Madrid hosts the second edition of SportsPro OTT Summit 2018

Executives from GolfTv, BT Sport, Fox Sports, Turner Sports, Sky Sports, UEFA, PGA Tour, LaLiga, YouTube, Twitter, BBC Sport, Tedial, RTVE, Mediapro), LaLiga... will meet on November 28 and 29 at an international summit focused on sports that will be attended by more than half a thousand professionals.

SportsPro, a British company in commercial and sports management aspects around the world, with the support of Olympic Channel will organize the second edition of SportsPro OTT Summit 2018. At the Meliá Castilla Hotel, more than half a thousand professionals will gather to listen to the experiences of 65 influential speakers from more than 30 countries who will address the trends that are redefining the dynamic panorama of sports media.

Under the motto Live, Direct and Digital: The New Broadcast Reality This summit will be attended by representatives of sports broadcasters, rights holders, content distributors, social platforms and technology providers from across the OTT value chain.

Among the issues that will be addressed in different presentations and panels, the real-time protection of high-quality live sports against piracy, new ways of packaging rights for multiple platforms or carrying out a profitable production and distribution strategy stand out.

En la agenda de la cumbre encontramos ponentes de la talla de Anne-Sophie Voumard (IOC), Alex Kaplan (GolfTv), Louisa Clark (BT Sport), Dustin Myers (Fox Sports), Matthew Hong (Turner Sports), Thomas Bremond (Comcast), Brianne Ehrenkranz (NBA), Barney Francis (Sky Sports), Guy-Laurent Epstein (UEFA), Rick Anderson (PGA Tour), Abigail Roos (Sky), Emilio Fernández (LaLiga), Rob Pilgrim (YouTube), Theo Luke (Twitter), Neil Hall (BBC Sport), Sebatsien Audoux (Canal+), Jérôme Wauthoz (Tedial), Chris Osika (Telestream), Jonathan Solomon (Aspera), Mary Byrne (Olympic Channel), Yolanda García Cuevas (RTVE), Ignacio Arrola (Mediapro), André Roy (BT) Simon Trudelle (Nagra), Michele Gosetti (Eurovision), Pascal Hetzscholdt (21st Century Fox) o Richard Craig-McFeely (Interxion).

Mark Parkman, General Director of the IOC Olympic Channel, was delighted to be “again hosting SportsPro OTT Summit 2018 for the second consecutive year. The 2017 event served as a highly informative platform for digital media pioneers to discuss the key trends and themes shaping the future of sports broadcasting and consumption, and we look forward to welcoming our colleagues from around the world to Madrid once again.”

Agenda, registration and more information, here.

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