64 HAPPENING Nordic TV Summit
NETWORKING IN THE NORDICS Copenhagen’s Nordic TV Summit is an intimate day-long conference on OTT tech. It also features barbecue and a canal boat ride
o anyone paying attention, it’s obvious Scandinavia is
outshining much of the world in its innovation in online digital technology. This has resulted in a number of interesting conferences and events recently which aim not only to show off Nordic technological expertise, but to bring together video specialists for real problem solving. One of the threads through many of these conferences has been a shunning of the traditional, heavily sponsored sales pitch model. The latest of these is the Nordic TV Summit, held on 27 September at Copenhagen’s Weber Grill Academy. Hosted by TV app developer 24i, the summit is a day of forward-looking presentations on new TV and media technologies, combined with an extensive programme of networking. “In the Nordics, there wasn’t a really good event about the OTT industry,” explains 24i CEO and co-founder Martijn van Horssen. “We thought that it would be good to organise something around thought leadership – where we at 24i can profile ourselves as thought leaders, but also facilitate that for the industry.” Martijn also notes that, though there are a lot of
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