Bart Becks

TiBored Digital Media - Managing Director.

Bart Becks currently owns a digital media advise company, is setting up 3 new ventures in digital media and serves on the Board of Director of various media & technology companies.

He has been active in the digital media space for numerous years. He worked for over eight years at the Belgacom group, where he was CEO of Belgacom Skynet and President & CEO of Skynet iMotion Activities (BelgacomTV). Next, he became Senior Vice President New Media & Innovation of the SBS Broadcasting / ProSiebenSat1 Media AG Group. After that, he was President International at Netlog, a leading European social networking platform.

Chantal Bernheim

Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR) - Director of Development and International Affairs.

Télévision Suisse Romande is a TV network with two channels: TSR 1 and TSR 2, which are the main French language channels in Switzerland. TSR is part of SRG SSR idée suisse, a Swiss public audiovisual group and also provides content for TV5 Monde.

www.tsr.ch

Rudy Buttignol

Knowledge Network Corporation - President and CEO.

Knowledge is a Canadian English language public educational cable and satellite television network that broadcasts throughout the province of British Columbia. It is owned by the Knowledge Network Corporation, a provincial crown corporation, and began broadcasting in 1981. Knowledge covers a full range of programming topics and genres including childrens, social-political issues, history, arts, culture and music, as well as science, technology and natural history. With funding from the provincial government and voluntary contributions from over 26,000 donors households, Knowledge used to produce over 50 hours of original programming per year. However, as a result of a new Strategic Plan (2008-2011), all in-house production was discontinued. Now, all new programming is acquired, co-produced, pre-bought and commissioned from Canadian and international independent producers.
In September 2008, Knowledge Network was re-branded as an all-digital, 24-7, educational media service on television and the internet. The programming focus is: kids all day, every day ; family time early evening, every evening ; and arts and culture all night, every night. A new logo (K: ), name (Knowledge: ), positioning statement (Pass it On), and URL (Knowledge.ca), were also introduced.



www.knowledge.ca

Olaf Grunert

ARTE G.E.I.E. - Head of Thema Department.

ARTE (Association Relative à la Télévision Européenne) is a Franco-German TV network, launched in March 1992. Described as an European culture channel, ARTE aims to promote quality programming especially in areas of culture and the arts.
As it is an international joint venture, programs cater technically to audiences from both countries. This implies double-titling, opposite-language subtitling and dubbing, hosts speaking both languages alternately, and generally two separate audio tracks.
ARTE headquarters are sited in Strasbourg. Other facilities are located in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris, and Baden-Baden in Germany.

www.arte.tv

Patrick Hörl

AUTENTIC - Managing Director.

The TV rights distributor Beta Film is expanding its activity in the field of TV documentaries and special-interest channels and has founded a joint venture with Patrick Hörl. The new firm AUTENTIC will focus on the sales and acquisition of non-fiction productions and cultivate co-productions with German and foreign partners. The company will also package non-fiction programming for specialized pay TV and SVOD platforms. Autentic will have its market debut at MIPCOM 2008 and plans to have a full catalog of titles ready by next spring.

Dr. Patrick Hörl is the Discovery Campus Head of Executive Board and a former CEO of Discovery Networks Germany.

Discovery Campus is the major professional training initiative in Europe dedicated to international coproductions of high-quality documentaries for a large audience. As a charitable association registered in Munich, Discovery Campus e.V. is a strictly non-profit organisation. Launched in 1998 by German media enterprises, the association was joined in 2003 by selected European non-fiction companies.

www.autentic.com

Tom Koch

PBS Distribution - Vice President

Tom Koch is responsible for managing and overseeing the licensing of PBS International content worldwide.
Previously at WGBH, Tom Koch was Director of Licensing and also worked in WGBH/Boston’s budget and strategy departments. He launched along with the Banff Television Festival the World Congress of History Producers.

On January 1, 2009, WGBH International has changed its name to PBS International. PBS International is one department of a new company, that is jointly owned by WGBH and PBS and now known as PBS Distribution (or “PBSd”). The joint venture also includes WGBH/Boston Video and PBS Video.
PBS International is the worldwide co-production and distribution division of PBS Distribution, the largest producer of primetime programming for PBS in the United States. More than one-third of PBS’s prime-time lineup and companion Web content are distributed by PBS International, which is also a pioneer in educational multimedia and in technologies and services that make media accessible to people with disabilities.

www.wgbhinternational.org

Hervé Michel

France Télévisions - Deputy director International affairs.

France Télévisions is the French public national television broadcaster.

National Channels are:
France 2 - Primary Channel
France 3 - Network of regional stations
France 4 - Only available on digital television, concentrates on the Arts, Music and Entertainment
France 5 - Focuses on Employment, Education and Health
Réseau France Outre-mer (RFO) - a network of radio and television stations operating in French overseas departments and territories around the world
France Ô - RFO's satellite channel, featuring only programming from RFO's regions and now broadcast in the Paris metropolitan area by Télévision Numérique Terrestre.

France Télévisions also has interest in a number of thematic cable/satellite channels in France and abroad.



www.francetelevisions.fr

Eric Van Heesvelde

Belgian Institute for Postal services and Telecommunications - Chairman of the Council.

Eric Van Heesvelde is a lawyer, General Administrator of the BIPT since 1st July 1993, chairman of the Council since April 2003. He also teaches at the University Ghent as Associate Professor and at the Free University Brussels as Associate Professor.

www.ibpt.be

Geert Vanvaerenbergh

Cernum - Managing Director.

Since its foundation in 2002, Cernum has become a leading actor in the field of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), engaged in delivering integrated end-to-end solutions to boost Sales, Marketing and Service environments. Linking Relationship Management to Performance Management, Cernum has now begun to uncover a source of untapped insights for strategic decision making. As a renowned SAP Services Partner, Cernum bridges the known gap between consultancy and implementation through its thorough expertise in both domains. Cernum Consulting Services imply the analysis and optimisation of existing and new business processes as well as the recommendation of most suitable SAP Solutions.



www.cernum.com