The event aims to create a new community of broadcast engineers and video producers
Silicon Valley’s premier video summit drew more than 400 attendees to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., last week for a day of presentations and conversations about how tech companies build their own delivery infrastructures and produce live video events and corporate video content. for internal and external audiences.
Produced by SVG in partnership with the SMPTE San Francisco Chapter, the event featured a keynote from Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, whose keynote and private meeting with local film and television students focused on how NTSC television and, in particular, SMPTE standards were central to his development of the first Apple computer and helped shape his career in electronic engineering. The keynote was produced by SMPTE and featured introductions by SMPTE Past President Pat Griffis, Vice President, Technology, Office of the CTO, Dolby Laboratoriesand current Director of SMPTE Student Outreach John Shike, Key Account Manager, Advanced Systems Group.
At the Silicon Valley Video Summit on January 26: (from left to right) Steve Wozniak, Keynoter and co-founder of Apple, Pat Griffis of Dolby and Martin Porter of SVG
“SVG’s Silicon Valley Video Summit was developed to help establish a new community among Big Tech broadcast engineers and video producers,” says SVG Executive Director Martin Porterwhich produced the event, “as well as to establish a line of communication between core SVG members and technologists advancing cloud video technology, artificial intelligence, and the metaverse. We’ll be back next year !”
The teams of title sponsors Advanced Systems Group (ASG) and B&H Photo/Video played a vital role in kicking off this annual SVG-produced gathering and professional community event.
Programmed under the guidance of Microsoft’s former chief production engineer Pierre Thordarsonthe day-long program began with a deep dive into SMPTE ST 2110, with a case study from LinkedIn of its multi-site video production infrastructure in multiple regions around the world.
The presentation was followed by a panel discussion on how SMPTE 2110 is implemented in enterprise environments with input from ASG, Arista Networks, NEP and LinkedIn. The 2110 segment of the show was topped off with a “Future of 2110” panel featuring SMPTE experts Kent Terry, Senior Director, Sound Technology, Office of the CTO, Dolby; John Mailhot, System Architect, IP Convergence, Imagine Communications; and Wes Simpson, Founder, LearnIPVideo.com.
Since live video production and delivery is also a vital topic for this community, three sessions focused on the “digital-first” live video strategies of major tech companies. Discussions examined how lessons learned from the pandemic have influenced event producers working for Microsoft, Google, Electronic Arts and The Global Leadership Network, with technical input from Conference Technologies, Evertz, Ross Video and Zoom.
In the main presentation, Jeremy Krinitt, Senior Developer Relations Manager, NVIDIA, discussed how the introduction of ChatGPT and generative media solutions (Runway, Lensa, Synthesia) are increasing the use of AI image and video generation for media and entertainment. Another “future-oriented” discussion between Verizon, Dolby, and Intel touched on the impact of other recent advances in 5G, 8K, and immersive audio on today’s enterprise production workflows.
Mark Yoder, Content Manager at Accenture Productions moderated a panel on the growing task of managing video teams remotely, which featured input from WebMD, Shootsa, Adobe and Sony Ci. The use of virtual production for enterprise applications was discussed by Erik Weaver, Director, Adaptive Production, Entertainment Technology Center at USCand a panel comprised of experts from Lux Machina, owned by NEP, Laney College, American Cinematographer and Voluminous Studios.
Closing of the panel day, Alex Lindsey, founder of the Office Hours podcast led a panel of former Meta and Salesforce producers and technologists from Disguise and NVIDIA in a heated debate about creating enterprise content for the Metaverse.
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In addition to title sponsors ASG and B&H, Silicon Valley Video Summit was supported by Arista, Audio-Technica, Calrec, Clear-Com, Conference Technologies, Dolby.io, EditShare, Evertz, FMC, IHSE USA, Legrand/AV, NEP, Panasonic Connect, Puget Systems, Ross, Signiant, Sony, SMPTE San Francisco Chapter, Systems Innovation, Verizon, Video, VIZRT Group and Zero Density.
The Silicon Valley Video Summit is scheduled to take place again at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View in late January 2024. For more information on the program, contact executive producer Martin Porter ([email protected]). To become a sponsor of next year’s show, contact Rob Payne ([email protected]) and Andrew Gabel ([email protected]).