Events

Singapore, April 7, 2021–The Asia Video Industry Association’s (AVIA) OTT  Summit – The Future of Video Streaming welcomed 900 delegates and featured over 80 industry experts and leaders across the four-day conference this year. Opening the OTT Summit was the streaming analyst Matthew Ball, Managing Partner of Epyllion Industries, who presented a deep dive into the OTT industry in the United states, being the most mature, most competitive, and most valuable video market with the most consumptive media consumers in the world.

Washington, D.C., April 1, 2021--NAB Show Premiere, a special online event, will convene top brands in media and entertainment and offer exclusive educational content on NAB Amplify, April 12—23. Program highlights include new product launches, award presentations and networking opportunities.

Washington, D.C. -- NAB Show and SCTE today announced a joint forum on October 12, 2021 that will link SCTE·ISBE Cable-Tec Expo^® in Atlanta with NAB Show’s Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology (BEIT) Conference in Las Vegas.The joint forum will be the first live, bi-coastal collaboration between SCTE, a subsidiary of CableLabs, and the National Association of Broadcasters, organizer of NAB Show. SCTE and NAB have previously partnered to provide content for their respective events.

Singapore, March 25, 2021–The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) will be kicking off its conference calendar for the year with the OTT  Summit – The Future of Video Streaming. Alongside the OTT Summit, AVIA will also be hosting Piracy Over the Top, the companion event focused on streaming pirated services, as streaming piracy becomes the biggest competitive threat to the video industry.

Rockville, MD, March 10, 2021--The SATELLITE Conference announces the two keynote speakers, Neil Masterson, CEO, OneWeb, and Dan Goldberg, CEO, Telesat, to speak at its upcoming LEO Digital Forum, the first major satellite event of the year taking place April 6-8 on a digital event platform.

New York City, NY, March 10, 2021- Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) today announced that it will present the first ever Inspire Award to famed science fiction author Larry Niven at the 2021 Space & Satellite Hall of Fame Celebration on March 23. The Inspire Awards honor artists in visual, literary, and performing arts whose work has inspired the people of the space and satellite industry to create the innovations, raise the funds, and overcome the enormous obstacles to lay the foundations for the space economy of the future.

by Martin Jarrold

London, UK, March 3, 2021--In considering the theme for this month’s column my prompt came from threads of discussion featuring in GVF’s continuing online events program (https://gvf.org/webinars/) which resumed in January, following our successful 2020 online content response to the limiting circumstances of a pandemic world.  Mid-February’s Zoom into the subject of ground segment attracted 400 registrations, 300 actual attendances from 60 countries, and over 30 live questions, in addition to the moderator-led Roundtable dialogue.  

Washington, D.C., March 2, 2021-- NAB Amplify™ launches today with a free Early Access Bundle offer for those who sign up prior to March 31. Designed by the creators of NAB Show, NAB Amplify serves as the new digital hub for media and entertainment professionals to connect year-round, explore product innovations, discover new perspectives and gain trusted insights on important industry developments.

London, UK, February 17, 2021 – Building on its mission of Empowering Content Everywhere and serving the media, entertainment and technology industry, IBC today announced its strategic plan for 2021, focusing on the return of a live event in Amsterdam this year. IBC revealed plans to deliver a hybrid (physical and digital) event from 10^th – 13^th September 2021 and unveiled a fall-back option in early December 2021.