More and more telcos are beginning to realize that something more than IPTV 1.0 is required if they are going to successfully compete in the TV arena. Utilizing IMS and DLNA technologies can help achieve this. These two technology standards provide mechanisms that enable service capabilities for voice, messaging, and mobility and that can also interact with consumer devices bought in retail shops. What we today recognize as TV is just a small part of what TV will be like onward.

This session presents what IMS and DNLA are able to achieve from an end-user service perspective, as well as the technology challenges in making this happen. The workshop includes telco service provider objectives and industry forum initiatives, together with consumer and telco vendor solution strategies.

Dante Iacovoni Marketing Director Tilgin

Mr. Iacovoni has more than 20 years of experience from the data communications and telco industry. He has held key marketing and sales positions with both start-ups and major established telecom vendors such as Ericsson. Mr. Iacovoni's breadth of experience ranges from customer-premises equipment to multi-service IP networks for real-time services.

Lars Adolfsson Network Strategist Telenor

Mr. Adolfsson is currently leading Telenor's "connected home" initiatives to deliver new, entertaining, and easy-to-use broadband services to home consumers. He has extensive experience within next-generation broadband services and their underlying technologies. During the past decade, Mr. Adolfsson has been leading the technology rollout of IPTV, VoIP, and xDSL solutions within Bredbandsbolaget, a Swedish broadband operator acquired by Telenor. He has a Master of Science in engineering physics and a Ph.D. in astronomy.

Yun Chao Chairman Open ITV Forum

Mr. Chao was actively involved in the initiation of this forum, which targets the development of next-generation IPTV, providing end users a completely new experience for their entertainment and communication services. He is employed at Ericsson and works for corporate function standardization. He is responsible for IMS-based IPTV standardization strategies. Mr. Chao has been working with Ericsson since 1993 and has been involved with a number of diversity of standardization areas.

Peter Galyas Chief Technology Officer Tilgin

Mr. Galyas has a broad and comprehensive background in the telecommunications and IP communications industries. He has more than 15 years of experience in the industry, where he has worked with business and product management, product development, research, and standardization. Previously, Mr. Galyas worked at Ericsson, where he did groundbreaking work developing the market's first global system for the mobile communications base station and creating a new IP-based system architecture for mobile access networks.

Ram Kumar Associate Vice President, Product Engineering Infosys Technologies

Mr. Kumar is responsible for the R&D and product engineering services portfolio business at Infosys. He has a track record of executive and operational leadership in building businesses around computing and communication infrastructure products and services. Most recently, Mr. Kumar was the founder and chief executive officer of WIncNet Corp., a wireless infrastructure firm focused on a mobility softswitch for enterprise VoIP and data mobility. Previously, he led Voiceworkz Inc., a network technology firm, from a concept to a VoIP gateway platform product, sales, and liquidity event.

Luca Pesando Coordinator, Fixed Access and Transport, and IPTV Telecom Italia

Mr. Pesando joined Telecom Italia's R&D department (TILab) in 1992. He has patented several solutions in the optical interconnections field and managed a Telecom Italia consultancy project geared toward the European Space Agency. He was part of the Italian delegation in the International Electrotechnical Commission IEC-TC48 (electrical connectors) from 1996 to 1999. He has a laurea and a Ph.D. in high-energy particle physics from the University of Torino, focusing on radiation detector and read-out electronics design.