Join us for a presentation from Deloitte that will dive into the explosion in interest in women’s sports and what it means to the sports rights and media landscape.

Join us for a conversation with Amanda Vandervort who oversees the entire USL women’s pathway, including the W league and Academy for Girls. We’ll discuss what it takes to launch a new league, growing a brand in a new world filled with social media channels and influencers, Amanda’s own career, and much more.

HBCUs and HBCUGo are working together to raise the profile of women’s athletics both on campus and via TV and streaming exposure. We’ll dive into the latest efforts, plans for 2025 and beyond, and how your organization can help HBCUs make a difference with women’s sports.

It finally appears that women’s sports has collectively captured the attention of marketers, programming executives, social media, and fans. So where does women’s sports go from here? How can women’s sports continue to rise, increasing its value as a media property, it’s ability to pay athletes more money, and it’s attractiveness to brands and marketing companies? How does the industry raise the levels of production, give women’s sports better time slots, and help it grow?

Engineering teams are on the front lines when it comes to integrating new technologies, new workflows, and new standards. Leaders in remote engineering discuss the current state of the industry, the challenges they have encountered in the move to IP and virtualized systems, and much more.

Engineering teams are on the front lines when it comes to integrating new technologies, new workflows, and new standards. Leaders in remote engineering discuss the current state of the industry, the challenges they have encountered in the move to IP and virtualized systems, and much more.

Brazil is taking a significant step in revolutionizing media consumption by deploying a next-generation broadcast system known as TV 3.0 (DTV+), based on the ATSC 3.0 standard used in the United States and South Korea. In this presentation, Carlos Cosme – Globo and Yannik Grewe – Fraunhofer IIS will explore Brazil’s transition to immersive and personalized sound using MPEG-H Audio and 4K/8K HDR video during the live pilot broadcast of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. Latin America’s largest broadcaster, Globo, along with its partners, showcased the seamless interoperability of TV 3.0 components, highlighting substantial improvements in service quality. Attendees will gain insights into the collaborative efforts among device manufacturers, technology vendors, and broadcasters that underpin this transformative journey, paving the way for a new live sports experience.

The move to live cloud production has resulted in a number of great developments with respect to the production tools that exist in a cloud-based environment. Developers of cloud-based systems and tools discuss how their products are making the move to a virtualized environment, how they will help production teams work better, and much more.

Generative AI holds a lot of promise when it comes to transforming live sports production and we’ll discuss the current state of AI within production tools, the potential future for generative AI within the industry, and the challenges and pitfalls of relying on AI.

PSSI Global Services faced the challenge of transforming UFC live broadcasts to support high-capacity REMI-based production. In this session, discover how they answered the demand for delivering reliable, seamless, low-latency video backhaul at scale in one of the most demanding live sports environments, ensuring fans worldwide experience every moment of UFC action in real-time.

Every sports TV production begins with pixels and we’ll spend 30 minutes discussing some of the recent developments that will help your production capture more pixels and better pixels, both of which will help improve the quality of your viewer’s experience.

The pressure is on in the live production space. From increased production costs to the constant battle for viewers’ attention, it’s becoming more and more difficult to find that balance between leveraging resources effectively and building out a content engine that converts. In this session, Tom Buffolano, Head of Business Development at TATA Communications will discuss his experience in using remote production (REMI) to create revenue-generating content with a quick turnaround time. Plus, he’ll share the boxes you need to check when choosing the right REMI equipment for your organization.

Get exclusive insights into how uniqFEED and MLB brought virtual advertising to life in one of the world’s most iconic sports. This session delves into the challenges, achievements and future potential of implementing virtual advertising solutions at scale.

Once upon a time AR and XR graphics tools were only available to the largest of events. But that has changed in recent years and they are now having an impact in storytelling for shows big and small. Join us for our closing session as we discuss the latest developments in AR and XR tools and what to expect in 2025.

This session aims to go beyond the buzzwords and talk real use cases. MAM is a sector that is rarely fully staffed, so which workflows and tasks can be automated? Can AI help personalize workflows? What would sports-media orgs like to automate that they can’t today? How are AI and ML being used to streamline media-management operations and what are the blockers that can potentially stall these efforts? How is AI being used for personalization, engagement, and monetization in sports?

The Global Gaming League (GGL) is revolutionizing the competitive gaming landscape in many ways, including its content strategy. With GGL’s emphasis on player storytelling and personalized fan engagement, the GGL turned to Wasabi hot cloud storage for unlimited, highly available storage that supports its bold vision. Join this session to hear how the Global Gaming League is leveraging its unique content vision to cement itself as a prominent player in the gaming space.

As the media industry continues to evolve at a breakneck pace, the lines between digital asset management, media asset management (MAM), production asset management (PAM) have become increasingly blurred. In addition to continued vendor consolidation, this is a result of changing creative demands and media consumption trends. Learn how this holistic philosophy is impacting users and how you can prepare for the future.

Building on the insights from the Reuters Imagen July 2024 presentation, this follow-up explores the ongoing benefits of the MLB Media Center, highlighting its role in enhancing partner engagement and operational efficiency, while outlining MLB’s strategic vision for enhancing media access and engagement for 2025 – with a focus on exploring how AI technologies and other tools can further innovate and personalize the partner experience.

As the media industry rapidly evolves, so too must the strategies for recruiting and training the next generation of media managers. This panel will explore the critical skills and competencies required for modern media management, focusing on how to attract and develop talent that can thrive in a landscape increasingly shaped by digital transformation, automation, and AI.

Learn how IBU’s media management content hub provides athletes and franchises with the tools they need to connect with their fans and empower them to promote the sport globally.

Engagement is the modern-day currency in media and entertainment, and nowhere is there more experimentation and innovation than in the streaming of live sports. A panel of industry leaders will offer their experiences in gamification, interactivity, alternate broadcast feeds, and the various other technologies and strategies that are changing how leagues and broadcasters engage fans of all ages through video.

Is it possible to caption thousands of digital highlights with human quality in near real time? Find out how NBC Sports and 3Play Media worked together to make the impossible possible for the summer 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

A season-long campaign, years in the making, to honor the 100-year history of one of sports’ more iconic franchises is going to touch every aspect of an organization: from branding, production, to in-stadium experiences, to special events, and beyond. But how does a team mark such an important anniversary on digital and social media, as well as every vertical platform? Executives from the New York Giants offer a look at the digital strategy behind their celebration of a century of football in the Big Apple.

When it comes to surrounding major live events with custom, targeted programming for digital and social platforms, FOX Sports is in an elite class. In this one-on-one conversation, get an inside look at FOX Sports’ digital production strategy, the facilities they have built to support it, and the work done for social around this past summer’s EURO and Copa America tournaments.

NBCU’s Peacock set several viewership records for live streamed events in 2024 with its coverage of NFL Exclusive games and the Summer Olympic Games in Paris. Learn how Peacock accomplished this feat at scale with superior video quality and a 100% success rate by enlisting an all-star team of technology partners led by Harmonic and AWS.

As opportunities for live content rightsholders grow, a core truth remains in live streaming and digital video delivery at scale: performance matters. How are technologies under the hood of the some of the industry’s most successful streaming services evolving and what new developments will help move the business forward? This panel discussion of tech leaders will address the pressing topics of today and tomorrow.

There’s plenty of buzz around the industry regarding AI, but how is it practically helping sports leagues, broadcasters, and content creators today deliver more at a higher quality to their users? This panel explores how AI is transforming the editing and delivery of sports video for apps and social media. Industry experts will discuss cutting-edge AI tools that streamline content creation, enhance engagement, and deliver personalized highlights in real-time across digital platforms.

The shift towards cloud-based production is reshaping how media is created, managed, and distributed, offering unprecedented efficiency, flexibility, and scalability. Could environments are often easy to get into, but it’s also very easy to mismanage yourself into ballooning costs that that will give even the most grounded CFO night terrors. So how are sports-media orgs incorporating long-term cost-efficiency into their cloud development and deployments?

Secure transport of premium content over diverse networks is a challenge which requires no-compromise solutions for stream integrity, whilst offering maximum visibility and flexibility. Discover how innovative failover, content protection and seamless switching technologies are changing the way the world’s top broadcasters operate, whilst retaining end-to-end ownership of ground, cloud and hybrid workflows.

For Paris 2024, NBC Sports deployed its first cloud based production systems to allow a fully HDR workflow using Live Cloud Ingest at Scale, AI Captioning, and a Hybrid MAM environment. Using revolutionary connectivity and technology with its partners in AWS and Telestream, NBC launched its first cloud deployment with the high stakes of the Olympic Games. NBC Olympics leaders share the journey of transforming traditional methods and building trust, through to setting the right goals, testing, and cost modeling. Don’t miss this candid conversation detailing the industry-firsts achieved by NBC Olympics, what needs to be hardened, and what’s next — both for NBC and the industry as a whole.

Take a journey inside ESPN’s growing cloud-production ecosystem and see where they have implemented these groundbreaking workflows so far. From ‘All-in-One Productions’ on Little League World Series and college soccer to cloud-based Super-SloMo replay on college football, NHL, WNBA, ESPN ops and engineering leaders discuss the challenges in building out these workflows, their approach to automated deployment, and the state of the industry overall.

The integration of cloud technology into remote production has enabled broadcasters to manage complex live events with greater agility and efficiency. Learn how cloud solutions are enhancing REMI production, from enabling seamless real-time collaboration across distributed teams to optimizing resource allocation and reducing on-site infrastructure needs. Learn how production teams are integrating existing workflows with cloud-based solutions and how cloud-based tools and platforms can enhance efficiency.

The Philadelphia Eagles media production team found itself playing hurry-up defense trying to accelerate content creation while using slow access, failure prone tape. The team called upon systems integrator CHESA to help design a secure cloud-based workflow incl. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, Mimir’s asset management system, and a Quantum QXS shared file system. The winning results: instant access, faster delivery, and geographic redundancy. During this session, they’ll break down results and actionable insights from the team’s new gameplan.

The cloud is revolutionizing the way editing, postproduction, and storage are managed in the media industry, offering unprecedented speed, collaboration, and scalability. Postproduction and media-storage experts delve into how cloud-based solutions are enabling teams to work more creatively and efficiently, regardless of location. Also learn about the latest developments in cloud storage, including cost-effective strategies for managing large volumes of hi-res media and optimizing content retrieval.

As live sports increasingly migrate to premium streaming platforms, sharing these distribution channels with higher quality cinematically-derived and premium-episodic content, the bar on quality and immersive formats is raised. At the same time multiple live streams and full-game VODs, allow broadcasters to aggregate much larger audiences and more efficiently exploit broadcast rights.

While wireless carriers and super-scale RLAN providers continue to vie for more and more spectrum, broadcasters and professional wireless microphone users will continue to feel their available space encroached on, as incumbents are forced to share or give up existing spectrum.  In an upcoming administration that can be expected to be highly revenue-driven, once-sacred swaths of existing spectrum can be expected to go away to those willing to pay the most for them.  Join us for an overview of what has happened so far and what to expect next.

The ST 2110 family of standards allows for greatly increased audio capabilities. While some broadcasters are taking advantage of these to support NGA features with greatly expanded channel counts and reliable SADM metadata transport, others are simply locking in the limitations of legacy SDI. Further, there are a range of radically different approaches to audio-only routing, inside and out of 2110 networks. Can we arrive at a consistent best practice? How many program channels are enough, and how do should we architect to efficiently manage individual audio-only sources and destination in this environment?

Native-IP digital microphones have been slowly emerging from the lab and escaping from installed-sound conference rooms to play a greater role in live sports production. Now dedicated designs leveraging multi-capsule and MEMS arrays, real-time DSP, and efficient IP multichannel connectivity are starting to follow them.

Internationally, centralized production hubs have played an important role for major sports leagues, individual broadcasters, and a number of global events. In the states we have been slow to adopt this model. Is this starting to change and what are the implications for audio?

Expanding beyond autonomous and assisted mixing, AI is starting to play an increasingly important role in versioning multiple concurrent live streams for distribution. Importantly, AI is also quickly learning to accurately efficiently QC and correct large numbers of audio programs and discern subtle difference in intelligibility and mix attributes.

Our panel will share their perspectives on live audio production and distribution, including the role of direct-to-consumer models in opening up premium immersive and NGA formats, while expanding the volume of content production required.

Each year it’s one of our most important sessions: the state of the remote production business. Top executives from across the remote production industry take to the stage to discuss the current business challenges, how technology and new workflows are reshaping their services and technologies, and much more.

The Miami Heat’s Blake Engman, Director of Broadcast Services, and Kurt Doster, Director of Arena Video Production discuss the state-of-the-art broadcast technology recently implemented at the Kaseya Center. Learn about the myriad technical and operational benefits gained with an end-to-end ST 2110 IP ecosystem, enabling NBA-standard premier quality live sports production while delivering unmatched viewer and fan experiences.

Sports leagues, teams, and federations continue to take advantage of technology to connect with fans in new ways, enhance their broadcast productions, and improve everything from player safety to instant replay operations. Join us to learn how leagues, teams, and federations are looking for out of next-generation technology.

Yes, the national networks have a tremendous role to play in the world of sports but for many fans it is the local RSN that is the place to be day in and day out. Leaders from the RSN marketplace discuss the current challenges, opportunities, and innovations that they are employing to satiate local fans.

Making International NFL games possible requires intricate planning and execution, from coordinating and transporting broadcast and production technology across continents to ensuring seamless fan experiences globally. Attend this session to hear Dave Shaw, formerly with NFL Media and Jason Kornweiss from Diversified highlight the challenges and strategies behind taking America’s favourite sport global.

The Paris Olympics were a big hit with viewers in the U.S. and around the globe and we’ll hear from some of the key executives involved with this year’s Games to learn about how they pulled off a massive production effort that literally spanned the globe.

On September 5, 1972 the sports broadcasting world was changed forever, as the storied team at ABC Sports found themselves at the center of an unimaginable world tragedy, which unfolded only yards away from their German Broadcast Center. With most of the nation gathered to celebrate the heroes competing at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, Roone Arledge and HIS team were instead faced with the horror of an unraveling hostage situation at the Olympic Village. The brave decisions, unprecedented pictures and humanity in storytelling are forever woven into the historic fabric of our industry. Now the basis of a motion picture, September 5, SVG will honor this live merger of news and sports with a look-back at that event and the people who helped viewers around the world follow the hostage crisis. Their lessons and leadership influence and inspire the best in our profession today, and the session will help your team get ready for the moment when sports becomes news.

The National Hod Rod Association (NHRA) relies on Sony’s Ci Media Cloud to simplify and optimize its complex production needs – from live stream capture to seamless editing and broadcast delivery. Discover how Ci Media Cloud centralizes NHRA’s media, reduces integration overhead, and supports remote workflows for editors and producers alike – maximizing efficiency and collaboration while reducing costs across the entire media lifecycle.

Josh Stinehour takes to the stage to discuss the current economic conditions within the media landscape, the financial impact of key industry trends, and how your organization can make sure it makes the right moves in an era of unprecedented change, uncertainty, risk, and opportunity.

Join us for our closing session, featuring leaders from the national networks. We’ll dive into some of the key accomplishments in 2024, look forward to the big events and technologies that will make a difference in 2025, and much more.

The growing use of High Dynamic Range (HDR) has had a dramatic effect on the home entertainment viewing experience, from motion pictures and episodic TV to video games and the latest streaming services. And live sports is no exception, which can now be enjoyed with greater brightness, contrast and detail than ever before.

HDR10+ dynamic metadata delivers all of this, along with a host of other benefits that make it ideal for the most demanding encoding applications. To learn more, join leading executives from ATEME, Harmonic and HDR10+ Technologies LLC as they discuss the key issues related to HDR10+ workflow production.

The last several years have been a wild ride for the M&E tech industry: the pandemic and the supply chain disruptions it created, the Hollywood strikes, rapidly changing viewer habits, and the extraordinary emergence of AI have all created enormous challenges and opportunities. In light of these and other factors, what is the state of private equity and M&A heading into 2025? Ample time will be provided for Q&A.

Industry experts will outline the continued reduction of wireless spectrum needed across all live and remote productions. After major spectrum losses through reallocation, interference and future plans are increasingly threatening the remaining spectrum for wireless operations. This working discussion will identify the challenge and lay out a pathway for defending this asset that is critical to our industry.

Join us for an interactive workshop where broadcasters and tech teams share their latest sustainability strategies. From energy-saving innovations to eco-friendly production practices, we’ll dive into the real-world green solutions that are shaping the future of sports media.

Get first-hand insight from industry veterans on advancing your career in the sports media industry. Chris Gargano, former VP, Executive Producer at the New York Jets, and Fred Mangione, former COO of the Brooklyn Nets share their experiences and training. From networking and getting your foot in the door to emerging as a leader in your department, they’ll share actionable advice for establishing your career in the professional sports media industry.