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Duration: 45 mins
Content Creation Track
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45 mins
Build Your Studio in the Cloud & Scale Your Creativity
What would more productive artists mean for your studio? What if you could add sought-after talent to your project anywhere in the world, at any time? Whether episodics or feature films, artist talent differentiates any creative studio. The fact is, artist time is more valuable than machine time. If you’re focused on digital content creation (DCC), you can scale your studio by running virtual workstations, rendering, and storage workloads on AWS.
Presenters:
Will McDonald, Principal Product Manager, AWS Thinkbox
Thomas Phariss, Sr. Business Development, AWS Thinkbox
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45 mins
Virtual Workstations & Rendering on AWS
Did you know AWS has numerous tools designed to maximize studio and artist productivity? This session offers a condensed but thorough presentation and demo focused on what’s available and how anyone involved in content production can benefit, such as adding artists to specific projects or time durations, regardless of where artists are, and making sure their work is done in a secure environment. Learn how rendering in the cloud expedites artist and studio production, resulting in more time to iterate, increase output, and improve the quality of your studio productions.
Presenters:
Borislav Petrov, Solutions Architect, AWS Thinkbox
Colin Cupp, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, AWS Thinkbox
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45 mins
How to Secure & Protect Your Content in the Cloud
Are you curious about burst rendering or running virtual workstations in the cloud, but have questions about security? Join AWS experts with years of data security experience in media and entertainment content production, and learn more about how AWS works with ISE, our participation with the new TPN standard, and how we built a framework and quick start guide designed to help you use the public cloud securely for content production.
Presenters:
John Bennett, Senior Consultant - M&E Global Practice, AWS
Colin Cupp, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, AWS Thinkbox
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30 mins
Customer Spotlight:
FuseFX
FuseFX is an Emmy Award-winning creative studio based in Los Angeles specializing in high-end VFX for episodic television and feature films. Join Thomas Phariss, Sr. Business Development Manager AWS Thinkbox, to find out how FuseFX has partnered with AWS to help scale their compute and creative talent to be able to take on more work and more complex shots, with a focus on their recent work on Fox's The Orville.
Presenters:
Thomas Phariss, Sr. Business Development, AWS Thinkbox
Will McDonald, Principal Product Manager, AWS Thinkbox
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Duration: 45 mins
Media Supply Chain Track
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Media Supply Chain on AWS
How do you build a true serverless architecture to take advantage of the cloud? In this discussion, AWS Sr. Partner Solution Architect Jack Wenzinger explains how the cloud facilitates much easier management of the media supply chain, from content ingestion, to processing, to storage and asset management for content creation and distribution. Hear from Levels Beyond about how some of their customers have embraced cloud-based media supply chains to scale media processing for global distribution workflows, including automation using AI/ML.
Presenters:
Jack Wenzinger, Partner Solutions Architect, AWS
Jason Dvorkin, Senior Solutions Architect, Levels Beyond
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Marrying Content with Data: Use Cases Enabled by the Cloud
How do you take your audience data – such as individual preferences, behavior, and interaction history – and combine it with a deep understanding of your content? Your viewers are always trying to tell you something important, but what you do with that information is up to you. AWS M&E Global Tech Leader Usman Shakeel and Partner Solutions Architect Jack Wenzinger go in-depth about the learning opportunities for content providers, and the different use cases possible with cloud-based content and data lakes.
Presenters:
Usman Shakeel, WW Technology Leader for M&E, AWS
Jack Wenzinger, Partner Solutions Architect, AWS
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Make Your Media Archives Earn Their Keep
Question: How do you transform media archives from cost centers to revenue-generating businesses? Answer: Increase the discoverability and accessibility of your media library while reducing TCO with cloud-based asset management systems. Different storage tiers for different content uses combined with AIML enables archivists to create new audience experiences from their video, image, and audio archives. Learn how different media brands derive value from their media libraries and transform how they monetize their content.
Presenters:
Mike Davis, Principal Business Development Manager – Storage, AWS
Liam Morrison, Principal Solution Architect – AI/ML for M&E, AWS
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Customer Spotlight:
Deluxe
With growing demand to quickly deliver content to audiences around the world, distributors are having to face the reality of what preparing content for global distribution at faster rates really means. That’s where the cloud, and platforms like Deluxe One, come in. This session discusses innovative solutions that connect and streamline the end-to-end media supply chain, including specific use cases, inclusive of how Deluxe is leveraging AI/ML, for efficiencies to source, utilize, and create localized content.
Presenters:
Christopher Reynolds, SVP of Localization Products and Services, Deluxe
Ian McPherson, M&E Partner Ecosystem Lead, AWS
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Duration: 45 mins
Content Distribution Track
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Why OTT Video, Your Audiences & the Cloud Belong Together
While OTT video is not new, it is rapidly growing and constantly changing. Learn about recent advances in cloud services that can enhance the overall audience experience for your OTT video services, why the cloud makes sense for OTT, and how AWS Media Services provide easy-to-use building blocks to get started and build advanced workflows as your needs evolve. See how AWS features improve quality in different ways and extend reach, either across the globe, or to more devices, or to different audience groups.
Presenters:
Aslam Khader, Chief Product Officer, AWS Elemental
Michael Callahan, Head of Media Solutions Marketing, AWS
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The Spectrum of Quality & How to Deliver it to Your Audiences
Providing captivating content at the highest video quality keeps audiences happy and loyal, but providers need to thoroughly know the ingredients necessary for VOD content and live video workflows before they can concoct a “quality” recipe. Learn how to build in workflow resilience, so that viewers never miss a moment, and all about the latest tools for measuring and maintaining the best quality of service for your audiences while providing high video quality without budget-busting distribution costs. In addition, learn how tailoring ads to users creates a higher-quality experience for them, and more monetization potential for you.
Presenters:
Kevin Moore, PM Director - Live Encoding Products, AWS
Bryan Samis, M&E Solution Architect, AWS
Joan Morgan, Technical Marketing Engineer, AWS Elemental
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Universal Appeal: How to Reach Global Audiences
Viewers clamor for compelling content – which you have, but what’s the best way to make sure audiences experience it? Learn how to make your OTT content more globally accessible to viewers around the world. This session covers automated captioning and language translation; secure sharing of channels and live event sources with B2B partners; simplified global distribution of VOD assets and live video; and expanding your content to reach more networks and devices.
Presenters:
David Griggs, Senior Product Manager, AWS
Tom Gilman, Technical Marketing Manager, AWS Elemental
Heather Mellish, Principal Business Dev Manager for Edge Services, AWS
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Video Transcoding with High Quality, Low Cost & Speed
Whether your audiences watch video in home theaters, on living room TV sets, or on mobile devices, multiscreen viewing is proliferating. And as the range and resolution of display devices increases to 4K and beyond, and compression formats and features like HDR add complexity, video compression times get lengthier. Can you get high quality, low cost, and fast turnaround in a VOD transcoder? In this session, you learn you can using AWS Elemental MediaConvert and several of its new features including QVBR, RTS, and Accelerated Transcoding.
Presenters:
Vivek Bhat, Principal Product Manager, AWS
Dan Gehred, Solutions Marketing Manager, AWS
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Duration: 45 mins
Track 4
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Customer Spotlight:
FuseFX
FuseFX is an Emmy Award-winning creative studio based in Los Angeles specializing in high-end VFX for episodic television and feature films. Join Thomas Phariss, Sr. Business Development Manager AWS Thinkbox, to find out how FuseFX has partnered with AWS to help scale their compute and creative talent to be able to take on more work and more complex shots, with a focus on their recent work on Fox's The Orville.
Presenters:
Thomas Phariss, Sr. Business Development, AWS Thinkbox
Will McDonald, Principal Product Manager, AWS Thinkbox
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Customer Spotlight:
Deluxe
With growing demand to quickly deliver content to audiences around the world, distributors are having to face the reality of what preparing content for global distribution at faster rates really means. That’s where the cloud, and platforms like Deluxe One, come in. This session discusses innovative solutions that connect and streamline the end-to-end media supply chain, including specific use cases, inclusive of how Deluxe is leveraging AI/ML, for efficiencies to source, utilize, and create localized content.
Presenters:
Christopher Reynolds, SVP of Localization Products and Services, Deluxe
Ian McPherson, M&E Partner Ecosystem Lead, AWS
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Video Transcoding with High Quality, Low Cost & Speed
Whether your audiences watch video in home theaters, on living room TV sets, or on mobile devices, multiscreen viewing is proliferating. And as the range and resolution of display devices increases to 4K and beyond, and compression formats and features like HDR add complexity, video compression times get lengthier. Can you get high quality, low cost, and fast turnaround in a VOD transcoder? In this session, you learn you can using AWS Elemental MediaConvert and several of its new features including QVBR, RTS, and Accelerated Transcoding.
Presenters:
Vivek Bhat, Principal Product Manager, AWS
Dan Gehred, Solutions Marketing Manager, AWS
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Duration: 45 mins
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