The General Assembly of the DVB Project took place online yesterday and included the election of a new Steering Board, to serve for the coming two years.
Representatives of a total of 41 organizations were elected across DVB’s four member constituencies as follows:
Manufacturers/software suppliers: Dolby, ENENSYS Technologies, Ericsson, Fraunhofer IIS, HiSilicon, InterDigital, LG, NAGRA, NERC-DTV, Nokia, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony, ST Engineering iDirect, TP Vision, Verance.
Content providers/broadcasters: ARD, BBC, Netflix, NRK, Rai, RTI-Mediaset, RTL, Sky, TF1, ZDF.
Governments/national regulatory bodies: Ομοσπονδιακή Υπηρεσία Δικτύων (BNetzA, Γερμανία), Landesanstalt für Kommunikation (LFK, Γερμανία), Ofcom (Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο).
Infrastructure providers: Arqiva, BT, Cellnex, Elettronica Industriale, Eutelsat, Hispasat, Orange, RTRN, SES, TDF, Telecom Italia, Telenor.
The names of the Steering Board representatives for the above companies, along with the ex officio members and observers, can be found below at the current e-page.
The Steering Board is responsible for setting the overall policy direction for the DVB Project and handles its coordination, priority setting and management. The Steering Board approves DVB specifications and offers them for standardization to the relevant international standards bodies.
Workplan updated
The outgoing DVB Steering Board met on Tuesday this week. Among other decisions, it approved an updated version of the DVB Workplan, that sets out information, including anticipated completion dates, about current DVB work items within the Commercial Module and Technical Module.
Steering Board Elected Members 2021–2023
Elected 10 November 2021
Manufacturers/software suppliers
Dolby: Jason Power
ENENSYS: Technologies Richard Lhermitte
Ericsson: Per Fröjdh
Fraunhofer IIS: Stefan Meltzer
HiSilicon (Huawei): Elfed Howells
InterDigital: Ralf Schäfer
LG Electronics: Stuart Savage
NAGRA (Kudelski Group): Bertrand Wendling
NERC-DTV: (Shanghai National Engineering Research Center of Digital Television) Peter Siebert
Nokia: Herbert Mittermayr
Panasonic: Martin Fähnrich
Qualcomm: Thomas Stockhammer
Samsung: John Adam
Sony: Brian Edwards
ST Engineering iDirect: Ulrik de Bie
TP Vision: Jon Piesing
Verance: Jason Patton
Content providers / broadcasters
ARD: Gerd Schwager
BBC: Stephen Baily
Netflix: Mark Watson
NRK: Hazem Ali
Rai: Gino Alberico
RTI-Mediaset: Marco Pellegrinato
RTL: Frank Heineberg
Sky: Kieron Edwards
TF1: Olivier Penin
ZDF: Rainer Kirchknopf
Governments / national regulatory bodies
BNetzA (Germany): Martin Hopp
LfK (Germany): Walter Berner
Ofcom (UK): Simon Parnall
Infrastructure providers
Arqiva: Matthew Huntington
BT: Simon Jones
Cellnex: Jose Antonio Aranda
Elettronica Industriale: Guido Gentile
Eutelsat: Cristiano Benzi
Hispasat: Antonio Arana Castro
Orange: Pascal Perrot
RTRN: Dmitry Semenov
SES: Thomas Wrede
TDF: Gaëlle Kaminsky
Telecom Italia: Diego Gibellino
Observers / ex officio members
DIGITALEUROPE: Carine Chardon
EBU: Antonio Arcidiacono
ACT: Erard Gilles
Cable Europe: Robert Kolthek
European Commission: Andreas Roever
ETSI: Chantal Bonardi
BNE: Lars Backlund
Info: https://dvb.org
Notes: Announcement - DVB Project - 11.11.2021