SNIC Seminar on DAB+ signal distribution

Venue

Meeting room “Genève”, EBU, Grand Saconnex, Geneva, Switzerland. For information about travelling to the venue, car parking etc click here.   

Recommended hotels

Please note March is a busy time in Geneva, and we recommend booking as soon as possible. 

• Crowne Plaza: http://www.cpgva.ch/en/
• Holiday Inn Express Geneva Airport: http://www.expressgeneva.com/en/index.php
• Starling Geneva Hotel and Conference Center: http://www.shgeneva.ch/en.html

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

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.

Lawrie Hallett, Operations Director, Future Digital Norfolk

Dr Lawrie Hallett is based at the University of Bedfordshire, where he teaches and researches, radio, audio and international development.
He is also the Operations Director of Future Digital Norfolk Limited, which has been broadcasting a Small-Scale DAB service to the Greater Norwich area of East Anglia since 2015. With a background in broadcast journalism and later broadcast engineering, he is also a former Senior Radio Executive at Ofcom in London. He continues to work as an independent consultant and has been writing about the broadcast radio industry since the 1990s.

Emanuele Mancuso, DAB Italia

Emanuele Mancuso has been working for DAB Italia since early 2020. He is a network assistant, focussing on the development and integration of IP networks for DAB Italia's national digital radio network. In this context he has gained significant experience with the distribution of real-time signals, also using the SRT protocol. He also contributes to the development of software for processing and analysing of data collected on DAB coverage.

Tork Niendorf, Software Developer, 2wcom Systems

Tork Niendorf has been working for 2wcom Systems since 2012. He is a software developer, focussing on DAB and Audio distribution systems.

Projects so far include:
Audio over Satellite and IP systems since 2012,
DAB over Satellite, including EDI over Satellite and EDI-to-ETI converters at the Transmitter sites throughout Norway, Germany, Italy, France since 2013
MPX over Satellite systems in 2018,
Audio over SRT/RIST in 2020,
New DAB distribution platform for Arqiva (England) since 2021

Stan Roehrich, Chief Technical Officer, digris and DABcom, Vice-President at Open Digital Radio

Stan is the co-founder and CTO of digris AG since 2015. digris operates local DAB SFN coverages in Switzerland, France and the UK. digris develops innovative software and hardware solutions for internal uses. CTO at DABcom who operates a large SFN coverage in Switzerland. Vice president at Open Digital Radio association who maintains open source software for DAB+ tools. Owner of radio Maxxima broadcasting on DAB+ over Switzerland. Broadcast experience since 1994 working as a subcontractor for Eurovision during special events coverages (Political, Sport, Cultural, War Zones) until 2000. Worked at the EBU for 13 years until 2013 as a network architect-engineer.

09.03.2023

Hanns Wolter SNIC Seminar Geneva 2023 (2.64 MB)

Tork Niendorf SNIC Seminar Geneva 2023 (2.74 MB)

Stanislas Roehrich SNIC Seminar Geneva 2023 (767 KB)

Emanuele Mancuso SNIC Seminar Geneva 2023 (899 KB)

Lawrie Hallett SNIC Seminar Geneva 2023 (2 MB)