Webinar: Winning the Battle for OTT Audiences


Date: 28th July 2018, 16:00 BST

This webinar brings examples from Leading OTT operators and providers describing how they drive audience growth through quality and user experience. Of course, great content alone is not enough to sustain a successful on-demand internet-delivered OTT service.

The speakers will reveal the risk factors that can destroy audience engagement, including poor streaming performance and data privacy and security fears and as OTT becomes inseparable from live broadcast, solutions for streaming time-sensitive, high-value live events and sports are assessed.

Whether it’s broadcaster catch-up, special-interest content or producers like HBO and Disney going direct, the pressure is on for platforms trying to compete with the big beasts Netflix and Amazon. With the announcement of Salto as a joint venture of broadcasters in France, and UK channels investing in updating Freeview Play, OTT is centre-stage once again.

Audiences have huge expectations of user experience, video image and quality-of-service – regardless of the network or device they are using. Delivering and managing a consistently-high quality of experience is crucial for media companies wanting to deliver a popular, engaging and profitable OTT service – whatever the content and business model.

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Speakers:
Guilherme Saraiva, CTO, Rede Telecine
Steve Miller-Jones, Senior Director of Product Management, Limelight Networks

Webinar: Transforming live sports production with Artificial Intelligence


Webinar: Thursday 24 May, 16:00 BST

In this webinar from IBC365, sponsored by Tedial, we hear about how Artificial Intelligence in live broadcast from Daniel McDonnell of Timeline TV, Dr. Rob Oldfield from Salsa sound and Jérôme Wauthoz from Tedial.
They discuss the fact that producing and managing the most valuable live sport broadcasts is being transformed through AI-enabled tools automating critical parts the production process. From AI cameras focusing in on the action, automated multi-channel sound mixes, to powerful media management tools linking live action with real-time metadata to speed production and automate match highlights creation.

You’ll hear about cutting-edge tools for live sports production and hear from leading broadcasters that are using them.

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Speakers

Daniel McDonnell

Daniel McDonnell, Managing Director, Timeline Television

Daniel McDonnell began his career as a trainee at the BBC in 1989. He worked for the corporation for 17 years as an engineer and VT operator and in later years as an editor.

He formed Timeline in 2006 to specialise in providing server systems and shared edit systems to the broadcast sector. The company has now grown to have more than 130 full time staff. Covering large sporting events such as Wimbledon, Timeline TV provides outside broadcasts, post-production and studio-based services to major UK and International networks such as the BBC and ITV, as well as to the independent sector.

For the America’s Cup the company developed robotic, waterproof camera systems to capture the action from the competing yachts. It also recently designed and built the world’s most advanced IP 4K HDR outside broadcast truck.

Dr Rob Oldfield

Dr Rob Oldfield, Co-Founder, Salsa Sound

Once an academic, now an entrepreneur; Rob completed his PhD at the University of Salford in Audio technology, and continued working at the university in a research and consultancy for several years until he co-founded Salsa Sound Ltd.

Rob’s interests are primarily in improving broadcast audio quality and developing new audio capture technologies for a better end-user experience.

Patented technology from his research led to the recent formation of spin-out company (Salsa Sound) which received backing from the Royal Academy of Engineering who appointed Rob as one of their Enterprise Fellows. Salsa Sound focuses specifically on sports broadcast and Rob’s goal is to make the sound of sport on the TV more engaging, more cinematic and more interactive.

Jérôme Wauthoz

Jérôme Wauthoz, Vice President Products, Tedial 

Jerome Wauthoz joined Tedial in 2017 following more than 22 years at EVS Broadcast Equipment.

He has a deep understanding of live production workflows and extensive experience analysing customer needs across global markets. He launched his career at EVS as a software engineer and subsequently held management-level positions, including R&D manager; product manager and market solutions manager.

Prior to joining Tedial he served as vice president of products, responsible for overseeing the team tasked with developing the company’s next-generation solutions. Jerome holds a degree in Masters in Engineering in Electro-Mechanics from Liège University, Belgium where he also served as an assistant teacher.

Moderator

Robert Ambrose

Robert Ambrose, Managing Consultant, High Green Media

Rob Ambrose (@rambrose) is a consultant, industry analyst, writer and technologist providing strategic advice and content creation to media companies and their technology vendors.

As Founder and Managing Consultant at High Green Media, Rob has expert knowledge of media business systems and the content supply chain – ranging from scheduling and rights management through to content operations, media asset management and workflow. He’s focused on the transformative impact of cloud and data analytics on the media technology landscape.

He’s an active speaker and presenter on media and entertainment industry trends and has extensive international experience, working directly with media companies and vendors in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and North America. Rob holds an MBA with Distinction from Imperial College, London.

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Webinar: Mobile World Congress 2018 Review

We didn’t all have the opportunity to go to Mobile World Congress and with BVE on at the same time, few can go to both and get the full picture.

Fortunately, the IBC365 editorial team will pick through the product launches, announcements and themes of Mobile World Congress to make sense of the show for us.

IBC365 Editor George Bevir will be joined by journalists and analysts from across the broadcast and telco markets who will dissect the main talking points of the exhibition and conference.

Among the topics for discussion are:

  • The role of content in telco operators’ strategies: Acquiring, packaging and distributing content
  • Competing with tech giants and SVOD players
  • Broadcasters’ increasing need for greater network access
  • 5G: Roll out, lessons from PyeongChang and the implications for broadcasters and content owners
  • Delivering content to mobile devices
  • UHD, HDR and HFR content
  • Immersive content: 360-video, VR, AR and MR
  • E-sports: the opportunity to connect with fans
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning

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Webinar: The Early Adopters: Inside the latest IP-based facilities


Webinar & On demand: 6th December 16:00 GMT
Real-world experience of implementing IP from BBC Wales, Rhode & Schwarz, BCE, SMPTE’s Bruce Devlin examining how broadcasters and suppliers are meeting this transition and what real-world benefits the IP revolution can bring broadcasters, vendors and audiences.

SMPTE UK Governor and incoming SMPTE Standards VP Bruce Devlin will be joining Roger Crothers Head of Technology BBC Wales, Costas Columbus Manager Major Projects BCE and David Smith R&S to discuss the switch from SDI to IP-based broadcast studios which is now well under way.

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