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July 28, 2026 | NYC

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MORNING MAINSTAGE SESSIONS

9:40 – 9:45 a.m. WELCOMING REMARKS

PRESENTERS:

Jason Dachman, SVG, Editorial Director, U.S.; SVG Cloud & Content Workflows Program Director

Jason Dvorkin, AWS, Head of Industry Business Development - Americas, Media & Entertainment, Games, and Sports

9:45 – 10:30 a.m. TALES FROM THE TRENCHES:

Adventures in Cloud-Based Production

Hear unfiltered stories from the front lines of live game production, as well as cloud-based efforts for playout, media management, archive workflows, and more.

MODERATOR: Jason Dachman, SVG, Editorial Director, U.S.

PANELISTS:

Khaldoon Almandalawi, NBC Sports, Manager of Solutions Architecture

Steve Pellegrino, WBD, Senior Director, Media and Technical Operations

Jason Hedgcock, MLB, VP of Broadcasting, Technical Production & Special Events

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. 55,000+ EVENTS A YEAR: How FloSports Uses Cloud Production to Scale

Hear about the tools and workflows behind the production engine that lets FloSports stream over 55,000 events each year.

PRESENTERS:

Dennis LeMire, FloSports, Director, Global Stream Operations

Tom Read, Spalk, Chief Commercial Officer

LIVE PRODUCTION TRACK

1:30 – 2:20 p.m. RISING TIDES:

How the Public Cloud Can Transform Tier 2 and 3 Sports Production

Hear how leagues, conferences, and rightsholders below the top tier are leveraging cloud-based production to elevate broadcast quality, expand coverage, and reach audiences that were previously out of reach.

MODERATOR: Ken Kerschbaumer, SVG, Co-Executive Director, Editorial Services PANELISTS:

Hayden Harris, tx.video, COO

Dennis LeMire, FloSports, Director, Global Stream Operations

Grant Nodine, NHL, SVP, Technology

Ben Ratner, LiveU, Global Solution Sales Specialist

2:20 – 3:05 p.m. AI-DRIVEN PRODUCTION & THE CLOUD:

Driving New Efficiencies

AI and the cloud are a powerful pairing, and sports production is where the impact is hitting hardest. Hear how leagues, broadcasters, and technology partners are deploying AI in cloud workflows to unlock speed, scale, and savings.

MODERATOR: Brandon Costa, SVG, Director of Digital PANELISTS:

Scott Bushman, Spiideo, Director, Media Partner Sales / Live Sports Streaming Partnerships

Victor Cerejo, NBA, Director, Broadcast Strategy & Technology Support

Jason Dvorkin, AWS, Head of Industry Business Development - Americas, Media & Entertainment, Games, and Sports

Bobby Mohr, TwelveLabs, VP of Revenue

3:05 – 3:30 p.m. NETWORKING BREAK

3:30 – 4:15 p.m. GAME ON, CREW OFFSITE: The Rise of Distributed Production and What’s Next for REMI Hear how leagues and broadcasters are leveraging cloud-based workflows to power REMI and at-home models, tackling latency, connectivity, and crew coordination while unlocking new levels of flexibility, scalability, and efficiency.

MODERATOR: Kristian Hernández, SVG, Senior Editor PANELISTS:

Chris Brown, WBD, VP, Technology and Operations

Mark Davis, TAG Video Systems, Director of Sales, Americas

Ben Reynolds, Spalk, Co-Founder & CEO

4:15 – 5:00 p.m. THE NEXT FRONTIER:

Operationalizing Live Cloud Workflows at Scale

Hear how leagues and broadcasters are operationalizing workflows in hyperscale environments, with emerging frameworks like DMF and MXL paving the way.

MODERATOR: Ken Kerschbaumer, SVG, Co-Executive Director, Editorial Services PANELISTS:

Marwan Al-Habbal, Matrox Video, Senior Manager, Product Management and Applications

Jon Dakss, Oracle, VP, Media Services, OCI Media & Multicloud

Mathieu Rochon, CBC/Radio-Canada, Senior Technical Advisor Engineering, Technology and Infrastructure

Mark Stephens, AWS, Principal Industry Specialist PSA - M&E

10:45 – 11:30 a.m. THE CONTROL ROOM WITHOUT WALLS: Replicating the PCR in the Cloud

The traditional production-control room is being reimagined in the cloud. From lean, stripped-down builds to full PCR replication, hear how live-sports-production teams are architecting these environments from the ground up.

MODERATOR: Pete Emminger, Industry Consultant

PANELISTS:

Thomas Edwards, AWS, Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture

Ben Hayes, BitFire, Director of Client Services

Luke Potter, Alpha, Manager, Cloud Solutions

11:30 – 11:45 a.m. NETWORKING BREAK

11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. THE ECONOMICS OF CLOUD PRODUCTION: Navigating Costs, Licenses, and Services

As vendor dependencies deepen and subscriptions multiply, how can sports-media organizations build smarter, more sustainable cloud economics without sacrificing performance?

MODERATOR: Jason Dachman, SVG, Editorial Director, U.S. PANELISTS:

Noor Hassan, AWS, Worldwide Partner Solutions Architect, M&E

Michael Lange, Lange Productions, Owner and Chief AWS Cloud Architect

Scott Rothenberg, NEP Group, SVP, Technology & Capital Planning

Art Wong, Deloitte, Principal, Sports Media Solutions

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. NETWORKING LUNCH SPONSORED BY

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1:30 – 2:10 p.m. BEYOND MAM: Manifesting a Fully Integrated, Multi-System Future

Hear how leagues, broadcasters, and technologists are rethinking the central repository and balancing centralization for cost control with decentralization for broader access.

MODERATOR: Brad Hughes, Content Technology & Workflow Strategies, Media & Tech Professional

PANELISTS:

Michael Ayers, PGA TOUR, Senior Manager, Media Asset Management

Kathleen Barrett, Backlight, CEO

Brian Perkins, MLB Network, VP, IT Production Systems

Victorien Tixier, ScorePlay, Co-Founder and CEO

2:10 – 2:25 p.m. KEEPING EVERY TEAM IN THE GAME: Smarter Collaboration for Modern Media Teams

Discover how leading organizations are removing workflow bottlenecks, simplifying media management, and enabling seamless collaboration to keep production moving.

PRESENTER: Gergana Berman, LucidLink, Director, Growth Marketing

2:25 – 3:05 p.m. METADATA IS THE PRODUCT: AI-Driven Logging, Tagging, and Search

Hear how leagues, broadcasters, and technologists are deploying AI-driven logging, tagging, and search to turn every frame into discoverable, actionable content.

MODERATOR: Dave Klee, A+E Global Media, VP, Media Engineering & Broadcast Operations

PANELISTS:

Chris Cruz, CBS Sports, Senior Director of Media Services

Anne Graham, WBD, Manager, Media Strategy & Project Planning; SVG Content Management Committee Chair

Scott Rinehart, Notre Dame Studios, Senior Director

Sahil Shah, FlowState AI, Founder and CEO

3:05 – 3:30 p.m. NETWORKING BREAK

3:30 – 4:15 p.m. SITTING ON GOLD: Strategies and Tools for Monetizing Your Library Content

Hear how leagues, broadcasters, and teams are making archive content easier to surface, license, and sell — and how vendor and technology partnerships are helping turn a traditional cost center into a real revenue driver.

MODERATOR: Jason Dachman, SVG, Editorial Director, U.S.

PANELISTS:

Craig Caruso, Veritone, VP, Sports Media & Commercial Partnerships

Olivia Cianci, Reuters Imagen, Commercial Specialist

Anne Graham, WBD, Manager, Media Strategy & Project Planning

Marcy Lefkovitz, Dalet, Senior Media Operations, Technology & Workflow Executive

4:20 – 5:00 p.m. THE SQUEEZE ON STORAGE:

Tiered Strategies for Sports Archives Amid RAM and Flash Shortages

Hear how leagues, broadcasters, and technologists are rethinking hot-, warm-, and cold-tiering strategies, balancing performance, cost, and accessibility.

MODERATOR: Mark Anderson, P1 Technologies, Global Account Director

PANELISTS:

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Robert McKnight, NBC Sports, Director, Media Management and Operations

Ryan Servant, Suite Studios, Senior Director, Channel and Alliances

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KHALDOON ALMANDALAWI, NBC Sports, Manager of Solutions Architecture

Almandalawi the manager of solutions architecture at NBC Sports, with more than 15 years of experience in broadcast technology and live sports production. He focuses on cloud-based production, media infrastructure, and workflow automation, working closely with engineering and operations teams to build scalable, resilient solutions for live sports.

MARK ANDERSON, P1 Technologies, Global Account Director

Anderson has been involved in the media and entertainment industry for over 20 years, initially as an actor and producer. In 2009, he crossed over to the dark side (into sales), transitioning from “user” of storage to “pusher.” Since then, Anderson has helped numerous customers streamline their storage workflows. Anderson recently transitioned to another side of the industry, joining P1 Technologies, a systems integrator, as global account director, working directly with a few major M&E customers.

MICHAEL AYERS, PGA TOUR, Senior Manager, Media Asset Management

Ayers is the senior manager of media asset management at the PGA TOUR where he leads efforts to preserve and innovate one of the most extensive media archives in sports. With over 15 years of production experience — from field crews to media workflows — Ayers has been driving advancements in media asset management at the TOUR since 2020.

KATHLEEN BARRETT, Backlight , CEO

Barrett leads a global team dedicated to building award-winning video SaaS products for media and entertainment businesses. Barrett previously served as the CEO of IAC subsidiary Mosaic Group and oversaw the growth and acquisition of 40+ apps including Robokiller, iTranslate, and NOAA Weather Radar Live: Clime. Prior to that, she was SVP of Enterprise and head of creator success at video platform Vimeo.

GERGANA BERMAN, LucidLink, Director, Growth Marketing

Berman has deep experience building and leading creative and media workflows, helping distributed teams collaborate more efficiently in fast-paced production environments. Her work centers on modernizing content operations for video, broadcast, and creative industries through cloud-native infrastructure and real-time collaboration.

CHRIS BROWN, Warner Bros. Discovery, VP, Technology and Operations

Brown is VP, Technology and Operations at Warner Bros. Discovery, where he oversees the technology infrastructure and production operations for WBD's sports division, TNT Sports. Based out of the network's Techwood facility in Atlanta, Brown has been a driving force behind WBD's shift to IP-based remote production and REMI-style control rooms.

CRAIG CARUSO, Veritone, VP, Sports Media & Commercial Partnerships

Caruso has managed Veritone’s expansive advertising portfolio in monetizing core media assets for tier one global sports properties. He’s collaborated on countless high profile commercial campaigns from the largest brands and advertising agencies in the industry from Nike, W+K, Omnicom, AT&T, ESPN, Rolex, Invesco and more.

VICTOR CEREJO, NBA, Director, Broadcast Strategy & Technology Support

Cerejo leads strategy, planning, and testing of emerging production technology for the league’s next generation and direct-to-consumer broadcasts. He also manages the cross-functional and vendor relationships behind each production.

OLIVIA CIANCI, Reuters Imagen, Commercial Specialist

Cianci plays a pivotal role across Reuters Imagen’s U.S. portfolio, with a focus on US sports, media, and blue-chip customers. She is responsible for overseeing and managing strategic customer relationships, supporting new business development, and working with prospective customers as they evaluate Reuters Imagen.

CHRIS CRUZ, CBS Sports, Senior Director of Media Services

Cruz is responsible for the proper management of all digital asset management systems developed for CBS Sports studio and remote productions. He also oversees the personnel utilized for the acquisition, distribution, and archiving of all digital content. Cruz started working with CBS Sports in 2012 as the manager of digital archives.

JON DAKSS, Oracle, VP, Media Services, OCI Media & Multicloud Dakss is a technology executive and product leader at Oracle with more than 25 years of experience driving innovation across content creation, delivery, consumption, and monetization in the media and entertainment industry. An early Internet and interactive video pioneer, Dakss is the inventor of nearly 40 U.S. patents related to video technologies.

MARK DAVIS, TAG Video Systems, Director of Sales, Americas Davis' thorough understanding of the technical aspects behind IP video streaming, broadcast infrastructures, cloud, media, and digital advertising combined with extraordinary problem-solving skills have powered his ability to deliver fresh and practical solutions supporting operational excellence and expanded business opportunities.

JASON DVORKIN, AWS, Head of Industry Business Development - Americas, Media & Entertainment, Games, and Sports Dvorkin is the head of industry business development for the Americas for Media & Entertainment, Games, and Sports at AWS. As a 20-year industry veteran, he provides domain expertise for cloud adoption to help customers achieve key business objectives. His areas of expertise include broadcast, content production, media supply chain and archive, direct to consumer, monetization, and data science and analytics.

THOMAS EDWARDS, AWS, Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture

Edwards and his team help customers achieve business success on the cloud. Before joining AWS, he spent 20 years working for broadcasters PBS, Fox, and Disney on satellite systems, digital TV, and advanced video technology projects.

PETE EMMINGER, Industry Consultant

Emminger has worked in broadcast and live events for over 25 years, including most recently as NEP’s Global CTO, where he focused on developing new technology to enable expanding operations and large scale projects. Prior to NEP, Emminger led broadcast for Blizzard Entertainment, where he was an early leader in public cloud video technology.

ANNE GRAHAM, Warner Bros. Discovery, Manager, Media Strategy & Project Planning; SVG Content Management Committee Chair

Graham is the manager of media strategy and project planning for media operations at Warner Brothers Discovery’s Techwood Studios in Atlanta, GA. Joining Turner Sports in January 2017, she focuses on metadata governance, media workflow analysis and documentation, and project planning. She specializes in digital preservation and archival description.

NOOR HASSAN, AWS, Worldwide Partner Solutions Architect, M&E

Hassan is a technologist at heart with over 15 years of experience working at the intersection of broadcast engineering and cloud technology. She leads technical strategy with broadcast and sports vendors and system integrators to modernize production workflows in the cloud.

BEN HAYES, BitFire, Director of Client Services

Hayes manages their relations and communications with the company’s sales, operations, and development departments. With more than 20 years in television production, Hayes has extensive background in managing live and remote productions.

JASON HEDGCOCK, MLB, VP of Broadcasting, Technical Production & Special Events

Hedgcock recently transitioned from The MLB Network to a role within MLB Broadcasting. In this new position, he will continue developing workflows and engineering plans to support Regional and National Network broadcasts of MLB games, regardless of location. Additionally, he will work to ensure that MLB facilities are fully prepared to host broadcast partners in an ever-evolving media landscape.

MATT HERSON, Qumulo, Director of Tech GTM - TMEGS

Herson is director of technical go to market for media, entertainment, games, and sports at Qumulo. With more than 20 years of experience across production, post production, cloud infrastructure, AI, and enterprise storage, he helps media organizations modernize creative workflows and build AI ready production environments.

BRAD HUGHES, Content Technology & Workflow Strategies, Media & Tech Professional

Hughes is an award-winning technology executive and strategic advisor with over two decades of experience architecting next-generation media supply chains and workflows. Hughes has established practical frameworks for AI and Generative AI workflow governance.

DAVE KLEE, A+E Global Media, VP, Media Engineering & Broadcast Operations

Klee is vice president of media engineering and broadcast operations at A+E Networks, a global entertainment and media company. He leads global teams encompassing media technology, broadcast systems, and FAST and cable channel operations, and has helped A+E build an industry-leading, cloud-based media supply chain transformation practice.

BEN REYNOLDS, Spalk, Co-Founder & CEO

Reynolds co-founded Spalk ten years ago and has deep experience in the sports media, venture capital and broadcast industries. Reynolds has a track record of developing and fostering partnerships with leading sports properties, broadcasters, events and production companies around the world whilst growing Spalk from a small start-up in New Zealand to the market leading remote commentary production organization.

SCOTT RINEHART, Notre Dame Studios, Senior Director

Rinehart is responsible for providing technical direction and oversight of Notre Dame Studios’ production infrastructure. Prior to Notre Dame, Rinehart worked in a variety of roles at NASCAR Media Group and PGA Tour Productions.

MARCY LEFKOVITZ, Dalet, Senior Media Operations, Technology & Workflow Executive Lefkovitz brings decades of leadership in Media Operations, News Production, and Technology. At Dalet, she drives bold innovation across media workflows, bridging creativity, technology, and operational excellence.

DENNIS LEMIRE, FloSports, Director, Global Stream Operations

LeMire leads the teams responsible for delivering more than 55,000 live sporting events annually across more than 25 sports. With nearly a decade of experience in live streaming and sports media, including previous roles at NBC Sports, he specializes in building high-volume streaming operations that scale reliably.

ROBERT MCKNIGHT, NBC Sports, Director, Media Management and Operations

McKnight started his career working for Versus (Comcast) in 2007, overseeing the physical tape library with a strong affinity for the NHL. A veteran of seven Olympic Games with NBC Olympics, McKnight currently oversees the Media Operations team at NBC Sports & Olympics (Stamford, CT) — which includes file-based workflow support/ archive for NBC’s premier events (Olympics, Sunday Night Football, Big10).

BOBBY MOHR, TwelveLabs, VP of Revenue

Mohr is vice president of revenue at TwelveLabs. He has been serving customers and leading go-to-market organizations in the software industry for the past 15 years, having worked at such companies at Publicis Groupe, AppNexus, Xandr/AT&T, Twilio, and Pinecone.

GRANT NODINE, NHL, SVP, Technology

Nodine started his career working as a systems librarian at Editel. He moved on to working as a web developer on sites like Rodale Press’s MensHealth.com. Twenty-plus years ago, Nodine arrived at the NHL where he has been involved in building a technology infrastructure that supports NHL.com and all 30 of the team’s websites, numerous systems to produce and deliver streaming media, and many other large technology implementations.

BRIAN PERKINS, MLB Network, VP, IT Production Systems

Perkins oversees media management & post production technology, as well as graphics technology & data integration. In addition to MLB Network, Perkins oversees the IT production systems for NHL Network, whose daily on-air operations have been based and operated out of the MLB Network headquarters since October of 2015.

LUKE POTTER, Alpha, Manager, Cloud Solutions

Potter has built his career at the intersection of media, technology, and content. Leveraging his deep industry expertise and cutting-edge cloud innovations, Potter is driving transformative change across media and live production workflows.

BEN RATNER, LiveU, Global Solution Sales Specialist

Ratner's live production background helps the company shape customer success, sales, and marketing initiatives. Ratner has worked as the Director of News Technology at Boston 25 News and held traditional broadcasting and digital storytelling roles at CNN/ CNN+, Sports Illustrated, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Al Roker Media, and more.

TOM READ, Spalk, Chief Commercial Officer

Read has over 18 years experience at the intersection of sports, media and technology with a background in content partnerships, rights acquisition/distribution, programming and content creation. He is currently the chief commercial officer at Spalk, a sports production technology company that localizes content through providing remote commentary production and distribution solutions for sports broadcasters and rightsholders.

MATHIEU ROCHON, CBC/Radio-Canada, Senior Technical Advisor Engineering, Technology and Infrastructure

Rochon currently works on the implementation of the EBU’s DMF reference architecture via the Universal Production Platform (UPP). Over his career, he has guided CBC/Radio-Canada through major industry transitions — analog-to-SDI, SD-to-HD, and a full ST-2110 production facility build — and served as primary technical lead for the organization’s Olympic Games coverage.

SCOTT ROTHENBERG, NEP Group, SVP, Technology & Capital Planning

Rothenberg is responsible for coordinating and managing NEP’s global technology roadmap and bringing NEP’s teams together to meet client expectations for the delivery of reliable and creative solutions. In his previous roles, Rothenberg focused on understanding and matching clients’ needs with NEP’s technical capabilities and capacity.

RYAN SERVANT, Suite Studios, Senior Director, Channel and Alliances

With a deep focus on media asset management (MAM) and storage workflows, Servant is dedicated to delivering smart, effective solutions that solve real-world challenges. At Suite Studios, he not only helps customers streamline their operations but also builds strong vendor relationships that align with client needs.

SAHIL SHAH, FlowState AI, Founder and CEO

Shah has spent nearly a decade building large-scale video AI and computer vision systems at Waymo and Apple, and brings 15+ years of experience taking cutting-edge video technology from research to production. FlowState automates complex video workflows at scale using intelligent AI agents powered by deep video context.

MARK STEPHENS, AWS, Principal Industry Specialist PSA - M&E

Stephens has been at the forefront of digital media transformation since 2015. His innovative work spans cloud-based linear playout, remote edit workstations, media supply chain and now focuses on advancing Video Understanding through Large Language Models and Generative AI.

VICTORIEN TIXIER, ScorePlay, Co-Founder and CEO

Tixier is the visionary co-founder and CEO of ScorePlay, a platform revolutionizing how sports organizations manage and monetize their media assets. Under his strategic leadership, ScorePlay has grown to serve over 200 professional sports organizations worldwide, including teams, leagues, and federations.

DAN TRASS, MLB Network, Senior Manager, Post Production Engineering

Trass has been in the broadcast industry for nearly 20 years. In 2016, Trass settled at MLB Network working under Tab Butler. He helped grow the network from a 40 channel ingest solution to over 200 channels of ingest and five PB of online edit storage. Currently, Trass and his group manage 120 PB of baseball archives on everything from flash to tape.

ART WONG, Deloitte, Principal, Sports Media Solutions

Wong specializes in helping clients optimize their technology investments and build sustainable strategies for leveraging solutions on cloud infrastructure. With deep experience across the media lifecycle — from content creation to distribution — Wong focuses on assessing technology roadmaps, evaluating software vendors, and architecting scalable infrastructure.