#STSWE24 // MAY 23. 2024 // HOTEL AT SIX // STHLM // SWEDEN

TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE!

As last year we this year offers a volume discount ladder. Number of seats are limited so make sure to get your ticket today.

All talks will be recorded and made available on Youtube initially exclusive to the attendees of this year's event.

08:30

Coffee and Registration

09:00

Welcome and Introduction

Alexander Björneheim and Magnus Svensson / Eyevinn Technology

The 2024 event will focus on the increased demand in efficient production, challenges of large scale live streaming, the increasing piracy and how you could protect your content. The event will also demystify the codec landscape and how to use AI in sports video production.

09:15

From play to pay in a solid way

Johan Lundqvist and Andreas Westerlind / Solidsport

In this talk, Johan Lundqvist and Andreas Westerlind from Solidsport will present how Solidsport started a streaming revolution in 2016. You will also learn more about how to live stream more than 3,000 matches in a weekend and how Solidsport has been able to generate new revenue on more than EUR 10,000,000 to their partners via streaming. You will also get a concrete example of how AI already revolutionize sports production.

09:40

LLMs and Sports Multimedia: What can Conversational Agents offer Soccer?

Cise Midoglu / Simula Research

Large language models (LLMs) have sparked tremendous interest in recent years, with examples such as the GPT, Gemini, LLaMA, and Mistral series receiving widespread public attention, and the applications of LLM based conversational agents (chatbots) rapidly expanding beyond general purpose tasks. While modern chatbots already support multimodality, handling various media modalities such as text, image, audio, and video to an extent, there is room for improvement in terms of contextual understanding and domain specificity. In this talk, we discuss how association football (soccer), one of the biggest sources of sports multimedia content on the Internet, can benefit from the development of custom generative AI chatbots. We describe our experiences with various data curation, fine tuning, prompt engineering, and retrieval-augmented generation strategies, for the purpose of developing a "Soccer Chatbot" able to interact and converse in natural language with different target audiences such as fans, trainers, athletes, referees, scouts, etc., and undertake tasks such as automatic gameplay analysis, summarization, and highlight search and retrieval, based on an enhanced multimodal understanding of soccer games. We provide proof-of-concept implementations and disseminate lessons learned.

10:05

The Video Codec Landscape. The current state and future outlook

Christian Feldmann / Bitmovin

After a short run through the history of video codecs, this talk will focus on the current coding landscape. What codecs are out there, how widely are they supported and where is adoption headed? Finally, we will dare to take a look at what is on the horizon for the future of video.

10:30

Coffee

11:00

How LALIGA and Sportian fight global piracy

Juan Fuentes Fernández and Pablo Lo Giudice / LALIGA and Sportian

LALIGA has played an active role fighting against piracy over the years, using PR, lobby, raising legal claims and most importantly, technology. Together with Sportian, it uses cutting edge software underpinned by AI to prevent the theft of live and on-demand content in any digital environment, protecting the value of the entertainment industry. Backed by industry recognition (Best Anti-piracy solution in SportsPro OTT Awards 2019/20/22), these technology services are not just used by LALIGA but global entities like Sky, Tigo and Wimbledon, as well as multiple sports leagues, clubs and broadcasters. The ability to capture and eliminate pirated content reached a nw threshold when LALIGA partnered with Globant to create Sportian, a Joint Venture that combines sports content creators with expert analysts and new technology development. Not only does it work with the world's largest operators to detect and remove content in seconds, it drives traffic to legitimate sources, increasing revenues. In this presentation, representatives from LALIGA and Sportian will share this journey, the critical issues affecting piracy today and how broadcasters are innovating to stay one step ahead

11:25

Fortifying the Frontiers: Combating Streaming Piracy in the Age of Digial Content

Mark Mulready / Irdeto

In today's digital age, the consumption of video entertainment through streaming platforms has surged, leading to an exponential rise in streaming piracy. Recent data reveals that the global cost of digital video piracy is expected to reach an astonishing $52 billion by 2028. Specifically, in Scandinavian countries, there's been a notable increase in video piracy, with Sweden alone experiencing a significant uptick in unauthorized streaming activities, posing a substantial threat to local and international content creators and distributors. Mediavision survey revealing that a quarter of Swedes aged 15 to 74 engage in content piracy, marking a return to the high levels of piracy last observed in 2016. This persistent trend underscores the complexity of streaming piracy, which is not merely a question of providing legal alternatives but involves a multifaceted approach to deterrence and enforcement.

11:50

The Secret Lives of CATs: Decoding Common Access Tokens

Will Law and Anders Näsman / Akamai

The Common Access Token specification was released by the CTA this month, aimed at resolving the long-standing problem of achieving interoperable content protection in a multi-CDN world. How does this new specification help content distributors protect their media across multiple CDNs? This talk reveals the inner workings of CATs, including their encoding, transmission and renewal. We will explore via demonstration the features of CAT-based token protection including enforcing claims around issuer, audience, expiration, network IP, geo-location, time, URL and others. Is catnip a thing? Join us to find out!

12:15

Lunch

13:30

Future Content Monetization

James Wardle / Harmonic

This presentation highlights technical aspects of new, innovative advertising technologies and how they are deployed in SVOD and TVOD streaming offerings. The technical solutions presented will include e.g. virtual product placements and in-content ads. The presenter, James Wardle has experience from technical deployments with multiple content owners and will share hands-on solutions and best practices to enable effective content monetization

13:55

Navigating Ultra-Low Latency in Unstable Networks: A Case Study Exploration

Pieter-Jan Speelmans / THEO Technologies

In the realm of ultra-low latency demands, navigating through unreliable networks presents formidable challenges. This talk delves into a compelling customer case featuring hundreds of locations interconnected via consumer networks, where real-time content display on large screens demands minimal latency. However, the network landscape introduces formidable hurdles such as latency jitter, packet loss, and more. This talk unpacks the profound impact of these network instabilities on WebRTC, while exploring innovative workarounds through SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) and an HESP-based solution leveraging HTTP/1.1. We'll also dissect the efficacy of these approaches and the comparison between HTTP/1.1 with HTTP/3 and QUIC protocols. Join us as we explore strategies to conquer latency barriers amidst network turbulence, offering valuable insights for the streaming tech community.

14:20

Collaborative Currents: Navigating the Waters of DRM in WebRTC

Thasso Griebel and David Eisenbacher / castlabs and EZDRM

In a collaborative presentation, we invite you to join us—representatives from two pioneering companies in the DRM domain—as we take the stage together, not as competitors, but as co-educators, to demystify the complexities and reveal the innovations behind DRM-protected WebRTC. This technical dialogue will be a dynamic exchange of insights, challenges, and forward-looking perspectives in the field of low latency media streaming and content security.

14:45

Coffee

15:15

To be confirmed

15:40

Building a test bed for streaming client applications using open source components

Jonas Birmé / Eyevinn Technology

In this talk Jonas Birmé from Eyevinn will present examples on how a streaming test bed can be built out of managed open source components. Including SSAI live streams for verification of client side tracking and playback, live streams with deterministic errors introduced to validate how clients handles errors, and more.

16:05

ITVX - Operations behind the scenes

Mark Ison / ITV

Streaming platforms are massively complex software systems, involving numerous technical and behavioural variables that are very difficult to predict and/or outside of our control, the art for all streamers is hiding that complexity from viewers. Part of that art is how these systems are operated and managed day-to-day and prepared for major peaks in consumption demand, while generally being resilient to failure. This session will explore how we operate ITVX, plan for major events and prepare our playbooks to handle failure. We'll cover some of our preparatory work, the technical resiliency patterns used and some of the wider practices we employ during a major event.

16:30

Drinks and Mingle

6 400 SEK / attendee
(5 300 SEK min. 3, 4 600 SEK min. 6, 4 200 SEK min. 10. All prices excl. VAT)

Cancellation policy: Change attendee of a ticket for free.

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