M+E Daily

More than 15 of the media and entertainment industry’s top vendors will be on hand 2 July during the Global Media & Entertainment Day event being presented live, virtually, from London.

Attendees will have four breakouts session tracks to choose from — data, cloud, AI/ML/CX and the supply chain, and security — with vendors sharing how they’ve managed the industry’s new normal during the pandemic.

Here’s a brief look at what attendees can choose from:

Data:

• “We Will Rock You: Preserving the Richest History of Rock and Roll Footage for Future Generations” has Tape Ark CMO Kyle Evans sharing how his company, with partner Seagate, safely restored more than 2,800 hours (350 TB) of preservation-level video files for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, using innovating every step of the way.

• Paul Hastings, SVP of sales, EMEA, for Whip Media Group, will offer insight into the use of “straight-to-home” distribution strategies during the pandemic and how that has changed the well-established theatrical release window, in the presentation “Defining the New Normal for Theatrical Releases, Opportunities for Studios and Platforms.”

• “Fan at Home: Redefining the Fan Experience for the New Normal” has Paul Hennebury, GM of sports and entertainment for ATMECS stressing in today’s new sports and entertainment world it’s far more critical than ever to understand fan behavior and more essential to break that behavior down to drive new revenue streams.

• Kip Welch, executive director for EIDR, will give attendees an idea of the new platform launched by EIDR in April 2020, which includes a new de-duplication software system and complete move to the cloud, in “Latest Developments with the Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR).”

Cloud:

• “Point Break: When to Archive Content in the Cloud or on Premise” has Paul Phillips, EMEA sales and operations for Caringo, addressing the differences between cloud storage and on-premises object storage, how to determine which storage solution is right for your content archive needs, and the benefits of on-premises object storage and hybrid storage solutions.

• 5th Kind CEO Steve Cronan diving into secure review tool sets, accelerated large-file uploads, distribution — from home — and 5th Kind’s upcoming new features such as its watermarked Real-Time Synced Review Player for collaborative team sessions and the ALE Importer for post-production assemblies, in the presentation “Streamlining & Securing Collaboration in a Work-From-Home World.”

• “Are we Experiencing a Watershed Moment for the Cloud?” has Signiant CMO Jon Finegold sharing thoughts on how companies have leveraged our SaaS products to adapt to the global crisis, how workflows have changed and what changes might stick even as the world begins to return to some level of normalcy.

• Michelle Munson, CEO and co-founder of Eluvio, highlighting the new Eluvio Content Fabric, a dynamic, efficient, secure, and cost-effective means to deliver ultra-low latency video globally – without CDNs, cloud transcoding, or databases. The talk — “Windowless Video Distribution: Embracing this ‘Black Swan’ Moment” — will also highlight customer use cases for both consumer-facing and B2B entertainment properties.

AI, ML, CX and the Supply Chain:

• “I Know What You’re Going To Watch Next Summer: 5 New Ways Media Companies Use Machine Learning to Massively Grow Revenues by Decoding & Influencing Viewer Behavior” will have Shiv Sehgal, chief product officer for RSG Media, discuss how behavioral audience insights show you how to steal competitors’ viewers and lock them in, how to drive tune-in by throwing away the rule-books, and to divert advertisers dollars to your shows.

• Joe Jorczak, head of media and entertainment go-to-market strategy for Zendesk, looking at the need for simple, consistent, omni-channel customer experiences, and how it’s amplified by volatile demand, changing consumption trends, and a 100% remote workforce brought by the current crisis. Attendees will discover how brands are working to ensure their consistent customer experience aligns with increased viewership, in the presentation “How COVID is Changing Customer Experience in the Entertainment Space.”

• “Using Machine Learning to Transform Creative Talent Management” will have Matt Holzapfel, solutions lead for Tamr, going over how using machines (specifically, machine learning) can serve up analytics-ready data from disparate data, nd how creative talent management firms can create very human stories with mutually successful outcomes for clients and media companies, time and time again.

• Kunal Shah, VP of software engineering and architecture for Sony New Media Solutions, will look at how Sony’s Digital Supply Chain transformed the team’s platform using cloud technologies, allowing them to quickly adapt to evolving market demands, what they discovered throughout their journey, and the path forward, in the presentation “Turbo Charge Your Digital Supply Chain to Scale.”

Security:

• “Quarantining your Cloud: The Return of COVID-19” will have Michael Wylie, CISSP, director of cybersecurity services for Richey May Technology Solutions, provide the industry with a much needed summary of Continuous Cloud Security Monitoring (CCSM) strategies, techniques, and best practices based on over a decade of helping customers secure their clouds. He’ll outline common challenges currently facing organizations using public clouds and provide a better easy-to-implement cloud security strategy.

• Dave Loveland, CISSP, OSCP, and cloud security architect, and Mathew Gilliat-Smith, EVP, of Convergent Risks, will discuss how, as we emerge from the 2020 lockdown, the M&E supply chain is adapting to a distributed workforce through the use of collaborative workflows, SaaS based applications and the cloud, in the presentation “End to End Security for a Distributed Workforce.”

• “Protecting the Creative Process from Insider Threats” has Dr. Cristian Zamfir, co-founder and CISO of Cyberhaven, discussing the rise of insider threats in media, how to protect the creative process, and cover the common struggles insider threat programs face.

• Ben Schofield, project manager of CDSA and product manager of the Trusted Partner Network (TPN), will offer an update of the “CDSA’s App & Cloud Control Framework,” a common control framework that is scalable to the size, appropriate to the community and constituency of the TPN, but also mapped directly to the control framework and standards already being utilized within the industry.

• “Introducing the Audio Business Continuity Alliance (ABCA)” has Nicky McBride, VP of business development for SDI Media and Marlies Schortinghuis, director of activation and executive chairman of Iyuno Media Group, go over the benefits of the ABCA and its intent to establish a collaborative community of artists and companies who provide professional audio services to content creators around the world.

Now in its fourth straight year, the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance’s (MESA) popular M&E Day event begins at 12:30 British Summer Time. Following the main stage programme, the afternoon sessions and breakouts will feature data, cloud, IT and security experts, across the media and entertainment technology ecosystem, weighing in on and demonstrating the latest solutions on hand for — and the challenges facing — the industry in today’s global remote-work business environment.

The event will be presented by Caringo, with sponsorship by Convergent Risks, Cyberhaven, Richey May Technology Solutions, RSG Media, Signiant, Whip Media Group, Zendesk, Tape Ark, Sony New Media Solutions, 5th Kind, ATMECS, Eluvio, Tamr, the Audio Business Continuity Alliance (ABCA), the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR), and The Trusted Partner Network (TPN).

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