Beyond the bit pipe – leveraging network infrastructure in today’s platform ecosystems

Short Company Introduction

We are supporting businesses during all stages of their digital transformation journey. Strengthening our customers’ abilities to take advantage of business opportunities available from today’s media, telecommunications and technology ecosystems is at the heart of our consulting approach. Together, we create bespoke strategies, business models, innovations and professionally orchestrate their execution in our clients’ organizations and markets. Thus, we make measurable contributions to our clients’ success.

Workshop Host

Dr. Bertold Heil

is the founder and owner of Vienna based Convergent Media Consulting. More than 20 years in media, digital telecoms and beyond, have provided him with profound insights into the key dimensions of success in these markets: strategy, organization and technology. He is an experienced consultant and manager. Prior to founding Convergent Media Consulting, he was a member of the management executive of a European broadcast network operator group as well as a management consultant with some of the leading brands in consulting worldwide.

Objective:

• Identification of value generating services and business models for network infrastructure operators
• Insights into traditional audiovisual media and media platform use cases, ecosystems in consumer driven markets with ubiquitous connectivity and unlimited bandwidth

Format:

• Interactive workshop with max. 20 participants
• One 1h session
• Presentations only support the workshop discussion. The major focus is the active participation and integration of the participants
• Chatham House rules apply for the entire Di² Summit and secure the high-level trustful environment

Content of the Roundtable:

• Fix line and mobile network operators are challenged by regulatory changes in established business models, lackluster consumer demand for high bitrate connectivity and decline in mobile price data plans and their inability to charge global OTT platforms for distributing contents and services across these networks.
• Thus, generating an appropriate return on infrastructure investment has become increasingly difficult and the situation will get worse, unless new revenue sources can be identified soon.
• National audiovisual media is on the other side of competition with global media and tech companies and the decline in broadcast distribution leaves them with no alternative to working with their competitors to transform their business models and protect their market position.
• We will discuss media-, data- and advertising-use cases and approaches, how fix-line operators can generate profitable business from value add services for media companies, advertising and other stakeholders in the audiovisual media ecosystem.