INDUSTRY EVENTS
ANGA COM Show Fully on Track for 2025
Other highlights and innovations at ANGA COM 2025 include: n Innovation Stage: As part of the “Streaming & Connectivity Hub” in hall 7, this stage will host international panels and presentations with free access for all exhibition visitors. The future topics of connectivity, media distribution and AI will be addressed here in particular. n Free exhibition and conference day: On Thursday, 5 June 2025, a visit to ANGA COM, including the entire conference programme, is completely free of charge. The main topics include in-house networks and municipalities, which are particularly important for the fiber optic expansion. Among others, the Federal Gigabit Bureau will be present with a panel on this day. n ANGA COM Business Center: The networking and meeting capacities on the fairgrounds will be significantly expanded once again. The new Business Center offers additional space for meetings and concentrated work.
ANGA COM remains fully on track for 2025. Almost 4 months before the start (3-5 June 2025), registrations have already been received from 450 exhibitors for 95% of the exhibition space booked last year. In 2024, more than 23,000 participants from over 90 countries came to Cologne for Europe’s leading Exhibition and Conference for Broadband, Television & Online. Members of the SCTE ® (Society for Broadband Professionals) can visit the exhibition halls free of charge using the voucher code “AC-GUK95GUU” for a free exhibition ticket in the online ticket shop (www. angacom.de). The conference programme starts with the first highlight: This year, Hendrik Wüst, Premier of the State of North Rhine- Westphalia, will open ANGA COM with a keynote. In the broadband sector, the confirmed speakers include the CEOs of leading network operators such as Vodafone, SES, Deutsche Glasfaser, Tele Columbus, Unsere Grüne Glasfaser, OXG Glasfaser, Deutsche GigaNetz, M-net, NetCologne, wilhelm.tel, willy.tel, 1&1 Versatel, RFT, Eurofiber, metrofibre and VX Fiber. From the media industry, market leaders such as ProSiebenSat.1, RTL, Sky, Warner Bros. Discovery, Prime Video, The Walt Disney Company, Ad Alliance, Zattoo and M7/CANAL+ are among the top-class representatives. Vice President Dr. Daniela Brönstrup has confirmed her attendance on behalf of the Federal Network Agency.
The conference programme of ANGA COM 2025 will be published in March. Strategy topics include: n Gigabit Summit: What needs to change in Germany after the election? n Media Summit: Content, streaming, transformation n Fiber Optic Summit: How far will we get with FTTH in 2025? n Marketing, sales, take-up rates n TV distribution after the change from collective to individual contracts n Key topic in-house networks n Migration from copper to fiber n Streaming, content, creator media, sports rights n Scaling and increasing efficiency in fiber optic expansion, AI n Data driven TV advertising, future of audience measurement, AI n Open access and cooperation models n Telecommunications regulation, media policy, copyright law
Dr. Peter Charissé, CEO ANGA COM: “We are fully on track again this year with ANGA COM. This applies equally to the exhibitor bookings and the plans for the conference
programme. The commitment of the Premier of the State of North Rhine- Westphalia Hendrik Wüst also underlines our role as the leading event for the entire industry. Cologne is and remains the ideal marketplace for the telecommunications and media industry.”
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