SCTE^® Presents: Across the Pond

Focusing its attention solely on a geographical region for the first time, the day offered several insightful panels with speakers from the American and Canadian cable and fibre industries as well as ancillary service providers from testing and measurement to marketing, providing an exclusive overview to its members in UK and Europe. 

Kindly sponsored by Technetix, OpenVault and HellermannTyton, the two morning sessions looked at achievements, opportunities, challenges and idiosyncrasies unique to the United States and Canada. Moderated by Dr Anthony Basham, President SCTE, and James Saunby, Consulting Director, GreySky our speakers included -

• Paul Broadhurst, Founder & CEO, Technetix
• David Whitehead, Senior Director, Broadband Solutions EMEA, Harmonic
• Mark Trudeau, CEO, OpenVault
• Mike Gannon, Vice President, Access Architecture and Sales Engineering at Vecima Networks Inc.
• Cesar Ruiz, President & CEO, The Learning Alliance
• Hamid El Gharbaoui, Solutions Architect & Operations
• Xavier Leclercq, VP Business Development, OTT, Broadpeak
• Ade Brittain, VP of Customer Insight & Innovation ended the morning section with a presentation from our Platinum sponsors Technetix.

The networking lunch was followed by the return of the popular Women’s Panel, aptly named ‘Four global women. One powerful conversation’.  Moderated by Camilla Formica, Chief Programme Officer of The Syndeo Institute and Cable Television Pioneer who was joined by -

• Maria Brennan, President & CEO at Women in Cable Telecommunications
• Lauren Trudeau, Vice President of Operations, OpenVault
• Melissa Cogavin, Editor of Broadband Journal and valued member of the SCTE team.

The day ended with the Open Session Q&A followed with a lively networking and drinks reception with demonstrations by Technetix and HellermannTyton.

Thank you to all of the speakers and sponsors and to everyone who attended making this a most informative day.

A full write up will be published in the next Broadband Journal magazine (Sept issue) and the filming of the conference will be available on the SCTE YouTube channel.

Now in its 80^th year, the SCTE takes its obligations to raise and maintain technical standards seriously, as well as providing an important industry forum for engineers and c-suite executives alike. The SCTE® Presents series, hosted every quarter is just one element of the learning and training programmes that membership provides. The SCTE also offers substantial training opportunities, as well as webinars, publications, podcasts, awards, dinners and networking events, and a recently launched members app.

The next SCTE Presents will be held on the Wednesday 8^th October 2025 – details to be announced shortly.

With many thanks to our Platinum Sponsor: