| Presentations | Events and Details | Organization | Designation | Name |
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| 8:00-8:45 | Registration | |||
| View Presentation Click Here for Video | Conference Welcome | ETC | Project Cloud | Erik Weaver |
| OpenSource Tools | ||||
| Click Here for Video | The Cinema Content Creation Cloud - An introduction to the C4 framework Abstract: C4 is a framework endorsed by the ETC and it’s member organizations for orchestrating connections between services, software and people for better digital production pipelines and to enable the future of production in the cloud. | Studio Pyxis/ETC Framework Lead | CEO | Joshua Kolden |
| View Presentation Click Here for Video | OpenStack meets TV Everywhere: Peanut Butter and Chocolate Abstract: OpenStack is in the process of revolutionizing video delivery through virtualization, software defined networking and storage abstraction. OpenStack’s ability to rapidly deploy video ecosystems and dynamically scale them based on resource requirements is enabling service providers to offer new services faster, more robustly, and at lower cost. We’ll review TV Everywhere cloud deployment requirements and why the marriage of TV Everywhere and OpenStack is so compelling. | Imagine Communications | CTO, MVPD | Yuval Fisher |
| Storage | ||||
| View Presentation Click Here for Video | An Introduction to Data Gravity Abstract: You're probably familiar with the concept of data gravity, even if you’ve never heard the term before. The emerging term and its concept are becoming increasingly popular as file sizes continue to grow at exponential rates, and cloud storage popularity becomes mainstream. This session will introduce the concept of data gravity, the factors at play, and how file transfer will play a role in the future. | FileCatalyst | President & Co-Founder | John Tkaczewski |
| View Presentation Click Here for Video | This Is Not Your Parent’s Storage: Transitioning to Cloud Object Storage Abstract: While the benefits of cloud technology are undeniable—from improved business agility to economies of scale—concerns still exist around security and performance in multi-tenant environments versus dedicated private deployments. Multi-tenant environments introduce additional parties to the trust model and additional factors to the performance mix. This presentation covers the benefits of transitioning media workflows to the cloud and how to overcome obstacles related to security and performance using real world successes as examples. | Signiant | CTO | Ian Hamilton |
| Lunch | ||||
| Big Data/Analytics | ||||
| View Presentation Click Here for Video | On-Prem and the Cloud: Effective Big Data Solutions and Services for Content Owners Abstract: Content owners have been dealing with the challenges of Big Data and Object Storage long before these terms were coined by skillful marketeers. Trends around file-based infrastructures and platforms, both on-prem and in the cloud, are hot discussion topics these days. Select purpose-built solutions and services are finally coming to maturity and are beginning to make technical and economic sense. Rather than just parking content for the long-term, these active environments leverage globally distributed, best-of-breed infrastructures to serve traditional as well OTT paths to consumers in an elastic fashion. This talk will highlight trends in storage and infrastructures dynamically serving these demanding environments. | Oracle/Front Porch Digital | CTO/FPD | Brian Campanotti |
| View Presentation Click Here for Video | Big Data/DIG: Domain-Specific Insight Graphs Abstract: Domain-specific Insight Graph (DIG) is a technology that harvests and harmonizes millions of Web pages to extract key elements of knowledge (e.g., entities and relations). It integrates corporate databases with the extracted data across sources and modalities encoding implicit and purposefully obfuscated relationships. It offers a faceted content search interface and visualizations to support analysis. | ISI/USC | Project Leader | Pedro Szekely |
| View Presentation Click Here for Video | Open Source Framework for Deploying Data Science Models and Cloud Based Applications Abstract: Next generation applications address more sophisticated questions that go beyond 'What happened?' by using Machine Learning/Statistical modelling to answer 'Why?' and 'What will happen next? Data insights can be easily deployed and rapidly delivered to the decision makers via cloud based applications. This framework focuses on technologies available for the entire data workflow from ingestion and modeling to cloud deployment; Hadoop, MADlib, Python, R, CloudFoundry, etc. This presentation will also include examples of how this framework and innovative Data Science techniques have been applied across diverse business units within Media, including pricing analyses for ad optimization and predicting viewership. | Pivotal | Principal Data Scientist | Noelle Sio, Srivatsan Ramanujam, Jarrod Vawdrey |
| Event Canceled | Using Media-Analytics to Engage Content Consumers as Collaborative Partners Abstract: The talk will cover: Rapid changes in the market with content consumers and competitors are driving media and entertainment industry transformation. The ability to understand the sources of change and respond quickly to them are critical to success. New real-time approaches to engaging consumers in a dialogue and tracking competitor moves are required. Technology advances today allows content creators and distributors to take a cost-effective integrated approach. | HP | Sector Leader | Mike Carrier |
