Find our more about the Speakers presenting at our General Assembly
Nick Piggott, Global Radio / Chair of RadioDNS
Nick leads a that team has consistently delivered innovative new services to radio stations, including interactive text message services, music downloading, mobile and multi-platform applications, and visualised radio services. The team has won numerous awards for innovation over the last decade.
Mathias Coinchon, EBU / RadioDNS Secretary
Mathias works on the harmonisation of delivery technologies for radio in Europe and the hybrid broadcast/broadband approach. He organises every year at EBU the Radio Week and Summit, a networking event gathering broadcasters, operators and industry.
Vincent Sneed, AER
Vincent Sneed has worked for the Association of European Radios (AER), representing commercial radio to the EU institutions since 2006. He is now Manager, after being Coordinator and EU Policy Advisor: he has led AER’s lobbying on the Telecom Package review, the Broadcasting Communication review, the Collective Rights’ Management Directive, and other copyright, advertising and media-related dossiers. He also coordinates exchange of data and know-how between national markets. He studied law in France, Spain and the Netherlands, and speaks French, English, Italian and Spanish.
Tobias Wallerius, Visteon
Global Hardware Architect, Visteon
Since 2006, Tobias has worked at Visteon (an automotive Tier 1 supplier) as a Systems and Hardware Engineer for digital radio products. During his time at Visteon, Tobias has worked on standardising and promoting Digital Radio in various (automotive) consortia and working groups. Today Tobias is a global hardware architect at Visteon and responsible as the technical lead for advanced production Digital Radio architectures (DAB/DRM/Hybrid Radio/Internet Radio).
Michael Hill, Radioplayer
Mark Friend, BBC
Paul Brenner, NextRadio
Andy Buckingham, togglebit
Creative Technologist providing hardware and software expertise for digital and hybrid radio. Founding member of RadioDNS and application team lead for RadioTAG. Participant in EBU Cross Platform Authentication (CPA) project, Universal Smartphone Radio Project (USRP). Most recently working on the Car Adaptor project for UK Radioplayer.