ISPA News 31/01/08
ISPA Keep A Keen Eye On Online Content Parliamentary Annual Forum addresses harmful content on the ‘net
Turn On And Tune In To The 2008 IPTV World Forum
Exclusive ISPA member discount
ISPA In The News
File sharing and broadband growth
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ISPA Keep A Keen Eye On Online Content
Parliamentary Annual Forum addresses harmful content on the ‘net
The joint Chair of the All Party Communications group, Derek Wyatt MP will be hosting ISPA’s Parliamentary Annual Forum (PAF) on 4th February 2008.
The forum is free to attend and will bring together key industry players, government officials, parliamentarians and lawyers to address harmful content on the Internet.
ISPA has recently responded to Dr Tanya Byron’s review into children’s access to harmful content on the Internet and video games. Dr Byron is just one of the speakers alongside John Whittingdale MP, Chair of the Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport, Camille de Stempel, AOL UK and Chair of the ISPA Internet-Safety Subgroup, and Peter Hodgson founder and CEO of the PAF’s sponsor Brightfilter.
The seminar and Q&A session will be held at 5:30pm in the Macmillan Room of Portcullis House, Westminster.
Please contact the ISPA Secretariat to register your interest in this event.
Turn On And Tune In To The 2008 IPTV World Forum
Exclusive ISPA member discount
ISPA has secured an exclusive 15% discount for members on full conference passes to The 2008 IPTV World Forum at the Olympia National Hall, London, from the 12-14th March 2008.
Over 400 speakers from international companies will be offering their expertise to attendees on current matters of interest such as content mobility, security, profitability and services and trends presently and potentially available.
Internet TV is the next big thing in media and when it finally takes off it will shake the TV industry to its core, disrupting long-established business models with significant new threats and opportunities.
The 'TV over Net' conference is dedicated to this emerging platform and will investigate the impact that broadcast-quality streaming TV and VOD over broadband will have on content and channel owners, classic Pay TV content aggregators and platform operators, the new breed of Internet-based platform providers, and of course, consumers.
Please take a look at TVOverNet for more information.
There are further networking opportunities at the IPTV World Forum with the vast exhibition area including IP Cable, The Connected Home, TVOverNet, Interactive TV Advertising Show and the Mobile TV Summit.
There are also opportunities to mingle with your indusrtry peers and grow your business at this year's Internet World.
Internet World 2008 will focus on how to best capitalise on the market opportunities associated with growth in Internet industry. The event will illustrate ways you can improve your business’s performance and demonstrate the latest technologies of the industry.
Speakers at this year’s event will include BBC Worldwide’s Head of Mobile Peter Mercier, Managing Director of BBC.com Kym Niblock, Senior Vice President of MySpace.com Travis Katz, Annelies van den Belt, Head of ITV Broadband and Chris Hogg, Director of Marketing for Intel.
ISPA regularly secures exclusive deals for its members, just one of the ways in which companies can benefit from membership. More reasons to join can be found in the membership benefits area.
ISPA also negotiates exclusive deals for members with a variety of companies. If you’re a member and you would like to offer an exclusive deal, please contact the ISPA Press Office
ISPA In The News
File sharing and broadband growth
This month the government put pressure on ISPs warning that laws to force the disconnection of illegal filesharers are already being drafted for a parliamentary debut in November.
ISPA responded by highlighting that it had "had "good meetings" with film rights owners and remains committed to working with "responsible rights holders" on copyright infringement.
The full article can be read here
ISPA also predicted a healthy growth for broadband in 2008.
"Broadband has made possible web technologies such as streaming media, telephone over the internet, and the downloading and consuming of movies and music,"
The full article can be found here
For further news coverage please visit the Media Coverage page of the ISPA website.