HITS Connections

By Ziad Lammam, VP Product Management and Marketing, Teradici - Hollywood is no stranger to digital transformation. Evolving from silent, black and white films, today’s enter... More

The Women in Technology: Hollywood (WiTH) organization, which is dedicated to the advancement of women in entertainment technology, is seeking nominations for its second annual WiT... More

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to proliferate, the amount of “biased” AI systems and algorithms will significantly rise, but only “unbiased” AI will survive, acc... More

Avid will continue to “sharpen execution” on its MediaCentral cloud-enabled media workflow platform as part of its 2018 strategy, according to new company CEO Jeff Rosica. �... More

By Jason Friedlander, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Verizon Digital Media Services - This year, the transition to over-the-top (OTT) from over-the-air (OTA) continues to... More

Veritone’s aiWARE artificial intelligence (AI) platform will now be used by ESPN for TV and podcasts as part of a renewed and expanded deal that was announced by the companies Ma... More

LOS ANGELES — Kelly Watson, co-founder and managing partner of Orange Grove Consulting, which specializes in women’s leadership programs, sees a two-fold problem when it comes ... More

LOS ANGELES — At the Feb. 27 Smart Content Summit Martin Wahl, Principal Program Manager, Azure Media Services, Microsoft, was beyond pleased that his presentation — “Microso... More

LOS ANGELES — When it comes to metadata and the standards around it for the media and entertainment industry, 2018 could mark a major sea-change for the industry, according to Ki... More

LOS ANGELES — MoviePass, the $10-a-month movie theater subscription service, is closing in on 2 million subscribers, and while it’s losing money on every movie ticket used via ... More

The 2018 HPA Tech Retreat, held Feb. 19-23 in Palm Desert, Calif. saw record-breaking attendance and nearly a full week of presentations from industry engineering, technical, and c... More

By Ken Kiers, EVP Postproduction Services, My Eye Media - The Interoperable Master Format is an international file-based interchange of multi-version finished audio visual work... More

Companies must continue to take all the necessary steps to make sure they are going to be compliant with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) once it goes into effe... More

Members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) will be out in force at the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Tech Retreat, Feb. 19-23 in Palm Desert, Cali... More

When the industry’s best and brightest descend on the Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel Feb. 27 for the fifth annual Smart Content West Summit, they’ll get a primer on the best pract... More

Cisco continues to see customer acceptance of its intent-based networking solutions that use automation, network analytics and machine learning, and the company still sees a major ... More

By Megan Cater, senior manager of digital content, Signiant - Since their inception, the Summer and Winter Games have endeavored to transcend linguistic and cultural difference... More

Strong performance in Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing and Xbox video game businesses helped boost the company’s revenue in the second quarter (ended Dec. 31), according to CE... More

OpenText continued to make significant strides with its Magellan artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics platform in the second quarter (ended Dec. 31), according to CEO and CTO... More

By Cory Bialowas, SVP, Product Management, Signiant - Over the past year, we've added several significant new capabilities to Manager+Agents, our flagship solution for automated... More