M+E Daily

The top security and asset protection minds in the industry — and the community of the Content Delivery & Security Association (CDSA) — will gather in Las Vegas April 13 in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center for the annual Content Protection Summit.

Attendees of the event will hear from experts on crucial M&E security topics surrounding protecting against insider threats, standards for locking out live event piracy, the importance of risk management assessments, and best practices for production crew identity and onboarding/offboarding.

And the increasingly impactful role of AI on security will again be front and center, as the industry grapples with its benefits and consequences.

Here’s an early look at what attendees can expect from the Saturday afternoon, Noon-5:30 p.m. PT agenda:

• “CPS Kickoff and Opening Remarks: Where Security and AI Come Together!” A perspective on the day’s theme, and how security and AI is dramatically affecting our M&E industry, and thoughts on how to navigate these trends as a CDSA community by getting involved.

• “A Look at the Legal and Moral Challenges of AI.” The speed of the development, training, and leveraging of AI is leading many people to raise significant concerns over some of the legal and moral implications of using the technology. There are so many questions around who owns the rights to the materials which AI engines are being trained on and what is real or fake. As the use of this technology becomes increasingly pervasive, we need to try to find some answers. This session updates our community from the December Summit and explores this landscape and provides perspectives on how to weigh up the opportunities and the risks.

• “Facilitating an “Industry Best Practice” Approach to Production Crew Identity and Onboarding/Offboarding.” Onboarding and offboarding production crew, including all the access to assets and other aspects required to be part of a production, is a significant cost and crippling process for many if not all the content developers across the globe. CDSA has a working group focused on this issue, where the various studios share their past and current approaches, and where best practices are helping studios initiate projects that will save them millions of dollars a year and allow agility in an area that has historically been a production delay.

• “Creative Keynote: How AI is Enabling the Storyteller’s Vision.” CDSA’s “creative-in-residence,” industry pioneer, animator, Disney Imagineer, and feature film director Jerry Rees, again joins us to show off the latest that he and others are doing to advance the creative spectrum of film making, interactive media, and full autonomous robots.

To join CDSA or activate a Content Protection Summit sponsorship, contact [email protected]