Welcome to the SMPTE Sum-Up, the weekly publication that details the recent and current events of your favorite standards development organization. Recently at SMPTE:
The NAB Reviews continued these last few weeks, with both SMPTE Ottawa and SMPTE New York as hosts. These sessions are annual affairs for many SMPTE sections, and act as a showcase of technology and business insights for those who were unable to attend the show.
The hit event, Bits by the Bay, was held this month and drew a select crowd to Chesapeake Beach, Maryland for emerging technology, networking, and crab feasts. The event hosts key decision-makers from major East Coast media companies and features a litany of sessions aimed at the latest innovations in technology like AI, IP Media, and much more.
SMPTE Sacramento held an event called “Hybrid Facilities and PTP: Top Pitfalls You'll Want to Avoid.” Hosted by Steve Holmes, Solutions Architect and Application Engineer for Leader focusing on SMPTE 2110 IP Video, PTP, monitoring, 4K, HDR, and video test solutions at Leader, this session focused on the infrastructure of hybrid facilities.
Two Canadian sections, Toronto and Montreal/Quebec, held separate boot camps this month. These sections annual boot camps are day long affairs that feature courses and sessions on specific topics. These events are highlights of SMPTE’s Canadian membership, and attendees hear directly from the engineers and leaders paving the way for the media industry.
Check out SMPTE’s latest blog on Substack! This article is about the SMPTE Hollywood Section Meeting that took place April 30. The meeting was on Content Protection: Addressing Authenticity, Trusted Workflows and Security Best Practices and was written by Carolyn Giardina.
Just one more day to submit for the 2026 Media Technology Summit Call for Papers! Those wishing to participate in MTS2026 can submit one of two ways: The regular conference track requires a 300-400 abstract of a scientific paper, as well as an 800-1000 word outline of said paper. The journal track is for those with full, publish-ready manuscripts between 3,000 and 5,000 words. More details and submissions links for the MTS 2026 Call for Papers can be found here.
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