Tracy Swedlow

Chris Pfaff moderates Grand Finale session – ‘Driving Audience Engagement with Interactive Streaming’- at TV of Tomorrow Show in San Francisco

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Chris Pfaff moderated the Grand Finale/Plenary session – ‘Driving Audience Engagement with Interactive Streaming’ – at the TV of Tomorrow Show at the General’s Residence, at Fort Mason, San Francisco on Thursday, October 13, 2022.

Speakers included:

  • Tom Link, MuxIP
  • Evo Heyning, PlayableAgency
  • Pip Brignall, The Round
  • Gregor Landwehr, Contentflow       
 You can watch the entire session at:
Tom Link, Gregor Landwehr, Pip Brignall, Evo Heyning, and Chris Pfaff after the ‘Driving Audience Engagement with Interactive Streaming’ panel
Evo Heyning discusses Future of Work virtual streaming solutions
Tom Link discusses the “democratization of monetization”
Gregor Landwehr discusses ultra-low latency
Pip Brignall discusses streaming AR solutions
(Left to right): Tracy Swedlow, Evo Heyning, Pip Brignall, Gregor Landwehr
Pip Brignall and Brian Seth Hurst discuss AR
Jim Louderback blows Evo Heyning’s mind

Chris Pfaff moderates the virtual TV of Tomorrow Show session – ‘Television Innovators Showcase’

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Chris Pfaff moderated a virtual session for the TV of Tomorrow Show on Thursday, January 13, 2022 that explored how new technologies—and new thinking about narratives, engagement strategies and the viewing experience—are being employed to enable new forms of television programming and new ways of using the medium of television itself, across scripted entertainment, sports, education and other areas.

The session included an expert group of panelists, including:

•    Erik Langner, CEO, Information Equity Initiative

•    Lillian Diaz-Przybyl, Producer, Butcher Bird Studios

•    Roy Firestone, Principal Product Manager, Edgecast

•    Zane Vella, VP of Audience Development and Innovation, Comcast

 

Media Meet & Greet – A Virtual Holiday Hang for the Global Media Industry – December 17, 2020

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The European media community’s inaugural pre-holiday Meet & Greet event, held on December 17, 2020 on the Deal Room Events platform was a milestone for how networking events in 2021 should look: well-moderated discussion and connections between colleagues – many of whom have never met before – all in a robust virtual platform.

The event, produced by Janet Greco, leveraged Deal Room’s renowned networking features for connecting with individuals who fill out profiles in advance. With a proscribed time limit of 20 minutes per meeting – now conducted by video chat – the Deal Room platform has been successfully implemented by various event producers, most notably Arctic15, the leading Nordic venture investment event. Media Meet & Greet brought together more than 70 individuals – broadcasters, technology vendors, OTT producers, and consultants – who conducted meetings, and attended talks on the ‘Future of Work’ by John Howkins, ‘Navigating Innovation in Lockdown,’ with Vanessa Vigar, and ‘The Rise of Hyperlocal,’ with Andrew Stirling.

Chris Pfaff moderated The Pub, a convivial session that discussed ‘Streaming or Screaming.’ The event was capped with a live appearance from Los Angeles by noted rock composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Carl Restivo (Grammy nominated songwriter for ‘Go All The Way’ from the ‘Twilight’ soundtrack, musical director for Tom Morello, Perry Farrell), who performed three solo guitar numbers that he felt were appropriate: Chuck Berry’s ‘Roll Over Beethoven,’ as the event was on the composer’s 250th birthday; ‘Have a Cigar’ by Pink Floyd, as a statement on the music industry, and ‘So Lonely’ by the Police (as we have all been locked down for nearly a year). Over the span of just a few hours, the event was a hopeful, and enlightening, way to end the year and look forward to further such gatherings that smash time and distance and bring connection to an industry that has undergone seismic shifts in an unprecedented year.

You can check out the next events at: www.broadcastprojects.com/media-meet-greet. You can register for the ‘Barcelona Sunrise’ event – from February 15-25 – at: https://ti.to/media-meet-greet/media-meet-greet-barcelona-sunrise-2021

 

Executive producer of ‘Media Meet & Greet,’ Janet Greco, welcomes the audience

Chris Pfaff (upper left) moderates the ‘Streaming or Screaming?’ discussion in The Pub, one of the virtual discussion rooms in the Media Meet & Greet session for the European media industry on December 17, 2020. Joining the session were Vanessa Vigar (upper row, 2nd from left); Andrew Stirling (upper row, 2nd from left); Lee Morin (upper row, far right); Trygve Refvem (middle row, far left); Janet Greco (middle row, 2nd from left); Tracy Swedlow (middle row, 2nd from right); Gilberto Flores (middle row, far right); David Short (bottom row, far left); Benjamin Schwarz (bottom row, 2nd from left); Laura Riggs (bottom row, 2nd from right), Uwe Kühhirt, from Fraunhofer (bottom row, far right)

Carl Restivo (bottom) sings live from LA to end the Media Meet & Greet event; Janet Greco (upper left) and Chris Pfaff (upper right) rock out

 

 

Chris Pfaff moderates the ‘Blockchain and TV’ panel at the first TVOT Live! show – September 10, 2020

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TVOT Live!, the First Virtual TV of Tomorrow Show, was held September 8-10 through the Socio platform, and featured a cavalcade of great sessions. As always, TVOT founder Tracy Swedlow managed to draw even more of a global audience thanks to the virtual platform.

Chris Pfaff moderated the ‘Blockchain and TV,’ session on Thursday, September 10th, at 10:00 am EST (and on demand), which examined how blockchain is being used in TV advertising, video encoding and distribution, and in social TV payments.

Alongside Pfaff on the panel were:

• Adam Helfgott, CEO, MadHive

• Jason Manningham, CEO, Blockgraph

• Melanie Mohr, CEO, womprotocol.io & yeay.com

• Halsey Minor, CEO, Live Planet/Strategic Technology Partner, VideoCoin

You can view the session at:

https://app.socio.events/NzIyOQ/Agenda/83788/Session/304777

 

Tracy Swedlow, founder of TVOT, welcomes the virtual audience to TVOT Live!

Promo screen for the ‘Blockchain and TV’ panel at TVOT Live!

Jason Manningham, from Blockgraph (upper left); Adam Helfgott, from Madhive (upper right); Melanie Mohr, from WOM Protocol (lower left), and Halsey Minor, from VideoCoin (lower right) on the ‘Blockchain and TV’ panel

Jason Manningham discusses Blockgraph’s work in the TV space

Melanie Mohr, from WOM Protocol, discusses her global view of the blockchain market for media creators

Chris Pfaff (upper left) guides the discussion on the ‘Blockchain and TV’ panel at the first TVOT Live! virtual TV of Tomorrow Show event

 

‘AI and ML Take Over TV: Monetizing Every Pixel’ Panel at the TV of Tomorrow Show New York – December 4, 2019

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The latest edition of the TV of Tomorrow Show New York, in a new location at Town Stages in TriBeCa, delivered a day’s worth of engaging discussion and demos of advanced TV and OTT analytics and programmatic ad solutions on Wednesday, December 4, 2019. I produced and moderated the ‘AI and ML Take Over TV: Monetizing Every Pixel’ panel, which featured a powerhouse of experts in visual content automation and AI, including Richard Collins, CEO of Tellyo; Randa Minkarah, COO and co-founder of Transform Inc.; Phil Zepeda, vice president, product & marketing at Vilynx, and Thomas Jelonek, CEO of envision AI.

You can listen to the full session at: https://lnkd.in/e9hd-aG

Chris Pfaff, Richard Collins, Randa Minkarah, Phil Zepeda, and Thomas Jelonek, after the ‘AI and ML Take Over TV’ panel, December 4, 2019

Richard Collins discusses Tellyo’s multichannel automation features

Phil Zepeda discusses Vilynx’s content sentiment detection features

Randa Minkarah discusses Transform’s curation features

Thomas Jelonek discusses envision AI’s intelligent tagging features

Simon Applebaum (back to camera) asks a question of Richard Collins, from Tellyo, at the ‘AI and ML Take Over TV’ panel

Ravi Peravali, from event sponsor Tavant, with TV of Tomorrow Show founder and CEO, Tracy Swedlow

 

 

 

 

TV of Tomorrow Show New York Panel, ‘Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for the OTT Universe’

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It is always a pleasure to work with Tracey Swedlow and her team at the TV of Tomorrow Show. I have known Tracy since 1998, and she has indefatigably helped lead the discussion around advanced TV and video for more than two decades. And, yes, we shared the virtual stage in a famous Producers Guild of America (PGA) New Media Council event in February, 2008 (it was a webcast, with me in New York at the New School; she in San Francisco, at the Macromedia building), in which we presented panelists and debated the New York vs. San Francisco tech/new media scene.

At the recent TV of Tomorrow Show New York, held at the SVA Theatre in Manhattan on December 7th, 2018, I moderated a session, ‘Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for the OTT Universe,’ that dove into a wide range of issues facing broadcasters; MSOs; user-generated content, and advertisers as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) increase their sophistication in the overall OTT world.

My panelists included:

Romain Eude, CEO/founder, Utelly

Randa Minkarah, COO, Transform

Janne Neuvonen, CEO/co-founder, BCaster

Aman Sareen, CEO, Zypmedia

Have a listen to the audio from this session by clicking the link embedded in this post from the TV of Tomorrow site:

https://thetvoftomorrowshow.com/radio-itvt-machine-learning-and-artificial-intelligence-ott-universe