First Edition of NexTV Summit - New Delhi Concludes Successfully

The NexTV Summit New Delhi edition concludes successfully with a motivating response from the key players in the TV industry. The summit was held on 25^th November 2015 at Shangri-La’s Eros Hotel, New Delhi.

During this one-day summit, about 25 Executive Speakers from key players in the Industry debated on the future of TV in India in presence of an audience of about 120 executives of telecom and pay-tv operators, content aggregators and distributors, and TV channels among others.

The panel discussions focused on TV Everywhere & OTT in Delhi & India, Advanced Pay-TV Services, the future of FTA TV in India, Cable Digitization, Impact and Strategies for the future and Telecom Operators & video models. The key issues highlighted included the impact of implementation of 4G in solving connectivity issues, the growth of TV Everywhere and OTT initiatives and the different partnership models with TV industry players and the challenges for cable operators to meet the digitisation phase III 31 December 2015 deadline.

About 25 Speakers from key players in the industry participated: Sony Entertainment (Sony Liv), Viacom 18 (Viacom 18 Digital Ventures), Eros International (ErosNow), Reliance Entertainment, Tata Sky, CineFunTV, PK Online, Doordarshan/DD Freedish, Muvi Studio, Akamai, Conax, Cubiware, Pace, Surewaves, Indusind Media & Communication Ltd (Hinduja Group), Home Cable Networks, Cable Quest and Broadband India Forum.

Deepak Ramsurrun, Events Manager- APAC & Africa, Dataxis said, “We are delighted with the participation of quality speakers from key players in the industry which produced quality panel discussions on pertinent issues of TV Business today. More importantly the audience was confronted to today’s crude reality on connectivity, TVE & OTT and Pay-tv business and the challenges for FTA and Cable digitization.”

NexTV Summit is the most prestigious global event series on the Future of TV. The NexTV Summit is by far the most popular TV event series in the emerging market circuit in Latin America. NexTV Summit is the place for the emerging market TV industry leaders to meet, debate and discuss key industry issues that impact them both globally and regionally.  

Dataxis announced that it intends to renew its NexTV Summits experience in India for 2016. Two such events are scheduled for next year: 6th April in Mumbai, and 23rd November in New Delhi.

About NexTV Summit Series and Dataxis

NexTV Summit is organized by Dataxis is a Global firm specialized in Telecom, TV & Media businesses delivering detailed market research, high quality events and specialized websites to the Telecom and Media executives and organizations. Dataxis is present in India since 2012 with an office based in Bengaluru. Through its intelligence service, it provides quarterly monitoring and 5 years forecasts of TV business, and produces markets reports covering all states and union territories. It also publishes the local specialized media NexTV News India.

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