🔥 Leading Through Change: A Conversation with David Ross on the New Global Landscape
10:00 AM - 10:25 AM
🎥 The Story behind ARRI: Cinema meets Live
10:25 AM - 10:50 AM
✨ AI and the Battle for Attention: What Broadcasters Must Do Next
10:50 AM - 11:15 AM
Joint discussion: Key Questions and Conclusions
11:15 AM - 11:25 AM
📈 Market Intelligence: Where the Industry and the Audience Are Headed
11:25 AM - 12:10 PM
Morning Coffee Break
12:10 PM - 12:40 PM
✨ The Real Value and Impact of AI for Business
12:40 PM - 1:55 PM
🍽️ Lunch Is Served!
1:55 PM - 2:55 PM
🔮 Industry Vision 2030: Strategic Technology Investments for the Next Decade
2:55 PM - 4:25 PM
☕ Coffee, Conversation & Connections
4:25 PM - 4:55 PM
🚀 Big Tech Meets Startups: Unlocking the Next Wave of Media Innovation
4:55 PM - 6:10 PM
👉 Closing Reflections: Key Takeaways and the Road Ahead
6:10 PM - 6:25 PM
Casino Night Fundraiser - Separate Ticket Required
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Morning Gathering
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
NASA Keynote: Chasing Pixels in Space
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Metrics of the Future: Measuring What Matters in the New Advertising Workflow
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Shooting the Stars: Space, Wonder, and the Camera Through an Astronaut’s Eyes
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
☕ Coffee Break
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Augmented Reality: Terminator to the Everyday
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
Content Provenance for Live Video Streaming: Trust Hierarchies, Session Keys, and the C2PA v2.3 Live Video Framework
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Screen Forward: Everything You Need to Know About Modern Professional Displays
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
Roundtable: IAMT: Vision 2030 and Technology and Trends Roadmap
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Serving the Image: Tools to survive the image chain
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM
C2PA Content Provenance in Live Video: Challenges of Real-Time Watermarking
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Bringing SMPTE ST 2094-50 to Life: A Student-Led OpenFX Implementation
12:40 PM - 1:00 PM
Roundtables: Framing the Frontier — NASA’s Visual Storytelling
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
SMPTE Fellows Luncheon
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
🍽️ Lunch Is Served!
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Technology Choices for the Facility of Tomorrow
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Trust in Media: PSE Risk as Streaming Metadata: A Sidecar Schema Bridging QC Reports and Client-Side Mitigation
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Streaming Infrastructure: A Scalable Edge Architecture for Personalized Streaming Experiences
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
American Cinema Editors Presents: Ask the Editor
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Trust in Media: When the Story Becomes the Attack
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Streaming Infrastructure: Kyber: An Open-Source QUIC-Based Framework for Ultra-Low Latency Multi-Regional Streaming
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break Solutions Hub / Demos
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
SMPTE ST 2110: Everything You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Modernizing Broadcast Distribution and Cloud Connectivity: Broadcast Transformation: Replacing Satellite and Legacy Cloud Distribution
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Energy in Streaming: A Dual-Track Measurement Framework for Streaming Energy: Real-World and Lab-Reproducible Approaches
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Film Exhibition in the Digital Age
5:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Modernizing Broadcast Distribution and Cloud Connectivity: Client Device Discovery VSF TR-12: An Open Specification for Bridging the First-Mile Gap in Cloud Media Workflows
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Energy in Streaming: Exploring the Tradeoff Between Compression Efficiency and Energy Consumption in Modern Video Codecs
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Soultions Hub Opening Night Reception
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Morning Gathering
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Latency in DMF: Living on the (Latency) Edge: DMF and the Modern Production Ecosystem
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Beyond Storage: The Future of Media Archiving
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Behind the Spectacle: ORF and ARRI at Eurovision
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Latency in DMF: Performance Tuning ST 2110 Applications in an Open Source Virtual and Container Compute Environment
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
☕ Coffee Break & Demos
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
A Century of Sound: The History of Sound in Motion Pictures
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Mid-Career Program: The Mid-Career Edge: Staying Ahead in a Changing Media Landscape
11:30 AM - 11:55 AM
Case Studies in IP and Software-Defined Production: OGraf – HTML5 Graphics Integration at the CBC
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Warped: CyberCity (2026): Putting Virtual Production to the Test
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Beyond the Standard Install: System Engineering for Non-Standard Screening Rooms
11:55 AM - 12:12 PM
Beyond the Standard Install: System Engineering for Non-Standard Screening Rooms
11:55 AM - 12:12 PM
Case Studies in IP and Software-Defined Production: Large-scale Adoption of ST 2110-based IP Production in Live Broadcast Events
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Less Is More: How Better Data Builds Better AI
12:12 PM - 12:30 PM
🍽️ Lunch Is Served!
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
AI for Good: Promise, Progress and Reality
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
AI in Media: Trust, Rights, and Production: Toward a Neutral Talent Provenance Infrastructure for the AI Era: Persistent Identifiers, Consent Architecture, and the Four C’s as a Standards Framework
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
AES Partner Program: The Paralysis of Analysis Are the Details the Devil?
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
HPA Women in Post: Cool Workflows Built with MCPs This Year
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
AI in Media: Trust, Rights, and Production: Cleared or Exposed? A Practitioner's Framework for AI Content Rights in Media Production Workflows
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
SMPTE Standards: Content Provenance and Authenticity
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Content Provenance and Authenticity in Media: Study Group Findings and Recommendations
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
AI in Media: Trust, Rights, and Production: Importance-Guided Reframing Based on Temporal Subject Classification for Vertical News Video Generation
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Provenance and Consent Legislation: Current Law and the Media
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Social Hour
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Building Scalable MXL Infrastructure: Lifting Cross-Node Media Flow Transport into the Cluster: A Kubernetes Control Plane for MXL
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Smart Media Workflows: Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Automated Media Delivery Specification Compliance Verification
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Smart Media Workflows: Modernizing the Color Transformation Language for Faster and More Practical Color Pipelines
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Building Scalable MXL Infrastructure: Inter-Node Memory Replication with DMF-MXL SDK
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Morning Gathering
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
From Creation to Preservation: Capture and Processing Pipelines for Gaussian Splats for In-Camera Visual Effects
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
IEEE BTS Partner Program: Building the Next Generation of Broadcast Infrastructure
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
From Creation to Preservation: The Academy’s New Sound System: Advancements in Loudspeakers, Their Tuning and Verification
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Content Security Nine Months On: Progress, Persistent Gaps and Practical Action
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
From Creation to Preservation: Days of Future Past: What It Takes to Maintain Access to 140 Years of Film and Tape Media Content Collections
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
☕ Coffee Break
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
AI-Powered Media Production: Artist-Led Generative AI Animation: Designing and Evaluating a Hybrid Workflow for Short-Film Production
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Advancing HDR with SMPTE ST 2094-50: SMPTE ST 2094-50: A Modular Framework for HDR Reference White–Anchored Adaptive Tone Mapping and Content Compositing
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
AI-Powered Media Production
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Advancing HDR with SMPTE ST 2094-50: On a Student-led Open-Source Implementation and Validation of SMPTE ST 2094-50
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
🍽️ Lunch Is Served!
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Foundation of IP Production: How Metadata Transport Shapes Tomorrow's Audiovisual Experiences
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Display Quality Through Human Perception: Contrasting Value of Uniformity versus Dynamic Range Enhancement in Nonconforming Projection Surfaces
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Foundation of IP Production: Converged IP Infrastructure Design and Operation for Drama Studio Lighting Systems
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Display Quality Through Human Perception: The problem of wide colour gamut mathematics – a critical issue for the television and cinema production
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Display Quality Through Human Perception: Reducing Instrument–Observer Metamerism Failure in Modern Display Calibration Using CIE 170-2:2015 Cone-Fundamental-Based Colour Matching Functions
