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  • Monday May 7
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  • Wednesday May 9
 
Business & Strategy Track
Technology & How-To Track
AI, Machine Learning & the Future of Everything Track
Discovery Track
Live Streaming Summit
8:00 AM
Continental Breakfast in the Expo
Length: 1 Hour
9:00 AM
Keynote
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, Product Manager, Facebook Live, Facebook
Description: Two years since global rollout, Facebook Live’s product manager shares a look back at the way Live has brought people and communities together via key innovations, and how the interactivity of Live is inspiring new video experiences for people and publishers on Facebook.

10:00 AM
Coffee & Networking Break in the Expo - Video Engineering Meetup in the Networking Lounge
Length: 30 Minutes
10:30 AM
Business & Strategy Track
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, Head of Strategy, You.i TV
, Head of Product & Innovation, The Weather Group
, Director, Content Acquisition, Roku
, SVP & Chief Technology Officer, A+E Networks
Description: Achieving ubiquity in today’s fragmented market is a race against time and resource limitations. Providers must write apps for hundreds of variations of connected devices or risk losing market share to larger or more aggressive competitors. At the same time, many digital-first content providers are focusing on social media video experiences, further disrupting the landscape. This panel brings together traditional and internet content providers to discuss strategies that can be used to quickly and efficiently extend cross-platform reach and streamline app store certification processes.

Technology & How-To Track
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, VP Strategy, Beamr
, Director of Video Algorithms, Netflix
, Senior Principal Engineer/VP Video Processing, BAMTECH Media
, Professor / Chief Science Officer, University of Waterloo / SSIMWAVE Inc.
Description: As video encoding moves to software operating on virtualized architectures across varying computing infrastructures, the complexities of evaluating a video encoder have never been greater. Attendees hear from service providers, encoding solution vendors, and the creator of the industry’s best-known quality measures, all discussing how video encoding engineers can ensure a successful evaluation, from video quality assessment to performance, content selection, and operational considerations.

AI, Machine Learning & the Future of Everything Track
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, Consultant, Reality Software
, Head of Creative Innovation, Google
, VP Products, First Tube
, VP of Architecture, Limelight Networks
, Principal Architect, Citrix
, Co-Founder and CEO, REELY
Description: Artificial intelligence holds great promise for the media industry, and its use cases today are especially applicable across the content lifecycle. From content creation, production, and distribution to delivery and recommendation, AI is streamlining process and improving existing execution methods. In this session, panelists discuss how to leverage AI to enhance content value and performance, as well as unveil and maximize new opportunities for monetization.

Discovery Track
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, CEO, nanocosmos
, Strategic Initiatives Engineer - Streaming Video, Aspera, an IBM Company

Title: Interactive Live Streaming: Ultra-Low Latency on Any Device
Time: 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Description: We are living a new era in live streaming, where ultra-low latency live playback on any device plays the most important role for audience engagement. Oliver Lietz, nanocosmos CEO, will explain how nanoStream Cloud with the integrated nanoStream H5Live Player will rock your interactive live streams on all HTML5 browsers. Go live around the world in 1 second!Attend this session for your chance to win: One month of Nanocosmos's medium nanoStream Cloud package ($499 value)


Title: Stream Management, Endpoint Discovery, and Configuration
Time: 10:55 AM - 11:15 AM
Description: The ability to register, discover, and configure endpoint devices are all important aspects in the ongoing management of streams in live IP-based video transport solutions and complex post workflows. This becomes especially important for remote contribution scenarios where WAN and Cloud configurations are involved. However, to date, existing standards have paid little attention to the on-boarding and long-term management aspects of video over IP. Aspera will outline and demonstrate an architecture for stream management, device discovery and centralized device configuration using several standards based technologies. The goal is to enable a device to be shipped between locations and automatically “call home” to obtain its configuration from a central location such as a broadcast center—thus reducing or eliminating the need for manual intervention and skilled personnel onsite."

Live Streaming Summit
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Skyline New Media
, GM, Live, Vimeo
, CEO, B Live
, Engineering Manager, Facebook
, President, Executive Producer, Content.23 Media, Inc
Description: Combining the world’s biggest watch party with the natural fear of missing out, and social live video is today’s must-see TV. The new normal is the ability to watch everything everywhere, just as it happens and in real time. As more audiences cut the cord and viewing habits gravitate toward social media, the question to ask is: Are social platforms becoming the new cable? This panel looks beyond the white noise to talk social live programming and the media partnerships that shape how video is consumed.

11:45 AM
Business & Strategy Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, CEO, Streaming Video Technology Alliance
Description: Online video audiences are fickle. There’s so much content out there, from YouTube to Netflix to Hulu, that viewers have little loyalty to any content provider. But keeping them attached to your service or content is critical to your bottom line. Thankfully, there are strategies you can employ that will help engage your audiences in ways that will keep them watching more, watching longer, and coming back day after day. In this session, attendees will learn about best practices for improving audience engagement with your online video content and how that ultimately affects your opportunities for monetization.

Technology & How-To Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Owner, Streaming Learning Center
Description: Many content distributors and aggregators still use H.264 as their primary, if not exclusive, codec, but the bandwidth savings promised by newer, more powerful codecs are alluring. Those considering a switch must evaluate at least three options: HEVC, VP9, and AV1, which is being released in early 2018. In this session, codec specialist Jan Ozer evaluates the quality of these codecs and compares them to H.264. Learn how much bandwidth you can save with each, and how the newer codecs compare from quality and implementation perspectives.

AI, Machine Learning & the Future of Everything Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, VP, Customer Success & Global Account Management, Ooyala
, Chief Development Officer, zone.tv

Title: Bringing AI to Linear TV—The Future of Television
Time: 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Description: The promise of artificial intelligence is undeniable—unprecedented personalization, efficiencies that reduce costs and increased revenue. This all works in on-demand video, but is there a role for AI in livestreaming linear channels? This case study from Ooyala and Zone.tv discusses how the two companies are working together to bring AI to TV to automate the curation of content in a first-of-its-kind, customizable, and highly personalized experience in a suite of linear TV channels.

Discovery Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Principal Sales Engineer, Bitmovin
, CTO, THEO Technologies

Title: Managing Transition to HEVC/VP9/AV1 with Multi-Codec Streaming
Time: 11:45 AM - 12:05 PM
Description: Video streaming is in transition towards the next generation of video codecs, offering to double the quality while lowering the required bandwidth. As the successor crown to the ubiquitous AVC/H.264 is still up for grabs, major content providers and device manufacturers are throwing their weights behind competing formats - HEVC/VP9/AV1 - leading to market fragmentation, specifically within web environments. To deal with this challenge, OTT services need to support multiple codecs in an efficient way. In this presentation, we will discuss how to evaluate the benefits and the tradeoffs of embracing these next generation compression technologies in your media workflow.Attend this session for your chance to win: Fitbit Versa Watch ($200 value)


Title: DRM & Content Protection: How to Prevent Your Video From Being Stolen
Time: 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM
Description: For content owners, it is crucially important to have full control of their content in order to be efficiently monetized. One common loss of revenue is caused by piracy but there are different protection mechanisms that can protect your content. In this presentation we will explore practices and advancements which can simplify content protection.Attend this session and receive a: Notebook

Live Streaming Summit
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, CEO, Show Runner/Executive Producer, Director and OTT Consultant, Broadcast Management Group, Inc.
, Director of TD Ameritrade Network, TD Ameritrade
, Senior Software Engineering Manager, Hulu
, Chief Growth Officer, Signiant
, Sr. Principal Solutions Architect, AWS
Description: With OTT viewership set to surpass cable in the next few years, it has never been more important to learn to navigate the challenges of delivering live linear programming. With the headaches of automation, ingest, encoding, metadata, and ad insertion, linear content strategy must also include a conversation of getting it there and keeping it running around the clock. This discussion centers around how to properly package and integrate live linear content for OTT distribution.

12:30 PM
Lunch Break - Visit the Expo
Length: 1 Hour 15 Minutes
1:45 PM
Business & Strategy Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Founder & Managing Director, Howard & Associates
, WW Channels & Alliances, IBM
, Director, Global Digital Workplace group, BlackRock
, Founder, Roogle Marketing
, Senior Producer, Airbnb
Description: Traditionally, streaming and videoconferencing have been deployed as two separate solutions, but companies are realizing that integrating these solutions provides tremendous value. This trend is increasing as new platforms such as Slack, Cisco Spark, and Microsoft Teams are taking off. Learn how organizations leverage existing videoconferencing infrastructure as production studios when integrated with a video streaming system, how video conferencing allows presenters in multiple locations to participate jointly in webcasts, and how streaming solutions can be budgeted as part of a larger video communications budget.

Technology & How-To Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Manager, Engineering - Video Technology, Vimeo
Description: 4K has gotten most of the headlines, but there are other ways to improve the quality of your streaming video that have even more visual impact. This talk explores video colorimetry, ranging from video quality concepts to the latest trends in the industry: High Dynamic Range (HDR), Wide Color Gamut (WCG), and next-generation devices. Vimeo’s experience is used as a practical implementation example and showcases how new compression technologies are deployed for the benefit of creators and their audiences.

AI, Machine Learning & the Future of Everything Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Technical Solution Architect, Comcast
Description: Streaming video analytics have become mainstream for almost all OTT publishers, who have found the need to make the data and analytics available to operational and business teams, both in real time and actionable, increasingly important. The massive volume of data makes finding the signal in the noise very difficult for traditional reporting and alerting systems and workflows. Data-driven AI and machine learning techniques are increasingly being used to address these requirements. In this presentation we cover both the business/operational use cases and the algorithms used to solve these problems.

Discovery Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Director of Channel Sales, LiveU
, Professional Services Engineer, LiveU
, Streaming Industry Evangelist, Wowza Media Systems

Title: Real-World Field Production
Time: 1:45 PM - 2:05 PM
Description: LiveU’s Director of Channel Sales, George Klippel and Professional Services Engineer, Sebastian Alvarez-Ring demonstrate LiveU Solo, the company’s plug-and-play solution for streaming live to social media. See how easy it is to produce high-quality live content from anywhere using the Solo encoder with Solo Studio - Cloud Graphics, providing the ability to add lower thirds and logos to your social media streams. Attendees will walk away with a better understanding of how they can accomplish better mobile live streams without a large crew or investment.


Title: Bringing Broadcast Quality to Facebook Live With the Wowza ClearCaster
Time: 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Description: Broadcasters around the world are streaming on Facebook Live, and more are using the Wowza ClearCaster to ensure stream success. Learn how the ClearCaster delivers unmatched reliability and broadcast quality, and how content creators, broadcasters, talent and producers are creating dynamic live content based on the audience’s Live Reactions. Attend this session for your chance to win: Insta360 ONE action camera ($299 value)

Live Streaming Summit
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Owner, Streaming Learning Center
Description: Streaming to multiple destinations has become the rule more than the exception. The increased availability of hardware encoders and cloud distribution solutions has made it easier than ever to stream to multiple viewing points and platforms. From white label websites and apps to platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Twitch, getting your content to appear all over the web has never been easier. This session discusses current technologies and the costs associated with the multidistribution of live video.

2:45 PM
Business & Strategy Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Chief Evangelist, Panopto
, Distance Education Specialist, University of Southern California
, Senior I.T. & Multimedia Manager, University of Pennsylvania
, Program Manager, Webcast Producer, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Description: Using video as a training tool both inside and outside the classroom is no longer just an option, but rather table stakes for any educational institution. The tools and processes for creating, managing, and delivering live and on-demand content keep evolving, getting easier to use, and providing more functionality. In the midst of this cultural and technical change, what are some of the best practices among schools that have been successful? Our panelists tell you what works and recommend crawl-walk-run implementation steps.

Technology & How-To Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, CTO, RealEyes Media
Description: Companies are starting to feel pain and a sense of urgency as size of media content, number of devices consuming the content, and the need for rich metadata grow. They need centralized media workflow automation that can handle all processing, for all content, in all their clouds. During this session we review some rock-solid strategies for enhancing media asset management, from production to playback, in an efficient and automated fashion. Increase your library ingest throughput while decreasing the need for more hands on deck.

AI, Machine Learning & the Future of Everything Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Co-Founder and CEO, Iris.tv
, Senior Director of Product Management, Gannett/USA TODAY NETWORK
, Lead PM for Azure Decision Service, Microsoft

Title: How AI Is Revolutionizing Publishing
Time: 2:45 PM - 3:05 PM
Description: With social media algorithms constantly changing, it’s time for news publishers to regain control of their audiences. Using AI and machine learning, publishers can program contextually relevant and personalized content down to the viewer level on their owned-andoperated sites for both breaking news and day-to-day operations. IRIS. TV and Gannett demonstrate how AI is helping to provide prescriptive insights into audience engagement and fueling future content strategies and video distribution on owned-and-operated sites.


Title: Personalizing Content Using Reinforcement Learning
Time: 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Description: Personalization is one of the main focus areas of CMOs and CTOs across various industries, including media. This case study presents how Microsoft Research has spearheaded content personalization through the Azure Custom Decision Service using innovative online learning techniques founded in a very prominent area of machine learning called Reinforcement Learning, providing increased engagement for publishers.

Discovery Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Professor / Chief Science Officer, University of Waterloo / SSIMWAVE Inc
, Vice President of Sales, Teradek

Title: Per-Title Optimization 2.0
Time: 2:45 PM - 3:05 PM
Description: Learn what it takes to create target viewer quality based bitrate ladders for Live content and Video on Demand assets. Send the bits only when they are needed. Control viewer experience and efficiently stream a LIVE or VOD title with a ladder tailor-made to its specific characteristics and complexity.Attend this session for your chance to win: Streaming video gift card package ($200 value)


Title: Steal This Encoder
Time: 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Description: Think you know everything about IP video? Jon Landman, VP of Sales for Teradek, thinks otherwise. Join us for an in-depth discussion of the latest technologies in the IP video world and how Teradek products solve some of the key challenges broadcasters face. Specific topics will include HEVC, SRT, cloud platforms, and cellular bonding.

Live Streaming Summit
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, VP of Engineering, LiveU
, Vice President, INXPO
, WW Channels & Alliances, IBM
, CEO, nanocosmos
Description: Packets, cache, edge, GO! How live is your live stream? Being behind is no fun. Live blogs, Twitter feeds, and the speed of television delivery can ruin the live experience for everyone online. From live events and entertainment to esports and online gaming, nearly every live stream can benefit from reducing latency. But with so many contributing factors, there’s only so much you can control. Don’t let roundtrip time keep you up at night. Learn why latency matters, from the masters of low-latency streaming.

3:30 PM
Coffee & Networking Break in the Expo - Live Streaming Meetup in the Networking Lounge
Length: 30 Minutes
4:00 PM
Business & Strategy Track
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, Co-Founder and CEO, Streamroot
, Principal Engineer, CBS Interactive
, Managing Principal Solutions Architect, CenturyLink
, Director of Engineering, CBS Interactive
, Chief Business Development Officer, Norsk by id3as
, CEO, Streaming Video Technology Alliance
, CTO & Co-Founder, Anevia
Description: While CDN prices have never been lower, OTT delivery continues to weigh heavily on broadcasters’ budgets. Growing audiences, higher resolutions, and more immersive video experiences bring both technical and business challenges at scale. This panel explores how content publishers are working to balance fixed revenue per subscriber models with the varying cost of delivery, while also getting the best quality for their money. This session looks at optimization efforts throughout the delivery workflow, with a special emphasis on CDN, multi-CDN, peer-to-peer, multicast, and in-house delivery solutions.

Technology & How-To Track
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, VP of Architecture, Limelight Networks
, VP, Core Media, BAMTECH Media
, CEO, Red5
Description: Live streaming should provide not just the same quality of experience as TV broadcasts, but even higher quality, with lower latency, and enable new live video use cases not possible with broadcast TV. Also critical is support of the myriad connected devices consumers use to view that content. In this session, learn about the pros and cons of various technologies on both the contribution and delivery side of lowlatency streaming, including small chunk size HLS/DASH, WebRTC, WebSockets, QUIC, SRT, and CMAF.

AI, Machine Learning & the Future of Everything Track
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, CTO, RealEyes Media
Description: A number of cloud providers have launched video-centric services to gain all manner of AI/machine learning-based insights and autogenerated sidecar information on your video assets. This session compares and contrasts Microsoft Azure Video Indexer, IBM’s Watson Media, AWS Rekognition, and Google Cloud Video Intelligence. We cover the basics and give you an unbiased look into which service will be the best bet for your needs. Whether it’s speech-to-text, object recognition, scene detection, or even speech sentiment, there’s a service out there for you. Let’s find it.

Discovery Track
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, VP Marketing, SeaChange
, North America Sales Lead, Google Cloud Media

Title: The Video Personalization Pipeline
Time: 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
Description: Today’s viewers are impatient. No longer do they sit on the couch and watch whatever is tossed at them. The provider who can anticipate viewer desires, and position the right content at the right time, has a far greater chance of keeping their viewers engaged - and monetizing that extended engagement. Join Kurt Michel to learn more about this increasingly important topic, including what “personalized video” is, and how video providers can position themselves to offer it.Attend this session for your chance to win:Fire TV with 4K Ultra HD and Alexa Voice Remote (Pendant Design) ($50 value)


Title: It's Not Just Over the Top... It's the New TV
Time: 4:25 PM - 4:45 PM
Description: OTT shouldn't just be an alternative to broadcast and cable—it needs to be an improvement. In addition to matching broadcast and cable video quality, it needs to offer viewers what broadcast and cable can't, things like interactivity, personalized advertising, engaging user interfaces, and access anytime, anywhere. In this session, we will discuss how to modernize video distribution with Anvato and Google Cloud Machine Learning. Attend this session and receive a: Google Home ($129)

Live Streaming Summit
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, Distinguished Engineer, Comcast
Description: Leaders in live streaming present case studies that take you behind the scenes of some of the industry’s biggest success stories. 


Title: Dead Air is Not an Option
Time: 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Description: Every piece of content tells two stories. There’s the story that’s told when a viewer presses “play,” and there’s the story that each piece of content tells about where it can be played. That second story is told within its metadata. This presentation will examine the myriad factors that must be addressed to deliver the right programing with associated information from machine to machine, and a mature content delivery strategy to account for each factor. It’s a critical, increasingly complex function, and today there are more factors to consider than ever before. Content providers must perform a flawless balancing act to optimize content monetization in an ocean of mobile screens, contractual limitations, live events, and targeted regional programming.

Discussion topics include:

- Alternate content feeds—not just for sports anymore

- Solving the complexity of terrestrial linear delivery

- SCTE 224: Modern metadata management

- Normalizing and automating linear metadata workflows

- Auditing and validating using SCTE 224


5:00 PM
Reception
Length: 1 Hour


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