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The Broadcast Sport Breakfast Club is a new event from Broadcast Sport, providing regular thought leadership sessions for the sport production and broadcast sector.

Each Breakfast Club begins at 10am and comprises a 20-minute keynote speech from a sports production/sports broadcast leader, followed by a 30-40-minute panel discussion picking up on the issues raised in the keynote speech, including questions from the audience.

The Virtual Breakfast Club will be held live on the event platform Hopin, providing the opportunity for delegates to interact live with the panel, and network with other attendees during the event.

The 27 January Broadcast Sport Breakfast Club will focus on the new OTT/D2C sports platforms with discussions with Eurosport about its role in the launch of Discovery+ and Eleven Sports about the forthcoming roll out of its new global sports OTT platform.

10.00 Welcome from Broadcast Sport

10:05-10:25 The Future of Sports Streaming, Discovery+ and Olympic Games Tokyo 2020

A fireside chat with Eurosport president Andrew Georgiou and Eurosport global production and content head Scott Young, talking to Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton. Georgiou discusses the relationship between Eurosport and Discovery+ and what the launch of Discovery+ means for Eurosport’s content, and in particular its extensive coverage of major sport events and Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. He will outline how Eurosport’s sports offer and content will evolve to take advantage of the extended reach and broad user base of Discovery+. Meanwhile, Young will explain Eurosport’s innovative approach to content for the year ahead and the ongoing pivot to increasingly producing sports content remotely, underpinned by its leading Eurosport Technology Transformation project.

10:40-11:00 Rolling Out a Global OTT Platform with Eleven Sports and MyCujoo

Eleven Sports and MyCujoo join Broadcast Sport editor Jake Bickerton to talk about the forthcoming launch of Eleven Sports’ global OTT platform. The service has come about through Eleven Sports’ acquisition of MyCujoo late last year, and promises a range of sports content, broken into the strands, Eleven Next, Eleven Sports and Eleven Women. The strategy behind the launch, the content offered by the platform, and the technology used to enable the launch will all be discussed during this session.

11.00-11:30 Networking

11.30 Closing Remarks

The confirmed speakers are:

• Andrew Georgiou, President, Eurosport
• Anouk Mertens, COO, Eleven Sports
• Joao Presa, Co-Founder, MyCujoo & Chief Technology & Product Officer ELEVEN Sports HQ
• Scott Young, SVP Production and Content, Eurosport

This is an exclusive event for sports broadcasters, producers, OBs, rights holders, content owners, federations and service providers. As such, we do not allow any media events businesses or trade press entry.

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