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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 9 - Issue 5 | May 2019

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Harriet Green Headlines
ConnecTechAsia Summit

T

he
ConnecTechAsia
Summit,
themed Shaping Future Societies,
will be headlined by industry leader,
Harriet Green, the CEO and Chairman
of IBM Asia Pacific.
Green will explore how the shift
from digital experimentation to scale
adoption of new technologies will
fundamentally alter the value chains of
entire industries and change the way
we work and live.
"A new era of business reinvention
is dawning. Organisations are facing
an unprecedented convergence of
technological, social and regulatory
forces," said Green. "Not only is there
a clear need for any organisation
to be fully digital in itself; these
organisations also need to be able

Harriet Green, CEO and
Chairman, IBM Asia Pacific

to accommodate high expectations
from clients and deal with pervasive
interconnectivity.
How
can

organisations deliver on that? That's
key question every CEO and every
leader in any organisation has started
asking.
"There are three key drivers -
people, process and data - that any
organisation needs to align in order to
move from random acts of digital to a
real, tangible digital transformation.
I am excited to contribute to the
discussions at the ConnecTechAsia
Summit and share some of the best
practices and insights for all of us to
think about."
The Summit keynote will highlight
the new era of business reinvention
with speakers touching on topics
including
AI,
automation,
IoT,
blockchain, 5G.

Qatar's
Al-Arabi
SC Selects
ChyronHego
Coach Paint
T

he coaching staff of Al-Arabi SC, the
second-oldest football club in Qatar
and one of the country's most popular,
has adopted ChyronHego's Coach Paint
video telestration tool to boost player
performance and better prepare the
team for upcoming matches.

Avid Upgrade Enhances NBT Workflow
T

he 24-hour television network
National Broadcasting Services
of Thailand (NBT), has upgraded its
production workflow for news and
entertainment programming with Avid
tools and solutions.
Integrated with Avid's MediaCentral
platform, NBT's new Avid workflow
includes graphics, storage, and video
and audio editing tools, enabling its
broadcast team to deliver demanding
virtual studio productions and operate
with greater efficiency.
"Avid is excited to help NBT
expand its workflow in order to bring
increasingly engaging programming to
life for its audiences," said Jeff Rosica,

Avid CEO and President.
"With the MediaCentral
platform in place Avid is
there for every step of
NBT's journey, enabling
the network to innovate
and achieve its vision as it
continues to evolve."
NBT
has
relied
on
MediaCentral
|
Newsroom NBT has relied on Avid solutions since 2010
Management to support its news photorealistic environments. Also
production since 2010. To boost the new to the expanded Avid workflow
network's deliverables, NBT added is MediaCentral | Cloud UX which is
Maestro | Virtual Set which, when tightly integrated with Avid's nextcoupled with Xync 2.0 infrared gen video server, FastServe, and
camera tracking, gives NBT's teams Avid NEXIS, which accelerates NBT's
the ability to create engaging workflow efficiency and collaboration.

Telstra And Broadpeak Launch IDO Solution
T
elstra,
in
partnership
with
Broadpeak, has launched the
Intelligent Device Optimization (IDO)
solution.
IDO
combines
Broadpeak's
umbrellaCDN technology and Telstra's
media-optimised network, combining
the intelligence in mobile sporting
apps and real-time network awareness
to deliver a premium experience
to end users. IDO enables content
providers and telecommunications
operators to maximise customer video
performance in an end-to-end content
delivery architecture by mediating
network awareness and software
intelligence.

"By partnering with Broadpeak, we
have developed IDO, which allows the
use of optimisation capabilities in our
mobile network such as LTE broadcast
and HEVC video to be dynamically
orchestrated in real-time," said
Andrew Phelagti, Media Networks
Principal at Telstra.
"It's a win for the customer
video experience and a win for the
telecommunication provider through
network optimisation, helping to
increase engagement for content
providers' video products."
"IDO's light touch enablement and
rich feature set will allow operators
to take full advantage of bandwidth

Telstra has partnered with Broadpeak

efficiencies early and deliver better
experiences at the leading edge of
the adoption curve," said Jacques Le
Mancq, CEO at Broadpeak.
With IDO, international mobile
operators can ignite a range of media
optimisations on their networks, such
as LTE broadcast for live streaming
events at scale and enable content
streaming using the latest videocompression standard.

Al-Arabi SC uses
Coach Paint to boost
player performance and
for team preparations

Similar to those used on professional
sports broadcasts, Coach Paint's
advanced telestration techniques
gives Al-Arabi coaches a boost when
analysing the strategy and players of
competing teams, as well as for weekly
post-match analysis of the team's own
matches.
"Time and efficiency are everything
in our opposition and performance
analysis work. We collect and have
access to a large quantity of video and
data after every match, and we need to
turn around high-quality presentations
in a short time and under pressure,"
said Bjarki Már Ólafsson, first team
analyst and coach, Al-Arabi SC.
"Coach Paint is the most efficient
and effective tool we've found for
presenting every player from the
opposition team to our players, and
also for presenting concepts and
high-value instruction in a clear and
accurate way."
Coach Paint is an out-of-the-box
software solution with tools for
highlighting sports videos, including
player cut-out, spotlight, zoom, player
tracking, zone tracking, and many
other telestration capabilities.
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