Over The Top Video

Tuesday 2:50 PM

Using the Internet and IP technology to deliver video services has dramatically changed the end user’s experience in both choice and control. Video options abound, from special interest portals and closed circuit programming to the new intelligent set-top devices that use computer processing to deliver rich digital options. What will these options mean to the access carrier and what does it mean for the future of content delivery?

What will keep them coming to TV, when will they turn to the computer? Will changing viewing habits continue to change the options for video delivery? Will picture quality play a determining factor in the success of these new services?

Speaker(s):

Stephen Dennison Director of CDN Solutions, Content Markets, Level 3 Communications

Maribel Lopez Research Analyst, Lopez Research

Perry Wu, CEO, BitGravity

Moderator:

Kfir Pravda IMTC Vice President of Marketing and CEO, Pravda Media

Online Video and Social Media

Wednesday 4:50 PM

Integrating video into social media applications seems to be a natural fit. New online video sites are beginning to shift more toward community-oriented platforms, where people with common interests can experience video content with complete social networking functionality such as chat, text messaging and interest profiles. This panel examines the viral growth of social networking in combination with traditional broadcast media, user generated content, live broadcast and video chat and how it will affect our viewing future.

Who will be attracted, and what are the benefits of online video to the social networker?

Who are some of the companies today providing online video and social media?

What online video advertising models will take effect in community sites?

Speaker(s):

Matt Gore Vice President of Marketing, Paltalk

Kathryn Jones Co-Founder, Synchronis.tv

Rex Wong CEO, Dave Networks

Moderator:

Kfir Pravda IMTC Vice President of Marketing and CEO

Pravda Media

Deploying Cross-Vendor Implementations in the Real World – a Customer View

Thursday 3:00 PM

A panel discussing the issues in implementing cross vendor communication solutions for video conferencing and unified communication.

Speaker(s):

Mike Brosetti, CEO and Founder, Abovetel

Dan Bruckner Director of IT Operations

Stanford Hospital and Clinics

Anatoli Levine

IMTC President and Sr Director of Software Support RADVISION

Moderator:

Kfir Pravda IMTC Vice President of Marketing; CEO

Pravda Media

I am also participating in the following panel:

Reference Architectures for Content Delivery & Unified Communications

Thursday 1:30 PM

This panel will address how to extract content from enterprise communications and insert content into both communications and collaboration within the enterprise. This covers everything from conference recordings to social network content, and there are a few standards, but this is mostly unknown territory. The focus here is not on solving the problem in the panel, but identifying how critical an issue this is, and what the major challenges are.

Speaker(s):

Mike Borsetti CEO and Founder, Abovetel

David Boyer Chief Architect, Unified Communications Division

Avaya

Cary Bryan, Cisco Systems

Kfir Pravda IMTC Vice President of Marketing; CEO Pravda Media

Moderator: Anatoli Levine IMTC President and Sr Director of Software Support

RADVISION

I am looking forward to hear the following panel:

General Session: Real-Time Social Communications

Tuesday 4:00 PM

This session will explore the state of Social Communications.

Speaker(s):

Jonathan Christensen General Manager for Video and Audio Skype

Brad Hunstable Founder, Ustream.tv

Loic Le Meur CEO and Founder, Seesmic

Robert Scoble Managing Director, Fast Company

Ramu Sunkara CEO, Qik.com

Moderator: Jeff Pulver Chairman and Founder

pulvermedia

And:

Moving Content from A to B: Issues and Options

Tuesday 11:00 AM

In a world of multiple devices with multiple connections to ‘open’ Networks and the virtualization of “The Deck”, multimedia content delivery is no longer about simply getting it there and billing for it later. It’s about dynamically choosing the least cost route and highest margin content sources…transcoding and transcrypting… ingesting from and publishing into multiple destinations simultaneously …intelligently generating and leveraging metadata for making recommendations and targeting ads…making efficient use of thenetworks at hand..and making sure everybody in the value chain gets paid. Come hear experts from Vantrix, Roundbox, and RealNetworks, discuss the challenges at hand and share best practices

Speaker(s):

Jean Mayrand Co-Founder & CTO, Vantrix Corporation

Vinod Valloppill Vice President Product Marketing, Roundbox

Moderator:

Chris Steck IMTC CTO, and Director of Technology, RealNetworks

If you are attending the event – email me at kfir@pravdam.com, or sms me at +972-544-9458066 and let’s talk!