On Wednesday, 25th June, join IBC365 and sponsored Arqiva to explore the future of Playout.
As audience viewing habits continue to evolve at lightning speed, the demand for agile, cloud-native, and scalable video distribution and playout has never been greater. Cloud is vital for streamlined, adaptable, and scalable playout operations, but unless matched with equally flexible managed services, operational models, and vendor SLAs, true adaptability to viewing habits will be elusive.
Sponsored by Arqiva, the webinar will explore the rapidly evolving world of playout, tracking the market drivers which demand flexibility, automation and scalability, including:
- The next phase of playout technology – what is the future?
- Moving towards an operating model that prioritises service agility to reduce the complexity of broadcast and streaming playout operations
- Balancing cloud vs on-prem – the impact of a virtual MCR trials
- The impact of cloud-based playout on broadcast organisations – the end of an era?
Register for ‘Reimagining playout – building a tech stack that prioritises service agility’ by clicking here.
Speakers:
Stuart Boorn, Arqiva
Stuart is a product management leader who loves to drive transformation. Always seeking a better way to solve the problem, Stuart has been in the Media Broadcast industry for nearly 20 years leading product teams from traditional waterfall approaches to business agility and cloud. Stuart was VP Product Management at Mediakind and then created product teams at Sky. The latest exciting chapter is focussing the next generation of product driven Managed Services in Media and Broadcast for Arqiva.
Rodrigo Saborido, Globo
Rodrigo Saborido is a broadcast executive with 25+ years of experience at one of Brazil’s top TV networks. Over the years, he's worked across support, project management, and content distribution. Today, he leads operations for both the national broadcast network and Globo São Paulo’s regional channel — the largest among 123 stations in reach and revenue. He's passionate about building efficient broadcast workflows, leading high-performing teams, and working closely with tech leaders from 27 affiliate groups to drive innovation and alignment across the network.
Rob Ambrose, Caretta Research
Rob co-founded Caretta Research in 2020 to provide market analysis, research and data to help technology vendors and buyers make better decisions. He’s leading the industry’s biggest and most-experienced team of media-tech analysts, with Caretta Portal providing the leading source of industry data, product deployments, vendor news and addressable market sizing. In his consulting work, Rob is advising dozens of technology vendors on go-to-market strategy, account planning, product and competitor information, and supporting media/telco companies in complex procurements for streaming, MAM and rights management.
Moderator:
Keran Boyd, IBC
Keran is a data consultant in the media technology industry specialising in MAM and rights management system deployment. Keran is also project lead on the IBC Accelerators and a regular contributor to the IBC365 webinar program.
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