HDFI - 2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Program

Morning session – DEMO AREA

• 10:00 Opening Demo area and welcome coffee
  
• 10:00-13:00 Meeting by appointment only

Demo Area aims at demonstrating, in a tangible way, innovative solutions addressing some of the issues still plaguing today Over The Top (OTT) streaming distribution of linear events/channels, such as scalability, latency and User eXperience.
Access to the Demo Area will be possible:
– In presence, confirming your participation through the button below
– Online, through video recordings of the demos that will be made available on HDFI web site

Afternoon Session – CONFERENCE

• 14:00 Partecipants convening to the event site by invitation only
  
• 14:30 Opening welcome
  B.M. Mari, HDFI President
  
• 14:45 15 anni di HD Forum Italia e oltre, Video
  
• 14:50 Keynote speech: A vision of new Media
  Dario Edoardo Viganò, Vice Cancelliere della Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze Sociali della Santa Sede
  
• 15:20 Panel: “Tomorrow’s Media: technology, content and consumption”
  Moderator, Marco Pellegrinato HDFI– Technology: New platforms for new contents fruition
  
  – Content: evolutionary models for a generational audience
  Luca Oteri, Amazon Prime*
  – Consumption, FAST Free ad-supported streaming TV
  Fabio Guarnaccia, Link Magazine
  – The role of public service: from technology to content and consumption
  Stefano Ciccotti, RAI*
  
  
• 16:30 Report HDFI Webinars: “Mass market linear TV via OTT”
  Giovanni Venuti, HDFI
  
• 16:45 HDFI Working group: milestones, role and contributions
  Gino Alberico, HDFI
  
• 17:00 HDFI OTT Observatory: objectives and activities
  Sebastiano Trigila, HDFI
  
• 17:15 Key partners: focused presentation on innovative content of demonstration areas
  Lutech (Giorgio Tornielli*), Mainstreaming (Philippe Tripodi*), Mediaset (Stefano Braghieri)
  
• 18:30 Cocktail and Award ceremony
  
• 20:30 Close event

*To be confirmed