SMPTE members will be presenting at BVE 2018, which runs Feb. 27 to March 1 in London. More than 40 SMPTE Sustaining Members will also be exhibiting with stands at the event.
“Tech innovators, business leaders, and other professionals from across the media, entertainment, and creative industries come together at BVE every year to celebrate, find inspiration, and discuss the trends and technologies shaping the future of content creation, consumption modes and models, and commercial opportunity,” said SMPTE Education Vice President Richard Welsh. “We’re proud to be a partner of BVE and a contributor to what surely will be an exceptional program.”
SMPTE Members scheduled to speak at BVE 2018 include Robert Ambrose of High Green Media, who will lead an opening session titled “CTO View: Technology’s Impact on Workflow” as part of the Techflow Futures series/stream. Ambrose also will chair the Tuesday lunchtime session “IP Production: Enabling the New Broadcast System?” and the Wednesday lunchtime session “SKY: UHD Entertainment Production and Post Production.”
SMPTE Member Tom Griffiths of ITV, also a past SMPTE UK Section manager, will be a panelist for the session “Smart Investment: How Not to Waste Money on Your Technology.” SMPTE Life Fellow John Ive of IABM will chair “Technology Leaders View: Delivering Technology of the Future,” which includes SMPTE Member John Ellerton of BT, a past manager of the SMPTE UK Section, as a panelist.
SMPTE Fellow and Eluvio co-founder and CEO Michelle Munson will present a session titled “Revolutionizing Digital Content Storage and Interchange With Blockchain Ledgers and Machine Learning.” She will discuss topics including the foundational concepts of blockchain technology, advanced machine learning techniques, and the technical challenges of legacy content architecture.
SMPTE UK Regional Governor Mark Harrison will lead “The Trends That Matter: The DPP Predictions 2018” and will also be a panelist on “IMF: What does the new mastering format mean to you?” SMPTE UK Section Manager Andy Wilson, also of DPP, will be a part of “DPP Panel: How to Be Big Online — the Secrets of Success from the Online Producers Who Know” in the Business of Production session series/stream. SMPTE Member Simon Frost of AWS Elemental, an Amazon Web Services Company, will present “Intelligent Cloud Media Workflows for Delivering Better Viewer Experiences,” which will be held in the CME Theatre at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Global Witness Report: TikTok Let Through Disinformation In Political Ads Despite Its Own Ban
Just weeks before the U.S. presidential election, TikTok approved advertisements that contained election disinformation even though it has a ban on political ads, according to a report published Thursday by the nonprofit Global Witness.
The technology and environmental watchdog group submitted ads that it designed to test how well systems at social media companies work in detecting different types of election misinformation.
The group, which did a similar investigation two years ago, did find that the companies — especially Facebook — have improved their content-moderation systems since then.
But it called out TikTok for approving four of the eight ads submitted for review that contained falsehoods about the election. That's despite the platform's ban on all political ads in place since 2019.
The ads never appeared on TikTok because Global Witness pulled them before they went online.
"Four ads were incorrectly approved during the first stage of moderation, but did not run on our platform," TikTok spokesman Ben Rathe said. "We do not allow political advertising and will continue to enforce this policy on an ongoing basis."
Facebook, which is owned by Meta Platforms Inc., "did much better" and approved just one of the eight submitted ads, according to the report.
In a statement, Meta said while "this report is extremely limited in scope and as a result not reflective of how we enforce our policies at scale, we nonetheless are continually evaluating and improving our enforcement efforts."
Google's YouTube did the best, Global Witness said, approving four ads but not letting any publish. It asked for more identification from the Global Witness testers before it would publish them and "paused" their account... Read More