On day two of the Streaming Summit, taking place April 8-9, at the #nabshow, Matt Clark, Director of Business Development for Amazon Fire TV, will sit down with me to discuss the different trends that are guiding the SMP and Smart TV market, providing insights on how those are impacting some of the long-standing traditions and relationships within the industry. As part of the discussion Matt will address Amazon’s ongoing work with third parties—from top OTT video services to traditional cable companies—sharing his vision for the business, and addressing some of the challenges the industry faces moving forward.

Check out the entire two-day Streaming Summit lineup, with over 75 speakers, and register for only $695 to learn about The Business and Technology of OTT Video. #streamingsummit

At the Streaming Summit, taking place April 8-9, at the NAB Show, Zac Shenker, Director of Engineer, Video Delivery, Optimization & Experience at CBS Interactive will detail all the components of the end-to-end video streaming workflow, used to stream Super Bowl 53 across both the CBS Sports & CBS All Access platforms.

At the Streaming Summit, taking place April 8-9, at the NAB Show, Daniel Spinosa, VP, Entertainment Services at Comcast Cable and Monty Sarhan, EVP and GM at EPIX, will have a fireside chat on how Comcast’s X1 platform helps content owners reach a wider audience. Hear how EPIX, the premium TV network owned by MGM, joined the platform last June and is already seeing great benefits from the aggregated user experience.

Check out the entire two-day Streaming Summit lineup, with over 75 speakers, and register for only $695 to learn about The Business and Technology of OTT Video. #streamingsummit

India is playing a key role in changing the dynamics of the world’s entertainment consumption story as OTT platforms gain huge popularity. With 15.9 million paying subscribers and 142 million registered users worldwide, Eros Now is the number one SVOD platform in India and the fourth largest OTT platform globally. More importantly, with over 1.3 billion people, India is expected to be the second largest video-viewing audience globally by 2020.

At the Streaming Summit, taking place April 8-9, at the NAB Show, Rishika Lulla, CEO of Eros Digital will provide an in-depth look at the evolution of the market in India and discuss how the Eros Now platform caters to various audiences, with a library of over 11,000 films across ten different languages.

On Monday April 8th, in conjunction with my Streaming Summit, at NAB Show, we’ll be having a big networking event taking place from 5:00-6:30pm at the Beer Garden, located outside the Convention Center in the Silver Square parking lot. No special tickets are needed, just wear your NAB Show badge and come drink and network with other streaming media executives! We’ll have drinks and snacks thanks to our sponsors Verizon Digital Media Services, Limelight Networks, Brightcove and Penthera.

I’m pleased to announce that the content program for the Streaming Summit, at NAB Show is now live! Check out all the sessions and agenda on the dedicated website at www.nabstreamingsummit.com

Lots of speakers are being placed and we have OTT focused sessions on biz and tech topics including sports, direct-to-consumer, monetization models, video workflows, encoding, packaging, playback and much more. We’ve also got presentations from Amazon Fire TV, CBS Interactive, Comcast, Google, ESL Gaming and others. Here’s a small sample of the topics being covered:

• The Business of Sports Streaming: Challenges & Opportunities
• Free, Subscription and Ad Supported: Hybrid Next-Gen OTT Business Models
• Optimizing Advertising Content Workflows Across TV and Online Video
• Best Practices for Deploying CMAF, DASH and HLS at Scale
• Improving The End-User Experience For Video Advertising
• How Streaming News Services are Disrupting Cable News Networks
• Key Tech Requirements for Building and Managing An OTT Service
• Integrating TV and OTT Into A Single Experience
• Bringing OTT Advertising and Innovation to Local Markets
• Best Practices for Encoding and Packaging for Live Event Streams

Registration for the Streaming Summit (#streamingsummit) is now open (email me for a discount code for 3 or more tickets) and on Monday April 8th, we’re having a big beer garden network event, check out those details here.

Thanks to a great list of Streaming Summit sponsors as including Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Brightcove, Verizon Digital Media Services, Qwilt, Limelight Networks, Comcast Technology Solutions, Haivision, Broadpeak, Ciena, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, Imagine Communications, Penthera.

On Wednesday March 13th, I’ll be hosting another dinner in NYC with Akamai, specifically for those on Wall Street that want to get a better understanding of Akamai’s business in the web performance and security markets. I will be leading a discussion with Rick McConnell, President and GM, Web Division along with Josh Shaul, VP Product, Cloud Security. The discussion will be centered around Akamai’s performance and security solutions detailing customer use cases, how these services are deployed from a technical standpoint, the value they offer to customers and short and long-term trends the company is seeing in the market.

If you are interested in attending the dinner, please reach out to me but note that this dinner is only for those on Wall Street and space is limited.