Forgive the unashamed name-dropping but in the 6 months since VOD Professional started I've been lucky enough to interview some top people in the industry including Asha Oberoi, MD of ITN Source, Paul Myers, VOD Content Operations Manager at Channel 4, Dave Grayland, Head of Tech for Virgin Media, Edd Uzzell, Product Manager at Sony, Florian Pestoni, Product Manager for Flash at Adobe, Holly Knill, Head of Product at Sky, Anthony Rose at Zeebox and Bismarck Lepe, CTO of Ooyala.

Yesterday I was able to add to that group by meeting Daniel Danker, head of the BBC iPlayer. As you can imagine, I had lots of questions to ask him in the 40-odd minutes we had together and, listening to the interview again (which I recorded on my phone), he says some fascinating things about user behaviour, BBC internal methodologies and, particularly, connected TV and tablet use.

I'll post the full transcript up soon.

Later note: In the meantime, here's the video of a panel discussion from the recent BBC Online Industry briefing event in Manchester featuring Daniel Danker, Edd Uzzell, Sidharth Jayant from Samsung and Mark Vasey from Panasonic UK. The group are talking about giving the audience an experience that is both delightful and simple.