Conference Agenda

 

With online video revolutionizing so many aspects of our lives, improving the ways we communicate, educate, collaborate and even buy and sell, this the right time to get up to speed with what’s possible using today’s technology and help shape the technology of tomorrow, making video higher quality, faster to stream and easier to create. Join us this year at DevConnect, a full-day conference taking place in NYC in April 2nd , bringing together web & mobile developers, video experts and content makers who care about the future of web video. This year, we have a great line-up of speakers featuring luminaries from Disney, Avid, Internet Broadcasting, Cognizant, Remote Learner, Paypal, eBay, Sencha and more.

Overview

• 08:30-09:30  -  Kaltura DevConnect Registration and breakfast, Exhibit hall open
• 09:30-10:45  -  Opening remarks and Keynote address
• 10:45-11:15  -  Coffee break
• 11:15-12:30  -  Morning sessions and workshops
• 12:30-01:30  -  Lunch Break
• 01:30-03:30  -  Afternoon sessions and workshops
• 03:30-05:00  -  Cocktails and networking

 

The Keynote

Todd Carter and TJ Kudalis, The Digital Publishing Revolution: Redefining the Business of Media (10:00-10:40)

The Internet and other advancements in technology have removed many of the traditional barriers to content creation and distribution that defined the media industry for decades.  Today, just about anyone can engage directly with consumers fostering far richer digital experiences and forcing traditional media to re-invent itself. In this insightful keynote, Todd Carter and TJ Kudalis will discuss the impacts the Internet and advancements of technologies in rich media production and distribution are having across many industries including Retail, Consumer Products & Goods and Traditional Media.

 

Bring Your Laptop Workshops (Requirements)

Jess Portnoy , Optimizing the LAMP(K) Stack – Performance gains by proper planning (11:00-12:30)

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack under the hood: A brief walk through the LAMP components and the various stacks available. A drill down into optimizing the Kaltura LAMP environment focusing on optimizing PHP and little touch of MySQL and Apache options with emphasis on security where applicable.
Many people develop in PHP without giving much consideration to optimizing their environments to get the maximum performance gain. This session will take you through a beginner’s walkabout on this rather broad topic in the hope that you’ll later be able to research further and make custom improvements to your Kaltura stack.

Eitan Avgil, Customizing Kaltura Players, Behind the scenes of the uiConf (01:30-03:30)

Flex it, squiz it, skin it, on the desktop or on mobile – Kaltura’s cross platform media players are controlled by a highly flexible and dynamic XML based language, the “Kaltura uiConf”. Join Eitan, Kaltura’s leading proffesional services front-end developer and an all-star Flash & Flex developer, where he uncovers what’s under the hood of the Kaltura media players and will teach you how to fluently speak the uiConf and make your own custom video players; Modify the layout, skin it and create plugins! – Make it your own!

Sessions

08:30 - 09:30                                                                         Breakfast and Registration
09:30 - 10:45                                                                                     Keynotes
10:45 - 11:15                                                                                  Coffee Break
Morning Sessions:
11:15 - 11:50	The Benefits of the Kaltura-Moodle integration in K-20 and Corporate Education Michael Penney and Akin Delamarre Remote Learner	From Source To Stream: Demystifying Video In The Digital Era David Kronmiller Kaltura	The Ins and outs of the Kaltura HTML5 Video Library (www.html5video.org) Michael Dale Kaltura & HTML5Video.org
11:50 - 12:30	Video Journalism for the People: Empowering the Average Joe to Take on the Mass Media Tom Ortega	Extending the Kaltura Dynamic Player with Industry & Custom OSMF Plugins David Hassoun RealEyes	From zero to tablet in 45 minutes: how to develop a video gallery with Sencha Touch Luca Candela Sencha
12:30 - 01:30                                                                                  Lunch Break
Afternoon Sessions:
01:30 - 02:10	Developing Complex Dynamic Web Applications using Kaltura's API Leon Gordin Kaltura	Bridging Television News and Web Production Bob Craig and Ron Wallace Avid	Online Video Monetization Strategies Using PayPal's HTML5 Kit and Kaltura Sidney Maestre PayPal / x.com
02:10 - 02:50	Optimizing Kaltura's search with the Sphinx Search Server Vladimir Fedorkov Sphinx Search	Architecting and Deploying Distributed, Fault Tolerant Kaltura Clusters Kevin Freund Kaltura	Automated Video Slide-show Creation with Node.js and Kaltura Roberto Moreno and Sean Ouimet Redman Tech
02:50 - 03:30	Creating a next generation video experience using Kaltura. Keith Wilcox Disney	Kaltura Server Plugins - Extending the core Kaltura Server Johnathan Kanarek, “Tan-Tan” Kaltura	Native Mobile & Connected Devices using Kaltura’s SDK & Reference Application (20 min) Nir Erlich Kaltura
			Scaling Kaltura Guided by Tests (20 min) Chris Young base79 (formerly with YouView)
03:30 - 05:00                                                                         Cocktails Party & Lightning Talks