MTSS Summit 2024

In this captivating panel discussion, discover how ELF partnered with industry leaders like Vizrt, LOGIC Media, and Novel Media to adopt a live cloud production model running on AWS. By leveraging these innovative technologies, ELF was able to reduce travel-related emissions - a major carbon hotspot in traditional live sports broadcasting. Hear directly from each of the companies behind this project as they share their experiences, the challenges they overcame, and the invaluable lessons learned. Gain insights into how ELF's pioneering approach can inspire and guide others in the industry to follow suit, paving the way for a more sustainable future in live sports production. Moderator: Jason O'Malley, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect, AWS Laurens Koos, Director Distribution & Strategy, ELF Senad Mecavica, Managing Director, Novel Media Thomas Pister, Head of Solutions at Logic Media Solutions Paulo Santos, Senior Cloud Architect, Vizrt

Join us for a look at how one media company has leveraged cloud efficiency to help it achieve its sustainability goals. ITV’s Matt Price shares their journey making sustainability a key factor in procurement decisions for their media supply chain, leveraging.the SDVI Rally media supply chain platform, hosted on AWS. Through SDVI's Net-zero Supply Chains initiative, ITV gained the ability to measure, collect, and report on the detailed operational data necessary to calculate and offset the entire carbon footprint of their Rally usage, including the use of third-party applications. This cloud-based approach has charted a course for a more sustainable future in media production and distribution. In this comprehensive panel discussion, hear directly from the organization involved in making net-zero a reality - ITV, SDVI, and AWS - as they discuss the challenges and solutions the industry has when decarbonizing their media supply chain. Moderator: Jason O'Malley, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect, AWS Chris Braehler, VP, Product, SDVI Corporation Matt Price, Sustainability Transformation Manager

The past year has seen upheavals. Sustainability for the past few years has been a hot topic outside of the US. However it has certainly been eclipsed in 2024 as many organisations face commercial change / challenges, AI and politics seem to be elbowing everything else off stage, and even the EU has started to seeming prioritise defence and domestic economic protectionism over long term sustainability. In this session Dom will talk with the editors of The Flint and Faultline about thier observances as they have been regularly reporting on sustainability within the Media industry. We will take a (likely freewheeling and opinionated) discussion around a broad range of trends and emerging patterns - returning regularly to the question "is the industry doing enough of the right stuff"? Dom Robinson Neal Romanek Tommy Flanagan John Pabon

Barbara Lange Jeremy Mathieu (ITV)

The Low Energy Sustainable Streaming (LESS) accord project is an outreach to the wider non-member community. It aims to ensure GoS is not working in isolation. Last year we reached out to around 30 different forums, SDOs and conferences encouraging non-members who are engineers to tell us what they think is the obvious challenge to focus on. We distilled these ideas into 4 major projects. Now underway for many months they are all at various stages of progress. In this session each Project Lead will provide a 5-10 min update and we will take Q&A as we go. Topics include multicast / unicast / p2p, encoding and 'good enough', consolidation and practical use cases for aggregation of energy telemetry into actionable data, and finally a look at emerging technologies such as immersion cooling and wind turbines as data centres! Dom Robinson Simon Jones Sam Orton-Jay Arian Koster

Our major effort this year has been to deploy our 'Real-world Energy Measurement.' Spanning all our 'pillar' working groups (4,6,8) this session will talk in depth about the hackathons we are conducting, the technology behind them, the challenges, the observations and what's coming next. This session will allow the speakers to go into some depth. It will doubtless be a technical session, and will explore how we have been pioneering simple measurement of energy consumption end to end from the encoders in the data centres or production facilities, through the networks and into the consumers premesis. If 'measurement' is central to sustainability strategy, here is 'how' GoS is fast getting to grips with the vital data the industry needs, and at scale. Ben Schwarz Simon Jones

A round up of Working Groups 1,3,5,7,9: Each GoS WG lead will present about 5-10 mins on what the WGs are focussing in on touching on topics ranging from Lexicon, Best Practice, Audio, Energy as a KPI and Academic Engagment. As well as providing an overview of actual activities and outputs, we will encourage the WG leads to be honest about the challenges they face (its never plain sailing!) and yet emphasise the motivations behind the WGs and reasons why the challenges must be overcome come. Dom Robinson Barbara Lange Ant Daly Christoph Neumann

In this special panel session, Akamai, on of Greening of Streaming's founding members and the largest Content Delivery Network in the world, will provide insights about how they have developed their ESG reporting, and the innovations they have brought into play to enable them to answer their customer's questions relating to eneryg demand and emissions. This is an incredibly complex area, and Akamai take pride in their world class and industry leading transparency. Moderator - Owen Mattison – Senior Corporate Sustainability Strategist, Akamai Mike Mattera – Director of Corporate Sustainability & ESG Officer Margot Hines – Principal Corporate Sustainability Strategist Katie Robinson – Corporate Sustainability Strategist