Dataxis announced today that more than 170 executives are scheduled to participate in the NexTV CEOs Summit Latin America. The November 3 event at Miamis InterContinental Hotel will convene some of the leading figures in the Latin American Pay TV business. Participants will analyze the future of television and evaluate Over The Top, Multi-screen, Video On Demand and TV Everywhere strategies in four panels: Will Media Groups Become OTT Services at Pay TVs Expense?, Change and Transformation in the Latin American Pay TV Business, The Future of Television in Latin America, and New Trends in the Television Business.Since the arrival of Netflix in the region in late 2011, the TV business has been preparing for competition with the introduction of new services and content designed for devices such as smartphones, tablets, notebooks and smart TVs. The NexTV CEOs Summit will enable us to analyze these changes in greater depth with some of their main protagonists in a city that has become the hub for the regions entertainment industry, explained Ariel Barlaro, VP of Dataxis Latin America.Many of the top figures in the transformation of the TV business in Latin America will take part in the NexTV CEOs Summit, among them Antonio Barreto, CEO of DLA; Claudio Chiaromonte, Managing Director for Latin America at The Walt Disney Company; Carlos Martínez, president of FOX International Channels Latin America; Enrique Martínez, president of Discovery Networks Latin America; Fred Medina, Managing Director of BBC Worldwide; and Pablo Goldstein, CEO of Univ.Also participating will be the CEOs of pay TV operators such as Cablevisión (Argentina), Megacable (Mexico), Liberty Global Latin America (Chile and Puerto Rico), DIRECTV Panamericana, Qualy TV (Grupo Albavisión, Central America), Grupo Inter (Venezuela, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Ecuador), Cable & Wireless (Panama) and Azteca (Grupo Salinas, Mexico, Colombia, Peru), as well as the Florida-based technology companies that will be instrumental in defining the future of TV services.
