Smart Breakouts – STAGE A
11 – 11:30 a.m.
Whip Media & Giant Pictures: Connecting Content Licensing with a Data-Driven Approach for Global Growth
Giant Pictures is a global leader in digital distribution across 50+ VOD and streaming platforms. As they continue to grow and expand their international presence to reach more countries and platforms, they are increasing the number of titles on their slate each month. With this growth comes a need for detailed information on title performance and market demand. This is a crucial piece to evaluating potential interest from streaming platforms and creates compelling programming strategies that showcase a strong, curated package of films for buyers. Together, Giant Pictures and Whip Media are using a data-driven approach to explore this new world of smarter content licensing.
Jaime Otero, Vice President Business Development & Content Strategy, Whip Media
Nick Savva, General Manager, Giant Pictures
11:30 – 11:35 a.m.
ROOM BREAK
11:35 – 11:50 a.m.
Intelligent Cloud I/O: Lessons learned from moving petabytes to and from the cloud
There are many tools available for moving files into and out of the cloud. In an industry that deals with huge files, complex supply chains and growing security challenges, there are several factors to consider when choosing the right tool for the unique challenges of M&E. As Signiant software is used to move petabytes of content to and from the cloud every month, this session will cover their key learnings and considerations to help make your journey to the cloud a successful one.
Jon Finegold, Chief Marketing Officer, Signiant
11:50 – 11:55 a.m.
ROOM BREAK
11:55 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Intelligent Products – the Future of M&E
The days of static products and generic consumer experiences are ending. M&E audiences are expecting increasing personalization, customization, and relevance at every touchpoint. This session will explain the difference between a typical digital product and an intelligent product, the four components you need to create an intelligent product, and dive into some examples of Intelligent Product use cases in M&E.
Sabrina Chamberlain, Senior Director, Data Engineering, Slalom
12:10 – 12:15 p.m.
ROOM BREAK
12:15 – 12:30 p.m.
Meeting the Demands of Production Connectivity
The story of Virtual Production is one of creative teams gaining the freedom to create without limits. But most stories have an obstacle to overcome, and Virtual Production is no exception. Independently owned stages host hundreds of productions per year, and LED walls and advanced forms of lighting and image capture are cropping up almost as quickly as new facilities themselves. But the disenfranchised and far flung nature of these large studios limits the very type of connectivity and cloud access that Virtual Production demands. A new model of delivering cloud services to these locations is vital to a process which relies on security, high bandwidth and constant transfer and collaboration. A light must now be shone on affordable infrastructure and production-grade networking where it’s perhaps been previously overlooked.
Lisa Gerber, Director, M&E, PacketFabric
Robbie Yates, Sales Engineer, PacketFabric
Smart Breakouts – STAGE C
11 – 11:30 a.m.
Store, Manage, and Build with Qumulo’s File Data Platform
From animation and remote production to distribution, Qumulo helps major studios and networks capture, collaborate, and distribute file data globally. Demands have never been greater — content needs are at an all-time high, deadlines are tighter than ever, and the rapid shift to remote work deeply changed how creative organizations work. This session introduces Qumulo’s file data platform as well as the Qumulo Studio Q solution, a post production platform for creative teams that replicates collaborative editorial production in the cloud, enabling Adobe Premiere Pro-based workflows on AWS with Teradici. You’ll find out how you can move terabytes and petabytes of video across on premises data centers and the cloud, edit video easily with your favorite Adobe tools, connect your files to AWS cloud services, manage your video files, and secure your most important file data. With Qumulo, media and entertainment organizations can deploy new ways to produce content quickly by harnessing the power of a global talent pool, rapidly deploy workstations, and leverage remote workflows in the cloud.
Pascal Filion, Systems Engineer, Qumulo
11:30 – 11:35 a.m.
11:35 – 11:50 a.m.
Accelerating Workflows with AI & Auto-Generated Speech To Text
Trance is a SaaS-based application that automates and accelerates the creation of transcripts, captions and subtitles. Initially created as an internal tool for Digital Nirvana’s turnkey, transcription, captioning and subtitling services, Trance is now commercially available for content creators and media operators and can easily integrate with existing media workflows. MetadataIQ leverages the AI and speech-to-text capabilities of Trance and applies this knowledge to the realm of media production. MetadataIQ auto-generates real-time transcripts and time-indexes this metadata to the media as markers within the Avid Interplay PAM environment. As a result, MetadataIQ greatly accelerates the identification, search, and retrieval of valuable media assets while reducing the time, effort and complexity of producing finished content.
Ed Hauber, Director of Business Development, Digital Nirvana
Tom Moniak, Director of Sales, Digital Nirvana
11:50 – 11:55 a.m.
ROOM BREAK
11:55 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
A Faster Way to Move Media
In the ever-expanding content market, it’s critical that professional creatives deliver their assets to the public as quickly as possible. Lightning-fast internet speeds, modern technologies and Web3 concepts are streamlining this workflow, despite the files’ massive sizes. In this talk, learn how Alteon is helping to solve these problems by getting footage from camera to cloud to social media with a single tool.
Taylor Donohue, Vice President, Product, Alteon
12:10 – 12:15 p.m.
ROOM BREAK
12:15 – 12:30 p.m.
The Connective Tissue Between Physical, Digital, and Meta
Crypto, Block, Metaverse, NFT…these words are everywhere we turn and within every conversation we have. It wasn’t long ago that those strange new words were streaming, mpeg, VOD, and OTT. The media landscape is entering a tectonic shift from digital to meta. It is as large and impactful as was the shift from physical to digital. Such shifts are not easy and can even prove fatal. When headlines read 99.2% of NFTs are not selling or $300 million in crypto was hacked and stolen it’s an indication people and companies are rushing without preparation or education. Assets and data need to move seamlessly and efficiently from physical to digital to meta and back. New technology platforms will make this possible. This session will guide the audience through what the entertainment industry needs to know about Web 3.0, specifically how they should be thinking about and planning their infrastructure to support the new asset and data needs and demands.
Nathaniel Bradley, Chief Executive Officer, Data Vault/ADIO
