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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This session takes a deep dive into how some of the leading content owners address redundancy in their live encoding and delivery workflows. Hear what technical challenges keep these video broadcasters up at night and how some of the leading experts mitigate risk through their encoding stack, CDN delivery, scalable authentication methods, and more. Learn the best practices for reacting and responding in real time to issues in your encoding and delivery workflow to ensure a seamless experience for your viewers.

We’ll start with a mobile device as our video source, encode the video locally,push it to a cloud-based streaming server, create multiple quality levels to support adaptive bitrate streaming, record the video for later on-demand playback, and deliver the live feed with global any-screen streaming.

Attend this session for your chance to win: A Wowza Elleven Amped Checkpoint-friendly Compu-backpack and a $50 coupon for use with our new service, Wowza Streaming Cloud ($135 value)

This session is all about maximizing revenue in a rapidly evolving hybrid TVE and OTT worlds. How do companies continue to support the TVE ecosystem while taking advantage new OTT opportunities? What are the best options for optimizing OTT revenue? How will a la carte offerings from cable providers impact long term OTT monetization strategies of content owners? What is the future role of TVE authentication in an evolving OTT world? Are new monetization strategies such as membership clubs, paywalls and device based pricing models working in the video world? We'll tackle these and other key questions facing the streaming video industry today.

Attend this session for your chance to win: A $200 Apple gift card and a Zuora SWAG Pack ($300 value)

For the past few years, the manufacturers and content producers have been championing 4K as the latest and greatest technology. This session cuts through the 4K hype and discusses what real-world impact 4K could have and what the requirements really are to stream in 4K. It also tackles the 4K/UHD definition division, physical media versus streaming, and bandwidth requirements to make 4K possible. Hear experts from various corners of the industry tell you what you need to know about 4K, when it will become adopted, and what you should plan for.

The Media Source Extensions and Encrypted Media Extensions are the standardized toolsets that enable browsers to deliver adaptive streaming and digital rights management without plug-ins. This session details what these extensions are, how they’re being supported by the different browser and tools vendors, and how soon those delivering premium content will switch over from plug-in-based technologies to these standards. If you are considering replacing Flash with HTML5 standards-based technologies, this session details how and when you can do it.

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.

Video streaming hardware has evolved significantly in recent years. With so much on the market, aimed at such a wide variety of applications, it can be difficult to determine which products and features are best suited to your particular needs. This session helps you make sense of it all by explaining each key feature and providing examples. Expect to leave knowing how and when each streaming hardware feature provides good bang for the buck.

Attend this session for your chance to win: DVI2USB 3.0 — High performance video grabber capable of capturing high quality video and images from any device with a DVI/VGA/HDMI signal. Portability and flexibility is why many AV professionals rely on DVI2USB 3.0 to capture high quality video and audio no matter the signal. ($699 value)

The 'brand as publisher' model is increasingly becoming the expectation for marketers and brand teams - forcing many of them to create more content than ever before. Meanwhile the vendor options to generate content are growing exponentially, with more and more brands taking on the responsibility of taking content creation in house. This session will address the challenges and opportunities associated with these options. Learn how brands grow an audience and keep up with the virtually demand for content. How do they choose what platforms and partnerships to strike up to ensure the content is seen? We'll explore all of these questions with our panelists of fortune 500 brand managers, agencies, and publishers.

Video has literally transformed the consumer experience for news, and demand will continue to increase. News organizations have to adapt or risk becoming irrelevant. At this session, attendees hear from startups to industry leaders about how news organizations are differentiating their offerings by integrating video into their content to meet this demand. The panel covers a variety of topics important to creating and delivering content to broad and niche audiences, including reliance on UGC to inform breaking stories or create features for broad appeal and how business models are adapting and responding to evolving audience consumption patterns. It concludes by looking ahead to what’s next in video for the newsroom.

Traditionally in enterprises, video streaming and video conferencing have been deployed as two completely separate solutions. However, companies are figuring out that integrating these solutions provides tremendous value to their organization. This session discusses trends across unified communications, video conferencing infrastructure, production studios and how these trends allow for streaming technology to be budgeted as part of a larger video communications platform.

It goes without saying that consumption of video is changing as new platforms, formats, and industry dynamics evolve. From the dawn of 4K to Snapchat Discover, the quality, quantity, and sheer variety of video experiences are growing every day. This panel looks at the future of broadcast and video services in a multi-screen world, attempting to peer in to the near future to explore issues both at the fore, such as 4K, and still on the fringe, such as virtual reality.