belfast and a BA in European Business Studies from the University of Ulster.