Media Futures Conference 2009
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Beyond Broadcast

Friday 3 July, Bloomberg Auditorium, London, EC2

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Patrick will present the ‘Future of Online Video Distribution’ research for the Telco 2.0 Initiative, and look at the technical and economic dynamics of the transitions from old to new media.

Alan Patrick co-founded Broadsight after a career both consulting to, and working at, senior level for leading global multimedia companies such as the BBC, British Telecom (OpenWorld and Ignite), AOL Time Warner, ntl and UPC. He has worked in the US, Europe, South Africa and the Far East.

Broadsight specialises in providing strategic and system design consultancy for clients working with cutting edge digital broadband media, much of it real time and video. Clients include Telecoms, Cable, Media, Finance and Hardware companies as well as startups. Recent projects include Real Time search, Web TV strategy and implementations, HDTV Cable and 4th Generation e-Readers.

Prior to setting up Broadsight, Alan was Managing Director and COO at Jacobs Rimell, who specialise in multi-media OSS systems. Before that he held positions as VP Corporate Development for Globix Corporation in New York, Head of Internet Business Development at British Telecom, and consulted widely on multimedia to a number of major TV and cable companies in his consulting career at McKinsey and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

He was involved in the design of broadband networks in the early days of their inception and has written several articles on the impact of lean operations on digital supply chains. [Read more at the Broadstuff blog]