For major sporting events, it is no longer enough to produce a traditional broadcast television program alone. Fans want more access to their favorite players, sports, and teams in real time. Through live webcasting, fans now have a VIP pass to almost every aspect of a major sporting event. In this session learn from top sports brands how they are expanding their reach for large- scale sporting events with live streaming. The session covers driving fan awareness of live, sports-related content with shoulder programming, social media integration, distribution of highlights across a variety of platforms, and more.

This session describes what cloud encoding is and how it works for both live and on-demand applications. Learn the types of applications that work well with cloud encoding and the factors to consider when choosing an on-demand and live cloud encoding service. The presentation also includes qualitative and performance results from recent reviews of some of today’s leading cloud based encoding platforms, including Amazon, Encoding.com, Elemental Cloud, and Zencoder.

Learn how to work around the the potential problems that may arise from streaming live video on-location. Topics include security and protection of streaming technology and how infrastructure decisions affect outcomes.

Learn how to quickly build a live streaming workflow in just minutes! We’ll start with a mobile device or webcam as our video source, encode the video locally, push it to a local or cloud-based streaming server, create multiple quality levels to support adaptive bitrate streaming, record the video for later on-demand playback, and then deliver with global any-screen streaming.

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With video rapidly growing as a medium for communication across all areas of the enterprise—marketing, training, collaboration, compliance—how can you take advantage of your existing investments in content management, knowledge management, and search platforms to make video a first-class content asset? This panel discusses and recommends best practices for helping ensure your videos can be found, shared, and watched in the right context and within the platforms already in use today.

Want to make your webcasts more engaging with interactivity and social sharing? This presentation will show you how to integrate social media including Tweets and Facebook content into your live production.

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Research shows that consumers are looking for ease and flexibility when it comes to accessing content, and they're willing to pay to access to the premium content they want, when and where they want to watch it. This session will explore how you can launch an agile, subscription-based content business that maximizes your revenue and keeps customers coming back.

It is one thing to stream a live event for free but another thing entirely when people have paid to see it or the event is being sponsored. This session explores the technical, operational, and business challenges presented when your live streamed events just cannot falter. This session covers the best technical approaches to take, what operational precautions to put in place, and what contingencies to be prepared for in advance. Learn the best practices from experts who have successfully pulled off live events, and hear some of the things they encountered that they never expected.

Video in the classroom isn't a new concept, but as streaming media becomes a mainstream staple in the household, it’s only natural for the technology to trickle into education. This session explores how universities are bringing live and VOD streaming into the classroom, including a closer look at how it’s being deployed (with architecture diagrams), which use cases are showing the best success, and best practices that should be followed.

The internet has become a battleground of major content providers competing to support critical business events at unprecedented scale. This session will discuss the risks of online events, outline some risk mitigation techniques, and also detail effective methodology for supporting customer events, whether it's Black Friday for an e-commerce business, an important download release/patch for a software or gaming business, broadcast-scale streaming events like the World Cup, or even an imminent web security threat.

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Providing a great video experience is becoming more challenging. But it’s not because of anything you’re doing. It's because of what you aren’t doing. In this session, you’ll learn about the "broadcast quality generation," how they are redefining how you deliver video, and what some of the world’s biggest media companies and broadcasters are doing today to deliver exceptional video experiences.

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There are almost as many ways to stream live video as there are opportunities to do so. Don’t let the seemingly daunting task of deploying the technology dissuade you from streaming sporting events, concerts, news conferences, company meetings, and other real-time content to new and growing audiences. This session explores the benefits and risks of an on-premises streaming solution versus using the cloud, and some of the hybrid options in between.

Streaming technology has reached the point where it can be used as an cost-effective substitute for fiber runs at the enterprise level and replace satellite links for global communications. This session will present the trade-offs and benefits of deploying streaming technology for point-to-point video links and discuss some current implementations.

How nice would it be to watch an HD video on a wireless device with no stuttering or stopping? 71% of all internet traffic passes through a Wi-Fi or mobile network on its way to a wireless device. What impact does this “wireless last hop” have on end-to-end streaming performance, and how is this affecting overall customer satisfaction?

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This session discusses the best practices to improve streaming video with faster stream starts and reduced buffering through the application of media optimization. Learn how optimization of encoded files at the network ingest point helps to reduce distribution and storage costs, network peering congestion, and improve user experience for mobile devices while increasing streaming performance across Wi-Fi networks. Hear how to apply media optimization to your video content to gain smoother streaming and cheaper delivery costs, all while maintaining a high- quality user experience.

Nearly all major cable television networks have done online television syndication deals, bringing episodes of iconic series to the web. In this session, learn how the business and technical leads from some cable television networks joined forces to leverage video metadata to create unique and deeply immersive viewer experiences. The session discusses how these broadcasters created an enhanced viewer experience using video transcription, in-video search, and related content and how they drive monetization through the use of pre-roll ads and context-sensitive calls to action to their ecommerce partners.