As media supply chains grow more complex, the need for smarter, more connected solutions has never been greater.
Now in its fifth year, the Media Supply Festival brought together content companies, cloud providers, integrators, and startups to share best practices and work together to define tomorrow’s media supply chain.
Thank you to all our speakers and attendees who joined and made the Festival a success.
And thank you to our sponsors. The 2025 Media Supply Festival was enabled by Headline Sponsor SDVI Corporation, Supporting Sponsors EIKON Group, Prime Focus Technologies, Tedial, Telestream, and VUBIQUITY, Contributing Sponsors Grass Valley, Mediagenix, Premiere Digital Services, Registration and Lanyard Sponsor Amazon Web Services, WiFi Sponsor Venera Technologies, and Digital Sponsor Storj.
Here are some moments captured during the two-day event.
The morning of Day 1 featured the following sessions:
- The Year in Supply Chain with SDVI
- Media’s Known Unknowns: Five predictions that make the future uncertain with DPP
- Supplying the Supply Chain: The state of production with ProdPro
Larry Kaplan, President & CEO of SDVI
Mark Harrison, DPP Founder and Chief Content Officer
Alex LoVerde, CEO of ProdPro
After a short networking break, our next sessions included:
- The Creator Economy: What it really means for media with The Information and Creator Economy NYC
- From Zero to 15 Billion: The birth of Blinx with Blinx
- Selling News: Future proofing PA Media with PA Media
Kaya Yurieff, Creator Economy Reporter at The Information
Brett Dashevsky, Founder of Creator Economy NYC
Fadi Radi, Chief Creative Officer at blinx
Ranj Begley, CRO & MD at PA Media
Once lunch had finished, we proceeded with the following sessions:
- The Future of Monetisation: Facts and fictions with CIMM, Paramount, Nielsen Global Media, and FOX
- Serving Up Seamless Workflows with ATP Media and Tedial
Rowan de Pomerai, DPP CEO
Jon Watts, Managing Director at CIMM
Colleen Fahey Rush, EVP & Chief Research Officer at Paramount
Brian Fuhrer, SVP, Product Strategy & Thought Leadership at Nielsen Global Media
Kym Frank, SVP, Ad Sales Research at FOX
Phil Madden, Head of Media Management at ATP Media
Julian Fernandez-Campon, CTO at Tedial
After another quick networking break, the afternoon of Day 1 featured:
- Executive Interview with Jon Wilson, Grass Valley
- Executive Interview with Mahesh Ramachandran, Reuters
Jon Wilson, CEO of Grass Valley
Mahesh Ramachandran, CTO at Reuters
Day 2 of Media Supply Festival 2025 began with the following sessions:
- Managing and Monetising an Effective Archive with Premiere Digital Services and Lionsgate
- Science or Art? Strategies for content monetisation with Mediagenix and Vubiquity
- The Future of Streaming with Streaming Video Technology Alliance (STVA)
Geoff Bloder, CTO at Premiere Digital Services
Mark Sgriccia, SVP, Content Operations & Strategy at Lionsgate
Eric Carson, Managing Director, Americas at Mediagenix
James Finlay, SVP, Global Packaging at Vubiquity
Jason Thibeault, CEO of Streaming Video Technology Alliance
Following a networking break, the event featured the sessions below:
- Building Versant with Versant
- The Practical and the Possible: Where we are with AI with EIKON Group, A+E Global Media, and Gemba AI
- Executive Interview with Dan Castles, Telestream
Kyle Strickland, SVP Business Operations & Product at Versant
Jon Gardner, CIO at EIKON Group
Kristyn DiPane, Director of Localisation at A+E Global Media
Tom Hoffman, Founder / Principal Consultant at Gemba AI
Dan Castles, CEO at Telestream
After lunch, Media Supply Festival 2025 concluded with these final sessions:
- Risk and Reward: Implementing AI with BYU Broadcasting and Prime Focus Technologies
- Transformational Leadership: Outsourcing and optimisation at AMC with AMC Networks
- Supply Chain Today
David Ericson, Director Digital Media & Technology (CTO / CIO) at BYU Broadcasting
Ankur Jain, Business Head, North America at Prime Focus Technologies
Christina Barlowe-Villano, SVP, Business & Technology Transformation at AMC Networks
Robyn Goldman, Director - Supply Chain Technologies at AMC Networks
