Join the DPP in person in Dulles, USA for the only industry event that brings together customers and suppliers to explore the latest in media supply chain technology and ideas.
18-19 May 2022
This year, the Media Supply Festival will take place in person at the Hyatt Regency Dulles, just outside Washington DC, USA.
It will explore the major trends in software defined, cloud led content production, management and distribution.
The event consists of three elements:
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CEO
COO
Business & Strategy Development EMEA
VP, Global Content Operations
Executive VP, Sales & Strategic Growth
SVP, Business Solutions - Americas
Business Development Manager - News Workflow Solutions
SVP, Field Operations
President
President
GVP, Production Engineering
CTO
Senior Director, Production Operations
CTO
Controller of Content Services
Head of Strategic Development Adobe Professional Video - Cloud
SVP, Global Engineering & Technology
CEO & President
President & CEO
VP of Business Development
VP, Media Engineering & Broadcast Operations
Director, Standards Strategy
SVP, Content Services & Operations
Director, Content Operations
AVP, Media Management
Director, Software Engineering
Director, Media Solutions Architecture
VP of Strategic Operations
Principal Analyst
Head of ITV Content Delivery
Founder
Event Programme
Wednesday 18 May
08:30 - Breakfast
A 30 minute in depth discussion with Caroline Brown, SVP, Content Operations & Origination at Warner Bros. Discovery.
Caroline Brown
VP, Global Content Operations
BBC Studios
The phrase 'supply chain' often conjures up a defined set of workflows around content processing and fulfilment. But why don't we apply supply chain thinking to the whole media value chain, from production to distribution?
Janet Gardner
President
Perspective Media Group
Jill Greenblatt
Senior Director, Production Operations
PBS Distribution
David Helmly
Head of Strategic Development Adobe Professional Video - Cloud
Adobe
Achieving and maintaining security assessments can be an expensive full time job. Managing content and infrastructure security is daunting, yet industry conversations are often banal rather than practical. How can the industry come together to make the process easier and cheaper?
Terri Davies
President
Trusted Partner Network (TPN)
Abdul Hakim
Head of Business Development
DPP
Chris Johnson
CEO & President
Convergent Risks
11:00 - Coffee
Manufacturing supply chains span many factories, companies, and continents. Content creation also involves many different companies with their own supply chains. So is interconnection the key to unlocking true efficiency in media supply?
Don Jarvis
SVP, Global Engineering & Technology
A+E Networks
Rob Goldheim
GVP, Production Engineering
Warner Bros. Discovery
Efficient and automated supply chains make sense for multinational media organisations and hyperscale suppliers. But do the same principles still apply to smaller players?
Eric Carson
Executive VP, Sales & Strategic Growth
Vubiquity
Ian Hamilton
CTO
Signiant
Mike Palmer
AVP, Media Management
Sinclair Broadcast Group
12:50 - Lunch
A 30 minute in depth discussion with Larry Kaplan, President and CEO at SDVI.
Larry Kaplan
President & CEO
SDVI
The software defined infrastructure and supply chains of today generate huge volumes of data about content, operations, and users. But why do media companies still find it so hard to turn data into insights - and better decisions?
Jim Bottoms
Business & Strategy Development EMEA
RSG Media
David Klee
VP, Media Engineering & Broadcast Operations
A+E Networks
Hilary Roschke
VP of Strategic Operations
SDVI
15:10 - Coffee
A 30 minute in depth discussion with Adde Granberg, CTO at SVT.
Adde Granberg
CTO
SVT
Sports and news broadcasters create, localise, and distribute content in huge volumes at very high speed. They're efficient and fast because they have to be. So what lessons can they offer to those making highly crafted long form content?
Tom Crocker
Business Development Manager - News Workflow Solutions
Ross Video
Michael Davies
SVP, Field Operations
FOX Sports
17:00 - Drinks reception
Thursday 19 May
08:30 - Breakfast
Devoncroft Partners provides some of the best respected market intelligence and financial analysis in our industry. Josh and Joe will reflect on their April 2022 summit, answering the question: what are the key lessons for the media supply chain community?
Joshua Stinehour
Principal Analyst
Devoncroft Partners
Joe Zaller
Founder
Devoncroft Partners
UK commercial public service broadcaster ITV will showcase their use of AI driven automation in their supply chain.
Sonny Hanley
Controller of Content Services
ITV
Bethan Wilkin
Head of ITV Content Delivery
ITV
Nav Khangura
VP of Business Development
Prime Focus Technologies
AI in media has moved beyond hype towards practical application. Yet rollout is still piecemeal, with technology, capability, and skills challenges remaining. What are the biggest blockers to AI progress?
Gregory Cox
SVP, Business Solutions - Americas
Codemill
Kathryn Richardson
Director, Software Engineering
Warner Bros. Discovery
Sonny Hanley
Controller of Content Services
ITV
11:00 - Coffee
A+E Networks USA share how their use of standardised internal master formats for media and metadata have set the foundation for integration with new and existing partners, enabling more scalable and efficient operations.
Raman Abrol
CEO
Vubiquity
David Klee
VP, Media Engineering & Broadcast Operations
A+E Networks
Dana Massey
SVP, Content Services & Operations
A+E Networks
Christine McNally
Director, Content Operations
A+E Networks
Shamir Rivera
Director, Media Solutions Architecture
A+E Networks
The transition towards cloud based media supply chains creates unique transformation challenges for vendors, as they serve the ever-changing needs of customers. What challenges and opportunities are faced by hardware, software, and services vendors, and how are they responding?
Justin Beaudin
COO
Vubiquity
Ian Hamilton
CTO
Signiant
Chris Lennon
Director, Standards Strategy
Ross Video
13:00 - Lunch
The DPP Media Supply Festival is a unique annual opportunity for the industry to share and assess the latest technology and thinking around media supply chains. But what are the key takeaways for the vendors that enable those supply chains? In this important final workshop session of this year’s Festival, the DPP works directly with attendees to reflect on insights from the event and identify what they mean for the vendor community.
16:00 - Demo Zone / End
Lead Sponsor
SDVI is an Emmy® Award-winning supplier of cloud-based media supply chain technology that ... read more.
Supporting Sponsors
Ateliere Creative Technologies is a leading cloud-native media technology company that emp... read more.
Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intell... read more.
Ross Video powers high-impact video experiences around the world. The technology and servi... read more.
The Signiant Platform is an integrated set of SaaS products that make media content flow e... read more.
Vubiquity, an Amdocs company (NASDAQ: DOX), is a global technology-led solution provider f... read more.
Reception Sponsor
TAG Video Systems is the global leader in software-based integrated IP probing, monitoring... read more.
WiFi Sponsor
Venera Technologies provides cutting-edge AI and ML enabled file-based QC solutions to the... read more.
Hyatt Regency Dulles, 2300, Dulles Corner Boulevard, Herndon, Fairfax County, Virginia, 20171, United States.
If you’re travelling from Dulles International Airport, there’s a shuttle which will take you to the hotel. You should follow the signs to Ground Transportation/Hotel Shuttle and proceed to curb 2B or 2G, located outside lower-level baggage claim. Shuttles depart 10 minutes or 40 minutes after the hour.
Demo Zone Members
