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The field of experts presenting BEITC sessions is a virtual TV engineering “Who’s Who” list. There’s only one place in the world to find all the international TV engineering experts under one roof at the same time: The Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) during a NAB Show. There’s no better place to meet new contacts and trade business cards than a Las Vegas NAB Show.

Part 1 of the BEITC story covered TV engineering sessions from Thursday 3 April thru Saturday 5 April, all before the exhibits open. Part 2 covers Sunday thru Wednesday.

Sunday is not the best day to visit exhibits. It’s opening day, and exhibits and aisles will be packed with visitors trying to see it all in a couple of days and it will be difficult to navigate. Hurried visitors without a plan are guaranteed to miss some important information and will probably read about what they missed when they get home. The best days to visit exhibits and ask questions are Tuesday and Wednesday.

In the meantime, BEITC Sessions continue through Tuesday and some of them will share significant new electronic information and valuable safety tips.

Sunday 6 April

Exhibits open at 10am on Sunday, the same time a roundtable titled “Bridging the Gap: Deploying Live Ultra HD Broadcasts Across HDR and SDR Systems” will be presented in W222-W223. Speakers will include Bill Baggelaar with UHD Alliance, Matthew Goldman, chair of the NABA Technical Committee, Ian Nock with Fairmile West/Ultra HD Forum, Yasser Syed President, UHD Forum, and Michael Zink VP of Strategic Partnerships at LG Electronics. The session will be moderated by Cindy Cavell with Capitol Airspace Group and Kelly Williams, VP, Engineering and Technology Policy at NAB.

At 11am in W220-W221, Mark Corl, Triveni Digital SVP and Harvey Arnold, SVP, Engineering, at Sinclair Broadcast Group will present “BPS Mesh Network – Initial Deployment Report,” about the ATSC 3.0 Broadcast Positioning System (BPS) mesh network. At 11:20am in the same rooms the session “Field Test of ATSC 3.0/BPS Precise Time Distribution” will be presented by Jeff Sherman, Supervisory physicist at NIST and Harvey Arnold, SVP, Engineering at Sinclair Broadcast Group.

In the same rooms at 11:40 the session “Transferring traceable time to BPS-enabled ATSC 3.0 station” will be presented by Ramki Ramakrishnan with Safran Electronics & Defense, and Harvey Arnold with Sinclair Broadcast Group.

At 1:30pm in W220-W221, Ted Korte, VP Engineering and Technology with USSI Global will present “Broadcast and Digital out of Home (DOOH) – A Convergence Thru Datacasting.” The session will be moderated by Cindy Cavell with Capitol Airspace Group.

It will be followed in the same rooms at 2:10pm by “Broadcasting Without Boundaries: Seamlessly Integrating EAS into Virtualized Air-Chains,” presented by Bill Robertson, VP at Digital Alert Systems, and moderated by Cindy Cavell with Capitol Airspace Group.

At 3:30pm in W222-W223, “NextGen TV: the New Frontier for Content Interactivity and Immersive Experiences” will be presented by Joe Addalia with Hearst Television, Alberto Niero with Fincons Group, and moderated by Joe Seccia with TelevisaUnivision.

At 3:40pm in W220-W221, Lukasz Litwic, Research Leader at Ericsson, and Justin Ridge, Principal Engineer at Nokia will present "VVC Broadcast Deployment Update." The session will be moderated by Chris Homer, Director of Engineering at KGUN 9 TV. VVC video coding was introduced in July 2020.

Monday 7 April

The first session of interest on Monday is “Proactive Observability for Video Over IP,” presented in W220-W221 by Adi Rozenberg, CTO at Alvalinks, and moderated by Rick Ackermans, RF and Transmissions Engineering at CBS/Paramount. Learn how to pre-test a network before going live. It will be followed by a second session in the same room, moderated by Rick Ackermans, RF and Transmissions Engineering at CBS/Paramount, titled “OTT as a Replacement for Satellite Contribution,” presented by David Eisenbacher, CEO/Co-Founder, EZDRM Inc., exploring the Common Media Application Format (CMAF).

In W222-223 at 10:20am, speakers Punyabrota Dasgupta, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS India, and Maheshwaran G, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS India will present "Integrated Newsrooms with Generative AI: Efficiency, Accuracy, and Beyond" The session will be moderated by Stan Moote, CTO at IABM.

At 11am in W220-W221, the paper "Two-Pass Encoding for Live Video Streaming" will be presented by Mohammad Ghasempour, a student at Alpen-Adria-Universität, and moderated by Marisabel Rodriguez, Global Services Manager at Google Cloud at Google. It will be followed in the same room by "Improving Streaming QOE Analytics Using Timed Metadata and Encoder-Reported Quality Scores," presented by Yuriy Reznik, VP, Research at Brightcove, Inc. and moderated by Marisabel Rodriguez, Global Services Manager with Google.

Marisabel Rodriguez will also moderate the next session in W220-W221 at 11:40am "Verifying Video Signals Using Computer Vision and Machine Learning Techniques" presented by Saurabh Jain, Director, Strategic Partnerships at Interra Systems.

The next Monday session of interest would be “Public Media Prototyping for NextGen TV,” at 2pm in W222-W223. Speaker TBA.

A BEITC Session on “Tower Site Safety will be presented in W220-W221 from 3:40 to 4pm. Speakers are James Leifer, Director Broadcast Operations and Engineering at American Tower Corporation, and Clark Lindstrom, Director Safety Programs at American Tower Corporation. Jason Ornellas, Regional Director of Technology at Bonneville International will moderate.

At 4:10pm in W222-W223, Liam Power, Senior Systems Engineer at ONE Media Technologies, and Wilson Le, Leader, Solutions Engineer with Cisco will present “Optimizing Dynamic Ad Insertion for ATSC 3.0 in Low Broadband Access Markets.”

Tuesday 8 April

The topic of 5G Broadcast and Software Defined Broadcast is on Tuesday. Starting at 09.30 in W220-W221, "Off-piste 5G in the Broadcast Auxiliary Service Band," will be presented by Samuel Yoffe, Senior Systems Engineer at Neutral Wireless and moderated by Marisabel Rodriguez with Google. It will be followed in the same room at 09.50 with “Deploying 5G Broadcast in UHF Spectrum,” presented by Javier Fernandez, Senior Engineer at Qualcomm Technologies Inc., and moderated by Marisabel Rodriguez with Google.

A bit further than 5G Broadcast are some other topics on Tuesday that peaked my interest. One was “How to Use JPEG XS to Transform Live TV,” scheduled for 2pm in W222-W223, presented by Gatis Gailis, CEO and Founder at Veset, Martins Magone, Veset CTO, and moderated by Sarah Foss, CTO at Audacy.

Two final Tuesday sessions also got my attention. I’m curious about "Video Super Resolution for Broadcast Television" presented by Christopher Bird, Cloud Software Development Engineer at Intel, and Surbhi Madan, Media AI Solution Architect at Intel and moderated by Sun Sachs, SVP of Digital Products at Townsquare Media.

The other was “Software Defined Broadcast: A New Way Forward for Video Production,” a panel session scheduled for a 2:30pm. Speakers include Phillip Myers, CTO at Lawo, John Naylor, VP Product Security - Ross Research Labs at Ross Video, Lukas Odhner, Media Engineering Leader at Deloitte Consulting, Brian Olson, Video Production Segment Manager - M&E Solutions Division, Intel Corp., and Michel Proulx, Media Industry Technologist, moderated by Sarah Foss, CTO at Audacy.

Wednesday 9 April

Exhibits close at 2pm. Wednesday is the best day for follow-up exhibit visits and detailed questions.

Post-NAB, The Broadcast Bridge will review the most technically relevant information contained in the BEITC 2025 papers.

The interactive calendar for the BEIT Conference Sessions is HERE.