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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: Streaming from the Moon and Beyond with NASA+
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, General Manager & Head of NASA+, NASA
, Subject Matter Expert - QoE, AI, Live Operations, SVTA
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.

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
, Head of Streaming and CDN Platform, Globo
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):
, Subject Matter Expert - QoE, AI, Live Operations, SVTA
, Streaming Infrastucture Expert, Servers.com
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: How Agentic AI is Transforming Streaming UX
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, Consultant, Reality Software
, Senior Director of Engineering, Google TV
Description: Additional Information Coming Soon!

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
, Ex-Director, NBCUniversal
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. Optimizing Edge Delivery to Maximize Global Reach
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, President & Founder, PADEM Media Group
, Director of Engineering, Rakuten Viki
Description: Delivering streams to viewers at global scale demands more than just throwing content at a CDN. This panel of content delivery specialists reveals how leading platforms leverage edge delivery to slash rebuffering rates and startup times across every region, including last-mile optimization in latency-challenged markets. Key topics include localizing streams across geographies, navigating licensing restrictions, and building resilient, multi-region pipelines.

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):
, Senior Streaming Media Architect & Subject Matter Expert, Live Streaming, OTT Ecosystem at Al Jazeera Media Network
, VP, TAG Video Systems
, Consultant, Reality Software
, Director, Paramount
, Global Leader, Solutions Architecture, M&E, Games and Sports, Amazon Web Services
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
Description: Additional Information Coming Soon!

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
, Co-Founder, Future Today
, VP & GM Content Discovery, Xperi
, VP, AI Products, Gracenote
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):
, Subject Matter Expert - QoE, AI, Live Operations, SVTA
, Owner & Principal, Integration Therapy
, 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
, Director, Roku
, Head of Product Marketing, Philo
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.