nmi project AMWA

PAST EVENT

AMWA Media Technology Days 2
Hosted by Quantel
November 4 & 5, 2014

Newbury, England

The Programme

Tuesday, 4th November - Software meets Media Production

9:00       Registration and coffee

9:30 Introduction and Welcome
Richard Cartwright, Principal Software Architect, Quantel
Phil Tudor, Principal R&D Engineer, BBC

Publish First on the Web

9:45 First to Web – Industry Challenges and Experiences
• Brad Gilmer, Executive Director, AMWA

10:00 Flexible Workflows for Multi-platform Delivery
• Ximena Araneda, Vice President, Video Workflows, Vizrt

10:30 A Media Logistics Platform for Production Transformation
• Jon Folland, CEO, Nativ

11:15 Coffee and tea

Continuous Software Development

11:45 Modern Software Development Tools: The Continuous Delivery Pipeline
• Richard Cartwright, Principal Software Architect, Quantel

12:30 Test-first Specification in Practice
• Mark Glanville, Research Technologist, BBC

13:00 Lunch – to include optional factory tour

Software, Web and Networked Technologies to deliver 4k

14:00 4k at the World Cup
• Steve Owen, Marketing Director, Quantel

14:20 4k Production and Deliver, Commonwealth Games
• Phil Tudor, Principal R&D Engineer, BBC

14:40 Cinema Demonstrations

15:00 Discussion – Roadmap to UHD using Software Tools

15:15 Coffee and Tea

Data Centre Technologies

15:45 Generic IT Systems to provide Transport and Storage of Content for Media
• Ben Roeder, Chief Technical Officer, Sohonet

16:45 Putting it all Together: using the tools of continuous software delivery
• Guillaume Belrose, Software Engineer, Quantel

17:30 Workshop ends – further informal discussions as necessary!

Wednesday, 5th November - AMWA Technical Meeting

Open to AMWA members only

8:30         Registration and coffee

9:00 Introduction and Welcome to Day 2
  - Review of topics to discuss

9:30   Day 1 - What did we learn?

10:00   Current AMWA developments
  - Update on redefining specifications as rules
o   Metadata rules approaches
o   The future of the shim?
  - Update on FIMS
  - Archiving AS-xx
  - AAF maintenance

13:00   Lunch

14:00   Future direction of the AMWA
  - "Big picture" on future of formats; where is the industry going
  - What might AMWA's work on "pull" protocols looks like
  - How to most effectively support members
  - Feedback on technology days

17:15   Meeting ends