Description: Wayne Gretzky famously said, "Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been." This panel brings together veterans and rookies alike to talk about where we are going to see the next round of innovation in sports and esports streaming, from revolutionary viewing experiences to creative sponsorship and branding models to outside-the-box social media campaigns to grab vans and keep them coming back for more.

Description: Leading technology and service providers share their insights into the crucial challenges facing the streaming industry and how best to solve them. No sales pitches—just real talk about what works and what doesn’t.


Title: Virtualizing Broadcast Workflows with the Software-Defined Video Platform
Time: 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Description: As media companies virtualize their infrastructures, how will they maintain visibility to and control across such an evolving and complex supply chain? In this Tech Talk, Zixi’s Executive Chairman and CEO Gordon Brooks will explain how the different elements of the SDVP allow the broadcaster video network to be intelligently and centrally managed using software and integrated devices across IP networks, industry protocols, different cloud providers and edge devices for a truly unique live video solution.


Title: Escape the Bermuda Triangle of Optimizing viewer experiences, Bitrates, and High Delivery Costs
Time: 1:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Description: A key concern for scaling streaming services: delivering content in the most efficient way while meeting subscribers' expectations for Viewer Experience. In this talk, we will demonstrate how OTTs can use a perceptual video quality metric to scale efficiently by overcoming uncertainty in viewer experience, complexities of upgrading a content delivery chain, access network constraints, and playback behaviour anomalies.


Title: Get Your Team Remote-Ready with Streaming Video + Web Conferencing
Time: 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Description: Does your team have the tech it needs to navigate remote work for the foreseeable future? With different time zones, internet speeds and distractions teams are scattered everywhere, and we’re all seemingly one day away from another shut down. But having the right mix of technologies in place will ensure your team continues to brainstorm, sync up, learn and engage with each other and your customers.

Join this fireside chat with Mediasite’s VP of Customer Success & Support Bill Cherne to learn how you can:

• Make your online Zoom meetings even more valuable on-demand with Mediasite
• Create robust, organized and interactive video catalogues to keep employees connected and learning from a distance
• Do so much more with the recordings you have piling up in the cloud
• Turn every meeting into a learning moment (yes, even virtual happy hours!) with automated capturing, transcribing and organizing of your videos

Title: Transforming the Distribution and Economics of Internet Video
Time: 1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Description: This session will address the inherent challenges of the typical video supply chain and then discuss how and why to leverage the latest innovations in content centric design, blockchain data protocols, machine learning, in-network processing and transport, and programmable media. Specifically, it will provide an overview of the Eluvio Content Fabric and how it is being used today by Tier 1 Hollywood studios, broadcasters and new mobile streaming platforms for radically simple, fast, and inexpensive supply chains. Neither cloud nor CDN, the Fabric allows content publishers to distribute premium video globally including live, video on demand, and linear channels, direct to consumers and to business partners without CDNs, cloud stacks, transcoding services or databases.

Description: As the deadline for Flash Player's end of life approaches, more and more businesses that cautiously waited for WebRTC to support their requirements are updating their end-to-end publishing and playback systems to WebRTC. In this session, you learn how to prepare for WebRTC application development and explore various client and server options. You also learn how to use browser debugging tools for WebRTC development.

Description: The last year has seen the launch of several successful high-profile OTT services, along with at least one that, well, let’s just say wasn’t so successful. This panel discusses what the winners have done right, what the losers did wrong, and how the incumbents in the space are keeping up with these new entrants. Our panelists discuss everything from programming and user experience to customer acquisition/retention strategies and technical innovations that keep get users to sign up and keep coming back for more.