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Mackenzie Kosut

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.

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AWS Media Day

2020 Global series

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About the Event

Join AWS experts and our partners for a day of hands on workshops and thought leadership on Oct 25th. We will offer two workshops tracks. For Content Monetization we’ll discuss migrating archives to AWS, extracting metadata, and distributing the content via FAST channel. In Broadcast Production we feature a live production in the cloud workshop with a focus on news and sports. Everyone is invited to join us for a evening reception hear from Chris Ziemer and Chris Blandy about ad tech in local broadcast and AWS Director of M&E Steph Lone will host a fireside chat focused on the latest success and challenges around live cloud production. Come for the workshops, or the reception and fireside chat or join for both!


Where
Amazon JFK24, just a 10 min walk from the Javits center.
410 10th Ave, 16th floor. (building entrance around the corner on W 33rd)


When

October 25th, 2023

Workshops 9AM-5PM
Reception and Fireside Chat 5PM-7:30PM

 

Workshops

Each workshop track is 8 hours in length with a lunch break included. Workshops are technically focused requiring hands on keyboard. Please bring a laptop and power adapter to participate fully.

 

Workshops

Each workshop track is 8 hours in length with a lunch break included. Workshops are technically focused requiring hands on keyboard. Please bring a laptop and power adapter to participate.

Content Monetization Track: Monetizing the Archive, AI to FAST

Unlocking content monetization opportunities through AI and ML unveils new revenue streams derived from archived content, while also fostering audience engagement through familiar content. This track will showcase the process of migrating, storing, and extracting metadata from legacy archives using AI and ML techniques to unearth hidden gems within your content treasure trove. AWS Partner NOMAD will outline content lake strategies, followed by an exploration of the Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (FAST) channels business powered by AWS. Finally, we will conclude with a discussion on audience development.

Content Monetization Track Agenda

9:00AM - 9:30am

Welcome

Speaker: Ian McPherson (AWS)

9:30AM - 10:30am

Starting with the Archive

Speaker: Pete Ticali (AWS)

10:30AM - 11:15am

Introducing the AI Powered Content Lake with NOMAD

Speaker: Branko Lepan (NOMAD)

11:15am - 11:30am

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11:30am - 12:30pm

Enhancing Content with AI [hands-on]

Speaker: Saurav Bhattacharya & Sudipta Ghosh (AWS)

12:30pm -1:30pm

Lunch


1:30pm - 3:30pm

Monetization on AWS: Subscription, Licensing, Ad Tech, Shoppable with Veritone

Speaker: Garron Bateman (Veritone)

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Enhancing Content with GenAI

Speaker: Harleen Kaur (AWS)

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Voice of Customer - Hearst Tech Academy - Bridging the AWS Skills Gap

Speaker: Joe Overcamp (AWS) & Julia Imbalzano & Leila Wasserman (Hearst)

5:00pm - 7:30pm

Networking/Happy Hour


Who should attend

Archivists, Broadcasters, Developers, CRO.

Broadcast Production Track: Live Cloud Production

Broadcasters continue to be challenged by creating more content, faster, and distributing it to more endpoints than ever before as they continue in their quest to delight viewers globally. Learn the latest on Cloud Live Production from the experts and partners who are making it happen, from deploying an environment in minutes, to how to route and distribute live low latency video and audio broadcast signals in the cloud.

Broadcast Production Track Agenda

9:00AM - 9:30am

Welcome

Speaker: Aaron Tunnell & Peter Riordan (AWS)

9:30AM - 10:45am

Video Contribution, Routing, and Distribution

Speaker: Thomas Edwards (AWS), Matt Hughes (M2A Media), Bryan Nelson (Alpha)

10:45AM - 11:00am

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11:00AM - 12:15pm

Audio Contribution, Routing, and Distribution + Intercom

Speaker: Luke Potter (AWS)

12:15pm - 1:15pm

Lunch


1:15PM - 2:45pm

Production Switching with Vizrt

Speaker: Jon Raidel (Vizrt)

2:45PM - 3:00pm

Break


3:00PM - 3:30pm

Future of the Newsroom

Speaker: Ali Amoli & Vince Palazzo (AWS)

3:30pm - 4:00PM

Replay

Speaker: Luke Potter (AWS)

4:00PM - 5:00pm

Voice of Customer - Hearst Tech Academy - Bridging the AWS Skills Gap

Speaker: Joe Overcamp (AWS) & Julia Imbalzano & Leila Wasserman (Hearst)

5:00PM - 7:30pm

Networking/Happy Hour


Who should attend

Tech Directors, Operators, Engineers, Developers, and Broadcasters.

Happy Hour Reception & Fireside Chats

5:00-7:30 PM


Join us after your day in NY the evening of Oct 25th or after the AWS workshop track for drinks and bites. We will have two fireside chats host by AWS leaders.

 

Ad Tech - Solving for Challenges of a Multi-Platform World in Local Broadcast

Hosted by Chris Ziemer, AWS Principal Industry Specialist and Chris Blandy M&E Director of Business Development and Strategy, joined by Brad Epperson from Nexstar and other industry leaders. 

As television viewing audiences become increasingly fragmented, ad buyers need the ability to move fluidly between linear and digital viewing platforms. Cross-platform measurement across multiple currencies is quickly becoming a necessity. Join leaders in local broadcast advertising sales and technology for a fireside chat where participants will discuss how this challenge is being met, and what obstacles still need to be overcome.

 

We Interrupt this Broadcast - Cloud Live Production

Hosted by Steph Lone, Director AWS M&E Solution Architecture joined by Grant Nodine (NHL), Ernie Ensign (Sinclair), and Michael Lange (Freelance TD)

There has been a incredible industry ground swell around cloud remote production over the last 18 months. Learn from customer and industry experts where the latest art of the possible lies and how they see this technology changing their workloads. Cloud live production seems to fit perfectly with the age old problem, how can we do more with less?

 

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5:00PM - 7:30pm

Reception and Happy Hour


5:45pm - 6:30pm

Fireside Chat - Ad Tech - Solving for Challenges of a Multi-Platform World in Local Broadcast

The Emerging World of Artifical Intelligence and Machine Learning by Matthew Hartman and Partner, Betaworks.

6:30pm - 7:30pm

Fireside Chat - Cloud Live Production

Welcome Mackenzie Kosut, AWS Startup Evangelist

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Mackenzie Kosut

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.


Katherine Barna

Vice President Communications, Awesomeness

Katherine Barna is Vice President, Communications for Awesomeness, a leading multi-platform media company defining the future of entertainment. At Awesomeness, Barna oversees communication and PR strategy for the company and its four key divisions: the Gen Z-focused AwesomenessTV network, Awesomeness Films, DreamWorksTV, and Awestruck. In addition, she heads up the company’s social responsibility initiatives. 


Adam Rothenburg

Co-Founder & Partner, BoxGroup

Adam Rothenberg is a Co-founder and Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City based early stage venture capital fund. BoxGroup invests in pre-seed and seed rounds with the goal of backing talented entrepreneurs building disruptive technology companies and with visions to create the next generation of category defining businesses. 

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