C+T @ NAB

Bogdan Frusina, founder and chief technology officer of Dejero, and Bill Nardi, the company’s vice president for broadcast integration, will make a joint presentation at the 2013 NAB Show. Titled “Cellular ENG Comes of Age: Aggregating Multiple Wireless Transmission Technologies to Deliver Highly Reliable, Live HD Video,” the session is scheduled for April 11 at [...]

At the 2013 NAB Show, Avner Ronen, CEO & co-founder of Boxee, Inc., will deliver the keynote address to the Disruptive Media Conference on Wednesday, April 10, 1:45 – 2:15 p.m.The idea for Boxee was born in 2004 when Ronen and four friends began using Xbox Media Center, open source software for the original Xbox [...]

NAB Show is to launch “2nd Screen Sunday” at this year’s show in partnership with the 2nd Screen Society (S3). The afternoon conference at the Encore Hotel on Sunday, April 7 in Las Vegas will address and showcase the latest business opportunities, creative case studies and technology innovations related to the creation of supplementary, synchronized [...]

NAB Show has invited 10 up-and-coming companies to participate in a new NAB Show program, SPROCKIT. Featuring game-changing, market-ready startups, SPROCKIT will provide a platform for emerging companies to connect with and present before media and entertainment influencers.Recruited for their innovative mobile, video, analytics and social technologies, and their high potential to have a considerable [...]

This year’s NAB Show will host 60 international delegations, including delegations attending for the first time from Croatia, Israel, Malaysia, Norway and United Arab Emirates. Approximately 30 percent of the event’s 90,000+ attendees will travel from 155 countries to NAB Show, held April 6-11 in Las Vegas.“NAB Show places significant value on international participation from [...]

Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe winning producer Jon Landau will keynote NAB Show’s Technology Summit On Cinema on Sunday, April 7 in Las Vegas. The Summit is co-produced by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). Landau has produced the two highest grossing movies of all-time, “Avatar” and “Titanic”. In addition, he [...]

NAB Show has announced it is launching SPROCKIT, a new program which will give 10 market-ready startup companies the opportunity to present their product or service directly to influencers in media and entertainment. During the custom-curated, invitation-only experience, startups will present their offerings live to decision makers, industry visionaries, global media and potential funders at [...]

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski will participate in question-and-answer session at the 2013 NAB Show in Las Vegas. Genachowski will sit down for a conversation with NAB Joint Board Chair Paul Karpowicz, president of Meredith Corporation – Local Media Group, on Wednesday, April 10 at 9 a.m. in Las Vegas. “NAB looks forward [...]

Lowell C. McAdam, chairman and chief executive officer of Verizon Communications, will be featured in Tuesday’s General Session on April 9 at NAB Show in Las Vegas, event organisers announced. The session, entitled “Lowell McAdam: A Candid Conversation,” will feature McAdam in a discussion with NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith on his vision for [...]

Chris Daughtry, lead vocalist of the multi-platinum band Daughtry, will be the featured entertainment at the 2013 NAB Show Television Luncheon, April 8 in Las Vegas. Chris Daughtry’s performance will honour the induction of the long-running reality competition series “American Idol” into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame, also taking place at the Television Luncheon. [...]