BBC’s Bennett and Highfield Set for MIPTV Keynote

PARIS, February 20: Jana
Bennett, the director of BBC Vision, and Ashley Highfield, the director of
future media and technology at the BBC, will give a joint keynote address at
MIPTV featuring MILIA.

The pair is scheduled to
open MIPTV’s Content 360 segment of the Capture Innovation Conference program.
While Bennett will show how the newly restructured BBC Vision integrates
multiplatform thinking into BBC visual content creation and commissioning,
Highfield will look into the process of innovation at the BBC, particularly in
its online development over the next five years, and will discuss the proposed
BBC iPlayer.

The keynote will take
place April 18 at 5:30 p.m. at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France.