Stanislav Georgiev

Moderator: Maria Rua Aguete / Will the control over HDMI-1 be the decisive factor for the real winners in the media and entertainment industry. What is the future role of the STB? Becoming a commodity service (with e.g. AndroidTV) and shifting the competitive arena somewhere else? Or STB features are a battlefield of its own of who will dominate? Will pay-tv operators and telcos shift their models into media services aggregators and resellers and step out from the content buying and aggregation game? Is carrier billing the final frontier for maximizing the digital service penetration?

Moderator: Stanislav Georgiev / Content variety and quality have never been superior than in the present days. Content distributors these days are facing multiple pinpoints - how to balance between linear and non-linear content propositions; how to tackle the traditional payment models of the linear channels; how to control the portfolio as per the actual viewership interest, instead of the industry peer-pressure. Which business models we see are going to arise from this? We will hear how some of the leaders in the industry are able to deal with these problems and what their strategies for the near future are.

Moderator: Stanislav Georgiev / Webit.DEMS's org committee - market researchers, management and strategy consultants, as well as industry trend-setters, will summarize the discussed topics during the conference and share their own views about the magnitude of the current trends, as well as their opinion of what the near future holds: - Digital Audio; - Superaggregation; - online video and online music; - AI and VR