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Video is an exciting use case for Virtual Reality, but what’s the reality of creating, delivering, and monetizing it today? At the Streaming Media West show, taking place Nov. 2/3, you’ll hear industry experts discuss the state of VR Video, from technologies to capture and display it to methods for streaming and interacting with it, as well as the opportunities in the near- and long-term future. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Jason Thibeault, Executive Director, Streaming Video Alliance
• Panelist: Devon Copley, Head of Product, VR Platform/Ozo, Nokia Technologies
• Panelist: Josh Courtney, Chairman, Executive Producer, SkyVR
• Panelist: Chris Michaels, Director, Communications, Wowza
• Panelist: Jim Clements, Director, Business Development, West Coast, Neulion

You can sign up online for a discounted conference pass by using the code DR100 and I even have a few free passes to give away. Re-tweet out “I want a pass for the Streaming Media West conference in CA on Nov. 2/3 – #smwest ” and I’ll pick some free winners every day!

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The industry is very comfortable getting the best quality and highest encoding operational efficiency out of H.264, but with the newness of HEVC, video encoding engineers may be struggling to maximize operational performance with this advanced codec. At the Streaming Media West show, taking place Nov. 2/3, one session will highlight the questions of how to implement a live 4K encoding solution, or best practices for encoding HDR, in software. In this session you will hear from video distributors the lessons learned building and deploying HEVC encoding operations, as well as secrets to obtaining the highest performance with HEVC. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Dror Gill, CTO, Beamr
• Panelist: Daniel Sanders, VP, Video Engineering, VDMS
• Panelist: Samir Ahmed, VP, Technology & Chief Architect Video, FandangoNow
• Panelist: Theron Trowbridge, Director of Encoding, Deluxe Delivery
• Panelist: David Hoff, Director, Cloud Graphics, Intel DataCenter Group

You can sign up online for a discounted conference pass by using the code DR100 and I even have a few free passes to give away. Re-tweet out “I want a pass for the Streaming Media West conference in CA on Nov. 2/3 – #smwest ” and I’ll pick some free winners every day!

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At the Streaming Media West show, taking place Nov. 2/3, you’ll learn how Microsoft is applying intelligence to media to improve the user experience and automate the production process. Andy Beach, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft will provide an overview of how Microsoft is using the power of the cloud to apply machine learning to video. Demonstrations will include improving live streaming video with automated closed captions, as well as extracting metadata from VOD libraries and making it extremely easy to index and search hours and hours of content.

It’s not too late to get a pass! You can sign up online for a discounted conference pass by using the code DR100 and I even have a few free passes to give away. Re-tweet out “I want a pass for the Streaming Media West conference in CA on Nov. 2/3 – #smwest ” and I’ll pick some free winners every day!x

While CDN prices have never been lower, OTT delivery continues to weigh heavily on broadcasters’ budgets. Growing audiences, higher resolutions and more immersive video experiences bring both technical and business challenges at scale. At the Streaming Media West show, taking place Nov. 2/3, one panel explores how content publishers are working to balance fixed revenue per subscriber models with the varying cost of delivery, while also getting the best quality for their money. The session will look at optimization efforts throughout the delivery workflow, with a special emphasis on CDN, multi-CDN, peer-to-peer, multicast and in-house delivery solutions. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Gautier Demond, VP, Global Sales, Streamroot
• Panelist: Flavio Ribeiro, Lead Engineer, The New York Times
• Panelist: Zac Shenker, Principal Video Software Engineer, CBS Interactive
• Panelist: Rodrigo Violante, CTO, Televisa
• Panelist: Ryan Korte, Principal Architect, Content and Media Development, Level 3 Communications

You can sign up online for a discounted conference pass by using the code DR100 and I even have a few free passes to give away. Re-tweet out “I want a pass for the Streaming Media West conference in CA on Nov. 2/3 – #smwest ” and I’ll pick some free winners every day!

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At the Streaming Media West show, taking place next week on Nov. 2/3, speakers from NASA and AWS Elemental will present how NASA and Amazon Web Services engineered a complete, resilient, and repeatable workflow that brought this industry-first event to viewers everywhere using scalable cloud and software enabled workflows. Among the many insights that will be shared: live 4K transcoding in the cloud; the role compression efficiency plays in on-going deep space discovery; overcoming bandwidth constraints on the ISS and on Earth; the implication of cloud-enabled live 4K video streaming for public sector applications in defense, security, first responders, law enforcement, energy and other segments; even how to get an encoder into orbit.

It’s not too late to get a pass! You can sign up online for a discounted conference pass by using the code DR100 and I even have a few free passes to give away. Re-tweet out “I want a pass for the Streaming Media West conference in CA on Nov. 2/3 – #smwest ” and I’ll pick some free winners every day!

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On Monday Oct. 30th I’ll be hosting a networking event for the streaming media industry, starting at 6:30pm at “Seventy7 Lounge, 3843 Main St, Culver City, CA 90232” (see below for parking details and how to enter). We’ll have free drinks thanks to sponsors StackPath, Nice People At Work and Reality Check Systems. [If your company would like to sponsor the meetup and help cover some of the bar tab, please let me know.] The event is free to attend and you do not need to RSVP, just show up! Friends and co-workers welcomed.

I’ll be handing out wrist bands and drink tickets so look for me when you show up and bring a business card.

Parking and Venue Directions

To enter Seventy7 head down the alley between Rocco’s and the Poke restaurant past the neon Cocktails sign to the main door in the “cut”.

There is a parking structure on Cardiff Ave. between Venice and Culver Blvd which is directly behind Seventy7. 1 block west is another structure on Watseka and a 3rd in the Trader Joes where Washington and Culver Blvd meet.

Valet Parking posts are on Main Street by Hanjip, Culver Blvd infront of Public School and across Culver Blvd infront of The Culver Hotel.

About the meetup

These meetups are a great way to network with others tied to the online video ecosystem. I do them in NY often and we get a great mix of attendees from companies including AOL, NFL, Showtime, Omnicom, NBC, NBA, Time, HBO, Viacom, CBS, Twitter, WPP, Google, Nielsen, Facebook, FOX, R/GA, Twitch, Riot Games, American Express, Comcast, wall street money managers, government agencies, VR production companies and vendors from all facets of the video ecosystem.

See you next week!

During the last year, among all the other initiatives on digital, The New York Times invested on reinventing the ingesting and encoding pipeline of their on demand videos. At the Streaming Media West show, taking place next week on Nov. 2/3, Maxwell Da Silva, Executive Director of Engineering at The New York Times and Flavio Ribeiro, Lead Engineer at The New York Times will walk through the new achievements and improvements that were built on the services set, including a thumbnails service for improving the click through rate, closed captions support, on the fly packaging and fragmented MP4’s for adaptive streaming formats and analytics integration.

It’s not too late to get a pass! You can sign up online for a discounted conference pass by using the code DR100 and I even have a few free passes to give away. Re-tweet out “I want a pass for the Streaming Media West conference in CA on Nov. 2/3 – #smwest ” and I’ll pick some free winners every day!