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Hubert Cierpica

Head of Strategy

T-Mobile Polska

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Cathy Flaviano

Head of Play Suisse

SRG SSR

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Matej Lončarić

Chief Digital Officer

CME Adria

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Yuliya Daineko

Head of Product Portfolio Evolution B2X

A1 Telekom Austria Group

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Justinas Docka

Head of Content, Pay TV Baltics

TV3 Group

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Krzysztof Kaczurba

Director of Development Strategy

Orange Polska

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Ran Yanay

VP TV and Media

CETIN

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Lukasz Dulniak

Head of Content Operations, Central and Eastern Europe

TikTok

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Artur Dominiak

Director of Home Segment

PLAY (Iliad Group)

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Karina Rompa

Business Development & Partnerships

Rakuten TV

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Artur Pacula

CEO

MEGOGO Poland

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Till Sudworth

Head of Video Analytics BU

NPAW

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Kasia Jablonska

Director of Digital and On-Demand for EMEA

BBC Studios

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Simon Slonjsak

Director of Product Management

Telemach Slovenija

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Marek Kacprzak

Deputy Director of the Corporate Affairs Office for Strategy

TVP

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Giles Tongue

VP Marketing

Bango

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Victoria Davies

Managing Director

Accelerate Consulting

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Mike Echternach

Senior Commercial Product Manager TV

Deutsche Telekom

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Maciej Gozdowski

Group Vice President - Streaming

Warner Bros. Discovery

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Antonio Ivankovic

Chief Commercial Officer

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David Rowark

VP Business Development EMEA

Netgem

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Richard Dowling

SVP Consulting

ThinkAnalytics

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Inga Alika

Moderator

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Hubert Cierpica

Head of Strategy

T-Mobile Polska

About the Speaker

Hubert is the Head of Strategy at T-Mobile Poland, where he leads the company’s strategic initiatives. Prior to joining T-Mobile, Hubert spent eight years at Altman Solon, a strategy consulting firm, where he gained expertise in the Telecom, Media, and Technology (TMT) industries. Hubert’s experience includes significant stints in CEE, Western Europe and the US, providing him with a broad and diverse perspective on the global Telco, TV & OTT landscape.

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Is Telco Diversification Beyond Connectivity Still The Best Model?

Cathy Flaviano

Head of Play Suisse

SRG SSR

About the Speaker

Cathy Flaviano has been head of the SRGSSR streaming platform ‘Play Suisse’ since April 2024. Prior to that, she was Head of the ‘Culture and Society’ department and a member of the Executive Board at RSI for five years and, slightly earlier, Chief of Staff of the Culture department at SRF.

Further stations in her journalistic career led her from private radio and television to the SRG radiostations, where she worked as a presenter, producer, editorial manager and project manager for trimedial content.

Cathy Flaviano was born in Basel in 1967, where she took her first professional steps in the media while still at school. She has a degree in psychology and business communication.

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Streaming From The Cloud: Acceleration of operators' video strategies

Matej Lončarić

Chief Digital Officer

CME Adria

About the Speaker

Matej Loncaric, Chief Digital Officer at CME Adria, joined the company in 2023 and he is responsible for Digital Operations in Slovenian Pro Plus and Croatian RTL. Under his leadership, the new unique streaming platform of RTL in Croatia – Voyo – was successfully launched. He has previously worked on developing digital strategies and business plans for various media brands at Styria. Loncaric is the brain behind the largest Croatian video platform for Generation Z – Joomboosa, and he has also spearheaded the development of other brands such as Joonglaa in Slovenia and Roosvaaj in Serbia. Prior to his role at CME Adria, he served as the director of miss7 and the video department at 24sata. His career began at Nova TV, where he held positions as the editor-in-chief of dnevnik.hr and a producer for new media. Loncaric is a graduate of FER in Zagreb and holds a Master’s degree in Communication and Space Technology Engineering.

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Personalisation & Content Discovery To Enhance User Retention

Yuliya Daineko

Head of Product Portfolio Evolution B2X

A1 Telekom Austria Group

About the Speaker

Yuliya Daineko serves as a Head of Product Portfolio Evolution for A1 Telekom Austria Group (7 markets in CEE region) and responsible for strategic directions to drive product experience and customer value growth. Before joining this position, Yuliya was a Marketing Director of A1 Belarus ( one of markets in Group foot print) for 6 years and managed development of Mobile and Fixed business, as well as TV. She holds MBA from Stockholm School of Economics.

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Is Telco Diversification Beyond Connectivity Still The Best Model?

Justinas Docka

Head of Content, Pay TV Baltics

TV3 Group

About the Speaker

Experienced digital entertainment and media executive specialising in content acquisition and strategy, long-term partnerships development (Discovery+, Paramount+) and SVOD/AVOD business growth. Currently helping to grow Go3 Next Gen Television service in Baltics with a data driven execution mindset. Experience in serving at the board of directors on Free-to-air TV network as a head of digital for new media and ad sales.

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Personalisation & Content Discovery To Enhance User Retention

Krzysztof Kaczurba

Director of Development Strategy

Orange Polska

About the Speaker

Coming Soon.

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Is Telco Diversification Beyond Connectivity Still The Best Model?

Ran Yanay

VP TV and Media

CETIN

About the Speaker

Ran is a Telecom, TV & Media leader with 25 years of experience in key managerial positions in tier-one telecom providers.

Ran founded one of the first OTT solutions in 2014 with his team and then was responsible for selecting the next-gen cloud solution in Israel. Since 2020, Ran and his team in PPF have built a Cloud service that will allow everyone to launch a TV in no time and to get an E2E solution. Currently, the service is running in 5 countries.

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Streaming From The Cloud: Acceleration of operators' video strategies

Lukasz Dulniak

Head of Content Operations, Central and Eastern Europe

TikTok

About the Speaker

Media professional with broad experience of managing teams in the leading publisher companies. Expert in platform strategies, content and programming. Digital junkie. Graduate of Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University.

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Capitalizing on D2C, OTT, Streaming & Social Media Trends

Artur Dominiak

Director of Home Segment

PLAY (Iliad Group)

About the Speaker

Director of Home Segment at Play (Iliad Group) responsible for creation and execution of fiber connectivity and content services strategy. Prior to current assignment gathered his experience in telco (Orange, Netia) and pay TV (Canal+, UPC Poland) industry, for past 20+ years co-creating the landscape of Polish convergent market to the moment you can see it right now. Artur graduated from Strategic Management at University of Łódź.

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The Pay TV & OTT Synergy in Europe

Karina Rompa

Business Development & Partnerships

Rakuten TV

About the Speaker

Karina Rompa, a member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (International Emmy Awards), brings over 15 years of dynamic experience in the realms of TV, video, and telecommunications to her role. Currently spearheading Business Development and Partnerships at Rakuten TV, Karina’s illustrious career path includes pivotal roles at renowned entities such as VIDAA (Hisense Group), PLAY (Iliad Group), Netia, and Vectra. Karina is a proud alumna of Executive MBA program at Kozminski University.

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The Pay TV & OTT Synergy in Europe

Artur Pacula

CEO

MEGOGO Poland

About the Speaker

Artur Pacuła joined MEGOGO in 2022 as CEO MEGOGO Poland. MEGOGO is an international mediaservice founded in Kyiv in 2011. It is a leader among OTT platforms in Ukraine. It operates in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the South Caucasus. Also, a part of the catalog is available worldwide. Artur is responsible for operation MEGOGO in Poland. Service was launched in February 2023, which primarily includes Pay-TV packages with a wide range of news, sports, entertainment, kids and educational channels with the interactive feature, as well as a library of movies and series. Artur is experienced in the theatrical, TV and digital industries across CEE, being for many years Disney employee. He used to be CMO and Head of Interactive in the region.

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Navigating Through The Crowded OTT Landscape

Till Sudworth

Head of Video Analytics BU

NPAW

About the Speaker

Till started in the IPTV/TV business in 2006 when he was the lead of the TV-launch project of Deutsche Telekom, being responsible to implement the IPTV-product of Deutsche Telekom in Germany. After successfully launching the IPTV product Entertain (now Magenta TV) he was nominated to become P&L-responsible for the entire TV customer base of Deutsche Telekom, before he founded his own TV consultancy company where he worked for TV companies like e.g. Sky, Sport1, ARD and UPC.
Prior to joining NPAW, Till worked in different Startups in SaaS and Media businesses as CMO and COO, helping these companies to improve their business model and to scale, by providing strategic direction and implementing successful processes and Marketing concepts.
Till joined NPAW in April 2020, and worked as a CMO for more than 3 years before he was announced responsible for the Business Unit Video Analytics in 2023.
He holds a Master in Economics from University of Freiburg, Germany and studied Marketing at UMASS in Boston, USA.

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TV Broadcasting: Data & analytics, bundling and churn

Kasia Jablonska

Director of Digital and On-Demand for EMEA

BBC Studios

About the Speaker

A senior industry executive with over 20 years experience in content monetization, commercial and editorial strategies, she has collaborated with leading media companies, online and cloud-based service providers.

Starting her journey at NatGeo/Fox, she served as Regional Director, overseeing P&L for Fox channels in CEE. She then progressed her career with roles at NBC Universal, A+E Networks, Scripps/Discovery and Endemol Shine Group before joining BBC Studios, where she currently operates in EMEA markets. She spearheaded the digital monetization strategy for production studios’ catalogues, driving a transition from single to multi-screen exploitation for pay TV providers. She was also honoured as one of the Top 50 VOD Professionals in the UK.

As the Director of Digital and On-Demand for EMEA at BBC Studios, Kasia is responsible for developing, executing, and bolstering strategic plans aimed at expanding digital revenue streams, innovating new digital products, and optimizing audience engagement on various digital platforms across EMEA.

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Navigating Through The Crowded OTT Landscape

Simon Slonjsak

Director of Product Management

Telemach Slovenija

About the Speaker

Coming soon.

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Capitalizing on D2C, OTT, Streaming & Social Media Trends

Marek Kacprzak

Deputy Director of the Corporate Affairs Office for Strategy

TVP

About the Speaker

Marek Kacprzak has been involved in media almost his entire professional life. He has worked for the largest Polish editorial offices, such as television, radio, press and internet. He was a reporter, publisher, presenter, but also the creator of many programs as well as a manager responsible for the development of media products. Currently he is in charge of the strategy of Polish Public Television.

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TV Broadcasting: Data & analytics, bundling and churn

Giles Tongue

VP Marketing

Bango

About the Speaker

Giles is responsible for the marketing team focused on the Digital Vending Machine® from Bango. Everything needed for Super Bundling at speed and scale. Specialist in marketing strategy and execution across all aspects of the marketing mix, Giles has 20 years’ experience as a marketer and business leader. Working for many years in various marketing roles including at Unilever. Giles also ran an AI startup, built a wearable tech business from the ground up, and helped a consumer electronics company become one of the fastest growing privately held tech companies in the UK for 3 years running. He’s also a dad, which sharpens his focus somewhat.

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Is Telco Diversification Beyond Connectivity Still The Best Model?

Victoria Davies

Managing Director

Accelerate Consulting

About the Speaker

Victoria Davies is a senior media executive and strategic advisor to clients in media, sports, entertainment and tech. As Managing Partner at Davies, Stoychev & Partners, Victoria advises clients on digital transformation, international expansion, M&A evaluation and integration, revenue and product growth strategy, and hybrid monetisation models. She is an expert in scaling up market- driven businesses into regional powerhouses.

Until 2021, Victoria served as SVP and General Manager of 32 markets for Warner Bros. Discovery.

She led the business transformation in Central & Eastern Europe, Turkey, Greece, Israel, and Central Asia for well-loved brands such as Eurosport, Discovery and TLC and developed a world-class team across 9 locations. She transformed her remit from a pay-tv business into a diversified media ecosystem for entertainment and sports in the pay-tv, free-to-air and streaming environments.

Victoria has an impressive track record of delivering transformative growth for media businesses in Europe, Africa and Asia. Highlights include leading post M&A integrations for Eurosport and Scripps to create significant new value through a combined portfolio and organization, developing the growth playbook for B2B partnerships of streaming services, and spearheading the launch of the TLC brand in several European markets to become #1 in category.

Victoria holds an MBA and BA in German & Serbian/Croatian and is fluent in Bulgarian. When partnering with her clients on new value creation, she leverages her multi-cultural mindset and

cross-functional expertise in growth strategy, content and product strategy, operational excellence, organizational alignment, and digital transformation to deliver winning strategies.

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Personalisation & Content Discovery To Enhance User Retention Navigating Through The Crowded OTT Landscape

Mike Echternach

Senior Commercial Product Manager TV

Deutsche Telekom

About the Speaker

Mike Echternach acts as Senior Commercial Product Manager TV in Deutsche Telekom Group’s global headquarters in Bonn. He is responsible for business value prioritization & planning of product enhancements for DT’s global TV product portfolio currently serving ~9 million subscribers across DT’s European footprint. Prior to that he was holding multiple other positions in the group, including the team lead role in DT’s Technology & Innovation entertainment partnering team. In this role he dealt with relevant brands such as Apple, YouTube, Twitch & ESL FaceIt Group. Before joining Deutsche Telekom Group in 2017, he worked as Account Manager for Event Operations in an international event management agency managing accounts like Samsung & KIA in their sponsorship activations for events like UEFA EURO, Olympics, MWC & IFA. Mike has extensive knowledge in the areas of project management, business development & partnering, operations & corporate strategy building. Echternach holds a B.A. degree in Sports Management from Hochschule Koblenz and a M.Sc. degree of International Management from Steinbeis University Berlin.

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The Pay TV & OTT Synergy in Europe

Maciej Gozdowski

Group Vice President - Streaming

Warner Bros. Discovery

About the Speaker

Maciej Gozdowski is responsible for the development of Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming services portfolio in Poland, which includes: Max – a global streaming platform offering major box office hits, unforgettable classics, and numerous award-winning HBO Originals and popular Max Original series; Player – the largest Polish legal VOD service, providing access to a vast library of TV programs across all thematic categories, films, series, as well as entertainment shows, news programs, sports broadcasts, and children’s cartoons; and TVN24 GO – the only Polish service dedicated exclusively to live and on-demand news content with additional premium materials. Maciej has played a key role in launching the Max streaming platform in the EMEA region. Before joining Warner Bros. Discovery in Poland, Maciej amassed nearly 15 years of experience at various companies in the television industry, such as Polsat and Canal+. He was responsible for revenue and direct sales performance, playing a crucial role in shaping the strategic direction of these organizations. Maciej Gozdowski is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw and Kozminski University.

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Navigating Through The Crowded OTT Landscape

Antonio Ivankovic

Chief Commercial Officer

About the Speaker

Antonio Ivankovic is a seasoned telecommunications executive with over 20 years of international experience spanning marketing, sales, corporate strategy, digital transformation, and customer experience. He has worked extensively in both entrepreneurial ventures and corporate settings, with a strong focus on commercial strategies, from product development, customer-facing operations to strategy execution.

Currently, Antonio serves as Chief Commercial Officer at GO, Malta’s leading telecommunications provider. As the first quad-play operator in the market, GO offers a comprehensive range of services, including fixed-line telephony, mobile services, broadband internet, and digital television.

Antonio holds a degree in Business Economics from the University of Zagreb and an Executive MBA from London Business School, leveraging his academic and business acumen to drive growth and innovation.

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The Pay TV & OTT Synergy in Europe

David Rowark

VP Business Development EMEA

Netgem

About the Speaker

David has spent the last 20 years’ working for and with blue chip multinational companies and mid sized organisations to develop their Connected Home, IPTV and OTT strategies. His expertise has been instrumental in supporting the future of television and entertainment services, from pioneering product transitions to curating value-added offerings that pave the way for the TV experience of tomorrow.

Now a vital part of the Netgem team, David’s focus is on revolutionising television into a truly immersive entertainment hub. Netgem’s vision encompasses an end-to-end solution that includes UI development, aggregation of FAST channels at speed, and the groundbreaking integration of cloud gaming into the TV realm. With the fusion of these elements, the world of television is set to evolve like never before. This innovative approach has a direct impact on telecom operators, offering them a fresh avenue to fuel 5G and fiber growth. By bundling cloud gaming into their services, operators can entice customers with alluring new bundles, providing a compelling reason to embrace the future of entertainment.

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The Pay TV & OTT Synergy in Europe

Richard Dowling

SVP Consulting

ThinkAnalytics

About the Speaker

Richard is part of the founding team at ThinkAnalytics and brings over 20 years of experience in predictive analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. He collaborates with major players in the TV and media industry, providing advice and guidance on using recommendations, search and content discovery to personalize the viewing experience, delivering tangible uplift to customers. This extends to cutting-edge generative AI, voice-activated discovery, 1 st party advertising data and AI-driven FAST and channel scheduling. Richard’s international role at ThinkAnalytics spans technical sales, business development as well as working with our customers to ensure they get the most from personalisation.

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Personalisation & Content Discovery To Enhance User Retention

Inga Alika

Moderator

About the Speaker

Inga Alika is a seasoned media and technology executive with over 20 years of experience in the Technology, Media, and Telecom sectors. As the founder and CEO of Alika Media and Tech, she provides executive consultancy to telcos, broadcasters, streaming services, and content media houses, specializing in content strategy and leveraging data-driven approaches to drive audience engagement and revenue growth.
In her previous role as VP of TV and Entertainment at TET Group, Inga secured a 50% pay-TV market share in Latvia, led the launch of an innovative in-house OTT streaming platform, established Tet Studio for original content production, and secured strategic partnerships with global studios, broadcasters, and platforms.

Inga’s expertise spans content and tech development, transforming legacy businesses into new revenue streams, with a proven track record of reshaping businesses for long-term success. She is also a member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmys).

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The Pay TV & OTT Synergy in Europe Is Telco Diversification Beyond Connectivity Still The Best Model?

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The Pay TV & OTT synergy in Europe

Navigating the crowded OTT landscape

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Streaming from the cloud: Acceleration of operators' video strategies

Capitalizing on D2C, OTT, streaming & social media trends

TV broadcasting: data & analytics, bundling and churn

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Navigating the crowded OTT landscape

Personalisation & content discovery to enhance user retention

Streaming from the cloud: Acceleration of operators' video strategies

Capitalizing on D2C, OTT, streaming & social media trends

TV broadcasting: data & analytics, bundling and churn

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From quantity to quality: how the European FAST landscape evolves towards maturity

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