We catch up with Paul Glasgow, Managing Director at Marquis Broadcast to find out their integration services, how Covid19 has affected the company, how they have managed without attending tradeshows and what’s new with their products and services.

We speak to Cloudian Principal Architect, M&E Solutions David Phillips about their Ransomeware protection products and flash object storage.

We caught up with Peter Wayhead, CEO at Pebble to discuss their recent rebrand, asking why they chose to rebrand, what it means for them and their customers, will there be any changes as a result of the rebrand and where Peter sees the future of the industry and Pebble as we start to emerge from Covid.

With the pandemic bringing change across the globe, journalists and broadcasters are adapting to working from home with remote workflow technologies. Powered by IABM’s data-driven insights on the business of media technology, this session explores the drivers of change in the news sector, including the impact of COVID-19 on news consumption, workflows and technology demand. Learn more from a panel of experts as they debate how technology is helping accelerate remote news production and distribution workflows.

The session looks at the challenges and opportunities in this new media ecosystem.

IABM’s Head of Insight and Analysis, Lorenzo Zanni, opens the event, sharing IABM’s latest research and analysis of the current state of Broadcast and Media, and how its future is likely to unfold over the coming months and years. This is then be followed by a panel of experts from the Broadcast and Media Industry who explore the challenges and opportunities that new technologies and business models will bring to the industry.

IABM’s Business Intelligence Unit has today announced the headline findings from its Future of Events survey. While the balance of marketing budgets will shift by 11 percentage points towards digital activities in 2021 compared with pre-pandemic in 2019, tradeshows will still on average account for 42% of total marketing expenditure.

In the tenth episode of the In the Hub podcast, Neil speaks to Bruce Devlin. Bruce is a key figure within the broadcast space, known universally for his work as co-author of the MXF specification and his Standards Vice President role within SMPTE. Neil and Bruce explore how Bruce got started in our industry, whether a one-size-fits-all format for media files is on the horizon and how Bruce envisions the future of broadcasting.

France Télévisions once again chooses the French Open to test the innovations of the television of the future. During this fall edition, France Televisions, in partnership with the French Tennis Federation, shares its vision of tomorrow’s uses materialized by spectacular and unprecedented experiments around “Augmented Tennis” within the RGLAB on the site of the international tournament from September 27 to October 11, 2020.

Calnex are joined by Francois Gagnon, Lead Test Engineer for Riedel Montreal, formerly Embrionix Communications, who discusses how he puts SNE to use to demonstrate conformance to aspects of SMPTE ST 2110 and ST 2022.

Join Tiger Technology’s CTO Alexander Lefterov, Executive VP Lance Kelson, to see how Bridge v4.1 can be used to extend NAS (or NTFS) storage into the Cloud, or to other NAS or LTFS tape storage devices. Find out how Bridge can be used enabled Adobe Premiere creative professionals to edit media in Cloud buckets. Learn how Bridge can be used not only move content into Cloud compute buckets for services such as automatic proxy generation, object detection,  speech-to-text and celebrity recognition, but also supporting Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP), this metadata generated in the Cloud is added back into project files on premise.

Join Global & Tiger Technology to see how Space & Spaces MAM be used with any NAS device or Tiger Store environment to help drive workflow efficiencies, by providing a robust and easy to use project and user management platform. Integrated with a web-based MAM tool for cataloguing, searching, web editing and file level ingest. With the ability to export directly to social media platforms along with software such as Adobe Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, AVID Media Composer and FCPX.

Welcome back to the ninth episode of the In the Hub podcast. In this episode, Neil chats with Mike Ransome – a broadcast legend with 30 years of experience in the broadcast equipment hire and rental industry. Mike now heads up MCR Broadcast Hire as a Managing Director. Neil and Mike dig into the current landscape of the broadcast equipment rental industry, his experiences working with the Olympics and the World Cup, and Mike’s vision for the future of our industry.

Welcome to the eighth episode of the In the Hub podcast! In this episode, Neil speaks to Oli Slipper – a former pro cricketer, founder of Perform and current Chairman of Pitch International, a leading sports marketing agency. Neil and Oli discuss his incredible career within sports and technology, how OTT is powering the future of sports broadcasting, and what we can expect for the future.

In the seventh episode of the In the Hub podcast, Neil speaks to John Reid – a broadcast engineering and high level systems architecture expert with nearly 50 years of experience working with companies like the BBC and Panasonic. Neil and John discuss how John got his start in the industry, why he chose to go down the independent consultancy route and the benefits of seeing the ‘bigger picture’ when it comes to broadcast technology systems and workflows.

In the sixth episode of the In the Hub podcast, Neil speaks to the Director of the SRT Alliance, Jesús (Suso) Carrillo. Neil and Suso discuss how the pandemic has impacted SRT adoption, where the SRT Alliance is headed for the future and the profound benefits of an open-source, universally adopted transport protocol.

In the fifth episode of the In the Hub podcast, Neil speaks to legendary broadcast and internet video consultant, Mark Johnson. You’ll know Mark from his time as a host over at StudioTech TV on YouTube, and his extraordinary 30 year career within the IBM. Neil and Mark discuss how independent consultancy powers our industry, whether StudioTech TV will make a return and Mark’s opinion on virtual events and conferences.

In the fourth episode of the In the Hub podcast, Neil speaks to systems integration expert and long-time broadcast engineer Steve Finer. Steve is the owner and chief engineer at Finer Associates, who have been reliably serving the broadcast and video industries for nearly 40 years within the US. Neil and Steve dig in to the shift from hardware-centric deployments to software and cloud-based solutions, and what this could mean for the future of our industry.

In the third episode of the In the Hub podcast, Neil speaks to industry expert Harm Van Houten. Harm is a tried and tested broadcast engineer and IT architect with 20 years of experience providing his expertise to both local and international broadcasters. Neil and Harm discuss the current state of live sports in broadcasting – will virtual sports and live-streamed bingo tournaments begin to play a more prominent part in our lives?