11:30 AM
The Future of OTT
Length: 1 Hour
Description: Streaming Media editor-in-chief Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen sits down with executives from leading OTT services for a deep dive into their successes, their mistakes, and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. Check back later to find out who!
Video Engineering & Technology
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
Allan McLennan, President, 2G Digital Post Optimization Sunil Koteyar, Video Engineer, Twitch Guido Meardi, CEO and Co-founder, V-Nova, UK Yuriy Reznik, VP, Research, Brightcove
Description: Remember when your codec decision was simple? Longing for the days when H.264 ruled the world? Confused by a codec landscape that’s getting more crowded, not less? Is that what’s bothering you, bub? Well, we’re here to provide some clarity and help you assess which codecs make the most sense for which markets, which ones you can safely do without, and which you ignore at your peril.
Live Streaming at Scale
Length: 1 Hour
Description: The year is 2022, and the streaming ecosystem and video platform as a service (VPaaS) offerings have grown in leaps and bounds over the last decade. Yet many small to medium-sized webcasting businesses continue to build expensive streaming media server infrastructure on-prem or in the cloud. In this session, learn how to properly compare the costs of maintaining your own streaming backbone to easy-to-use affordable services.
Video for Enterprise & Education
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
Andy Howard, Founder & Managing Director, Howard & Associates Simon Ball, Independent Digital Communications Consultant and Program Manager Erik Herz, CEO, Vivoh John Frederick, Worldwide Head of Sales, MediaPlatform
Description: With COVID-19 changing the way organizations approach physical space, what does this mean for enterprise streaming? With more users accessing the network remotely, organizations need to ensure their networks are properly configured to support these users. Just as important, organizations need to ensure their networks can support the tremendous increase in video usage as people return to the office. This presentation considers newer networking capabilities such as VPN split tunneling, software-defined networks (SDN), and secure access service edge (SASE), as well as the more familiar multicast, eCDN, and peer-to-peer. Case studies show how several organizations have overcome issues as their environments changed.
Innovation Track
Length: 1 Hour
Title: Fireside Chat with StackPath CEO Kip Turco
Time: 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Description:
The “edge” means different things to different people, but a few things are clear: it is a not a place nor is it the opposite of cloud. Join this Fireside Chat with Kip Turco, StackPath CEO, to learn what the edge is, what it isn’t, and what edge innovations are underway. Attend for your chance to win a Bose noise canceling headset ($350 value).Title: Change to Streaming Audience Measurement Technology in Action
Time: 11:55 AM - 12:15 PM
Description:
As we look to drive forward the streaming industry, it’s time to think about what a streaming audience solution can do for your business. In this session Conviva will walk through how they have supported customers line WarnerMedia, Paramount and NBC to innovate their measurement strategies to better monetize their businesses and successfully manage large tentpole events like the Super Bowl and March Madness.
Attend for your chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card.
1:30 PM
The Future of OTT
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
Chris Pfaff, CEO, Chris Pfaff Tech Media Scott Halpert, Senior Vice President, Products and Partnerships, Penthera Jessica Masters, US Head of Verticals - Insurance | Fin Serve | Energy, Roku Tim Ware, VP, Future Today Marketplace
Description: SSAI. CSAI. DLA. FAST. AVOD. It’s a veritable alphabet soup of advertising technologies and models, but they all share one thing in common: opening up a new world of TV advertising leveraging technologies that are only possible in streaming. This panel of industry leaders talks about what’s working, what’s not, and where the smart money says OTT advertising is headed.
Video Engineering & Technology
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
Jan Ozer, Owner, Streaming Learning Center
Description: For many VOD producers, it’s go time for distributing video using AV1, which plays in 74.25% of available browsers, plus all newer Android phones and many smart TVs and living room dongles. Meanwhile, the Alliance for Open Media version 1.0 of the SVT-AV1 codec has joined libaom-av1 as an affordable and increasingly speedy encoding alternative. This session will explore encoding with these open-source alternatives, testing key options like presets, threads, available rate control options, and other parameters to arrive at the optimal command string for both encoders.
Live Streaming at Scale
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
Rob Dillon, Principal Strategist, Dillon Media Ventures Dylan Armajani, Senior Solutions Engineer, Akamai Olga Kornienko, COO & Co-Founder, EZDRM Gwendal Simon, Distinguished Software Architect, Synamedia John Petrocelli, CEO/Founder, Bulldog DM
Description: As more people are turning to streaming as their main source of content, companies are dealing with the necessity of scaling quickly. On top of this, everyone is viewing from many devices, each with a specific set of quality specifications. With many viewers now getting their live events and sports coverage almost exclusively from streaming services, this panel discusses the necessary tools to ensure a successful viewing experience.
Video for Enterprise & Education
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
Scott Nelson, Director of Instructional Media, Ohio State University
Description: Educators learned a lot about video teaching while schools were closed. Now that everyone is back in the classroom, the challenge becomes integrating those skills and technologies into a learning environment that is increasingly hybrid in nature. This presentation shares real-world experiences, discusses best practices for video learning, and demonstrates how one of the country's leading universities has empowered instructors and other staff to deliver instruction and events using "video-to-go" gear bags.
Innovation Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Title: The Journey to Autonomous Broadcasting
Time: 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Description: Expanding opportunities for content consumption mean that delivery is becoming more than humans alone can manage. Broadcast workflows are undergoing a seismic shift from models built on bespoke equipment and manually intensive processes to unification around a suite of common technologies which are interoperable, intelligent and automated. The end state will be a fully autonomous broadcast system that will merely be overseen by people, whose priority is to ensure that the business is running. Gordon Brooks will walk attendees through this journey, from where we are to what steps need to be incrementally taken, and how long it will take. Attend for your chance to win a $250 Amazon gift card!
Title: Opportunities and Challenges for Streaming Delivery in China and Southeast Asia
Time: 1:55 PM - 2:15 PM
Description: In the past decade, the number of internet users in China and Southeast Asia combined has increased five-fold to 1.2 billion, and the digital economy in these regions is valued at over $4.64 trillion in total. Such strong growth, fueled by the increasing popularity of mobile gaming, social media, and e-learning, offers an unparalleled opportunity for businesses worldwide. In this presentation, we will cover the internet landscape, opportunities in China and Southeast Asia, challenges, and regulations in delivering content into the regions and streaming case studies. Attend for your chance to win a BaishanCloud-branded laptop backpack, thermos, and Starbucks gift card!
2:30 PM
The Future of OTT
Length: 45 Minutes
Description: "Diversity" and "representation" aren’t just buzzwords, nor should efforts to achieve them stop in the boardroom and HR department. If you’re not reaching as diverse an audience as possible, you’re leaving money on the table; the LGBTQ market alone is estimated to represent $1.1 trillion in spending power in the U.S. alone. On this panel, representatives from niche video services join their wider-reaching counterparts to talk about the importance of diversity in OTT and how to achieve it.
Video Engineering & Technology
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
Dom Robinson, Chief Business Development Officer, Norsk by id3as Lenny Giuliano, Distinguished Systems Engineer, Juniper Networks
Description: IP multicast is 33 years old this year. This session takes a rapid tour through multicast’s history; looks at some deployments and their successes and failures; and examines the emergence of IPTV, operator CDN, and application-layer P2P models. It then looks at why multicast adoption has been difficult, along with some of the technical and commercial challenges it has faced. Finally, it looks to the future and the re-emergence of interest with the hot new technologies in the space, including multicast-ABR, LTE-B, and BIER.
Live Streaming at Scale
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
Tommy Flanagan, Editor, Faultline, Rethink Technology Research John Petrocelli, CEO/Founder, Bulldog DM Ryan Burgoon, Director, Product Management - Edge Delivery, StackPath Corey Behnke, Producer & Co-Founder, LiveX
Description: With all due respect to pristine production value, streamlined workflows, heightened interactivity, and killer content, it’s all for naught if you can deliver a resilient, reliable, high-quality stream. If your stream starts buffering as the ball sails toward the goal or the emcee announces, “The winner is …,” your audience (and your advertisers) won’t give you credit for trying. Having a robust CDN—or even multiple CDNs—as the backbone of your stream is key. This panel discusses the current state of streaming infrastructure and what you need to know to maintain five-nines streaming reliability when it matters most.
Video for Enterprise & Education
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
Andy Howard, Founder & Managing Director, Howard & Associates
Description: This session provides an overview of the three most popular live webinar solutions and looks at networking considerations for both remote and in-office users. For example, Zoom does not use traditional HTTP streaming, so eCDNs built for HTTP streaming will not be effective. We will assess some new technologies that are attempting to help scale all three of these solutions and provide use cases for how organizations have deployed them effectively and used them to complement their more traditional enterprise webcasting solutions.
Innovation Track
Length: 1 Hour 10 Minutes
Title: Strategies to Simplify: How to Operate Efficiently when Working with a Distributed Workforce, Distributed and Disparate Storage, and a Diverse Set of Partners
Time: 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Description: Media companies must deliver to more platforms, with larger file sizes, on tighter deadlines, and to locations all over the world. In addition, the storage landscape has grown in complexity with most companies storing assets in a mix of on-prem and cloud storage, across multiple locations. Signiant’s Bill Thompson shares insights from his work with media companies of all types and sizes and discusses how the Signiant Platform offers a unique and forward-thinking approach to help media companies do more with less by simplifying. Attend for your chance to win a Roku Ultra!
“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”
Title: Multi-Camera Remote Production Workflows on a Budget
Time: 2:55 PM - 3:15 PM
Description: REMI, or remote production, is quickly becoming the preferred model for all types of productions. In this seminar, you will learn how to save time and money by using this production technique and the tools that make it possible. Attend to win a $100 Amazon Gift Card.
Title: An Apples-to-Apples Video Quality Comparison of the Top Streaming Providers
Time: 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM
Description: SSIMWAVE has reviewed the streaming video quality of the same film content from different top streaming services, and their quality is not what you would expect. Why is this and what can we do? Abdul Rehman, SSIMWAVE's CEO and Co-Founder, shares how SSIMWAVE did the comparison and what they found. Join this innovation track session to learn more and enter for a chance to win a $200 Amazon gift card!
3:45 PM
The Future of OTT
Length: 45 Minutes
Description: Increasingly, video services face their biggest competition not from other OTT platforms, but from video gaming, esports, social media, and other ways consumers spend their time online. Interpret’s Brett Sappington shares the firm’s latest research, gives a 30,000-foot view of the holistic world of digital entertainment, highlights how video of different types fits into the larger picture of consumers’ overall viewing, and shows how this impacts the ways brands can reach audiences and how it’s all changing.
Video Engineering & Technology
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
Jan Ozer, Owner, Streaming Learning Center
Description: There are four straightforward ways to reduce bandwidth and storage costs: 1) trimming fat from your existing ladder, 2) adapting per-title encoding, 3) deploying a more efficient implementation of your current codec, and 4) deploying a new codec. This session shows real-world examples of all four methods so you can return to your office with definite action steps to reduce these key operating costs.
Live Streaming at Scale
Length: 45 Minutes
Description: As social distancing requirements mandated remote workflows for most streaming productions in 2020, remote production proved not only viable but, in many cases, greatly advantageous. It reduced the number of crew required onsite, cut down on lost travel time, limited in-venue expenses, and enabled outfits running large and concurrent events to work more efficiently. As large-scale, in-person events from esports and entertainment to trade shows return—often as hybrid events with co-equal offsite streaming audiences—will we also see hybrid workflows emerging, with master control, technical direction, graphics, or other production elements managed off-site?
Video for Enterprise & Education
Length: 45 Minutes
Description: It seems all you hear about these days is public, private, and hybrid clouds. Are cloud services applicable for enterprise and education video as well? This session discusses the deployment options for cloud-based services with a focus on two primary methods of moving services to the cloud: encoding and media management. The session addresses many questions around cloud-based services, including bandwidth concerns, pricing, and security. If you are considering moving to the cloud, this is a must- attend session.
Innovation Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Title: The Benefits of Extending the Edge of the CDN and What It Means for the User Experience
Time: 3:45 PM - 4:05 PM
Description: Video providers invest in CDNs that deliver content from locations as close to the viewer as possible to minimize the quality of experience issues, but don’t control the end-to-end path of their video. Learn more about what factors impact video quality beyond the CDN, which metrics to monitor, how QoE impacts churn, and how video companies can extend their edge to the viewers’ devices to maximize the user experience. Attend for your chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card!
Title: The Live Streaming Landscape: Changes and Innovations for Hybrid Events
Time: 4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Description: With the rise of hybrid events, live streaming is more important for meeting planners than ever. But traditional live streaming tools have failed to meet their needs. This presentation will present today's solutions to yesterday's challenges with live streaming: from latency, to accessibility, to engagement analytics and beyond. Beginning with an overview of Cadmium's 20+ years of innovation in the event and learning technology space, we will provide an overview of the shortcomings meeting planners have faced with live streaming technology. We will go on to show how technological advancements have created solutions for event and A/V teams in the form of low latency, automatic captioning, proactive health monitoring, a streamlined interface, and more. Finally, we will touch on the necessity of such technology to drive engagement and revenue in the hybrid, post-COVID world. Attend for a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card!