The third annual Asia Pacific Pay-TV Operators Summit (APOS), organized by Media Partners Asia (MPA), is a unique platform uniting leaders from all industry communities in discussion, strategy, deal-flow and networking.

Bringing together more than 50 distribution platforms from key markets as well as key investors, broadcasters, content owners, technology suppliers and regulators, APOS integrates research and analysis from MPA with insight, case studies and perspective from leaders from across the pay-TV and broadband ecosystem.

Key themes at this year's APOS include:

• Welcome to the jungle. Survival of the fittest – new opportunities and challenges for the industry with consolidation and M&A.


• Innovation. Revitalizing the pay-TV business model: Positively curbing online theft; providing improved content and packaging for consumers; and gaining eyeballs across multiple platforms through product innovation.


• India at the forefront. The implementation of digitization with the favorable restructuring of the world's largest pay-TV marketplace.


• SEA upside. Multiple drivers of growth in Indonesia and Thailand.


• The fragility of growth. A new ecosystem in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia with the growth of next generation broadband and evolving platform strategies to increase ARPUs and eyeballs.


• A new cycle for Australia. Recalibration and regeneration in a high ARPU, low growth market.


• When digital works. Focus on Taiwan and Philippines to evaluate the drivers of improved economics across the value chain.


• Focus on North Asia. New levers of value and competition in Korea and Japan with full DTV transition and M&A.