Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Track One: EMA Retailing Council
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. – Introductory Session/Overview of Current and Future Topics
- open to Retailers/MVPDs/Studios/Content Aggregators
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. – Retailing Council Topic: Shared Entitlements
- open to Retailers/MVPDs only
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. – Retailing Council Topic: Disappearing Rights
- open to Retailers/MVPDs/Studios/Content Aggregators
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Networking Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. – Retailing Council Topic: Ultimate Movie Weekend Review
- open to Participants in the Ultimate Movie Weekend Promotion only
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. – Retailing Council Topic: Retail Marketing
- open to Retailers/MVPDs/ Studios/Content Aggregators
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. – Retailing Council Topic: Supply Chain Summit: Bringing the business teams and operations teams together (both retailers and content companies) to discuss digital supply chain challenges and how to accelerate efficiencies.
- open to Retailers/MVPDs/Studios/Content Aggregators
Track Two: Digital Supply Chain (Retailers Track)
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. – Retailer Level Set – Working session across retailers and service providers in the DSC space; Level set across members of content operations organizations about automation status, what we’ve learned over the last year and the “big push” for the coming 12-16 months. Recommended for content operations leaders at retailers and service providers processing and delivering digital assets and data into the digital supply chain ecosystem.
- open to registered attendees and EMA member organizations only.
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Networking Lunch
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. – Cross-Retailer Asset Analysis – Working session amongst retailers and service providers in the DSC space to compare the format and quality of assets received from studios across content types and territories. The objective of this session is to create a matrix across studios of what is being provided to which organizations with details about the quality of data and issues. Recommended for content operations leaders at retailers and service providers processing and delivering digital assets and data into the digital supply chain ecosystem.
- open to registered attendees and EMA member organizations only.
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. – Supply Chain Summit: Bringing the business teams and operations teams together (both retailers and content companies) to discuss digital supply chain challenges and how to accelerate efficiencies.
- open to Retailers/MVPDs/Studios/Content Aggregators
Track Three: Digital Supply Chain (Specialized Track)
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. – Digital Supply Chain 101 – A presentation overview of the best practice framework (MDDF) for enabling efficient, accurate and scalable supply chain operations. Includes an overview of display metadata , rights (avails) , asset delivery, asset ordering, ratings and QC vocabulary specifcations. Recomended for anyone in interested in learning about opportunities for improving efficiencies of content operations and the digital supply chain in content management, delivery and distribution.
- open to registered attendees and EMA member organizations only.
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Networking Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. – API Working Session – Technical, deep-dive into development of standard interfaces for exchanging supply chain data among content providers, retailers and service providers. Includes engineering discussion of security and authorization, API details, JSON v. XML format considerations and project management discussion about milestones and timelines for development, testing and deployment. Recommended for engineering and project management personnel in content operations organizations from content providers, retailers and service providers.
- Invitation Only
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. – Supply Chain Summit – Bringing the business teams and operations teams together (both retailers and content companies) to discuss digital supply chain challenges and how to accelerate efficiencies.
- open to Retailers/MVPDs/Studios/Content Aggregators