Meeting: Sports Tech Innovation


With many speakers including from BT Sport, IMG, FA Group this free event looks at emerging production technology and its use in sport. Topics include:

  • AI
  • eSports
  • Remote Production
  • Immersive video (AR, VR, MR, 360 etc.)
  • Graphics Analysis
  • Live Streaming

Register Now for the 21st March

Speakers
  • Andy Beale, Chief Engineer, BT Sport
  • Gareth Capon, CEO, Grabyo
  • Damien Cullen, Senior Video Manager, The FA Group
  • Tim De Marco, Head of Engineering, IMG
  • Dan Finch, CEO, Simplestream
  • Marina Kalkanis, CEO, M2A Media
  • Andrew Preece, Executive Director, Sunset+vine
  • Shane Warden, Director of broadcast and technology, ATP
  • Robin Broomfield, Technical Manager, Sky
  • Nik Selman, MD, Formidable
  • Matt Stagg, Head of Media and Broadcast, EE

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Webinars: AWSome day Online (from AWS)


AWS are hosting half a day of free training about their platform. A great chance to bring you and your colleagues up to speed on, for many, the “go to” platform for testing and deploying cloud services.

Update: Still Available Online until May 31st!

Date: Thursday, 22 March, 2018
Time: 10:00 – 13:40 CET / 09:00 – 12:40 BST
Location: Online

The AWSome Day Online is a free, virtual training event that will provide a step-by-step introduction to the core AWS services for compute, storage, database and networking. AWS technical experts will explain key features and use cases, share best practices, walk through technical demos, and be available to answer your questions one-on-one.

Based on the AWS Essentials Course, AWSome Day is ideal for IT managers, business leaders, system engineers, system administrators, developers and architects who are eager to learn more about cloud computing and how to get started on the AWS Cloud.

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Join for live Q&As, one-on-one Ask an Architect sessions and more:

Agenda

10:00 – 10:30 CET Keynote: Introduction to AWS
10:30 – 11:00 CET

Module 1: AWS Foundations

AWS Introductions
Well Architected Framework and AWS
Trusted Advisor
Global Infrastructure
Demo – Designing the network (VPC) for HA and FT
VPC Network security

11:00 – 11:40 CET Module 2: AWS Infrastructure

AWS S3 and Glacier for large volume object storage
Demo – Create a bucket and create a website
Amazon EC2 compute platform
Demo – Launch our first EC2 applications with EBS storage
Understanding EC2 pricing and lifecycle
Storage options for compute
AWS CloudFormation for IAAC (Infrastructure as Code)

11:40 – 12:10 CET Module 3: Databases

Let the data decide!
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Demo – Deploy Multi-AZ database in VPC
Amazon DynamoDB (NoSQL)
Intro to AWS Athena and Redshift

12:10 – 12.20 CET Break
12:20 – 12:50 CET Module 4: Security, Identity & Access Management

AWS Shared Security Model Identity Access Management (IAM)
Governance and Compliance
AWS CloudTrail for audit and change management
AWS Config and Config Rules

12:50 – 13:40 CET Module 5: AWS Elasticity & Management Tools

Adding elasticity to our applications in AWS
Introduction to AWS load balancer services
Introduction to autoscaling groups and launch configurations
Demo – Add autoscaling to our demo application
Next steps: Taking it to the next stage
Serverless architecture with Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB & more
Wrap up – User Groups, Blogs & further training

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Update: Still Available Online until May 31st!

Meeting: Is 2110 the Future of Broadcasting?


Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 18:30. SMPTE’s ST2110 is the most important advance in television since John Logie Baird went head to head with EMI-Marconi in the BBC’s 1936 trials at Alexandra Palace, London. In this joint meeting between SMPTE and RTS Thames Valley:

  • What is ST2110?
  • Why is it so important to the future of broadcasting?
  • Will Television will now become software?
  • What are the ramifications for traditional hardware manufacturers?
  • Where does the cloud fit in?

Tony Orme, writer of ‘Building IP Media Facilities’ and for The Broadcast Bridge, answers these questions and many more he digs deeper into IP and its resurgence in popularity.

Registration closes today, 9th March.