Streaming Media West 2019 Daily Event Overview -百家乐软件

Nov 19 - 20, 2019 // LOS ANGELES, CA

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OTT Leadership Summit
Video Engineering Summit
ESports & Sports Streaming Summit
Discovery Track
Live Streaming Summit
Workshops

Monday Nov 18
Tuesday Nov 19
Wednesday Nov 20

Business & Strategy Track

Technical & How-to Track

OTT Leadership Summit

Video Engineering Summit

Esports & Sports Streaming Summit

Live Streaming Summit

Discovery Track

9:00 AM

Preconference Workshops

W1: Introduction to ABR Production & Delivery

Length: 3 Hours

Speaker(s):
Jan Ozer, Owner, Streaming Learning Center

Description: This course helps those new to streaming media get familiar with relevant terms, concepts, and technologies. The session begins with a definition of terms like codecs, container formats, and adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming, as well as encoding concepts like bitrate control (VBR, CBR) and frame types (I, B, and P). Then it details the key H.264 encoding parameters that impact quality and compatibility. Next up is adaptive streaming, including a review of available ABR technologies like HLS and DASH, how to formulate an encoding ladder, and how to use multiple DRMs to protect premium content. Then we review the technical requirements for ABR delivery to computers, smartphones and tablets, OTT devices, and smart TVs. We finish with a quick look at advanced codecs like HEVC, VP9, AV1, and VVC. You walk away knowing the technical requirements for delivering to all key platforms and an understanding of how to do so.

Preconference Workshops

W2: Deploying CMAF; Why, When, & How

Length: 3 Hours

Speaker(s):
David Hassoun, CEO, RealEyes Media

Description: The concept of a single set of files deliverable to all relevant end points has been the holy grail since the dawn of adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming. By mid-2019, the Common Media Application Format (CMAF) will enable such a solution, slashing encoding, storage, and bandwidth costs for companies who deploy it. In this workshop, attendees learn how to create CMAF-packaged assets for HLS and or DASH and get a greater understanding of the benefits CMAF has to offer. We start at the industry baseline of H.264-based CMAF content, then offer insight and direction on how to handle more complex and emerging solutions. We will briefly cover how to extend what you learned to alternate codecs starting with VP9, then to 4K encoding, packaging, and delivery with HEVC or AV1. Then, we dive into what needs to happen next inside the video players to enable proper multi-bitrate ABR streaming with low latency. Last but not least, we cover the details around protecting your CMAF content with DRM, including what you need to know about CENC, CBCS, CTR, and working toward truly fulfilling the vision for unified common encryption DRM on the horizon.

Preconference Workshops

W3: Off-the-Shelf Streaming Tools

Length: 3 Hours

Speaker(s):
Nadine Krefetz, Consultant, Reality Software

Description: The build vs. buy debate will never go away, but sometimes the perfect tool for content development and distribution already exists, is easy to learn and use, and fits within your budget. This workshop covers the latest developments in a number of tools that will help you at virtually every step of the streaming video workflow, from editing to analytics. This workshop is open to product owners, engineering staff, or others involved with delivering media—you don’t need a development background, just an interest in finding out how the latest tools can optimize your workflow. Nadine Krefetz and co-presenters cover the following types of tools: cloud-based switching products for multi-playout management; collaborative editing; UX prototyping; churn-busting analytics; artificial intelligence and machine learning; live and ondemand video libraries.

12:00 PM

Lunch

Length: 1 Hour 30 Minutes

1:30 PM

Preconference Workshops

W4: Objective Quality Metrics 2D & 3D: What They Are, How to Compute Them, & How to Use Them

Length: 3 Hours

Speaker(s):
Jan Ozer, Owner, Streaming Learning Center

Description: Every compression practitioner should understand what objective quality metrics do, how to compute them, and how to use them. This workshop guides attendees through the following steps: an introduction to metrics like PSNR, SSIM, SSIMPLUS, and VMAF, plus several 3D metrics; how to compute metrics with open source tools like FFmpeg and VMAFMaster, as well as third-party tools like the Moscow State University Video Quality Measurement tool and the SSIMWAVE VOD Monitor Inspector tool; how to interpret the results; how to use these tools to choose a preset, choose the top rate for video files, and build an encoding ladder.

Preconference Workshops

W5: Video Machine Learning: Customizing Solutions & Training Models

Length: 3 Hours

Speaker(s):
Jun Heider, CTO, RealEyes Media

Description: Do you want to realize maximum business value from video machine learning solutions? To do so requires customization and model training. During this workshop, we go over core concepts that will help you in your customization and model training efforts. We also take a look at various options that are in the wild and ready for you to realize value from machine learning applications for video. We wrap things up with some hands-on demonstrations and customization and training tips and tricks. You walk away from this workshop armed with knowledge on how to get started providing your business value in this exciting area of video machine learning.

Preconference Workshops

W6: Discovering the Power of FFmpeg

Length: 3 Hours

Speaker(s):
Robert Reinhardt, Streaming Solutions Architect, videoRx

Description: One of the most widely used tools with video encoding and deployment processes is FFmpeg, an open-source command line utility that can read and write just about any video, audio, or subtitle codec with just about any format, container, or protocol. Starting with core command line parameters, you learn how to read video files and output in various bitrates, codecs, and containers. The workshop then moves into more intermediate-level commands with map parameters and video filters. We look at more advanced utilization of FFmpeg as well, exploring composition of two video sources with text labels and placement and setting up multiple processes to output multiple bitrates for adaptive delivery.

5:00 PM

Reception

VIP Welcome Mixer

Length: 1 Hour 30 Minutes

Description: Mix and mingle with other full-conference attendees, speakers, and exhibitors. A perfect way to kick off your Streaming Media experience! Located at the Lake View Bistro, Lobby Level, Westin Bonaventure.

9:00 AM

Welcome & Opening Keynote

Fireside Chat: How Amazon Fire TV’s Customer-First Approach to Streaming Is Revolutionizing Home Entertainment

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Sandeep Gupta, Vice President, Fire TV Devices and Experience, Amazon Fire TV

Description: From voice control of your living room to an increasingly personalized content viewing experience, customers are living in a golden age of entertainment. But building a customer-first experience doesn’t happen overnight—it takes hard work and a laser-focused strategy. This keynote with Amazon’s Sandeep Gupta will discuss how the company has evolved its hardware strategy and reimagined the ways voice can power a seamless entertainment experience for customers, leveraging strategic partnerships with would-be competitors and a user experience focused on content and discovery.

9:45 AM

Welcome & Opening Keynote

Industrializing Broadcast-Quality Streaming

Length: 15 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Adam Bedwell, VP - CTO & Sales Engineering - Americas, MediaKind

Description: We all dream of broadcast-quality streaming of live TV. Flexibility and video quality—once considered trade-offs—have both become uncompromisable table stakes. As we enter more seasoned stages of cloud native-architecture and low-latency ABR streaming, content and services providers see the true promise of the ability to augment and scale video headends, optimize infrastructure, and enable fast and seamless delivery across multiple networks. So how close are we to going all-in on flexibility without compromising quality? And what potential could fully leveraging Kubernetes container orchestration unlock for the media industry?

10:00 AM

Coffee, Networking, and OTT Meetup in the Streaming Media Showcase

Length: 30 Minutes

10:30 AM

Business & Strategy Track

B101: Subscription Fatigue: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Allan McLennan, President/Founder - Chief Exec, PADEM Media Group
Anthony Layser, VP, Xumo
Mark Young, Senior Vice-President, Global Strategy, Business and Corporate Development, Fandango, Vudu, and Rotten Tomatoes
Erick Opeka, President, Cinedigm Networks
Marshall Nord, President, ShortsTV Americas
Ben Lister, Content Acquisition and Business Development, Sinclair Broadcast Group

Description: More than 60% of U.S. households subscribe to at least one SVOD service, according to Parks & Associates; Deloitte says that the average subscriber pays for three services. As the total cost of those services approaches the cost of a cable TV bundle, might we see a reduction in subscriptions? Should we expect more bundling of SVOD services, with or without cable subscriptions? How can SVOD services prevent customer churn? Join our panel of industry experts as they discuss the implications of an increasingly crowded market.

Technical & How-to Track

T101: HOW-TO: Fine-Tuning Your Encoding With Objective Quality Metrics

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Jan Ozer, Owner, Streaming Learning Center

Description: Choosing the number of streams in an adaptive group and configuring them is usually a subjective, touchy-feely exercise, with no way to really gauge the effectiveness and efficiency of the streams. However, by measuring stream quality via metrics such as VMAF, SSIMPlus, and others, you can precisely assess the quality delivered by each stream and its relevancy to the adaptive group. This presentation identifies several key objective quality metrics, teaching how to apply them using commercial and open source tools and how to use them to fine-tune your adaptive bitrate ladders and encoding settings.

OTT Leadership Summit

OTT101: Fireside Chat: Innovation in the Time of Streaming TV

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Ben Chambers, CTO, Philo
Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen, CMO, Norsk

Description: With the introduction of myriad screens and technologies like time-shifting, DVR, and on-demand programming, the days of families gathering around the television to watch linear TV are gone. Consumers expect to bend “TV time” to work around their schedules, and they demand an ever-evolving set of intuitive yet cutting-edge features to constantly improve the experience. Philo CTO Ben Chambers walks us through how the team at the nation’s first entertainment-focused OTT service is approaching and exceeding consumer expectations.

Video Engineering Summit

VES101: The Video Engineer’s Toolbox

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
David Hassoun, CEO, RealEyes Media

Description: Having the right tools for the job allows you to work smarter, not just harder. When developing for and supporting some of the biggest live streaming events such as the Super Bowl, Olympics, and the World Cup, we have beefed up and refined the arsenal of tools we bring. This session covers some of the tools to monitor, debug, and identify to solve problems quickly and effectively for live and on-demand streaming content, then dives deeper into some key, often overlooked use cases.

Esports & Sports Streaming Summit

ESS101: Get in the Game: How Players and Producers Can Get Started

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Darcy Lorincz, Chairman & President, WTFast
Michael Volpe, Marketing Director, IOGear
Marco Ordaz, Product Manager, IOGear

Title: Case Study: From Game Seat to Driver Seat
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Description: Dreams really do come true, and sometimes gamers get a chance for real-world action. In this case study, Torque Esports introduces World's Fastest Gamer, an online competition that lets casual mobile players and pro gamers become actual pros. Using advanced driving simulators, WFG teaches driving skills and turns talented gamers into motorsport professionals.

Title: Mass Appeal: Advancements in Technology Empower Esports Livestreaming
Time: 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Description: The latest innovations and growing affordability of livestreaming technology have opened the esports livestreaming market to the average consumers, allowing anyone to become a live streamer with the right tools. Learn how the latest technology developments have enabled esports fans to join YouTube, Twitch, Mixer, or other livestreaming services.

Live Streaming Summit

LS101: Bringing Convenience to Corporate Streaming

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Dan Swiney, Head of Media Engineering, LinkedIn
Dan Houze, VP, Encoding & Digital Strategy, BC Live Productions
Stephen Condon, Founder, Roogle Marketing

Description: While social media and entertainment get most of the attention when it comes to live streaming, it’s just as crucial to B2B and internal corporate communications. This panel of experts discusses how to effectively and efficiently connect to all of your internal viewers while also being able to scale for an external audience, as well as the myriad technologies that can be used from capture to distribution.

Discovery Track

DT101: Discovery Track Session: SSIMWAVE, Xilinx

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Abdul Rehman, CPO, IMAX
Sean Gardner, Head, Video Strategy & Market Development, AMD

Title: Stop Bad Video in its Tracks
Time: 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Description: Not all content is created equal. Gate and switch content to avoid getting trapped into expending resources needlessly. Reject or send the content to the appropriate encoder to optimize storage & transmission costs while ensuring video quality thresholds. Attend this session for your chance to win: 10 gift cards for streaming services ($25 value each)

Title: The Future of Live Video Encoding
Time: 10:55 AM - 11:15 AM
Description: In this talk, we will walk through the future landscape of major problems to solve in video encoding – what lies ahead in terms approaches to reduce bandwidth and encoding compute complexity, datacenter power consumption, codec adoption, quality measurements, and tools to increase differentiation across a range of industries.

11:30 AM

Business & Strategy Track

B102: Building Services Viewers Want

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Jason Thibeault, CEO, Streaming Video Technology Alliance
Jason Press, Executive Vice President, WarnerMedia
Jim Bennette, VP Sales, US, Applicaster

Title: Fireside Chat: HBO Max and the Future of SVOD
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Description: Of all the blockbuster SVOD services coming soon, HBO Max is perhaps the most hotly anticipated, bundling the entire HBO service with new HBO Max Originals and a deep library of fan favorites from throughout WarnerMedia’s 100-year content collection. Jason Press is in charge of building the platform, and his team will use technologies such as machine learcning/artificial intelligence, high efficiency video encoding, and UHD/4K to make it happen. Join this fireside chat for a glimpse inside HBO Max before it launches.

Title: 5 Steps to Media App Success in the Emerging Connection Economy
Time: 12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
Description: The velocity of technological change and audience expectations aren’t slowing down, and launching an OTT service isn't a simple undertaking. Join this strategic session on building a future-proofed media app strategy to launch and connect with your most valuable audiences while maximizing your current and future tech investments. Jim Bennette shares the key steps from the important but often overlooked step of defining your goals, then examines the process from devising a holistic app strategy to successfully connecting with your most valuable viewers.

Technical & How-to Track

T102: Everything You Need to Know About Cloud Graphics and Digital Overlays

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Brian Ring, Principal Analyst, Ring Digital llc

Description: If content is king, then graphics are one of the most important technologies in streaming media. While sharp producers have been using graphical overlays forever, the Chromium Embedded Format and the rapidly growing esports market have thrust cloud graphics—which don’t require expensive on-prem servers—into the view of major broadcasters and OTT streamers globally. This workshop will feature a live technical demo, viewer research, and an overview of the vendors in the cloud graphics space.

OTT Leadership Summit

OTT102: Fireside Chats: Finding New Audiences

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Rebecca Glashow, Co-Head, Awesomeness
Shelley Zimmerman, Co-Head, Awesomeness
Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen, CMO, Norsk
Adam Lewinson, Chief Content Officer, Tubi
Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen, CMO, Norsk

Title: Reaching Generation Z
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Description: Consumers’ video consumption habits are changing dramatically. Generation Z watches video in a completely different way than older generations, and it’s imperative that we reach them on their terms, with the type of content they want, in the formats that speak to them, on the devices they prefer. In this fireside chat, we talk with executives from Awesomeness about what works— and what doesn’t—with the next generation of consumers.

Title: Ad-Supported VOD as an Alternative to Broadcast & SVOD
Time: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Description: Many consumers are looking for alternatives to traditional cable and SVOD services, as well as skinny bundles that aren’t so skinny after all. Enter free, ad-supported services that offer premium content without the premium price tag. We talk about the challenges and opportunities facing AVOD services in today’s market.

Video Engineering Summit

VES102: Low Latency Live Streaming at Scale

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Steve Heffernan, Founder & Head of Product, Mux

Description: Many streaming producers are attempting to enable viewers to interact with live streamers in relative real time through chat, Q&A, betting, bidding, and more. They all encounter the same challenge: reducing latency while syncing interactions between the live streamer and viewers. There’s currently a race between WebRTCbased approaches, which are very low in latency but hard to scale, and HTTP-based approaches, which are easy to scale but higher in latency. Neither is ideal. This session details approaches to achieving interactivity at scale using existing technologies.

Esports & Sports Streaming Summit

ESS102: Focus on Fans: Attracting Eyeballs, Keeping Them Hooked

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Bill Shaikin, Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times
Ed Nordholm, Chief Corporate Officer, Anthem Sports & Entertainment
Matt Smith, Executive Director, Business Development & Strategy, Comcast Technology Solutions
Michael Bucklin, Vice President of Digital Content, Fox Sports
Stefan Richardson, Senior Producer, BC Live Productions
Remi Guyton, Vice President, Nitro Circus
Ari Evans, founder and CEO, Maestro.io
Brett Casadonte, President and Co-founder, GlobeStream Media LLC
Codi Warren, Managing Director of Communications, USA Softball

Title: Increasing Fan Engagement
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Description: Streaming live video is just the beginning. To succeed today, it’s crucial to engage fans and keep them tuning in. Putting out a tune-in message isn’t enough anymore. You’ve got to get fans invested in the next match, engaging them on multiple platforms. Here’s how some leagues cater to their fans to create all-new experiences and lifelong engagement.

Title: The Next Generation
Time: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Description: Don’t assume that young people today are going to watch the same sports that their parents follow. Young viewers are up for grabs, as the traditional sports world undergoes massive changes. Will today’s young viewers grow up loving basketball and football, or will esports eventually dominate? Here’s how leagues are securing the next generation.

Live Streaming Summit

LS102: Live-Streaming Best Practices

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Robert Reinhardt, Streaming Solutions Architect, videoRx

Description: How reliable is your live-streaming production workflow? Learn how to use and configure the essential (and purposely redundant) components of a live streaming event system, including cameras, H.264 encoders/streamers, video switchers, video signal conversion, recorders, and more. Also learn how to best deploy the live stream to your audience based on business requirements: Do you utilize free social media outlets, work with a premium third-party streaming service, or build your own live-streaming infrastructure? Learn how to approach different live scenarios with the right gear to fit the budget you have.

Discovery Track

DT102: Discovery Track Session: Interra Systems, EdgeConneX

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Anupama Anantharaman, VP of Product Management, Interra Systems
Elsa Pine, Global Sales Executive, Emerging Technologies, EdgeConneX

Title: Monitoring Live OTT Services Is Critical for Service Assurance
Time: 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Description: Around the globe, OTT video consumption is rising steadily, with live streaming, in particular, attracting large audiences. This necessitates that operators adopt a holistic methodology to service assurance, for better visibility into what is happening with the live OTT workflow, decrease the chance for churn and maximize monetization. Monitoring solutions are a fundamental requirement today for both VOD and live OTT applications. This presentation will highlight challenges of live streaming and how monitoring can help by providing a centralized service assurance view, validation of where the issue is located, and increased flexibility via a software-based and cloud-deployable approach. Attend this session for your chance to win: Google Nest Hub ($129 Value)

Title: Content and Eyeballs- The Perfect Match at the Edge
Time: 11:55 AM - 12:15 PM
Description: Latency is one of the most important factors in delivering content to their users. There is a growing trend in the community of partners, customers, providers to meet the eyeball providers away from carrier hotels. The high density environments require a greater amount of power, cooling, redundancy that EdgeConneX has built for our customers since inception. We’ll discuss trends in key markets, and why EdgeConneX is recognized as the leader in this space. Attend this session to win: $200 gift card.

12:30 PM

Attendee Luncheon

Length: 1 Hour

1:30 PM

Business & Strategy Track

B103: LinkedIn Live: A Producer’s Journey

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Chris Packard, Manager, LinkedIn

Description: LinkedIn Live has quickly become one of the most valuable streaming platforms, reaching more than 600 million professionals worldwide. In this discussion you will not only learn about the value and engagement that LinkedIn Live is driving for key publishers, companies, and influencers, but also how you can become a part of the LinkedIn Live beta program as well. Join LinkedIn’s Streaming Producer, Chris Packard, on a journey into the world’s largest professional streaming network.

Technical & How-to Track

T103: Microservices in Action

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Dom Robinson, Chief Business Development Officer, Norsk by id3as
Nermeen Ismail, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco
Tanu Aggarwal, Director of Engineering of Video Platform, Twitch
Nathan Moore, Director of Performance Engineering Platform, StackPath
Olga Kornienko, COO & Co-Founder, EZDRM

Description: The discussion around microservices has moved from theory and planning to looking at optimization for deployment for streaming within a microservices/services-oriented architecture. A year ago many were thinking about deployment in this new highly available, scalable and agile way; today, it has emerged as common practice, or at the least as a common strategy. This session examines some examples of microservices in action in a discussion with leading content publishers and goes deep into some realworld microservices architectures, exploring introspection, orchestration, containerization, and wider virtualization strategies.

OTT Leadership Summit

OTT103: Understanding the DRM Lifecycle

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Christopher Levy, CEO & Co-Founder, BuyDRM
Gulliver Smithers, SVP Product & Technology, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Corey Smith, Director Live Operations, Blizzard
Steve Cronan, CEO, 5th Kind

Description: As DRM becomes a global standard for content creators and consumers, the DRM lifecycle becomes more and more important. Implementing DRM into a complex video workflow can be a daunting task. That combined with the mandatory use of DRM for premium content leaves an OTT Operator with a lot of questions. In this session, we explore the “DRM Lifecycle” from content creation to editing to digital dailies to post to screeners and, ultimately, to consumer distribution.

Video Engineering Summit

VES103: Evaluating & Testing CDN Suppliers for Performance & Unit Economics

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Steven Tripsas, Principal Product Architect, Zype

Description: This discussion details how video engineers should set up their CDNs for optimal delivery around the world. From multi-CDN to optimizing encoding and transcoding efforts, we provide actionable recommendations based on real, unbiased testing. Attendees walk away with insights regarding how to optimize their CDN(s) for media delivery.

Esports & Sports Streaming Summit

ESS103: Let’s Sync Up: Understanding the Opportunities of Live Sports Streaming

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Mark Nakano, Vice President of Content Security, WarnerMedia
Michael Jones, SVP and Head of Business Development, VisualOn

Description: Advanced technologies such as ultra-low latency, synchronized multi-stream, and 5G are transforming the streaming of live sports, offering new, superior experiences to traditional linear TV. However, as these technologies increase the value and consumption of live streaming, they present challenges in protecting high-value content. This session will focus on the new technologies that are transforming live sports video, as well as the what this means from a content value and content protection perspective.

Live Streaming Summit

LS103: Fireside Chat With Industry Leaders (Cancelled)

Length: 45 Minutes

Description: Join us as we discuss the massive increase in live streaming viewership and the importance of your audience with one of the industry leaders in the tech space.

Discovery Track

DT103: Discovery Track Session: UI Centric, Wowza

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Sam Drury, Head of User Experience, UI Centric
Tim Dougherty, Director of Sales Engineering, Wowza Media Systems

Title: OTT: Where to Invest your UX and Design Budget
Time: 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Description: Designing great digital products -- because digital is always evolving -- is a never-ending proposition. Identifying what users really want is only the beginning. How can you make the UX definition and design process run more smoothly and deliver products which are both compelling, effective and technically efficient? We discuss latest practices for OTT products which will make everyone involved in the product life-cycle through to end-consumers happy with what you’re creating. Attend this session for your chance to win: A 1.5 day UX audit

Title: Low Latency Live Streaming Delivery: What’s Next?
Time: 1:55 PM - 2:15 PM
Description: At the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), Apple announced the specs for a brand-new extension of their HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol: Low-Latency HLS. While reducing latency for live streaming is a valiant goal (and one that we can get behind), this news interrupted an industry-wide effort to do so via chunked transfer encoding. With more viewers ditching traditional satellite and cable services each year, the race for speedier live-stream delivery is in full force. Apple Low-Latency HLS is an emerging standard that could very well lead the pack, but what are the pros and cons? The standard’s real-world appeal and long-term benefits are still playing out. Join our discussion and learn where the industry is heading, the overall adoption, ideal use cases, and what can be expected of low-latency HLS next. Attend this session for your chance to win:$250 Amazon gift card

2:15 PM

Coffee, Networking, and Live Streaming Meetup in the Streaming Media Showcase

Length: 30 Minutes

2:45 PM

Business & Strategy Track

B104: Fireside Chat: The State of the CDN Market

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Dom Robinson, Chief Business Development Officer, Norsk by id3as
Peter Chave, Principal Architect - Leading Edge, Akamai Technologies
Neil Glazebrook, Senior Director of Product Management, Limelight Networks
George Bokuchava, CEO, Tulix
Matt Smith, Executive Director, Business Development & Strategy, Comcast Technology Solutions

Description: Content delivery networks (CDNs) deliver vast quantities of data to an ever-growing, media-hungry audience. The sheer scale of operations and consumer adoption of these services is daunting. Forgotten when they work, yet in the spotlight if they fail, the CDNs have a thankless but critical role in our industry. In this session, Dom Robinson, chair of Content Delivery Summit and 25-year veteran in the CDN space, talks to executives from the leading CDNs about the state of the sector, the challenges being faced, new technology strategies, and which services are rising and falling in demand. If a CDN is a part of your ecosystem, then this broad discussion should touch on a variety of high-level topics that directly affect your business.

Technical & How-to Track

T104: Open Source Streaming

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Jason Thibeault, CEO, Streaming Video Technology Alliance
Steve Heffernan, Founder & Head of Product, Mux
Rob Dillon, Principal Strategist, Dillon Media Ventures
Rema Morgan-Aluko, Vice President, Software Engineering, Platform, Fandango, Vudu, and Rotten Tomatoes
Yuriy Reznik, VP, Research, Brightcove

Description: In this session, we review every stage of the live- and on-demand streaming workflow and explore how open source options can be used in real-world implementations. We’ll examine tools such as FFmpeg, VLC, and NGINX, as well as open source codecs, and discuss our panelists favorites for solving specific challenges, the pros and cons of each, and compare them to some commercial offerings. While this session is of use for technicians and developers, the emphasis is on higher-level strategic questions about where and when open source tools can replace commercial offerings and thus reduce costs.

OTT Leadership Summit

OTT104: Fireside Chat: Connecting with Generation Alpha

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
David B. Williams, SVP/GM, Channels, Pocket.watch
Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen, CMO, Norsk

Description: Born with the iPad, Generation Alpha consumes video in ways that are even more radically different than Generation Z. So how do you create content and deliver it in a way that connects with viewers 9 and younger, while being respectful of the fact that these are just kids? Pocket.watch is the studio behind Ryan ToysReview, HobbyKidsTV, and EvanTubeHD, and this discussion with GM/SVP for Channels David B. Williams will shed light on the opportunities and challenges that come with creating content for the next generation.

Video Engineering Summit

VES104: Integrating CMAF Into a VOD Workflow

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Tomas Bacik, Head of Client Solutions, CDN77

Description: This presentation details how to implement CMAF into a VOD workflow, and how CMAF saves storage space, reduces latency, and improves cache efficiency, which leads to better performance and the simplification of content encryption.

Esports & Sports Streaming Summit

ESS104: Women, Games, and the Streaming Community

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Katherine Bowe, Vice President of Sales, Twitch
Brooke Dodger Thorne, Streamer, Dexbonus Channel

Description: Women now account for nearly half of all video game enthusiasts, and they’re turning their passion into successful careers—and vibrant communities—on Twitch. In this fireside chat, Vice President of Sales Katherine Bowe will lead a discussion with one of Twitch’s leading female content creators. Find the secrets to working with brands as a female broadcaster, building a community by streaming what you love, and more in this lively session.

Live Streaming Summit

LS104: Real-Time Remote Production for the FIFA Women’s World Cup

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Michael Flathers, Chief Technology Officer, IBM Aspera
Dave Norman, Principal Sales Engineer, Telestream
Daniel Gonzales, Senior Solutions Architect, Levels Beyond
Brandon Potter, our Director of Post Production, FOX Sports

Description: Millions of people around the world tuned in for the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup Finals in France between the USA and Norway. After the huge success of FOX Sports’ innovative broadcast of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, our panelists collaborated with FOX Sports to deliver new remote production capabilities and greater efficiencies for this year’s women’s final. Boasting more than twice as many streams as the 2018 World Cup, these panelists discuss how they enabled production teams in Los Angeles to begin editing multiple camera feeds within less than 10 seconds of the live action for highlights, playback, and bridge programming and employed new capabilities such as real-time direct-to-cloud archiving and more extensive—yet consolidated—monitoring.

Discovery Track

DT104: Discovery Track Session: PacketFabric, DLVR

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Chad Milam, President and CEO, PacketFabric
Mike Gordon, Co-founder and CEO, DLVR
Daniel Gicklhorn, Lead Product Manager, Microsoft

Title: Upgrade Your Network, Upgrade Your Stream
Time: 2:45 PM - 3:05 PM
Description: As streaming media continues to take over the entertainment world, content creators and providers will require advanced infrastructure to keep up with production schedules and consumer demands. This session will examine how private networks can play a critical role in the life cycle of streaming content, from its creation, distribution and through consumption. We’ll discuss how PacketFabric enable powerful new workflows to quickly go from the camera to the cloud to the screen, by delivering reliable, flexible and high-capacity connectivity from production locations to cloud providers to CDNs, and beyond. Attend this session for your chance to win:Amazon gift card ($200 value)

Title: Configuring Robust Multi-CDN in Azure, Powered by DLVR
Time: 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Description: Reliable, high-quality video viewing experiences are critical to video publishers. This presentation discusses how DLVR's integration on Azure offers a highly scalable, measured, optimized, and simplified multi-CDN service for large and medium-size Azure customers running video workloads. Attend this session for your chance to win: 3 Hydro Flasks ($35 value each)

3:30 PM

Happy Hour in the Streaming Media Showcase

Length: 1 Hour

Description: Grab a drink and visit with our exhibitors in a laid-back atmosphere.

4:30 PM

Business & Strategy Track

B105: Optimizing Corporate Communications

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Scott Grizzle, WW Channels & Alliances, IBM
Stephen Condon, Founder, Roogle Marketing
Dan Houze, VP, Encoding & Digital Strategy, BC Live Productions
Sean Patrick Keen, Global Director of Sales Engineering, Intrado Digital Media
Andy Howard, Founder & Managing Director, Howard & Associates

Description: From delivery to improving end-user experiences, this covers how enterprises can support internal video activities at scale without harming the network. Focus is then placed on developing a secure-rich process for accessing and hosting video assets to be accessed by employees and stakeholders. This also includes covering value adds for end users, including using artificial intelligence to make content more accessible and discoverable through automated processes.

Technical & How-to Track

T105: ATSC 3.0: What You Need to Know

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Nadine Krefetz, Consultant, Reality Software
Michael E. Bouchard, Vice President of Technology Strategy, Sinclair Broadcast Group
Julia Kenyon, Principal Technical Product Manager, Verance

Description: The promise of ATSC 3.0 is the ability to multicast not only audio and video, but data as well. If ATSC 3.0 can achieve this, plus allow for targeted personalized advertising, the broadcast world will have combined the digital promise of targeting with the scale of broadcast, essentially changing the broadcast vs. streaming playing field. How will this work with legacy CDNs and new 5G pipes? What does broadcast-as-a service mean? How do converged OTT-OTA apps work in the future? How does this help deliver the right content to the right audience?

OTT Leadership Summit

OTT105: Who Cares About Sports & News?

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Jonathan Hurd, Partner, Altman Solon
Kaizar Campwala, Vice President, Disney DTCI / ABC News
Tony Brown, Head, Scripps Networks
Rob Dillon, Principal Strategist, Dillon Media Ventures

Description: As video offers proliferate, many have purely on-demand content while others include live programming. Understanding the nuances of consumer interest in live video, especially sports and news, is critical to securing content rights, designing offers, and targeting subscribers. For many consumers, interest in a favorite team or athlete is the primary driver for their live video subscription, while other consumers have virtually no interest in sports or traditional news and often find little value in live TV. This session explores findings from a new consumer survey from Altman Vilandrie & Co., including a deep dive into reasons for consumer adoption of live TV offers, and a panel discussion featuring top executives from the TV industry.

Video Engineering Summit

VES105: Applications of Per-Title Encoding

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Jan Ozer, Owner, Streaming Learning Center
Assaf Berkovitz, Customers and Partners Integration Architect, Kaltura
Jon Dahl, CEO, Mux
Steve Geiger, Solutions Director of Americas, Bitmovin

Description: Per-title encoding techniques have progressed from theory to reality with real-world statistics to verify effectiveness. In this roundtable, panelists discuss how their technologies work and the overall impact on their encoding ecosystem and share case studies about how per-title encoding has saved bandwidth and/or improved quality of experience.

Esports & Sports Streaming Summit

ESS105: Esports And Streaming in Education

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Todd Conley, Executive Director, HighSchool.GG
Jordan Rambis, Executive in Residence for Video Games and Esports, 1337 Facilities

Description: What's happening in collegiate esports? How do new programs in elementary, middle school, and high school esports factor in? We look at the benefits to an esports and streaming program in schools and how it prepares students for jobs in the real world. We'll also discuss opportunities for streaming hardware and software vendors to sell into this new vertical within education.

Live Streaming Summit

LS105: Scaling for the Demands of a Growing Live Audience

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Edward Doty, Creative Director, Ranker
Carl Furgusson, Head of Portfolio Development, MediaKind
Tim Baldwin, Head of Product, Zixi
Corey Smith, Director Live Operations, Blizzard
Daniel Pisarski, VP of Engineering, LiveU

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.

Discovery Track

DT105: Discovery Track Session: Recurly

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Jonas Flodh, SVP of Product, Recurly

Title: Subscriber Retention Benchmarks for OTT Businesses
Time: 4:30 PM - 4:50 PM
Description: With more subscription streaming offerings coming onto the market every year, subscriber engagement and retention is top of mind for OTT providers. In this presentation, Recurly will share the latest subscription OTT benchmarks on churn and subscriber retention as well as the strategies smart OTT providers are using to fight churn and accelerate growth. Attend this session for your chance to win: "Subscribe" T-Shirts ($10 value) and "Subscriber" tote bags ($9 value)

5:30 PM

Networking Reception

Length: 1 Hour 30 Minutes

Description: Relax and unwind after a full day of sessions. Our evening reception is the perfect place to network with industry peers while enjoying a drink and some tasty bites. Open to all attendees, speakers, and exhibitors. Located on the Outdoor Plaza Deck, 4th Level, Westin Bonaventure.

8:30 AM

Readers' Choice Awards & Keynote

Streaming Media Magazine's Readers' Choice Awards Breakfast

Length: 30 Minutes

Description: Celebrate the winners of the 12th annual Streaming Media Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards.

9:00 AM

Readers' Choice Awards & Keynote

Keynote: The Next Generation of Sports Streaming

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Kiran Paranjpe, Head of Sports & Entertainment/Global Partnerships, Google, Inc.
Brendan Reiley, Director, Revenue Operations, NASCAR Digital Media
Rich Robinson, Senior Vice President, Digital, World Surf League
Jared Smith, Senior Vice President, Digital Products, WWE

Description: Advanced TV has opened up a new world of possibilities when it comes to the sports viewing experience. This includes new direct-to-consumer (DTC) platforms that let fans watch anytime or anywhere, second-screen experiences that complement the TV and in-person viewing experience, and more personalized content and ads that are relevant to the viewer. Whether you’re watching from the stands, from the couch, or on-the-go, new technology is delivering a heightened sports viewing experience for fans everywhere. In this session, Kiran Paranjpe moderates a roundtable of digital executives from sports organizations to discuss their successes and strategies launching and growing DTC platforms. Topics include streaming technology decisions, subscription vs. advertising revenue models, regional vs. global distribution models, and marketing DTC services effectively.

10:00 AM

Coffee, Networking, and ESports & Sports Streaming Meetup in the Streaming Media Showcase

Length: 30 Minutes

10:30 AM

Business & Strategy Track

B201: UX: Keep Viewers Happy

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Nadine Krefetz, Consultant, Reality Software
Tyler Winton, Vice President Business Development, TiVo
Tony Brown, Head, Scripps Networks
Rema Morgan-Aluko, Vice President, Software Engineering, Platform, Fandango, Vudu, and Rotten Tomatoes
Sam Drury, Head of User Experience, UI Centric

Description: What delights viewers and keeps them engaged when it comes to the video user experience (UX)? This panel discusses the trends media companies are following when it comes to creating a oneclick environment, moving customers through a registration or transaction process, or simply structuring navigation so content can be more easily found. Are text-based navigation systems a bad idea? What about removing the program guide? If customers churn early and often when they’re not happy, what will keep viewers happy?

Technical & How-to Track

T201: HOW-TO: Playout in the Cloud

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Phillip Harrison, Solution Architect, Amazon Web Services

Description: This presentation will fundamentally shift the way attendees think of playout in the cloud. Rather than building a schedule and expensively re-encoding assets in real time for broadcast, learn how to decouple the monolith of playout software into discrete components on top of AWS services. The approach discussed will open new possibilities of channel customization, personalization, and end-user quality, while also dramatically reducing running costs.

OTT Leadership Summit

OTT201: How Niche Video Services Can Find Success

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Jonathon Barbato, Co-CEO, Best Ever Channels
Gene Pao, Senior Vice President, Digital Enterprises, Shout! Factory
Jon Cody, Founder & CEO, TV4 Entertainment, Inc.
Erick Opeka, President, Cinedigm Networks
William Marks, SVP of Business Development & Digital, Ovation
Eric Bromberg, Head of DUST, Gunpowder & Sky

Description: Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, and other entertainment giants get most of the attention, but that doesn’t mean there’s not a place for niche services to not only survive, but thrive. It’s all about knowing your audience—not just creating a great video offering but building communities that deliver content of all kinds and invite user interaction and participation in curating the channels they’ve always wanted.

Video Engineering Summit

VES201: Controlling QoE With Better Data

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Marc Maycas, VP of Product Solutions, NPAW — Nice People at Work

Description: Quality of experience (QoE) is critical to all successful streaming services. Using worldwide benchmark data, this talk identifies the most important QoE KPIs for VOD services and discusses their regional impact. For example, in the U.S., buffering issues drive user churn, while in Asia, managing device fragmentation is key. It also reviews a number of metrics, explores benchmark data, and details how to best understand and leverage the relationship between QoE and data.

ESports & Sports Streaming Summit

ESS201: Live Streaming in Challenging Conditions

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Troy Dreier, Senior Editor, StreamingMedia.com
Peyote Perryman, Founder and Creative Director, Digital P Media
Stu Grubbs, CEO & Co-founder, Lightstream
Ben Gabrielson, Sales Manager, LiveU
Jacob Potter, Assistant AD, University of Oklahoma

Description: Not long ago, going live from a remote location meant driving up with a satellite truck. Well, those days are over. Today’s publishers are delivering live streams from challenging remote locations that a truck could never reach. These producers make it look easy, but it’s not. Learn how to overcome any obstacle.

Discovery Track

DT201: Discovery Track Session: AWS, Applicaster

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Kiran Patel, Sr. Product Marketing Mgr, AWS
Idan Maron, VP Business Development, Applicaster

Title: Reliability of Live Streaming in the Cloud
Time: 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Description: Delivering reliable and resilient live streaming is a must for video providers, who depend on live video workflows being highly available and scalable with audience size so viewers never miss a moment of content. A truly resilient live video stream delivers a smooth and consistent experience for viewers, without gaps, stalls, or silences. In this session, learn how to use the AWS Cloud and AWS Media Services, like AWS Elemental MediaLive, AWS Elemental MediaConnect, AWS Elemental MediaStore, and AWS Elemental MediaPackage, to build highly available and reliable live video workflows in a cost-effective and scalable way, complete with monitoring, alerts, and security.Attend this session for your chance to win: Amazon Echo Show ($230 value)

Title: Cross-Device Media Apps: Build or Buy? Why Not Both!
Time: 10:55 AM - 11:15 AM
Description: In this session Idan Maron from Applicaster will highlight how leading media companies like Zee5, ProSiebenSat.1, DirecTV and others are maximizing their pre-existing workflows and resources, combined with best-of-breed third party tech, to build user-loved apps with Applicaster's app lifecycle management platform Zapp. Attend this session for your chance to win: Sony Wireless Noise Canceling Extra Bass Headphones ($250 value)

11:30 AM

Business & Strategy Track

B202: Connecting the Dots for Connected TV Advertising

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Michelle Abraham, Sr. Research Analyst, S&P Global Market Intelligence
Allen Klosowski, SVP, SpotX
Jay Prasad, Chief Strategy & Business Officer, VideoAmp
Gerrit Niemeijer, Chief Technology Officer, Ampersand
Reed Barker, Head of Advertising, Philo
Sean Doherty, Senior Vice President of Operations, Co-Founder, Wurl
Rachel Gantz, General Manager, Comscore

Description: Study after study shows increased viewing for all OTT services on the TV screen, and not just SVOD services. In fact, ad-supported services are growing in number, leading to an increase in connected TV ad inventory. If you’re an ad buyer, how do you take advantage of this growing source of addressable ad inventory? If you’re a provider with inventory, how do you connect with the buyers? What are the issues with connected TV advertising, and how are they being addressed? Join this panel representing both the supply and demand sides, as well as content services and platforms, for answers.

Technical & How-to Track

T202: Multicast: Has Its Time Finally Arrived?

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Dom Robinson, Chief Business Development Officer, Norsk by id3as

Description: IP multicast is 31 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.

OTT Leadership Summit

OTT202: 2019—The Year of Direct-to- Consumer Video Services?

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Rob Dillon, Principal Strategist, Dillon Media Ventures
Josette Bonte, Managing Director, Digital Media Strategies
Jim Long, CEO, Didja.tv
Joe Jorczak, Communications & Media Industry Leader, Zendesk
Mike Green, VP Strategic Development & Alliances, Brightcove

Description: As Disney, WarnerMedia, Apple, and NBCUniversal prepare to launch direct-to-consumer (DTC) services—joining existing ventures like ESPN+, CBS All Access, and DC Universe—will existing SVOD and live-linear services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime be able to compete? Or will the DTC offerings falter against the incumbents? This session examines the pros and cons of DTC services and evaluates the likelihood of success in the crowded OTT landscape.

Video Engineering Summit

VES202: Hardware Transcoding Solutions for the Cloud

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Jan Ozer, Owner, Streaming Learning Center

Description: Hardware codecs in FFmpeg, like those from Intel and NVIDIA, deliver significant performance gains over x264/x265, but have a reputation for lower quality and use a completely different command set. This session benchmarks the performance and quality of these codecs and details the FFmpeg command syntax. Attendees learn when and how to use these hardware codecs in VOD and live encoding workflows.

ESports & Sports Streaming Summit

ESS202: Moneyball: Monetizing Your Assets

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Greg Gemignani, Partner, Dickinson Wright
Rich Robinson, Senior Vice President, Digital, World Surf League
Steve Heffernan, Founder & Head of Product, Mux
Felix LaHaye, Founder & CEO, United Esports
Scott Sonnenberg, Chief Global Partnerships Officer, LA Clippers
Ryan James, Cofounder and Chief Design Officer, Unreel Entertainment
Darcy Lorincz, Chairman & President, WTFast

Title: Betting on the Future
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Description: Wagering and interactivity are about to become big parts of the streaming sports experience, whether that means adding onscreen trivia quizzes to keep fans engaged or betting for real money on a game’s outcome. Hear from the architects of our gambling future as they chart out a path for integrating bets and sports viewing.

Title: Doing Sponsor Integrations Right
Time: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Description: In the days of ad skipping, sponsors want to create unskippable moments that put their products in a good light. As plenty of brands have found, viewers will welcome branded integrations when they’re done the right way. Here’s how to create authentic moments that fit in with the action, pleasing sponsors and viewers alike.

Discovery Track

DT202: Discovery Track Session: Bitmovin, Signiant

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Steve Geiger, Solutions Director of Americas, Bitmovin
Jon Finegold, CMO, Signiant

Title: Data-Driven Video: Using Analytics to Determine When and Where to Optimize Your Video Pipeline
Time: 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Description: Streaming video is easy, right? However, delivering a seamless, enjoyable, and consistent video experience to users can be difficult - especially across a range of markets and platforms. Address the biggest and most common challenges in the video streaming market by measuring your viewers' Quality of Experience and video pipeline performance and using that data to derive actionable insights and make smart choices about how to optimize video encoding and playback. Attend this session for your chance to win: Notebooks for all attendees ($8 value each)

Title: Cloud Ingest Portals: Strategies for Acquiring Content from Providers Around the Globe
Time: 11:55 AM - 12:15 PM
Description: While there are plenty of tools for getting data into public and private clouds, professional media requirements are unique: File sizes are enormous and only getting bigger, video file specifications vary widely so file validation against exact specifications is critical, and metadata is core to unlocking business value so custom metadata entry is key. This session will discuss strategies to make it fast, easy, and secure to ingest content from around the globe. Attend this session for your chance to win: Roku Ultra ($99 value)

12:30 PM

Lunch Break - A Chance to Visit the Streaming Media Showcase

Length: 1 Hour

1:30 PM

Business & Strategy Track

B203: Video Machine Learning Demystified

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Jun Heider, CTO, RealEyes Media

Description: Do vendor machine learning models not get the gist of your video? If so, it’s time to create a custom model. Don’t worry if you’re not a data scientist. These days, there is a growing number of solutions available for everyone. During this session, we take a look at some of these solutions, talk through what it takes to use them, and discuss some tips and tricks to keep in mind as you do. By the end of this session, you should feel empowered to start tinkering even without contemplating a data science degree.

Technical & How-to Track

T203: Tackling the Latency Problem

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Andrew Crowe, Lead Engineer, Limelight Networks
Chris Vanderheyden, Senior Solution Architect, THEO Technologies
Siemen Van Asch, Director of Operations & Business Development North America, THEO Technologies

Title: HOW-TO: Latency, Real-Time Streaming, & WebRTC
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Description: Is latency impacting your customers’ experiences and your business? The good news is sub-second latency is within reach. In this session, you learn about WebRTC, what it takes to support it and the available APIs from MediaStream to RTCDataChannel and more, as well as the protocols that make it real time such as UDP, DTLS, SCTP and everything in-between. This session also addresses workflow best practices and implementation options.

Title: High Efficiency Streaming Protocol (HESP)
Time: 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Description: Ultra-low latency for live is the most important challenge that ABR streaming faces. THEO Technologies' HESP is a new streaming protocol, an alternative to HLS and DASH and streams over HTTP, that enables streaming services to be delivered with sub second latency, with a significantly reduced streaming bandwidth, at scale. Join the conversation to get the latest straight out of the THEO Innovation Lab.

OTT Leadership Summit

OTT203: Harness SSAI's Superpowers

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Nadine Krefetz, Consultant, Reality Software
Robert Jameson, Former Technical Director, Warner Bros Discovery/WarnerMedia/Turner Broadcasting
Stephen Gray, Director of Ad Technology Systems, Disney
Michael Dale, VP Engineering, Crunchyroll

Description: Server-side ad insertion (SSIA) claims to have superpowers: the ability to replace broadcast ads with or without SCTE markers, avoidance of viewer ad blockers, more standardized integration into each platform and better targeting and personalization are the superpowers SSAI brings to the streaming environment. The evil lurking in the wings is ad server ability to dynamically scale, mistaking true scale for fraud and getting standardized measurements to your partners. We also touch on reach, frequency and wholistic ad strategy to arm you with information for talking to business colleagues.

Video Engineering Summit

VES203: How to Customize Encoding, Packaging, & DRM for All Target Formats

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Yuriy Reznik, VP, Research, Brightcove

Description: Consumer devices have many different operating systems, firmware, and chipsets, which often require different codecs, packaging formats, and DRM schemes. To achieve optimal QoE for all viewers, distributors should customize delivery for each device. This session details how companies can leverage intelligence built into technology to understand the differences between platforms and automatically modify content as it’s delivered to achieve optimal QoE while minimizing encoding, packaging, and storage costs.

ESports & Sports Streaming Summit

ESS203: Overtime: Here’s What’s Next

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Jamie Horowitz, EVP Content, DAZN
Adnan Virk, Host, ChangeUp and DAZN Boxing
Paul Hodges, VP, San Francisco Giants
Ryan Steelberg, President, Veritone Inc
Sigmund Knapstad, CTO, Cutting Edge, a division of ALT Systems

Title: Fireside Chat: Navigating OTT vs. Linear Sports Production with DAZN’s Jamie Horowitz
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Description: In these early days of sports streaming, executives are realizing that the production approach for OTT sports differs vastly from traditional linear television. One of those executives making the transition is DAZN EVP of Content Jamie Horowitz. In this fireside chat, Horowitz will discuss early learnings on how to produce a compelling experience for the OTT generation, what specific strategies DAZN is implementing to separate itself, and how the fan viewing experience on direct-to-consumer services will continue to evolve.

Title: Case Study: Activating the San Francisco Giants' 60-Year Media Archive With AI
Time: 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Description: AI is now accelerating content discovery within the San Francisco Giants' vast media archive. Using AI solutions, the SF Giants can now bring its 60-year media archive to life and drive an advanced fan engagement strategy. AI enables rapid content search and accelerated asset sharing with media, global partners, internal stakeholders (including web and social media teams), and fans during live games in the ballpark.

Discovery Track

DT203: Discovery Track Session: THEO Technologies, MediaKind

Length: 1 Hour

Speaker(s):
Chris Vanderheyden, Senior Solution Architect, THEO Technologies
Siemen Van Asch, Director of Operations & Business Development North America, THEO Technologies
Erik Ramberg, MediaKind

Title: Low Latency Reality Check
Time: 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Description: As an industry, we have latency on the mind. It’s a hot topic, and we hear big promises surrounding Low Latency being made throughout the industry. So, how can you move from promise to production? We will share our wealth of industry experience, being at the forefront of low latency development, and experience working together with different partners in the ecosystem. Attend this session for your chance to win: Notebooks for all attendees ($10 value each)

Title: Delivering Innovative Consumer Experiences to End-Users Through DTC and OTT Aggregated Services
Time: 1:55 PM - 2:15 PM
Description: Today’s consumers watch hours of content, from different networks across a range of different devices. With so much content available at the push of a button and the opportunity to tailor it to individual user preferences, the industry is pushing to deliver high quality, highly personalized offerings directly to consumer screens. Although traditional broadcasters and other established content owners have access to some of the most valuable premium content, new entrants have used OTT to reach a wider audience. They are using cloud technology to scale and quickly introduce new functionality, allowing delivery over all networks to all devices and to introduce improved consumer viewing experiences (e.g. UHD and HDR content).However, the increasingly fractured user experience caused by separate applications leads to the question: what is the best way to deliver content to the consumer? This presentation explores how DTC and OTT aggregated services are enabling operators to deliver innovative consumer experiences directly to the end user, as well as outlining the opportunities and challenges for services a result of this competition. Attend this session for your chance to win: An international travel adapter ($15 value)

2:30 PM

Coffee, Networking, and Video Engineers Meetup in the Streaming Media Showcase

Length: 30 Minutes

3:00 PM

Business & Strategy Track

B204: Mixed Realities: VR, AR, & XR

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Gil Shefler, XR Evangelist, Kaltura
Ruben Duran, Documentary Filmmaker & Director of XRLabS, Houston Community College

Description: Consumers were supposed to pioneer “extended reality” (XR), the umbrella term for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). Instead, things took an unexpected turn: Corporations and universities are leading the way for training, learning, and conferencing use cases. These experiences entail streaming a wide range of large media assets including video, images, audio, and 3D objects. This session features a discussion with one of the leading XR labs in the United States.

Technical & How-to Track

T204: 5G & the Future of Streaming

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Jon Landman, Vice President of Sales, Teradek

Description: 5G marks a new era of cellular network connectivity. In this presentation, Jon Landman, VP of sales at Teradek, describes how 5G will make a difference for live streaming. Learn how you can use 5G to optimize your connectivity for more reliable broadcasts. Explore what exactly is 5G and how it differs from our current 4G LTE networks. Discover how you can combine 5G connectivity and HEVC compression to deliver higher-quality video while using less bandwidth.

OTT Leadership Summit

OTT204: Addressable TV: How Close Are We to Finding the Holy Grail?

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Brett Hurwitz, Advanced TV Business Lead, Verizon Media
Zeev Neumeier, Senior Vice President, Inscape
Kemal Bokhari, General Manager, Data & Analytics, DISH Media
Scott Worthem, Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, Comscore
Sean Doherty, Senior Vice President of Operations, Co-Founder, Wurl
JT Taylor, Head of Product Marketing, Synamedia

Description: From the beginning of the online video revolution, personalized video has been one of our loftiest and hardest-to-achieve goals. This session examines the state of addressable television for both content distributors and advertisers today, as well as what we can expect in the near future and what sort of privacy and data collection issues pose challenges to truly personalized video delivery.

Video Engineering Summit

VES204: LCEVC: The Latest MPEG Standard

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Guido Meardi, CEO & Co-Founder, V-Nova
Tarek Amara, Principal Video Specialist, Twitch

Description: Heard of MPEG-5 part 2 (LCEVC)? And EVC? VVC, AV1, AVS2? Anyone getting an acronym headache? Alongside VP9 and HEVC, these next-generation standards are vying to be the successor to H.264, but will there ever be a single leader again? With the single-standard, single-resolution media delivery chain broken, operators and service providers are looking for the best tool for the job in every part of their ecosystem. Compression experts from Facebook and V-Nova discuss the reasons why and reveal some of the secrets of the latest standard in the MPEG family, LCEVC—a low-complexity enhancement for all codecs, even non-MPEG ones.

ESports & Sports Streaming Summit

ESS204: Niche Sports Find a Home

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Jose Castillo, President, Flavor, Inc.
James Patrick, Head of Growth, Unreel.me
Loc Sondheim, Director, Ad Sales and Distribution, The World Poker Tour and Allied Esports
Lindsey Ross, Director of Rights Acquisition, FloSports
Jared Smith, Senior Vice President, Digital Products, WWE

Description: In the online video world, there’s no such thing as niche. Formerly remote events are now as close as a cellphone. Viewers are discovering a range of unusual events like they haven’t seen since The Wide World of Sports, and they can’t get enough. Here’s how several niche sports used online video to tap into a worldwide audience.

Discovery Track

DT204: Discovery Track Session: Ovation

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
William Marks, SVP of Business Development & Digital, Ovation
Elba Flamenco, Senior Director, Content Partnerships, Ovation
Jeff McCrann, Manager, Ovation
Stephen Friedman, EP, Creator, Host of “Chasing the Sun"

Title: Ovation, Journy, and “Chasing the Sun”: Leveraging a Linear Cable Network in a FAST (Free Ad-supported Streaming TV) World
Time: 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Description: Launched in fall 2017, Journy is the leading ad-supported travel-entertainment network at the intersection of travel, art, and culture. Powered by Ovation, America’s only arts network, and designed for the conscientious traveler, Journy's programming centers world travel, cultural tourism, and global citizenry. The team at Journy presents a case-study on how the niche streaming service has leveraged its distribution, partnerships, and programming to grow their audience. The discussion includes the importance of co-productions, and a close look at their popular series “Chasing the Sun;” they are joined by EP/Creator and Host, Stephen Friedman. Attend this session for your chance to win: Apple TV ($179 value)

4:00 PM

Closing Session

Closing Session: Low-Latency HTTP Live Streaming Update

Length: 45 Minutes

Speaker(s):
Roger Pantos, Media Streaming Engineer, Apple

Description: Earlier this year Apple announced Low-Latency HTTP Live Streaming which can deliver broadcast-level latency using industry-standard protocols such as HTTP/2. The specification is evolving towards release and incorporating feedback from the streaming community. Join Roger Pantos from Apple who will give an update on LL-HLS and answer common questions about it.