SPONSOR DESCRIPTIONS: CHARTER SPONSOR: Akamai® provides market-leading, cloud-based services for optimizing Web and mobile content and applications, online HD video, and secure e-commerce. Combining highly distributed, energy-efficient computing with intelligent software, Akamai's global platform is transforming the cloud into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, transact and collaborate. If you use the Internet for anything - to download music or software, check the headlines, book a flight - you've probably used Akamai's services without even knowing it. We play a critical role in getting content from providers to consumers. Akamai has created a digital operating environment for the Web. Our global platform of thousands of specially-equipped servers helps the Internet withstand the crush of daily requests for rich, dynamic, and interactive content, transactions, and applications. When delivering on these requests, Akamai detects and avoids Internet problem spots and vulnerabilities, to ensure Websites perform optimally, media and software download flawlessly, and applications perform reliably. Hundreds of enterprises worldwide use our global platform to sell, inform, entertain, market, advertise, deliver software, and conduct their business online. Through our EdgeControl they also gain insight into worldwide Internet conditions and access to tools to manage their online business. With Akamai's managed services there's no infrastructure to build or deploy. We can have you integrated on our platform in just a few days. Akamai is based in Cambridge, MA with offices throughout North America, Asia and the European Union. ORGANIZING SPONSOR: The Dutch Media Hub offers content providers a convenient ‘one-stop shopping’ facility for safe and efficient digital storage, enhancement and distribution of all content to all countries within Europe. Why The Netherlands is your Digital Gateway to Europe:
• we have excellent (international) fiber connections and the worlds’ largest internet exchange is located in Amsterdam: the AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange);
• we have a state of the art media and ICT industry with superb technological skills;
• we have great international connections to all countries in Europe and technical circuits to all outlets and technical formats;
• the Netherlands is often used as an international laboratory for technical innovations because of the open mindedness of its inhabitants and their advanced technical and language skills.
The Dutch Media Hub offers a single point of contact, where all storage, enhancement and distribution of your content can be arranged. The Dutch Media Hub is able to provide all these different services because of a large consortium of Dutch parties that participate in the Hub. Besides basic storage and distribution, these parties offer additional services that can provide added value to your content PLATINUM SPONSOR: Signiant’s pioneering software is more than simple file transport – we automate, accelerate, manage, and securely control the movement of high-value digital content within and between organizations and ecosystems. Signiant solutions streamline content supply chain management operations from production through distribution and upload of digital files – enabling customers to build new business models, reduce costs, and integrate with existing investments. Headquartered in Burlington, MA with development facilities in Ottawa, Canada, Signiant has hundreds of enterprise organizations deployed in over 50 countries. Civolution (www.civolution.com ) is the leading provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetizing media content. The company offers an extensive portfolio of cutting-edge watermarking and fingerprinting technology applications for forensic marking of media assets in pre-release, digital cinema, PayTV and online. Through its solution portfolio Civolution offers broadcast and internet media intelligence and monetization. Civolution works with some of the largest media organizations around the globe including Associated Press, BBC Worldwide, CBS, Dolby, Disney-ABC, European Broadcasting Union, Fox, ITN Networks, NBC Universal, Televisa, Thomson-Reuters, Sony, United Nations. Headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, with offices in London, Rennes, New York and Los Angeles, Civolution was formed in October 2008 as a spin-off from Royal Philips Electronics combining synergies from Philips CI, Teletrax and Thomson STS. GOLD SPONSOR: Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., is the leading provider of services to the entertainment industry in film, video and digital media. From dailies to deliverables, clients worldwide trust Deluxe to provide a complete supply chain of film or digital, 2D or 3D, post production, theatrical release and home entertainment services in whatever format they choose. Post-production facilities in North America, Europe and Australia offer EFILM® digital intermediates; mastering and subtitling services; titles design and digital VFX; sound mixing, digital cinema, digital restoration, and media deliverables. Deluxe Digital Studios, creating home entertainment services in North America, Europe and India, is the world's largest provider of Blu-ray authoring services, including enhanced capabilities specifically tailored to the 3D Blu-ray standard; along with creative, subtitling, compression, encoding, and authoring. Product support includes DVD, Blu-ray, BD-Live, and a variety of digital distribution formats. Digital Rapids connects content to opportunity, providing the leading hardware and software solutions for bringing television, movie and Web content to wider audiences and the latest viewing platforms. Scaling from standalone appliances to enterprise and global workflows, Digital Rapids systems for transforming and distributing media provide unparalleled productivity, quality, flexibility and efficiency while streamlining our customers’ operations. Digital Rapids solutions range from ingest, encoding and transcoding to management and delivery. Enabling outstanding live viewing experiences, powerful file-based workflows and efficient content distribution, Digital Rapids products empower applications including Internet TV, IPTV, VOD, post production, webcasting, mobile video, corporate and government communications, education, archive and more. Recipient of four prestigious Frost & Sullivan honors for encoding and transcoding leadership and a coveted IBC Innovation Award, Digital Rapids combines innovative technology with proven expertise to help our customers increase their media revenues, expand their audiences and reduce their costs. With more than 95 years of experience in entertainment innovation, Technicolor serves an international base of entertainment, software, and gaming customers. The company is a leading provider of production, postproduction, and distribution services to content creators and distributors. Technicolor is one of the world’s largest film processors; one of the largest independent manufacturers and distributors of DVDs (including Blu-ray Disc); and a leading global supplier of set-top boxes and gateways. The company also operates an Intellectual Property and Licensing business. Sony DADC is a leading global provider of end-to-end Supply Chain Solutions for digital and physical content to customers across the media and entertainment industries—from major studios and broadcasters to music, gaming, publishing, software, and more. Armed with the understanding of the needs of both digital markets and the companies that use them, Sony DADC has built world-class supply chain services around a strong vision for digital media that opens vast new opportunities through real-time digital services and tools to automate and accelerate processes throughout the entire content lifecycle. From content creation through digital distribution, our services deliver the speed, efficiency, and quality required by today’s digital media business as well as the audiences they serve. Santa Monica, California-based Ascent Media Group, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ascent Media Corporation (NASDAQ: ASCMA). With more than 40 facilities worldwide, Ascent Media Group is a leading provider of fully integrated, end-to-end services for the global digital media supply chain. Guided by our entrepreneurial culture, we blend breakthrough creative with emerging technologies to deliver some of the most advanced and innovative media solutions to help film and television studios, independent producers, broadcast networks, cable channels, advertising agencies and other companies make, manage, move and monetize their digital media. SILVER SPONSOR: Founded in 2003, Thought Equity Motion is the world leader in digitizing, delivering and monetizing high-quality video content. The company makes content more valuable through its advanced technology platform and rights development services. Thought Equity Motion’s integrated offering delivers large scale archive management as a service, providing media companies with greater control while reducing cost and complexity. Rich metadata and flexible, API-driven delivery models make content accessible at scale across a range of platforms and use cases, including library management, broadcast, broadband, and mobile. Thought Equity Motion works with more than 400 rights holders globally, including BBC Motion Gallery, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, National Geographic, The New York Times, NCAA® and NBC News. The company’s footage storefront and global sales force license news, sports, editorial, and creative content to the world’s leading producers in advertising, film, television, and publishing. Through innovative solutions for media preparation that combine striking video quality with surprising simplicity and reliability, Inlet Technologies is enabling you to expand your audience and realize greater value from your content. Inlet’s family of solutions, including SpinnakerTM real-time streaming appliances and Armada transcoding management system, scale seamlessly from mobile to web to high-definition, and are ideal for applications such as live streaming and video-on-demand. Industry leaders such as Major League Baseball, Microsoft, Yahoo!, France Télévisions and Home Shopping Network rely on Inlet for easy implementation, technical prowess and enterprise scale for their mission critical operations. SDI Media is the world's leading provider of language dubbing and subtitling services for feature films, live action and animated television series, interactive games and corporate needs. SDI’s primary focus is providing a comprehensive, end-to-end localisation service to the world's leading media and entertainment companies, including scripting, casting, direction, recording/mixing and other post-production services. SDI owns and operates 99 recording rooms and 23 mixing rooms, with major operations in more than 30 locations throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. SDI employs over 750 full-time personnel and a network of more than 7,000 leading language experts worldwide. Testronic Labs is a leading provider of quality assurance services to the games, home entertainment, software and hardware industries. Operating from a global network of facilities, we provide robust testing and consultancy services to home entertainment and games publishers, software publishers and developers, and those seeking to develop new hardware and devices. Our expertise includes website testing, device certification, functionality, compatibility, security, usability and localisation, operating either from our laboratories or your offices, depending on your requirements. As part of the Catalis group, and with a turnover of approaching 40 million euro, Testronic Labs is an energetic and growing company with a strategic approach to quality assurance. Whilst we encourage thorough testing, we are also helping our clients work towards less testing as a result of longer term planning. SmartJog, the global leader in digital delivery with presence in 65 countries, offers a fully managed distribution and file transfer platform for the secure, fast, and reliable digital delivery of content. SmartJog is the trusted partner for the global exchange of all the Hollywood Studios’ most critical content. With SmartJog, clients can digitally deliver any media, any size, to anywhere across SmartJog’s secure network. SmartJog has over 900 networked clients globally who are across the media value chain: broadcasters, distributors, post-producers, advertising agencies, film-out labs, new media platforms, in-flight integrators, DVD mastering & print factories, and digital cinema theaters. With offices in Paris and Los Angeles, SmartJog ensures constant supervision and integrity of the service