08:45 Registration
09:30 Chairman’s opening address
Jeremy Bancroft, Director, Media Asset Capital
09:45 CASE STUDY: Putting into operation a centralised platform for the management of 15 channels broadcasted across Northern, Central and Eastern Europe
- Optimising customer loyalty levels and protecting income from advertisers
- Creating an innovative infrastructure gathering information on transmission outages
- Increasing future performance with the faster enabling of reports
- Optimising customer loyalty levels and protecting income from advertisers
Ricki Berg, Head of Projects, SBS Broadcasting Networks Ltd
Amit Patel, CEO, Symbox
10:15 CASE STUDY: Implementing a cross-media platform to streamline processes, reduce costs and enable expansion
- Understanding the technical challenges faced by the broadcaster in a changing market
- Discussing the layout of the chosen setup and elaborating on the technologies and workflows employed
- Tracking step by step the implementation of the new method, including organisational change, client satisfaction and core principles
Thomas Popma, VP Channel Operations, MTV Networks North
Emmanuel Müller, Business Development Manager, MediaGenix
10:45 CASE STUDY: Best practice for protecting, recovering and managing audiovisual material
- Outlining the implications of disaster scenarios on content management for broadcasters: what to expect and how to prepare?
- Reviewing the disaster recovery technologies used by Discovery’s Chiswick London facility
- Understanding the strategies facilitating intelligent and remote communication between several archive systems and ensuring business continuity
David Roulson, Director, Broadcast Engineering, MTP&O Engineering, Discovery Communications Europe Limited
Rino Petricola, Senior Vice President, Managing Director, Front Porch Digital International
11:15 Morning refreshments and networking
11:45 PANEL DISCUSSION: Cloud computing uses in broadcasting: what is the big buzz all about?
- Understanding what the bases of cloud computing are
- Outlining the key advantages and obstacles of the use of cloud computing by broadcasters
- Comparing cloud media asset management with traditional MAM solutions
Fearghal Kelly, VP Media Solutions, Media Practice Division, IOKO
Emilio Zapata, Founder and CEO, Tedial
12:30 CASE STUDY:Tape ingest and MXF file mastering workflow
- Addressing the IT difficulties when implementing a tapeless workflow
- Assessing the utility of MXF file mastering and the challenges encountered
- Discussing the commercial drivers for adopting this new system
Denis GRISON, Head of Digitization Project, ARTE
Benoit Fevrier, Managing Director, EVS OpenCube
13:00 Lunch and networking
14:15 CASE STUDY: Accessing a common pool of media content from various independent platforms
- Understanding the technical challenges of interconnecting eight independent MAM systems
- Outlining the systems used to share and retrieve media content: what lessons can be learnt?
- What future technologies can enhance the workflow distribution across various independent systems?
José Enrique Zamorano, Technical Director, Canal Sur
Rafael Dubois, Sales Director, Tedial
14:45 CASE STUDY: Assessing the use of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) appropriate SOA architecture for the broadcast industry
- Outlining the situation where SOA is the best solution
- Describing the architectural approach and analysing its key benefits and challenges
- Discussing how this approach can ease the impact of the change to file-based workflows on people and processes
Roberto Pomari, Head of Production, Radiotelevisione Svizzera Di Lingua Italiana
Nick Smith, Business Development Manager, Sony Europe
15:15 Afternoon refreshments and networking
15:45 CASE STUDY: Workflow in news operations
- What is the reasoning behind transforming TV news agency satellite delivery from linear to file based video, and how has the thinking evolved over time?
- Discovering the architecture for delivering linear video and file based video simultaneously and sharing the same satellite multiplex;
- Discussing the evolution, challenges and solutions of a file based production system providing both 525 and 625 versions of news stories for distribution
Philip V Thomas, TV Technical Specialist, Reuters Television
Bruce Devlin, CTO, Amberfin
16:15 Measuring the real business impact of file-based workflows
- Workflows in the mist: outlining the issues in understanding the business case for an ongoing costs of implementing file-based workflows
- Practical approaches to implanting cost-effective measurable content processes through open source integration technology
- Calculating the impact of file-based workflows through a business analytics approach and tools
Steve Sharman, CTO, Mediasmiths
16:45 Chairman’s closing remarks and wrap-up
17:00 End of conference
