This seminar will focus on the future mix in delivery of audio-visual content, and the expected migration from broadcast to online distribution.

Delegates will discuss implications for relationships and interaction between public service broadcasters and other media companies, ISPs and device manufacturers, the wider creative marketing and production industries, and for the citizens and consumers they serve.

Key stakeholders, regulators, and policymakers will examine issues related to availability and marketing of services, including prominence, online safety, cybersecurity, standards, and interoperability.

They will also discuss priorities for the development of policy and regulation – as well as for business strategies and the development of working relationships and cooperative structures across sectors.

It takes place in the context of significant UK policy developments, including the Media Bill, the Online Safety Bill, the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill, and the planned Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill, and follows the BBC Director General outlining a vision of a world of internet-only television by the 2030s.

Westminster eForum are pleased to be able to include keynote sessions with Richard Lindsay-Davies, Chief Executive Officer, Digital TV Group; and a senior speaker from Ofcom – as well as contributions from BT, Samsung and Sky.

Sessions in the agenda include:

• migration to online: the future distribution mix for audio visual content – implications and priorities for industry stakeholders, consumers, policy and regulation
• public service content: priorities for audiences and access – key issues for services and competition – must offer, must carry – achieving a fair transition to the future
• market dynamics: the future positioning, power, relationships and roles of key stakeholders in content creation, aggregation, distribution and gateways
• cooperation: options for collaborative frameworks and agreements for the future distribution of AV content – value exchange – content signposting – technology standards – cybersecurity