AGENDA
TRANSFORMING THE MEDIA ENTERPRISE:
Innovation in Business and Technology
EMPOWERING COLLABORATION: The Talent, Tools,
and Technology
MASTERING YOUR CRAFT: The Art of Cutting Edge
Storytelling
SATURDAY
11:15 11:55
11:55 12:30
Early Learnings: Shaping the Future of Cloud-based Media
Andy King and Clive Jones, BBC: Ernst Feiler and Mark Schwellenbach, UFA:
Richard Duke, LDS; Jon Mauldin, Fotokem
The Future of Sport Production: Panel With Sports Video Group
Brandon Costa, SVG; Andy Beale, BT Sport; Noah Gusdorff, Creative Mobile
Solutions; Darryl Jefferson, NBC Universal
Virtual Reality Rising - The Future of Editing Workflows: Panel by
Dell & AMD
11:15 11:55
Delivering Award Winning Soundtracks Under Tight Deadlines
Move Your Media Content Across the Platform at Maximum
Speed
11:55 12:30
Designing and Implementing Foley Sounds in Video Games
14:15 14:55
Streamlined Pro Tools Mixing Workflows for Atmos
14:15 15:00
Telling Tales in Episodic TV: Panel with Award Winning Editors
15:10 15:45
Impact of Cloud Technology on Post Production Workflows
15:15 15:45
Mixing for Virtual Reality with Facebook 360 Spatial Workstation
11:15 11:55
Koji Gardiner, Jaunt, Ross Shain, Boris FX / Imagineer Systems, Rahul Tikoo, Dell
Precision Workstations , Roy Taylor, Radeon Technologies Group AMD
11:55 12:30
James Mather (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Mission Impossible –
Rougue Nation, Me Before you, Wonder Woman)
Eric Keunl, Foothill College
John Wastcoat, Aspera
BREAK
14:15 14:40
Media Migrating to the Cloud: Insights from Avid
14:45 15:05
Going All in on a Common Platform: Business & Operational
Advantages
Tim Claman, Avid
David Gould, Dolby
Kelly Dixon, ACE (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul)
Kabir Akhtar, ACE (Arrested Development, Crazy Ex Girlfriend)
Josh Earl, ACE (Deadliest Catch)
Catherine Haight, ACE (Transparent, Girls, New Girl)
Delbert Parks, Sinclair Broadcasting Group; Jimm Popowytsch, AMC
15:10 15:30
Find It Fast with Advanced Enterprise Search Toolsets: Insights
from Avid Hosted by Oracle
Guillaume Aubochon, Digital Film Tree
Varun Nair, Facebook
Tim Murphy, Avid
15:30 15:45
Integration on the MediaCentral Platform: Openness & Enabling
Efficiencies Across Workflows
Special Guest Speaker: To Be Announced
BREAK
16:15 16:45
Taking the Platform to the Next Level: Insights from Avid
Regis Andre, Avid
16:15 16:55
High-Speed Collaboration for Post Production
16:15 16:55
Cutting to the Quick: Paul Machliss
16:50 17:15
Winning with Avid: A Q&A Session on End-to-End Avid Workflows
with the San Francisco Giants and Golden State Warriors
17:00 17:45
Engaging & Building a Better Fan Base
17:00 17:25
Lateral Thinking: Psychological Techniques to Make You a More
Creative Editor
Paul Hodges, San Francisco Giants (MLB); Blake Wilberding, Golden State
Warriors (NBA)
17:20 18:00
Jonathan Wales, Sonic Magic Studios
Kedar Frederic, Tunecore; Joe Conyers III; SongTrust, Evan Sanders, Accent
Paul Machliss, ACE (Known for work with Edgar Wright, Scott Pilgrim vs The
World, The World’s End, Baby Driver, Fleabag, The IT Crowd)
Paddy Bird, Inside the Edit
17:30 18:00
Crafting Documentaries that Educate, Enlighten and Entertain
Building Long-Lasting Viewer Loyalty through More Powerful
Engagement
10:30 11:05
A Private Cloud for Creative Professionals
Challenges Facing Music Rights Stakeholders & Ideas on How to
Fix the System
11:10 11:45
Reality TV Editing with the Masters
4K / HDR Workflows for Post- Production
12:15 13:00
Mix With the Best: Audio Networking Session
The Future of News Workflow: Panel by TVNewsCheck
Delbert Parks, Sinclair Broadcasting Group; Blake Russell, Nexstar Media Group;
Mohamed Abuagla, Aljazeera Media Network; Moderated by TV Newscheck
Doug Blush, ACE (20 Feet From Stardom, The Music of Strangers: Yo Yo Ma
and the Silk Road Ensemble)
Norm Hollyn (Heathers, Francis Coppola’s The Cotton Club, Oliver Stone’s
Wild Palms, and USC Professor)
SUNDAY
10:30 11:05
The Power of the Cloud for the Media Enterprise
Special Guest Speaker: To Be Announced
10:30 11:05
Special Guest
Gerry Belec, Global News, Corus Entertainment; Anton Maximovski, Motion Path
11:10 11:45
Fully Immersive Sports Experiences with Mixed Reality: Inside the
Making of the Super Bowl in VR
11:10 11:45
Perspectives on Harnessing Industry Challenges: A Panel by IABM
12:15 13:00
Jan Umansky, Twizted Design: Fabrice Lorenzo, LiveLike
Maureen Droney , The Recording Academy; Representative from OMI;
Benji Rogers, dotBlockchain
Josh Earl (Deadliest Catch),
Scott Roy, Trailblazer Studios
Eric Johnson, Trailblazer Studios
BREAK
12:15 13:00
IABM; Darren Long, Sky; Louis Hernandez Jr, Avid; HP
Matthew Schneider and Joe Beirne of Technicolor
In Avid Connect Lounge
Master This: Feature Film Editing
Dan Lebental, ACE (Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor); Debbie Berman, ACE (invictus,
The Jesuit); Mark Sanger, ACE (Gravity)