Gold Sponsors:

AmberFin enables content owners to maximise the value of their TV, film and video content, from capture through to distribution, while increasing revenues, reducing costs, saving time and eliminating incompatibility issues.  AmberFin iCR, with four-time Emmy-award winning technology, plays a key role in turning the content that owners have into the content their customers want.  As an open standard, future proof platform that digitises and transforms new and archived content, AmberFin iCR delivers the best quality pictures at smaller file sizes across multiple delivery platforms, including the Internet, VoD, TV, mobile and other small screen devices.  AmberFin already has 100s of iCR systems in the field, and is trusted by some of the world’s most prestigious companies including Sony, NBA, Turner Broadcasting, BT, RTM, National Geographic and Warner Brothers, managing the digitization and repurposing of their content.
Privately held by Advent Venture Partners, AmberFin is headquartered in Basingstoke, UK.
More information is available at: http://www.amberfin.com



EVS Broadcast Equipment is a leader in the design of hardware and software for the production and playout of live sports, news, and TV programs in both OB and studio environments. Its innovative Live Slow-Motion system revolutionized live broadcasting and its Instant Tapeless Technologies are now widely used in nonlinear editing and High Definition Television across the broadcast market worldwide.
The company sells its branded products in more than 70 countries and is capable of providing service in any region. EVS has offices in Belgium, China, France, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Spain, and the United States. Visit www.evs.tv for further information. 




Symbox® enable companies within the Media & Telecommunications industries, to run efficient operations and stay ahead of the competition.

Symbox® develop and deliver cloud based and on-premise software solutions to help automate, manage and optimize business processes, in order to reduce costs, increase performance and improve productivity.

Founded in 2001 by Amit Patel and Paul Lewis-Borman, Symbox® has evolved into a trusted and strategic software solution provider, for some of the leading Media and Telecommunications companies. Our particular emphasis on these sectors, has allowed us to build up a wealth of knowledge, across many business issues commonly experienced amongst these organisations and we have an excellent understanding of how technology can be utilised, to deliver and address business requirements.  www.symbox.com






 
 

Telestream provides world-class live and on-demand digital video tools and workflow solutions that allow consumers and businesses to transform video on the desktop and across the enterprise. Many of the world’s most demanding media and entertainment companies as well as a growing number of users in a broad range of business environments, rely on Telestream products to streamline operations, reach broader audiences and generate more revenue from their media. Telestream products span the entire digital media lifecycle, including real-time video capture and ingest; live and on-demand encoding and transcoding; playout, delivery, and live streaming; as well as management and automation of the entire workflow.

Telestream Vantage products provide a complete range world-class transcoding and workflow solutions – from single-server installations for automating transcoding, to very large, multi-server systems that produce and assemble millions of finished media packages. Vantage transcoding workflows make content production, multi-screen delivery, and device interoperability a hands-off process. Vantage brings transcoding, media capture, metadata processing, and analysis into a unified system. Automated decision making and enterprise-class system management can be added to take workflows to the next level.

Silver Sponsors:

Software Generation Limited (SGL) designs and implements content archive and storage management solutions for the broadcast industry. SGL provides the most cost-efficient content storage management systems available to all broadcast-centric organisations, focussing on core competencies of totally scalable and highly reliable solutions that enable complete integration with every major broadcast vendor.
SGL's FlashNet Open System content management solution provides significant improvement to workflow efficiency with seamless interoperability between departments, and has been implemented by many of the world's leading broadcasters at all levels, from major networks to the smallest call letter stations. SGL's unique architecture is made possible through co-development and testing with all of the major industry vendors, keeping SGL's solutions beyond the leading edge of content management.
Further information can be found at: www.sglbroadcast.com

World Class Automation, Channel in a Box and Content Management Solutions

Pebble Beach Systems specialises in world class broadcast automation, content management and channel-in-a-box solutions. With systems designed to seamlessly manage acquisition, file-based workflows, archiving and multichannel playout, the company offers the most fully-featured integrated platform for all channel types on the market, and a common user interface and single content management system controls workflows of any size and complexity.

The enterprise level Marina automation system is scalable up to hundreds of channels, enabling broadcasters to mix simple and complex channels and accommodate complex workflows.  Redefining the role of automation, Marina extends upstream and downstream to encompass content capture, management and delivery across all channel types without needing to create separate operational silos. Marina is fully Unicode compliant, enabling the entire user interface to be localized in any language.

Dolphin is the powerful new cost-effective channel-in-a-box solution from Pebble Beach Systems. It delivers highly automated multi-channel channel playout and ingest capability, and can operate as a standalone system under Neptune or Marina control, or as part of a complex mixed network of equipment and functionality enabling you to choose the optimum technology for the budgetary and technical needs of each channel in use alongside best-of-breed 3rd party devices. http://www.pebble.tv/

 
Blue Lucy Media (BLM) evolved from the already well-established Blue Lucy consultancy business to become a genuine thought and software development leader in the field of video production workflow modernisation within IT environments.
Through our all-software range of video processing service components and open control applications, BLM offers a genuine opportunity to build flexible service-orientated production environments; from baseband ingest and lossless file operations to multi-format, multiplatform delivery. Such an approach allows for on-demand processing capability providing scalability as well as the efficient use of hardware resources.
The BLM management team has a solid and broad range of experience including low level software development architecture for video and audio applications, but also in broadcast operations, engineering and executive management. The focus of the company is very much on the delivery of value to business owners and users, not just the techies. BLM’s raison d’être is to dramatically reduce the traditionally high costs and inefficiencies of high quality media production by implementing commodity IT-based infrastructure and adapting it to the requirements of modern media production.
BLM is based in south west London, operating globally through OEM partners and directly to end-customers through a network of value-added resellers.
www.bluelucymedia.com

 
 

WHATS'On manages and optimises all your cross-media broadcasting, scheduling and content lifecycle processes.
Whether you're a broadcaster, telco, platform operator or on-demand service provider, our company-wide software is not only designed to streamline your current processes, but also to grow along with your most ambitious plans. With WHATS'On, you can easily launch new channels or set up additional on-demand services in a cost-efficient way, while optimising workflow and infrastructure.
www.mediagenix.tv