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Liliana Nakonechnyj is former President of SET (2017-2018). She graduated in telecommunications engineering at PUC-Rio. A large part of her professional life has been dedicated to deploying television distribution systems, initially analog, and later digital – terrestrial broadcasting stations as well as radio, satellite and fiber optics based contribution and distribution systems. Also, for many years, she was in charge of engineering support for broadcasters affiliated to TV Globo. She has always been interested in promoting new technologies, leading studies and tests for the introduction of digital television in Brazil between 1994 and 2006, and demonstrations and tests of UHDTV in more recent years. She represents SET at the IBC Council.

Professional Master's Degree in Applied Computing (UECE - 2015), Executive MBA on IT (UFRJ - 2011), extension course in Networks and Video over IP (UFRJ - 2009), Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering with emphasis in Electronics (UFRJ/USU - 2005). Currently working as Regulatory Strategy Specialist for Globo TV Network, Coordinator of the Technology Committee of the Brazilian Television Engineering Society (SET), member of the Delegation of Brazil in ITU-R (SG 6) and CITEL (PCC.II), member of the TV Reception Technical Group (GT-Rx) of the Brazilian TV Switch-Over Group (GIRED), member of the Technical Module of SBTVD Forum and member of the Harmonization Working Group of ISDB-T International Forum.  

As Vice President of Video Strategy at Harmonic, Thierry Fautier is in charge of defining and driving the execution of the long term strategy of Harmonic’s video business. He is the current President of the Ultra HD Forum, the global organization responsible for promoting market adoption of UHD by defining industry best practices for the phased introduction of the wide set of technologies that will facilitate the next-generation viewing experience. He is a co-founder and board member the VR Industry Forum whose charter is to further the widespread availability of high quality audiovisual VR experiences, for the benefit of consumers. Fautier is also co-chair of the MPEG Roadmap committee that is tasked to present the 2020 MPEG roadmap to the industry. His previous experience at Harmonic includes leadership positions in Solutions Marketing, where his area of responsibility covered Harmonic’s major markets, including broadcast, cable, telco, DTH and OTT, as well as multiscreen initiatives. Thierry Fautier has been instrumental at Harmonic to create new markets such as IPTV, OTT, UHD and more recently VR. He is the designated speaker at Harmonic for international conferences as well as for press and analysts interviews.

Mr. Hiroaki Kimura is responsible for international cooperation on ISDB-T and advanced broadcasting technologies and ITU-R SG6 preparations in the Ministry of International Affairs and Communications, Japan. His experience in public policies on broadcast involves surveys on household DTV preparedness during the DTTB migration, promotion of low-cost DTTB STB’s and formulation of technical standards on small area DTTB and disaster resilience installations of broadcasting stations.

Since Mr. Takechi joined NHK in 1990, he studied many areas of broadcasting technologies at its Science and Technology Research Laboratories including satellite digital broadcasting system, multiplexing, and middleware and interactivity. Among them, his particular interest is middleware and architecture of interactive TV. His research contributed to receiver architecture and system design of Japanese interactive TV systems and Integrated Broadcast-Broadband (IBB) systems, namely BML, ARIB-J and Hybridcast. He has also actively participated both domestic and international standardization in many area. He has been a major contributor in ARIB, IPTV Forum Japan, ITU-R, and ITU-T. He took a lead to create more than 15 ITU-R and ITU-T Recommendations and ITU-R Reports for interactive TV systems, IBB systems, and accessibility.

Dr. Jian Song received his B. Eng. and PhD degrees from Electronic Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, China, and conducted Postdoctoral research work in Hong Kong and Canada in 1996 and 1997, respectively. He worked in USA for seven years, and joined Tsinghua University in 2005 as a full professor. He is now Director of DTV Technology R&D Center, one of major technical contributors for Chinese DTV standard. He is vice chairman of WP6A of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the founding Editor-in-Chief of ITU academic Journal, ICT Discoveries. He is the Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Broadcasting. Dr. Song’s current research interest includes digital broadcasting, network convergence, and integration of visible light and powerline communications. He is the recipient of the Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting in 2015, and also the recipient of several national and provincial/ministry level awards. Dr. Song has published over 260 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers with good citations. Dr. Song is the Fellow of IEEE, IET, and Chinese Institute of Electronics.

Skip Pizzi is Vice President, Technology Education and Outreach, at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in Washington, DC, USA. His career has spanned the broadcast and digital media industries, working in audio engineering at NPR, and in audio production, media standards and technical policy at Microsoft. He was also an editor at Broadcast Engineeringmagazine, and a columnist for several other international industry publications. He remains a technology journalist, editor, author and trainer today. His most recent book is A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-Engineers, 4th edition, published by Focal Press. He is currently Associate Editor on the NAB Engineering Handbook, 11th edition, which will be published later this year. Skip serves as Vice-Chair of the Advanced Television Standards Committee (ATSC) Technology Group 3 (TG3), which is developing the ATSC 3.0 standard. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Ultra HD Forum. Skip is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied Electrical Engineering, International Economics and Fine Arts.

Graduated in electronic engineering, specializing in Telecommunications, in Porto Alegre; has a graduate degree from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, in Evanston, Chicago. Participated on the Deliberative Council of the Forum of the Brazilian Terrestrial Digital TV System in the Broadcasting sector. Headed up the creation of digital TV broadcasters in Porto Alegre and Florianópolis, as well as other broadcasters in the same states (RS and SC).

Paulo Tonet Camargo was born in the city of Porto Alegre. Having graduated in law in 1982, he began his professional life as a lawyer in Porto Alegre, and in 1986, he joined the Prosecution Office of Rio Grande do Sul, where he worked as a prosecutor, appellate state prosecutor and deputy state attorney-general. He was president of the Association of the State Public Prosecutor’s Office of Rio Grande do Sul. While at the Public Prosecutor’s Office he was president of the National Council for Criminal and Incarceration Policy and director of the National Prisons Department from 1995 a to 1997. In 1998, he joined the RBS Groups where he was general manager in Brasília and vice-president for legal and institutional affairs, a position he left in 2011 to take up the post of Institutional Relations Vice President of the Globo Group. He was elected president of the ABERT – the Brazilian Association of Radio and Television Stations for the two-year period commencing 2019.

A graduate of the Military Academy of Agulhas Negras in the Artillery Weapon (1978), he is a paid Army reserve colonel, holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the Military Institute of Engineering (1989) and a postgraduate degree in Computer Networking from the União Brasiliense de Educação e Cultura - Faculdades Integradas da Católica de Brasília (2004). Graduated in Government Policy and Strategy Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (1999). He was part of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) team that developed the Brazilian electronic ballot box (1995). He was Secretary of Electronic Communication Services of the Ministry of Communications (2004) and President of the National Telecommunications Agency - Anatel (2005). He was a consultant at the Center for Advanced Studies and Systems of Recife - CESAR, developing the Army Project called Brigada Braço Forte - BBF (2011-2012), was Director of Information Technology at the Superior Military Court - STM (2013-2014). Engineer hired by INGEPRO to work in the Army Project called National Critical Communications System - SISNACC (2015-2016). Has experience in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and has developed a prototype urban electric vehicle. Wrote the book: "How to convert your car to electric".ISBN 978-85-924741-1-9.

Public administrator. Over the last 15 years I have held public office in the federal government, as well as at state and local level in the State of São Paulo. I coordinated the technical advisory activities at the Consumer Protection Agency - PROCON SP and was special advisor to the Metropolitan Housing Company of São Paulo – COHAB and the São Paulo State Legislature between 2003 and 2006. In 2006, I became chief of staff at the Municipal Health Department of São Paulo. Member of the Board of Directors of SPTURIS – São Paulo Turismo S.A. from April /2008 to March /2009. Since 2015, I have worked for the Brazilian government as special advisor to the Minister for Cities, Head of Parliamentary Advisory and Special Advisor to the Minister at the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications. Currently as Secretary for Broadcasting at the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications, I currently hold the presidency of GIRED - Implementation Group for the Redistribution and Digitization Process of TV and RTV Channels and member of ANATEL's Board of Directors.

Director of Institutional Relations of TIM, graduated in 1986, in the course of Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) and in 1999, in Law from the Tuiuti University of Paraná (UTP). He has an MBA in Business Administration from COPPEAD at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He is currently also Vice President of the 5G Brazil Project as a representative of the cellular operators and represents TIM Group as a member of GIRED - TV Channels Redistribution and Digitization Process Implementation Group.

An electrical engineer from UNICAMP, she holds a Master’s in subjective evaluation of video from UNICAMP, an MBA in Management from the Dom Cabral Foundation and an MBA in Telecommunications from IBMEC. She has been involved in several ground-breaking projects in video transmission and Digital TV standardization in Brazil. She is currently Strategy and Regulatory Affairs manager in the technology department at TV Globo. Former Director of Technology of SET, Ana is an active contributor to the UIT where she is deputy coordinator of the Broadcasting Study Group.

Since Mr. Takechi joined NHK in 1990, he studied many areas of broadcasting technologies at its Science and Technology Research Laboratories including satellite digital broadcasting system, multiplexing, and middleware and interactivity. Among them, his particular interest is middleware and architecture of interactive TV. His research contributed to receiver architecture and system design of Japanese interactive TV systems and Integrated Broadcast-Broadband (IBB) systems, namely BML, ARIB-J and Hybridcast. He has also actively participated both domestic and international standardization in many area. He has been a major contributor in ARIB, IPTV Forum Japan, ITU-R, and ITU-T. He took a lead to create more than 15 ITU-R and ITU-T Recommendations and ITU-R Reports for interactive TV systems, IBB systems, and accessibility.

Masayuki Sugawara joined NHK in 1983. He researched solid-state image sensors, HDTV cameras, and the UHDTV system at NHK STRL from 1987 to 2015. At present, he is the chairman of digital broadcasting experts group (DiBEG) and an executive engineer at NEC Corporation. He is serving as the Asia-Pacific region governor of SMPTE for his second term. He is a SMPTE Fellow, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of IEICE, and an ITE Fellow.

João Vandoros is in charge of Eurovision Services Business in Brazil, the operational company of EBU. He is post-graduated in Telecommunications by Unicamp and got his bachelor degree as Electrical Engineering at Mackenzie University. Since 2000, has been working in Broadcasting Engineering, focusing his carrier in the content contribution and distribution segment with professional background at the Mackenzie’s Digital TV Lab, TVA (Pay TV Operator), Radio and TV Bandeirantes and GfK (as consultant).  

Skip Pizzi is Vice President, Technology Education and Outreach, at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in Washington, DC, USA. His career has spanned the broadcast and digital media industries, working in audio engineering at NPR, and in audio production, media standards and technical policy at Microsoft. He was also an editor at Broadcast Engineeringmagazine, and a columnist for several other international industry publications. He remains a technology journalist, editor, author and trainer today. His most recent book is A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-Engineers, 4th edition, published by Focal Press. He is currently Associate Editor on the NAB Engineering Handbook, 11th edition, which will be published later this year. Skip serves as Vice-Chair of the Advanced Television Standards Committee (ATSC) Technology Group 3 (TG3), which is developing the ATSC 3.0 standard. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Ultra HD Forum. Skip is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied Electrical Engineering, International Economics and Fine Arts.

Experienced Managing Director with a demonstrated history of working in the Communications, Media and Internet industry. Skilled in M&A, Business Planning, Business Process Design, Enterprise Architecture and Digital Transformation programs. Strong business development professional graduated from CoppeadUFRJ. Luis currently leads consulting practice for Communications, Media and High Team within Latam region at Accenture

CEO of Jovem Pan Group with MBA in FIA with specialization in Cambridge, Lion and Beijing. His career is based on the structuring of companies in multiple segments. He is an enthusiast about the future and how technology will transform human relationships.

Head of Marketing, CRM and Intelligence Globoplay Tiago Lessa studied Business Administration at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and holds a specialization in Marketing from Coppead. He began his career as a trainee at Varig, had a long stint at Petróleo Ipiranga and has been with Grupo Globo for 12 years. Within Globo Group, he has been a leading player in the development of Telecine Network digital strategies and today he is responsible for Globoplay's Marketing, Acquisition, Engagement and Business Intelligence areas, where he has been promoting a major transformation focused on the multi-channel journey and consumer.

Graduated in electrical engineering with focus in electronics and telecommunications by the Federal University of Bahia and Post in Marketing and Business Management by FGV and ESPM. During the course of his career, he was responsible for the design and implementation of several radio and television companies in Brazil. He was President of SET - Brazilian Society of Television Engineering - from 2002 to 2008 and President of the Brazilian Digital TV System Forum from 2005 to 2008 and from 2015 to 2017. After this period he joined the Council of both Entities . In 2009 He was a member of ANATEL's Advisory Board. In August 2012 took office in the Social Communication Council until 2017 and is currently Head of Institutional and Regulatory Affairs of SBT.

She has more than 23 years’ experience in the media research and intelligence market, having held positions at Kantar IBOPE Media in Brazil and Panama, as well as global experience at Kantar Media. Melissa has held leadership positions in different areas of the company, such as Sales, Customer Service, Development of New Business, Operations, Marketing and Products. Within the scope of the remit in Brazil and LatAm, she has an in-depth understanding of clients’ needs, collaborating with the industry in developing metrics, products business encompassing the company’s complete portfolio and range of services. Before heading up Kantar IBOPE Media in Brazil, she was Global Director for agencies at Kantar Media, as well Executive Director, Multimedia for two years, for the Target Group Index Radio measuring business. Melissa has a degree in Radio & TV from the University of São Paulo - USP, and has a graduate degree in Communication with the Market from the ESPM and in Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas. She was professor on the ESPM Market Intelligence graduate course.

Lotier International is a company that specializes in the development of leading-edge solutions in media, video and telecommunications in the markets of Latin American, Europe and India. The Lotier portfolio of partners includes global leaders like Amdocs/Vubiquity, Gracenote, Comcast, Verizon, and Intel among others, and joint projects undertaken with leading telecommunications companies, including the Claro Group, Telefonica, Oi, Algar, Telecom Argentina, VTR and other dozens of operators in the regions where it operates. Before assuming command of Lotier, Anwar worked in the real estate investments markets as a partner at Metágora Capital and in partnerships with the Colony Capital fund, GE Capital and the Trump Organization. Anwar has a master’s from Columbia University, NY.

Georgia Jordan is a market analyst at Kagan, a media and telecommunications research group of S&P Global Market Intelligence, focusing on the Pay TV and broadband markets in Latin America. She has covered the telecommunications, media and technology sector since 2009, initially as a journalist, then later as a market analyst specializing in the Latin American telecommunications industry, including fixed and mobile services, technology and regulation.

Skip Pizzi is Vice President, Technology Education and Outreach, at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in Washington, DC, USA. His career has spanned the broadcast and digital media industries, working in audio engineering at NPR, and in audio production, media standards and technical policy at Microsoft. He was also an editor at Broadcast Engineeringmagazine, and a columnist for several other international industry publications. He remains a technology journalist, editor, author and trainer today. His most recent book is A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-Engineers, 4th edition, published by Focal Press. He is currently Associate Editor on the NAB Engineering Handbook, 11th edition, which will be published later this year. Skip serves as Vice-Chair of the Advanced Television Standards Committee (ATSC) Technology Group 3 (TG3), which is developing the ATSC 3.0 standard. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Ultra HD Forum. Skip is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied Electrical Engineering, International Economics and Fine Arts.