TVB Sets Forward 2015 Agenda, Speakers

TVB’s annual Broadcast TV Leadership Conference, Forward 2015, is a confab of more than 500 local broadcast television C-suite decision makers.

Scheduled for Sept. 17 at New York’s Waldorf Astoria, Forward 2015 will feature presentations and discussion led by advertising, media and industry experts addressing emerging trends in broadcast television and digital media, including programmatic, OTT, measurement, Big Data and more.

For the full agenda, click here.

Representing more than 60 broadcast companies, TV networks and national rep firms, this group of senior broadcasters will gather in the Grand Ballroom of NY’s Waldorf Astoria to consider the economic, political, technological and viewer/consumer challenges, and opportunities, impacting local broadcast television across multiple screens.

Among the speakers and panelists on tap are: Joy Baer, President, STRATA; Rex Briggs, Founder and CEO, Marketing Evolution; Malcolm CasSelle, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Media, SeaChange International; Brendan Condon, CEO, Media Properties Holdings/AdMore; John Dickerson, Host of Face The Nation and CBS News Political Director; Scott Donaton, Chief Content Officer, DigitasLBi; Michael J. Fiorile, Chairman of the Board, TVB and Vice Chairman and CEO, Dispatch Broadcast Group; Robin Flynn, Director, SNL Kagan; Seth Haberman, CEO & Founder, Visible World; Lawrence J. Haverty Jr., CFA Associate Portfolio Manager, Gabelli Multimedia Trust; George W. Ivie, CEO & Executive Director, Media Rating Council; Todd Juenger, Senior Analyst, U.S. Media Sanford C. Bernstein; Michael E. Kassan, Chairman & CEO, MediaLink; Steve Lanzano, President & CEO, TVB; Bill Livek, Vice Chairman & CEO, Rentrak; Brent Magid, President & CEO, Frank N. Magid Associates; Eric Mathewson, Founder & CEO, WideOrbit; Jack Myers, Chairman & Media Ecologist, MyersBizNet; Michael Nathanson, Partner and Senior Research Analyst, MoffettNathanson; Matt O’Grady, EVP & Managing Director, Local Media, Nielsen; Larry Patrick, Managing Partner, Patrick Communications; Matt Prohaska, CEO & Principal, Prohaska Consulting; Robin Roberts, CEO & President, National Media Research; Marci Ryvicker, Managing Director, Wells Fargo Securities; Jason Stein, Publisher & Editor, Automotive News; Joshua Summers, Co-founder & CEO, clypd; Shereta Williams, President, Videa.

For more details and registration information, click here.