United Kingdom

The UK Section holds monthly evening meetings, where we get together to socialise and discuss topics impacting our industry. Take a look at the meetings listed below, sign up and come along! Priority is given to SMPTE members, but newcomers are very welcome. At every event, there will be an interesting technically-oriented presentation, plenty of time to network with industry peers, and ample refreshments courtesy of our sponsors and supporters.

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October meeting in London

SMPTE UK visits Google... for an evening all about Cloud for Media

Date: Weds 16 Oct 2024

Time: Food and networking from 6pm, Event begins 7pm, Event ends 8.30pm, Drinks and networking til 10pm

Location: Google, 1-13 St Giles High St, London WC2H 8AG (big orange building)

Join us at Google UK for our exciting October meeting all about Cloud for Media!

Media In The Cloud - Learn from practitioners how it’s really done. 

Session 2: Cloud Best Practice and Security

The Cloud is the future for media production, but opinions vary as to what exactly this means, the implication for future architectures, and how close those currently deploying solutions will get to the emerging industry best practice.

In our September meeting at Amazon, we heard all about the current state of play and future architectures for cloud native production. This meeting follows hot on its heels, looking at Cloud Best Practice and Security.

This session will be introduced and hosted by Ian Trow, who has lined up several industry experts to speak on these critical topics.

Just like all SMPTE UK events, this meeting is open to existing professionals and students alike. Attendance is free of charge. Ample refreshments will be provided courtesy of our hosts Google. If you're a student, we can help with your travel costs to get to the meeting. Get in touch with us - link below.

Please note we are using LinkedIn Events for event registration. If you are not a LinkedIn member and would like to attend without creating a LinkedIn account, please contact us on the link below.

Meet the SMPTE UK Managers

SMPTE UK is run by an enthusiastic group of volunteers, all of whom have day-jobs as professionals in the Motion Picture and Television industries. SMPTE runs elections each year to appoint members to these and other leadership roles. If you'd like to help out with running SMPTE UK, or even run for election to one of these roles in a future year, come to our meetings and talk with our current Chair, John Ellerton.

We look forward to welcoming you at our next UK meeting.

We really want to hear your ideas and suggestions as we build up SMPTE UK. Feel free to get in touch if you have topics for talks you think people would be interested to hear; or a venue we could use for one of our evening meetings. We're always on the hunt for a new venue or facility to tour!

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