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In a fast-moving market with a greater focus on profitability, many video service providers are considering the pros, cons and potential savings of transitioning from custom, in-house solutions to SaaS. Transitioning from in-house development to leveraging experienced OTT platform providers presents a strategic opportunity for existing operators that provides access to comprehensive end-to-end solutions, specialist expertise and reduced costs.

Igalia will outline the changes that have been made to the graphics architecture of WPE during the last year, together with the improvements that are planned for the next years, with the goal of getting a simpler to use and performant WPE.

This will encompass researching and developing learnings around various AI tools and techniques to improve creativity and efficiency in production workflows, stamping out bias and AI hallucinations to embrace audience sentiments in content development, and exploring predictive video workflows in sports production.

With Generative AI dominating the headlines and stirring up controversy, there’s another side of AI that may prove to be the unsung hero; Utility AI.

Where is my data? That is the question. No one knows for sure, no one has full control. Digital assets management can no longer rely on casual habits and physical media alone: device failure probability increases every day, stored data can become inaccessible at any time.

In this extended session we have four authors presenting current research on two important topics – encoder optimisations and film grain processing.

WatchParty enables users to invite their friends and family to come together and watch live broadcasts or OTT from the comfort of their homes. It offers numerous use cases from watching sports events, entertainment shows, YouTube or user-generated content from cloud platforms, Viewers can use the popular mobile messenger apps to create and manage groups while showing the chat in real-time on their TV screens.

Many TV brands already license a TV operating system for their smart TVs, as developing and maintaining your own TV OS is not for the fainthearted. With more than 18 different licensable TV operating systems there is plenty of choice, join us in this conversation to learn about this interesting market and how it will consolidate over time.

The media and entertainment industry is undergoing a historic shift to a new age of Cloud TV for video distribution and monetization impacting content owners, aggregators, advertisers, and consumers. Across the globe, there is a pressing need to improve monetization, reduce costs, and increase operational efficiency. Executing on these new strategies requires having the right Cloud Video Platform in place to deliver versatility and scalability.

In this talk, Magycal will present Smart Info and Smart Moments, two innovative features developed for SPORT TV, Portugal’s leading sports OTT. These use AI, ML and Computer Vision, to capture new levels of audience engagement.