IMS Conferences will host its third TV 3.0 Conference in Los Angeles, California on December 7th - 8th 2010. This year’s event will focus on the latest innovations in TV and content delivery and will feature over 40 expert speakers from across the TV and content value chain.

Keynote speakers include Verizon Communications President & CEO, Fran Shammo as well as CBS Chief Research Officer and President of CBS Vision, David Poltrack. These industry leading visionaries will address the issues associated with 3D programming, multi-screen business models and strategies for integrating online content into the television experience. Click here to see the full agenda.

The deadline to submit your company’s entry for the 2010 TV Innovation Awards is fast approaching. Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase the latest in your product line to a highly targeted and senior level audience. There are 14 TV Innovation Award categories for 2010 which cover the entire spectrum of TV innovation. The TV Innovation Awards provide an excellent forum to announce and display innovative TV products and solutions ahead of CES.

The TV Innovation Awards are once again being held in conjunction with the TV 3.0 Conference and Expo titled, TV 3.0 – Innovations in TV and Content Delivery. The TV 3.0 Conference has been designed to provide a forum for senior executives, technical managers, and marketing personnel from leading companies involved in television technology to meet with other industry players to examine the these innovative new opportunities that television brings.

The question on securing geographically distributed organizations as well as critical infrastructures is particularly pointed nowadays. There is a growing interest on the end-users side in security solutions that can efficiently prevent terrorist, natural and technogenic theats.

Territorial Generating Company is the leading producer of electricity and heat in the North-West region of Russia and the third largest territorial generating company in Russia in terms of installed capacity.

The TelcoTV 2010 Vision Awards call for entries is now open. Submissions for these prestigious industry awards will be accepted until October 13, 2010. Recognizing outstanding leadership and innovation, the 3rd Annual TelcoTV Vision Awards will be presented at the ninth annual TelcoTV conference and expo in November 2010.

"As the competitive landscape for telecom service providers increases in complexity, video continues to be the cornerstone of a multiservice bundle. The TelcoTV Vision Awards honor the vendors and service providers who are driving the TelcoTV market forward with solutions that enable consumers to experience TV like never before, while helping service providers profit in a multi-screen world," says Joseph Braue, SVP and Group Director of UBM TechWeb’s Light Reading division, which co-produces the event with the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association. "Being recognized as a finalist is a great opportunity to gain optimum exposure at what has long been recognized as the leading industry event for converged entertainment."

Pixelmetrix will highlight its Electronic Couch Potato with a new application for parental control verification at IBC, Booth 1B24. The ECP connects after the Set Top Box and provides feedback on various service quality parameters to a central site. It can emulate an end-user changing channels on a STB via a built-in infrared transmitter. Service plan verification, channel switching and multiple measurements on service quality for each channel reported to a central management console, give service providers valuable insight into the viewer experience and confirms the availability of subscribed-to channels.

The challenges facing the television/video industry today can be daunting. For many years, competition for subscribers revolved around content, while the network architecture remained relatively stable. More recently, Video on Demand, High Definition, Start Over and other time shifted applications have been widely deployed. This has now been joined by the “TV Everywhere” concept and, of course Over The Top Television. In addition 3D is today trying to leap from the theatre into the living room. Every year there is something new to contemplate and for which to potentially plan. Over the years, the MPEG Industry Forum has worked aggressively to bring clarity to the industry’s vision of the future and to advocate for the adoption of standards that accelerate that clarity. This year at IBC this task has become more important than ever as new technologies create new opportunities to make (or lose) money. The 2010 Master Class at IBC is focused around two areas that will bring technologists and leading executives from operators and content owners around the world to discuss these new opportunities and to share their experience and perspectives.

For a complete program agenda and speaker bios go to: MPEGIF Master Class at IBC 2010

Amino will invite visitors to IBC 2010 (stand 5.B40) to experience the true potential of “Over the Top” entertainment. The company will showcase its Intel- powered Amino Freedom DVB-T hybrid/OTT media centre running a range of “hands-on” demonstrations capturing the powerful device’s ability to deliver broadcast TV, Video-on Demand, home media and OTT content – plus new user interfaces, gaming and applications.

The Amino Freedom, already winner of a prestigious industry award this year, features the Intel Atom processor CE4100 – and has been specially designed to help meet growing consumer demand for TV-based "Over-The-Top" video entertainment. Powered by the first generation of Intel and Nokia’s MeeGo for the TV, the powerful device has been designed to support common Internet formats such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight.

IMS Conferences, a division of IMS Research, is pleased to announce that CBS Corporation Chief Research Officer and President of CBS Vision, David Poltrack as well as Verizon Communications, President and CEO Fran Shammo will deliver keynote addresses at “TV 3.0 - Innovations in TV and Content Delivery.” This is the third TV 3.0 event hosted by IMS Conferences and will take place in Los Angeles, California on December 7th & 8th, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Beverly Hills.

As the TV industry’s foremost expert on consumer and emerging television technology research, David Poltrack monitors all aspects of the national and international video marketplace. As Chief Research Officer of CBS he designed and currently oversees the network’s innovative research center, Television City at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, which is also home to the Sony 3D Experience. The facility provides CBS Corp ongoing consumer feedback concerning all programming of the entire Viacom family as well as a number of consumer electronic devices. Poltrack will provide the audience with his views on the future of television, especially with regards to 3D programming and implementation.

Eurowebtainment is Europe’s leading business-event for interactive Entertainment across the Internet, Telecommunication and SAT/WEB-TV. In 2009 it counted more than 700 business professionals from 30 countries and it has recorded a continuous growing number of international participants. The 18th Eurowebtainment takes place from 10th – 13th November 2010 in Vienna, Austria.

TVover.net and UBM TechWeb are giving away 2 free passes to Web 2.0 Expo New York, September 27-30, 2010 at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers, in New York, NY. Enter to win by emailing us at media@tvover.net with name, email, company, address and phone number by August 26, 2010, 12pm CDT. The winners will be randomly drawn.

IMS Conferences will be hosting its third TV 3.0 Conference titled, TV 3.0 – Innovations in TV & Content Delivery, in Los Angeles, California on December 7th & 8th. An expo will be held alongside the conference, affording attendees the opportunity to visit exhibitor showcases and see demonstrations of the latest television products, technical solutions and services. In addition, the TV 3.0 Conference will play host to the Second Annual TV Innovation Awards following day one of the event on the evening of December 7th.

TV 3.0 Conferences provide a forum for everyone in the TV value chain, from equipment manufacturers, operators and technology providers to production studios and advertising agencies, to come together and move the industry forward in ensuring a very compelling consumer experience while maintaining profitable business models for all the players. Register now to take advantage of the early bird discount!

On August 2 Deutsche Telekom has launched the Interactive TV Award 2011. It’s the third time that Deutsche Telekom invites external professionals to present their ideas and concepts on the television of tomorrow. Under the motto “Television in tune with our lives”, the contributions should take the development of Entertain, the IPTV offering from Deutsche Telekom, further forward in consideration of our connected lives and work. Deutsche Telekom would like to engage in open discussion with entrants – irrespective of what prize they win and beyond the competition. For the best, there are cash prizes worth a total of € 135,000.

BigBand Networks will demonstrate managed IP video delivery using BigBand vIP PASS to enable cable operators to deliver and monetize video to IP-enabled consumer devices in the home leveraging existing network infrastructure as part of the CableLabs Innovation Showcase, which takes place during the CableLabs Summer Conference, Aug. 15-18, 2010, in Keystone, CO.

"As visitors to All-over-IP'2010 we would like to mobile security solutions that include video surveillance, security alarm and access control, and are designed for installation at temporary building and construction sites."

That is the opinion offered by Dmitry Belolapotko, General Manager of Vymplel City – one of the key security installers in Lipetsk and Lipetsk region, central Russia.

The 4th European CxO Dialogue Telco Strategy will gather senior executives, VPs, CEOs, CFOs and Heads of Strategy of the telecommunication industry on the 22nd and 23rd of November 2010 in Berlin, Germany.

The telecommunication industry is undergoing a major shift from voice driven to data driven services. New services, changing business models, merger & acquisitions are everyday business in the Telco industry.