Kitchener-Waterloo, ON, and Denver, CO, November 4, 2009
The Online Video Platform Summit is a new conference from Streaming Media that speaks to a growing audience of content owners who have, or are planning to have, video and are confused by the online video landscape. Video is no longer just for traditional or web content companies. Everyone is using online video. HR professionals, local businesses, libraries, marketers, educators, and event organizers all use online video effectively. The Online Video Platform Summit will provide answers to all common online video questions, such as which platform is best for a specific organization, which ad models yield the best returns, and publishing strategies.
Online Video Platform Summit co-chairs Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen and Larry Kless have assembled an all-star speaker lineup for this new event. Click here for the entire speaker roster. Every major video platform is also represented in the program; attendees will hear from the following companies and will be able to compare their offerings.
Kaltura, the first open source online video platform, recently named one of 10 “Innovative Applications Companies to Watch” by IDC, and Platinum Sponsor of the Online Video Platform Summit, will be among companies making a splash at this year’s event.
“This really is such a timely event – today it is hard to find a site on the web that does not have online video. With more than 38,000 publishers using Kaltura’s platform and hundreds joining every week, we are seeing huge demand for flexible, interactive and affordable video solutions,” said Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura Chairman and CEO. “You are invited to take part in all of the great activities that Kaltura will participating in and supporting at the Summit, including presentations of our unique open source video management platform, lunch and a magician show, and a funky remixing party after the Reader’s Choice Awards. You won’t want to miss it.”
About Kaltura
Kaltura provides the world’s first Open Source Online Video Platform. Over thirty eight thousand web publishers, including some of the Nation’s leading universities, use Kaltura’s flexible platform to add advanced video and photo functionalities including uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, publishing, syndicating, searching, monetizing, and monitoring. Founded in 2006, Kaltura’s open source code is available as a free Software Development Kit and as downloadable packages for leading platforms, including content management (Drupal), blogging (WordPress), collaboration (MediaWiki), enterprise (MindTouch), and education (Moodle). Kaltura also provides supplementary paid services including maintenance, support, integration, professional development, streaming and hosting, ad serving, content syndication, and aggregation of related third party services. Since its public launch, New York-based Kaltura has won numerous awards and endorsements, including the coveted TechCrunch40 People’s Choice award, Mashable’s ‘Open Web’ award, TWS’s 2008 ‘top 10 Israeli web startup‘’ award, Microsoft’s 2009 ‘most promising Israeli web startup’ award, AlwaysOn’s ‘top 250 startup’ and ‘top 100 media company’ awards, LeWeb’s ‘top 30 web startup’ award, the Open World Forum ‘Open Innovation’ award, Esquire Magazine’s ’8 most promising Web 3.0 companies’, TVWeek’s ’5 most promising video startups for 2009’, and IDC’s ‘top 10 innovative application companies’. Kaltura is also a founding member of the ‘Open Video Alliance’ (www.openvideoalliance.org), a coalition of organizations dedicated to fostering open infrastructure, tools, and standards for online video. For more information: corp.kaltura.com and www.kaltura.org.
About Streaming Media, the organizers of the Online Video Platform Summit
Streaming Media, an Information Today Inc. company, is a diversified news media company serving and educating the streaming media industry and community. Originally founded in 1998, the company was sold by Penton Media to Information Today Inc. in December of 2002. Our business consists of three core areas: StreamingMedia.com, exhibitions and conferences, and research and publications. Lead by a team of recognized industry experts, Streaming Media is dedicated to providing industry professionals and corporations utilizing digital media technology with global real-time news, resources and services through editorial, discussion lists, feature articles, and much more.