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Agenda and Speaker Line-Up for 2025 Devoncroft Executive Summit | Amsterdam

Alex Ramirez | September 4, 2025

The event for media technology thought leaders

Lineup includes Senior Executives from Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Amagi, Bitmovin, Comcast Technology Solutions, Globo, Google Cloud, ITN, Microsoft, Qvest, Ross Video, Sky, Sohonet, Storybook Studios, SVT, Versant, Vodafone, and more.

The 2025 Devoncroft Executive Summit | Amsterdam will be held on Thursday September 11, 2025, from 12PM to 6:00PM at the historic Tuschinski Theater, near the center of Amsterdam.

More information is available here.

Devoncroft Executive Summit

Whether you’re a media technology buyer or supplier, you won’t want to miss the 2025 Devoncroft Executive Summit | Amsterdam.

We’re looking forward to reviewing our latest research in the media technology sector and hearing from more than 20 thought leading speakers about the most important commercial issues facing the industry.

We’ve worked hard to put together a fantastic line-up of media technology thought leaders. We are grateful for the industry-wide support we’ve received.

Actionable Insight, Thought-Leading Speakers

The agenda (see below) draws on the most up-to-date industry market research and analysis from Devoncroft Partners, including our Big Broadcast Survey (BBS), which we’ve been publishing annually for the past 17 years. The sheer size, scale, international reach, and longevity of Devoncroft’s Big Broadcast Survey make it a unique source of industry data that does not exist anywhere else.

We’ve set aside time in the program to review the findings from the 2025 BBS, as well as our annual Market Sizing Study.

Using insights from our ongoing research activities, we’ve programmed an agenda that offers delegates a unique opportunity to hear from the right people, speaking about the right topics, at the right moment in time for the industry.

If you’ve been to a past Devoncroft Executive Summit you know that we deliver unique content at actionable insight at candid discussions with industry thought leaders and a focus on the commercial drivers of industry change.

We’d like to thank our speakers and panelists who will share insight, knowledge, and ideas for best practice that will undoubtedly prove invaluable to delegates.

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2025 Devoncroft Executive Summit | Amsterdam: Agenda

12:00 PM: Registration and Networking

12:30 PM: Welcome and Opening Remarks 

Speakers: 

  • Joe Zaller: Founder and President at Devoncroft Partners

12:35 PM: State of the Industry — Devoncroft Strategic Industry Overview

Speakers: 

  • Josh Stinehour: Principal Analyst at Devoncroft Partners
  • Joe Zaller: Founder and President at Devoncroft Partners

1:35 PM: The Technology Supplier C-Suite: Strategies for an Evolving Market

Speakers:

  • David Ross: Chief Executive Officer at Ross Video
  • Baskar Subramanian: Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at Amagi
  • Stefan Lederer: Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at Bitmovin

Moderator:

  • Joe Zaller: Founder and President at Devoncroft Partners

2:10 PM: Mind The Gap: Separating Hype From Reality, and Not Falling Down a Hole

Speakers:

  • Rebecca Matthews: Head of Content Management & Distribution at ABC Australia
  • Jon Roberts: Chief Technology Officer at ITN
  • Lena Stormvinge: Director of Operations at SVT

Moderator:

  • Joe Zaller: Founder and President at Devoncroft Partners

2:40 PM: GenAI for Content Creation

Speakers:

  • Tobias Huber: Director of Operations at Storybook Studios

Moderator:

  • Joe Zaller: Founder and President at Devoncroft Partners

Networking Break

3:30 PM: Service Provider C-Suite: Meeting the Business Challenges of an Evolving Sector

Speakers:

  • Peter Nöethen: CEO & Founder at Qvest
  • Bart Spriester: SVP and GM, Streaming, Broadcast & Advertising at Comcast Technology Solutions
  • Chuck Parker: Chief Executive Officer at Sohonet

Moderator:

  • Josh Stinehour: Principal Analyst at Devoncroft Partners 

4:00 PM: Building Differentiated Consumer Experiences that Unlock Engagement at Scale

Speakers: 

  • Frank Rippl: Global Head of TV Product at Vodafone

Moderator:

  • Joe Zaller: Founder and President at Devoncroft Partners

4:25 PM: Best Practice for FinOps in M&E: Driving Financial Success

Speakers: 

  • Damian Cronan: Chief Digital and Information Officer at ABC Australia
  • Tyrone Donnelly: Head of Group Platform Engineering at Sky
  • Mauricio Felix: Executive Director of Technology at Globo

Moderator: 

  • Josh Stinehour: Principal Analyst at Devoncroft Partners

5:00 PM: Executive 1:1 with Jeff Mayzurk: President, Operations & Technology at Versant

Speakers:

  • Jeff Mayzurk: President, Operations & Technology at Versant

Moderator:

  • Josh Stinehour: Principal Analyst at Devoncroft Partners 

End of Program

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