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Roku is the pioneer of streaming to the TV and offers a unique platform for content publishers and developers. At the Streaming Media West show, taking place Nov. 2/3, Ben Strong, Director, Product Management at Roku will provide an overview of tools available to publishers, how to make the most of them and what monetization strategy is right for your content. Some topics covered will be new enhancements to Roku Direct Publisher, advertising tools and capabilities and some updated features and content discovery.

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WebRTC is an emerging technology supported by the majority of web browser that helps solve the latency issue but introduces its own set of challenges. At the Streaming Media West show, taking place Nov. 2/3, Jamie Stackhouse, Product Owner at Ingest.io will discuss what makes a successful deployment of WebRTC. Learn what open source and proprietary technologies can be used to jump-start a deployment and what the impact of NAT traversal for peer-to-peer deployments of WebRTC (STUN, TURN, ICE) has. Hear what tools enable WebRTC in a plugin-based architecture that is composed of fully open source software and how you can put it to use.

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If content is King, then user experience is God. Many of the best practices from data driven video companies can be boiled down to simple concepts you don’t have to be a data scientist to understand. At the Streaming Media West show, taking place Nov. 2/3, Gabriella Mirabelli, CEO, Anatomy will showcase how entertainment brands can make better use of their data in 2017 and beyond. The session will present actionable strategies for entertainment brands to effectively use data to compete in digital spaces. Topics covered will include A/B experimentation, thumbnail optimization, and social media KPIs.

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The market is thirsty for an open source, freely available, low-latency, UDP-like approach for streaming over the internet. At the Streaming Media West show, taking place Nov. 2/3, one session will bring together SRT Alliance members and industry experts to discuss the SRT open source video transport protocol and how it optimizes streaming performance across unpredictable networks with secure streams and easy firewall traversal, bringing the best quality live video over the worst networks. The session will also discuss how UDP coupled with SRT is an ideal transport for video contribution and distribution and detail how the alliance is accelerating interoperability of video streaming solutions and fostering collaboration with industry leaders to achieve lower latency internet video transport. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Thierry Fautier, VP, Video Strategy, Harmonic
• Panelist: Marc Cymontkowski, Sr. Director, Core Technology, Haivision
• Panelist: Jeff Tyler, Digital Media Lead, Microsoft
• Panelist: Keith Weinberger, Director, Product Management, Video Solutions, Limelight
• Panelist: David Sayed, VP, Product Strategy & Product Marketing, Brightcove

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For content providers, achieving ubiquitous reach in today’s fragmented market often is a race against time and resource limitations. Unlike the simpler early days of web video, providers must write apps for hundreds of variations of mobile and streaming devices, gaming consoles and smart TVs, or risk losing market share to larger or more aggressive competitors. At the Streaming Media West show, taking place Nov. 2/3, you’ll hear from content providers and platform companies that will discuss strategies that can be used to quickly and efficiently extend cross platform reach and streamline app store certification processes. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Allan Isfan, Director, Business Development, You.i TV
• Panelist: Tedd Cittadine, VP, Content Distribution, Roku
• Panelist: Karina Kogan, SVP, Digital Media, TBS/TNT, Turner
• Panelist: Tom Schaeffer, CEO, Float Left
• Panelist: Kimberly Hicks, VP, Digital Media, Disney Channels Worldwide, Disney ABC Television Group

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Video is an exciting use case for Virtual Reality, but what’s the reality of creating, delivering, and monetizing it today? At the Streaming Media West show, taking place Nov. 2/3, you’ll hear industry experts discuss the state of VR Video, from technologies to capture and display it to methods for streaming and interacting with it, as well as the opportunities in the near- and long-term future. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Jason Thibeault, Executive Director, Streaming Video Alliance
• Panelist: Devon Copley, Head of Product, VR Platform/Ozo, Nokia Technologies
• Panelist: Josh Courtney, Chairman, Executive Producer, SkyVR
• Panelist: Chris Michaels, Director, Communications, Wowza
• Panelist: Jim Clements, Director, Business Development, West Coast, Neulion

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The industry is very comfortable getting the best quality and highest encoding operational efficiency out of H.264, but with the newness of HEVC, video encoding engineers may be struggling to maximize operational performance with this advanced codec. At the Streaming Media West show, taking place Nov. 2/3, one session will highlight the questions of how to implement a live 4K encoding solution, or best practices for encoding HDR, in software. In this session you will hear from video distributors the lessons learned building and deploying HEVC encoding operations, as well as secrets to obtaining the highest performance with HEVC. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Dror Gill, CTO, Beamr
• Panelist: Daniel Sanders, VP, Video Engineering, VDMS
• Panelist: Samir Ahmed, VP, Technology & Chief Architect Video, FandangoNow
• Panelist: Theron Trowbridge, Director of Encoding, Deluxe Delivery
• Panelist: David Hoff, Director, Cloud Graphics, Intel DataCenter Group

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