Meeting: BOXfest 2018

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Date: Thu, June 28, 2018 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM BST
Location: Century Club, 61-63 Shaftesbury Ave, London, W1D 6LQ

The excellent BOXfest is back for its sixth year! On the theme of ‘Disruption’, this is a one day technology event in Central London. Following on from NAB, BOXfest highlights key technologies and products concentrating on customer case studies, sharing technology roadmaps and market trends. The audience is typically senior, technical management and engineers, with the day designed to allow time for people to network with their peers.

With the escalation of technologies including IP, AI and cloud alongside ever-changing business requirements how do you deliver future-proof solutions and innovation to your organisation?

Several technical authorities from a number of key vendors for product-agnostic presentations will provide insight into these topics:

IP – Where are we with IP?
AI – What is it and how does it affect me?
AI – Real world applications
Cloud – creating flexible infrastructure that works for media
IMF – What, why?
HDR – Real world experiences.

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Webinar: Mining for Content—How Blockchain is Driving New Innovations in Streaming Media

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This talk examines some of the emerging business models that have embraced blockchain technologies, how blockchain satisfies challenges for media, and how to spur growth and further media consumption with greater control.

Streaming technologies disrupted our ideas of how consumers tune in, listen, and watch, and yet we are still far from perfect in terms of distribution, access, and profitability for content creators. These business models are now again ripe for disruption. Blockchain technology was initially lauded for its revolutionary way of handling financial transactions, but it can be used for far more. Ethereum, NEO, and other decentralized ledgers can make bigger waves in the future by enabling developers to build applications and platforms that bolster the sharing economy.

Speaker:Chris Michaels, Streaming Industry Evangelist, Wowza Media Systems

Webinar: Measuring and Optimising Perceptual Quality in Online Video

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Date:26th June 2018, 15:00 BST
When it comes to online video, there are few issues more annoying to viewers than poor visual quality. A bad visual experience can significantly impact the user’s Quality of Experience (QoE). But what makes one video look better? How can you preserve the visual acuity of source content after transcoding? And, more importantly, how can you measure when that visual quality has degraded?

In this panel assembled by the Streaming Video Alliance, you’ll learn from leading experts on visual quality about the nuances of mitigating degradation during transcoding and how to implement measurement techniques to continually monitor the perceived quality of online video moderated by Jason Thibeault.

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Meeting: Jigsaw24 Breakfast Tech Talk

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Date: 26th June 2018, 09:00 BST
Location: Jigsaw24, 8 Golden Square, Soho, London, W1F 9HY

The Tech Breakfasts are back, this time with a look at PSE (Photosensitive Epilepsy) testing for video in broadcast. With Telestream demoing Vidchecker and the experts from root6, Phil Crawley and Matt Ward, you can find out what you need about the regulations and how to meet them…all at the same time has having a pastry and a drink.

Sound good? Then register now!