Tuesday, January 28, 2025

LOCATION: Grand Ballroom

Last year’s attendees asked for more deep-dive technology conversations, to be able ask questions and interact with the experts. Introducing The Ballroom, a new, interactive stage in the Museum.

10:45 - 11:30 a.m.

Networking Break in Exhibits Area

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11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Seamless SMPTE 2110

Not ready to start from scratch, hire a new team, and go full-blown IP? How can teams deploy ST2110 in their facility without having an army of IT professionals and developers to admin this new virtualized workflows and infrastructures, What standard is the holy grail for democratizing ST2110 for pro-AV and smaller productions? This session is designed for video engineers and producers who are looking to transition to or optimize their current systems using SMPTE 2110 standards.

Introduction:
Kent Terry, SMPTE SF, Past Section Chair

Moderator:
Steve Young, Advanced Systems Group (ASG), Senior Principal, Consulting

Confirmed Panelists:
Rachel Ford, Monumental Sports Entertainment, Broadcast IT Engineer
Jeremy Hochman, Megapixel, Co-Founder and CEO
Gary Schneider, LinkedIn, Lead Media Systems Architect
Valeria Sosa, Netflix, Live Broadcast Engineer L5

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12:00 - 12:30 p.m.

SMPTE Keynote – Opening Doors of Perception: Rethinking AR/MR Perceptual Displays

The future of imaging and displays requires us to rethink display design and rendering architectures. Given that AR/MR are perceptual engines, creatives and engineers now need to design with “Perception” as the central theme of all our imaging architectures. In this SMPTE Keynote, Meta display senior director Ajit Ninan will discuss new design concepts for perceptual video viewing and how we need to come together as an industry to solve the hard problems, standardize on metrics, and drive the industry towards a single lens-to-display ecosystem.

Introduction:
Pat Griffis, SMPTE, Former President

Keynote:
Ajit Ninan, Meta, Senior Director, AR/VR Imaging Architect

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12:30 - 12:45 p.m.

Decentralized Production At Scale. Real-World Application, Lessons Learned, and What’s Next?
4K, 8K, 3D, HDR, and Beyond

Join Lucas Wilson as he shares ASG’s lessons learned over a year and a half, supporting customers with decentralized production at scale. How do these productions all come together? How do they deliver high-quality content to their global audience? And what’s next in real-world software-defined decentralized production? A sneak-peek preview of their upcoming NAB presentations.

Presenter:
Lucas Wilson, Advanced Systems Group (ASG), Business Development

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12:45 - 1:45 p.m.

Networking Lunch

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1:45 - 2:15 p.m.

Retraining the Training Video

The training video is the “meat and potatoes” of corporate video production, expected to deliver high volume, low-cost, localized and brand and governance compliant productions — every time. How are they handling accessibility concerns? What high-volume workflows are they adopting? And is AI the inevitable solution?

Moderator:
Will Flash, Microsoft, Senior Business Program Manager

Confirmed Panelists:
Rob Cocks, Vimeo, Head of Americas - Vimeo Enterprise
Jacqueline Cooper, CG Pro, Co-Founder and Founder, CG Empowers
Ekta Hutton, FIFA, Training and Dev Specialist – FIFA Digital Skills
Owen Modeste, Stanford Engineering Global & Online Education, Senior Creative Producer/Studio Operations Manager

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2:15 - 2:45 p.m.

Immersive Experiences that Wow

What can corporate producers learn about creating immersive experiences that captivate and engage the audience. From arenas to headsets, what are the practices and tools being used and what can Enterprise experience creators learn from advancements in art and entertainment?

Moderator:
Lucas Wilson, Advanced Systems Group (ASG), Business Development

Confirmed Panelists:
Nick Catanella, Sparks, Executive Producer, Brand Experience and Global Agency Production
CJ Davis, The Famous Group, CTO
Conor McGill, Pixera, Director
Kelly Campbell Smolen, AREA15, Executive Director, Corporate and Experience Events

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2:45 - 3:00 p.m.

Pixels, Images, Video, AI – and Us

Discover the fascinating interplay between pixels, images, video, and artificial intelligence – and the remarkable insights they tell us about each-other and ourselves. Cross will demystify how AI works and will explain how the real magic happens when we apply these ideas to AI’s interaction with media. We may never look at the screen the same ever again.

Presenter:
Andrew Cross, Industry Technologist and Inventor of NDI

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3:00 - 3:45 p.m.

Networking Break in Exhibits Area

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3:45 - 4:15 p.m.

Advancing AVoIP

Corporate AV professionals, network engineers, and IT specialists, and their technology partners, show their blueprints for the design, implementation, and management of next-gen AV systems. Attendees will be updated on which AVoIP applications are on the rise.

Moderator:
Wes Choy, Netflix N-Tech, Global Manager, A/V Builds

Confirmed Panelists:
Michael Arlen, Meta, Executive Production Engineer
Patrick Gilligan, Zillow, Principal AV Infrastructure Engineer
Jason Lipton, Visa, Pro AV Architect

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4:15 - 4:45 p.m.

Producing the CEO Town Hall

How are the CEO, senior leaders, and corporate communications teams creating more interactive and engaging employee all-hands events and meetings — that are live, global and personal? Producers and techs exchange advice and war stories about creating impactful videos and events with corporate executives as the talent and thousands of employees as the audience.

Moderator:
Gary Schneider, LinkedIn, Lead Media Systems Architect

Confirmed Panelists:
Mitch Hyare, Salesforce, Senior Manager, Streamforce
Jon Raidel, Vizrt, Global Lead, Cloud Live Production
Mitch Rosenthal, Tata Comms Media, Director Business Development, Production & Enterprise
Angelo Taylor, Altera, Executive Studio Lead

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