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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At the Streaming Media West show, taking place Nov. 2/3, you’ll learn how Microsoft is applying intelligence to media to improve the user experience and automate the production process. Andy Beach, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft will provide an overview of how Microsoft is using the power of the cloud to apply machine learning to video. Demonstrations will include improving live streaming video with automated closed captions, as well as extracting metadata from VOD libraries and making it extremely easy to index and search hours and hours of content.

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While CDN prices have never been lower, OTT delivery continues to weigh heavily on broadcasters’ budgets. Growing audiences, higher resolutions and more immersive video experiences bring both technical and business challenges at scale. At the Streaming Media West show, taking place Nov. 2/3, one panel explores how content publishers are working to balance fixed revenue per subscriber models with the varying cost of delivery, while also getting the best quality for their money. The session will look at optimization efforts throughout the delivery workflow, with a special emphasis on CDN, multi-CDN, peer-to-peer, multicast and in-house delivery solutions. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Gautier Demond, VP, Global Sales, Streamroot
• Panelist: Flavio Ribeiro, Lead Engineer, The New York Times
• Panelist: Zac Shenker, Principal Video Software Engineer, CBS Interactive
• Panelist: Rodrigo Violante, CTO, Televisa
• Panelist: Ryan Korte, Principal Architect, Content and Media Development, Level 3 Communications

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At the Streaming Media West show, taking place next week on Nov. 2/3, speakers from NASA and AWS Elemental will present how NASA and Amazon Web Services engineered a complete, resilient, and repeatable workflow that brought this industry-first event to viewers everywhere using scalable cloud and software enabled workflows. Among the many insights that will be shared: live 4K transcoding in the cloud; the role compression efficiency plays in on-going deep space discovery; overcoming bandwidth constraints on the ISS and on Earth; the implication of cloud-enabled live 4K video streaming for public sector applications in defense, security, first responders, law enforcement, energy and other segments; even how to get an encoder into orbit.

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