With the support of the BBC, Sky, and a selection of AWS Partners, the Cloud-Native Agile Production solution is a cloud-native, open, and interoperable way of creating fast-turnaround news and sports content in the cloud. Customers experience a number of challenges, from vendor lock-in to inflexible, costly solutions, and this session presents a solution to an industry-wide problem. Join this session to learn about this new approach and how AWS has worked with partners who have integrated this technology into their solutions. Hear about an opportunity to provide feedback on your experience working in this space and build your next-generation news and sports workloads on AWS. Finally, learn how AWS is further developing this solution to leverage AI and LLMs to derive more value from content.

Sustainable practices are revolutionizing the media landscape. Join us for an enlightening session featuring real-world implementations that are setting new standards in sustainable media.Hear from media tech leaders about their groundbreaking innovations in sustainable sports and live event production. Learn how the Digital Sustainability Alliance (DSA) is making a lasting impact. Discover why industry CEOs recognize sustainability as both an ethical imperative and a smart business strategy. Gain practical steps to help guide your organization towards a greener, more responsible future.

Senior technical members from the motion picture community will discuss current practices and challenges in digital preservation and managing digital archives. The session will explore best practices, emerging technologies, and their impacts. The panel will be moderated by Academy member, Leon Silverman, who will also provide an overview of the Academy Digital Preservation Forum’s mission, current online articles, and ways for the filmmaking community to participate in ongoing discussions.

The goals of this Accelerator Challenge are to develop an industry-wide understanding on the challenges faced today by all media outlets in identifying disinformation, helping audiences identify trustworthy news, information and images and the lengths that news organisations go to, to verify and authenticate sources and trace the provenance of news stories.

This project seeks to achieve Twitter-equivalent latency and near-instant playback start using standard HTTP streaming technical stack and infrastructure. The areas explored will be the use of low-latency encoding and segment-based ingest, the latest low-delay extensions to MPEG DASH, and possible uses of MV-HEVC video codec and the QUIC protocol.

Open ID will mark the end of proprietary ID systems. Open ID ensures high-quality metadata and facilitates end-to-end collaboration across the metadata supply chain. This presentation will cover the benefits of adopting Open ID, and examples of successful implementations. Discover how Open ID revolutionizes metadata management and enhances interoperability across platforms.

Explore G-Mana’s transformative approach to OTT advertising, emphasizing simplicity through seamless integrations and smart ad markers, and transparency with in-depth analytics enhancing KPIs.

The Evolution of the Control Room, leveraging XR, Voice, AI and HTML Based Graphic Solutions brings the control room into the 21st Century.

In today’s competitive video streaming market, optimizing the user experience is crucial for audience engagement. This presentation will explore how leveraging comprehensive insights into user behavior, time budgets, and personalized experiences can enhance video platforms. By understanding and addressing user journeys, segmentation, and content performance, video services can significantly improve user satisfaction, retention, and overall platform success.

Software algorithms - including AI - underpin many of the advances in media production and distribution. These algorithms are valuable in terms of the revenue they can generate; and valuable in terms of how intellectual property can underpin a company’s worth.