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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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
, SVP, Product, Gracenote
, Principal, Hub Entertainment Research
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
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
, GM, Major League Table Tennis
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.