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Sept meeting in London
SMPTE UK visits Amazon UK... for an evening all about AI and Cloud for Media
When: Tuesday 8 Sept 2026. Doors open at 6pm for ample refreshments and networking. Event starts at 7pm, event ends 8.30pm, Drinks and networking til 9.30pm.
Where: Amazon UK, Principal Place, London EC2A 2FA
To kick off our exciting 2025-26 season of meetings, we've been invited to visit Amazon UK's headquarters at Principal Place, London. And they've lined up a packed agenda with several speakers talking about different aspects of AI and Cloud for Media. So come along and hear about the future of our industry, and network with fellow SMPTE UK members over drinks on the rooftop of Amazon's UK HQ.
This year our annual visit to Amazon UK's HQ is intended to be both a primer and update for three issues currently challenging those implementing media workflows.
TAMS: Georgina Shippey from the BBC will explore the current status of TAMS as it moves towards open governance. She will explain how it relates to other industry initiatives such as DMF and MXL and explore the practical challenges and opportunities of deploying TAMS in a media organisation such as the BBC, drawing on real-world experience. In short, what would we like to see at IBC from vendors to complete a production ready TAMS workflow?
Cloud Media: James Shepherd from Insync will build on his previous, excellent presentation discussing hosted platforms to outline best practice for content workflows. How to extract the performance expected on virtualized media platforms?
AI: Tulip Gupta from Amazon will evidence AI-Native usage in live operations, outlining the real world benefits in media management, scheduling and processing for sports and distribution applications.
The aim of this session is to present and discuss, at a practical level, the issues facing those planning and architecting TAMS, Cloud Media and AI......in an informal environment fueled by lots of pizza and beer!
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 Amazon Prime. If you're a student, we can help with your travel costs to get to the meeting. Get in touch with us - link below.
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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