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Game On: Sports Pushes Next Gen Delivery to the Limit
Wednesday, June 18 • 11:20 AM - 12:05 PM • Room S113
Sports programming and applications have made the final four in every popularity contest held since the dawn of television. Now sports takes the prize in this new world of network enabled voice, video and data. Broadband, IPTV, mobile and more are all contenders in the interactive match. These digital delivery options expand that winning position in allowing for greater fan involvement, targeted advertising, transactions, metadata and a host of other ways to profit from sports content. Executives on the front lines offer examples, tips and tricks in this discussion.
Moderator
Allison Dollar, Chief Executive Officer, ITV Alliance
A longtime champion of interactivity, Allison Dollar specializes in accelerating early stage ventures. Digital strategy clients included Webcasts.com (IPO, iBEAM), IBM’s eBusiness (AmEx, Bell Atlantic, Mail Boxes Etc.), Liberty Media, SimplyTV, WB, Creative Planet, Stan Lee Media, Vi[z]Rt (virtual sets), @d:tech, Silicon Alley, AOL, Envivio (MPEG-4), celebrities.com (Idealab), Telcordia (AT&T). She chaired NAB’s Executive Committee to launch Multimedia World. She co-founded eTV World, Hollyweb. She led online strategy for 40+ PBI media publications, including CableFax, Film&Video and Interactive Daily. Her book published by NAB and Focal Press, Interactive Television: Tracking an Emerging Market, analyzes the historic reworking of television.
Speakers
Bryan Biniak, Chief Executive Officer, Jacked
Neal Page, Chief Executive Officer, Inlet Technologies
Matt Smith, Video Architect/Evangelist
Neal Page has over 20 years of experience and is a true pioneer of new media and a recognized leader in the streaming media industry. Prior to founding Inlet Technologies in 2003, he founded Osprey Technologies, establishing that brand as the industry’s “de facto standard” for enabling video over the Internet.
Matt Smith has been a key member of the video platform team at Yahoo! since 2000, designing workflows and managing teams tasked with live event event execution and digital media creation. He engages with technology partners like Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and others, to evolve and improve the video experience at Yahoo!. Matt is a featured speaker at a variety of video and technology shows and events. Prior to Yahoo!, Matt spent years at NBC-Universal, first at the affiliate level and later with the network. Wearing many hats, Matt helped initiate the Local News program @ MSNBC, reported on technology interests for all 200+ NBC affiliates and helped evolve video from postage stamp size in the early days to the full screen HD content we see today. He lives in Dallas with his wife and two daughters.