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The complete guide to AWS panels and speaking engagements at NAB 2023

With the NAB Show kick off only a few hours away, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ready to greet visitors in booth W1701 in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. In addition to booth demos, AWS is hosting and participating in a number of panels and speaking engagements ranging from the technical to the broadly applicable that NAB attendees won’t want to miss. Following is a comprehensive listing of AWS storytelling alongside customers at partners during the exhibition April 15—16 in Las Vegas.

Sunday, April 16

  • 2:30pm-3:30pm | Building Better Media Businesses with Diversity and Inclusion– W208-W209, West Hall, featuring Samira Bakhtiar, Director of M&E Sales, AWS. More detail here.
  • 3:30pm-4:30pm | Why Sustainability in Media Matters– NAB Main Stage, featuring Susan Sanchez, Senior Sustainability Program Manager, Amazon Studios. More detail here.

Monday, April 17

  • 10:00am-11:00am | Monetizing Content through Free Ad-Supported TV (FAST) – W213-215, West Hall, moderated by Steph Lone, Director of M&E Solutions Architects, AWS. More detail here.
  • 10:30am-11:10am | Production & Post in the Multi-Cloud Universe – #3421, West Hall, featuring Katrina King, Global Industry Leader, Content Production, AWS. More detail here.
  • 2:30pm-2:50pm | NDI in the Cloud: Best Practices, Tools and Tips when using NDI on AWS, Intelligent Content Zone, West Hall, featuring Aaron Tunnell, Principal Industry Specialist, AWS. More details here.
  • 3:00pm-3:20pm | You Are What You Watch – Personalized Content Discovery and Hyper-Targeted Advertising – #2015, West Hall, featuring Tracy Geist, Head of Industry Marketing, Media & Entertainment, Games, and Sports, AWS. More detail here.
  • 3:30-3:50pm | How Lionsgate seamlessly enriched its catalog with IMDb and Fabric, Innovation Stage, West Hall, featuring Robert Raver, Sr. Solutions Architect, Media and Entertainment, AWS, Natasha Bishop, Head of Business Development, IMDb, and Rob Delf, CEO, Fabric. More detail here.
  • 3:30-4:00pm | Making Global Pictures and Telling Stories with Untold Studios, Inspiration Theater, West Hall, featuring Michael Wolfson, COO Untold and Gretchen Libby, Director of Visual Computing GTM, AWS. More detail here.

Tuesday, April 18

  • 10:15am-11:15am | Case Study: How Peacock Scaled Server-Side Ad Insertion on AWS – W223-W225, West Hall, featuring Samira Bakhtiar, Director, M&E Sales, AWS and Naman Diwaker, Senior Director, Video Software Engineering at Peacock, NBCUniversal. More detail here.
  • 11:20am-11:50pm | Virtual Live Remote Production and Video Distribution, Inspiration Theater, West Hall, featuring Julie Souza, Head of Sports, Global Professional Services, AWS. More detail here.
  • 11:20pm-11:50pm | Reimagining Storytelling with AI in the Cloud, Intelligent Content Zone, West Hall, featuring Gretchen Libby, Director of Visual Computing, GTM, AWS. More detail here.
  • 2:00pm-2:20pm | Reimagining TV Advertising in the era of Cloud: How Audience, Data and Alternate Currencies are Driving Change– Innovation Stage, West Hall, featuring Dr. Nage Sethu, M&E Industry Specialist, AWS. More detail here.
  • 3:00pm-3:50pm | NHK delivers more information with sign language with help of AWS, Intelligent Content Zone, West Hall, Nina Walsh, Principal Industry Specialist, AWS. More detail here.
  • 3:40pm- 4:00pm | Media and Entertainment Sustainability on the Cloud– W216-218, West Hall, featuring Thomas Edwards, Principal Solutions Architect, Media and Entertainment, AWS. More detail here.
Lisa Epstein

Lisa Epstein

Lisa Epstein is a Senior Industry Marketing Manager at Amazon Web Services.