2013 HPA Tech Retreat ® Program (Subject To Change)

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Hyatt Regency, Indian Wells, California (Palm Springs area)

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To Moderate a Breakfast Roundtable, contact Mark Schubin at: tvmark@earthlink.net


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Monday, February 18

 

1:00 - 6:30 pm             Registration Open

                           

3:00 pm - 6:30 pm       Charles Poynton Seminar:
                                   High[er] Frame Rate - Technical Aspects


IMPORTANT CHANGE: Due to unexpected circumstances, Charles will be presenting his seminar as a webinar with Mark Schubin as the onsite host. All details remain the same.

 

 

Tuesday, February 19

             

8:00 am - 6:30 pm       Registration Open

                             

9:00 am - 4:00 pm       ATSC Seminar on Audio Loudness Control


9:00 am – 4:30 pm      HPA Super-Sized Session 2013:

                                  More, Bigger, but Better?

                                  A look at higher resolution, higher frame rates,

                                  larger color space, higher dynamic range, more audio

                                  channels/objects, bigger screens and the push for all

                                  around pushing the envelope. But will it be like 70mm

                                  film compared to 35mm film? Will the studio executives

                                  settle on a good-enough solution. What will be the

                                  benefits for the audience and the film makers? HPA’s

                                  Super-Sized Super Session 2013 will see what has been

                                  tried, what works, and what the thought leaders think.


4:00 pm – 8:00 pm      Demos & Cocktails - Sponsored by Dolby

                                  1 Beyond, 5th Kind, ACB Actual Customer Behaviour,

                                  Adobe, AlterMedia, AmberFin, Attend/Media Cloud,

                                  Audionamix, Auro Technologies/Barco, Avid, BDXL Archive

                                  Blackmagic Design, Bling Digital, Cache-A, CacheIO,

                                  Canon, CineCert, Cinedeck, Cinnafilm, CloudSigma,

                                  Cobalt Digital, Colorfront, Crossroads Systems StrongBox,

                                  Digimetrics, Digital Rapids, Digital Vision, Dolby, DVEO,

                                  Dyle Mobile TV, Elemental Technologies, Empress Media

                                  Asset Management, EVS, eyeon Software, FilmLight,

                                  The Foundry, Fraunhofer IIS, GIC, Image Essence,

                                  Intelligent Assistance, isovideo, Klein Instruments,

                                  Lightcraft Technology, MTI Film, Nexidia, NVIDIA,

                                  OmniTek, Panasonic, Prime Image, Psitech Inc, Quantum,

                                  Rocket Data Services, Rohde & Schwarz, Screen Subtitling

                                  Systems, Sony Electronics, SpectraCal, StorageDNA,

                                  T3Media, Tektronix, Xytech, ZOO Digital

                                                 

 

Wednesday, February 20                                          

                                                 

6:30 am - 7:30 pm       Registration Open

                           

7:30 am - 8:30 am       Breakfast Roundtables - Sponsored by EMC Isilon

                                  1. Current State of Lampless Projection -

                                      Pete Putman, ROAM Consulting

                                  2. Channel Sharing - Deborah McAdams, TV Technology

                                  3. The Workforce in Post -

                                      Kathleen Milnes, Entertainment Economy Institute

                                  4. BXF: 2.0 Is Here; 3.0 Isn’t Far Behind -

                                      Pat Waddell, Harmonic
                                  5. File-Based QC - Lynn Yeazel, Tektronix

                                  6. Owners/Vendors New Tech: Top-10 Issues & Mistakes -

                                      Bob Slutske, RASMachina

                                  7. Cloud-Based Post Production - Phil Corio, ZOO Digital

                                  8. Dialog: The New Metadata -

                                      Michael Phillips, EPS-Cineworks

                                  9. Asset Management in Production & Post -

                                      Russ Walker, Empress

                                10. PSAs for Organ and Tissue Donation -

                                      Anne Brooker-Grogan, organ recipient

                                11. 4K Compression for Acquisition -

                                      Hugo Gaggioni, Sony

                                12. HFR: Acquisition to Exhibition -

                                      Ian Bidgood, Park Road Post Production

                                13. UltraViolet: Interoperability -

                                      Albert Koval, Testronic Labs

                                14. LTO Update: LTO-6 and LTFS - Tom Goldberg, Cache-A

                                15. Workflow for Mixing in Dolby Atmos -

                                       Gilbert Lake, Park Road Post Production

                                16. Centralized Broadcasting: What to Do for an Encore? -

                                       Peter Wharton, Miranda

                                17. After CALM: An Update -

                                      Hal Buttermore, Linear Acoustic

                                18. What About Film Grain? - Matt Cowan, RealD

                                19. Live 4K Production - Sara Kudrle &

                                      Bob Hudelson, Miranda

                                20. Asset Compliance: Best Practices -

                                      Scott Reynolds, Signiant

                                21. Large-Scale Storage Workflow, Distribution, & Audit -

                                       Martin Libich, Isilon

                                22. Data Archiving and LTFS -

                                      Rob Sims, Crossroads Systems

                                23. Private Clouds for the Rest of Us -

                                       Michael Bergeron, Panasonic

                                24. The Future of Broadcast Television -

                                       Mark Aitken, Sinclair Broadcast Group

                                25. J2K to Replace Videotape - Chris Dee, HBO

                                26. The Data-Centric Digital Ecosystem -

                                      Brian Warren, CoreSite (One Wilshire)

                                27. High-Speed, Secure Video Delivery - John King, Aspera

                                28. 4K Tablet: Screening Room in a Briefcase -

                                      Steve Mahrer, Panasonic

                                29. File-Based Footage Delivery -

                                      Bert Collins & Josh Derby, Discovery

                                30. Software-Defined Networking -

                                      Warren Belkin, Arista Networks
 

8:30 am - 8:45 am       Breathe

                                                                            

8:45 am - 8:55 am       Welcome - Leon Silverman, HPA

                           

8:55 am - 9:15 am       Introduction & Technology Year in Review - Mark Schubin


9:15 am - 9:45 am       What Is Actual Customer Behaviour? -

                                   Sarah Pearson, 1-3-9 Media Lab


9:45 am - 10:15 am     What Will Win the Future of TV? -

                                   Hans Hoffmann, European Broadcasting Union


10:15 am - 10:30 am   Refreshment Break - Sponsored by Sohonet

                     

10:30 am - 11:00 am   Viewer-Preference Statistics for Shadow, Diffuse, Specular,

                                  and Emissive Luminance Limits of

                                  High Dynamic Range Displays -

                                  Scott Daly (presenter), Timo Kunkel, Xing Sun,

                                  Suzanne Farrell, & Poppy Crum, all of Dolby


11:00 am - 11:30 am   Mobile DTV Deployment at Fox Television Stations:

                                  Lessons Learned - Thomas Edwards, Fox


11:30 am - noon          Current Status of ATSC 3.0, the Next-Generation

                                   Broadcast Television System -

                                   Jim Kutzner, PBS & Skip Pizzi, NAB


noon - 1:28 pm            Lunch


1:28 pm - 1:30 pm       Quiz answer & announcements

                                 

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm       Broadcasters Panel

                                   Moderator: Matthew Goldman, Ericsson

                                   Tony Cole, ABC

                                   Anthony Caruso, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

                                   Bob Seidel, CBS

                                   Richard Friedel, Fox

                                   Skip Pizzi, National Association of Broadcasters

                                   Glenn Reitmeier, NBC Universal

                                   John McCoskey, PBS

                                   (more panelists to be announced)


2:30 pm - 3:00 pm       The FCC Does NOT Require This Session to be

                                   Closed Captioned and Video Described -

                                   Drew Lanham, Nexidia & Ken Brady, Turner Studios


3:00 pm - 3:15 pm       Refreshment Break - Sponsored by Sohonet

                    

3:15 pm - 3:45 pm       Ensuring “Broadcast-Quality” Remains the Highest Metric:

                                   CBS Proof-of-Performance Testing - Bob Seidel, CBS


3:45 pm - 4:15 pm       CES Review - Peter Putman, ROAM Consulting


4:15 pm - 5:15 pm       Consumer Forecast: Cloudy but Clearing

                                   Moderator: Seth Hallen, Testronic Labs

                                   Chris Carey, Product and Portfolio Solutions,

                                   Verizon Digital Media Services

                                   Steven Chester,

                                   VP Global Media and Entertainment, Akamai

                                   John Crosier, SVP Digital Architecture & Delivery, Cinram

                                   Ellen Goodridge, Sony Pictures Entertainment

                                   Jim Taylor, UltraViolet/DECE


5:15 pm - 5:45 pm       Operational Experience of Providing 8K-UHDTV Coverage

                                   of the London Olympics - Masayuki Sugawara,

                                   NHK Science and Technology Research Laboratories


5:45 pm - 6 pm            What Just Happened? - A Review of the Day by

                                   Jerry Pierce & Leon Silverman


6 pm - 7:30 pm            Demo Room Open

                      

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm       Welcome Dinner - Sponsored by Technicolor                      

                                                 

 

Thursday, February 21                                              

                                                 

7:00 am - 6:15 pm       Registration Open

                          

7:30 am - 8:30 am       Breakfast Roundtables - Sponsored by Quantum                            

                                  1. Why Aren’t People Buying Televisions? -

                                      Pete Putman, ROAM Consulting

                                  2. The Workforce in Post -

                                      Kathleen Milnes, Entertainment Economy Institute

                                  3. Object Stores and Cloud Storage -

                                      Jason Danielson, NetApp

                                  4. File-Based QC - Lynn Yeazel, Tektronix

                                  5. Moving Broadcast Plants from HD-SDI to Ethernet -

                                      Thomas Edwards, Fox

                                  6. Owners/Vendors New Tech: Top-10 Issues & Mistakes -

                                      Bob Slutske, RASMachina

                                  7. Migrating to the Cloud: Issues & Opportunities -

                                      Al Kovalick, Media Systems Consulting

                                  8. Film Is Dead; Are Archives, Too? -

                                      Andrea Kalas, Paramount & Michael Friend, Sony

                                  9. Talking Data with Camera -

                                      S. Poster, ASC, M. Chambliss, & M. Weingartner, ICG

                                10. 48fps in Cinemas: The Future or Lesson Learned? -

                                      Lance Maurer, Cinnafilm

                                11. Accelerated Post for 3D Blockbusters -

                                      Scott Johnston, Stereo D

                                12. Dialog: The New Metadata - KJ Kandell, Nexidia

                                13. Asset Management in Production & Post -

                                      Anoop Thomas, Empress

                                14. PSAs for Organ and Tissue Donation -

                                      Anne Brooker-Grogan, organ recipient

                                15. What Is Actual Customer Behavior? -

                                      Sarah Pearson, 1-3-9 Media Lab

                                16. 4K Camera Workflows - Simon Marsh, Sony

                                17. Color Correction LUTs: How Many Points Are Enough? -

                                      Joel Barsotti, SpectraCal

                                18. UltraViolet: Interoperability -

                                      Albert Koval, Testronic Labs

                                19. After CALM: An Update -

                                      Hal Buttermore, Linear Acoustic

                                20. Is There a “Just Right” for Cinema Brightness? -

                                       Matt Cowan, RealD

                                21. Large-Scale Storage Workflow, Distribution, & Audit -

                                       Martin Libich, Isilon

                                22. Remote Editing & Collaboration -

                                       Van Bedient, Adobe & Eric Pohl, NTC

                                23. Private Clouds for the Rest of Us -

                                       Michael Bergeron, Panasonic

                                24. New Broadcast Business Opportunities -

                                       Mark Aitken, Sinclair Broadcast Group

                                25. J2K to Replace Videotape - Chris Dee, HBO

                                26. Automated Inter-Company Workflow -

                                      John King, Aspera

                                27. On-Set Post: New Tools/Workflows/Economics -

                                      Rony Sebok, 1 Beyond

                                28. LTO/LTFS Archiving Using AVC-Ultra -

                                      Steve Mahrer, Panasonic

                                29. File-Based Footage Delivery -

                                      Bert Collins & Josh Derby, Discovery
                                30. Quantum StorNext Tiering to Lattus Private Cloud -

                                      Laurent Lacore, Quantum

                                31. Software-Defined Networking -

                                      Warren Belkin, Arista Networks
                                32. Cloud-Based Production: Live and Post -

                                      Jim O’Brien, VidyoCast
                                33. Mobile Access for Review Workflows -

                                      Jennifer Goldstein Barnes, DAX
                                34. MAM/Workflow/SOA Market Research -

                                      Joe Zaller, Devoncroft Partners

                                35. File Base Work Flow Wish List - Henry Gu, GIC


8:30 am - 8:43 am       Breathe

                             

8:43 am - 8:45 am       Quiz answer & announcements

                          

8:45 am - 9:30 am       Washington Update - Jim Burger, Thompson Coburn LLP


9:30 am - 10:15 am     Post on Demand panel

                                   Moderator: Chris Parker, Bling Digital

                                   Callum Greene, Pacific Rim

                                   Richard Winnie, NBC Universal

                                   Gavin Barclay, Suits and Covert Affairs

                                   Chris Jacobson, Bling Digital


10:15 am - 10:30 am   Refreshment Break - Sponsored by Sohonet

                                                     

10:30 am - 11:00 am   ACES Audit -

                                  Josh Pines, Technicolor and Howard Lukk, Disney


11:00 am - noon          VFX: A Changing Landscape

                                   Moderator: John Montgomery, FXGuide.com

                                   Simon Robinson, The Foundry

                                   Patrick Wolf, Pixomondo

                                   Mike Romey, Zoic Studios

                                   Todd Prives, Zync


Noon - 1:58 pm            Lunch and Final Demo Room Time


1:58 pm - 2:00 pm       Quiz answer & announcements

                        

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm       File-Based Architecture: End-to-End -

                                   Jim DeFilippis & Andy Setos


2:30 pm - 3:15 pm       IMF: Where Are We Now?

                                   Moderator: Jerry Pierce

                                   Simon Adler, AmberFin

                                   Henry Gu, Green International Consulting

                                   Mike Krause, Disney


3:15 pm - 4:00 pm       Working in Raw

                                   Moderator: Paul Chapman, FotoKem

                                   Marco Solorio, OneRiver Media

                                   Thomas True, NVIDIA


4:00 pm - 4:15 pm       Refreshment Break - Sponsored by Sohonet


4:15 pm - 4:45 pm       Digital Intermediates Exchange Network -

                                   John McCluskey, Nevion


4:45 pm - 5:45 pm       Professional Forecast: Cloudy but Clearing

                                   Moderator: Seth Hallen, Testronic Labs

                                   Al Kovalick, Media Systems Consulting

                                   Robert Jenkins, CloudSigma

                                   Mark Lemmons, T3Media

                                   Sean Tajkowski, Tajkowski Group

                                   Steve Anastasi, Warner Bros.


5:45 pm - 6:15 pm       What Comes After File-Based Workflows -

                                   Joe Beirne, Technicolor Postworks NY


6:15 pm - 6:30 pm       What Just Happened? - A Review of the Day by

                                   Jerry Pierce & Leon Silverman

                                                 

 

Friday, February 22                           

                                                 

7:00 am - noon            Registration Open

                           

7:30 am - 8:30 am       Breakfast Roundtables                                  

                                  1. Washington Update Follow-Up -

                                       Jim Burger, Thompson Coburn LLP
                                  2. What Ever Happened to 3D? -

                                      Pete Putman, ROAM Consulting

                                  3. Owners/Vendors New Tech: Top-10 Issues & Mistakes -
                                      Bob Slutske, RASMachina

                                  4. 10G Ethernet, Frame Accuracy & the Networked Facility

                                      - Al Kovalick, Media Systems Consulting

                                  5. Metadata: Frame-Based, Descriptive, & Hierarchical -

                                      Mark Lemmons, T3Media

                                  6. 5th Annual Steve Lampen Asks Questions of

                                      Merrill Weiss

                                  7. What Is Actual Customer Behavior? -

                                      Sarah Pearson, 1-3-9 Media Lab

                                  8. LTO Update: LTO-6 and LTFS - Tom Goldberg, Cache-A

                                  9. J2K to Replace Videotape - Chris Dee, HBO

                                10. MAM/Workflow/SOA Market Research -

                                      Joe Zaller, Devoncroft Partners

                                11. Mobile Access for Review Workflows -

                                      Jennifer Goldstein Barnes, DAX

                                12. PSAs for Organ and Tissue Donation -

                                      Anne Brooker-Grogan, organ recipient


8:30 am - 8:43 am       Breathe

                               

8:43 am - 8:45 am       Quiz answer & announcements

                            

8:45 am - 9:15 am       SMPTE Update (including the economics of standards) -

                                   Peter Symes, SMPTE


9:15 am - 9:45 am       New Developments in Camera & Lens Positioning Metadata

                                   Capture and Their Applications for

                                   Matchmove, CGI and Compositing -

                                   Mike Sippel, Fletcher


9:45 am - 10:15 am     The Design of a Lightfield Camera -

                                   Siegfried Foessel, Fraunhofer Institut


10:15 am - 10:45 am   New Paradigm for Digital Cinema -

                                   Chad Fogg (presenter) and Keith Slavin, isovideo LLC


10:45 am - 11:00 am   Refreshment Break (load up for the post-retreat treat)

                                     - Sponsored by Sohonet


11:00 am - 11:30 am   Ethernet AVB and Video - Steve Lampen, Belden


11:30 am - noon          Converting SD and HD Content to 4K Resolution:

                                   Traditional Up-Conversion Is Not Enough -

                                   Jed Deame, Cube Vision Technologies


noon - 12:30 pm          REDRAY 4K Digital Cinema Player Project -

                                   Stuart English, Red


12:30 pm                    Door Prizes, courtesy of Greenwave Scientific (Mohu),

                                   Kramer Electronics, Digital Entertainment Group (DEG),

                                   and HDTVexpert.com:
                                   Toshiba BDK33 WiFi Blu-ray player
                                   Roku XD box
                                   (5) Mohu Leaf indoor TV antennas
                                   (2) SanDisk 8 GB Cruzer flash drives
                                   Infiniti 4-DVR CATV tuner/recorder
                                   Halo 4 game (Blu-ray) for Xbox
                                   (4) Kramer 15' HDMI cables
                                   Two-BD set of Spartacus TV shows (Starz)

 

                                    END OF 2013 HPA TECH RETREAT                                

 

12:40-ish - 1:00 pm      Post-Retreat Treat:

                                   Watching Remote Baseball Games Live Before Television

                                   - Mark Schubin, SchubinCafe.com

                                   (Really!)

 

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