Time |
Session |
Details |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday September 25 | ||
| 8:00 PM | Cocktails Reception for Early Arrivals | |
| Wednesday September 26 | ||
| 12:00 PM | Opening Luncheon | Luncheon Keynote: Sam Feist, Senior VP and Washington Bureau Chief, CNN |
| 1:35 PM | Boardroom Presentations | |
| 2:10 PM | Boardroom Presentations | |
| 2:50 PM | Session 1: News Consumption in the Digital Age | This panel will provide an overview of the key themes of the Summit. It will feature research on how people consume news and explore the main themes of this conference, with a particular focus on new technologies that can help news organizations
better adapt to new viewing patterns.
Moderator: Daniel Frankel, Senior Content Producer, Broadcasting & Cable, Technology Editor, Multichannel News Panelists Louis Gump, CEO, NewsON Media Bob Hannon, Director of Production, Waterman Broadcasting Sam Peterson, VP, Product Management, Bitcentral Steve Schwaid, VP of Digital Strategies, Crawford, Johnson and Northcott Shan Zhong, Lead Designer, WRAL |
| 3:40 PM | Refreshments & Networking | |
| 4:15 PM | Session 2: Shooting to Win: Better Tech for Creating and Delivering News | Competitive success remains heavily dependent on how quickly and efficiently news organizations can produce, share and distribute stories. This panel will dive into the recent advances in cameras, ENG, lenses, cellular bonding, remote
production, editing, graphics, ENG systems, content management technologies, newsroom systems, multiplatform graphics, storage and archives for delivering content to TV, apps, digital media, OTT and social media.
Moderator: Tom Butts, Content Director, TV Technology Panelists Neal Boling, Station Manager, KHQ Aaron Brady, Technical Sales Manager, Prompting, Autocue and Autoscript Brands, Vitec Group Cliff Emerson, Product Manager, Clear-Com Michael Saffell, Director of Engineering, Hearst Television’s WMUR Mike Savello, VP of Sales, Americas, LiveU Edgar Shane, General Manager, Engineering, JVC Professional Products |
| 5:10 PM | Session 3: New Infrastructures: Better Cloud, IP, OTA and Digital Infrastructures | This panel will cover some of the newer cloud, IP, transmission and digital infrastructures. What are some of the best practices and workflows in the transition to cloud and IP based infrastructures and the rollout of ATSC 3.0.
Moderator: Daniel Frankel, Senior Content Producer, Broadcasting & Cable, Technology Editor, Multichannel News Panelists Jonathan T. Beard, Director of Digital Product Development, Graham Media Group Bogdan Frusina, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Dejero Florian Kolmer, Sales Director USA, AVIWEST Jon Landman, VP of Sales, Teradek Bob Valinsky, Sales Manager, Vizrt Americas |
| 5:55 PM | Cocktails & Networking | |
| 7:00 PM | Dinner Event | Dinner Keynote: Mark Aitken, VP of Advanced Technology, Sinclair Broadcast Group; President, One Media |
| Thursday September 27 | ||
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast Event | |
| 8:30 AM | Session 4: Using “Enabled Media” For Next Generation News Ops | Some news organizations and station groups are exploring how they can radically improve their news operations by radically changing the way they approach the capture and creation of content so that it can easily be redistributed and
sent to a host of different platforms. This panel will discuss the concept of “enabled media” and discuss how it can help newsrooms create, distribute and monetize content with better metadata, content management, storage, editing
and other technologies.
Moderator: Joe Addalia, Director of Technology Projects, Hearst Television Panelists Chris Crump, Senior Director of Worldwide Sales & Marketing, Comrex Stephane Guez, Co-Founder of and Chief Technology Officer, Dalet Digital Media Systems Matt Keiler, VP, North American Sales, TVU Networks Mike Palmer, CTO, Masstech Scott Woods, Senior Specialized Solutions Architect, AWS Elemental |
| 9:20 AM | Boardroom Presentations | |
| 9:55 AM | Session 5: Automating for Success: Finding New Efficiencies in News Ops | Session 5: Automating for Success: Finding New Efficiencies in News Ops Automation and streamlined workflows aren’t just about reducing costs. New automation technologies and approaches can also provide a major competitive advantage
by allowing newsrooms to better produce and distribute content. This panel will explore new advances in automation, workflow software, content management, newsroom systems and editing that allow stations to be more efficient and flexible
in the way they create and deliver content to viewers.
Moderator: Tom Butts, Content Director, TV Technology Panelists Lew Blanchette, News System Architect, Grass Valley Brian Olson, VP of Product Management, NewTek Shawn Snider, Vice President, Production Workflow & Cloud Services, Ross Video Joe Vandenberg, Senior Solutions Architect, Avid Ryan Weston, Director, Media Workflows, WNET New York Public Media |
| 10:40 AM | Refreshments & Networking | |
| 11:15 AM | Session 6: News Execs Talk News Tech: Engineering for the future | Leading news executives and technologists discuss the future of news technologies. What are some of the challenges they face and how are they using news technologies to reinvent the newsroom?
Moderator: George Winslow, Executive Producer, Technology Leadership Summits Panelists Mike Cavender, Executive Director Emeritus,RTDNA Vanessa Dennis, Director of Product, PBS NewsHour Paul McGonagle, Vice President/News Director, FOX Owned & Operated Station, WTTG-TV Bill Nardi, VP of Station Operations, TEGNA Don Roberts, Senior Director of Television Systems, Sinclair Broadcast Group Michael Stonecypher, Vice President, Digital Media and Broadcast Operations, CBN |
| 12:00 PM | Luncheon Event | Luncheon Keynote: Blake Sabatinelli, CEO, Newsy |
| 2:00 PM | Adjourn | |
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