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news UNITED KINGDOM Pro audio adds muscle to MIRC event
Strong presence from professional brands at Intent Media’s annual retail conference
THE ANNUAL MI Retail Conference and expo, to be held on 26 June at Whittlebury Hall in Northamptonshire, will give pro-audio firms a unique opportunity to expand their dealer networks. A significant number of
pro-audio dealers will be in attendance, including KMR Audio, Studio Spares, The Audio Group, Cambridge Sound and The Mic Store. Polar Audio, Peavey, Yamaha, Roland, Monacor, Soundking and Audio-Technica (representing Allen & Heath) have also signed up to exhibit at the one-day event. Music industry software specialist The Enterprise Software Business has been confirmed as headline sponsor. “By connecting brands and dealers, MIRC offers a chance
EUROPE Spotlight on European broadcasting By Melanie Dayasena-Lowe
CONFERENCE SEASON is now upon us with the first of sister publication TVBEurope’s 2013 events taking place in just a couple of weeks. The Beyond HD Masters 2013
conference is gaining momentum as a raft of new sponsors have joined the event and more high- profile speakers are confirmed on the programme. Taking place on Tuesday 11
June at BAFTA in central London, speakers addressing the Beyond HD Masters audience will include Anthony Geffen, CEO and executive producer, Atlantic Productions; Stephan Heimbecher, head of innovations and standards/product and operations – technology, Sky Deutschland; Chris Johns, chief engineer – broadcast strategy, BSkyB; Michel Chabrol, director Digital Cinema, 3D & Ultra HD, Eutelsa; and Andy Quested, head of technology, BBC HD & 3D among others.
Coming soon from TVBEurope: Beyond HD Masters 2013 and IT Broadcast Workflow
This year’s conference will tackle major issues facing European broadcast TV, including the future role of 3D, what will drive the European television technology industry into the future, and, of course, what’s beyond HD. In recent weeks Blackmagic Design has been confirmed as a Gold Sponsor while Ericsson and SIS Live have joined as Silver Sponsors of the event. A month after Beyond HD Masters, IT Broadcast Workflow takes place at London’s BAFTA on 9 July, to be chaired once
again by Jeremy Bancroft of Media Asset Capital. Now heading for its fifth successful year, the event is dedicated to change management, greater operational efficiency, multiple platform delivery and business process management improvement in television broadcasting. The provisional agenda is
now available online at
www.broadcastworkflow.com/ agenda. The opening keynote will feature a discussion with the Digital Production Partnership (DPP) and the production
community. A panel of industry players will examine the work of the DPP, highlighting a number of successes and industry- changing initiatives. The Platinum Presentation entitled ‘Virtualising broadcast playout – a life without cables’ highlights in detail how innovative and cost-effective technologies have allowed Deluxe in partnership with Cinegy to launch MediaCloud at NAB 2013 which offers broadcasters the ability to start delivering on the promise of the Cloud today. Charles Lesoil, project chief,
CANAL+ (Direction Technique Edition), will present a case study titled ‘Content exchange & catchup TV platform’, while ‘Moving to a fully file-based core infrastructure’ focuses on Irish national broadcaster RTÉ’s project FAST – File Acquisition and Server Technology. The speaker is Myles Donoghue, project manager, RTÉ, supported by Tony Taylor, chairman and CEO, TMD.
for pro-audio brands to show their products to MI retailers who are looking to diversify their offering,” says Ronnie Dungan, editor of PSNEurope sister-title MI Pro. More than 250 dealers have
already registered to attend the free event, to be held at the conference and training centre a stone’s throw from the Silverstone racing circuit. The schedule for the day includes:
l Morning conference offering high-value speaker content with experts from a range of business and marketing backgrounds with a keynote from high-street guru Karl McKeever plus advice on online, sales and in-store selling techniques. l Speakers Corner with the opportunity to speak one to one with business experts from the morning conference. l Afternoon expo with 25 suppliers, including Roland, Yamaha, Monacor, Audio- Technica, Peavey, Soundking, Barnes and Mullins, Casio, Chord, Tanglewood, Rotosound and the MIA. l After-show party, sponsored by Roland, incorporating a retail Battle of the Bands event. l Retailers at the show will receive a free Apple TV as part of their high-value gift bag. The Enterprise Software Business Ltd (TESBL) specialises in software solutions for the music industry, and will be
The 2013 event will take place at Whittlebury Hall in Northamptonshire
unveiling its one-stop customer relationship management system, handling sales and stock management and based around centralised Cloud server technology at the event. CEO, operations, Gopi
Setivarahalli, said: “TESBL is experiencing tremendous growth this year internationally and we want to present state-of- the-art software products to
manufacturers and distributors to streamline their workflow, increasing sales and profit margins.” For more information on partner packages and other promotional opportunities contact
darrell.carter@
intentmedia.co.uk or
emilie.george@
intentmedia.co.uk or phone 01992 535647. You can also visit the dedicated website
www.mirc-expo.com n
EVS sponsors a case study
presented by Nicolas Deal, ICT V & A project manager, UEFA Information and Communications Technology, entitled ‘The future of sports broadcast: towards collaborative production and media delivery’. ‘Creating a holistic media
organisation for content creation and distribution in a multiplatform world’ is the topic to be tackled by Eric Minoli, CTO/CIO at TFO – La télévision culturelle et éducative de l’Ontario français, in a session introduced by Hervé Obed, founder and CEO of sponsors ProConsultant Informatique (PCI). And from Norway, Rune
Hagberg, solutions architect at national broadcaster NRK, will tell us about ‘NORDIF3: Nordic broadcasters use a cloud to exchange content’. This case study is sponsored by Tedial. In addition, Israel Esteban,
CTO of BeIN SPORT, has been confirmed as a speaker, sponsored by MediaGeniX, while Spectra Logic has joined as the latest Gold Sponsor of IT Broadcast Workflow. n
www.beyondhdmasters.com www.broadcastworkflow.com
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