Selected Speeches and Panels

  • March 2023. SXSW 2023: A Growing Collaboration to Fight Bots & Spin Fraud (panel discussion)
  • May 2022. MusicBiz 2022: Taking Metadata to the Next Level: Implementing DDEX's MEAD & PIE Standards (panel discussion)
  • May 2022. MusicBiz 2022: Whose Tag Is It Anyway? – Solving the Metadata Tagging Problem (panel discussion)
  • May 2021. Synchtank Data, Rights & Royalties Summit:  The great data debate – how do we overcome the industry’s data challenges (A summary in written form is here)

  • April 2021. EIDR Annual Participant Meeting 2021: Coming Soon to a Value Chain Near You: Venue ID

  • May 2017. AES Convention, Berlin: Studio Metadata

  • October 2015. AES Convention, New York: Studio Metadata

  • January 2012. How to use DDEX. Series of four speeches at MIDEM 2012, Cannes.

  • November 2006. Seminar on "Emerging Multimedia Standards" of the IET (formerly IEE), London: Digital Rights Management - Requirements, Industry Trends, Expected Future Standards.

  • November 2005. South Warwickshire Economic Development Team, Warwick: Demystifying Digital Rights Management.

  • October 2005. Publishing Training Centre, London: Staying Within the Law - Copyright, the Internet and DRM.

  • July 2005. MPEG-21 Seminar, Poznan: Digital Item Identification - how do we now what 'it' is?

  • July 2005. Global Billing Associaton. London: Workshop: DRM and Billing

  • July 2005. Mobile Content Conference. London: Understanding the Basics of DRM - explaining the complexities

  • March 2005. The Mobile Music Forum, London: Empowering mobile music with DRM

  • January 2005. 3rd DRM Conference, Berlin: Tutorial: Technological Foundations of DRM

  • January 2005. 3rd DRM Conference, Berlin: Session Chairmanship: DRM, Innovation and Competition

  • December 2004. Digital Entertainment Distribution Conference, London:Panel: Digital Rights Management: Delivering Content Securely

  • September 2004. Workshop on Business Models for Mobile Music and DRM, Berlin: Mobile DRM

  • September 2004. Information Security Solutions Europe Conference, Berlin:Digital rights management - overview and trends

  • June 2004. 3rd International Workshop for Technology, Economy, Social and Legal Aspects of Virtual Goods, Ilmenau: Managing Meaning - How standards help (keynote address)

  • January 2004. Symposium "DRM und Alternativen", Berlin: A video of this presentation is available and format. Technologie und Standards.

  • May 2003. Digital Content Regulation & Piracy Conference, London: The Forgotten Elements of DRM: Content Identification and Content Description.

  • May 2003. Mobile Content 2003 - Mobile DRM Workshop, London: The Role of DRM in the Content Value Chain.

  • April 2003. Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society, London: Digitasation Awareness Day: DRM - and how others cope.

  • April 2003. Publishing Training Centre, London: Staying Within the Law - Copyright, the Internet and DRM.

  • November 2002. Conference on Mobile Digital Rights Management, London: Technical Challenges of Digital Rights Management

  • September 2002. Copyright Law is Changing - The Implementation of the Copyright Directive; Theodore Goddard Seminar, London: How is the digital rights management business affected.

  • June 2002. Digital Behaviour, Cologne: Technical Requirements for Content Protection.

  • January 2002. 2nd Digital Rights Management Conference, Berlin:Standardisation in the Area of Rights Management

  • July 2001. Internet Digital Rights Management Research Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force IETF, London. MPEG-21: An Overview for IDRM

  • April 2001. Digital Rights Management in Mobile Entertainment, Paris: Digital Rights Management in Peer-to-Peer Networks: Chances, Threats and Opportunities

  • March 2001. Operators Workshop on Services and Applications of the UMTS Forum, Valencia: Digital Rights Management in the Wireless Environment.

  • September 2000: British Standards Institution, London: MPEG-21 The Multimedia Framework.

  • June 2000: British Standards Institution, London: Issues around “IP Management & Protection”

  • May 2000: First Seminar of the MPEG-4 Industry Forum. Geneva: Managing and Protecting Implementations using MPEG-4 IPMP.

  • March 2000: Second Seminar on Imaging Security and JPEG 2000, Tokyo:MPEG-4 IPMP and MPEG-7 IPMP (presentation given by Touradj Ebrahimi).

  • March 2000: MPEG-21 Workshop, Noordwijkerhout: MPEG-4 IPMP and OCI and MPEG-7 IPMP.

  • March 2000: MPEG-21 Workshop. Noordwijkerhout: The Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI).

  • October 1999: 107th AES Convention, New York: Session Chairman: Music, the Internet and Intellectual Property Rights,

  • September 1999: 17th AES Conference, Florence: Session Chairman: Music Distribution via the Internet