Thank You for Attending! NEXT EVENT: November 9– 11

Agenda

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  • Tuesday Aug 11
  • Wednesday Aug 12
  • Thursday Aug 13
 
Day One - Free Online Sessions
 
Day Two - Free Online Sessions
 
Day Three - Free Online Sessions
11:00 AM ET
8:00 AM PT
Day One - Free Online Sessions
TUE1. Keynote Fireside Chats
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, General Manager & Head of NASA+, NASA
, Streaming Technology Strategist | AI, Live Operations & Industry Standards, SVTA
, Head of Field Engineering, TwelveLabs
, VP & Editor-in-Chief, Streaming Media

Title: Streaming from the Moon and Beyond with NASA+
Time: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Description: Back by popular demand, Rebecca Sirmons returns to discuss NASA+’s learnings from the agency’s successful Artemis II 10-day lunar fly-by and the agency’s streaming needs for future Artemis missions, including NASA’s Moon Base, and how the agency is using live streams from rovers and astronauts, and the evolving technical challenges of streaming from space.


Title: Streaming Blind Spots: Making Sense of Video Where No One’s Watching
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Description: NASA+’s work streaming from rovers, astronauts, and now the moon puts a spotlight on a challenge that shows up much closer to home too: blind spots where video outpaces the humans meant to watch it—in stadiums, ad libraries, surveillance networks, and city infrastructure. In this fireside chat, Simon Lecointe discusses how multimodal AI is closing that gap, turning raw, ungoverned video into searchable, structured, actionable data in near-real time, without manual tagging or a research team combing through footage. The conversation covers what “understanding” video actually means to a model; how that same understanding lets teams flag policy risks, sensitive content, and brand-safety issues at scale instead of relying on after-the-fact human review; and where this technology is headed as live and remote video keeps outpacing human review capacity.

12:30 PM ET
9:30 AM PT
Day One - Free Online Sessions
TUE2. Complete Control: Lowering and Tuning Live Streaming Latency at Scale
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, Chief Business Development Officer, Elecard
, Founding Executive Director, Help Me Stream Research Foundation
, Chairman - WTFast USA + Founder, Federated Gig Network (FGN)
, Head of Streaming and CDN Platform, Globo
, Director of Product, Dolby Laboratories
Description: Streaming latency can make or break real-time user experiences, particularly when betting, live commerce, iGaming, and other live interactions come into play. This panel of live-streaming engineers and operations experts takes a deep dive into minimizing glass-to-glass latency by comparing established and emerging transport protocols alongside codec-level tuning and low-latency encoding profiles. Attendees gain concrete strategies for achieving reliable and resilient sub-second live streaming at scale.

2:00 PM ET
11:00 AM PT
Day One - Free Online Sessions
TUE3. Match Game: AI, Ad Tech, and Contextual Advertising
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, Global Sales Executive – Adtech, Servers.com
, Principal Analyst, Dataxis
, Owner, Sargeway
, Founder & Head of Partnerships, Digital Culture Group
, COO & Co-Founder, Revry
Description: With the ever-increasing emphasis on contextual relevance in advertising to match ads to context and target audience with pinpoint accuracy, AI models are stepping in, leveraging real-time content and sentiment analysis and LLMs to extract scene-level contextual signals that power precise, privacy-compliant ad-targeting across CTV inventory at scale. This panel of ad tech and ad strategy experts provides a snapshot of the current and evolving state of contextual ad-targeting, one of the fastest-moving targets in the streaming and CTV industry.

3:30 PM ET
12:30 PM PT
Day One - Free Online Sessions
TUE4. Go Big or Go Home: Scaling Streaming Infrastructure From On-Prem to Hybrid to Cloud-Native
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, Streaming Technology Strategist | AI, Live Operations & Industry Standards, SVTA
, Streaming Infrastucture Expert, Servers.com
, Global Solution Sales Specialist, LiveU
, CEO, Qualabs
Description: Succeeding with large-scale live streaming starts long before showtime, with a host of architecture decisions and investments. This session explores the strategic challenges of building resilient streaming infrastructure that scales and engineering dynamic, stress-tested live pipelines, from ingest to edge delivery.

11:00 AM ET
8:00 AM PT
Day Two - Free Online Sessions
WED1. Keynote Fireside Chats
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, Senior Director of Engineering, Google, Android Platforms, Pixel Software
, Consultant, Reality Software
, CEO, Wowza
, VP & Editor-in-Chief, Streaming Media

Title: How Agentic AI is Transforming Streaming UX
Time: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Description: Our keynote with longtime Google and Android engineering leader Shobana Radhakrishnan explores how streaming and consumer development is evolving agentic AI and changing the face of streaming UX. Experienced and new developers, as well as managers who need to understand how AI is changing the nature of development, gain new insight into user experience principles and learn about agentic AI-supported engineering practices Shobana and her team are developing and applying at Google.


Title: How to Act on Live Video in Real Time, Without Rebuilding Your Stack
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Description: Most video streams end in a VOD archive or OTT streaming app that might get viewed at some point down the line. Video is the richest source of data that most media organizations are too slow to act on. The challenge is ingesting, decoding, sampling, routing, and extracting useful signals from live streams without rebuilding the video stack for every application. Wowza CEO Krish Kumar discusses how Wowza Streaming Engine and the Video Intelligence Framework remove that infrastructure burden, letting developers turn live video into structured events, metadata, and operational signals directly within the infrastructure they already use. Kumar also addresses Wowza's integration of the NVIDIA Synthetic Video Detector for screening advertiser and partner contribution feeds for AI-generated or synthetic content to ensure compliance with global AI content regulations.

12:30 PM ET
9:30 AM PT
Day Two - Free Online Sessions
WED2. State of Play: Innovating Dynamic Streaming Players and Interactive Multi-Screen Experiences
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, CEO, Chris Pfaff Tech Media
, Product Owner, SVT Play, SVT
, VP User Experience Design & Research, Roku
, Head of Content Strategy & Design, Hub Research & Entertainment
Description: Today's streaming players deliver powerful, personalized, engaging experiences with dynamic, data-driven interfaces, and this panel of UX innovators explores how teams are pushing the boundaries with adaptive UI overlays, real-time interactivity, and synchronized second-screen companion apps. From customization- and monetization-enabling manifest manipulation to interactive features like live polling, shoppable video, and cross-screen continuity, this session unpacks the tech and UX strategies redefining how demanding audiences experience and engage with streaming and VOD content.

2:00 PM ET
11:00 AM PT
Day Two - Free Online Sessions
WED3. Codec Wars Get Real: Lessons From Disney’s European 4K Blackout
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, Principal, Streaming Learning Center
, Principal, Moore IP Solutions
Description: When patent injunctions forced Disney+ to pull 4K, HDR, and Dolby Vision in Germany, a major streaming service faced an immediate operational challenge. While 4K has begun to return to select devices via alternative technical paths, HDR remains absent. What does this mean for the broader streaming ecosystem? This session explores the technical and business implications of the European dispute. Inferring delivery changes from observed device behavior, we examine Disney's technical response, separate confirmed facts from engineering deductions, and analyze the alternative fallback paths deployed. We explore the evolving state of Standard Essential Patent litigation, patent pool dynamics, and court decisions, illustrating how legal risk is becoming a critical architectural constraint. Attendees gain a framework for comparing the legal and operational risks of today's major codecs and HDR formats, along with practical considerations for business continuity planning.

3:30 PM ET
12:30 PM PT
Day Two - Free Online Sessions
WED4. Optimizing Live Streaming QoS and QoE
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, VP, TAG Video Systems
, Consultant, Reality Software
, Director, Paramount
, Global Leader, Solutions Architecture, M&E, Games and Sports, Amazon Web Services
, Co-Chair, Quality of Experience (QoE) Working Group, SVTA
Description: From measuring and improving rebuffering, startup time, and bitrate quality and tying QoE metrics directly to retention, this panel focuses on quantifiable streaming metrics that matter, as well as harder-to-measure viewer satisfaction signals that define true QoE. Come for the real-world war stories from high-stakes live events, where every hiccup costs viewers and revenue, and stay for the real-time QoS/QoE Q&A with live streaming’s best and brightest.

11:00 AM ET
8:00 AM PT
Day Three - Free Online Sessions
THU1. Keynote Fireside Chats
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, VP & Editor-in-Chief, Streaming Media
, VP, Content Strategy & Business Development, Xperi
, Principal Analyst, Ring Digital llc
, SVP & GM, Bally's Media, Bally's Corporation

Title: How TiVo Is Redefining the Entertainment Experience in an Increasingly Fragmented Streaming Landscape
Time: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Description: How does a content-first OS platform demonstrate its uniqueness in the competitive CTV and streaming ecosystem? In this exclusive keynote fireside chat, TiVo’s Briana Larsen discusses the strategic thinking behind the TiVo UX across CTV, Pay TV, and automotive; how that thinking evolves in response to ever-changing expectations across consumers, content partners and advertisers; the maturation of various AI technologies and human-driven insights; and shifts in the market itself. The conversation examines how these trends are reshaping the entertainment experience and what it takes for platforms to differentiate in an increasingly fragmented streaming landscape.


Title: FAST, Gamified Live, and L-bars: A Fireside Chat With Bally Sports’ Jon Lin
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Description: From Bally’s Stadium FAST channel to its owned-and-operated mobile app, from poker to boxing to its live MiLB baseball feeds, Jon Lin helms one of the most fascinating entities in the streaming space. BallySports.com is where you’ll find it, but parent Bally's isn't a media company. It’s a gaming and hospitality behemoth. This chat covers the gamut, from content acquisition to channel programming, from FAST to L-bars and advanced monetization, to the trend toward verticalized live streams. Learn from a leader who’s previously held executive product slots at CBS Sports and Sling TV.

12:30 PM ET
9:30 AM PT
Day Three - Free Online Sessions
THU2. Find It Fast: Leveraging AI in CTV Discovery
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, Principal Analyst, Dataxis
, Principal, Hub Entertainment Research
, VP & GM Content Discovery, Xperi
, VP, AI Products, Gracenote
, CEO & Co-Founder, Future Today
Description: AI is transforming how viewers find content and the never-ending struggle for visibility in a saturated content ecosystem. This panel unpacks the recommendation engine architectures and real-time personalization pipelines that top streaming platforms and EPGs are using to surface the right content for the right user at the right moment, and the increasing shift toward agent-assisted, conversational search. Streaming discovery experts provide engineers and product teams with a practical look at leveraging emerging tech to build and enhance discovery experiences.

2:00 PM ET
11:00 AM PT
Day Three - Free Online Sessions
THU3. Optimizing Streaming Ops: Building the Perfect Live-Event Operations Playbook
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, Streaming Technology Strategist | AI, Live Operations & Industry Standards, SVTA
, Head of Production, MemeHouse Networks
, Global Live Operations Lead, LinkedIn
, Co-Founder, LiveX
Description: This panel examines how top streaming teams prepare for, monitor, and recover from tentpole live events like sports and concerts, from pre-event capacity planning, load testing, and failover strategies to establishing best practices for managing traffic spikes when the stakes are highest.

3:30 PM ET
12:30 PM PT
Day Three - Free Online Sessions
THU4. The Retention Game: Managing Subscriber Acquisition and Churn
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, CEO, Chris Pfaff Tech Media
, President, Horse & Country
, Head of Product Marketing, Philo
, Fractional Streaming & OTT Leader | Commercial, Partnerships & AI Growth | EMEA & APAC
Description: Join our closing panel for a candid discussion on which subscriber acquisition and retention strategies work in 2026 and which ones fail to move the needle, from bundling strategies and free-trial optimization to targeted win-back campaigns and the early behavioral signals that predict churn before it happens. Learn how leading streaming platforms are drawing on data science insights and leveraging personalization to turn one-show drop-ins into long-term, loyal subscribers.