Program

Streaming Media Connect 2024 this November 12 - 14 offers practical advice, inspiring thought leadership, actionable insights, and lively debate. You'll hear the innovative approaches that the world’s leading organizations and experts are deploying in live streaming, OTT, content delivery, content monetization, and much more. We are excited to offer this series of web events, and look forward to continuing to provide our industry with cutting edge information and education that you can't get anywhere else.

Tuesday, Nov 12

Day One: Scaling Live Streaming

 

TUE1. Research Keynote: Current Trends in Ultra-Low Latency Interactive Live Streaming

10:00 AM2024-11-122024-11-12

Tuesday, November 12: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (ET) / 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. (PT)

In mid-October, AMD, StreamingMedia.com, and Help Me Stream Research Foundation launched a survey that gauges the impact of (and planning for) hardware acceleration on real-time, ultra-low-latency and interactive live video streaming. Hot off the presses, in near-real-time, for the first time anywhere, Streaming Media contributing editor Tim Fore-Siglin joins editor-in-chief Steve Nathans-Kelly to reveal the findings and discuss their implications in this opening keynote at Streaming Media Connect.

Moderator:

, VP & Editor-in-Chief, Streaming Media


Speaker:

, Founder, Help Me Stream Research Foundation

 

TUE2. Cloudsplitting: Tackling Common Cloud Live Broadcast Workflow Challenges

11:30 AM2024-11-122024-11-12

Tuesday, November 12: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (ET) / 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. (PT)

Some elements of streaming workflows and architecture may always stay on-prem. However, the cloud affords streaming pros opportunities for scaling and cost-cutting that make the lure of cloud workflows too powerful to resist for most live streamers intent on managing large and unpredictable audiences, improving QoE, increasing ROI, and satisfying brands. For most of the industry, the great cloud migration has largely happened. For all of their advantages, end-to-end cloud workflows also bring new challenges, from production to playout to distribution. Tune in to this panel of cloud streaming experts for actionable insight on how to refine and streamline your scalable cloud live-streaming workflows and jump and dodge the hurdles that threaten to break your stride.

Moderator:

, Consultant, Reality Software and Contributing Editor, Streaming Media


Panelists:

, Media Technology Director

, Principal Solutions Architect MEGS, AWS

, Staff Engineer, TV 2 Danmark

, Industry Solutions Architect, Alibaba Cloud

, Senior Technology Partner Manager, Console Connect

 

TUE3. Game-Changer? 5G and Live Sports Streaming

01:00 PM2024-11-122024-11-12

Tuesday, November 12: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (ET) / 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (PT)

5G’s capacity to connect vastly more devices at low latency than previous protocols has long been heralded as a home run for in-arena live sports streaming experiences, though its predicted impact on contribution, distribution, play-by-play prop betting, and other rapid-fire interactions has not always been readily apparent. Has the promised 5G future finally arrived for live streaming delivery? Where is 5G making a splash, where are the untapped opportunities, how can stakeholders strategically leverage them, and where do the roadblocks remain?

Moderator:

, Streaming Solutions Architect, videoRx


Panelists:

, Founder, Dreamsocket

, CEO & Founder, Motoworlds

 

TUE4. Game Plan: Monetizing Live Sports Streaming Through Scale, Security, Sync, and Searchability

02:30 PM2024-11-122024-11-12

Tuesday, November 12: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. (ET) / 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (PT)

In the wake of the “Streaming Olympics” and a series of eye-popping premium sports licensing deals, what remains to hold sports streaming back from surpassing linear broadcast sports? This panel examines the state of sports streaming and its day-to-day challenges, how tech debt and technological shortcomings directly impact monetization, and what emerging innovations in 2025 will help everyone, from video tech teams to revenue and ad operations, to better manage large tentpole events as the viewership shifts from linear to digital and on a variety of streaming platforms.

Moderator:

, Principal, Mad Leo Consulting


Panelists:

, SVP Global Digital Ad Operations, Paramount

, Chief Strategy Officer, Victory+

, Principal Analyst, Sports, Ampere Analysis

, VP of Product, Index Exchange

 

TUE5. Engage and Grow: How to Succeed With Interactive Live Streaming

04:00 PM2024-11-122024-11-12

Tuesday, November 12: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (ET) / 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (PT)

The growth of highly interactive streaming genres such as gaming, auctions, and sports betting has put pressure on networks while increasing the need to integrate interactivity and heightened engagement into more traditional methods of content delivery. With the challenges organizations face to ensure that their users have the smoothest and most dynamic interactive streaming experiences, and the additional investment in delivery infrastructure required as those experiences scale, how can streamers deliver ROI from interactive streaming every time?

Moderator:

, Principal Analyst, Ring Digital llc


Panelists:

, CEO/Founder, Bulldog DM

, EVP, Fox First Run & Fox TV Stations

, VP, Research, Parks Associates

, Chief Strategy Advisor, Play Anywhere

Wednesday, Nov 13

Day Two: Cutting Streaming Costs

 

WED1. Top Streaming Gear 2024: Demo Hour

10:00 AM2024-11-132024-11-13

Wednesday, November 13: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (ET) / 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. (PT)

In this hour, we look at leading new products that streamline live streaming and make it easier, more reliable, and more cost-effective. Be sure to attend to qualify for the exclusive prize!

Moderator:

, VP & Editor-in-Chief, Streaming Media


Great New Gear: Cameras, Capture, and Connectivity

Producing exceptionally engaging live streams requires robust, high-quality products throughout your workflow. The visual quality of your stream starts with the camera, and must be maintained throughout the production process. And even the most compelling content can be derailed if you don’t have a stable and fast enough network connection to deliver it to your distribution platforms. This session features live demos of three of the latest and greatest solutions: Telycam’s top-of-the-line Explore advanced PTZ camera with 1" sensor and ultra-fast auto-focus; Magewell’s new USB Capture HDMI 4K Pro plug-and-play 4K/60fps capture device; and Miri Technologies’ new X510 bonding router for enabling fast, resilient internet anywhere. Attend this presentation for a chance to win Magewell’s new USB Capture HDMI 4K Pro!

Moderator:

, VP & Editor-in-Chief, Streaming Media


Speaker:

, CTO, Mobile Video Devices

 

WED2. Cutting Streaming Delivery Costs With AI

11:30 AM2024-11-132024-11-13

Wednesday, November 13: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (ET) / 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. (PT)

AI is making inroads into streaming workflows and experiences at nearly every stage, from ingest all the way through discoverability. This panel explores how AI promises to streamline and reduce investments on the processing and delivery end through time-efficient, cost-efficient encoding tools that minimize buffering, fine-tune image quality, and enable workflow optimization. This panel explores how AI is currently impacting streaming delivery and playback experiences, how we can expect its role to continue to evolve over time, and how you can leverage AI’s benefits in the streams you deliver.

Moderator:

, Consultant, Reality Software and Contributing Editor, Streaming Media


Panelists:

, CTO, Media & Entertainment, Worldwide, Microsoft

, Senior Software Engineer, Netflix

, Director, Alvarez & Marshal

, CTO, Strategy & Innovation, mireality

, VP, Product Management and Innovation, Vecima

 

WED3. Fireside Chats

01:00 PM2024-11-132024-11-13

Wednesday, November 13: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (ET) / 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (PT)

Moderator:

, VP & Editor-in-Chief, Streaming Media


Don’t Let Slow Video Drag Down Your Site

As the demand for high-quality video experiences continues to rise, managing, encoding, and optimizing video content will only become a more cumbersome and costly process—unless you have the right video API in place. Kim Matenchuk, managing director of video at Cloudinary, and Streaming Media editor-in-chief Steve Nathans-Kelly discuss the complexities of video post-production and how automation can streamline workflows and get your video, and all your products, live on your site faster. Topics include the many advantages of smart cropping, image-to-video transformation, adaptive bitrate streaming, and AI-powered tagging; how these tools simplify video management and ensure consistency and quality across all channels; and the role that automation and AI can play in helping you deliver video at scale—without sacrificing quality.

Moderator:

, VP & Editor-in-Chief, Streaming Media


Speaker:

, Managing Director of Video, Cloudinary

 

WED4. Do the Math: Where Can Live Streaming Monitoring and Analytics Save You Money?

02:30 PM2024-11-132024-11-13

Wednesday, November 13: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. (ET) / 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (PT)

Monitoring plays a critical role in live streaming—particularly as live streams scale—enabling organizations to track QoS and QoE, flag buffering and encoding issues as they arise, analyze network component performance on-the-fly, and more. You can’t monitor every aspect of streaming performance when you’re live, of course, so the quantity of data you gather is less important than capturing the right datapoints to optimize performance. But which metrics will deliver the best results, and which ones are best suited to help you economize as you optimize?

Moderator:

, President/Founder - Chief Exec, PADEM Media Group


Panelists:

, Senior Engineering Manager, Video Platform, Warner Bros Discovery

, Lead/ Senior Manager, Central Video Tech, Paramount

, CEO, Streaming Video Technology Alliance

, Head of OTT-Broadcast Engineering, YouTube

, CPO, IMAX

 

WED5. Debate: Will the Heyday of 4K Live Streaming Arrive in 2025?

04:00 PM2024-11-132024-11-13

Wednesday, November 13: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (ET) / 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (PT)

Streaming and tech industry pundits have been proclaiming “The Year of 4K” for at least a decade now, and yet, its long-anticipated heyday never seems to arrive. The screens are capable, the quality is undeniable, but whether it’s infrastructure or bandwidth challenges or diminished demand from a viewing audience skewing younger and mobile, the stars never seem to align. And there are those who suggest with 8K-capable screens going mainstream, the industry might just leapfrog 4K for its pixel-richer successor. Still, progress is apparent, as we’ve seen 1080p live streaming (finally) surpass 720p as the market’s prevalent resolution of choice. Four great debaters are set to square off to make their cases on our virtual stage. Tune in, hear the arguments, and pick the winners!

Moderator:

, Editor, Faultline, Rethink Technology Research


Panelists:

, Media Technology Director

, CEO, Streaming Video Technology Alliance

, Managing Director, Your Media Transformation

Thursday, Nov 14

Day Three: Monetizing Streaming Content

 

THU1. Research Keynote: Emerging Revenue Opportunities for Weather-Related Streaming

10:00 AM2024-11-142024-11-14

Thursday, November 14: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (ET) / 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. (PT)

Streaming Media recently partnered with The Weather Company and Help Me Stream Research Foundation to conduct a unique survey on emerging market and revenue growth opportunities for integrating short-form, local weather-specific reels into live and on-demand streaming. This type of content has historically been marketed only to broadcasters for traditional weather reports, but as it moves online, the survey’s findings reveal emerging opportunities for previously untapped revenue streams for a range of streaming platforms.

Moderator:

, VP & Editor-in-Chief, Streaming Media


Speakers:

, Founder, Help Me Stream Research Foundation

, Director of Sales, Strategic Solutions, The Weather Company

 

THU2. Measurement Matters: Delivering Better Audience Data to Streaming Advertisers

11:30 AM2024-11-142024-11-14

Thursday, November 14: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (ET) / 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. (PT)

The promise of streaming as a boon to advertisers has always been its potential to help them target audiences more precisely by delivering more substantive audience data than broadcast can offer. But even as streaming’s audience share has grown to justify substantial migration of CTV ad dollars from broadcast to digital, when it comes to quantifying audiences and measuring engagement, the lack of consistent and easily translatable measurement standards—not to mention the sheer number of measurement options—continues to frustrate ad buyers. How can streaming move toward the proposed “single source of truth,” or is that even the answer?

Moderator:

, SVP, Business Intelligence, Advertiser Perceptions


Panelists:

, CEO / Co-Founder, Revry

, Head of Data, Vevo

, Product Manager, Content Engagement & Monetization, Warner Bros Discovery

 

THU3. Fireside Chats

01:00 PM2024-11-142024-11-14

Thursday, November 14: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (ET) / 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (PT)

Check back soon for more details.

Moderator:

, Owner + Cartographer, ESHAP


 

THU4. Post-Peak TV Premium Playbook: Emerging OTT Subscription Strategies

02:30 PM2024-11-142024-11-14

Thursday, November 14: 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. (ET) / 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (PT)

As the premium content world moves beyond the peak content era of reckless, volume-centric overproduction, emerging content strategies—especially for services relying all or in part on subscription revenue—revolve around increasingly complex subscription schemes, whether it’s tiered approaches, new aggregation models, or bundling deals built on partnerships that make temporary allies of direct competitors. This session will offer fresh insight on the latest content monetization strategies from the premium content world that are shoring up subscription revenue, growing audiences, and delivering value to advertisers.

Moderator:

, Owner + Cartographer, ESHAP


Panelists:

, Head of Content & Business Development, Philo

, Chief Product Officer, Deltatre

, Principal and Founder, Hub Entertainment Research

 

THU5. Removing the Friction of Content Discovery on CTV

04:00 PM2024-11-142024-11-14

Thursday, November 14: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (ET) / 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (PT)

Today’s streaming providers deliver endless amounts of content, which can overwhelm viewers who are simply looking for something to watch. The content discovery process often takes far longer than viewers are willing to wait. FAST channels have the power to redefine content discoverability by using data to serve customers the content they want to watch and help them find new content based on prior viewing habits. FAST platforms have a vast amount of data available to them, but only a small amount of it is being used to its full potential. Incorporating viewership data into the content discoverability process can remove the pain points that have bubbled up in the new streaming landscape, lead to more engagement with the content, and open up more opportunities for advertisers to reach their target audiences. This session looks at the success of genre channels and provides attendees with insight into how they help their viewers find their content faster.

Moderator:

, CEO, Chris Pfaff Tech Media and Producers Guild of America (PGA), VR AR Association (VRARA)


Panelists:

, CCO, Revry

, SVP, Digital Products & Operations, Content Distribution, NBCUniversal

, Co-Founder & CEO, Gatsby TV

, SVP, Content Programming and Acquisitions, Pluto TV