Senior technology officers will join in a conversation about how today’s overriding B2B tech trends – including artificial intelligence (AI), the cloud, and 5G – are specifically impacting the creation, production, and delivery of corporate video content, during the general session “Technology Executive Roundtable,” at the second annual Silicon Valley Video Summit (SVVS), Jan. 23.
The panel will be moderated by Allan McLennan, 2G Digital Post president, CGA, an experienced content creation and creative technology executive in the film, TV and radio industry. The SMPTE fellow and current SMPTE president sits on the boards of the Hollywood Professionals Association and the Advisory Board of Exceptional Minds.
“We are in a very interesting time, in which potentially revolutionary technology is being introduced regularly and we shouldn’t be afraid of it,” according to McLennan. “The new technology, after all, stands to be beneficial for everybody in the sector.”
The panel will include Simon Crownshaw, Microsoft worldwide lead for media and entertainment; Mike Davies, Fox Sports EVP, technical and field operations and SVG U.S chairman; Renard T. Jenkins, SMPTE president and HPA, MovieLabs board member; and Heather Mellish, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Edge Go To market leader.
Crownshaw is the worldwide head for media and entertainment at Microsoft. He provides industry leadership to teams across studios, broadcasting, sports, publishing and advertising, and the solutions that power those focus areas. Crownshaw has almost 20 years of experience across all elements of the digital media landscape, including previous work at Disney and Netflix.
Davies, meanwhile, oversees the integration of new and emerging technologies for Fox Sports and Fox Sports 1. With more than two decades of experience in TV sports, Davies specializes in technical production and innovation for large sporting events. In addition to technical design and oversight, Davies also works within the Fox Sports Lab, a designed approach to exploring technical partnerships to enhance the viewing experience. He also currently serves as chairman for the Sports Video Group.
As AWS Edge go to market leader, Mellish has over 20 years of experience in technology sales in application hosting, networking, network security, video workflow, content delivery, and advanced cloud applications.
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