ABU Digital Broadcasting Symposium 2024

WorldDAB workshop @ ABU DBS 2024   14:00 – 17:00, 4^th March 2024

Economics, Environment, Emergency - driving the case for DAB+

Broadcast radio is free to air, universal and reliable in emergencies. DAB+ is key to protecting those benefits.

DAB offers lower costs of distribution than FM, lower energy requirements, and greater resilience in emergencies, especially out of home.

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Workshop Speakers

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

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

Oscar Hu, Regional Sales Manager, Southeast Asia, GatesAir

Hu joined GatesAir’s APAC team in 2020 as Regional Sales Manager, Southeast Asia. Hu’s focus is on raising GatesAir’s visibility and market share across most of Southeast Asia (and parts of East Asia and Pacific Island), including Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Hu’s background of almost 20 years in the over-the-air broadcast industry, where he has been active in most of the advanced DVB and ATSC digital transmission standards development. Prior to GatesAir he was Sales Manager for many other European Broadcast Manufactures transmitter companies.

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Gabriel Kwofie, Head of Broadcast Monitoring Centre, National Communications Authority, Ghana

Gabriel Kwofie is the Head of the Broadcasting Monitoring Center at National Communications Authority (NCA) in Ghana. He has undergraduate degrees in Systems Engineering and Economics. His Master’s degree is in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Gabriel has spent over twelve years working at NCA. He served as a QoS Engineer ensuring that Mobile Network Operators meet set KPIs. He was the Regional Manager overseeing all 27 districts of the Ashanti Region. He became the Coordinator for the Communications Monitoring Center which oversees monitoring facilities for TV, FM Radio, Billing Verification, Cybersecurity and Network Monitoring of the Telcos

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Christoph Lessnau, Senior Engineer, AVT Audio Video Technologies

Christoph has been working as a broadcast engineer for 15 years and joined AVT Audio Video Technologies GmbH in 2015. Since studying Electrical Electronic Communication Engineering at Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg he is developing customer specific solutions for digital radio. He is involved in rolling out and operating several DAB+ installations for private and public broadcasters. As member of the WorldDAB Technical Committee Christoph is in close dialogue with stakeholders from many different branches of the radio industry. While AVT is well known as one of the largest DAB headend providers worldwide they
also manufacture professional telephone hybrid and audio codec solutions.

Dr Kiatanantha Lounkaew, Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, Bangkok

Lars-Peder Lundgren, CEO, Paneda

Lars-Peder has been involved in DAB from the beginning, with 25 years in the DAB business. He brings wide experience across several technical business areas including telecoms, radio communications and broadcasting. He joined Paneda as Sales Director in 2014 and has been CEO since 2020. Prior to joining Paneda, he oversaw international technical sales at Factum Electronics. Paneda develops and sells DAB related technology, including DAB head-end systems with multiplexers and audio encoders, road tunnel break-in system and related DAB systems. 

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Bernie O’Neill, Project Director, WorldDAB

An experienced people connector within the digital radio industry, Bernie has headed WorldDAB since 2011, with overall responsibility for the direction and management of WorldDAB activities. Together with her team and the global network of WorldDAB members she works to further the adoption and implementation of DAB+, the digital successor of FM radio.  With a background in leadership of international trade associations for over 25 years, her career expands over several industries including radio, ICT, water and education. She is an expert at driving business development, delivering value to stakeholders, strategically aligning teams, and developing effective marketing communications. Trained in international business, she has held postings in London, Brussels, and The Hague.

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Dr Les Sabel, Chair, WorldDAB APAC Technical Group

Les has over 30 years of experience in communications systems, including broadcast digital radio (DAB/DAB+ and DRM), mobile communications, wireless broadband, and satellite communications. A technical expert on DAB+, provides independent engineering consultancy to WorldDAB, the ITU and broadcasters, regulators, network operators and equipment suppliers in Australia, Southeast Asia and around the globe. The Asia-Pacific Technical Group meets 2-3 times a year and gives guidance on the technical aspects of implementing DAB+ digital radio, with help and advice that is tailored specifically to the needs of the APAC region.

Muhamad Sujai, Director of Technology and New Media, RRI

Mr. Sujai started his career as an announcer on several private radio stations in Bandung, after that he continued his career as head of the marketing division at the Indosat cellular company. Experienced in several field of industry such as Advertising & PR Agency, International Telco Provider, B2B e-commerce,  Internet Service Provider, GSM Operator, Bank Central of Indonesia, Turbine Service & Maintenance and Brand Activation Agency. He is the person behind the development of various digital applications at RRI such as RRI digital mobile apps, RRI newsportal, and broadcast automation. 

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Wasago Aloysius Muheki, Senior Officer Service Development & CEIR Coordinator, Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), Uganda

Muheki is a Telecommunications Engineer with more than a decade of industry expertise. His professional journey includes coordinating Uganda’s Digital Audio Broadcasting endeavours in addition to his previously held the role of Technical Officer for Broadcasting, where he made pivotal contributions to Uganda’s Digital Migration Project. In his current capacity, Muheki oversees various initiatives, including research projects aimed at enhancing communication services in Uganda. His active involvement extends to designing programs that stimulate ICT sector innovation. Muheki coordinates multiple technical research projects and pilots, such as the Testbed project, the DAB+ pilot project, and the Annual National Conference on Communications, among others. He was instrumental in implementing Uganda's Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR) and led the development of CEIR operational guidelines and efforts to combat counterfeit mobile communication equipment in the country. Currently, he is responsible for comprehensive oversight of CEIR operations at UCC.

04.03.2024

1. Bernie O'Neill, The 3Es, driving the case for DAB+ (1.93 MB)

2. Lindsay Cornell, DAB+ technical upgrades and advances (1.58 MB)

3. Les Sabel, Recent advances on DAB+ in Thailand (940 KB)

4. Kiatanantha Lounkaew, Implementing DAB+ in Thailand (2.06 MB)

5. Muhamad Sujai, An update on DAB+ progress in Indonesia (5.67 MB)

6. Gabriel Kwofie, DAB+ field trial in Ghana (76 MB)

7. Aloysius Muheki, DAB+ field trial in Uganda (2.38 MB)

8a. Lars-Peder Lundgren, DAB Headend Solutions (1.23 MB)

8b. Lars-Peder Lundgren, Warning System over DAB (1.27 MB)

9. Christoph Lessnau, Key Benefits of Hardware-based DAB Headend Solutions (1.12 MB)

10. Oscar Hu, Transmission solutions to manage cost (4.54 MB)