ITWorksME CTO a panelist at the MENA OTT & Anti-Piracy Virtual Week

With the onset of COVID-19, the demand for home entertainment spiked and led to a rise in subscriptions, more account sharing and placed considerable pressure on existing infrastructure. Were all players prepared for the dramatic rise in OTT uptake? Did they have the content and the infrastructure to cope with the rise in subscriptions?

KWIKMotion the OVP platform distributed by ITWorksMe is a silver sponsor of the event and will be taking part in its insightful panels.

The webinar, entitled The MENA OTT and Anti-Piracy Conference, will bring together the industry’s leading minds for insightful discussions and presentations and will be streamed live as a webinar event spread over the course of three days, from November 3-5, 2020.

ITWorksME Chief Technology Officer Salloum El Dahdaah, will be taking part in a panel on day 1, November 3, at 14:00 UAE Time. The panel: Streaming – Are We Tech-Ready? will look at the key components of a technically and commercially sound streaming service, new developments in the context of reinventing streaming, identifying the best infrastructure and platform issues to maintain the best customer experience, the role of CDNs in improving the viewer experience, the ideal tech approach – Investing in infrastructure vs investing in product features and the role of analytics and leveraging multi-tenant architectures to understand customer behaviour better.

The session will be moderatored by Vijaya Cherian, Editor, BroadcastPro ME and will include as panelists:

            ·    Nauman Qureshi, VP of Products, StarzPlay

·    Peter Riz, CTO, OSN

·    Rick Cordeiro, Director of Sales, Brightcove Inc.

·    Salloum El Dahdaah , Chief Technology Officer, ITWorksME