The Entertainment Technology Center at USC held its Digital Town Square, 5G: Planning and Piloting First M&E Services, on December 10, 2019, hosted by ETC member company, Bluescape, at the Haworth Furniture Showroom Penthouse in Los Angeles.
Industry experts invited to the half-day forum discussed 5G technologies’ impact upon media and entertainment production, composition, distribution, and consumption. Presentations and a panel covered topics ranging from the transforming nature of storytelling to the more granular and technical aspects of networked production.
The Program:
5G Fixed Wireless: Cable in the Crossfire
- Bill Stueber, Managing Partner, Telecom Partners
- Erik Weaver, Director, Special Projects, ETC@USC (Moderator)
M&E’s First Site-Specific Networks
- Christian Guirnalda, Director, 5G Labs & Innovation, Verizon
- Naotaka Sato, Wireless Communication Standardization Manager, Sony Corporation
- Ryo Sawai, PhD, Deputy General Manager, Sony Corporation
- Hanno Basse, President, Decentralized Media Solutions, Live Planet (Moderator)
Remote, Agile Capture
- Daniel Pisarski, VP, Engineering NA, LiveU
- Michael Chambliss, Advanced Production Technology Specialist, ICG, Local 600
Turning the 5G Network into an Agile Monetization Platform
- Yogen Patel, VP/Head of Product & Solutions Marketing, Amdocs
- David Wertheimer, Investor, Board Member, Former President Digital, Fox/Fox Sports (Moderator)
5G+Edge+AI+Data
- Andrew Alleman, Chief Architect of Advanced Network Solutions, Intel
- Paul McLachlan, Head of Data Scientist (SFO), Principal Data Scientist, Global AI Accelerator, Ericsson
- Kunal Jathal, Senior Audio Engineer, Verizon XR
- Hardie Tankersley, VP Solutions Consulting & VR, SilverDraft Computing
5G: Are There Health Concerns?
- Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD, Professor, UC San Diego School of Medicine
- Joachim Zell, VP Technology, EFILM/Deluxe (Moderator)
Let’s Talk About ‘X’ – Mixed Reality in a 5G World
- Craig Evans, CEO, Digital Nation Entertainment
- Luke Ritchie, Head of XR and Interactive Arts, Nexus Studios
- Sebastian Sylwan, CTO and Creative Partner, Felix & Paul Studios
- Moderator: David Nelson, Creative Director, MxR Lab, USC Institute for Creative Technology
Anatomy of a Virtual Being (in a 5G Ecosystem)
- Pete Billington, Co-Founder/Director, Fable Studios