NAGRA, a Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S) company, in collaboration with MTM, an international research and strategy consultancy, is launching the 2018 Pay TV Innovation Forum.

In its third year, the program will look to address some of the key opportunities and challenges facing pay TV service providers and content owners. It will explore how pay TV businesses must transform themselves in the OTT era, which technologies, products and services could help unlock new growth opportunities in a disrupted TV industry, and where service providers and content owners can collaborate to drive innovation.

The 2018 program will run from March to September and will include a global analysis of pay TV service provider product and service portfolios, a wide range of interviews and surveys with industry participants, and a series of regional seminars kicking off in the UK on March 19th, followed by Singapore and the United States. A final report summarizing the findings from the program will be published at IBC in September.

This year's program topics include:

• Convergence of pay TV and OTT services and what that means for businesses and consumers
• Changing consumer expectations and the future of content distribution and user experience
• Advancements in analytics, big data and AI
• Changing nature of piracy and new approaches to content protection in a multiplatform world
• New business models and strategies