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OTT Leadership Summit
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Live Streaming Summit
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8:00 AM
Coffee & Networking Break in the Expo
Length: 1 Hour
9:00 AM
Keynote
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Chief Technology Officer, Hulu
Description: The definition of TV has fundamentally changed, with cord cutting rising to 33 million adults in 2018 and experiences becoming even more personalized for viewers. Hulu sits at the center of this shift and has experienced a massive amount of growth and change in the past year. With more subscribers than the largest U.S. cable and satellite providers (25 million and counting!), the company needed to further personalize and strengthen its viewer experience while scaling its business and service to account for this rapid growth. In this keynote, Hulu CTO Dan Phillips reflects on his first year at the company and discusses what’s on the horizon for the streaming giant.

9:45 AM
Keynote
Length: 15 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, CEO, Red5
Description: Chris Allen, CEO and technical Co-Founder of Red5 Pro will talk about the new and emerging use cases for real-time, live broadcasts capable of scaling to a massive audience. He will explain why efforts to improve HTTP based protocols are essentially futile, and that the future of live broadcasts will not be measured in seconds, but in milliseconds. Chris is going to dispel the myth that WebRTC can’t scale, and show how Red5 Pro customers are currently changing what’s possible with live broadcasting.

10:00 AM
Coffee & OTT Meet Up in the Expo
Length: 30 Minutes
10:30 AM
Business & Strategy Track
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, Sr. Research Analyst, S&P Global Market Intelligence
, Director, Roku
, SVP, Strategic Initiatives, FreeWheel Advertisers
, Senior Vice President, Advanced Advertising, Nielsen
, Head of Agency and Brand Partnerships, Adobe Ad Cloud TV
Description: Study after study shows increased viewing for all OTT services on the TV screen, 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
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, CEO, RealEyes Media
Description: Have you been dating just one CDN for what feels like forever? While monogamy may be good for personal relationships, it can create a lot of risk when it comes to streaming media delivery. As CDN delivery continues to become more commoditized, working through the solution to have an intelligent multi-CDN solution in place is critical for widespread critical delivery at scale. This session dives into the options, providers, and solutions and examines how and what to consider. It also shares some of the “gotchas” around security and implementation that need to be accounted for in the client and infrastructure, as well as how to take it to the next level with advanced concepts.

OTT Leadership Summit
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, Principal Strategist, Dillon Media Ventures
, Director, Alvarez & Marsal
, Senior Vice President, XUMO
, Independent Consultant, MAD Perspectives
, Executive Vice President of Development & Programming, Eureka Productions
, TMT Consultant, DMG Consulting
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
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, 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 detail the FFmpeg command syntax. Attendees learn when and how to use these hardware codecs in your VOD and live encoding workflows.

Live Streaming Summit
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, CEO, Jolokia
, Principal Advanced Service Architect, Limelight Networks

, Head of Product Management | Streaming, Edgecast
, Sr. Principal Solutions Architect, AWS
Description: It is unacceptable for online video to start buffering right before a game-winning play or an award winner is announced. The demands on OTT providers are increasing with the demand for live video. Having a robust content delivery network as the backbone of your streaming infrastructure is key. This group of providers and end users discusses delivery at scale to ensure consistent stream quality, which keeps the viewers happy and the valuable ad dollars safe.

Discovery Track
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, CEO, nanocosmos
, Product Marketing Manager, Akamai Technologies
, Professor / Chief Science Officer, University of Waterloo / SSIMWAVE Inc.

Title: Ultra-Low Latency Live Streaming With nanoStream Cloud & H5Live Player
Time: 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Description: Interactive live streaming requires ultra-low-latency live playback on any device for true audience engagement. In this presentation Oliver Lietz will talk about the biggest challenges of new interactive use cases and how nanoStream Cloud with the unique integrated nanoStream H5Live Player helps businesses worldwide to take their interactive live streams around the world in one second. Attend this session for your chance to win: nanoStream Cloud Medium Package for 1 month ($499 value)


Title: What Does "Good" Look Like: Toward an Industry Standard for Measuring Streaming Video quality
Time: 10:55 AM - 11:15 AM
Description: Whether its customer satisfaction or higher transport costs, the quest for video quality impacts bottom lines. While buffering/startup times are obvious concerns, what’s needed is an objective standard for “Good” against which performance is measured all the way through the video delivery chain, enabling most efficient delivery of optimal quality to the end-viewer. Attend this session for your chance to win: A Roku Streaming Stick ($50 value) and 10 gift cards for a variety of streaming services ($25 each)

11:45 AM
Business & Strategy Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Consultant, Reality Software
, Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft
, Sr Manager, Audio/Video Coding, Amazon Chime
, Global Sales Executive, IBM Watson
, Co-Founder and CEO, Iris.tv
, Executive Vice President, Valence Media
Description: AI & ML can bring automation to a number of different areas including content production, discovery and processing. This panel examines the business decisions and impacts of AI to streaming applications; including the ways in which this technology will help build stronger media and technology companies plus how you can start to incorporate this into your workflow to stay competitive.

Technical & How-To Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Streaming Solutions Architect, videoRx
Description: With the “end of Flash” just around the corner in 2020, you need to be using common standards to reach all of your target audiences. For those who deliver live video within a web browser, HTML5 has had plenty of time to play catch-up and surpass Flash capabilities— or has it? In this session, learn which transport technologies (or combination thereof) from HTTP, WebRTC, RTSP, and even RTMP work best, when to use them, and where to put your development dollars for maximum return.

OTT Leadership Summit
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Partner, Altman Solon
, Principal Strategist, Dillon Media Ventures
, Senior Vice President, XUMO
, Vice President of Product, Fandango
Description: As online video services and, increasingly, cable and broadcast operators work to build competitive streaming offers, understanding consumer interests is key: What content do they want to watch? What features are important? What devices do they use? How much are they willing to pay? And how do these behaviors and priorities vary by consumer segment? This session explores findings from Altman Vilandrie & Co.’s annual consumer video survey, including consumer preferences for specific programs, interest in live news and sports, monetizing OTT, and other areas of critical importance to our industry. It includes a panel discussion featuring top executives from the TV industry.

Video Engineering Summit
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Development Manager, RealEyes
Description: CMAF is a format that can create one set of media files deliverable via DASH and HLS (and other ABR formats), potentially saving big dollars for encoding, packaging, storage, and delivery. Decoupling manifests from the media segment formats and being able to deliver the same media segments anywhere is a huge win. With DRM encryption requirements on the rise as well, CMAF offers the best path forward for reach and capability while reducing the formats and versions necessary to hit every platform. Attendees leave knowing the pros and cons of CMAF and with a high-level road map for deploying it.

Live Streaming Summit
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Managing Director, Mainstream Media, LLC
, Technical Director, Suite Spot
, Producer & Associate Director, Liz Hart Productions
, Senior Audio Engineer & Tech Manager, LiveX
Description: Behind every successful live stream is a team of experts troubleshooting issues and, ideally, anticipating problems before they even begin. From the producer managing the team to the audio engineer mixing for the audience, every role is key to the success of the show. This session features panelists representing key roles in a control room. Live streaming demands a special set of skills that can save even the biggest budget broadcast. This team takes you through steps to make your next live production a success.

Discovery Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Sales Director, Intertrust
, Principal Sales Engineer, Bitmovin

Title: How DRM Has Evolved to Meet the Challenges of the Online Video Industry
Time: 11:45 AM - 12:05 PM
Description: This session addresses Intertrust's ExpressPlay DRM service and how it provides comprehensive device reach, scales operations for audiences who tune in by the millions, while simplifying license acquisition workflow for faster time to market and enabling client side re-packaging to reduce CDN and storage costs. We also describe watermarking, why it matters and how it integrates with DRM to simplify deployment. Attend this session for your chance to win: One Intertrust T-Shirt ($25 value) and two Bagito reusable tote bags ($15.00 value, 2 winners)


Title: Making Live Streaming More ‘Live’ with LL-CMAF
Time: 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM
Description: Latency is a major challenge for the online video industry. To tackle it, many video providers have taken steps to optimise their live streaming workflows and provide near real-time streaming experiences for end users, resulting in more engaged audiences. This session will present the latest advances in Common Media Application Format (CMAF), particularly around Low Latency, or LL-CMAF explain how it can be used as part of a standardised transport container using MPEG-DASH and HLS, and present some of the main reasons for its adoption. Attend this session for your chance to win: The first 50 attendees will receive a Bitmovin notebook.

12:30 PM
Lunch Break - visit the Expo
Length: 1 Hour 15 Minutes
1:45 PM
Business & Strategy Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, VP, Dailymotion
Description: Today’s consumers are interested in being targeted in different ways with authentic, relevant, and creative content. Dailymotion’s VP of global programmatic and strategic partnerships, Nola Solomon, will examine the benefits and challenges of hyper-personalization and what tools marketers can leverage to deliver an effective personalized experience across devices. 

Technical & How-To Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Owner, Streaming Learning Center
Description: Per-title encoding techniques customize the encoding ladder to match the encoding complexity of the source, saving bandwidth on easy-to-compress videos and ensuring the quality of more complex footage. Codec specialist Jan Ozer compares the efficiency, implementation issues, and costs of multiple commercially available and open-source alternatives for live and VOD per-title encoding. Learn what per-title encoding is, how the various options work, and which is the best option for you.

OTT Leadership Summit
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, CEO & Co-Founder, Datazoom
, Director Product, Video, Mobile, and OTT, NBC News Digital
, Director of Product Management, Kaltura
, Principal Advanced Service Architect, Limelight Networks
Description: What do you want to do with your data? For too long, data has been framed as a means to some end—collect data, compute analytics, interpret, then react. Today, we propose a new mentality: data as an end in itself. Join our panel as we dive deep into the questions video distributors need to ask in order to build a real-time feedback loop to guide their distribution strategies: How does data latency influence its usefulness? How can normalized data unite disjointed datasets and systems? What are some examples of automated processes already employed by companies today, and what kind of data infrastructure will it take to develop more automated processes within the video technology stack going forward?

Video Engineering Summit
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, CTO, RealEyes Media
Description: Machine learning as a service (MLaaS), a subset of artificial intelligence (AI), has come a long way over the last couple years. Now is the time to really make MLaaS work for you and enhance your media discoverability and insights. These enhancements can range from video searchability and discoverability, automating transcript and translation generation, or even pinpointing specific faces or people within your live surveillance streams in an efficient manner. The key to harnessing this power is to learn to determine your needs and code against the numerous ML service APIs that are out there to make them work for you. Attendees walk away with an understanding of how to harness the power of AI machine learning to increase the ROI of their video libraries and build some compelling and innovative intelligence from their libraries of dark media data.

Live Streaming Summit
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Head of Production, LiveX
, Head of East Coast Sales, Mobcrush
, Live Video Creator and CEO, Stratigro Social Media Marketing
, Founder & CEO, Mighteor
, Esports and Sports Content Strategy, NAGRA
Description: Every social platform has its own best practices for boosting and monetizing your content. With all of these different rules, it can be difficult to know which tips help and which tricks hurt. Targeted native and branded content advertising are standard for premium channels, but creative producers are exploiting the advantages of social platforms to create new income sources. These panelists share their successes and discuss the tools needed for monetizing in the social realm.

Discovery Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Director, Digital Strategy, UI Centric
, Director of Sales Engineering, Wowza Media Systems

Title: The OTT Evolution: Designing the User Experience of the Future
Time: 1:45 PM - 2:05 PM
Description: In the new direct-to-consumer world, whether you're an engineer, a designer, a business lead or a product owner, you need to know what attracts and retains customers. You're competing with the likes of Netflix, Amazon, the incoming Disney and Apple offerings plus many others and you must stand out. Come hear what steps are key to unlocking customer success when it comes to technology advances and storytelling formats.Attend this session for your chance to win: Free UX audit (limited to 1.5 days of work) ($2,000 retail value)


Title: Low-Latency CMAF: The Next Big Thing in Live Streaming?
Time: 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Description: With more viewers ditching traditional satellite and cable services each year, the race for speedier live-stream delivery is in full force. Low-latency CMAF 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 CMAF next. Attend this session for your chance to win: $250 Amazon gift card

2:45 PM
Business & Strategy Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Founder & CEO, Mighteor
Description: YouTube ranks as the second largest search engine in the world, and more than 1.9 billion people use Facebook Live monthly. Companies that aren’t incorporating live video into their marketing strategies are missing out on valuable customers. In today’s mobile-first world, live video serves as a way to connect directly and instantly with the followers you have acquired on your social channels. In this session, attendees learn how to increase the ROI of live video through identifying a single call to action, advertising your live event, showing off your product/services, and interacting with those who tune in.

Technical & How-To Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Chief Business Development Officer, Norsk by id3as
, Chief Architect, Media Cloud Engineering, Akamai Technologies
, CEO, Unified Streaming
, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation
, Commercial General Manager - Targeted Delivery Solutions, Imagine Communications
Description: A good packaging strategy can bring numerous key benefits to your operational flexibility. This session asks panelists to talk about their own packaging challenges and strategies and looks at how the emergence of dynamic packaging can provide significant operational cost savings as well as higher levels of security and flexibility as audiences evolve and change.

OTT Leadership Summit
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, President, BritBox
Description: The joint BBC/ITV venture BritBox appeals to Anglophiles in the U.S. and Canada with a deep catalog of British television content. In this case study, BritBox shares the secrets of its success, including achieving the right size for profitability and meaningful reach, building strong brand identity and a sense of community, careful curation, and using sophisticated discovery algorithms to keep viewers tuned in and prevent churn.

Video Engineering Summit
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Codec Engineer, Bitmovin
Description: The next great codec battle will be between the Alliance Open Media’s AV1 codec and MPEG’s Versatile Video Coding (VVC) technology. In this talk, Bitmovin codec engineer Christian Feldman discusses the coding tools and performance of both codecs, and the lessons that he’s learned implementing AV1 in Bitmovin’s encoding stack for cloud and on-premise deployment. Learn the pros and cons of both codecs in this 45-minute technical dive.

Live Streaming Summit
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Director of Sales Engineering, Wowza Media Systems
, VP of Engineering, Mirror
, CEO & Founder, NGCodec
, CEO, Streaming Global
Description: Low latency is moving the needle for live interactivity. With the growth of live gaming and polling there is a greater need for a fast, reliable connection, and many companies are taking on the task of delivering it for their clients. With a growing market, how are they using this friendly competition to spur innovation? Come hear how low-latency video transport leaders are shaping the landscape for the interactivity of tomorrow. The future of live is here, now.

Discovery Track
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, CTO, HellaStorm, Inc.
, Senior Solutions Architect, THEOplayer
, Sales Director, THEO Technologies NV

Title: Changing the Economics of Streaming Video - Full Stack Cloud Services Using Specialized Hardware Acceleration
Time: 2:45 AM - 3:05 AM
Description: Building a video delivery architecture requires integrating many disparate systems. In this session we will discuss how combining networking infrastructure, programmable FPGAs, a hardware-accelerated object store, high-availability storage services and hardware-accelerated Docker containers on a single card can change the economics of video delivery. Attend this session to win: Nvidia Shield TV 4K HDR streaming media player ($180 value).


Title: Low Latency Reality Check
Time: 3:10 AM - 3:30 AM
Description: It’s a hot topic, and we hear big promises surrounding Low Latency throughout the industry. So, how can you move from promise to production? Let us share our wealth of industry experience, being at the forefront of low latency development, and experience working together with different partners in the ecosystemAttend this session for your chance to win: THEO Technologies notebooks for all audience members.

3:30 PM
Coffee & Content Delivery Meet Up in the Expo
Length: 30 Minutes
4:00 PM
Business & Strategy Track
Length: 30 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Consultant, Reality Software
, CTO, GriOcean
Description: Is ATSC 3.0 a game changer that will enable the next generation of content distribution and monetization? The promise of ATSC 3.0 is the ability to multicast not only audio and video, but data as well. Live streaming often has the inability to scale to TV sized audiences, in part because it does not supporting multicast delivery. If ATSC 3.0 can do this, plus allow for targeted personalized advertising, the broadcast world will have combined the digital promise of targeting with the audience support of broadcast, essentially changing the broadcast vs. streaming playing field. How will this work with legacy CDN's and new 5G pipes? What does broadcast-as-a service mean? How do convereged OTT-OTA apps work in the future? How does this help deliver the right content to the right audience? Come to this fireside chat for the answers to these questions and more.

Technical & How-To Track
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, Founding Executive Director, Help Me Stream Research Foundation
, Principal Video Specialist, Twitch
, Manager, Engineering - Video Technology, Vimeo
, Sr Manager, Audio/Video Coding, Amazon Chime
, Senior Engineering Manager, Video Infrastructure & CMS, Ellation
Description: While H.264 has dominated the last decade of streaming, the market is moving toward a new generation of codecs like VP9, HEVC, AV1, and VVC—as well as proprietary codecs—that offer significantly better compression but much more fragmented support in browsers and devices. This roundtable discusses how savvy businesses can migrate to the new technology and get the benefits of more efficient compression without sacrificing audiences.

OTT Leadership Summit
Length: 1 Hour
Video Engineering Summit
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):

, Professor / Chief Science Officer, University of Waterloo / SSIMWAVE Inc.
Description: Companies on the cutting edge of video engineering and development share the latest technologies that are pushing the industry forward.


Title: Media Routing in the Cloud
Time: 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Description: When news is breaking, broadcasters need fast, on-demand ways of getting their content from the field to production, even from unexpected locations worldwide. By leveraging the SRT protocol to deliver media across the global Microsoft Azure fibre network, the SRTHub helps broadcasters and video service providers easily build live and file-based content routing workflows on-demand, with security and reliability.


Title: Unifying Monitoring and Metrics to Maximize Viewer QoE
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Description: For streaming providers delivering content over multiple infrastructures to multiple makes and models of consumer devices and pay-TV set-top boxes, optimizing customer satisfaction requires advanced QoE metrics that encompass every step of the video delivery chain. These include accurate monitoring to maximize performance of large-scale video distribution networks, as well as efficient problem identification, localization and resolution. Traditional methods operate independently at different points along the video delivery chain, reporting partial, inconsistent and fragmented measurements. This session will discuss how unified end-to-end quality monitoring—instantaneous and correlated measurement at every stage of delivery—is fundamental to understanding the final effect on the viewer’s quality-of-experience.

Live Streaming Summit
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, CEO & Founder, NGCodec

Title: Recent Trends in Live Cloud Video Transcoding
Time: 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Description: Video transcoding represents massive cloud workloads that are growing at 50% CAGR. This talk will discuss the modern trend to use programmable hardware acceleration (Xilinx FPGAs) to replace Intel Xeon CPUs. Twitch announced last year they are using FPGA acceleration in their data centers. Today many public clouds, including AWS, Alibaba, Huawei, etc., have FPGA instances that can be rented by the hour. This talk will compare the two major metrics for live cloud video transcoding: Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for encoding and bandwidth reduction based on better compression.

Discovery Track
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, WW Channels & Alliances, IBM

Title: Delivering AI-enhanced Video Streaming for Governments
Time: 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
Description: According to Wainhouse Research, a survey of 1,801 executives showed a majority inside the government (67%) had anticipated spending on streaming technology. As use expands, though, are you fully leveraging the technology to deliver accessible, discoverable content while navigating security concerns? IBM Watson Media discusses addressing this through AI-driven video.


Title: To Be Announced
Time: 4:25 PM - 4:45 PM
Description: Check back soon for details!

5:00 PM
Reception
Length: 1 Hour
Description: Join us for Happy Hour while getting a firsthand look at the leading software, hardware, and network solutions and services in the streaming media industry. Open to all conference attendees, speakers, exhibitors, and exhibits-only attendees. Located in the Exhibit Hall.

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