SportsPro Live 2020 Exhibitors

MindProber is the world’s first platform for biometric audience research. Our implicit engagement metrics empower the Sports industry’s most forward-thinking rights holders and broadcasters to demonstrate the emotive power of their sport and it’s ability to engage audiences. Our clients create better live coverage and peripheral content through data driven production decisions and turbo charge their valuation models to unlock the true value of their media and sponsorship rights.

8th Wall is an award-winning augmented reality (AR) development platform that provides powerful tools and its own AR engine to create extraordinary reality experiences that run on the web. 8th Wall’s complete WebAR solution allows teams to collaborate in real time to develop rich, immersive content that can be experienced in the browser on any device, no app required. 8th Wall has powered AR activations for brands across industry verticals including retail, food and beverage, travel and tourism, automotive, fashion, sports and entertainment. Customers of the platform include Sony Pictures, Nike, General Mills, British Gas, Heineken, Swiss Airlines, Toyota, EVA Air, Red Bull, adidas, COACH and more.

EZDRM is the original specialist in Digital Rights Management as a Service (DRMaaS), offering a straightforward, one-stop solution for protecting and monetizing your video content. Our cloud-hosted fully managed DRMaaS offering makes it easy to support secure live, on-demand, downloadable and offline video service consumption models with complete flexibility in the business approach. In the ultra-competitive world of video services, whether you are an operator or content owner, there’s no need to compromise, when addressing content security. EZDRM gives you the competitive edge of a highly effective and robust DRM service for both content packaging and delivery to every device in your network. The company exemplifies the benefits of a “do one thing, and do it well” philosophy, with a thoroughly up-to-date, best-of-breed cloud microservice implementation. Backed by a team of DRM experts, EZDRM offers zero-drama video security that integrates seamlessly with your delivery system and scales with your business.

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Zixi provides a cloud based and on-premise Software-Defined Video Platform that enables reliable broadcast-quality video delivery over any IP network, any protocol, any cloud provider and any edge device. The Zixi Platform makes it easy and economical for media companies to source, manage, localize, and distribute live events and 24/7 live linear channels in broadcast QoS, securely and at scale, using any form of IP network or Hybrid IP environments. Zixi provides enhanced control in large complex networks with ZEN Master, a live video orchestration and telemetry control plane that provides visual tools to configure, orchestrate, and monitor live broadcast channels and events across industry protocols. Over 10+ years, the Zixi Enabled Network (ZEN) has grown to over 200 OEM and service providers and serves well over 700 customers representing most of the top media brands around the world with 20,000+ channels delivered daily.

InPlayer, the world’s leading pay-per-view and subscription solution, helps set up and grow recurring revenue for any company that is looking to enable online sales and access management for their video, audio, files and HTML content. With millions of dollars in transactions managed, InPlayer is making thousands of live events profitable for the OTT industry, rights owners, agencies, artists and corporations around the world.

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Sport Buff are world leaders in next generation sports fan engagement and gamification. Used by top-tier partners across sports broadcast, tournaments and platforms. Sport Buff delivers real-time fan engagement (from AI data analysis and pro curators) over the top of sports video and action – live, archive, highlights, social – on any partner platform.

Sodyo is the next generation of interactive scanning technology that enables a user to easily scan a small marker and be instantly connected to any actionable content of your choice.

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Fraunhofer IIS brings innovations in sound to reality: from the creation of mp3 and AAC to the future of audio entertainment with, among others, MPEG-H for broadcast, OTT and immersive music streaming, or xHE-AAC for A/V-streaming. For over 30 years, the Audio and Media Technologies division of Fraunhofer IIS has been shaping the globally deployed standards and technologies in the fields of audio and moving picture production. Starting with the creation of mp3 and continuing with the co-development of AAC and the Digital Cinema Initiative test plan, almost all consumer electronic devices, computers and mobile phones are equipped with systems and technologies from Erlangen today. Meanwhile, a new generation of best-in-class media technologies – such as MPEG-H Audio, xHE-AAC, EVS, LC3/LC3plus, Symphoria, Sonamic and upHear – is elevating the user experience to new heights. Always taking into account the demands of the market, Fraunhofer IIS develops technology that makes memorable moments.

Oxagile is an international software services provider developing next-gen computer vision solutions for Media and Sports. The company’s solutions and accelerators are focused on video content analysis automation and metadata enrichment, and open new dimensions in programmatic advertising and personalization. Oxagile’s 15-year expertise underpins high-performance applications that deliver live streaming, VoD, real-time communication, VR, and 360 video across web, mobile, smart TVs, STBs, and other platforms. Oxagile’s robust R&D and a predictable delivery process were instrumental in helping clients such as Orange, Discovery, and Veon achieve their business objectives and outperform the competition.

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Verimatrix (Euronext Paris: VMX) helps power the modern connected world with security made for people. We protect digital content, applications, and devices with intuitive, people-centered and frictionless security. Leading brands turn to Verimatrix to secure everything from premium movies and live streaming sports, to sensitive financial and healthcare data, to mission-critical mobile applications. We enable the trusted connections our customers depend on to deliver compelling content and experiences to millions of consumers around the world. Verimatrix helps partners to get to market faster, scale easily, protect valuable revenue streams, and win new business.

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The World Academy of Sport (WAoS) is a dynamic organisation passionate in the belief that sport can inspire and develop communities the world over. Our mission is to provide learning pathways for participants in the international sport sector through exceptional education programmes and partners.

The WAoS fully online education pathway now takes participants from high school to Postgraduate education to assist organisations and individuals in achieving their strategic goals.

Censeo, the WAoS Learning Management System has been developed to support the learning process in any location using cloud technology. Our platform has been specifically developed to assist the roll out of education globally. We offer elearning, seamless blended learning and competency assessment in all languages that can assist, track and monitor a global educator workforce.

We invite you to explore the different opportunities across the WAoS unique offering.

The LTN® Ecosystem of IP-powered media solutions is trusted by leading sports networks, venues, and esports events, including NBA, MLB, NFL, NCAA, ESPN, Turner Sports, NBC Sports, CBS
Sports, Fox Sports, ESP Gaming, and Twitch.

From centralized production and infinite live content aggregation to smart signaling and game-changing delivery, LTN Global’s integrated workflows never miss a play. Backed by LTN’s fully managed multicast network, our modular services deploy as full-video-chain workflows or integrate into your existing architecture to take productions of all sizes over the finish line. Engage based on what you need to drive scaleable revenues. With robust APIs, intuitive UIs, and end-to-end monitoring and visibility, the control is yours. You can bet on the LTN Ecosystem to help you meet market evolution head-on, with solutions that enable limitless global fan engagement, greater flexibility, and more opportunities for monetization.

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Flowics is an Audience Participation & Cloud Graphics Platform that helps broadcasters, streamers and content creators optimize their production workflows and attract, retain and monetize viewers across all digital environments with interactive experiences. Trusted by leading television networks and sports organizations across the US, Latin America and Spain, including FOX Sports, Turner, Viacom, Televisa, TV Azteca, Movistar+, beIN Sports and LaLiga, Flowics’ Cloud Graphics solution enables customers to create and remotely operate graphic overlays incorporating social media content and audience participation, for live streaming, broadcast and venue screens.

InPlayer, the world’s leading pay-per-view and subscription solution, helps set up and grow recurring revenue for any company that is looking to enable online sales and access management for their video, audio, files and HTML content. With millions of dollars in transactions managed, InPlayer is making thousands of live events profitable for the OTT industry, rights owners, agencies, artists and corporations around the world.

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Sodyo is the next generation of interactive scanning technology that enables a user to easily scan a small marker and be instantly connected to any actionable content of your choice.

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THEO is the leading provider of universal video playback technologies for online media companies and enterprises worldwide. Our flagship product, THEOplayer, is the Universal Video Player enabling hundreds of leading payTV and OTT service providers, broadcasters, and publishers including CNN, NBC, Telenet, KPN, and Swisscom. Through its feature-rich SDKs and wide video ecosystem pre-integrations, THEO enables video service providers to quickly bring a consistent video playback experience across any device or platform.

As the leader of Low Latency video delivery, THEO supports LL-HLS, LL-DASH and has invented High Efficiency Streaming Protocol (HESP) – allowing for sub-second latency streaming using low bandwidth with fast-zapping. Going the extra mile, we also work to standardise metadata delivery through the invention of Enriched Media Streaming Solution (EMSS).

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ADE is a full-service digital product design and development agency. ADE is resourced to start with a blank slate and work through the full product lifecycle. We specialize in helping large media and entertainment brands create new, innovative and delightful digital experiences across multiple platforms and form-factors.

ADE’s core values are based on being a creative and collaborative partner with our clients. We want to be viewed as a part of their team, helping our partners succeed at their goals is how we succeed at ours.

We tailor our tried process, which has worked on hundreds of innovative offerings, to each partner’s needs.  This people-centered strategy and design approach are focused on designing systems that bring both business and end-user value.  Once designed, our enterprise-level internal engineering practice builds high quality and maintainable codebases that we are proud to hand back to our partners.

The greatest sports opportunity is engaging new fans through the most unique experiences. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is helping Formula 1, Major League Baseball (MLB) and many others to build a deeper fan engagement through advanced cloud services such as Amazon Machine Learning, AWS Media Services, and Amazon Content Delivery Services. Harness the speed, agility and innovation in the cloud while only paying for what you use, and benefit from fully automated resource scaling that let you handle any size audience without significant capital investment. Instead of managing complex infrastructure, video and analytics solutions from AWS let you focus on your fans, create new content, and delight viewers a personalized user experience.

Engage your fans and monetize your content with NAGRA Home of Sport.

Harness the passion for your sport and create a home where your fans can enjoy all your live matches with all the extras – replays, highlights, archives, news, scores, stats – updated daily with fresh content to embellish great sporting experiences.

For leagues and federations, including current customers such as the International Hockey Federation (FIH) and the Sports Vintage Racing Association (SVRA), NAGRA’s sports-as-a-service offering creates new levels of fan engagement, drives uptakes in their sport, tracks usage data and develops a database of players, fans and officials with a focus on business growth.

NAGRA is the digital TV division of the Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S) and the world’s leading independent provider of content protection and multiscreen user experience solutions for the monetisation of digital media