London, 22 May 2012 – CDN World Summit, the world’s leading and most established CDN event today reveals its impressive line-up of key industry speakers. Focussing on enabling and assessing the strategic and technological opportunities in the content delivery space, the conference and exhibition, which is now in its fourth year, will also include a host of new features.

Robyn Peterson, CTO of Mashable; Neil Walker, Head of IP Video Services at BSkyB; Markus Freikamp, Head of International Wholesale Business Models at Deutsche Telekom and Richard Cooper, Controller, Digital Distribution at BBC are counted among the line-up of industry heavy-hitters speaking at the event.

The event will provide a platform for key players to assess topics such as the monetisation opportunities of a CDN, develop strategies to work effectively with OTT providers, determine the impact of transparent caching on successful business models, and get up to speed on the Next Generation CDN innovations to enable intelligent content distribution.

Brand new features to this year’s programme include a full pre-conference future-focus day which looks at technologies such as Mobile CDNs, Cloud CDNs, and gives ideas about how to leverage the multiplatform strategy for content providers in a live environment.

Executive Director at Informa Telecoms & Media, Gavin Whitechurch, says: “CDN World Summit has grown year on year, and we’ve leveraged that success to provide the most engaging and content-rich programme yet. This year we’re looking at hot topics in the space like cloud and transparent caching and the effect they will have on the future of content delivery. The event has established itself as the world-leader and has become a pivotal forum for major operators and content providers from around the globe.”

CDN World Summit boasts an innovative programme driven by case studies, business models and groundbreaking insight. Visitors to the event will have the opportunity to network and exchange experience and ideas with technology providers and telecom operators showcasing significant advancements in the CDN space.

To date, the list of sponsors for the event includes: Broadpeak, Skytide, PeerApp and Jet-Stream.

The event will take place at the Thistle Marble Arch Hotel in London on 2-4 October 2012. To view the full event programme and register for CDN World Summit, please visit www.cdnworldsummit.com or call +44 (0) 20 7017 5506. Alternatively, keep up to date with the event on Twitter @CDNworldsummit or using #cdnws