Media Supply Festival Day 2 - Building for Success
Spend time at the cutting edge of theory and practice around supply chain. The second day features the Online Demo Zone and more Media Supply Conference sessions.
8 September 2021, 3:00pm BST
The Media Supply Festival, hosted by the DPP and Sky live from the Sky Studios, is a new breed of event for the people building the media factories of tomorrow.
Split into two days with three elements, the festival brings together content companies, cloud providers, integrators, and startups to explore software-defined content supply chains. Built on modern software architectures, this is the most important development in today’s media industry.
Day 2 will feature the second half of the Online Demo Zone, and the rest of the conference sessions:
- Online Demo Zone - A custom-designed showcase for software service providers involving short video demonstrations of each product and direct connections with vendors for personalised follow up.
- Media Supply Conference - At these sessions, expert speakers explore technical architectures and business models required for success. Stay tuned for more details on the sessions' topics.
This event will start at: 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST / 10:00 EDT / 07:00 PDT. It will last approximately 4 hours.
If you experience any problems registering for DPP events or watching any online events, please contact [email protected].

Lee Atkinson
AWS
Worldwide Tech Lead for Broadcast Media

Margaret Craig
Veteran Tech CEO

Josh Derby
Warner Bros. Discovery
Group VP, Engineering, Content Systems

Tyrone Donnelly
Sky
Principal Design Lead

Dave Duvall
Discovery
Chief Information Officer

Peter Elvidge
Cognizant
Director, Media and Entertainment

Alex Emmermann
Telestream
Director of Business Development for Cloud Products

Corinna Fechner
MuleSoft
Senior Strategic Account Manager

Adde Granberg
SVT
CTO

Abdul Hakim
DPP
Head of Business Development

John Honeycutt
Sandy Valley.Media, LLC
Founder

Larry Kaplan
SDVI
President & CEO

Tim MacGregor
Telestream
Head of Strategy and Product Development

Michelle Munson
Eluvio
CEO and Founder

Alan Robinson
BBC
Executive Product Manager

Jennifer Ruch
Equinix
Director, Sustainability

Bart Spriester
Comcast Technology Solutions
VP & GM, Content & Streaming Provider Solutions

Geoff Stedman
SDVI
Chief Marketing Officer

Dave Travis
Sky
Group Director of Content, Broadcast & Platforms

Natasha Westland
BBC
R&D Engineer

Rowan de Pomerai
DPP
CEO
Media Supply Festival Day 2
Check out the agenda here as details become available.
Day 2: Building for Success
15:00 - Welcome
Key themes from today's conference.
15:10 - The Demo Zone - Part 2
The DPP presents highlights from the product collections in the Demo Zone.
Abdul Hakim
Head of Business Development
DPP
Rowan de Pomerai
CEO
DPP
15:20 - The Business of Data
The integrated media supply chain runs on - and generates - huge volumes of data. How can it be used to do better business?
Larry Kaplan
President & CEO
SDVI
Peter Elvidge
Director, Media and Entertainment
Cognizant
Corinna Fechner
Senior Strategic Account Manager
MuleSoft
15:45 - Executive Interview
As a member of the Executive Board of Comcast Technology Solutions, Bart Spriester brings unique insight as both a technology customer and supplier, working with some of the biggest media organisations in the world.
Bart Spriester
VP & GM, Content & Streaming Provider Solutions
Comcast Technology Solutions
16:10 - Software Powered: Energy and the Media Factory
How does a software defined supply chain help a company achieve its zero-emissions target? An inside look at designing for energy efficiency.
Natasha Westland
R&D Engineer
BBC
Jennifer Ruch
Director, Sustainability
Equinix
16:35 - Integrated Supply Chain
Do software defined supply chains make system integrators redundant? Are customers the new SIs? Or is orchestration its own art, requiring its own expertise?
Alex Emmermann
Director of Business Development for Cloud Products
Telestream
Lee Atkinson
Worldwide Tech Lead for Broadcast Media
AWS
Tyrone Donnelly
Principal Design Lead
Sky
Alan Robinson
Executive Product Manager
BBC
17:00 - New Product Roadmap Strategies
Be the first to hear of exciting new product strategies for media supply.
Geoff Stedman
Chief Marketing Officer
SDVI
Tim MacGregor
Head of Strategy and Product Development
Telestream
17:15 - Frictionless Pricing: Myth or Reality?
SaaS enables flexible scaling, yet we often seek certainty in contracts. Can you be both flexible and cost effective?
Alex Emmermann
Director of Business Development for Cloud Products
Telestream
Margaret Craig
Veteran Tech CEO
Dave Travis
Group Director of Content, Broadcast & Platforms
Sky
Josh Derby
Group VP, Engineering, Content Systems
Warner Bros. Discovery
17:45 - Executive Interview
A very special opportunity to hear from a leader of Discovery’s pioneering supply chain innovation - and to gain insight into the tech strategy behind the merger with WarnerMedia.
Dave Duvall
Chief Information Officer
Discovery
18:10 - The Future of Media Supply
Three very different views of the future, from three experts with strong opinions. Join the Q&A, and expect a robust discussion.
Michelle Munson
CEO and Founder
Eluvio
John Honeycutt
Founder
Sandy Valley.Media, LLC
Adde Granberg
CTO
SVT
18:50 - What we learned
Lead Sponsors
SDVI is an Emmy® Award-winning supplier of cloud-based media supply chain technology that empowers organizations to optimize content ingest, processing, packaging, and distribution operations. The company’s Rally media supply chain pla... read more.
For nearly thirty years, Telestream has been at the forefront of innovation in the digital video industry. The company offers best-in-class test and measurement and media workflow solutions that streamline operations and support effici... read more.
Supporting Sponsors
Brightcove creates the world’s most reliable, scalable, and secure streaming technology so... read more.
Even the best technology solutions only succeed when they deliver value. Cognizant creates... read more.
Eluvio is transforming the management, distribution, and economics of premium video for co... read more.
Contributing Sponsors
With more than 60 years’ experience, Media & Broadcast is BT Wholesale’s digital media and... read more.
Xytech provides Media, Operations, and Production teams with a Media Operations Platform t... read more.
Streaming Sponsor
Mux is a software company that develops infrastructure and monitoring tools for developers... read more.
Captioning Sponsor
Red Bee Media is the leading global media services partner for innovation and growth. We e... read more.