Join the DPP in person in New York for the only industry event that brings together customers and suppliers to explore the latest in media supply chain technology and ideas.
1-2 June 2023, New York
*Please note that the Media Supply Festival is now full. Please join the waitlist here and we will contact you if a space frees up*
Software defined content supply chains, often built in the cloud, are a staple of today’s media industry. Increasingly, they are highly automated, and led by data.
Yet even as we look to the next generation of machine learning solutions to unlock new efficiencies and revenue opportunities, media companies still find that integration between partners, and the exchange of content and business data, remain fraught with friction.
That’s why we must share best practices and work together to define tomorrow’s media supply chain.
The Media Supply Festival brings together content companies, cloud providers, integrators, and startups to explore this revolution in content preparation and delivery.
The 2023 Festival will be the largest ever, moving to a new venue on the iconic Madison Avenue in New York City.
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CTO, Media & Entertainment, Americas
VP Operations, NY
Managing Director, Americas
Programme Director - Metadata
Veteran Tech CEO
Chief Architect
CEO
Strategic Development, Creative Cloud Design
Product Owner, Media Supply Chain
Co-Founder & CEO
CEO, Backlight Creative
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Director of Product, Content Supply & Distribution
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SVP, Product & Strategy
VP, Media Engineering & Broadcast Operations
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EVP, Media Supply Chain
Senior Director of Video Infrastructure
Global BD Strategy, M&E
AVP, Media Management
VP, Technical Solutions
Senior Director of Software Engineering & Architecture
Product Owner Rights Management & Royalties
VP of Strategic Operations
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SVP, Supply Chain & Ad Sales Technologies & Products
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Media & Entertainment Industry Specialist, Business Development Leader
Media Supply Festival 2023 - Day 1
08:30 - Networking Breakfast
09:00 - Welcome
Larry Kaplan
President & CEO
SDVI
09:15 - Supply Chain Showcase: Building Best of Breed
In the first of our customer showcase sessions, we’ll explore how Sinclair Broadcast Group has built a new cloud-first supply chain using modular, best of breed tools from vendors large and small.
Mike Palmer
AVP, Media Management
Sinclair Broadcast Group
Richard Andes
Senior Sales Engineer
Telestream
Julien Gachot
Co-Founder & CEO
Embrace
Chris Ziemer
Media & Entertainment Industry Specialist, Business Development Leader
AWS
09:50 - Realising Modularity
Media companies often ask for modular products, but what exactly does that mean? How granular should tools and products be? Do the media companies have the skills and capabilities they need to integrate these modular solutions? And does a wide range of modular products create a large set of vendors that’s hard to manage?
Ian Hamilton
CTO
Signiant
Laura Jenner
Director of Product, Content Supply & Distribution
ITV
Tyler Robinson
Senior Director of Software Engineering & Architecture
HBO
Lincoln Spiteri
CTO
Dalet
10:30 - Networking Break
11:00 - Supplying the News
Associated Press occupies an unusual position in the media supply chain, as a business to business supplier of news information and content. How has its supply chain modernisation been impacted by the needs of other media businesses? And to what extent will AI play a part in news production in the near future?
Vincent Tripodi
VP Engineering
Associated Press
11:30 - Supply Chain Showcase: Buy Don’t Build
Channel 4 has a unique status as a publicly funded commercial broadcaster, and as such it aims to serve not just viewers, but the UK’s media economy. So how has its supply chain transformation enabled its ecosystem of production suppliers, service providers, and technology partners?
Grace Boswood
Director of Technology
Channel 4
Ramki Sankaranarayanan
Founder, President & CEO
Prime Focus Technologies
12:00 - Executing Change
An examination of the practical methodologies used for implementing business change, and the lessons to be learned from past successes and failures.
Justin Beaudin
COO
Vubiquity
Jeff Davidson
Chief Architect
Cognizant
Swati Karkun Sen
SVP, Product & Strategy
NBCU News Group
12:45 - Lunch
13:45 - Media Supply Chain: Leader or Laggard?
Over recent decades, the media industry has become dramatically more reliant on general purpose IT infrastructure. And in recent years, it has embraced concepts of supply chain management pioneered elsewhere. Yet it remains an industry fueled by content and creativity. So for a senior leader who’s worked in payments, infrastructure, and food and beverage, just how similar - or different - is the media business?
Rhonda Bassett-Spiers
CEO
Telestream
14:10 - Defining Roles: People vs Machines
An efficient modern supply chain connects many different tools and data sources, but it also increasingly connects automated steps to manual processes. How will automation and the human touch best be deployed to create efficient supply chains?
Tom Burns
CTO, Media & Entertainment, Americas
Dell Technologies
Brian Pelletier
VP, Technical Solutions
SDVI
Zeenal Thakare
SVP, Supply Chain & Ad Sales Technologies & Products
AMC Networks
Michael Martinez
Senior Director of Video Infrastructure
Meta
14:50 - Cutting Humans? AI in Post
Machine learning has long been seen as a tool to automate repetitive tasks. But recent advancements in generative AI have shown that machines can be more creative than many ever expected. So how will processes in post production change, and how will AI assist - or threaten - creative users?
Eric Camp
VP Operations, NY
Light Iron, A Panavision Company
Chris Duffey
Strategic Development, Creative Cloud Design
Adobe
Mike Green
CEO, Backlight Creative
Backlight
David Klee
VP, Media Engineering & Broadcast Operations
A+E Networks
15:30 - Networking Break
16:00 - Delivering Operational Efficiency
In a challenging economic climate, businesses are seeking to reduce costs while maintaining or increasing revenue. Talk of transformation has given way to a pragmatic focus on operational efficiency. So how is the modern media supply chain contributing to business success?
Eric Carson
Managing Director, Americas
Mediagenix
Zoe Carter
Programme Director - Metadata
ITV
Rob Delf
CEO
Fabric
16:40 - Finding Inspiration
Media companies on different continents face many of the same challenges, yet they have different contexts. How do these differences and similarities affect their approach? And how can they learn from each other?
Patrik Friedl
Product Owner, Media Supply Chain
ZDF Studios
David Klee
VP, Media Engineering & Broadcast Operations
A+E Networks
17:00 - Supply Chain Showcase: Empowering End Users
ZDF Studios has embarked on a reimagining of its media supply chain, building on a modular architecture of API-first solutions. But it has also built custom user interfaces to meet business users’ needs, and integrated low-code solutions for data access and manipulation. We examine how technology is meeting the needs of the German media company’s users.
Patrik Friedl
Product Owner, Media Supply Chain
ZDF Studios
Franz Julian Rollshausen
Product Owner Rights Management & Royalties
ZDF Studios
17:30 - Drinks Reception, sponsored by AWS
19:00 - Day Ends
Media Supply Festival 2023 - Day 2
08:30 - Networking Breakfast
09:00 - Welcome
Margaret Craig
Veteran Tech CEO
09:15 - Inside the C Suite: Sinclair Broadcast Group
Mike Kralec
SVP & CTO
Sinclair
09:45 - Inside the C Suite: Channel 4
Grace Boswood
Director of Technology
Channel 4
10:15 - Inside the C Suite: Paramount
Brian Lakamp
EVP, Media Supply Chain
Paramount
Phil Wiser
CTO
Paramount
10:45 - Networking Break
11:15 - Inside the C Suite: The Vendors
What does it take to run a successful vendor company in a fast moving media industry? We speak to the leaders of major services and technology companies, and see how they react to the messages from our media company CTO interviews.
Raman Abrol
CEO
Vubiquity
Margaret Craig
Veteran Tech CEO
Ramki Sankaranarayanan
Founder, President & CEO
Prime Focus Technologies
12:00 - Has the Tech Team joined the Business Team?
Supply chain modernisation enables speed to market, content monetisation and efficiency. It puts the industry into the creative industry. In theory. But what's happening in practice? Is technology now being recognised as a key commercial enabler, or is still seen as a functional necessity? In this final session we reflect on what we've just heard from senior media industry leaders, as well as what we are seeing in the wider market, and ask if the role of technology in media has fundamentally changed?
Ian McPherson
Global BD Strategy, M&E
AWS
Hilary Roschke
VP of Strategic Operations
SDVI
Joe Zaller
Founder
Devoncroft Partners
12:45 - Lunch
13:45 - Supply Chain Today: The Key Insights
In this unique workshop, we invite every attendee at the conference to help define the key takeaway messages from the past two days. This will enable us to summarise the key insights which will be published for all DPP members.
14:55 - Networking Break
15:30 - Day Ends
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