The 19th NEM General Assembly was held on 26 February 2015 at Digital Catapult, 101 Euston Road, London NW1 2RA.
Agenda and Presentations
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome (Jean-Dominique Meunier, NEM Chairman, Technicolor)
09:15 – 09:45 Opportunities for NEM in upcoming Horizon 2020 Calls for Project Proposals – Creativity & Art (Albert Gauthier, EC) – Media sector in the Big Data PPP and Objective ICT 19 (Miguel Montarelo-Navajo, EC)
09:45 – 10:30 Immersive Content (Pierre-Yves Danet, NEM Vice-chair, Orange) – a proposal for a focused PPP in Horizon 2020 – 5G as opportunity and challenge for content and media industry
11:00 – 11:20 Building a sustainable innovation ecosystem for the future of digital news media (Rolf Dyrnes Svendsen, chairman of the Global Alliance for Media Innovation Advisory Board)
11:20 – 12:30 Expression of interests by NEM members (moderator: Halid Hrasnica, Eurescom GmbH / NEM Secretariat)
- TRANSPORT+: Towards social media services providing more than media transport (Luis López Fernández, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos / Madrid Network Cluster)
- Innovation opportunities with Nordic NxtMedia (Andrew Perkis, NTNU and Advisory Board member – Global Alliance for Media Innovation)
- Multimodal OTT (Matteo Villa, FINCONS Spa)
- FI-ADOPT 3rd Open Call (Theodore Zahariadis, Synelixis)
- Attention ON publishing and the creative content sector: Creativity in digital storytelling at the intersection between policy, industry and research (Nina Klein and Holger Volland, Frankfurt Book Fair)
- Opportunities with the Media Innovation Studio (Paul Egglestone, UCLAN, Global Alliance for Media Innovation)
- Introduction to TWIST (Pierre Collin,TWIST cluster )
- EOI Gaming Linking Leisure and non-leisure gaming linking the Arts and Computer Science (Ashok Ranchhod, University of Southampton)
14:00 – 14:20 5G Networks of the Future (Hamid Falaki, Digital Catapult)
14:20 – 14:40 NEM position paper on Accessibility: Can UHDTV really change the world? (David Wood, European Broadcaster Union)
14:40 – 15:10 Creative industries in UK (Colin Davidson, The Imaginarium Studio’s Chief Scientist)
15:10 – 15:30 FIWARE Mundus: The Path to a Global Future Internet Ecosystem (Monique Calisti, Martel-Consulting)
15:30 – 16:00 NEM challenges 2015 (Jean-Dominique Meunier, NEM Chairman, Technicolor)
