WorldDAB General Assembly 2020 - members-only session

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Date: 2nd November 2020

Location: Online

Types: Conference

The one-hour WorldDAB members-only portion of the General Assembly will take place as a real-time, live meeting on 2 November from 9:30 - 10:30 GMT.

This meeting gives WorldDAB members the opportunity to hear directly from the WorldDAB President and WorldDAB Committee chairs about WorldDAB’s progress over the past year, and the forum’s priorities for the coming year.

The winner of this year's WorldDAB Award for Outstanding Service will be announced during this meeting.

Contact the Project Office for any technical questions.

Programme for the members-only session:

09:30 – 09:40    WorldDAB Steering Board report - President, Patrick Hannon, Frontier Smart Technologies
09:40 – 09:50    WorldDAB Asia Pacific Committee report - Chair, Joan Warner, Commercial Radio Australia
09:50 – 10:00    WorldDAB Technical Committee report - Chair, Lindsay Cornell, BBC
10:00 – 10:10    WorldDAB Spectrum and Network Implementation Committee report - Chair, Hanns Wolter, DAB Italia
10:10 – 10:20    WorldDAB Treasurer’s report including WorldDAB budget approval for 2021 – Treasurer, Ron Schiffelers, NXP
10:20 – 10:30    Announcement of the winner of the WorldDAB Award for Outstanding Service 2020

This meeting is separate to the remainder of the WorldDAB General Assembly that will be a one-day live-streamed event on Tuesday 3 November 09:00 – 16:00 – more information and registerstration available for that full-day event is available here. That part of the General Assembly will be open to non-members as well as members, and will bring together high quality speakers from around the globe to share updates and information about all aspects of DAB+.

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WorldDAB members should register for both events:

Monday 2nd November, 09:30 – 10:30 GMT WorldDAB General Assembly 2020 – members only meeting - live members-only session (via zoom) - to register please send an email to projectoffice@worlddab.org

Tuesday 3rd November 09:00 – 16:00 GMT WorldDAB General Assembly 2020 – live-streamed conference, members and non-members – register here

Programme - members only session

2 November 09:30 - 10:30 GMT

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Lindsay Cornell, Principal Systems Architect, BBC Digital and WorldDAB Technical Committee Chairman

Lindsay has worked for the BBC for more than 20 years, in a variety of engineering, editorial and leadership roles spanning radio, TV, and spectrum regulation. He has considerable experience of leading collaborative projects through his roles as Chairman of CEPT FM PT51, dealing with spectrum issues for programme-making, and as Chairman of the WorldDAB and DRM Technical Committees, managing the stability and development of the respective standards.

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Patrick Hannon, VP Corporate Development, Frontier Smart Technologies & President, WorldDAB

Patrick Hannon is Vice President Corporate Development at Frontier Smart Technologies, the leading provider of technology solutions for consumer DAB radios. He was elected President of WorldDAB in November 2013. His role is to work with policymakers, regulators and industry players (including public and private broadcasters, network operators, device manufacturers, retailers and automotive manufacturers) to ensure that digital radio is successfully rolled out in as many territories as possible. Before joining Frontier, Patrick was a strategy consultant focused on broadcast and digital media. Previously, he held senior strategy and commercial roles at the BBC and BBC Worldwide.

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Ron Schiffelers, Senior Director Program Management, NXP Semiconductors

Ron Schiffelers works for NXP within the Business Unit Automotive. NXP is a semiconductors company and a leader in the Car Infotainment IC market. Having a total experience of 21 years in the semiconductors industry Ron has been working on car radio products with his main focus on digital radio for the past 9 years from product definition to design-in at customers. Besides this he is also active as member of the WorldDAB steering board.

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Joan Warner, CEO, Commercial Radio Australia

As CEO of Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) Joan was responsible for the planning, roll-out and implementation of DAB+ digital radio in the five metropolitan capitals covering over 60% of the Australian population, and continues the DAB+ implementation for commercial radio broadcasters across regional Australia. She oversees the whole of industry marketing campaign, Radio Codes of Practice, audience survey contracts and industry copyright agreements. She is responsible for the annual National Commercial Radio Conference, Siren Creative Awards and Australian Commercial Radio Awards.

Hanns Wolter, WorldDAB Regulatory and Spectrum Committee Chair and Technical Director, DAB Italia

Hanns has been working in the DAB world since 2000 as a Product Manager and has, in these years worked on all issues regarding DAB, at both a national and international level, including the introduction of DAB+ in 2007. He is involved in network planning and spectrum issues and also works closely with hardware manufacturers for the deployment of a comprehensive DAB environment. Currently he is responsible for the planning and management of the ongoing roll-out of DAB Italia’s network and all issues related to the creation, distribution and transmission of the multiplex.