Media Supply Festival 2024

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.

As always, this DPP event is free for members to attend.

A limited number of non members are also invited to attend by purchasing a ticket. If you have a ticket but can no longer attend, you will be issued a full refund up until Wednesday 15 May OR you can transfer your ticket to a colleague.

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Kira Baca
Kira Baca
Ateliere

CRO

Samira Bahktiar
Samira Bahktiar
AWS

GM, Global M&E

Kathleen Barrett
Kathleen Barrett
Backlight

CEO

Caroline Brown
Caroline Brown
BBC Studios

VP, Global Content Operations

Rochelle Brown
Rochelle Brown
Harbor Picture Company

VP of Sales, Entertainment

Rebecca Burriss
Rebecca Burriss
Warner Bros. Discovery

Senior Staff Product Manager - Tech

Shanir Camacho
Shanir Camacho
TelevisaUnivision

Director of Media Management Technology

Jaewon Chung
Jaewon Chung
KOCOWA

Director of Strategic Partnerships

Gianluca D'Aniello
Gianluca D'Aniello
Associated Press

CTO

Kristyn DiPane
Kristyn DiPane
A+E Networks

Director of Localisation

Don Jarvis
Don Jarvis
A+E Networks

SVP, Global Engineering & Technology

Larry Kaplan
Larry Kaplan
SDVI

President & CEO

Mike Kralec
Mike Kralec
Sinclair

SVP & CTO

Brian Lakamp
Brian Lakamp
Paramount

EVP, Media Supply Chain

Alex LoVerde
Alex LoVerde
ProdPro

Co-Founder & CEO

Marc M.Dion
Marc M.Dion
World Poker Tour

Director, Distribution & Ad Sales

Michael Martinez
Michael Martinez
Meta

Senior Director of Video Infrastructure

Megan Mauck
Megan Mauck
NBCUniversal

SVP, Media Operations

Ian McPherson
Ian McPherson
AWS

Global BD Strategy, M&E

Peter Mingione
Peter Mingione
A+E Networks

VP, Financial Planning & Analysis, Global Operations

Matteo Natale
Matteo Natale
Vubiquity

Head of Global Localization

Marcos Obadia
Marcos Obadia
TelevisaUnivision

SVP Global Engineering & Media Technology

KunHee Park
KunHee Park
KOCOWA

CEO & CPO

Krishna Pothula
Krishna Pothula
RTL Nederland

Head of Architecture

Lucy Rutishauser
Lucy Rutishauser
Sinclair

EVP & CFO

Benazeer Saifee
Benazeer Saifee
Warner Bros. Discovery

Director, WarnerMedia

Courtney Sanchez
Courtney Sanchez
Tubi

Chief Strategy Officer

Ramki Sankaranarayanan
Ramki Sankaranarayanan
Prime Focus Technologies

Founder, President & CEO

Jeanette Spronk
Jeanette Spronk
RTL Nederland

Release Train Engineer

David Tackel
David Tackel
BCL / FOX

SVP, Product Strategy

Media Supply Festival 2024 - Day 1

08:15 Networking breakfast and registration opens

09:00 Welcome

Rowan de Pomerai

CEO

DPP

Mark Harrison

Founder & Chief Content Officer

DPP

09:10 A year in supply chain

We set the scene by assessing the key developments in supply chain over the previous year - and the most anticipated ones to come.

Rowan de Pomerai

CEO

DPP

Larry Kaplan

President & CEO

SDVI

09:30 Where’s the content gone?

Imagine an industry that wasn’t really sure what would be arriving at its factory when. Incredible? Well that’s the media industry. So why is our understanding of the content pipeline so poor; and what does the content pipeline actually look like today?

Alex LoVerde

Co-Founder & CEO

ProdPro

Rochelle Brown

VP of Sales, Entertainment

Harbor Picture Company

09:55 Tomorrow's pipeline

We’ve spent years building supply chains for certain kinds of content, in certain business models. But what if consumer demands change? What does that suggest for the business and technology models of the media industry of tomorrow?

Samira Bahktiar

GM, Global M&E

AWS

Courtney Sanchez

Chief Strategy Officer

Tubi

10:20 Dealing content to the world

It’s more than twenty years since The World Poker Tour transformed poker into a mainstream sport. But what does it take to extract value from all the bets it’s placed on broadcast, live streaming and on demand?

Kira Baca

CRO

Ateliere

Marc M.Dion

Director, Distribution & Ad Sales

World Poker Tour

10:50 Networking break

11:20 Converging global supply chains

Few organisations have to manage such supply chain complexity as Warner Bros. Discovery. Not only simplifying and driving efficiencies following the merger of major media companies, but also positioning the company for a streaming first, global future. This session explores successes and challenges across workflow, technology, and data.

Benazeer Saifee

Director, WarnerMedia

Warner Bros. Discovery

Rebecca Burriss

Senior Staff Product Manager - Tech

Warner Bros. Discovery

11:50 Greater than the sum of the parts?

Our case studies explore media companies that have merged to combine the strengths of different offerings. But vendors too must consider the right scale and scope to best meet market needs. Backlight brought together a number of successful smaller software companies, so we ask their CEO why they believe that’s the best path, what it means for customers with a variety of media workflows, and ultimately whether the sum is greater than its parts.

Kathleen Barrett

CEO

Backlight

12:15 Unifying the supply chain

In 2022, TelevisaUnivision brought together the media, content and production of Mexican brand Televisa with the American company Univision. The result is a valuable collection of television channels, digital properties, and content assets, and also a complex set of supply chain technologies, platforms, and processes. In this session we explore the strategy, technology, and workflow governance approaches that TelevisaUnivision is using to bring unity to its supply chain.

Marcos Obadia

SVP Global Engineering & Media Technology

TelevisaUnivision

Shanir Camacho

Director of Media Management Technology

TelevisaUnivision

12:45 Lunch

14:00 Improving efficiency in media supply

At a time when revenues are challenged, but demand remains high, efficiency matters. But where do the opportunities sit – and what do media organisations need to do to realise them?

Caroline Brown

VP, Global Content Operations

BBC Studios

Megan Mauck

SVP Media Operations

NBCUniversal

14:30 Can we ever be agile enough?

It’s been discussed many times that we are in an industry of constant change. For Paramount, changes in content processing, licensing, and distribution have resulted in a disparate collection of content libraries, which the company is now bringing together. So as the business models of media continue to be rethought and evolved, is it ever truly possible to be agile enough to manage the inevitable change?

Brian Lakamp

EVP, Media Supply Chain

Paramount

15:00 Extreme A/B testing

What does it take to turn an ocean of user data into a steady stream of successful product improvements? We take a deep dive into how Meta fine tunes its customer experiences by running A/B testing at a scale few other organisations could conceive of.

Michael Martinez

Senior Director of Video Infrastructure

Meta

15:30 Networking break

16:00 Localising at speed

It used to be that English speaking countries exported content and rarely imported it. But all that’s changing, with audiences now excited by content from around the world. So how does a Korean streaming service get its content to US audiences in double quick time?

KunHee Park

CEO & CPO

KOCOWA

Jaewon Chung

Director of Strategic Partnerships

KOCOWA

16:30 AI one year on

What a difference a year makes. In this special session we look at real world examples of where AI has taken a giant step forward to becoming an indispensable assistant.

Ramki Sankaranarayanan

Founder, President & CEO

Prime Focus Technologies

Ian McPherson

Global BD Strategy, M&E

AWS

16:55 Artificial voices: when will AI dubbing be good enough?

The future of localisation will undoubtedly involve AI. But the application of AI to complex tasks like dubbing still seems ambitious. So how close is the technology to reaching the mainstream?

Kristyn DiPane

Director of Localisation

A+E Networks

Matteo Natale

Head of Global Localization

Vubiquity

17:30 Drinks reception

Media Supply Festival 2024 - Day 2

08:30 Networking breakfast

09:00 Welcome

09:10 Supply chain today: The key insights

In a special workshop, the DPP works with the attendees to define key supply chain insights for 2024.

09:45 Tomorrow’s news at AP

No other media organisation featured at the Media Supply Chain Festival reported on the American Civil War. You don’t thrive for this long without innovation. In this in depth interview we hear how AP is leveraging the latest technologies to maintain trust, while delivering faster and further than ever.

Gianluca D'Aniello

CTO

Associated Press

10:15 Trust and value in an AI age

In an age of AI, media companies have much to consider. Two of the most important factors are trust and value: how is content provenance assured, and how can the correct value be ascribed to quality content? With the launch of the open source protocol Verify, BCL aims to help address these challenges.

David Tackel

SVP, Product Strategy

BCL / FOX

10:45 Networking break

11:15 Designed to be different

Everyone says people are more important than technology. But suppose a media company put that into practice? RTL Nederland has delivered major business change ahead of its technology transformation - with dramatic results. So what did they do, and how did they do it?

Krishna Pothula

Head of Architecture

RTL Nederland

Jeanette Spronk

Release Train Engineer

RTL Nederland

11:45 The Technology/Finance partnership at A+E Networks

As technology has become essential to turning great content into great revenue, the relationship between the technology and finance functions of media organisations has never been more important. In the first of two executive interviews we explore how that relationship works at A+E Networks.

Don Jarvis

SVP, Global Engineering & Technology

A+E Networks

Peter Mingione

VP, Financial Planning & Analysis, Global Operations

A+E Networks

12:15 The Technology/Finance partnership at Sinclair

In the second of our technology and finance interviews, we look to a very different type of media organisation. We’ll go inside the relationship between these two functions with the CFO and CTO of Sinclair.

Mike Kralec

SVP & CTO

Sinclair

Lucy Rutishauser

EVP & CFO

Sinclair

12:50 Close

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