The Finance Panel

• Overview of recent deal activity, analysing key trends such as consolidation in TV production, proliferation of cross border deal making, the flight from print and increased interest from private equity

• Health check on the capital markets

• Analysis of key structural trends facing media, including audience fragmentation, online audience/ad migration, new opportunities for content such as long tail, collapsing windows, etc.

Anand Tejani, Principal, Texas Pacific Capital Group LLP

Geoff Austin, Head of Media, Europe, Deutsche Bank

Warner Mandel, Managing Director, Rothschild

Harry Hampson, Managing Director, TMT Advisory, JPMorgan

Stefan Lutje, Partner, Linklaters

The Television Panel
how the content production market is being shaken up

• Does content matter? Is broadband the new killer app?

• Vertical/horizontal integration models: how valuable is content to TV networks?

• Consolidation among TV producers – do cross border deals make sense?

• Disruptive technologies? Is IPTV over-hyped? Will wireless ever offset the need for speed?

Wolfram Winter, Managing Director, Premiere Sky

Luke Bradley-Jones, Head of Strategy, BBC Worldwide

David Surtees, CFO, Shine Ltd.

Marc Schipper, MD, Corporate Development, Chellomedia, Liberty Global

The New Media Content Panel

• Exploiting revenue potentials of online

• Building brands online

• Overview of the funding environment for disruptive technology firms

Stephen Van Rooyen, Director of Product Development, BSKYB

Sanjay Wadhwani, Director, Ingenious Media

Andrew Chitty, Managing Director, Illumina Digital

Eric Lawson-Smith, Managing Director, LongAcre Partners

• Globalisation of multi-channel commerce

• The exit: M&A and IPOs in the online world

• Monetising online market research

Nadhim Zahawi, CEO, YouGov

Thomas Hessler, CEO, Zanox

Thomas Gerteis, CEO, Global Media

Mark Beilby, Managing Director, Pan-European Securities,
Dresdner Kleinwort

Konstantine Urban, General Partner, Holtzbrinck Ventures

The Publishing Panel

• Extracting value in a mature market

• Counter cyclical investment strategies

• Successful offline strategies

• M&A fever in the B2B marketplace

Tim Bowdler, CEO, Johnston Press

Marco Sodi, Managing Partner, Veronis Suhler Stevenson

John Van Kuffeler, Founder and Executive Chairman, Huveaux PLC

David Hill, Director, TMT Investment Banking, Citigroup

Nick Teunon, Group Finance & Strategy Director, PA Group Limited