57th FITCE Congress, UK 2018
Delivery and Consumption of Digital Media
6-7 September 2018, MediaCityUK, Salford
P R O G R A M M E
The FITCE Congress comprised a Technical Programme and an associated Companion Programme. A summary of the Technical Programme is presented below. All presentations were video recorded and these may now be viewed online by clicking the title of each presentation shown under the ‘Topic’ column or by clicking the associated session name. In addiiton, some of the presenters have made available a version of their presentaion as a PDF download.
Thursday 6th September 2018
Time | Activity | Speaker | Topic |
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09:30 to 09:45 | Formal Opening | Chair: Nigel Linge |
Introduction |
Professor Helen Marshall, VC, University of Salford | Welcome to the University of Salford | ||
Professor Andy Valdar, President, FITCE | Welcome to the 57th FITCE Congress | ||
09:45 to 10:50 | KEYNOTES | Chair: Nigel Linge |
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Jamie Hindhaugh, Chief Operating Officer, BT Sport | The BT Sport studios facility | ||
Ian Macrae, Director of Market Intelligence, Ofcom | The changing picture: trends in how we access and watch TV and other video | ||
10:50 to 11:20 | Break | ||
11:20 to 13:00 | PAPER SESSION 1 | Chair: Guntram Kraus |
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Andy Sutton, BT | 5G Network Architecture - Enabling the Future Delivery and Consumption of Digital Media | ||
Juan Riol Martín, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Towards 5G: Techno-economic analysis of suitable 5G use cases | ||
Hassan Hamdoun, Video Delivery Research, Future Consumer Applications & Services Labs, BT Technology | Media Delivery in 5G | ||
Berit Bettina Schubert, ATOS, Germany | Pathways to digital transformation in the media industry | ||
13:00 to 14:00 | Break | ||
14:00 to 14:30 | KEYNOTES | Chair: Andy Valdar |
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Laurence Murphy, University of Salford / SMPTE | 8K and holography, their impact on communications and future media technology | ||
14:30 to 16:10 | PAPER SESSION 2 | Chair: Miguel Merino |
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Ed Smith, BT | QUIC’s role as a transport mechanism for IP video | ||
Tom Evens, Ghent University, Belgium | Platform Mania in Television Distribution | ||
Doug Williams, BT | Why the future of Media Distribution may be object based: Exploring the power of this new approach to media distribution using content genres as diverse as live theatre and sport. | ||
Silvia Rossi, UCL | Learning optimal streaming strategies for virtual reality applications | ||
16:10 to 16:40 | Break | ||
16:30 to 18:15 | Technical Visit | The first day of the FITCE Congress concluded with a technical visit to the dock10 studios and media production facilities at MediaCityUK. dock10 is the home of some of the biggest television programme productions in the UK including The Voice, Mastermind, Countdown and Match of the Day. |
Friday 7th September 2018
Time | Activity | Speaker | Topic |
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09:30 to 10:35 | KEYNOTES | Chair: Nigel Linge |
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Ian Wagdin, Senior Technology Transfer Manager, BBC R&D | The impact of future networks on media content creation and distribution | ||
Fernando Garcia Calvo, Director, Huawei Video Business (Europe) | New TV and video services | ||
10:35 to 11:05 | Break | ||
11:05 to 13:00 | PAPER SESSION 3 | Chair: José Van Ooteghem |
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Brahim Allan, Video Delivery Research, BT Technology, Service & Operations | High Dynamic Range Subjective Testing | ||
Ed Smith, BT and Mauro Ugolini, Roma Tre University | What is the future for media in the Post Information Age? | ||
Peggy Valcke, KU Leuven | Accountable, not liable: Is regulating video-sharing platforms under the new AVMS Directive a slippery slope towards internet censorship? | ||
Seamus Simpson, University of Salford | Public Policy and Media Convergence: Paths, Limitations and Prospects | ||
13:00 to 14:00 | Break | ||
14:00 to 15:20 | PAPER SESSION 4 | Chair: Peter Leonhardt |
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Andy Valdar, UCL | Important Developments in Telecommunications Network Architecture | ||
Doug Williams, BT | Does exploding data drive a demand for Gigabit connections? | ||
Jon Hart, BT | 5G Network Slicing and Convergence: Key technologies in Next Generation Networks | ||
15:20 to 15:45 | Break | ||
15:45 to 16:45 | PANEL SESSION | Chair: Nigel Linge Panel comprised: Andrzej Dulka, CEO, Alcatel-Lucent, Poland Laurence Murphy, Senior Lecturer in Media Technology, University of Salford Andy Sutton, Principal Network Architect, BT George Williamson, Consultant |
The panel discussed: “The next 5 years; opportunities and challenges” |
16:45 to 17:00 | Formal Close | Chair: Nigel Linge |
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Millie Banerjee | Concluding insights and remarks | ||
Professor Andy Valdar, President, FITCE | Formal closure of the 57th FITCE Congress. |
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