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April 6-8, 2018
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#SVGatNAB FRIDAY, APRIL 6 6:00 p.m. Registration
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6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Networking Reception SPONSORED BY Location: Veranda, 5th Floor
Integrating Media Solutions
SATURDAY, APRIL 7 6:15/6:30/7:00 a.m. Shuttles to Bear’s Best Las Vegas and the Russ Gabay Memorial Golf Outing 6:30 – 7:15 a.m. Breakfast for Golfers at Bear’s Best Las Vegas The Russ Gabay Memorial Golf Outing will be played at Bear’s Best Las Vegas, located at 11111 W. Flamingo Rd.
7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Russ Gabay Memorial Golf Outing 7:30 – 9:30 a.m. Breakfast at Red Rock Resort for Non-Golfing Attendees Location: Veranda, 5th Floor If you aren’t hitting the links, don’t worry. We have you covered. Join us for a relaxing breakfast buffet at the Red Rock Resort.
7:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Spa Treatments at Red Rock Resort Please note that complimentary spa treatments are available only to attendees who selected “spa treatment” as their activity when preregistering. Onsite spa registration is not available.
12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Networking Lunch Location: T-Bones Chophouse, Casino Level 2:00 p.m. Welcome From SVG Chairman Tom Sahara Location: Pavilion Ballroom, 5th Floor 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Global Production Perspectives: State of the Industry Principal Analyst Josh Stinehour discusses Devoncroft Partners’ latest research on the broadcast-manufacturing community, the health of the broadcast business, and the potential for new revenue streams during this always lively presentation. PRESENTER: Josh Stinehour, Devoncroft Partners, Principal Analyst
2:30 – 2:45 p.m. SPONSORED BY Dolby Case Study: NHRA Live Dolby Atmos Production
PRESENTERS: Paul Bonar, Game Creek, VP, Engineering Rob France, Dolby, Senior Product Marketing Manager
2:45 – 3:30 p.m. Global Perspectives in Sports Production: North America In the first of a two-part overview of the sports-production marketplace, leaders in North American sports production take to the stage to discuss the current and future state of sports production. MODERATOR: Ken Kerschbaumer, SVG, Co-Executive Director, Editorial Services PANELISTS: Chris Brown, Turner Sports, Senior Director, Technical Operations Mary Ellen Carlyle, Dome Productions, SVP/GM Michael Davies, Fox Sports, SVP, Technical and Field Operations Steve Hellmuth, NBA Entertainment, EVP, Media Operations and Technology Scott Rothenberg, NEP, SVP, Technology and Asset Management
3:30 – 3:45 p.m. SPONSORED BY Akamai Case Study: Learning From Live: What It Takes to Make a Happy Streaming Viewer You competed for and won those (increasingly expensive) streaming rights. What do you need to do to make sure your viewers experience the very best of what you paid so dearly for? Akamai, the world’s largest live sports streaming CDN, shares what it’s learned from recent marquee events. PRESENTER: Alex Balford, Akamai, Senior Product Marketing Manager
3:45 – 4:00 p.m. Networking Break
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4:00 – 4:15 p.m. SPONSORED BY EVS Case Study: How the NJ Devils Use EVS Live Solutions To Warm Up Hockey Fans One of the key jobs for the Prudential Center’s game-presentation and event-production team is to engage the Devils’ fanbase from the minute they step inside the 16,514-seat arena. The team does this by delivering video content to all the displays inside the venue. To create and distribute this video content, the production team has extensive technical facilities and wanted to supplement this with new technology to provide the fastest, most effective workflow for its game-day shows. PRESENTER: James Stellpflug, EVS, VP, Product Marketing
4:15 – 5:00 p.m. Global Perspectives in Sports Production: Europe
In part two of our afternoon discussion, leaders in European sports production assess the latest production trends and accomplishments. How are formats like UHD, HDR, and Dolby Atmos transforming content creation in Europe? MODERATOR: Fergal Ringrose, SVG Europe, Executive Editor PANELISTS: Robin Broomfield, Sky UK, Technical Manager Brian Clark, NEP, Sales Director, Major Projects Group Paul Francis, CTV OB, CTO Jens Cornelius Knudsen, TV 2 Norway, SVP, Production David Shield, IMG Media, SVP/Global Director, Engineering and Technology
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Free Time 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Networking Reception Location: Veranda, 5th Floor
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7:00 p.m. SVG Chairman’s Forum Dinner, Golf Awards, and Conversation With Hall of Famer Geoffrey Mason Location: Pavilion Ballroom, 5th Floor Join SVG for a fun evening of awards, dinner, drinks, networking, and a dinner conversation with Sports Broadcasting Hall of Famer and industry legend Geoffrey Mason on The Evolution of Big Event Production. In a career spanning more than 50 years, he has been part of some of the most compelling sports events of the past five decades. He takes to the stage with SVG’s Ken Kerschbaumer for some dinner conversation about how big event productions have evolved, key moments that changed the industry, and how the past can be prologue for an industry facing undergo tremendous changes.
SUNDAY, APRIL 8 7:30 – 9:00 a.m. Networking Breakfast Location: Veranda, 5th Floor
BREAKOUT TWO: FUTURE OF REMOTE PRODUCTION 9:45 – 10:00 a.m. SPONSORED BY Telstra Case Study: The Telstra Distributed Production Network (DPN) — Enabling Remote-Production Workflows In December 2017, Telstra supported the first live-to-air, uncompressed HD at-home production in Australia, using SMPTE 2110 over the Telstra Distributed Production Network (DPN) at a distance of 575 miles, from Brisbane to Sydney. Since that historic broadcast, remote-production workflows for sports and special events are available from 29 venues across Australia on the Telstra DPN, over distances of up to 2,000 miles. The Telstra Case Study will cover the objective and rationale for building the Telstra DPN and outline the scope of the initial project and the underlying network requirements to bring live television from remote venues to centralized production hubs. PRESENTER: Paul Suters, Telstra Broadcast Services, Head of Engineering and Service Management
10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Networking Break SPONSORED BY
SUNDAY MORNING BREAKOUTS
The 2018 Chairman’s Forum concludes with two hours of breakout sessions designed to take a deeper dive into two key industry areas:
BREAKOUT ONE: SPORTS CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND STORAGE (SCMS) SPONSORED BY Location: Veranda AB, 5th Floor 8:45 – 11:00 a.m. This is designed as an open forum for
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BREAKOUT TWO: FUTURE OF REMOTE PRODUCTION 10:15 – 10:30 a.m. SPONSORED BY NeuLion Case Study: Creating Engaging OTT Experiences on Mobile Today, mobile is everywhere. Consumers continue to change their viewing habits, watching more and more long-form video on their mobile devices. With more than 78% of viewers using mobile devices to consume content daily, it is important to create engaging, interactive OTT experiences, incorporating advanced features and innovative viewing options, for viewers on mobile. PRESENTER: Chris Wagner, NeuLion, EVP
individuals responsible for managing, archiving, and protecting sports content. Led by SVG’s SCMS Advisory Committee, this twohour roundtable discussion will provide media-management leaders from broadcasters, leagues, teams, digital outlets, and vendors with an opportunity to address a variety of hot-button issues currently facing the industry, including the rise of object storage, the impact of AI and automation, cloud and virtualization, logging and metadata challenges, and cybersecurity and content protection.
BREAKOUT TWO: FUTURE OF REMOTE PRODUCTION 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Automated Production: Friend or Foe?
BREAKOUT TWO: FUTURE OF REMOTE PRODUCTION Location: Pavilion Ballroom, 5th Floor 9:00 – 9:45 a.m. Inside Look at Eurosport’s Olympic Success
MODERATOR: Ken Kerschbaumer, SVG, Co-Executive Director, Editorial Services PANELISTS: Steve Hellmuth, NBA Entertainment, EVP, Media Operations and Technology Patti Kleinman-Fallick, USTA, Senior Director, Broadcast Operations
When Eurosport snagged the rights to the 2018 Winter Olympics, one question was on everyone’s mind: how does a sports-production team make its Olympic debut by doing the unthinkable — delivering the Games to 48 countries in 21 languages? It was a massive effort that required an amazing amount of planning, coordination, and discipline. Eurosport executives take to the stage during this informative session to discuss how they did the unthinkable. PRESENTERS: John Honeycutt, Discovery Communications, CTO Dave Schafer, Discover Communications, SVP, Olympic Operations and Planning
NAB 2018 promises to feature more and more systems that can automate production processes, such as operating a camera, audio mixing, editing, and even directing. What are the current limitations on automated content creation? What does it mean to the artistic side of production? And where do the people fit in?
11:00 a.m. Event Ends 11:30 a.m. Transportation to Las Vegas Strip Hotels
APRIL 8, 2018 • 8 PM PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED
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