CASBAA Convention Unveils Speaker Lineup

HONG KONG: UTV’s Ronnie Screwvala, FOXTEL’s Kim Williams and ABS-CBN’s Eugenio Lopez III are among the speakers lined up for this year’s CASBAA Convention, taking place November 3 to 6 at Hong Kong’s Grand Hyatt Hotel.

The theme of this year’s event is "Extending Your Reach," bring together executives from the satellite, cable TV, broadband, production, online, telco, technology, advertising and regulatory sectors across Asia’s 14 markets. The speaker lineup includes UTV Software Communications’ founder and CEO, Ronnie Screwvala; David Haslingden, the CEO of Fox International Channels and National Geographic Channels Worldwide; Kim Williams, the CEO of FOXTEL; Tomoyuki Moriizumi, the president and CEO of Jupiter Telecommunications; Eugenio Lopez III, the chairman and CEO of ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation; Mark Hollinger, the COO of Discovery Communications; and Russell Wolff, the executive VP and managing director of ESPN International, among others.

The three-day event will feature speeches and presentations on issues such as reaping the dividends from digital broadcasting; the changing role of telecoms operators and advertising trends for broadcast, online and mobile programming platforms. The panels, meanwhile, will explore the impact of new technologies on media consumption; co-operation between content providers and pay-TV operators to maximize their revenues; pay-TV opportunities in developing markets and the next consumer digital experience. There will also be sessions exploring the Chinese and Indian markets.