2017 NewTech Forum Event Program

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December 11–12, 2017 New York Hilton LOCATION:

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Welcome to the fifth annual NewsTECHForum, where news, technology and digital executives and managers gather to promote excellence in news storytelling.

Presented by TVNewsCheck and the Sports Video Group, NewsTECHForum provides a high level opportunity for news, technology and digital managers to exchange ideas and influence new product development at key manufacturers.

The conference also offers a rare opportunity for news, technology and digital managers from network news organizations to confer with their counterparts at TV station groups.

Because NewsTECHForum is co-located with the SVG Summit, news, technology and digital executives and managers have the opportunity to talk about common issues with sports producers

and technologists. You are welcome to attend any SVG session and we invite you to visit the Summit’s Technology Showcase, where more than 75 companies are exhibiting their newest solutions.

You are also invited to attend a cocktail reception this afternoon in the Technology Showcase, starting at 4:30 p.m.

SVG Summit and the Technology Showcase are upstairs on the third floor of the Hilton’s convention center.

Harry A. Jessell, Co-Founder & Editor, TVNewsCheck

NewsTECHForum | Where Technology meets News Storytelling

Kathy Haley, Co-Founder & Publisher, TVNewsCheck

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MONDAY Dec. 11, 1:45 p.m.

Campbell Brown Head of News Partnerships, Facebook

TUESDAY Dec. 12, 9:45 a.m.

Micah Gelman

Director of Video/ Senior Editor, The Washington Post

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Campbell Brown leads the team responsible for helping news organizations and journalists work more closely and more effectively with Facebook.

She has nearly twenty years of experience in journalism, most recently as an award-winning anchor and correspondent for NBC News and CNN. At CNN, she anchored a weekday primetime news program from 2007-2010 focusing on politics. Brown held several roles over the course of her 11-year tenure with NBC News, including co-anchor of the weekend edition of Today from 2003-2007 and White House correspondent during President George W. Bush’s first term. She also served as the primary substitute anchor for NBC Nightly News. She began her career in local news, moving up the ranks of NBC affiliates in Topeka, KS; Richmond, VA; Baltimore, MD; and Washington, D.C. before going to the national network.

Brown is also the founder of The 74, a non-profit news site covering education in America. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Regis College and lives in New York with her husband and two sons.

Interviewing Brown at NewsTECHForum will be TVNewsCheck Co-Founder and Editor Harry A. Jessell.

Micah Gelman oversees all business and editorial functions of Washington Post video. At NewsTECHForum, he will discuss the Post’s ambitious video strategy, this year’s biggest initiative for the Jeff Bezos-owned paper.

Gelman heads a team of 70 in the Post’s video department, following a major hiring ramp-up earlier this year.

He joined The Post in 2015 from Discovery Communications where he headed digital video strategy and led the implementation of TV Everywhere for Discovery’s 11 domestic television networks. Prior to Discovery, Gelman led domestic online video distribution for the Associated Press.

Gelman has won more than a dozen Edward R. Murrow and Emmy Awards along with a Webby.

He’s a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and resides in Reisterstown, Maryland with his wife and two young children.

Interviewing Gelman at NewsTECHForum will be TVNewsCheck Special Projects Editor Michael Depp.

NewsTECHForum | Where Technology meets News Storytelling

NewsTECHForum 2017 Agenda MONDAY Dec. 11

1:00 – 1:05 WELCOME Kathy Haley, Co-Founder & Publisher, TVNewsCheck Arnaud Elnecave, VP Marketing, Dalet Digital Media Systems

1:05 – 1:45 p.m.

Integrating Digital + TV Production: Evolving to the Newsroom of the Future SPONSORED BY

Engineering, news and digital executives talk about the challenge of streamlining news workflow, making it easier for TV and digital producers to keep up with how stories are evolving and being versioned for different media. How are Smart MAM, IP workflow, the cloud and other technologies boosting efficiencies? Has the rise of the Multiplatform Managing Editor had an impact?

Joe Addalia, Director of Technology Projects, Hearst Television Dave Siegler, VP, Technical Operations, Cox Media Group Emily Stone, Director of Multiplatform Content, WTTG Washington Frederic Roux, VP of Sales, Americas, Dalet MODERATOR: Glen Dickson, Contributing Editor, TVNewsCheck

1:45 – 2:15 p.m.

KEYNOTE: Campbell Brown, Head of News Partnerships, Facebook.

TVNewsCheck Editor and Co-Founder Harry A. Jessell interviews Campbell Brown, Facebook’s Head of News Partnerships and a former TV anchor, about the social media giant’s evolving relationship with media, its efforts to fight the spread of fake news and the state of electronic journalism.

2:15 – 2:30 p.m.

NETWORKING BREAK

2:30 – 3:15 p.m.

The Contribution Revolution—ENG, IP, Mesh Networks, Private LTE Leading ENG experts compare notes on the latest innovations in field reporting, editing, collaboration and transmission.

How are newer technologies making it possible to break news faster, share it with sister newsrooms and enhance social media sharing? What do the experts want to see next from contribution technology?

Keith Barberia, VP of Technology and Operations, NBC Universal Fabian Westerwelle, Director of News Acquisition, ABC News Rick Wheeler, Eastern Region VP of Engineering, Fox Television Stations MODERATOR: Glen Dickson, Contributing Editor, TVNewsCheck

3:15 – 3:30 p.m.

CASE STUDY: Streamlining

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SPEAKER: Keith Barberia,

VP of Technology and Operations, NBC Universal INTERVIEWER: Kathy Haley, Co-Founder & Publisher, TVNewsCheck

3:30 – 4:15 p.m.

Bits, Bots, Apps & More: Chasing Millennials in 2018 Cutting edge news organizations are using bots, apps and other technologies to serve younger audiences the way they want to be served: on their favorite devices, all day long. What have news organizations that specifically target younger audiences learned from using these technologies and strategies?

Which bots get to whom?

Which apps drive the most audience?

Eric Carvin, Social Media Editor, Associated Press John Keefe, Product Manager, Quartz Rob McCracken, Director Digital Solutions Group, The E.W. Scripps Company

Penny Riordan, Director of Digital Audience Engagement, GateHouse Media MODERATOR: Michael Depp, TVNewsCheck Special Projects Editor

4:15 – 4:30 p.m.

CASE STUDY: Compelling

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will review the challenges they face and the storytelling they’ve been able to accomplish in this video-rich session.

Jon Ollwerther, VP Media, Measure Jeff Rose, Chief UAS Pilot, Sinclair Broadcast Group Anne Swanson, Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer MODERATOR: Harry A. Jessell, TVNewsCheck, Editor

4:30 – 5:15 p.m.

9:45 – 10:15 a.m.

Graphics State of the Art: Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, the Rise of Metadata

KEYNOTE: Micah Gelman, Washington Post, Director, Editorial Video/Senior Editor TVNewsCheck Special Projects Editor Michael Depp will interview Micah Gelman, director of video and senior editor at the Washington Post, about the Post’s ambitious video strategy, this year’s biggest initiative at the Jeff Bezos-owned paper.

How are the most advanced graphics communicators making an impact with AR and VR? This video-rich session will showcase as much of the best AR, VR and state of the art graphics we were able to find.

Andy Bocking, Head of Technology News, BBC Thomas Desmueles, CTO, Astuce Media Celina Fischer, Creative Director, CBC News Victor Murphy, Director of Technology, WTLV Jacksonville, FL MODERATOR: Glen Dickson, TVNewsCheck Contributing Editor

5:15 – 6:30 p.m.

COCKTAILS WITH SVG SUMMIT TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE Third Floor: Mercury Ballroom, Mercury Rotunda, Petit Trianon, Renezvous, Lobby

TUESDAY DEC. 12

9:00 – 9:05 WELCOME DAY 2 Kathy Haley, Co-Founder & Publisher, TVNewsCheck

9:05 – 9:45 a.m.

State of the Art: Drones & News Photography SPONSORED BY

Broadcasters are using drones to cover the news from a unique perspective.

Experts in drone photography

10:15 – 10:30 a.m.

CASE STUDY: Local and

Remote News Excellence: Automation State of the Art SPONSORED BY

SPEAKER: Jim O’Brien, Global

SVP Sales, Aveco

10:30 – 11:15 a.m.

Tech Leaders on the Future of Newsroom Technology SPONSORED BY

How will AI, big data, the cloud and other technologies influence the way news stories are selected, interpreted and produced? Will the cloud, MAM and newsroom computer enhancements enable producers to excel in ways they haven’t been able to in the past? Leading technology futurists offer their predictions and talk about priorities at their organizations.

Mohamed Abuagla, CIO/ CTO, Executive Director, Technology and Operations, Al Jazeera Del Parks, SVP and CTO, Sinclair Broadcast Group

NewsTECHForum | Where Technology meets News Storytelling

#NewsTECHForum Jonathan Solomon, FASPStream technical evangelist, Aspera MODERATOR: Andrea Berry, CEO, The G.A.P. Media Group

11:15 – 11:30 a.m.

CASE STUDY: Modernizing

Newsroom Systems With a Unique, Modular Approach SPONSORED BY

11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Digital Chiefs on the Multiplatform News Jungle SPONSORED BY

Digital producers follow a very different workflow than their colleagues producing TV news.

How is technology helping or hindering them? What would they change about the newsrooms where they work, if they had the power? What advice do they have for news and technology management?

What new technologies would help them do their jobs better?

Catherine Badalamente, VP, Digital Media, Graham Media Group Lew Blanchette, System Architect, Snell Advanced Media (SAM) Joe Fiveash, EVP, Digital and Strategy, Raycom Media Anthony Katsur, SVP Platforms, Nexstar Media Group Frank Mungeam, VP, Digital Content, TEGNA Media MODERATOR: Michael Depp, Special Projects Editor, TVNewsCheck

12:15 p.m.

SVG SUMMIT TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE OPEN UNTIL 2:45 P.M. TODAY Third Floor: Mercury Ballroom, Mercury Rotunda, Petit Trianon, Renezvous, Lobby

3:45 – 4:15 SVG SUMMIT KEYNOTE John Skipper, President, ESPN Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks

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December 11–12, 2017 New York Hilton

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SVG welcomes NewsTECHForum and its delegates to New York and invites them to attend SVG Summit sessions taking place at the New York Hilton Midtown on Dec. 11-12.

In addition, attendees are welcome to attend SVG Summit events:

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Since taking the helm as president of ESPN and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks on Dec. 11 Jan. 1, 2012, John Skipper has secured ESPN’s Opening Night Reception global leadership position in the competitive 4:30 p.m. sports media landscape into the next decade LOCATION: Technology Showcase Area through groundbreaking multiplatform rights 3rd Floor Lobby, Mercury Ballroom, Rotunda, agreements and embracing Petit Trianon and Rendevous new technologies to serve fans wherever they TUESDAY are. Throughout, he has Dec. 12 continued to foster what he calls “our best strategic Technology Showcase advantage—the people and 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. culture of ESPN.” SKIPPER Technology Showcase Area Skipper has led ESPN to SVG Summit Keynote a series of long-term, multiplatform agreements 3:45 – 4:15 (all through at least 2021) with major rights John Skipper holders, including NBA; Major League Baseball; President, ESPN the College Football Playoff; major college Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks conferences; US Open tennis; and the Rose, LOCATION: Trianon Ballroom, Third Floor Sugar and Orange Bowls.

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NewsTECHForum is co-located with SVG SUMMIT, featuring these Technology Showcases:

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Adder Technology Adobe Systems AJA Video Systems AJT Systems Arista Networks Arvato Systems Aspera, an IBM Company AT&T Avid AWS ELEMENTAL Bexel Calrec Audio/DiGiCo CAMPLEX Fiber Solutions Canon ChyronHego Cisco Clear-Com, an HME Company Cloudian

Cobalt Digital Comrex Creative Dimensions Dolby Eutelsat Evertz EVS FingerWorks Telestrators Fujifilm FX Design Group G&D North America Inc. Grass Valley, a Belden Brand HGST/G-Technology Hitachi IBM IHSE USA Ikegami Imagine Communications

IMT/VISLINK IPtec Joseph Electronics Lawo Level 3 Communications LiveU Masstech Innovations Microsoft NEOTI NewTek NTT Electronics Optical Cable Corporation Panasonic Quantum Reality Check Systems Riedel Communications Ross Video RT Software SAM (Snell Advanced Media)

Showcase list as of Nov. 28

SES SIMPLYLIVE Solid State Logic Sony SOS Global Express Spectra Logic Tektronix Telos Alliance TSL Products The Studio—B&H The Switch TV Graphics VER VITEC Vizrt Wheatstone Wowza Media Systems