Whether coming from brands, consumers, media or a celebrity, the best live content is discoverable by everyone, everywhere on Twitter. Tweeting along with your favorite TV program has become integral to the television consumption experience and now with multiple video formats the experience gets even better. Mike Park, Twitter's Head of Video Development & Monetization, shares some of the latest trends on Twitter. From short-form video, Amplify instant replays and trending must-see TV clips, to entertaining Vines and live broadcasting with Periscope, Twitter is the home of what’s happening #NOW in streaming media.

Whether you want to broadcast a company-wide meeting or new employee training, streaming it through your internal network saves time, travel costs, and resources. This session dives into the formats, protocols, and architectures that are commonly used for distributing streams to all screens within an enterprise setting, plus touch on reaching remote and mobile workers. The panelists also share recommendations on achieving best-possible quality and securing content, along with best practices they’ve learned the hard way. Join us for this information-packed session on building an internal streaming solution to fit your business needs.

In this special session, Dan Rayburn demos the latest connected TV platforms from Samsung, Sony, Sharp, Vizio, LG, and TCL. Attendees get a hands-on overview of what each manufacturer has to offer in terms of the latest content apps, user interfaces, and video quality, and hear how these TV platforms are going to evolve over the coming years. (This will take place at the Device Pavilion, on the show floor.)

While broadcasters have largely been hamstrung by TV Everywhere’s structural challenges, programmers are now looking to break free and offer content away from the traditional MVPD bundle. This session discusses the rise of virtual MVPDs that have reimagined the traditional cable bundle, as well as a growing array of stand-alone, niche, direct-to-consumer video offerings. Hear what these services look like, the content they offer, and the impact they are having on the traditional pay TV business model.

Amazon Fire TV can help content creators and developers find new customers by making it easy to create media-based apps for the best-selling Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. In this presentation, we will dive into the Fire TV platform and show attendees how they can quickly publish their content as media apps using Amazon's open source Web App Starter Kit for Fire TV. Attendees will also hear from Wall Street Journal, a Starter Kit beta partner, about their experience rapidly developing a real-world Fire TV media app that provides a great viewing experience for their customers.

Learn how to simplify the process of deploying unified video experiences across all IP-connected devices to produce more content, seek out global audiences, and diversify distribution and revenue streams beyond YouTube. Attendees will learn how to build an effective multiscreen strategy that maximizes revenue and drives audience engagement anytime, everywhere and on any device.

As OTT grows to become a $15 billion a year business and streaming grows every day, consumers are starting to compare and contrast the services they experience—with results that spell opportunity for some, and disaster for others. This talk explores a recent Conviva Consumer Survey, as well as the conclusions from the 2015 Conviva Viewer Experience Report, to identify the increasing impatience of OTT consumers; the ever-growing expectations they bring to the table; and the tough economic realities of failing to execute an effective iterative publishing process.

Attend this session for your chance to win: Conviva grab bag with Conviva Swag items and an Amazon Gift card

This presentation explores the history of codecs, containers, and protocols and their impact on the present state of streaming. Learn what qt-faststart does, why h264_mp4toannexb is sometimes necessary, and the difference between streaming and pseudo-streaming. The presenter takes a deep dive into the structure of today’s most relevant media formats to discover the advantages and limitations of each and helps you pick and choose the right options.

This panel focuses on benchmarking total propagation and playback times for live and on-demand broadcast video workflows. What are the industry norms for publishing videos from creation to playback? Is there an ROI from increasing speed? What new approaches are happening to lower streaming propagation and publishing times? We discuss approaches to measuring the effectiveness of a video pipeline and how that compares to other companies in your vertical.

2015 is poised to be a huge year for OTT, with HBO and Showtime launching their services. These will join full OTT TV offerings like Dish’s Sling TV and potentially new services from Verizon and Vodafone. However, there are still many questions around how the TV ecosystem will evolve in light of these new services and how broadcasters and content owners will add additional revenue streams from new OTT services. This session discusses the best ways to monetize OTT content using the latest technologies, such as time- shifted television, device management, household management, deep personalization, social tools, and video applications for mobile and connected devices.

This session will introduce you to Amazon Fire TV and what you need to do to get your Android apps ready. What does your app’s 10 foot experience look like, how will your touch controls convert to a controller based experience, how will you sync game progress across all of your players devices, and what are the TV-specific gotchas like overscan. This session will get you started with Amazon’s free Fire TV developer SDK and provide plenty of tips for getting your app up and running.  Both Android Studio and Xamarin Studio will also be covered showing how you can target Fire TV using the same familiar developer environment.

Most enterprises are struggling to deliver high-quality video over their internal network. This session demonstrates a solution to this that uses the viewer’s devices as distribution nodes to create a very cost-efficient and easy-toiimplement solution with minimum impact on the network. 

Attend this session for your chance to win: iPad mini 3 with Retina Display ($400 value)

Storing, preparing, and delivering media content securely involves leveraging systems that can scale and ensure top-of-the-line security. Come find out how AWS can help you implement these workflows in the cloud using highly available, scalable, and secure cloud services such as Amazon S3 (storage), Amazon Elastic Transcoder (transcoding), and Amazon CloudFront (delivery). As part of this session, we will demo how you can build a media stack on AWS and use JW Player to deliver protected HTTP Live Streams (HLS) to various devices, including iOS, Android, and Windows desktops.

Attend this session for your chance to win: Amazon Fire TV — Streaming 1080p media player with voice search, Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video, games, and more ($99 value)

This session discusses how broadcasters, advertisers, and OTT providers are using video consumption data to provide the best end- to-end user experience. The discussion centers on identifying which devices are most popular, which ones provide the most engagement, and the impact they have on OTT services. Learn how to gauge the overall success of your content business based on engagement metrics, user segmentation, globalization, and platform partnership.

Ever wanted to zoom in to a player during a live basketball game, or have your cellular network work with your phone to avoid re-buffering? This session explores some of the new technologies being brought to the table by the next version of MPEG-DASH to address these and other enhancements in OTT delivery. This session covers server and network assisted DASH (SAND), improved DASH streaming using HTTP 2.0, WebSockets, and tile streaming using spatial relationship descriptors.

Time and cost are huge factors when media publishers consider which device platforms they need to support. In this session, a mix of developers and content publishers discuss the strategic view of supporting multiple devices and the realistic cost for deploying across multiple platforms. Learn the logical operations that can easily be repurposed and what must be unique to each platform. Using the context of existing Windows, iOS, and Android applications that the panelists have been involved with, the conversation also covers the most recent Windows 10 announcements and outlines what is required for content owners to deliver their services to connected devices.

The case for H.265, like most new video technologies, is compelling: better compression and faster/cheaper delivery over lower bitrates. For any content distributor seeking to distribute content to mobile devices over congested 3G/4G/LTE networks, these traits are highly desirable. However, the reality of real-world choices can quickly deflate any optimistic plans. In this session, learn if and how H.265 compression and deployment options can be utilized in typical online streaming workflows, and more importantly, if your target audiences can benefit. Examples of x264 and x265 output are compared for bitrate, compression time, and file size.

Gone are the days of needing a production truck to broadcast a live show, but there are still many challenges producers face when live streaming on the road. In this session you will learn some of the tricks of the trade in addition to some new portable production solutions to make your job easier.

Attend this session for your chance to win: Full copy of vMix 4K software ($700 value)

RTL II, a top German TV station, has over 2 petabytes of videos and creates over 200TB of new content a year. To meet growing market share, online video demand, and a planned move to 4K resolution, RTL II needed to dramatically improve their storage infrastructure performance, density, and efficiency. In this session, you will learn how to evaluate software-defined storage versus traditional storage appliances. You will see the design and architecture of distributed storage software (Scality RING) on industry standard servers (HP ProLiant) over three sites, serving multiple applications and workloads in a single protected environment.

As HEVC begins to find its stride in the industry, operators are grappling with the challenge of whether and how to begin to swap out MPEG-2 and possibly AVC encoders for HEVC codecs. While HEVC is still many months away from mainstream deployment, it is important for companies to take an ROI-centric look at the technology and evaluate where and when it makes sense to incorporate HEVC into transcoding and content delivery workflows. This presentation discusses factors to keep in mind when evaluating HEVC products and while strategically planning future digital media road maps, updated with findings up to NAB 2015.

This session discusses how traditional and nontraditional media companies are looking at extending YouTube monetization to other platforms and apps that give them greater control and flexibility. Hear how content owners can diversify their content distribution and convert and seek out a new global audience, and find out what kind of revenue can be garnered from various platforms. Learn how to expand your content distribution and audience for new revenue opportunities using syndication technologies and apps that are facilitating these expansions.

Consumers are increasingly using mobile devices to watch professionally produced content, and video distributors are responding with a variety of offers, including TV Everywhere to enhance traditional pay TV, VOD libraries available over the top (OTT), and even live channel packages available OTT. In many cases, these offers are being targeted primarily to mobile device viewing, but may also be complementary to a TV viewing experience. This session discusses these trends and opportunities to monetize multi-screen viewing, including subscriptions, rentals, electronic sell-through, and advertising.

This session educates attendees on how to develop a channel using Roku’s software developer kit and Roku’s proprietary BrightScript language, from basic VOD channels to full subscription-based services. Attendees learn about the resources and services available to developers to best manage their channel, including integrated billing, and best practices for creating a great streaming channel. The session also looks at the different ways to monetize content through advertising, on-device promotion, and other marketing opportunities.

Learn about the advantages for deploying a virtualized workflow in a private or public cloud powered by Intel architecture to meet needs for growth, quality delivery, and diversified services. Understand how cloud workflows can be used to ingest, transcode, protect, package, stream, and analyze media on-demand or live to multiscreen devices. Benefits for communications providers and large media companies include simplification of equipment design, reduced development costs, and a scalable solution.

The rollout of advanced broadband technologies will usher in 1Gbps bandwidth to the home, enabling multi-screen 4K/UHD video. The internet traffic growth will challenge traditional content delivery models and require big changes for CDNs, carriers, and content providers. Learn about next-generation edge delivery and what it means to subscriber growth and time spent.

Attend this session for your chance to win: A Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 Elite Edition Quadricopter($299 value)

As video continues to proliferate on connected devices, programmatic advertising on this marketing channel is maturing well beyond its real-time bidding roots. Increasingly, automated technologies are empowering buyers and sellers alike to tap into the gold mine of data available to more precisely segment and target audiences, and to optimize spend and revenue across video content. This session explores how advertisers, agencies, and publishers are engaging programmatic platforms to take their video ad strategies to the next level. Learn about the rise of private marketplaces, automation, and premium video content colliding, as well as the economics behind it all.

When streaming is mentioned with regard to education, distance learning is often the only use case that comes to mind. However, there are numerous other uses for live and on-demand video streaming in educational institutions, including sporting events, commencements, concerts, debates, and flipped classrooms. This session dives into detailed educational streaming workflows and gives examples of how streaming can be used to engage students, athletes, fans, alumni, and donors. Top professionals from high school and college-level institutions share their experiences, including successes and pitfalls.

In this special session, Dan Rayburn presents a hands-on comparison showcasing the leading streaming devices and content platforms. Devices from Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Roku, and Sony are compared, along with content services from Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, MLB, YouTube, NFL, and many others. Attendees also get to see a demo of some of the newest content offerings in the market from Sling TV and HBO, and learn how to stream content from phones and tablets and display it on their TVs. (This will take place at the Device Pavilion, on the show floor.)

With so many devices, browsers, and operating systems in the market, companies are often left with confusing choices when it comes to their video players. Should you build a player yourself or use an openly available one like JWPlayer or Video.js? What technologies should be used? How do you build a streaming video application without any plugins? Are Flash, Silverlight, and other plugin solutions still a viable answer today? This session explores these questions and digs into the code necessary to build a modern streaming application.

The rise of social networks and their role in augmenting our TV and video experiences is quickly taking shape. When you consider the size of addressable audiences (and massive number of video views) on Facebook and Twitter alone, it s no surprise that major network brands look to them as table stakes destinations. In this session, Anvato will explain the value in social syndication and offer suggestions on how you can distribute content in near real-time to these major sites without causing operational headaches or breaking your budget.

Attend this session for your chance to win: Apple TV ($69 value)

Bridging the gap from the traditional video ecosystem to a flexible IP-based OTT platform poses significant technical challenges for content owners and distributors alike. Discover how Comcast confronted some of these challenges and pioneered a transition to a TV Everywhere platform while maintaining the highest level of content quality, expanding audience reach and enabling emerging monetization models.

Attend this session for your chance to win: NBC Universal themed gift basket including SNL memorabilia and USA Olympic branded items ($150 value)