Dr. Guillaume Forbin is the Chief Security Officer at Viaccess-Orca. His role is to ensure that VO provides best of breed technologies, solutions and services addressing current and future piracy threats. His ambition is to assist VO partners designing and implementing efficient security and anti-piracy strategies to safeguard their brand, business and revenues.
Guillaume was previously Director – Platform and Content Security at OSN, a leading pay TV network in MENA headquartered in Dubai. There he was responsible for securing the OSN distribution platform and protecting premium exclusive content against a wide variety of piracy threats. His team won the BroadcastProME Innovation Award in 2018 for OSN's in-house developed Anti-Piracy solution. Prior to OSN, he led The Walt Disney Company's content security efforts throughout EMEA by formulating and executing a regional content protection policy for distribution deals, defining content protection standards aligned with piracy challenges and business constraints. He also participated in the development of multiple Sagemcom devices, as well as Sony Bravia TV sets throughout the course of his career.
Guillaume holds a PhD in Computer Vision from the University of Surrey as well as an MSc in Computer Science from the University of La Rochelle.
Our recent webinar held with Digital TV Europe looked in detail at how to establish a piracy management strategy using cutting-edge technologies and services.
