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How do media and entertainment companies secure digital screeners within the content supply chain? Are digital screeners really set to replace the days of shipping out a DVD? And what exactly is the current and future state of digital screeners in Hollywood?

These topics will be tackled by a bevy of the media and entertainment industry’s top security experts  March 22 in Los Angeles, when the Content Delivery & Security Association (CDSA) and the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) hold a unique Content Protection Briefing.

The March 22 event, running from 4-6 p.m. at the Line Hotel in Koreatown, will see content owners like Paramount and Turner, technical experts like Microsoft, eFilm, Deluxe, MediaSilo and Civolution, all together offering their thoughts on how Hollywood does screeners today, and how they’ll continue doing it in the days ahead.

“Digital streaming will surpass DVD sales in 2016,” noted CDSA security advisor Bryan Ellenburg. “If consumers can make the switch to digital, the members of AMPAS, studio executives, and guild members can likewise adapt to streaming technologies. The key is to offer a simple but secure platform that is easily integrated into the recipient’s usual viewing environment.”

Here’s a rundown of the agenda for the evening:

• “Secure Digital Screeners Within the Content Supply Chain,” with Josh Haynie, managing director of Efilm, Dmitry Primachenko, SVP of MediaVu and secure cinema for Deluxe, and Josh Wiggins, SVP of sales and business development for Deluxe, looking at who needs digital screeners, and how they are used.

• “Digital Screeners: The Next Generation of DVD Screener” has Joe Daniel, senior solutions architect for Civolution, sharing how DVDs are no longer meeting the needs for the secure screening of content, with the industry moving toward digital with forensic watermarking.

• “The Current and Future State of Digital Screeners” has Ellenburg, Primachenko, Joel Sloss, program manager of security, privacy, and compliance for Microsoft Azure, Mark Nakano, senior director of product marketing and partnerships for Civolution’s NexGuard, Jaclyn Knag, senior manager of content security for Paramount Pictures, Cyril Rickelton-Abdi, senior director of content security for Turner, and Matt Thomas, head of sales for MediaSilo, offering a broad view on the state of digital screeners.

The Content Protection Briefing 2016 is being sponsored by Deluxe, Microsoft Azure and Civolution’s NexGuard. To register, click here. To learn more or sponsor the event, contact Garrett Randall at 1-310-882-9204 or [email protected].