Catch up on exciting highlights from AWS for Media & Entertainment Symposium and discover how media and entertainment (M&E) customers are accelerating their adoption of the cloud to reinvent the way they create, deliver, and monetize content and continuously push the bounds of innovation.
Evolving audience expectations and habits place pressure on companies to reinvent nearly every aspect of their business. To compete, organizations must prepare for an environment defined by constant change. This requires infrastructure that flexes with audience expectations, accelerates their roadmaps, facilitates innovation, and evolves with their business.
Key topics:
- State of the industry
- Generative AI advances in M&E
- Driving cloud economics at scale
- Content production
- Live cloud production
- Streaming
Keynotes
State of the Industry
Chris Blandy, Director, Media & Entertainment Business Dev & Strategy, AWS kicks off the event with a welcome message and keynote.
Generative AI in M&E
AI and ML services have been deployed in the Media & Entertainment industry for decades. Tune in to hear our panel of experts for a discussion on generative AI, as we attempt to peel back the layers to understand what generative AI is and how it can be used in the Media & Entertainment industry.
CBS Sports Digital: All In on the Cloud
Find out how CBS Sports Digital launched the Golazo Show where contribution, master control, playout, distribution, and more are all handled in the cloud.
Breakout Sessions
Driving Efficiency and Value in the Cloud
A well-developed Cloud Financial Management (CFM) practice is critical to ensuring efficiency and value on AWS. To unleash the true potential of CFM, tech-focused professionals and finance-focused experts must unite to break down silos. In this session, CFM experts from the AWS OPTICS team provide an overview of the Cloud Financial Management framework, with an emphasis on cost optimization and governance best practices. Drawing on industry experience and examples, we’ll explore creating a common cost language, KPIs tailored for cloud personas, and address other challenges and solutions encountered on your CFM journey.
Riding the wave of industry disruption in VFX & Animation
Hear how VFX & Animation studios are responding to industry-wide disruption including the writers strike, Gen AI, and other challenges. We'll look at the multiple impacts on the production landscape including the introduction of AI, studios acquisitions, workforce consolidations, access to global talent, addressing skills gaps. How do we power forward as an industry from here?
Managing the History of the NFL
Learn about the massive archive that NFL Media maintains. Hear more about the content workflows that occur every week of the NFL season, and how that content feeds programming on NFL Network 24x7.
Creating New Analytics in Sports
The raw data of sport has transitioned from box scores to tracking data and with that comes the opportunity to leverage AI/ML to surface new insights that impact how we coach, train, and consume sports. Discover how new analytics are created—from conception to on-air execution.
Virtual Production: Examining Today, Envisioning Tomorrow, Embracing the Cloud
As a concept, virtual production has taken many forms for more than two decades, finally arriving as a viable production option over the past several years due to a seemingly perfect storm of technology innovation and necessity. We know where virtual production has been and understand what it is today, but where are we going? How will technologies like the cloud further evolve virtual production, and how will that impact the future of content production? Listen to industry experts as they dissect the current state of virtual production and explore its boundless potential in the cloud.
Premium Content Streaming on AWS
Learn how our customers have leveraged core AWS Media Services to deliver premium content features such as UHD/HDR while architecting with 99.995% redundancy that premium events demand.
The Agility of Cloud-based Media Supply Chains
Media companies of all types and sizes are realizing the benefits of running their media supply chain operations in the cloud to speed content deliveries. In this panel, three leading companies share how their content operations have been boosted by their move to automated, optimized cloud-based supply chains, and how they now have far better visibility into their supply chain operations. Hear from Sony Pictures Entertainment, HBO Studios, and Fotokem about their move to the cloud and learn some of the metrics that show how dramatically they have enhanced their ability to meet ever-tighter deadlines for ever-more content.
RED CONNECT: Using AWS for Cloud-based Live Workflows with RED Cameras
Discover RED Digital Cinema’s latest innovative workflows with AWS for cloud-based live video production. We will showcase solutions for ingesting cinema quality video streams into AWS for camera-to-cloud workflows, real-time remote collaboration, GPU processing for immersive capture and much more. Get a sneak peek at RED’s new camera feature to configure itself as a 2110-22 video source for broadcast and live events.
AWS M&E Leadership Team Wrap Up
Hear from our leadership team on their thoughts at Symposium 2023
AWS empowers Media & Entertainment
Explore services and solutions for media and entertainment solution areas.
Solution areas
Content Production
Spend more time creating with the most comprehensive set of cloud capabilities for content production.
Media Supply Chain & Archive
Award-winning, purpose-built capabilities to centralize and store media operations in the cloud.
Broadcast
Run low-latency broadcast workloads with the most agility, elasticity, scalability, and reliability of any cloud.
Direct-to-Consumer & Streaming
Supporting the world’s leading direct-to-consumer and streaming platforms with more purpose-built capabilities than any cloud.
Data Science & Analytics for Media
Media Intelligence solutions built on unmatched analytics and machine learning capabilities.
Monetization
Maximize advertising revenue while driving customer engagement and personalization across platforms and channels.
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