Ole Hansvold

Ole was COO and CTO in Conax AS from co-founding it in 1994 until 2006. Conax is one of the leading vendors of pay-TV systems for DVB (fixed-TV) with more than 100 customers in around 60 countries. After university, Ole started as research scientist at Telenor R&D labs (1988 - 1992) working with satellite-TV security. Ole was a member of the team that in 1992 started what is now Canal Digital, the largest TV-distribution operation in North Europe serving 3 million households.

Brede I. Breisjøberg

Brede started his career in 1995 at Conax. He was a part of the team who developed the company into a leading Conditional Access player. His latest position in Conax was product manager (2004 - 2006), responsible for product roadmap and management for all Conax products. He also had an assignment in Singapore (2003 - 2004), responsible for technical pre-sales, recruitment and training. From 2000 to 2003 he worked as Product manager for conditional access system for IP television and streaming. Prior that, he had various positions in Conax within technology development working with design and implementation of large scale CAS/DRM systems, smart cards, PKI and cryptographic protocols.

Frode Stokke

Frode has been working with design and implementation of server side systems and security for more than 10 years. He has experience with system architecture and design of server side systems, CAS/DRM, crypto and PKI, payment processing and smart cards. He comes from a role as Senior System Engineer in Thales, where he has been working with system design of secure messaging systems and smart card crypto modules. From 1998 to 2003 he held a position as Chief Development Engineer in Conax, and lead the design and implementation of the back-end system for secure return channel order & payment processing for pay-TV.

Roy Brokvam

Roy is an experienced software developer, having designed and programmed database and server-side software systems since 1993. Roy was member of the team that started Canal Digital from 1992 - 1996, before moving to Conax as Chief Database Developer. He joined Capgemini as a Senior Consultant in 2001, where he was a key software developer on several successful large-scale projects. Since its start-up in 2002, he was a member of Capgemini Norway's core team for Oracle technology.

Bjørn A. Taranger

Bjørn was Chief Development Engineer in Conax from 2003 until 2006. Bjørn joined Conax in 2001 and has been working with pay-TV systems and smart card technology since. Bjørn's prior experience is from Det Norske Veritas, where he worked from 1994 until 2001 in various positions, from consultancy to R&D, and software development.