Opera TV to exhibit latest OTT offerings and discuss OTT content personalization at IBC 2016

Who: Opera TV, market leader in enabling the TV industry’s transition to over-the-top (OTT) experiences, will be showcasing the latest from the Opera TV product suite at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC).

The company will demonstrate a brand new range of products including the new Opera TV Certification Program, designed to solve one of the biggest challenges facing OTT application developers and OEMs. Opera TV will also demonstrate the latest version of Opera TV SDK, a Chromium-based HTML5 rendering engine for connected TV devices, and Opera TV 2.0, an HTML5-based application platform providing tailored and engaging OTT viewing experiences. In addition to the demonstrations at the exhibit hall, Opera TV CEO Aneesh Rajaram will participate on a panel discussing customization of content and personalization of the OTT experience.
 
What: Leaders within the OTT ecosystem will participate in an interactive discussion panel that will focus on how the customization of content, personalization of the user experience, and learning the tastes and habits of each individual user are the key skills that all content distributors now need to master. The panel will also explore what multiscreen delivery really means for today’s media brands, broadcasters, operators and service providers.

The “Customization of Content and Personalization of Experience in OTT” panel will be moderated by Paolo Pescatore, Director of Multiplay and Media at CCS Insight. Panel participants include:

  • Pancrazio Auteri, CTO, Contentwise
  • Aneesh Rajaram, CEO, Opera TV
  • Matt Smith, Chief Evangelist, Anvato

When: IBC 2016 Exhibition will be held September 9 – 13, 2016. Aneesh will serve as a panelist for “Customization of Content and Personalization of Experience in OTT” panel at IBC Content Everywhere Hub taking place on Sunday, September 11 from 1 – 2 p.m. CEST, at the Hub Theater in Hall 14.

Where: Opera TV demonstrations at IBC 2016 will be held in Hall 14, Stand 14.N29 at the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre in Amsterdam.

About Opera TV

Opera TV is the market leader in enabling the TV industry’s transition to OTT. The Opera TV portfolio powers rich UI and OTT experiences on tens of millions of new Smart TVs, set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc Players and chipsets deployed each year by more than 60 customers. The Opera TV ecosystem spans the Opera TV Store app platform with hundreds of entertaining apps tailor-made for TV, the Opera Devices SDK for creating and rendering HTML5-based user interfaces, including optional modules to enable HbbTV, the Opera Media Streaming Module, to manage the rapidly changing global OTT streaming requirements, and the Opera TV browser for browsing the full web. Opera TV offers solutions for OEMs, pay-TV operators, broadcasters and content publishers. Visit www.opera.com/tv/ to learn more.

Media Contact: 
Marta Weissenborn 
McGrath/Power Public Relations for Opera TV 
+1 (408) 727-0351
MartaWeissenborn@McGrathPower.com