Innovations 2015

The battle cry in the enterprise is ‘how do we innovate?’ In many cases, the need for engagement leaves no room for “old ways” and tactics. Video Communications and Video Content are changing the way that people work and how they engage with customers. Jim Lundy, founder and CEO of Aragon Research, will discuss the state of Enterprise Video and explore why and how firms are using it to gain competitive advantage.

As an industry, we have moved into the fourth major phase of the Internet. Phase one was marked by the mass movement of content to online digital platforms; phase two was characterized by an algorithmic approach to organizing the web’s content, in phase 3, social took over. What are the implications of the future of content discovery and how can you plan for success on the web and within the enterprise to ensure your valuable content can be discovered and consumed?

This panel will describe and discuss the major issues facing distributed enterprises and educational institutions as they use more and more online audio and video in their operations. Topics for discussion will include: audio/video content creation and licensing, security, UGC and social sharing, delivery including mobile, and content discovery strategies.

This panel will describe and discuss the major issues facing online audio and video publishers in today’s consumer Internet landscape. Topics for discussion will include: social,mobile,distribution,advertising and content discovery strategies.

Ramp’s recent developments and product announcements presented by Ramp’s President and COO, Stu Patterson, and VP of Customer Success, Matt King.

Live and on-demand video have become a pervasive form of communication in many enterprise organizations. Executives are now looking for ways to manage video assets and, ultimately, get the most value possible out of them. Steve Vonder Haar of Wainhouse Research examines their key factors for calculating ROI on internal Video Content Management solutions.

Video is a uniquely powerful content medium. Video allows for a unique combination of images, sounds and time that can express concepts and reality in ways that other mediums often struggle to convey. But video also has a distinct set of constraints and shortcomings that affect usability. We need to consider these constraints and implement system to mitigate the inherent usability shortcomings when planning to integrate video into the broader context of digital media.

Enterprise video distribution, particularly of live video to tens of thousands of employees, has and continues to be a major challenge. Jay Seaman of ConnectView will review current offerings for enterprise video distribution and separate truth from fiction on topics including: WAN optimization, dedicated video caching infrastructure, multicast, peer-to- peer, and security.

A discussion with Cxense’s founder, Dr. John Lervik, on the new opportunities to leverage Big Data to drive video discovery, recommendations, and monetization.

Executives from Ramp’s Media, Enterprise, and Education customers convene for Ramp’s inaugural customer advisory board.

Ramp Speech Scientist, David Sawicki, is joined by Head of Product at PerformLine, Keith Christoffers, to discuss functionality and use cases for the Ramp Vocabulary Extender, a utility that can improve the accuracy of Ramp’s core speech-to-text technology for specific apps and vocabularies. Christoffers will share how PerformLine uses the Vocabulary Extender in a telephony environment to improve transcription accuracy, keyword spotting, and even to build new product offerings.

Part 1
The Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) has ushered the world of broadcast television regulation onto the Internet. What are the major considerations of video accessibility in general, and what are the key elements of the CVAA? How does this affect strategy in the education and corporate markets?

Part 2
Many large, international companies are turning to online videos and podcasts for a range of important internal applications. With Ramp, companies can easily translate videos or podcasts into multiple languages allowing international employees to watch or listen to them online with subtitles in the language of their choosing. Hear how Ramp is offering new options to leverage existing localization capabilities and dramatically expand the language choices available to video users around the world.

You know about Ramp’s suite of innovative products, and you’ve been briefed on recent releases; now get a glimpse of the future. In this session, Ramp VP of Engineering, Scott Money, and VP of Business Development, Erik Herz, will present Ramp’s product roadmap and detail how market trends are influencing Ramp’s innovation strategy.

Ramp’s Executive Team takes the stage to field questions from the audience. Join this discussion for an opportunity to pose questions to Ramp executives about what you heard in the conference or, perhaps, something you didn’t hear about at the conference but would like to discuss.