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ConnecTechAsia and IMDA Form
Advisory Committee
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onnecTechAsia and Infocomm
Media Development Authority
(IMDA) have formed an advisory
committee to help steer the event.
Co-chaired by Howie Lau, Chief
Industry
Development
Officer,
Industry Development Group, IMDA
and Chris Kilbee, Executive Director,
ASEAN, Informa Markets (organiser of
ConnecTechAsia), the committee will
provide expert industry insights on
how ConnecTechAsia can best serve
the needs of the telecoms, media and
technology sector in the region.
"Southeast Asia is experiencing
rapid growth, and the continued
organisation of ConnecTechAsia in
Singapore is proof of the country's
role in the development of the region's
digital economy.
"The formation of the advisory
committee will strengthen the
partnership between the public and
private sectors, as Singapore seeks to
continually improve its infocomm and
media industries," said Mr Lau.
"Our aim is to continue to build

an event for the industry, by the
industry, and the Public-Private
sector collaboration between IMDA,
ConnecTechAsia and our industry
partners from the Advisory Committee,
is key to delivering a strong
programme that will help develop
digital capabilities and drive digital
transformation across all enterprise
verticals, governments and societies
in Singapore and beyond," said Mr
Kilbee.
"As we stand at the cusp of Industry
4.0, our partnership with key
technology leaders will bring an
unparalleled depth of knowledge to
build a platform that tackles key issues
and the immense changes emerging
tech such as 5G, IoT, data analytics and
artificial intelligence will bring to our
lives," he added.
The members of the committee
are: Howie Lau, Chief Industry
Development
Officer,
Industry
Development Group, IMDA (CoChairman); Chris Kilbee, Executive
Director, ASEAN (Informa Markets);

ConnecTechAsia Co-Chairs: Howie Lau (IMDA) and Chris Kilbee (Informa Markets)

Christophe Cazes, CEO, APAC, Eutelsat
(Co-Chairman); Chung Heng Han, SVP
Oracle Systems APAC/EMEA (Oracle);
Dennis Breckenridge, CEO, (Elevate
Broadcast Pte Ltd); Dennis Chia, Chief
Financial Officer (StarHub); Francis
Choo, VP & Chief Country Executive
(Ingram Micro, ASEAN & Hong Kong);
Jonathan Goh, VP, Global Enterprise
& Public Sector - ASEAN, Taiwan,
Hong Kong and Macau (NOKIA);
Khor Cheng Kian, Director, Industry
Strategy - Communications & Media
(Salesforce APAC); Merrick Wang,
General Manager, APAC (China Mobile

International); Nicholas Ma, CEO
(Huawei International); Sanjiv Bhagat,
Executive Director Sales Management
- ASEAN (AT&T Global Business); Tan
Yuh Woei, Senior Director, Southeast
Asia (FireEye); Andrew Milroy, Head of
Advisory Services (Ovum); and Carsten
Boeckmann, Director, Asia Pacific
(Ovum).
The committee will also guide how the
event will address the rapidly changing
digital economy that's driving the
future of business, as well as boost
Singapore's stature as Asia's leader for
digital transformation & innovation.

TBS TV ATEM News Streaming Workflow
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apan's TBS television broadcast
station has built a news streaming
workflow with Blackmagic's ATEM 2
M/E Production Studio 4K, ATEM 1 M/E
Production Studio 4Ks and ATEM 1 M/E
Advanced Panels.
This new facility is used for streaming
daily news as well to provide extensive
streaming news content covering
Japan's upcoming election campaign.
TBS, one of Japan's top commercial
broadcasters, has grown their
streaming programming as the
demand for providing up to the
minute news to non TV devices like
smartphones and computers, has
grown. The channel now includes a
YouTube channel for breaking news, a
24 hours news streaming channel for
satellite broadcast and news streaming
for social media such as twitter and
Facebook. All of these will include
content created with the Blackmagic
Design ATEM switchers, which were
installed at TBS' main Tokyo locations.
A spokesperson for TBS' Content
Business Department, said: "We
updated our streaming facility as part
of a huge layout change for our news
floor. When choosing the equipment

TBS Television's news streaming production facility

for the new workflow, we decided to
use switchers that could also be used
for the upcoming election campaign
special programme, which happens
once every few years. This is different
from the past, where we used to build
a temporal facility for only the special
programme. But it was very tiring to

set up all the gear from scratch each
time. So, we took this opportunity to
upgrade our streaming equipment to
be more versatile and permanent so
that we could use it for the election
campaign programme."
Hayato Aoyama, who handles the
everyday streaming operation at TBS

TV, added: "We used to use just the
Blackmagic ATEM 1 M/E Production
Studio 4K for our 24 hours news
streaming programme, but we needed
more inputs and outputs to handle
all of the new streaming content we
were planning. So we then added the
larger Blackmagic switchers, including
the ATEM 2 M/E Production Studio 4K
and ATEM 1 M/E Advanced Panels, and
another ATEM 1 M/E Production Studio
4K that we used just for our social
media channels."
Each ATEM switcher receives pictures
from television relay, VTRs and
subtitles.
Taking advantage of the ATEM 2 M/E
Production Studio 4K's 20 inputs, TBS
sends camera feeds to the switcher
while using additional inputs for
subtitles. Each ATEM switcher is also
connected to an ATEM 1 M/E Advanced
Panel via LAN.
Audio from camera feeds on the ATEM
2 M/E Production Studio 4K are sent to
an audio mixer via Blackmagic's Mini
Converter SDI to Audio. Then all video
and audio are sent to a matrix router
and each programme is streamed via
an encoder.
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