Greetings and welcome to the 2013 PBS Technology Conference! The schedule is packed with sessions about issues facing our industry and our system. The first thread of sessions I want to highlight is titled The Future of Core Station Technology. With the DTV transition behind us, it seems that capital equipment refreshes are happening faster than ever before. When it comes to mounting capital costs, the options are broad: update your in-house gear, join with a centralcasting hub, move it to the cloud, or even some combination of these. The sessions under the banner of The Future of Core Station Technology will tackle this subject from multiple angles. These sessions will be threaded across all three days of TechCon. The second thread that demands multiple sessions is the upcoming Spectrum Auction. This endeavor is so wildly complicated and far-reaching that it is conceivable that every over-the-air station in the United States could be affected. On Thursday, we’ll have an overview that will cover what every broadcaster should know, and we’ve road-blocked it in the schedule so everyone can come and learn the basics. Afterwards, we’ll have sessions on the Policy and Practice, and another with an Engineering focus. This conference would not be possible without the support of our exhibitors and sponsors. We’ve built time into the schedule for you to seek out their knowledge and ask that you visit them and thank them for their support of public broadcasting. The viability of TechCon is tied directly to their support, and our exhibit floor will certainly offer you more direct focus than the NAB Show next week. Your badge is the key to many aspects of TechCon and beyond. It’s your meal ticket and gains you access to both the Thursday evening reception and Friday night’s gathering at the Hofbräuhaus. Your badge also allows entrance to the PREC Sessions (Public Radio Engineering Conference) held concurrently at Planet Hollywood. Joint licensees will be interested in that agenda, which you can pick up at the Registration Desk or on the PREC website. On Saturday April 6, your TechCon badge lets you into the SBE Ennes Workshops held at the Las Vegas Convention Center as part of the NAB Show. Our team has put together a powerful agenda that we believe will help address opportunities and challenges facing our industry. Staff members across the various areas of PBS are here along with station colleagues and vendors to help answer your questions, so please avail yourself of their knowledge. I am looking forward to TechCon13, and would like to personally welcome you to Las Vegas! John McCoskey Chief Technology Officer, PBS 1 PLANET HOLLYWOOD Meeting Facilities Map WESTWOOD BOARDROOM SANTA MONICA SANTA MONICA 4 1 SERVICE ELEVATOR SUNSET 6 SANTA MONICA 3 CELEBRITY 8 2 SUNSET BALLROOM 5 BRENTWOOD BOARDROOM SUNSET 4 2 4 7 SANTA MONICA SUNSET 3 3 A SUNSET 1 6 2 WILSHIRE BALLROOM SUNSET B 1 FOYER 5 OFFICE 3 MELROSE MELROSE SHOWROOM NORTH TOWER ELEVATORS 3 4 ROOM AV To Showroom and Restaurants MELROSE 2 To Casino and BUSINESS Lobby CENTER MELROSE 1 REGISTRATION DESK REGISTRATION OFFICE 1 OFFICE 2 MEZZANINE SIN CITY THEATER THE CHAPEL THE LONDON CLUB SOUTH DIAMOND TOWER LOUNGE ELEVATORS THE SPA STUDIO BY MANDARA 2 V13_79716.1_9x12_SalesKit.indd 28 1/30/13 4:32 PM TABLE OF CONTENTS WELCOME LETTER Page 1 PLANET HOLLYWOOD PROPERTY MAP Page 2 CONFERENCE INFORMATION Page 4 CONFERENCE AGENDA Page 7 CALENDAR OF SOCIAL EVENTS Page 38 EXHIBITOR MAP Page 39 3 conference INFORMATION REGISTRATION DESK HOURS Wednesday, April 3: 8:00am – 6:30pm Thursday, April 4: 7:00am – 6:30pm Friday, April 5: 7:30am – 6:00pm The registration desk is your first stop for all questions regarding registration, badges, meals, purchase of guest tickets for evening events, etc. CONFERENCE ACCEss Please display your name badge, which is your ticket to all conference events, on the official conference lanyard at all times while attending sessions, meals, and events at the 2013 PBS Technology Conference. Guests will need to bring their tickets to attend evening events. If you lose your badge or ticket, please stop by the registration desk for a replacement. MEALS/EVENTS/GUEST TICKETS On Thursday and Friday, the conference will begin with breakfast at 7:00am in the Exhibit Hall, located in the Mezzanine of Planet Hollywood’s Conference Center. Mid-morning and afternoon coffee breaks also will occur in the Exhibit Hall, offering opportunities to visit with our vendors and discuss their products and services. On Thursday and Friday, lunch will be in the General Session room. Please refer to the conference agenda for meal times and locations. Meals and breaks are provided courtesy of our Gold Sponsors: Avid, Harmonic, Miranda, and SES. Please join us for our Thursday evening Welcome Reception in the Exhibit Hall. On Friday, we will celebrate the conclusion of the PBS Technology Conference with a party at Hofbräuhaus Las Vegas, located at 4510 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, Nevada 89169, (702) 853-2337, from 7:00 - 10:00pm. Enjoy great food, drinks, and music with your colleagues! You may purchase guest tickets for the Welcome and Closing Receptions on site at the registration desk during registration hours. Transportation between Planet Hollywood and Hofbräuhaus will be available from 7:00 - 10:00pm. Please look for staff in the hotel lobby to direct you outside to the motor coach bus. INTERNET ACCEss AND CYBER CENTER The Cyber Center, located in the Mezzanine, provides several Internet workstations for your convenience during conference hours. These Internet workstations are used frequently, so we thank you for limiting your use to five minutes when others are waiting. The Cyber Center is provided by the generous support of our Silver Sponsors: Aspera, Inc., Canon U.S.A. Inc., Evertz, and Myers. This year we are pleased to offer attendees complimentary Wi-Fi throughout the Planet Hollywood Conference Center. Thank you to our sponsors and exhibitors for bringing Wi-Fi to the 2013 PBS Technology Conference! MOBILE HANDHELD DEVICES All mobile handheld devices must be set to silent notification. Please hold all phone conversations outside of the session rooms to avoid disturbing others. We appreciate your cooperation and 4 courtesy to our speakers and conference attendees. conference INFORMATION MOBILE CONFERENCE APP Yes, we have an app for that! TechCon has gone mobile. Access the free conference app at eventmobi.com/techcon2013 or scan the QR Code with your smartphone. CONFERENCE EVALUATIONS AND FEEDBACK Your comments and suggestions about the PBS Technology Conference are very important to us. We want to know your opinion of specific sessions and speakers, as well as of the conference as a whole. Feedback forms will be provided during each session for you to fill out and drop in the boxes outside each session room. Please provide us your feedback on these forms, as they are invaluable in helping us plan next year’s conference. If there are topics you would like to see addressed next year, tell us about those too! As a thank you for filling out and submitting your feedback forms, two lucky winners will receive an iPad in our drawing at the end of the conference! POST-CONFERENCE MATERIALS Copies of PowerPoint presentations, sponsor and exhibitor information, and additional materials will be posted on the conference website - www.pbstechconference.org - approximately two weeks after the close of the conference. PBS extends its appreciation to our Silver Sponsors for making our Cyber Center possible. Thank you! 5 conference INFORMATION EXHIBIT HALL HOURS Thursday, April 4: 7:30am – 7:30pm Friday, April 5: 7:30am – 3:30pm Breakfasts and breaks on Thursday and Friday, as well as the Thursday evening Welcome Reception, will take place in the Exhibit Hall. Feel free to visit with our sponsors and exhibitors. PBS KIOSKS PBS staff will be available at kiosks in the Mezzanine to discuss their respective projects: Non-Real-Time (NRT) Traffic and User Training, Interconnection Version 6 Cloud Demo, PBS Digital, and myPBS, the new Extranet. Please visit each of the kiosks for one-on-one discussions, updates on project timelines, to view real-time demonstrations, and to spend hands-on time with new equipment being rolled out. PREC: PUBLIC RADIO ENGINEERING CONFERENCE We are pleased to have the Public Radio Engineering Conference (PREC) join us again at Planet Hollywood. Sessions will take place on Thursday and Friday. Joint licensees are especially encouraged to explore the PREC agenda. Your Technology Conference badge gets you access to the PREC sessions. View their agenda at www.apre.us or look for copies at our Registration Desk. ENNES WORKSHOP The PBS Technology Conference remains proud to partner with SBE on the Ennes Workshop, which will take place on Saturday at the Las Vegas Convention Center, South Hall, Room S225. The Ennes agenda can be found on page 32 of your program book. You will need either your TechCon badge or NAB Show credentials to access these sessions. TECHCON IS NOW ON TWITTER Follow us @PBSTechCon. If you’re tweeting about the conference, please use the hashtag #TechCon13 so we can find your message. If you don’t use Twitter, you can still follow the conference at http://twitter.com/PBSTechCon. 2013 PBS TECHCON SCHOLARSHIP This year, PBS sponsored full conference registrations and three nights hotel for five station staff members. Congratulations to the following 2013 PBS TechCon Scholarship winners! KRisteN DOOgaN, Alaska PUBLIC TelevisiON, TRAFFIC, DIRectOR OF TRAFFIC TAYLOR JUDD, WILL – URBANA, ILLINOIS, IT SYstem ADMINistRatOR TONY POOLE, WETP/WKOP - East TENNessee PBS, CHIEF ENGINEER LauRA QUEZada, KVIE – SacRAMENTO, TRAFFIC, PROGRAM OPERatiONS Data Specialist CHRIS SchwaNTER, WGBY - SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts, CHIEF ENGINEER 6 conference agenda WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3 8:00am – 6:30PM, REGISTRATION OPEN 1:00 – 2:20PM, MELROSE 3 4K IN THE CONTEXT OF THE UHDTV BLUEPRINT FOR THE FUTURE OF TV HDTV is still being finished, but serious development is underway on television systems that enable far greater image quality.