FINAL PROGRAM November 19-20, 2019 PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOPS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18 n Learn what you need to know to make streaming work—from content capture and creation to distribution and management n Get in-depth training on online video technology and applications in intensive preconference seminars n Learn about the new business and CONNECT: distribution models for online video The Westin n Gain access to the Showcase featuring major streaming and online video vendors #StreamingWest Bonaventure n Network with your colleagues, peers, and experts in streaming media Los Angeles, CA STREAMINGMEDIA.COM/WEST Diamond Sponsor Platinum Sponsors Gold Sponsors Silver Sponsors Streaming Partner Association Sponsors Media Sponsors On-Demand ORGANIZED AND PRODUCED BY Video Sponsor FEATURING THESE SPECIAL EVENTS PUBLISHERS OF The Westin November Bonaventure 19-20, 2019 Los Angeles, CA Welcome to Streaming Media West 2019. We're thrilled to be in downtown Los Angeles, right in the heart of the entertainment industry, and we hope you enjoy our new venue as much as we have. It's our biggest—and, we think, best—Streaming Media West yet. In addition to our long-running Business & Strategy Track and Technical & How-To Track, we've got four focused summits that let you zero in on the speakers and topics that are most important to you—the Video Engineering Summit, the OTT Leadership Summit, the Live Streaming Summit, and the brand-new Esports & Sports Summit. There's also the Discovery Track, where you can learn directly from solutions providers about how they're tackling the biggest challenges facing streaming media today. Depending on the type of pass you have, you can take a deep dive into any single track or summit, or you can “build your own show” by attending sessions across all of them. Of course, just as important as the great content are the networking opportunities. In addition to receptions Monday and Tuesday evening, we are holding meetups during the coffee breaks in the networking lounge in the Showcase. Each one will be hosted by a Streaming Media magazine contributing editor. If your focus is video engineering, OTT, live streaming, or esports & sports, check the program schedule for the meetup that will help you “find your tribe.” If you’re not sure which sessions are the best fit for you, or if you’re looking for a solution but aren’t quite sure which exhibitor might be able to help you, don’t hesitate to ask me or another Streaming Media representative. We’re here to make sure you get as much as possible out of your time here in Los Angeles. Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen, Conference Chair, VP & Editor, Streaming Media Where the Best Companies and Minds in the Industry Come to Meet and Mingle Business & Technical & Discovery TRACK Strategy TRACK How-To TRACK Open to all Streaming Media Attention C-level executives The Technical & How-To Track West 2019 conference attendees and VPs, digital media strategists, and sales, is for CTOs, technology managers, studio and Discovery Pass holders, Discovery Live Streaming Summit focuses on the marketing and product managers: This is professionals, and developers who want one Track sessions are moderated by Streaming challenges and opportunities inherent your home at Streaming Media West. This thing: solutions. The video ecosystem is a Media magazine editors and presented by in delivering large-scale live events and forward-thinking track offers high-level fragmented mix of platforms and devices: speakers related to our conference sponsors. live linear channels to multiple screens. strategic discussions to learn from the Learn from the pros how you can eliminate The presentations, which typically focus on Sessions address every step of the live best where the online video economy is the bottlenecks and deliver results. Expert products and customer case studies, provide a video workflow, including ingestion, moving. We shed light on the future of the presenters will offer sessions on the entire good opportunity to learn more about specific transcoding, management, distribution, online video marketplace, discussing ways video workflow, from formats to delivery to technologies and practical solutions to real- and post-event evaluation. Whether you’re broadcasters, cable and satellite operators, player and UI development to AI and machine world business needs. The Discovery Track is streaming one-time entertainment, news, MVPDs, and content rights holders can learning. This is the place to go to learn real where to go to seek expertise and advice, get sports, esports, or worship events, or unlock the value of OTT and TV Everywhere. skills and improvements you can put in place trained on unique products, or hear about new delivering recurring live content, we’ve got It points to improvements in content creation, as soon as you’re back in the office. And solutions and trends in online video. you covered. While other events focus on acquisition, and monetization and reveals even if you’re not currently a video developer event video production, the Live Streaming coming shifts in consumer viewing habits. A and want to learn more about how the Summit takes it to the next level, covering sea change is coming to streaming media; technology works, this track is for you. the technologies and strategies required this track is for executives who want to ride to take that video and deliver it to viewers the wave. watching on every device. OTT is the future of television, and this Video compression and related technologies Streaming Media University features summit is a deep dive into how broadcasters, Nowhere is streaming having a bigger are the bedrock of the online video industry, world-class experts delivering content- cable & satellite operators, MVPDs, vMPVDs, impact than on live sports. It's not just how and they’ve always been the heart of rich training. This series of Monday and content rightsholders can unlock the we watch, it's what we watch. Esports are Streaming Media. The Video Engineering workshops at our Streaming Media value of OTT and TV Everywhere. Because products of the digital age and traditional Summit is for the hardcore video engineers, West 2019 event offers attendees the business and technology factors work hand- sports are running to keep pace with this the ones who are really pushing the opportunity to get deep-dive training on in-hand to create a successful OTT service, upstart. The Esports & Sports Streaming boundaries of video quality and compression online video and streaming technologies. we’ll look at the entire OTT ecosystem to Summit is the place to be for a closer look efficiency. It’s a deep dive into encoding and Three hours in length, these workshops provide a thorough understanding of the at the incredibly addicting, highly charged, transcoding, packaging and delivery, player give you the sound theories and practiced opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. and constantly evolving world of esports and UI development, and formats, protocols, techniques to become a top performer We’ll also unveil fresh OTT research to give and sports streaming. We'll bring you into and standards. If you’re looking for deep in the online video field. In the end, you you actionable data and help you thrive in the conversations happening right now—and dives into HEVC, VP9, AV1, DASH, CMAF, walk away with unique, in-depth training, this increasingly competitive market. even anticipate the changes ahead, so you WebRTC, video optimization, or perceptual a Streaming Media University Completion can profit! quality, you’ve come to the right place. Our Certificate, and the professional know-how expert speakers will help you take your to enhance your career. video to the next level. 6 #StreamingWest STREAMINGMEDIA.COM/WEST CONFERENCE AT-A-GLANCE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18 PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOPS (priced separately) 9:00 a.m. – W1 ❙ Introduction to ABR Production & Delivery W2 ❙ Deploying CMAF; Why, When, & How W3 ❙ Off-the-Shelf Streaming Tools 12:00 p.m. 1:30 p.m. – W4 ❙ Objective Quality Metrics 2D & 3D W5 ❙ Video Machine Learning: Customizing W6 ❙ Discovering the Power of FFmpeg 4:30 p.m. Solutions & Training Models 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. VIP WELCOME MIXER ❙ Lakeview Bistro, Lobby Level sponsored by TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. WELCOME & OPENING KEYNOTE ❙ San Francisco ❙ Fireside Chat: Amazon Fire TV’s Customer-First Approach to Streaming ❙ Sandeep Gupta, Amazon Fire TV 9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. KEYNOTE ❙ San Francisco ❙ Industrializing Broadcast-Quality Streaming ❙ Mark Russell, MediaKind 10:00 a.m. – COFFEE sponsored by ❙ NETWORKING AND OTT MEET UP in the Streaming Media Showcase 10:30 a.m. Business & Strategy Technical & How-To Sacramento San Diego San Francisco Beverly Echo Park 10:30 a.m. – Subscription Fatigue: HOW-TO: Fine-Tuning Your Encoding Fireside Chat: The Video Engineer's Toolbox Get in the Game: How Players and 11:15 a.m. Too Much of a Good Thing? With Objective Quality Metrics Innovation in the Time of Producers Can Get Started T101 B101 VES101 ESS101 OTT101 Streaming TV 11:30 a.m. – Building Video Services Everything You Need to Know About Fireside Chats: Low Latency Live Focus on Fans: Attracting Eyeballs, 12:30 p.m. Consumers Want Cloud Graphics & Digital Overlays Finding New Audiences Streaming at Scale Keeping Them Hooked T102 B102 VES102 OTT102 ESS102 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. ATTENDEE LUNCH 1:30 p.m. – LinkedIn Live: A Producer’s Journey Microservices in Action Understanding the DRM Lifecycle CDN and Edge Services Let’s Sync Up: Understanding 2:15 p.m. the Opportunities of Live Sports T103 B103 Streaming VES103 OTT103 ESS103 2:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. COFFEE sponsored by ❙ NETWORKING AND LIVE STREAMING MEET UP in the Streaming Media Showcase 2:45 p.m.