For Immediate Release
CONTACT: Tom Coughlin CONTACT Andy Marken
Coughlin Associates Marken Communications
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San Jose, CA, May 11, 2017—Dave Elliot from Google’s Cloud Platform will be a keynote speaker for the 2017 Creative Storage Conference (SM) (CS 2017). The conference will be May 24, 2017 in Culver City, CA. Some sponsorship and exhibit opportunities are still available.
You can register for this premier event at http://www.creativestorage.org/2017Register.htm. The registration deadline is May 22, 2017.
Following the theme of artificial intelligence in rich media workflows Dave’s keynote talk title is: “Intelligence in Video: Maximize the Value of Your Stored Assets”. Many media companies have large stores of video files, and those assets are are growing. However because these files are often difficult to access, they are often underutilized. Metadata tagging and placement on fast media is a common approach, however it comes with high cost and complexity. Google recently announced a service to enable the generation of insights from video.
Dave Elliott is the Global Product Lead for Enterprise Cloud at Google where he oversees enterprise cloud applications including digital storage for professional media and entertainment. Dave serves a a product marketing executive as well as product manager for Cloud M&E applications. Before Google he was a Cloud Evangelist for Symantec as well as GM Americas and Asia Pacific for Arkeia Software.
The Eleventh Annual Creative Storage Conference (SM) (CS 2017) will be held Wednesday May 24, 2017 at the DoubleTree Hotel West Los Angeles in Culver City, CA (www.creativestorage.org). This event brings together digital storage providers, equipment and software manufacturers and professional media and entertainment end users to explore the conference theme of “The Next Act of Storage: Digital Storage Makes Art Happen.” At CS 2017 you can find out the latest developments in digital storage for media and entertainment, find out how other media professionals meet their digital storage needs and network with industry professionals.
This one-day conference and exhibits brings together the vendors, end users, researchers and visionaries that will meet growing demand for digital storage for content capture, editing, archiving and content distribution.
In addition to the sessions there will also be four keynote talks during the conference and a sponsored reception in the evening. The preliminary agenda for the Creative Storage ConferenceSM is at: http://www.creativestorage.org/2017Agenda.htm.
Google is a Diamond Sponsor. Aspera and Quantum are Platinum Sponsors. Komprise, Microsoft and NetApp are Bronze Sponsors. Exhibitors include Active Storage, Advantage Video, Axle Video, Backblaze, Caringo, CineSys Oceana (DDP Americas), Cloudian, Kingston Technology, mLogic, Scale Logic, SGL, StorageDNA and Xendata. Media and Organization Sponsors include the AMIA, Bright Blue Innovations Intl., Broadcast Beat, Colonial Purchasing, Coughlin Associates, DCIA, Digital Cinema Society, Digital Production Buzz, Drive Trust Alliance, Entertainment Technology Center (USC), Entertainment Storage Alliance, Flash Memory Summit, HDDFA, Home Toys/AVSystems, LACPUG, Los Angeles Post Production Group, M&E Tech, MESS, Parks Associates, Popnetmedia, Post Magazine, PostPerspective, Postproduction.com, ProductionHub.com, RDC, Sound and Picture Magazine, SMPTE, SNIA, The Broadcast Bridge, Trusted Computing Group and The Shindler Perspective.
A limited number of sponsorships and exhibits opportunities are still available for the 2017 Creative Storage Conference (SM). Several levels of conference, web site and event sponsorship are available as well as a table-top exhibits. Information on the sponsorship and exhibit opportunities are available at http://www.creativestorage.org/2017Exhibitors.htm.
For additional information on the conference call 408-202-5098 or email [email protected].
The Creative
Storage Conference (SM) is put on by the Entertainment Storage Alliance (www.entertainmentstorage.org) and Coughlin Associates (www.tomcoughlin.com).