AWS for M&E Workshops at IBC 2023

September 16 - 18, 2023
AWS Learning Lounge | nHow hotel, 23rd floor, Chili+Wasabi conference rooms




About the event
The Learning Lounge offers an opportunity to learn from Amazon Web Services (AWS) technical leaders and Amazon Partner Network (APN) partners in workshops and chalk-talk sessions designed to educate participants on "how to" and accelerate implementation of AWS for media workloads. We’ll cover key industry topics including building a cloud enabled studio, what's new with render and workstations on AWS, live production in the cloud, how to reduce your storage footprint, automated metadata enrichment, monetization for live events, monitoring video quality consumer experience, edit in the cloud, and FAST channels. These sessions are a great way to upskill on AWS and partner solutions, open new opportunities, and speed adoption and deployment.

Specific sessions are listed below.

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AWS for M&E Direct-To-Consumer & Broadcast Foundations Learning Badge Introduction and Demonstration
Explore how the AWS for M&E Direct-to-Consumer & Broadcast Foundations free learning badge can upskill your team or your own career. See a demonstration of the content in AWS Skillbuilder and talk with AWS Training & Certification experts on your own training needs.

Date: Saturday, September 16 and Sunday, September 17
Time: 8:00AM - 5:00PM CEST

Learn how Fabric and IMDb help customers seamlessly enrich their metadata
IMDb (www.imdb.com), the world’s most popular and authoritative source for information on movies, TV shows, and celebrities, and Fabric (www.fabricdata.com), the leader in metadata management for media and entertainment catalogs, will present an overview of a solution that allows Media and Entertainment customers to seamlessly enrich their catalogs using robust entertainment data sets from IMDb. Join Natasha Bishop (Head of Business Development, IMDb) and Rob Delf (CEO, Fabric) to learn more about how Fabric and IMDb are making it easy for customers to manage their metadata.
Date: Saturday, September 16
Time: 11:00AM - 12:00PM CEST


How to Schedule, Scale, Monetize: Live Event Orchestration & Automation in AWS Media Services
This Chalk Talk looks at the latest advancements in live stream monetisation technologies, considering the what it takes for a broadcaster to serve regionalised and personalized content to global audiences encompassing millions of concurrent viewers at any one time. A walk through technologies from Dynamic-Ad-Insertion to Server-Side-Ad-Insertion to the latest Encoder-Based-Ad-Manipulation solution (EBAM), Valentijn Siebrands, Solutions Architect, M2A Media discusses the challenges faced by modern broadcasters and the best methods to help them reduce complexity and monetise content more effectively and efficiently at scale.

Date: Saturday, September 16
Time: 12:15PM - 1:15PM CEST

Soaring Through Live Production in the Cloud with Vizrt
Join the Vizrt team for a session on live broadcast production in the cloud. Learn how to deploy a live production environment in minutes. Vizrt will guide you through Viz Now, the award-winning free-to-use automated deployment tool in AWS, then dive into Viz Vectar Plus as a live production tool. Finish your cloud journey by learning about what Vizrt tools designed to fit your production needs.

Date: Saturday, September 16
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM CEST

Eliminate Duplication and Reduce Your Storage Footprint With Ateliere Connect
In our rapidly evolving media landscape, Media companies must balance dueling imperatives of enhancing monetization while achieving cost savings. One of the best approaches to achieve this is by centralizing/consolidating content libraries and removing redundant assets - providing sales and ops teams a simplified view of distributable titles and versions.
Ateliere’s cloud-native platform is designed to eliminate duplication and reduce your media footprint. Join us for a technical chalk talk discussion on how Ateliere leverages the full potential of cloud services and scalability to power its proprietary Deep Analysis AI workflow removing, or consolidating, duplicated assets/versions to reduce cloud storage footprints by 70-90%, minimizing QC and maximizing efficiency in the process.


Date: Saturday, September 16
Time: 2:45PM - 3:45PM CEST

Building a Cloud Enabled Studio: What You Need to Know
Are you operating a creative studio and want to know more about how to leverage the cloud for content production? Are you a digital nomad wanting the flexibility to work from a remote location? Are you already a cloud enabled studio and want to know more about operating efficiently? Or are you keen to know more about AWS and how we support content production customers? During the session, we will cover the following:

  1. What is AWS? Overview of services and partners.
  2. Cloud farm versus on-prem farm.
  3. Designing the right approach for your studio.
  4. Understanding cost.
  5. Security for your studio.

Date: Saturday, September 16
Time: 4:00PM - 5:30PM CEST

Amagi Showcases a Tutorial of Our Cloud-Native Playout and Monetization on AWS
As a global leader in FAST solutions, Amagi has partnered with AWS to leverage their capabilities to build world leading cloud native solutions for channel origination, live channel feed integration, robust HTML5 graphics, and Monetization using SSAI for streaming TV offerings for OTT, SVOD and FAST.

Date: Sunday, September 17
Time: 11:00AM - 12:00PM CEST

Learn How to Get Actionable Insights With Industry-Leading Speed and Scale With Mux
Whether you’re streaming to three million or thirty million, data is the foundation to great video experiences. Take a walk through Mux’s real-time QoE Monitoring Dashboard and data product. With a few lines of code, you can leverage the world’s most scalable video data to monitor video performance, quickly pinpoint any QoE issues, and see what’s happening and why so you can take action.

Date: Sunday, September 17
Time: 12:15PM - 1:15PM CEST

All Things Live - Manage Live Events and Distribution with Nomad Media and AWS.
Nomad Media will discuss live stream production, and management for a 24/7 global audience. Nomad covers how users can control their viewing experience with quad camera view; live events scheduling; seamless Live-to-VOD recording; auto-generate and curate social media asset distribution; live events syndication to YouTube, X, and other media supply chain distribution points.

Date: Sunday, September 17
Time: 1:30PM - 2:30PM CEST

Simplifying Collaborative Media Production with EditShare FLEX
Discover how EditShare FLEX, collaborative production storage and MAM, integrated with AWS, simplifies the complexities of cloud-based video production to free your creative teams from administrative burdens. Dive into real-world examples of seamless allocation, easy workstation management, and secure cloud access that can transform video production workflows, allowing creative teams to focus on what they do best – crafting incredible content. With EditShare, teams are unshackled to employ their tools of choice, including seamless integration with Adobe Premiere Pro and all other major NLEs. EditShare FLEX connects remote teams and editors to their media, fostering an environment where collaboration knows no bounds.

Date: Sunday, September 17
Time: 2:45PM - 3:45PM CEST
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