Subsessions

• Defend Your AI: Securing Conversational Agents in Content Management Environments

  Tuesday, April 21 | 3:30 – 4 p.m. | N261

  Guy Bouchard, Marisabel Rodriguez

  Broadcasters face growing risks from environmental, cyber, and operational disruptions, all of which threaten business continuity in similar ways. The IEEE Broadcast Technology Society is developing a recommended practice to guide the design of resilient physical, virtual, and cloud-based infrastructures, emphasizing robust architectures, clear documentation, and well understood system dependencies to support rapid recovery. The initiative outlines preparation requirements across facilities, IT systems, and networks, and highlights the critical role of software ecosystems in modern broadcast environments. Broadcasters who have experienced real world disruptions are invited to share their insights to help strengthen resilience across the industry. About the Speaker: Guy Bouchard has extensive experience in broadcast design and physical infrastructure at CBC and Télé-Québec, having managed several disaster situations throughout his career. Marisabel Rodriguez is an leading expert in cloud-based broadcasting at Google, She will provide valuable insights on enhancing the resilience of cloud-based broadcast stations.

• Open Device Control… With Agentic AI

  Tuesday, April 21 | 4 – 4:30 p.m. | N261

  Adam Marshall, Brian Cipponeri, Chris Lennon, Wojtek Tryc

  Controlling devices using a common, standardized open-source solutions is great. SMPTE has recently made the ST 2138 (Catena) suite of five documents available as Public Committee Drafts, with all kinds of associated goodies on their Github repo. This is all available today, for free, for implementers to try out. What if we could take this all a step further, and use and Agentic AI approach to controlling any device that talks SMPTE ST 2138? Today, this is possible. Among many other cool features you get automatically for implementing 2138, there is the ability to describe what the devices are, and how they can be controlled…in plain English. What this allows is for AI Agents to do everything that Catena can do. This opens up capabilities like voice control for any 2138-enabled device in your facility, regardless of platform, vendor, or type of device. Imagine the possibilities! We will show how this is all possible and what use cases this enables in this engaging talk/panel discussion.