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.
30-31 May 2024, New York
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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GM, Global M&E
CEO
VP, Global Content Operations
VP of Sales, Entertainment
Senior Staff Product Manager - Tech
Director of Media Management Technology
Director of Strategic Partnerships
CTO
Director of Localisation
SVP, Global Engineering & Technology
President & CEO
SVP & CTO
EVP, Media Supply Chain
Co-Founder & CEO
Director, Distribution & Ad Sales
Senior Director of Video Infrastructure
SVP, Media Operations
Global BD Strategy, M&E
VP, Financial Planning & Analysis, Global Operations
Head of Global Localization
SVP Global Engineering & Media Technology
CEO & CPO
Head of Architecture
EVP & CFO
Director, WarnerMedia
Chief Strategy Officer
Founder, President & CEO
Release Train Engineer
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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