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Workflow Education + Training from Broadcast Engineering

Take your Understanding of IT-Based Workflows to the Next Level

As a broadcast and production professional, you’re facing the challenges of programming more channels as efficiently as possible. While the ongoing transition from tape- to IT-based solutions makes this goal more realistic, it's important to know how to leverage these new IT-based solutions to produce a streamlined workflow.

Get the education you need with Broadcast Engineering's one day training seminar, Today's Workflow: Leveraging Automation and IT-based Tools to Boost Productivity. Designed to give you clear, to-the-point information on the details and nuances of implementing file-based workflows to maximize efficiency, this is an event you can’t afford to miss.

AGENDA:

8:00 - 9:00 AM Arrival, Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15 AM Welcome and Introductions

9:15 - 10:00 AM: Session #1
TV Graphics Workflow Models

What approaches are being used today to leverage station group wide resources to maximize content and minimize cost
Is it possible to maintain individual station brand identity when implementing such a workflow
Detailed insight on different graphics workflow models, including hub-and-spoke, decentralization and cloud-based approaches
How are different graphics workflows best applied within individual stations?

Patrick Twomey
Director of Sales Engineering,
Chyron

10:00 - 11:00 AM: Panel Discussion #1
Making the Successful Transition to File-Based Workflows

How the wide-area-network (WAN) can make or break file delivery
How to choose the right components for scale-out and scale-up ingest and delivery solutions
How to match the existing business logic/ processes of tape in a tapeless world
How to mitigate file-based productivity and efficiency bottlenecks by making the correct technology choices.

Bhavik Vyas
Director of Technology Sales & Partnerships,
Aspera, Inc.

David Sallak
Chief Strategist for Media
& Entertainment
Isilon Systems

11:00 - 11:30 AM Coffee Break & Vendor Demos/Exhibits

11:30 - 12:15 PM: Session #2
IT and the Future of TV Master Control

How to analyze, design and implement file-based workflow/IT technology in Master Control
Explore alternative approaches
Identify possible workflow bottlenecks and how to overcome them
Exploit opportunities for improving workflow between Traffic and Master Control and throughout entire facility

Steven Smith
Director of TV Automation
WideOrbit

12:15 - 1:45 PM
Lunch & Keynote Presentation
More Than Meets the Eye: Finding Hidden Opportunity in the HD Transition

Transition of HD offers local stations an opportunity to implement file based workflows and gain new efficiencies in their operations.
Keynote will explore findings of a recent survey of 300 TV engineers at local stations to see if they were doing just that.
Embracing shared services also offers an opportunity for improved efficiencies.
Thinking cross platform in terms of technologies and operations is essential.

Larry Thaler
President
Positive Flux

1:45 - 2:30 PM: Session #3
Technology, Trends and Standards for File Based Storage, Archive and Preservation

What is Content Storage Management (CSM)?
What should you consider when implementing a large CSM?
Encoding techniques for long-term access and preservation
What is the Archive eXchange Format (AXF)?

Brian Campanotti
Chief Technology Officer
Front Porch Digital

2:30 - 3:30 PM: Panel Discussion #2
IT for Broadcast Flexibility

Maximizing infrastructure flexibility for new broadcast business models and “TV Everywhere”
Overcoming obstacles like multiple formats, time demands and requirements of more aggregation and distribution partners
Identifying and overcoming fundamental datacenter restrictions
File servicing workflows and leveraging automation to the fullest
Migrating operations to an on-the-fly programmable infrastructure

David Sallak
Chief Strategist for Media
& Entertainment
Isilon Systems

Tom Ohanian
Business Development Executive, Digital Media Strategy
Cisco Systems