State of the Nation: UK Digital Television Innovation Report 2020

About the speaker

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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David has over 20 years’ experience in a research and consultancy environment and is closely involved in researching, analysing and consulting on key content industry developments worldwide, with a particular focus on the evolution of digital business models in the TV and Video industry. David works with a wide variety of high profile Futuresource clients across the content ecosystem including studios, broadcasters, technology companies, hardware vendors, service providers and industry associations. He also directs Futuresource’s global consumer panel ‘Living with Digital’, now in its 20^th wave.

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With twenty years of research and consulting experience, Jack leads Futuresource Consulting’s Home Consumer Electronics team. Throughout his time at Futuresource, Jack has always been closely involved in the tracking and forecasting of the global market for Home A/V products.

He currently drives Futuresource Consulting’s continuous reporting on TV, A/V, and smart home. He keeps a close eye on the impact of the migration from physical to digital content and the growing relationship between A/V and smart home devices.

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An award-winning business journalist and media commentator, Kate Bulkley moderates public and corporate events, is on the executive committee of the Broadcasting Press Guild and writes regularly for specialist publications, including Broadcast and DTVE. She tweets @KateComments

With a master’s degree in international economics and politics from the Johns Hopkins Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Kate has lived and worked in Europe since 1990, including as International Editor for Cable World; Media Editor for Dow Jones’s European Business News (EBN); and on-air correspondent for CNBC Europe, before becoming freelance.

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Jamie joined BT Sport in 2012 as Chief Operating Officer to build the infrastructure, broadcast chain and operating model ahead of launch. A year later BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2 and BT Sport ESPN all started broadcasting from the brand-new purpose-built studio facility on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Since then BT Sport has expanded to 13 channel outlets to deliver the exclusive Champions League and Europa League coverage, as well as the launch of Europe’s first 4K UHD sports channel.

Jamie started his TV career as a transport coordinator at the BBC. He had several roles at the BBC including Head of Sourcing Production Resources and Head of Production L2012 – responsible for the BBC’s multiplatform coverage of the Olympics, Paralympics and other key national events in 2012.