COVID-19 | Transforming the TV Industry: The Resilience of the Internet with EY

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Richard is responsible for the DTG’s growth and development. WIth over 20 years of TV industry experience, Richard drives the DTG’s unique collaborative culture.

Richard joined the DTG in 2004 as Director of Public Affairs. He was appointed Director General in 2006 before transferring to Freesat as Commercial Development Director.

Following Freesat’s launch, Richard returned as DTG DG in 2008. In 2012, Richard was named as one of the 50 most influential digital media leaders by Digital TV Europe. Before the DTG, Richard spent 15 years in the TV industry with roles at Sony, Toshiba and Pace.

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Adrian is Lead Telecommunications Analyst at EY, responsible for thought leadership and insights covering the industry worldwide. He also advises clients on sector issues while his commentary on new technologies and changing customer needs regularly features in the press. Before joining EY he covered European telecoms at IHS, having begun his career at Informa Telecoms and Media.

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Maria Ingold heads strategic and technical innovation consultancy, mireality. She brings nearly 30 years’ expertise in deploying successful emerging visual technology across film, TV, video, games and media.

As the former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Disney / Sony JV FilmFlex Movies, Maria created some of the most successful on-demand movie services in Europe from launch, including for Virgin Media cable and broadcaster Channel 4. FilmFlex was profitable from year one.

Maria is also a global public speaker, including TEDx talk “Innovating the Impossible”, a BAFTA film and TV judge, a board advisor for iSIZE who provide machine learning bitrate reduction for video, and on the Industrial Advisory Board for the University of Essex, School of Computer Science and Engineering.

Mixing a background in Computer Science and Fine Art, she started her career helping innovate the beginning of multimedia – audio, video and games – on computers.

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Noel Penzer is VP EMEA at Fastly. Prior to Fastly, Noel was the CEO of Time Out. With more than 20 years of experience in technology and digital strategy, Noel has held leadership roles in companies such as AOL where he served as MD of AOL Europe, and Warner Music EMEA where he was Head of Business Development.

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Ian Parr is Director of TV & Broadband Infrastructure at BT. Ian has worked in the industry for 30 years in a variety of senior leadership positions including roles at the BBC, Financial Times, News International and most recently BT. Ian is responsible for the technology that underpins BT TV & Sport distribution, the networks that underpin the UK’s digital terrestrial distribution and BT’s broadband service infrastructure.”