Date: 8 – 9 June 2017

Radiotelevisione Svizzera (RSI), Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) together with the FIAT/IFTA Media Management Commission invite you to the 8th edition of FIAT/IFTA’s “Changing Sceneries, Changing Roles” Seminars, focusing on media management, metadata, new emerging technologies and changing skillsets. This edition’s theme is:

“Embracing automation, enhancing discoverability”

International Speakers will provide real world insights, case studies and panel discussions on:

• Integration and Interoperability with MAM systems
• MAM in the Cloud
• Sports Audio-visual Archives –logging, data feeds, multiplatform and rights
• Automation- metadata extraction, mining, speech to text
• Discoverability- linked data, semantics, analytics and new search technologies and trends.
• Changing roles in AV archives and need for new skills and training in this fast evolving digital domain.

Learning Experience
Take this opportunity to learn from international leaders within the media management community about innovative workflows and practical solutions facing the digital archiving and broadcasting community.

Audience
This international seminar will bring together 120+ people: AV archiving practitioners (archivists, media managers) as well as researchers, developers, journalists, producers and representatives of the media and software industry. It will foster knowledge and ideas exchange, education, information and vendor awareness, understanding and engagement.

Please come along – we will be delighted to see you in Lugano!