2015 saw a paradigm shift in live broadcasting when Sky News partnered LiveU for its coverage of the UK general election: the broadcaster delivered 138 live IP feeds from 150 key counts and constituencies countrywide using cellular uplinking technology. This session explores this major project from every angle.

A detailed look at how social output can be improved through the use of real-time video content, optimised for various platforms appropriate for a mobile/ millennial audience. This session explores the key platforms, formats, and channels for driving content discovery and distribution, including real-time and vertical video.

In June 2015 StreamAMG launched 89 video-based websites - one for each of the Football League's clubs. Over the following three months subscriptions to the site grew by over 30%, driven by better video quality, reliability and delivery to multiple devices. This session looks at the combination of cloud services, CDN, coding and infrastructure behind the project's success - and what the future holds.

The session looks at the rapid evolution of new streaming apps such as Periscope, Meerkat and Facebook Live and how they are changing both brand webcasting and video on social media. The panellists gaze into their crystal balls for a view on how these apps will develop and how they will change the landscape, and share their experience of real world projects and data on how viewers interact with social webcasts.

You've got the exclusive content, you're ready to start your live event, but you need something extra, something special, to expand your content experience and take it to the next level. That something is the second screen. With a powerful application, big data, social networking and more, you can keep your audience focused on your event and not their email.

There's lots of talk around the MPEG-DASH standard. So how come most publishers are still using HLS? Share your thoughts and experiences, and ask questions of your peers at this free-wheeling discussion about the pros and cons of DASH vs. HLS. 

Optimised live services get up to 50% more consumption time and viewers are 34% more likely to return to your site for a live stream next time. The session reviews practical cases and KPIs, the big difference dynamic CDN switching makes to a live service, and examples of tools to analyse and optimise streaming services to make them perform at their best. 

We've seen a big push towards software encoding in the past year, but hardware encoding still has its place. Which approach do you use, and when? Share your experiences, learn from your peers, and join the debate at this unique roundtable session.