Monday Cloud Production Workshop

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 and – soon – NBA, 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.