Liberty Global Announces 2015 Vendor Awards at its Annual Technology Summit
September 21 2015 - 4:30PM
Business Wire
Liberty Global Appathon returns to the Tech Summit; winning app
will soon go live on the Horizon TV platform in the Netherlands
Liberty Global plc (“Liberty Global”) (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB,
LBTYK, LILA and LILAK) announced the winners of its 2015 Vendor
Awards at the Liberty Global Technology Summit at the Ziggo Dome in
Amsterdam, the Netherlands on September 16. Senior executives from
more than a hundred key vendor partners attended the event together
with Liberty Global's management teams in the areas of technology,
IT, product development and procurement.
Liberty Global recognized its partners’ achievements in five
categories: Best Product & Service Quality, Best Support &
After Sales, Best Innovation & Breakthrough, Most Sustainable
Supplier and PartnerSpark.
The award for Best Product & Service Quality was won by
Huawei, the Best Support & After Sales award was won by
Prodapt, the award for Best Innovation & Breakthrough went to
Alcatel Lucent and the Most Sustainable Supplier award was won by
Cisco. The award for PartnerSpark was handed out to Dell. Spark is
Liberty Global’s innovation initiative designed to source and
refine ideas in response to real business challenges by tapping
into the collective creativity of its employees and suppliers.
The winners of the five Liberty Global Technology Awards are
selected according to input from a large number of senior
executives across the company. In this way, Liberty Global
acknowledges its relationships with its partners and suppliers,
especially those relationships that have structurally supported
high level development and innovation across its business.
The Technology Summit was also the stage for Liberty Global’s
second TV Appathon. Over 100 developers competed in teams over 48
hours to make the most innovative, intuitive, unique, appealing and
technically superior TV app for Liberty Global’s next-generation
video platform Horizon TV.
The winning team from tech company aFrogleap created a ‘Horizon
LIVE’ app which will be launched soon on Horizon’s TV App Store and
as a second screen app for smartphones and tablets. The app enables
users to select shows on Horizon’s Replay TV service based on the
number of interactions on social media platforms such as Twitter
and Facebook.
The TV Appathon is an annual event aimed at the countries where
the Horizon TV service is available, thereby opening up its
ecosystem for external TV app development and mobilizing both the
international and local development communities of content
providers and developers. Liberty Global’s TV App Store contains
over 300 apps and is available to more than two million customers
in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Czech
Republic and Hungary.
The event was also attended by five young people from CoderDojo,
a global movement sponsored on a pan-European basis by Liberty
Global that provides young people with the opportunity to learn how
to code. The five CoderDojo participants won the opportunity to
attend the Appathon after developing coding projects that use
technology to enrich and improve people’s lives. During the event
the young people were able to further develop their concepts with
the help and guidance of Liberty Global’s team of coding
experts.
Balan Nair, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology
Officer of Liberty Global, comments: “At the heart of our business
lies our commitment to deliver our customers great experiences and
market-leading broadband speeds through our next-generation
network. Our partners play a critical role in helping us achieve
this aim, which is why we like to take the opportunity each year to
celebrate their work with us through these awards.”
About Liberty Global
Liberty Global is the largest international cable company with
operations in 14 countries. We connect people to the digital world
and enable them to discover and experience its endless
possibilities. Our market-leading products are provided through
next-generation networks and innovative technology platforms that
connected 27 million customers subscribing to 56 million
television, broadband internet and telephony services at June 30,
2015. In addition, we served five million mobile subscribers and
offered WiFi service across six million access points.
Liberty Global’s businesses are currently attributed to two
tracking stock groups: the Liberty Global Group (NASDAQ: LBTYA,
LBTYB and LBTYK), which primarily comprises our European
operations, and the LiLAC Group (NASDAQ: LILA and LILAK, OTC Link:
LILAB), which comprises our operations in Latin America and the
Caribbean.
Liberty Global's consumer brands are Virgin Media, Ziggo,
Unitymedia, Telenet, UPC, VTR and Liberty. Our operations also
include Liberty Global Business Services and Liberty Global
Ventures. For more information, please visit
www.libertyglobal.com.
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