At the Streaming Media West show, on November 8-9 in LA, (#smwest) you can join Facebook and other leading media companies to discuss new methods of distributing digital media assets to the largest social media platform in the world. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Tim Napoleon, Co-Founder, President of Services, AllDigital
• Mitzi Reaugh, SVP, Strategy and Business Development, Miramax
• Ben James, Client Partner, Global Marketing Solutions, Facebook
• Steven Starr, CEO, CitizenGlobal

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 DRF1, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $595,if you register early.

And if you follow me on Twitter (@danrayburn) and re-tweet this post, you'll automatically be entered into a drawing to win one of three brand new Kindle Fire tablets that I will be giving away next month.

At the Streaming Media West show, on November 8-9 in LA, (#smwest) experts from all sectors of the digital video world will be on hand to discuss the ever-changing topic of "The Digital Living Room" and how content producers and creators, service providers, and other video web services will thrive in this new economy. One of the sessions taking place will have executives from Yahoo!, CBS Interactive, Sony Pictures and DBG discussing what business opportunities lie in the coming surge of Internet connected TVs.

Come hear what technologies and services are poised to be the market’s biggest disruptors and how content owners, producers and distributors can capitalize on them. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Michael Wolf, VP, GigaOM
• Jeff Shultz, SVP, Business Development, Clicker
• Russ Schafer, Senior Director, Connected TV, Yahoo!
• Jason Spivak, SVP, Worldwide Digital Distribution, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• Chris Young, CEO, DBG

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 DRF1, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $595,if you register early.

And if you follow me on Twitter (@danrayburn) and re-tweet this post, you'll automatically be entered into a drawing to win one of three brand new Kindle Fire tablets that I will be giving away next month.

The recently developed MPEG-DASH provides a standard specification for multimedia streaming over the Internet and is at the heart of the future growth of the online video industry. At the Streaming Media West show, on November 8-9 in LA, (#smwest) we have executives from Netflix, Microsoft, Akamai, Harmonic, Qualcomm and Ericsson who will present an overview of what the MPEG-DASH standard is.

They will also discuss how MPEG-DASH is instrumental for the success of the market and how it enables a common ecosystem of content and services supporting delivery to a broad range of devices such as PCs, TVs, laptops, set-top boxes, game consoles, tablets and mobiles phones. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Iraj Sodagar, Principle Program Manager, Microsoft
• Mike Luby, VP, Technology, Qualcomm
• Mark Watson, Senior Engineer, Netflix
• Thierry Fautier, Sr. Director, Telco Solutions, Harmonic
• Will Law, Principal Architect, Media Engineering, Akamai
• David Price, VP, Compression Business Development, Ericsson

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 DRF1, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $595,if you register early.

And if you follow me on Twitter (@danrayburn) and re-tweet this post, you'll automatically be entered into a drawing to win one of three brand new Kindle Fire tablets that I will be giving away next month.

At the Streaming Media West show, on November 8-9 in LA, (#smwest) we've got a session entitled "Simplifying the Multi-Format Video Workflow" that will tackle the various approaches to this new workflow methodology. Learn how network-based media processing offers an increasingly popular approach to simplifying these workflows; how packaging of media elements in the network (versus on the encoder) works; what additional features are possible with network packaging (DRM, CAS, ad insertion); and how this approach works for both small and large operations. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Matt Smith, VP, OTT Strategy & Solutions, Envivio
• Robert Longwell, VP, Video Operations, Digital Media, Disney/ABC Television Group
• James Sherry, Senior Product Manager, CDN, Level 3 Communications
• Joe Einstein, VP, Production Services, AEG Digital Media
• Cyril Rickelton-Abdi, Sr. Director, Content Security & Piracy Management, Turner Broadcasting System

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 DRF1, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $595, if you register early.

And if you follow me on Twitter (@danrayburn) and re-tweet this post, you'll automatically be entered into a drawing to win one of three brand new Kindle Fire tablets that I will be giving away next month.

At the Streaming Media West show, on November 8-9 in LA, (#smwest) we've got a session that will be a frank discussion with ad video buyers and sellers to discuss their perspective on what's really working in the online video advertising industry. Entitled "An Open Dialogue Between Video Ad Buyers and Sellers", the debate will ask the questions, what matters more, content or audience? Is it one or the other, or does each approach present significant opportunities? Also, is video advertising still an industry of empty promises in regards to transparency?

Come hear what specific expectations buyers and sellers have around control and how it is affecting the growth of their business. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Teg Grenager, Co-Founder, VP, Product, adap.tv
• Radek Zemel, Sr. Product Planner, Rich Media & Video, Microsoft Advertising
• Andrew Budkofsky, EVP, Sales and Partnerships, Break Media
• Kelly Winger, VP Ad Sales, Business Development, Directors Live
• JP Colaco, SVP, Advertising, Hulu

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 DRF1, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $595,if you register early.

And if you follow me on Twitter (@danrayburn) and re-tweet this post, you'll automatically be entered into a drawing to win one of three brand new Kindle Fire tablets that I will be giving away next month.