Damien Montessuit, Senior Vice President, EMEA Sales, shares an overview of our achievements at the NAB Show floor. He mentions the opportunity to meet and interact with broadcasters and operators from Eastern Europe. He also outlines the considerable momentum gained by MediaKind’s unique service model, specifically for 360-degree videos meant for Live sport events. He also mentions the two customer wins in Europe – Vodafone Qatar and Magyar Telekom and his reflection on it.
Tim Kornhammer, Product Manager, talks about Orion and how we enhance consumer experiences. Tim outlines the importance of analytics in delivering highly personalized experience to everyone, everywhere.
Arun Bhikshesvaran, CMO explains the thought process behind the MediaKind’s showcase at NAB 2019 and how MediaKind Universe helps deliver an immersive experience to the consumer, who is at its center. He outlines how the Universe exploration table and the booth layout reflects MediaKind’s portfolio and solutions. He talks about the significant achievement and recognition for MediaKind through the awards won at NAB 2019.
Gowton Achaibar, COO & Head of R&D shares his reflections on MediaKind’s presence at NAB 2019 and some of the exciting announcements – DT Magyar Telekom marches forward with MediaKind’s cloud-based Streaming TV; Oi and MediaKind expand partnership to enable immersive entertainment experiences for Oi consumers across Brazil; MediaKind enters cloud partnership with Google Cloud to enhance the delivery of highly personalized media user experiences. He also talks about the significance of the MediaKind award wins at NAB show 2019.
Cyrille Berson, Head of IP Video Processing, explains Aquila – part of MediaKind Universe’s solution to deliver best video processing for the broadcasters, content owners and telecom service providers. He describes the four proof -points of Aquila – Video in a Life-Cycle Management, Headend Convergence, Broadcast & ATCS 3.0 and On-Demand, showcased at NAB 2019 and how they help deliver content “Direct to Consumers”.
Angel Ruiz, CEO talks about our presence as MediaKind for the first time at NAB show 2019, Las Vegas. Angel shares his reflections on the ‘Technology Supplier C-Suite: Strategies for an Evolving Market’ panel discussion at the 2019 Devoncroft Executive Summit, where he was one of the panelists.
Christopher Clinton, Head of Business Development for Services & Support, explains how Vega services help customers through their journey to deliver immersive experiences to consumers. While the Consultancy services help identify the right solutions to meet the business requirements, the expert & integration services help “First Time Right” deployment and integration of the solution. Our extensive training program helps customers to ensure that their Operations team is ready to support the deployed solution. The Orbit support solutions offer the flexibility to our customers to pick the right level of support. Our Managed services offer the opportunity to our customers to focus their staff on business while MediaKind ensures that their KPI’s and SLA’s are met.
Karl Van Den Broeck, Customer Operations Manager, explains how VSPP helps customers to reduce their Time To Market while getting the benefits of a scalable, unified platform for ingest, streaming and VOD services. VSPP is a specialized storage solution for video that can be easily integrated into the existing infrastructure and applications to address current as well as new use cases.
Silvia Gil Gutierrez, Sales Engineer, explains how we are able to offer integrated solutions from our portfolio, the MediaKind Universe, to help all of our customers address their different challenges and needs. She addresses how our Orion and Pictor solutions enable operators to deliver immersive and highly experiences, which are easier than ever to access. Silvia also discusses how our solutions for upgrading legacy STBs can deliver huge savings for operators looking to migrate to a next-gen TV platform.
Erik Ramberg, Head of TV Platform Product Management, explains how our MediaFirst TV Platform enables operators to address the diverse challenges of today’s market, including the increasing consumer demand for high quality content available anytime, anywhere. Our MediaFirst TV Platform is underlined by a world-leading data infrastructure which allows operators to build a multitude of TV services with insights into audience analytics and performance. Erik explains how this can then be used to maximize monetization potential and drive platforms and services forward.
Eduard Lapin, Director of Product Management, discusses our award-winning VSPP platform, which enables operators and telco providers to offer live time shift and cloud services to subscribers. VSPP aggregates a set of video optimized technologies, including software defined storage, processing of video, packaging, encoding and transcoding. By taking everything into one pre-integrated single service solution, operators can benefit from VSPP’s highly scalable and cost-efficient qualities and reduce the need to invest in additional infrastructure.
Tim Sheppard, Head of Operations, EMEA, explains how we have developed our portfolio, the MediaKind Universe, to include a range of services and solutions which work around the customer, the center of today’s media universe. He addresses how it covers everything from consultancy, architecture design, validation, support and managed services, and is deployed globally through our huge network of service and channel partners. Tim explains how our end-to-end support ensures continued business success, ensuring smooth business delivery from pre-sales and beyond.
Anthony Jones, Principal Technologist, explains how our end-to-end, cloud-native portfolio, the MediaKind Universe is designed to optimize the end-user experience, assisting the delivery of content for broadcasters, service providers and operators. Tony explores our real-world use cases demonstrated at the Horizon Suite during IBC 2018, on some of the most exciting technologies available today. He discusses topics including blockchain, machine learning and social media influencing tools, as well as looking back on the highly successful SRT Alliance panel session topic of ‘secure and reliable transport’.
Arnaud Caron, Head of Cloud Management and Orchestration, explains how increasing adoption of cloud technology presents an opportunity for our customers to reap the benefits for their video services. Our end-to-end portfolio, the MediaKind Universe, is entirely aligned with the cloud and enables broadcasters and operators to overcome the challenges which come with cloud adoption. Moreover, it offers access to various benefits including content contribution, direct to consumer and user experience solutions, delivering faster time to market, and a higher quality of service and consumer offering.
Dora Silva, Account Manager, explains how the close relationships we maintain with our customers is helping to shape our next-generation solution and services portfolio, the MediaKind Universe. See how MediaKind’s Pictor family of solutions is allowing content originators/owners, broadcasters and pay TV service providers to differentiate and drive more cost efficiency within network delivery – and ultimately offer a higher quality user experience.
Luke Williams, Middle East & Africa Pre-Sales Director, defines how we are able to offer the highest quality video at the lowest bitrates using the latest next-generation technologies. Discover why the evolution from hardware to software is enabling service providers to have greater flexibility, reach more customers and deploy new offerings faster than ever before.
Paul O’Donovan, Director Business Development, describes why the media industry is shifting towards the cloud and how it is providing the catalyst for today’s TV platforms to deliver better UX and increase ROI through targeted ad insertion and personalization. Learn more about MediaKind’s Orion solution family and why it is enabling operators to maximize return on content investment through content-centered, data-driven and personalized consumer experiences, by leveraging deep analytics across all devices and legacy Set Top Boxes.
Matthew Goldman, Senior Vice President Technology, outlines how the definition of television has changed, mapping out the evolution from the traditional large screen through to multiple mobile multiscreen devices. He explains why the combination of UHD content with HDR continues to stand out at a time when the media industry is looking for new methods to deliver immersive, next generation viewing experiences, while also explaining that HDR is arguably the best improvement to the TV viewing experience since color displaced black and white.
Olie Baumann, Senior Technical Specialist, reflects on the demonstrations we hosted at the Horizon Suite during IBC 2018. These include enhancements to picture quality (enabled by our HEVC software encoder), machine learning techniques to improve compression artefacts in video, live delivery of 360 video, and developments in our cloud technology for media workflows. He also addresses how our cloud video product, VSPP, responds to the needs of the smart home and smart cities.
Stuart Boorn, Head of Portfolio Management, outlines our next-generation portfolio, the MediaKind Universe, which is composed of a suite of solutions and services centered around the consumer – the new king in today’s media landscape. Learn more about Cygnus, Aquila, Pictor, Orion, and Vega and how they enable our customers to evolve, adapt and shift to today’s new consumption habits by delivering compelling and immersive experiences for everyone, everywhere.
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