Omdia / Executive Director
Maria Rua Aguete is an executive director at IHS Markit, focusing on Media, Service Providers & Platforms.
Ms. Rua Aguete leads the strategic development and manages the day-to-day operations of the media team, tracking the evolution of global service providers and operators. She created the team while at Screen Digest, now part of IHS Markit. Their research on service providers leverages long-standing relationships with operators in all 70+ markets covered by IHS Markit, resulting in the most comprehensive source of television and operator market intelligence in the world. She has participated in reports, including the European Cable Yearbook and has led or been a significant contributor to many consulting projects for high profile media and technology companies, including market launch plans for an emerging television group, launching a Latin American DTT platform for a major channel group, evaluating purchase of a satellite pay-TV provider for a private equity group, performing commercial due diligence on a cable TV components business for a major international bank, competitive review and strategic analysis for a major international channel operator, review of investment opportunities in the European cable market for a venture capital group, and market report and due diligence on a localization services (dubbing/subtitling) company for an investment bank. Ms. Maria Rua Aguete holds a first class degree in economics and business studies from Vigo University, Spain, and an MBA from Cardiff Business School, United Kingdom. She is a regular speaker at events like IBC and MWC.
Speaking on:
Digital Entertainment & Media Summit:
Keynote: What does 5G mean for consumers and operators?
Expectations for 5G are sky-high, with a wide range of features and capabilities being promised. The main drivers of 5G tend to be consumer services and we will analyze them in this deck.
Digital Entertainment & Media Summit:
Panel discussion: Superaggregation - next phase evolution or yet another disruption? What are the strategic choices laid out in front of the telcos, operators, broadcasters and content houses?
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?
Digital Entertainment & Media Summit:
Panel discussion: Closing session: Industry trends - the Webit.DEMS committee's roundtable
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