With the introduction of adaptive streaming formats, a growing number of IP-enabled streaming boxes, and the proliferation of handheld devices, content owners face increasing challenges for multi-screen content preparation. At the Streaming Media East show, taking place next week, May 21-22 in NYC, we’ve got a session that will analyze the key components of file-based transcoding and will talk practically about converting content for multi-screen delivery. Learn how to encode content for each device, the algorithm choices/trade-offs, codec settings, and the particular requirements of various distribution platforms. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Tony Lapolito, Director, Product Management, Cisco
• Kevin Louden, Product Manager, Telestream
• Tatum Lade, Head of R&D, Boxee
• Jeff Malkin, President, Encoding.com
• Gonzalo de la Vega, CEO, NicePeopleAtWork

It’s not too late to get a pass to the show and readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $695 and gives you access to 40 sessions and how-to presentations and 100+ speakers. You can also register for an exhibits only pass and get access to the show floor, both keynotes from CBS and ESPN and all the networking events, at no charge. #smeast

On Monday May 20th, at the Content Delivery Summit in NYC, (#cdnsummit) Amazon will show off the latest developments with their Dynamic Site Delivery offering. Amazon will demonstrate how you can use Amazon CloudFront to help architect your site to deliver both static and dynamic content. Attendees will also learn how they can configure multiple origin servers for their Amazon CloudFront distribution; use query string parameters to help customize their web pages for each viewer and how content owners can configure multiple cache behaviors, based on URL patterns on their website. Amazon’s goal is to make dynamic site delivery affordable, easy to configure and manage and provide  more options for content owners looking for reliable delivery of dynamic assets.

Now in its fifth year, the Content Delivery Summit is a one-day conference designed to bring together telecom carriers, service providers, content owners, and industry vendors for a detailed look at CDN platforms for the delivery of video and content acceleration. Readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a ticket to the show for only $395.

If you want to learn the tips and tricks of how to encode video for iDevices, then you don’t want to miss Jan Ozer’s how-to session at the Streaming Media East show next week. Jan’s session starts by detailing the playback specs for all iDevices, old and new. Then you’ll learn the strategies used by prominent iTunes publishers to serve the complete range of installed iDevices. Next, the seminar switches to cellular wireless delivery, with a technical description of Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), including recommendations for the number of streams and Apple’s encoding parameters. You’ll walk away knowing how to encode for both iTunes and mobile delivery to iOS and compatible devices.

It’s not too late to get a pass to the show and readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $695 and gives you access to 40 sessions and how-to presentations and 100+ speakers. You can also register for an exhibits only pass and get access to the show floor, both keynotes from CBS and ESPN and all the networking events, at no charge. #smeast

While second screen companion experiences are a phenomena in the home, they are mostly used as a first screen viewing device outside the home. At the Streaming Media East show, taking place next week May 21-22 in NYC, we have a session organized by the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance on the topic of, “Driving Engagement: Companion vs. Convenience“.

This session will discuss how tablet and smartphone manufacturers manage dual-purpose design in their ecosystem from TVs and tablets to mobile phones and gaming consoles. Learn how the second and first screen experiences will converge as multi-screen and second screen offerings begin to be delivered from the same app as consumers move outside the living room. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Guy Finley, Executive Director, 2nd Screen Society
• Adam Sexton, GM, Samsung Media Solution Center America
• Stacy Jolna, CMO, ConnecTV
• Christy King, VP, Digital, Technology R&D, UFC
• Andy Liu, CEO, BuddyTV

It’s not too late to get a pass to the show and readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $695 and gives you access to 40 sessions and how-to presentations and 100+ speakers. You can also register for an exhibits only pass and get access to the show floor, both keynotes from CBS and ESPN and all the networking events, at no charge. #smeast

At the Streaming Media East show, taking place next week May 21-22 in NYC, our focus is not just about the deployment of video for media and entertainment purposes. We have sessions talking to the adoption of video for enterprise use, as in the case of a session entitled, “Integrating Streaming, Videoconferencing, and Unified Communications Solutions.”

Learn how organizations leverage existing videoconferencing infrastructure as a production studio when integrated with a video streaming system, as well as how videoconferencing allows presenters in multiple locations to participate jointly in webcasts. Finally, learn how this is all good news to those implementing streaming solutions, because now they can be budgeted as part of a larger video communications budget. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Mike Newman, VP, GM, Video Content Management, Polycom
• Gary Powell, Technology Analyst, University of Toledo
• Doug Thomas, Content Producer, Office.com, Microsoft
• George Levar, Video Service Delivery Lead, Accenture
• Nathan Niederhausern, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

It’s not too late to get a pass to the show and readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $695 and gives you access to 40 sessions and how-to presentations and 100+ speakers. You can also register for an exhibits only pass and get access to the show floor, both keynotes from CBS and ESPN and all the networking events, at no charge. #smeast

On Monday May 20th, at the Content Delivery Summit in NYC, Francois Le Faucheur, Distinguished Engineer, Service Provider Video Technology Group at Cisco, will introduce the “CDN Federation Pilot” project under which leading service providers worldwide and pureplay CDNs have been implementing a large-scale, multi-phased initiative to plan, deploy, and test an open CDN federation pilot.

The first phase of the CDN Federation Pilot proved the concept of a CDN federation and its essential capabilities while the second phase investigated enhanced capabilities across the federation. This presentation will provide an update on the pilot progress and the lessons learnt from the third and final phase, which expanded the ecosystem of participants to also include pureplay CDNs and exchange providers.

Now in its fifth year, the Content Delivery Summit is a one-day conference designed to bring together telecom carriers, service providers, content owners, and industry vendors for a detailed look at CDN platforms for the delivery of video and content acceleration. Readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a ticket to the show for only $395.

Speakers and presenters include: Netflix, eBay, LinkedIn, Redbox, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, TeliaSonera, Comcast, Charter Communications, Telstra, Pacnet, Telin as well as many of today’s leading solution providers.

If you’ve been struggling to demonstrate the value of your webcasts in measurable terms, then the Streaming Media East show, taking place May 21-22 in NYC, is the place for you. Darrell Prowse, Webcast Producer/Director at The Boeing Company will show you how to collect and measure data that can be used to justify corporate webcast efforts. Attendees will learn how to measure the benefits of using viewer registration, webcast scheduling, total webcast cost avoidance, viewer analysis, and webcast funding. The audience for this presentation will take away a working formula that computes the real cost benefit of a webcast.

It’s not too late to get a pass to the show and readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $695 and gives you access to 40 sessions and how-to presentations and 100+ speakers. You can also register for an exhibits only pass and get access to the show floor, both keynotes from CBS and ESPN and all the networking events, at no charge. #smeast