Biography

Vincent Grivet is an independent consultant advising broadcast and technology players in Europe and the USA, focusing on strategic and technology alliances, business development and industrial affairs.

Since 2018, he serves as Chairman of the HbbTV Association (Geneva) a global initiative dedicated to providing open standards for advanced interactive TV services through broadcast and broadband networks to connected TV sets and set-top boxes.

He is a non-executive director at the Board of Netgem (ALNTG.PA), an independent innovator in digital TV, media and gaming services.

Prior to this, he held various international marketing, M&A, business development and general management positions at Orange Group and at TDF Group. During its time at TDF, Vincent has been an active DVB contributor and Board Member and a recognised broadcast innovator, initiating specification work and industrial deployment in important forward-looking topics such as addressable TV advertising and mobile broadcasting.

Vincent graduated from the prestigious Paris Ecole Polytechnique and Paris Tech Telecom engineering schools and is also an IFA certified company director.

Biography

Eoghan O’Sullivan is a communications consultant and facilitator, working with the DVB Project, the European Broadcasting Union, the HbbTV Association and others. For more than 25 years, he has been creating content, producing events and engaging stakeholders across diverse communities, mostly in the media domain.

His professional focus in recent years has been on transforming conferences and events to make them more interactive, encouraging and supporting his clients to adopt highly participatory approaches like the unconference. He facilitated the HbbTV Symposium’s first unconference day in 2023. In 2024, Eoghan moderated both the Symposium conference and unconference and he will repeat that role in 2025. Originally from Ireland (which is the origin of his name, pronounced like “Owen”), he has lived in Switzerland since 2004.