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The Broadcast Disruptors Courtvision: An Interactive Glimpse into the Future of Sports Broadcasting

• Gillian is the only female team president in the NBA and oversees all of the Clippers’ business functions, which, in line with all major rights holders, increasingly involves the monetization of content.
• She will be joining Rajiv Maheswaran from Second Spectrum on stage for a presentation detailing how Courtvision works and why it’s a broadcasting game-changer for NBA teams and leagues.
• Gillian’s one of sport’s most senior female executives and she’ll be around all week, also participating in a tech and innovation session alongside WWE at The Sport Business Summit.

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The Broadcast Disruptors Streaming of Success: Three Perspectives on Direct-to-Consumer

• Martin leads Sky New Zealand, the country’s leading sports broadcaster and will be sharing details of the company’s recent acquisition of Rugby Pass, the global streaming platform.
• He previously ran Middle East broadcaster OSN, so has huge experience of the way the market is shifting and how the media landscape is changing.
• His sports credentials include a stint as CFO of the Football Association, serving on the Board of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games for 7 years and playing a key role in successful Premier League and UEFA broadcast renewals on behalf of Sky UK.

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The Broadcast Disruptors Pricing Strategies and Subscription Models

• Travis is responsible for B/R’s live coverage of the Uefa Champions League in the United States, building out its innovative studio and digital coverage.
• WarnerMedia-owned Bleacher Report launched its B/R OTT spin-off platform, B/R Live, after acquiring the rights in time for the start of the 2018/19 season.
• Travis, who joined Bleacher Report in 2017 initially as Creative Director, will be joining a session discussing pricing strategies and subscription models, particularly when it comes to new streaming platforms like B/R Live.

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The Broadcast Disruptors Audio, On-Demand and The Return of Radio

• Charlotte leads the content and development strategy for BBC Sport across TV, Radio and Digital platforms.
• Before joining BBC Sport in Summer 2019, Charlotte was the Launch Director for BBC Sounds, the BBC’s new digital audio product, developing the commissioning and engagement strategy for podcasts, music mixes and on-demand radio. The BBC’s podcast portfolio has gone from strength to strength in the past 12 months with titles such as Brexitcast, That Peter Crouch Podcast, Football Daily and Forest 404 building fan bases of millions of loyal listeners.
• She’ll be discussing the rise of podcasts, the business models behind them and how sports teams and rights holders can make the most of this new form of media.

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The Broadcast Disruptors Courtvision: An Interactive Glimpse into the Future of Sports Broadcasting

• Rajiv is in charge of Second Spectrum, a company which specializes in using optical tracking technology to collect, reorganize and apply data.
• He’ll be joining Gillian Zucker to explain and demonstrate CourtVision, a revolutionary new way of experiencing live sport that utilizes augmented reality and machine learning, allowing fans to choose multiple camera angles and sees live game data woven into the broadcast.
• The Clippers-Courtvision product is a contender in the On-Screen Experience category at the 2019 Leaders Sports Awards.

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The Broadcast Disruptors Streaming of Success: Three Perspectives on Direct-to-Consumer

• Lucas is the CEO and Founder of Onefootball, the world’s leading football media platform for young fans.
• Founded eleven years ago as one of the world’s first 1,000 applications in the Apple App Store, the company now has 200 employees at its headquarters in Berlin and regional offices in London, New York, Mexico City and São Paulo.
• With a 24-hour Newsroom operating in six languages, over 20,000 news sources and its own video studio, Onefootball provides the new generation of football fans with breaking news, live scores, stats, features and videos in multiple languages on its own app and on social media reaching more than 40m fans worldwide every month.
• Onefootball recently announced a distribution partnership with Sky Deutschland that allows users to watch live matches on pay-per-view basis directly in the app.
• The Onefootball app has been awarded several times, most recently in 2017, as the best app product by Apple and Google.

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The Broadcast Disruptors Welcome & Introduction

Heading up all content creation for Gfinity, Amanda comes with over 20 years’ experience in the production industry. Prior to joining Gfinity, Amanda was the UFC’s Director of Production across EMEA where she led all original content initiatives and built a world-class production team to deliver every live UFC event across the region.

Prior to that, Amanda was Head of Production Operations for ITV Sport, the UK’s leading terrestrial broadcaster where she was responsible for overseeing the channel’s sports output, including the live coverage of UEFA Champions League, England Internationals, French Open tennis, IPL, Boxing and Motorsport and documentaries including the critically acclaimed Sports Life Stories series.

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The Broadcast Disruptors Audio, On-Demand and The Return of Radio

• Lynsey is a sports broadcaster who works across multiple channels in the UK, including BBC, ITV, Sky Sports, TalkSport, BT Sport and IMG. She has covered two World Cups and reported from the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.
• She is the Co-Founder of the only all-female fronted football podcast, The Offside Rule, which has amassed over half a million listens since the first episode in 2012.
• She’ll be discussing the rise of podcasts and sharing the story of The Offside Rule, which began as a passion project, has become one of the UK’s leading football podcasts.

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The Broadcast Disruptors Pricing Strategies and Subscription Models

•  Alex is the editor-in-chief of the Athletic in the UK and Europe. He was previously sports editor of The Times and Daily Mail.
• Launched four years ago in the United States, The Athletic is a subscription-based website covering a variety of sports across over 40 US cities. In August, The Athletic launched its UK product, with a focus on football writing, securing the services of many of the UK’s top sports journalists as it did so.
• He’ll be joining a session discussing pricing strategies and subscription models for content, including the willingness of consumers to invest in multiple subscriptions.

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The Broadcast Disruptors Audio, On-Demand and The Return of Radio

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The Broadcast Disruptors Streaming of Success: Three Perspectives on Direct-to-Consumer

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The Broadcast Disruptors Premier League and Sky: reflections on a game-changing partnership

• Will participate in a double-header with Richard Scudamore on Sky’s most significant broadcast partnership – charting how the Premier League and Sky have worked hand in hand since 1992.
• Next year will mark a decade since he became Sky Sports’ MD.
• Barney has a wealth of experience of the changing media landscape, media rights and production challenges.

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The Broadcast Disruptors Premier League and Sky: reflections on a game-changing partnership

• Scudamore is the Executive Chairman of the highest tier of association football in England, the Premier League, a position he has held since June 2014.
• He’ll join Barney Francis on stage to reflect on the long-term partnership with Sky and how it has evolved during a period of significant technological change – think 3D, HD, online streaming, rise of social and more.

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The Broadcast Disruptors Disrupting the disruptors - how Sky is adapting to a new media world

• Providing an introduction to Sky and examining how the company is adapting to a new media world.
• Formerly Sky’s chief marketing and digital officer before getting the top job.
• Oversees all Sky’s activities in UK and Ireland, including Sky Go.

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The Broadcast Disruptors The solution-finders: overcoming OTT tech challenges

• Marina’s responsible for managing and developing Now TV’s customer proposition and more widely shaping Sky’s OTT offering.
• She’s worked across Sky and News Corp’s various divisions for 18 years.
• She’ll be joining a session examining changing audience habits (Now TV aimed at customers who don’t want to be tied to a long-term contract).

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The Broadcast Disruptors The solution-finders: overcoming OTT tech challenges

• Ralph will be discussing how broadcasters and OTT specialists are overcoming the many challenges around live sports streaming.
• He’s been on the senior team at Eurosport since 2016 and previously spent six years in charge of the BBC’s digital output, including the launch of iplayer. Before that he spent a decade at AOL.
• Eurosport’s PyeongChang 2018 coverage, broadcast across Europe, included 4,000 hours of live sport across 16 digital feeds.

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The Broadcast Disruptors The 2018 audience puzzle: one size doesn’t fit all

• Chris will be alongside Marina for the changing audience habits session.
•  Amazon-owned Twitch has carved out a leadership position in the esports streaming space and is increasingly active in other areas such as music and ‘real life’ streams.
• They already have an engaged younger audience, so might they even be in the frame to acquire sports rights in future?

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The Broadcast Disruptors The future of major event broadcasting

• Jérôme’s aboard to join a session discussing the future of major event broadcasting – how it’s evolving and how events like the Olympics remain an unparalleled showcase for new broadcast technologies.
• Recent Olympic media headlines have included long-term deals with Discovery across Europe and NBC in the US – each with a strong digital element – plus live VR coverage of events and of course the launch of the IOC’s own Olympic Channel two years ago.

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The Broadcast Disruptors Meet the next generation broadcast models

• Frank will be on the Next Gen Broadcast Models session, expanding on his role running the media arm of world basketball’s governing body.
• In 2016, FIBA signed a major long term deal with Perform, which includes rights sales, live production and distribution and other services – Frank’s ideally placed to discuss how global rights holders can develop deep-rooted partnerships with digital media companies.

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The Broadcast Disruptors Meet the next generation broadcast models

• As COO and an ATP Media Board member, Stuart presides over the operational running of the company. Along with their CEO he has responsibility for the long term strategy of ATP Media.
• ATP Media exploit the worldwide broadcast media rights across the ATP World Tour, are host broadcast producers/distributors and own & manage Tennis TV, the ATP World Tour’s global direct-to-consumer streaming platform.
• ATP Media have won awards for their broadcast production, Tennis TV and, most recently, were awarded Best Business Serving Sport at the Sports Business Awards. Tennis TV is also shortlisted in the On Screen Experience category of the Leaders Sports Awards.

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The Broadcast Disruptors The 2018 audience puzzle: one size doesn’t fit all

• Joining the session alongside Twitch discussing changing audience habits, Lee Walker is running Bleacher Report’s Champions League coverage in the US, which launched this season as part of UEFA’s deal with Turner.
• He’s right at the heart of creating content that works across both linear and digital and caters to different types of audience.

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The Broadcast Disruptors The future of major event broadcasting

• Dan Miodownik is HBS’ Deputy CEO and Chief Content Officer.
• Dan has been with HBS since 2004 and worked on the FIFA World Cups in Germany 2006, South Africa 2010, Brazil 2014 and Russia in 2018.
• His career started in news radio in 1991, before he moved to senior roles at Sky Sports, TEAM Marketing’s Champions League operation in Switzerland and at ITV Sport in the UK.

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The Broadcast Disruptors The solution-finders: overcoming OTT tech challenges

• Carlo is a digital media executive and marketer who specialises in sport and entertainment.
• He’s an early adopter of the web and now focuses on OTT, digital, social, mobile, AR/VE and the evolution of the beyond TV experience.
• He’ll be part of the OTT challenges and solutions session, alongside executives from Eurosport and Now TV.