Hong Kong, August 4, 2010-- The CASBAA Convention 2010 to be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Hong Kong on October 25th – 28th will be focusing on digital content delivery. This year’s theme is “Unlock Your Networks” and it aims to connect the dots between Platforms, Channels, Technologies and Partnerships.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 4, 2010--The opening plenary session of the IBC2010 conference will feature an address by Sir Michael Lyons, the chairman of the BBC Trust, on the future of public service broadcasting. The session also includes keynote addresses by Yoshinori Imai, vice president of Japanese national broadcaster NHK, and by Ingrid Deltenre, director general of the European Broadcasting Union. All three will be subject to questioning from leading media journalist and commentator Raymond Snoddy.
Hong Kong, May 20, 2010 – The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia will kick off the 10th anniversary of the CASBAA Singapore Satellite Industry Forum on June 14th at the Shangri-La Hotel with a dynamic program – themed "More Than Bandwidth" – with an unrivalled list of clients, operators, satellite manufacturers and launch providers.
Las Vegas, NV, April 15, 2010--At the 2010 NAB Show, World Teleport Association was co-producer of the Destination Broadband Theater in the Upper South Hall. In 16 panel sessions over three days, we focused on two closely-related topics: delivering and monetizing video content delivered over broadband, and how traditional television distribution is evolving in response to the broadband revolution.
London, April 30, 2010. In my various recent columns in this space I have focused on important, and ongoing, key thematic developments in the communications solutions marketplace which are separately, and collectively, creating manifold expansion opportunities for the satellite communications industry to leverage the several advantages that it has over all other communications technologies and platforms.
The 3rd Annual GVF Oil & Gas Communications Europe Conference (O&GCE3) on 12th & 13th May 2010 is also the 9th event in the global Oil & Gas Communications Series organized by GVF and UK-EMP. Continuing the Series into its fifth year, the 2010 conference takes the ‘Digital Applications & Communications Dynamics’ focus beyond the territory of the hydrocarbon-bearing sectors of the North Sea, continuing far to the north to the Arctic Ocean region.
by Robert Bell, Executive Director, World Teleport Association
Despite the disappointments of the Copenhagen climate talks, climate change is fast becoming a reality for business. It is partly a matter of planning for the future. The political battles rage on, taking different paths in different parts of the world, but the overall trend is clear. Activities that produce greenhouse gases will be penalized economically. More efficient use of resources from energy to water will become a high priority. Companies face a choice of when, not if, to “go green.”
At the 4th Annual Navy Satcoms Users Workshop organized by the Satellite Industry Association (SIA) during the AFCEA West show in San Diego last February 3rd, senior U.S. Navy officials affirmed that the US Navy’s reliance on commercial satellite communications will continue to grow in the next few years.
In a forum on "Integrating Satellite Services into the Cloud" at the PTC 2010 in Hawaii earlier this month more game-changing ideas were put forward than at any other time in an industry forum.
The Global VSAT Forum (GVF) and United Kingdom Event Management Partners (UK-EMP) have announced that the offer of free conference registration for relevant vertical market professionals originally introduced for their Oil & Gas Series conferences will be continued for the next in the series of industry-specific communications conferences – the Broadband Maritime South East Asia: New Communications Networking Offshore & the High Seas Conference (BMSEAC) – taking place 23rd to 24th February 2010, at the Marina Mandarin hotel in Singapore. For more information go to: http://www.uk-emp.co.uk/MA2.Sg.2010/