REGISTER TODAY! How broadcasters and media organizations can use advanced playout innovations to avoid catastrophic loss of income from off-air disasters.
Disasters, whether natural or manmade, pose an increasing threat to business viability for broadcasters and media companies. Even a single hour of off-air time can be costly. On top of financial losses, mostly related to advertising and other unfilled contractual agreements, broadcasters can suffer damages to their reputations that result in audience declines. Many broadcasters are required to have effective Disaster Recovery (DR) plans in place, typically comprising the most critical component of their Business Continuity (BC) mandates. The standard approach of maintaining a mirrored playout system at the same location, or a remote location, can be complex and expensive – especially given that a single facility may routinely play out many channels simultaneously. Cloud Disaster Recovery (CDR) is an exciting new capability that provides private or public cloud-based disaster recovery for broadcast and video playout operations. Because CDR is cloud-based, it is always available and accessible – in addition to being geographically independent from the disaster location. CDR does not require brick and mortar buildings or other infrastructure associated with a secondary back-up site. CDR ensures a virtually seamless, rapid transition from primary playout to a virtualized, remote backup that ensures business and revenue continuity, and may be the most practical choice for business continuity in the event of disaster.
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 | FEATURED SPEAKERS  Glenn LeBrun
As Vice President of Product Marketing at Imagine Communications, Glenn LeBrun is responsible for product, strategic, and technical marketing. He has been in this role since 2013. Prior to this, Glenn led Product and Strategic Marketing at GENBAND for a decade, and prior to that spent over a decade in product management and marketing in the Bell System.
 Pat McCoy
Pat McCoy is the CTO, Playout for Imagine Communications and is responsible for the Playout portfolio Technology Direction and is a member of the CTO Council responsible for aligning the company's Product and R&D strategy. McCoy joined Imagine Communications as Sr. Director of Product Development with the 2005 acquisition of Leitch Technology and has subsequently led various R&D and Product Line teams for Imagine Communications. Previously he worked for AgileVision, an innovator in compressed domain video technology, where he served as Vice President of R&D. Prior to his tenure at AgileVision, McCoy served as Sr. Director with Motorola leading their R&D set top box development team. McCoy earned an Executive Masters of Technology Management from The Wharton Business School and The Engineering School of the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from George Mason University.
 Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith is the CTO, Cloud for Imagine Communications where he leads the transformation of solutions to support media and entertainment markets in a future defined by IP, software, virtualization and cloud. Previously, Smith was the Executive Director of Media Systems at Starz Entertainment in Colorado - USA, where he was responsible for the technology, implementation and operation of their Media Asset Management and Content Processing platforms. With 20+ years in the industry, Stephen has extensive experience in architecting, deploying, owning and operating complex media processing, origination and distributions systems
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