Please add new proposals at the end of the page; start by copying the “Example session” below and paste it at the end of the page, replacing its name with the name of your session. Then add your session details as indicated.

NOTE: adding an idea on this page does NOT automatically place it on the unconference agenda. All sessions will need to be pitched during the opening circle in Munich on 19 March, and then they can be added to the agenda.

Keep these four basic guidelines (more detail here) in mind in planning and hosting your session:

1. Think about the outcome you’d like to achieve with the session;
2. Decide on a good way to structure the conversation to reach that outcome, ideally keeping it quite focused;
3. Try to hear from everybody who attends your session at least once;
4. Take notes openly on a flipchart or whiteboard - this will help for filing your report too.

Sessions that tend to work best are those that share experiences, generate ideas, provide an opportunity to pose questions, and gauge interest on a given topic.

Participants react negatively to sessions that consist mainly of PowerPoint presentations and/or are seen as a sales pitch for a given product or service.

• DVB World website
• Unconference sessions: what works and what doesn't

• Your name and company
• Summary of topic: (A sentence or two describing the session)
• Session goals: (Describe what you hope to achieve from this session)

• Rainer Biehn, bmt

Summary of topic: When using DVB-I, in addition to downloading service lists, information is also retrieved from third-party servers (e.g. for content guides). This raises questions regarding data protection and the extent to which viewers must be informed about this.

Session goals:

• What information must be given to the viewer before the DVB-I function is activated?
• What data may be collected by a service list provider without consent (technically necessary access)?
• What consensus requirements result from communication with the service registry and service list?
• Which consensus requirements result from access to the HTTP endpoints for Content Guide and Now/Next, which are offered by the individual broadcasters on a distributed basis?
• What data may be collected by a service list provider without consent (technically necessary access)?

• Matthew Huntington, Huntington Digital Consultants/DVB Project Office

The individuals involved in the specification process around major standards, such as DVB, are seldom the developers who implement consumer services based on those standards. However, it is often those developers who drive innovation, creating new services and use cases and opportunities. DVB-I is a key DVB specification that requires adoption by developers, but there are others that could benefit from a stronger developer community.

How do we make DVB specification more developer friendly? How do we better support developer to innovate? Do we need different material to support developers? or does the specification process need to adapt and evolve to take developers into account?

This proposed unconference session will ask this question of DVB-I specifically and DVB specifications more generally. The following could be addressed at the session:

• Do people see supporting developer as impactful?
• What does good look like from a developer perspective?
• What quick wins are possible with DVB-I?
• What longer term activities should be considered?
• What changes to the specification process would make a difference?
• Can the V&V process be better utilised?

The output of this session will be a key input into the DVB strategy study mission when it addresses this topic.

• Patrik Lantto, WISI Group

When distributing content for e.g. hospitality applications, there is a need to decrypt content for re-distribution - either re-encrypted or free-to-air. Common Interface have for a very long time been the solution for this in professional headend equipment, but with CI+ and also the new USB form factor this is no longer the obvious path forward.

This session proposal aims to facilitate discussions of various options of simulcasting and simulcrypting content in a way where professional distribution is covered while still being able to introduce the higher protection provided by e.g. CI+. BISS-CA is one potential technology candidate, but it is not possible to use “out of the box”.

Ultimately, this session would kick-off a new working group for a standard that will allow simulcasting content to both DTH and B2B in a way accepted by content owners and providers.

• Jon Piesing, TP Vision (in my role as Technical Module Chair)
• Review what DVB's V&V activities have achieved including test streams, test materials and sponsored open source developments.
• Session goals: Generate ideas for what can be improved about how DVB approaches this. Generate ideas for new test streams or other test materials or open source projects DVB could sponsor.

• Elfed Howells (Huawei)
• Summary of topic: What can DVB do to help manufacturers in China make products for DVB-I markets in, for example, Europe.
• Session goals: (will follow)

• Elfed Howells (Huawei)
• Summary of topic: Discussion should cover profiling, compliance and testing.
• Session goals: (will follow)

• Elfed Howells (Huawei)
• Summary of topic: With reference to 4K live high-value content delivered as a DVB-I service, how can it be protected from end to end (CAS/DRM, subscription, etc.)
• Session goals: (will follow)

• Jon Piesing, TP Vision
• Summary of topic: Discuss possibilities for the future evolution of DVB-DASH for example MPEG DASH 6th edition, DASH-HLS interoperability, SGAI.
• Session goals: Identify options for the future evolution of DVB-DASH, discuss. debate which are most relevant for DVB and what requirements or use-cases or scenarios they meet. Consider where new commercial requirements are needed and who might be prepared to contribute them.

• Bram Tullemans, EBU; Remo Vogel, ARD
• Summary of topic: Discuss the opportunities of DVB-I to create a distributed Video OnDemand ecosystem
• Session goals: Discuss the business potential for distributed media libraries and correlating technology requirements. How is SSO enabled? How does recommendation work on a distributed media pool? How How are these offerings promoted to search engines?

• Emily Dubs, DVB Project Office

• Summary: In today’s fragmented landscape and with the rise of new SDOs, collaboration between them is more critical than ever. While some efforts are already underway, there’s still room to strengthen these collaborations to avoid redundancy, foster interoperability, and ultimately benefit the market by creating a harmonized, modular media delivery ecosystem based on interoperable and interchangeable components. Given DVB’s position in the industry, it could (and should!) be a driving force in this direction. What steps can we take to move toward such ideal collaboration? And as Head of Technology, how can I help facilitate this process?

• Goals:

1. Identify the most relevant SDOs and topics that would benefit from enhanced collaboration.
2. Generate actionable insights to move toward a scalable ecosystem based on interoperable components.
3. Explore whether and how DVB can facilitate stronger connections with the SDOs whose work is most aligned with our own.