The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), a leader in motion-imaging standards and education for the communications, media, entertainment, and technology industries, has announced that Dr. Neil Hunt, chief product officer at Netflix, will present the keynote address at the Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age (ETIA) conference.
Conference Highlights
The ETIA 2015 conference, scheduled for June 16-17 at Stanford University near Palo Alto, California, will explore past, current, and future technology requirements for delivering a compelling entertainment experience on the Internet.
Hunt's keynote address, titled 'The Race Is On!', will look at how the content creation community and the titans of the Internet can better collaborate in providing compelling content to consumers. He will discuss the challenges of this proposition, as well as the benefits it could bring to all parties, particularly the consumer.
Additional Sessions
Further conference highlights include a session on advances and challenges in augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) for entertainment, featuring experts from Jaunt, Columbia Engineering, Immersion, Meta, and more. Another special evening session will explore the latest technical options and how content providers are dealing with the challenges of securing content in the new age of Internet-based content distribution.
Conference Program
The conference program will feature over a dozen sessions, bringing together technical, creative, and ecosystem experts to explore how the Internet is changing entertainment. Topics will include image quality, compression efficiency, object-oriented audio, and more.