Please mark your calendars to join me at this year's NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 11-13, where there will be tons of great education and networking around online and mobile video.
On Monday morning I'll be moderating a Super Session at 10:30am, "Connected TV: Smart Devices, New Strategies," which will feature Richard Buchanan (VP/GM, Content Operations, Comcast Media Center), Peter Dille (SVP, Marketing, Sony Computer Entertainment America), Jim Lanzone (CEO, Clicker), Wilfred Martis (GM, Retail CE Products, Digital Home, Intel Corp) and Jack Perry (Founder and CEO, Syncbak). We will explore all angles of the connected TV wave: what content/apps are popular, how they're impacting the market, what's ahead for adoption, and more.
Then on Tuesday, I'm hosting a full day of back-to-back sessions in the "Broadband Pit," a special area of the show floor devoted to broadband and mobile education and networking. Executives from the following companies will present on these topics, followed by audience Q&A:
FreeWheel - "Best Practices in Profiting from Professional Content"
Digitalsmiths - "Connecting Consumers to Content Through Video Metadata"
Microsoft - "An Overview of Microsoft's Media Technologies"
Signiant - "Protecting Media Assets in the Digital Age"
Akamai - "Content, Consumers, Complexity and the Cloud"
ActiveVideo Networks - "iVOD: Using Intelligence in the Cloud to Drive Next-Generation, On-Demand Navigation"
Taboola - "Too Much Information = No Information At All. Video Discovery."
Encoding.com - "Vid.ly - The Universal Video URL Platform. One Video, All Formats."
Combined, the companies will offer a 360-degree perspective on many of the key issues in the online video ecosystem today. It promises to be an exciting day of learning. Of course, beyond the activities I'm involved in, there are many other sessions, exhibits, panels and networking.
Click here for a FREE exhibit pass ($150 savings) which will allow access to the Broadband Pit session. To attend the Super Session (and other sessions), check out other NAB Show package prices.
Feel free to email me if you have any questions (wrichmondATvideonuze.com)