Mission: Democratization of Creativity!

Taylor Newill 

Director, Global HPC Solutions

Mark Ross

Director & Co-Founder

In this session GridMarkets CEO & Co-Founder Mark Ross speaks with Taylor Newill Director, Global HPC Solutions, Oracle about how GridMarkets provides a platform which gives computational animators, and visual effects artists a fast and affordable way to render animations in the cloud.

Co-founded in 2011 by serial entrepreneur Mark Ross, GridMarkets is part of the Oracle for Startups program that supports growing young companies and runs the GridMarkets platform on high-performance servers in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure regions around the world.

Remote sports production in focus: adapting to the new world

Ben Dales - CHAIR

Director of Technology

Nicolas Bourdon

CMO

Brian Leonard

Head of Engineering, Production & Workflows

Ian McDonough

CEO

In this session we discuss how remote sports production has adapted to a new world and a new way of working.

Consumer Viewing Case Study

Rose Adkins Hulse 

CEO

Jonathan Williams

Chief Operating Officer

In this session we discuss how consumer viewing habits have changed, and how media companies can best design consumer experiences to enable viewers to make sense of the sheer number of options available to them, and more importantly, how to keep them engaged.

Consumer Viewing Panel Discussion

Ben Dales - CHAIR 

Head of Digital

Stuart Almond

Director of Industry Strategy Media & Communications

Ernie Megazzini

VP Strategy, Advisory & Solutions Architecture DX for Industry

Madelene Gustavson

Head of Business Area Content Discovery

For this wide-ranging session, we have convened a panel of media company leaders to look at how consumer viewing habits have changed due to the pandemic and how media companies can best design consumer experiences to enable viewers to make sense of the plethora of choices now available to them – and then how to keep them engaged.

Sports Content Chains: The Downstream View

Gordon Castle 

SVP Technology

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In this fireside chat, we talk to a sports broadcaster about the move to remote production workflows, the impact of direct-to-consumer on sports technology sourcing and the implications of these trends for media technology providers.

Sports Content Chains: The Operational View

Kevin McCue 

Director of Technical Operations

In this fireside chat, we talk about major sports technology priorities as well as the operational effects of the pandemic on sports production.

Audio Panel Discussion

Alex Lepges 

Technical Director

Eric Horstmann

Regional Business Development Manager

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Panel Discussion with Genelec and Audio Technica around the Audio Ecosystem.

Sensorial Case Study with Lawo and ArtEZ

Tjerk de Groot 

Senior Audio Engineer

Andreas Hilmer

​Director Marketing & Communications

In this Case Study, discover how ArtEZ Conservatory in the Netherlands leveraged Lawo’s V__remote4 for graduation performances in a socially distanced world.

Sensorial Panel Discussion

Lisa Collins - CHAIR

Head of Membership Engagement

Steve Sandford

Product Manager

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Greg Abell

Pre Sales Engineer

Simon Roe

Managing Director

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While the drive to ever-higher resolution video may have taken a back seat to ‘Covid quality’ in recent times, other aspects of imaging and immersive have come to the fore – and we have all been reminded of the importance of high quality audio. In this session, we will look at all the latest developments in imaging and immersive technology - both video and audio.