#54 Master Class: Delivering the Ultra-HD Immersive ... Track: Joint Master Control P: Tom Crowe. #307 The PMP is ... La
TechCon 2015: Wednesday, April 8 tome/room
General Session
ROMAN I
ROMAN II
ROMAN III (VIDEO)
ROMAN IV
EMPERORS I
EMPERORS II
100pm
Glimpses of the Future (with PBS, NPR & Station leadership)
130pm
2 hours producer: Kevin Ruppenthal
200pm
230pm
beverage break
300pm
330pm
400pm
430pm
#435 CLOSED CAPTIONING SUPER SESSION Darryn Cleary, VITAC #80 PROTRACK BOOT CAMP Chad Rounsavall, Nexidia Alyssa Baer, Myers Andrew Sachs, Volicon Anthony Kubiak, Myers NOTE - 90 MINUTE SESSIONS Steve Scheel, PBS Track: Traffic / Programming Track: CC P: Nick Agresti + TAC P: Steve Wynn
500pm NOTE - 75 MINUTE SESSIONS 530pm
#34 OPERATIONAL AND TECHNICAL ADVANCES IN UHD LENSES FOR BROADCAST TELEVISION Larry Thorpe, Canon USA Track: Broadcast (Production) P: Renard Jenkins
#311 Digital Leaders Panel on #54 Master Class: Delivering the Ultra-HD Immersive Strategy Viewing Experience Speakers Colleen Wilson, Deanna Mackey, Tim Bischoff Matthew Goldman, Ericsson Track: Encoding & Files Track: Digital P: Chris Homer P: Jen Carter Hinders
#463 Delivering Big Returns from “More with Less” #30 Getting on a New Road: Solutions! Working Digitally with myPBS Terry Douds, WOUB Lisa Richards, PBS Tim Mortenson, TPT Track: IT Track: Leadership / P: Rachelle Byars-Sargent Management P: Vickie Allen
615pm
sessions over 615pm
700pm
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Track Key
GENERAL SESSION
ENGINEERING
IT
DIGITAL
#415 Product Showcase: PBS.org Redesign and OTT Strategy Speakers Lars Klores and Sarah Sprague, PBS Track: Digital P: Jose Fernandez
LEADERSHIP / MANAGEMENT
#16 Cyber Security In A Mixed Broadcast and IT World Seton Droppers, PBS Philip Schoene, PBS Track: IT P: Seton Droppers
HOLD FOR TOPIC TBD
#3 BUILDING MANAGED CONTRIBUTION MEDIA OVER IP NETWORKS Chin Chye Koh, Nevion Track: Video Over IP P: Didier Bourgeois
#21 BUILDING A SEGMENTED IP NETWORK TO ENSURE PERFORMANCE & SECURITY Wayne Pecena, Texas A&M University Track: IT P: Ken Walters
TRAFFIC / PROGRAMMING
BREAKS
TechCon 2015: Thursday, April 9 room
General Session
ROMAN I
ROMAN II
ROMAN III (VIDEO)
ROMAN IV
EMPERORS I
EMPERORS II
830am 900am
Moving Public Media Forward: The Future of Media Technology and v6 Interconnection
930am
2 hours producer: Tom Crowe & Eric Wolf
1000am
break in exhibit hall
1030am 1100am
1130am
#307 The PMP is built! Now what? Kristin Calhoun & Marc Pultuskier, PMP Track: Digital P: Kevin Ruppenthal
#473 Building a Strong Digital Asset Management Foundation for the Enterprise Neil Grant, OpenText Jaspreet Lamba, OpenText Luc Comeau, Dalet Digital Media Track: DAM P: Maura McKinley-Tull
#439 OFF THE SHELF SUPERSESSION John Mailhot, Tim Claman, Snell Track: Video Over IP P: Didier Bourgeois
#78 HDR: HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE - A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR ALL Hugo Gaggioni, SONY Larry Thorpe, Canon Lars Borg, Adobe Track: Broadcast (Production) P: Renard Jenkins
#14 CREATE AND WORLD NOW FILL THE FRAME Gerry Field, APT, Kevin Crane, Emeric Feldmar, Frank Graybill, Terry Harvey Track: Broadcast (Infrastructure) P: Don Phillips
#321 TAC Opening and Welcome: It's all about you! Kristen Doogan - Alaska Public Media, Suzanne Kembel KNME, Track: Traffic / Programming P: Nick Agresti + TAC
1200pm
PEER PROBLEM SOLVING
1230pm
P: ALEX LOKER
100pm 130pm 200pm 230pm 300pm
#6 HYBRID IT/BROADCAST FACILITIES FOR PUBLIC STATION CENTRALIZED OPERATIONS John Luff, OETS Track: Joint Master Control P: Tom Crowe
#309 Analytics: Understanding the Digital Audience Kate Alany, PBS Track: Digital P: Kate Alany
#41 THE "SOURCE" FOR DIGITAL ASSETS: HOW DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT IS EVOLVING AT PBS Maura McKinley-Tull Track: DAM P: Maura McKinley-Tull
#10 UNIVERSITY PLACE: 40 HOURS A WEEK OF PROGRAMMING ON A VERY SMALL BUDGET Bruce Johnson, Wisconsin Public Television Track: Broadcast (Production) P: Susana Lopez
#303 IT ROUNDTABLES Chris Contakes, PBS Track: IT. P: Chris Contakes
#28 Propel Your Teams To New Levels Carol Sorber, PBS Track: Leadership / Management P: David French
#316 v6 Panel Discussion: Understanding your Future Interconnection System Speakers Ron Clifton Track: v6 P: Natalie Ciszak
#91 METADATA: THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE OH CRAP - WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? Speaker Luc Comeau, Dalet Track: Media Management P: Renard Jenkins
#314 What Your Station Needs to Know about Membership Video on Demand (MVOD) Chas Offutt, PBS Track: Digital P: Jose Fernandez
#66 UTILIZING MANY VIDEO EDITING SYSTEMS TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS AT WOUB Terry Douds, WOUB Track: Broadcast (Production) P: Eric Timmerman
#304 Enterprise Grade Cloud Security With SSO Chris Contakes, PBS Track: IT P: Chris Contakes
#79 DISRUPTION IN THE MARKET: CAN THE INTERNET REPLACE TRADITIONAL BROADCAST TRANSMISSION? Derek Anderson, Level 3 Communications Track: Video Over IP P: Mary Ann Chiampa
#59 MAKING 4K A REALITY Peter Brickman, WNET Renard Jenkins, PBS Track: Broadcast (Production) P: Renard Jenkins
#325 DOCUMENTING SOPs, PROCEDURES, AND WORKFLOW: WHY? HOW? WHO? Speakers Lynn Veltrie & Barbara Harms KSPS, Kevin Melang-Thoren - NET, Track: Traffic / Programming P: Nick
break in exhibit hall
330pm 400pm 430pm
#71 MONITORING IN TERRESTRIAL IP VIDEO DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS Jim Welch, IneoQuest Track: Video Over IP P: Calvin Oliver
500pm
#330 Cybersecurity Risk Management #485 Innovation Through Livestreaming and Best Practices – The Latest Updates Francois Quereuil, Aspera, Chris From FCC CSRIC Working Group 4 Ostertag, KLRU, Larry Rohrer SDPB Seton Droppers, PBS Track: Digital P: Kristoffer Crosby Chris Homer, PBS Track: IT P: Seton Droppers
STATION ROUNDTABLES HOSTED BY ETAC P: ETAC MEMBER TBD
530pm
sessions over 6pm
600pm
WELCOME RECEPTION IN EXHIBIT HALL Track Key
GENERAL S ENGINEERING
IT
DIGITAL
LEADERSHIP / MANAGEMENT
6:00-7:00pm TRAFFIC / PROGRAMMING
BREAKS
TechCon 2015: Friday, April 10 room 830am
General Session
Glimpses of the
900am 930am 1000am
ROMAN I #4 FCC REGULATORY AND LEGISLATIVE UPDATE FOR PTV STATIONS Todd Gray, Gray Miller Persh Lonna Thompson, APTS , Lindsay Tonsiger Track: Regulatory P: Eric Wolf #318 Auctions In Your Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear Eric Wolf, PBS, Todd Gray, Lonna Thompson, Lindsay Tonsiger, Alan Popkin, Jay Adrick Track: Regulatory
ROMAN II
ROMAN III (VIDEO)
ROMAN IV
FLORENTINE I
#84 NOT YOUR FATHER'S FTP Jim Gallagher, Aspera Track: Encoding & Files P: Craig Carter
#308 HOW DO I FAIL AND SUCCEED BY EXPERIMENTING AND IMPROVING ONLINE CONTENT? Tom Davidson, PBS Track: Digital P: Tom Davidson
#88 WITH NEW TRENDS COMES NEW WORKFLOW Tracy Carter & Crist Myers, Myers Track: Traffic / Programming P: Nick Agresti & TAC
#97 REINVENTING THE WHEEL OR CHOOSING… FRAME RATE MANIPULATION… Simon Adler, Dalet Digital Media Track: Encoding & Files P: Eric Timmerman
#43 MY BOSS TOLD ME TO TRANSCODE IN THE CLOUD Jim Duval, Telestream Track: Cloud P: Steve Scheel
#323 “Breaking Bad” vs. “Breaking Good”: Better Break Building Kristen Hurley, WGBH, David McGinty, WUCF Track: Traffic / Programming P: Nick Agresti & TAC
#64 WATCH MY LIPS. NO, REALLY, IT'S OKAY NOW. Paul Briscoe, Consultant Track: Standards P: Don Phillips
#68 Project Management and Collaboration Tools on a Budget Track: Leadership / Management P: David French
FLORENTINE II #57 Leveraging the Audio: Recommended Practices In the New PBS TOS For Creating World-Class Sound Tracks Lon Neumann, Neumann Technologies Track: Broadcast (Audio) P: Chris Homer #313 User Data: The Key to Digital Audience Engagement Speakers Jeannie Ericson, Tim Olson KQED, Steven Ley Buzzbold, Lauren Bracey Scheidt, NPR Track: Digital P: Jeannie Ericson
break in exhibit hall
1030am
#48 NEXT GENERATION HYBRID #401 PUBLIC SAFETY SUPERSESSION TERRESTRIAL SATELLITE / EBU TEST #52 NOT ANOTHER DISASTER Jay Adrick, GatesAir, Mark O'Brien, Thomas Van Den Driessche, Newtec RECOVERY SESSION Joe Glynn, WVIA SpectraRep, Don Heppelmann, TPT Track: Broadcast (Infrastructure) Track: Disaster Recovery P: Dana Golub Track: Public Safety P: Aaron Silverman P: Tom Crowe
1100am 1130am
#420 CLOUD SUPERSESSION Keith Graham, Consultant, and Josh Kline, Box Inc. Track: Cloud P: Lisa Meyer
#306 STOP THE MADNESS: CUSTOMIZING CMS AND FUTUREPROOFING WITH DIGITAL Speaker Sam Cohen, KCPT, Pat Breen, Vegas PBSTrack: Digital P: Jose Fernandez
PBS LearningMedia 101: Driving Digital Engagement with Educators Michael Hammerstrom, PBS Track: Digital P: Krystal Putman-Garcia
1200pm
PROGRAMMING PIPELINE Mike Kelley, PBS P: Traci Richards
1230pm
100pm #427 ATSC SUPERSESSION Lisa Hobbs, Ericsson, Rich Chernock, Triveni Digital Track: Standards P: Chris Homer
130pm 200pm
#22 FILE-BASED QC AUTOMATION FOR ENTERPRISE & CLOUD Karl Kuhn, Tektronix Track: Media Management P: John Kulstad
#444 INTERFACES & #69 THE FIMS EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES John Footen, Cognizant Technology (Part 1 of 2) Track: Standards Karl Kuhn, Tektronix Track: Broadcast P: Ahasan Islam (Infrastructure) P: John Kulstad
230pm 300pm
#50 IMPLEMENTING A FAST, EFFICIENT, AND COLLABORATIVE WORKFLOW AT WTTW Ray Gilmartin, Avid Mark Jahnke, WTTW Track: Media Management P: Eric #60 THEY DON'T GROW ON TREES ANYMORE: DEVELOPING THE NEXT GENERATION … ENGINEERS Ben Ropke, Cognizant Track: Leadership / Management P: Philip Schoene
#317 Architecting the Media Supply Chain With ESB Chris Contakes, PBS Track: IT P: Chris Contakes #496 Evolution of Traffic: Media #301 THE CLOUD - WHAT IT REALLY Management & Operations MEANS AND HOW COMPANIES USE IT Kristen Hurley, WGBH, Lillie Buck Rob Lang, AdvizeX Duncanson, WILL, David McGinty WUCF Aaron Tomlison, AdviseX Track: Traffic & Programming P: Nick Track: IT Agresti & TAC P: Ken Walters #312 Social Media 101: Why it's important and how we can help Kevin Dando & Natalie Benson, PBS Track: Digital P: Jen Carter Hinders
#26 The PBS-DDMS: Are we there yet? Disaster, Diversity, Maintenance Site Cindy Jackson, PBS Track: Disaster Recovery P: Cindy Jackson #56 How Does Your Station Stack Up? Digital Fundraising Benchmarking Data You Can Use Chas Offutt, PBS Track: Digital P: Chas Offutt
break in exhibit hall
330pm 400pm
#445 INTERFACES & #495 NEW TECHNOLOGY AT PBS IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES SUPERSESSION: (Part 2 of 2) Simon Adler, Dalet, & Steve Scheel, Karl Kuhn, Tektronix Track: Broadcast PBS (Infrastructure) P: John Kulstad Track: Encoding & Files P: Steve Scheel
430pm
#13 Up! Up! And Away!: How Unmanned Aerial Camera Systems can be used in your production workflow in a safe and practical way Cade Cridland, Vegas PBS Track: Broadcast (Production) P: Steve Wynn
#58 BROADCAST ENGINEERING & IT: BRIDGING THE CULTURAL DIVIDE Blake White, Cognizant Track: Leadership / Management P: Philip Schoene
#326 TAC Closing: Resistance is Futile Great Traffic Takeaways Speakers Kevin Melang-Thoren, NET, Keith Jacoby - Montana PBS Track: Traffic / Programming P: Nick Agresti & TAC
#46 SEND IN THE CATS: TIPS, STRATEGIES, AND LESSONS FOR MANAGING YOUR CONTENT ON YOUTUBE (AND BEYOND) Raymond Schillinger, PBS Digital Studios and Chris Ostertag, KLRU Track: Digital P: Raymond Schillinger
500pm
TechCon Town Hall conversation, Q&A and more (75 MINUTES)
530pm 600pm
sessions over 6:15pm
615pm
Off-site Networking (at the Neon Museum) 7:00-10:00pm Track Key
GENERAL SESSION
ENGINEERING
IT
DIGITAL
LEADERSHIP / MANAGEMENT
TRAFFIC / PROGRAMMING
BREAKS
