On April 15, from 9:50 to 10:20 a.m., Monika Gadhammar, vice chairwoman of the Open IPTV Forum marketing workgroup, will present “The Open IPTV Forum.”

The session will examine how standards serve to make IPTV into a mass-market service and a profitable business. The Open IPTV Forum is a pan-industry initiative with the purpose of producing an end-to-end specification for IPTV and take IPTV to the next generation.

The members of the Open IPTV Forum include: France Telecom, Nokia Siemens Networks, Panasonic, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung, Sony, Telecom Italia, Alcatel-Lucent, Amino, Deutsche Telekom, Huawei, LG Electronics, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Tilgin, Verimatrix and ZTE.