HbbTV and Gaming

Gaming applications have become increasingly popular with the rising market penetration of smart TVs and connected CE devices. In this webinar, we will focus on the opportunities the HbbTV specifications offer to industry players in the growing area of cloud gaming, discussing market figures, use cases, monetisation and future trends.

Presenters
George Jijiashvili, Principal Analyst, Games, Omdia
Aniello Saulino, Head of Development, Media Applications, Kineton
Timuçin Bilgör, President, BUBA Ventures/Digitiwise

Moderator
Jörn Krieger, Freelance Journalist

Speakers’ bios
George Jijiashvili is a principal analyst at Omdia, leading research into games and AR/VR technologies. Based in London, he produces insight into the games sector through regular reports, market sizing and forecasting. His specialisms include the video game market, cloud gaming, subscription services, and wearable technology. He is a regular speaker at major technology exhibitions and is a respected industry commentator, regularly quoted in mainstream publications.

Passionate about technology, Aniello Saulino joined Kineton at the company’s foundation. He started his journey creating Kineton’s HbbTV development framework and now leads the media applications division as head of development. Nello follows the entire development process, from the collection of requirements through to maintenance. He is in charge of various media projects, being always in close contact with the customer in the pursuit of continuous improvement.

Timuçin Bilgör is the founder and president of BUBA Ventures, based in İstanbul. Boğaziçi University Business Angles Ventures (BUBA) is Turkey’s first university-based angel investment network, specialising in technology, medicine and agriculture. Digitiwise is one of BUBA Ventures’ investment companies, based in Finland, which focuses on addressable TV advertisement technology. Timuçin is also a university lecturer at Boğaziçi University.

Replay
The recording of the live session is available here.

PDF presentation downloads
George Jijiashvili, Omdia
Aniello Saulino, Kineton
Timuçin Bilgör, BUBA Ventures/Digitiwise