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Speakers TVOT NYC 2019

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ITVT is currently in the process of assembling an impressive line-up of speakers and moderators and will be announcing more details shortly. If you are interested in applying for a speaking position at the event, email us at tracyswedlow@gmail.com or call 415-608-4766

Anne Schelle

Managing Director

Pearl TV

Colby Smith

SVP & GM

ABC News Digital and Live Streaming

Richard Cusick

CEO

CollegeHumor

Stewart Lane

Co-founder

Mike Dean

SVP of Advanced Advertising & Automation

CBS

Marcien Jenckes

President, Advertising

Comcast

Marc Hustvedt

CEO

Fine Brothers Entertainment (FBE)

Adam Gaynor

Vice President, AMCN Agility

AMC Networks

David Goodfriend

Chair, SFCNY/Founder

Locast

Bonnie Comley

Co-Founder

BroadwayHD

Jonathan Steuer

Chief Research Officer

Omnicom Media Group

Mike Chapman

Managing Director

Accenture Strategy

Christy Tanner

EVP & General Manager

CBS News Digital

Julian Zilberbrand

EVP of Audience Science

Viacom

Zeev Neumeier

Founder

Inscape

John Finley

EVP Development

Fox News

John Hane

President

Spectrum Co. LLC

Melissa Rosenthal

EVP

Cheddar

Shawn Johnson

Group Vice President of Product & Design

Discovery

Kevin Arrix

SVP

Dish Media

Nick Colsey

VP of Business Development for TV

Sony

Mark Garner

EVP Content Sales, Licensing and Business Development

A+E Networks

Richard Collins

CEO

Tellyo

Thomas Jelonek

CEO

envision.ai

Chris Pizzurro

VP, Head of Global Sales

Canoe Ventures

Laurie Shackell

VP of Sports Advanced Advertising

WarnerMedia

Mark Simpson

President & CEO

Triveni Digital

Howard Shimmel

President

Janus Strategy and Insights

Randa Minkarah

Co-Founder and COO

Transform Inc.

Jonathan Boltax

CEO

PlayWorks

Klarn DePalma

EVP of MNI Targeted Media

Meredith Corp.

Allison Metcalfe

GM of LiveRamp TV

LiveRamp

Michael Gaston

CEO

Cut.com

David Ernst

VP of Advanced TV and Digital Insights

A+E Networks

Natasha Hritzuk

VP of Consumer Insights

Turner

Bhavesh Vaghela

CEO

Paywizard

Kenneth Kinney

CEO and Podcast Host

A Shark's Perspective, LLC

Tracy Swedlow

Editor-in-Chief & Co-Producer

InteractiveTV Today ITVT & The TV of Tomorrow Show

Bill Hague

Executive Vice President

Magid

Aleck Schleider

SVP of Client and Data Strategy

Amobee

Adam J. Lowy

Chief Commercial Officer

Telaria

Jamie Power

COO

Cadent Addressable

Howard Horowitz

President & Founder

Horowitz Research

Rob Weisbord

Chief Revenue Officer

Sinclair Broadcast Group

Tal Chalozin

CTO

Innovid

Sam Simmons

President

Poker Central

Andrea Clarke-Hall

VP of Business Development

Tubi

Helen Katz

SVP Global Contracts & Data Partnerships

Publicis Spine

Nathan McGowan

VP of Product

Tribune Publishing Company

Harold Geller

Executive Director

Ad-ID

Arthur Orduna

EVP & Chief Innovation Officer

Avis Budget Group

Seth Shapiro

Head of Strategy

VideoCoin

Rick Howe

"The iTV Doctor"

Jennifer Mock D...

VP of Local Advertising Sales

Hulu

Sherry Brennan

Former SVP, Distribution

Fox Networks

Ashish Aggarwal

Co-Founder and CTO

Caavo

Richard Glosser

Head of Business Development

Verance

Chris Rudy

Co-Founder and CSO

Cut.com

Mark Aitken

President

OneMedia

Devra Prywes

Chief Product Officer

Applicaster

Jack Perry

Founder and CEO

Syncbak, Inc

Christian Petersen

Senior Director of Product Management

Comcast Silicon Valley Innovation Center

Seth Haberman

President

Sense Education

Nadine Krefetz

Contributing Editor

Streaming Media Magazine

Alan Wolk

Co-Founder/Lead Analyst

TV[R]EV

Albert Lewitinn

Emmy and 3-Time Peabody Award Winner

Jason Brum

AVP of Agency Partnerships

Xandr

Zane Vella

VP of Product, Interactivity and Advertising

Comcast

Rebekah Dopp

Principal, News and Local Media--Global Partnerships

Google

Tom Morgan

Principal

Mediad.tv

Howard Homonoff

Columnist (Forbes)

Forbes

Jason Cohen

Co-Founder

MyBundle.tv

Rebecca Lerner

EVP

MadHive and MAD Network

Chris Pfaff

CEO

Chris Pfaff Tech Media LLC

Richy Glassberg

CEO

SafeGuard Privacy

Sean Cunningham

President & CEO

VAB

Colin Dixon

Founder and Chief Analyst

nScreenMedia

Gerrit Niemeijer

CTO

NCC Media

Matt Smith

Executive Director

Comcast Technology Solutions

George Ivie

CEO/Executive Director

Media Ratings Council (MRC)

Michael Collette

CEO

Dativa

Jonathan Bokor

Chief Privacy and Business Affairs Officer

Tru Optik

Tim Hanlon

CEO

The Vertere Group

Brendan Condon

CRO

Comcast Spotlight

Simon Applebaum

Journalist

Tomorrow Will Be Televised

Sona Pehlivanian

VP of Addressable Campaign Management and Operations

NY Interconnect

Allison Stern

Chief Strategy Officer

Tubular Labs

Tim Sims

SVP of Inventory Partnerships

The Trade Desk

Matt Durgin

Senior Director of North America Partnerships

LG Electronics

Jon Giegengack

Principal & Founder

Hub Entertainment Research

Rick Ducey

Managing Director

BIA Advisory Services

Phil Zepeda

VP of Product

Vilynx

Ben Barokas

Co-Founder and CEO

Sourcepoint

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Comcast to test its YouTube competitor by the end of the year

"Comcast is looking to test a new platform for the distribution of online videos through its new X1 cable set-top boxes by the end of the year, the company’s SVP of Video Matt Strauss confirmed during an interview at the sidelines of the TV of Tomorrow Show this week."

DramaFever to launch new platforms for documentaries and horror movies

"New York-based streaming video startup DramaFever will launch new verticals for documentaries and horror movies in the coming months, DramaFever co-founder Seung Bak revealed during a panel at the TV of Tomorrow Show in San Francisco on Wednesday. Bak said that the company plans to launch a dedicated platform for documentaries later this year and a horror movie channel in early 2015."

Dish’s upcoming internet TV service to target cord cutters and “cord haters”

"Dish wants to make inroads with people who are fed up with traditional pay TV with its upcoming internet-based TV service, said the company’s GM of Interactive and Advanced TV Adam Lowy at the TV of Tomorrow Show in San Francisco Wednesday. “Cord cutters, cord nevers and what we call cord haters” will be the target audience of the new service, said Lowy."

Dish sets OTT targets: 'Cord cutters, cord nevers and cord haters'

"Speaking at the TV of Tomorrow Show in San Francisco Wednesday, Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) GM of interactive and advanced TV Adam Lowy defined the desired subscriber base for his company's soon-to-be launched OTT service as being young, digital and somewhat dissonant to traditional pay-TV services."

Report: Comcast building its own YouTube-like platform for X1

"Speaking at the TV of Tomorrow Show in San Francisco Wednesday, Matt Strauss, senior VP of video for Comcast, told GigaOM that the pay TV company is looking to test the new platform by the end of the year. As explained by Strauss, Comcast isn't looking for cute cats, bored teenagers and other works by amateur video makers, but rather professionally produced content--the kind YouTube itself has migrated to during the past two years."

Dish’s $30 OTT deal a loss leader that will bring in subs, draw Millennials

"Last week, Bernstein Research’s Todd Juenger posited that satellite TV provider Dish Network could put together a pretty solid array of content for the $30/mo. Internet TV service it wants to offer. […]Wednesday, at the TV of Tomorrow Show in San Francisco, Adam Lowy, Dish’s GM of interactive and advanced TV, told an audience that the market segment the satellite provider was going after included “cord cutters, cord nevers and what we call cord haters."

Showtime Touts Smart TV’s for Rich, Interactive Experience

"Showtime sees smart TV’s as powerful platform for immersive, interactive experiences, explains David Preisman, VP for Interactive Television at the premium cable network. In this interview with Beet.TV, he speaks about the company’s Sho Synch app and its growing popularity. The app is available on LG sets. We spoke with him at the TV of Tomorrow Conference where he was a speaker."

Comcast Will Double Live Programming via "TV Everywhere" this Year

"The number of programmers to deliver their live streams will double to 75 this year, says Matthew Strauss, GM for Video Services at Comcast in this interview with Beet.TV. We interviewed him this week at the TV of Tomorrow conference."

Comcast Will Double Live Programming via “TV Everywhere” this Year

UK’s BSkyB Sees A Third Of Subscribers Watch Mobile

"The UK may not have a joint “TV Everywhere” initiative like that in the US – but subscription satellite TV and broadband operator BSkyB is seeing mobile viewing boom despite (or perhaps because) of that. “We are seeing … a third of our customer base using ‘TV everywhere’ every month,” says BSkyB‘s business developer VP Hilary Perchard, who is one of the execs recently posted by the satcaster to the San Francisco Bay Area to build connections with startups. […]We interviewed him this week at the TV of Tomorrow conference."

TV Everywhere’ is Expanding Video Viewing and Advertising Opportunities

"The big growth of ”TV Everywhere,” meaning the authenticated viewing of TV programming on digital devices by cable and satellite consumers, is creating expanded video viewing and new opportunities for advertisers, says Beet commentator Ashley J. Swartz, in this wrap-up of the TV of Tomorrow conference in San Francisco."

How Regulation Defines the Evolution of Television

"Yet as the television ownership landscape becomes less diverse, the shows have never been better. Why? The empowerment of the consumer, Mr. Torici argues. People are now able to watch TV shows whenever they want through whatever device they prefer, and connect with other fans in a public conversation over social media. As CEO of Group M Entertainment, a TV production and financing firm that’s a unit of global advertising giant WPP, Mr. Tortorici now watches over another sort of convergence: television and marketing."

CNN Merging TV and Net Programming with ‘CNN X’

"CNN is expanding its new ‘CNN X’ product – a hybrid offering of live TV and personalized digital content to cable and satellite subscribers with new distribution platforms. CNN X, which is available on iPad, has just launched on the Web and will soon be available on DiretTV set-top boxes, explains K.C. Estenson, GM of Digital for CNN in this interview with Beet.TV We spoke with him yesterday at the TV of Tomorrow conference."

Sports Is Catalyst For TV Everywhere Boom: Adobe’s Helfland

"The TV Everywhere system for allowing online viewers to watch channels from the US’ patchwork of cable operators is booming thanks to sports popularity. “We saw about a 250% increase in TV Everywhere streams this past quarter over the previous year,” says Adobe’s Primetime VP Jeremy Helfland. […] We spoke with him at the TV of Tomorrow conference."

Comcast to Bring Web Video, Data, Social to TV w/ X1 Cable Box

"The X1 cable box from Comcast will be become increasingly “immersive” with a number of new features including more Apps, Web videos, data and social media over the next few months, explains Matthew Strauss, SVP and GM for Video Services, in this interview with Beet.TV. […]We spoke with him at the TV of Tomorrow conference yesterday in San Francisco."

Unauthenticated TV Everywhere: the wave of the future?

"At the time there was much speculation that NowTV would cannibalize Sky’s existing customer base as people ditched monthly sports packages for occasional daily access through NowTV. Has this happened? Not according to Hilary Perchard, VP of Business Development at Sky. I interviewed him at the TV of Tomorrow show in San Francisco to understand how this radical experiment in TV Everywhere delivery was working for the company. As you will see from the interview, far from cannibalizing existing subscribers, NowTV is allowing Sky to reach an audience that had proved resistant to the allure...

Mobile, iOS Fuels Rapid Growth of "TV Everywhere," Adobe Study

"Mobile devices, led by the Apple operating system, are fueling the spread of TV Everywhere, says Tamara Gaffney, Principal Analyst with Adobe Digital Index in this video interview. "The iOS app has surpassed the browser as the most common access point for TV Everywhere," she says, sharing the details of a just-released study Adobe conducted that analyzes TV Everywhere usage. […]Gaffney presented her finding today in San Francisco where she was a speaker at the TV of Tomorrow show."

Mobile, iOS Fuels Rapid Growth of “TV Everywhere”

Comcast X1, CNNx and the future of pay TV

"I glimpsed the future of pay-TV at the TV of Tomorrow (TVOT) show in San Francisco today. That future sees the cable channels taking charge of the experience of their content, while the operators continue to provide the consolidated view of it all. Matt Strauss, SVP and GM of Video Services at Comcast, demonstrated a new version of the company’s popular X1 TV service. He showed how the guide has really become 7 different guides in one."

TV of Tomorrow Show to Host Hackathon Focused on Video Centric Apps

"TV of Tomorrow Show SF 2014 is hosting a companion event, the TVOT Hackathon 2014, which brings together hackers, directors, and other creatives and experts from the worlds of television, online video, advertising, big data, visual and sound design, display technology, art, music and beyond, to envision and build the TV of Tomorrow."

TV of Tomorrow Conference: TV at the Speed of Light

"TVOT, one of the most forward thinking conferences in our industry, focused on the concept of time for this year’s New York City event. In past years, TVOT has explored how technologies such as VR would change how we use TV, how the rollout of apps and TVE would impact how we access content and how big and small data would impact how we measure everything...."

This Time, the TV of Tomorrow Conference Focused on Time Itself

"Every year, the TV of Tomorrow conference in New York City takes on a topic of importance for the industry. In the past, the event has concentrated on TV Everywhere, data, virtual reality and apps. But as the media ecosystem continues to transform and fragment, this year TVOT focused on time, which is emerging as a valuable commodity regarding the optimal length of an ad, the form of content by platform or how we manage, analyze and gain insights from the firehose of data, among other concerns...."

Can OTT video match TV’s reliability, quality of delivery?

"While OTT video streaming can beat televisions resolution today, it cannot match the reliability and quality of delivery. Will it ever get there? Yes we can, according to four streaming video experts.At the TV of Tomorrow Show in New York last week, I sat down with a group of video quality experts to discuss how online video providers should approach quality delivery online. It soon became apparent that there are still big challenges with the basics, like video start time, and buffering. This led me to ask the panelist: “Can we ever reach or better traditional televisions reliability...

TVE vs. apps panel says search, discovery need to be fixed next

"NEW YORK—A debate-style panel featuring executives from NBC, MobiTV and other companies argued the merits of TV Everywhere vs. standalone apps, but agreed that search and discovery is in immediate need of fixing.At the TV of Tomorrow conference, Chris Falkner, senior vice president of Advanced TV at NBC Broadcasting; Virginia Juliano, CEO of Cobblecord; Terri Stevens, CFO at MobiTV; Ashley Swartz, CEO of Furious Corp.; Perry Weinstein, North America general manager at Accedo; and Alan Wolk, senior advisor at MediaLink all seemed to recognize..."

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