Live Webcasting Master Class

Join Microsoft, Adobe, Highwinds, and Conviva for a free Master Class webcast on Live Webcasting. Going beyond production values and product descriptions, this session gets into the "how-to" of delivering cost-effective high quality live events with streaming media. The live webcast will be on March 17th, 2011, at 11:00 AM Pacific Time; the on-demand version of the event will be available starting March 18th.

Each presenter in this roundtable web event brings deep live webcasting knowledge from various perspectives. Jason Suess (pictured at right), a Principal Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, will provide insights into how we delivered the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2010 (PDC10) to an on-line audience in more than 150 countries. Over 500,000 hours of video was streamed to 100,000 developers during the two-day event, and many more have watched the archived on-demand content since then.

Watch the webcast to learn more about the PDC10 interactive media player experience, streaming architecture, measures implemented to assure high quality, cost containment, and the partners we worked with. In case you are interested, the Microsoft technologies used included Windows Azure, IIS Smooth Streaming, the Silverlight Media Framework, Expression Encoder, SharePoint, the Silverlight Rough Cut Editor, and a new lightweight Content Management System for Smooth Streaming that was built on SharePoint.

Interested in learning more? Here are some resources to help…

• To watch the webcast, either live or on-demand, Register at StreamingMedia.com
• To learn more about what made the PDC10 streaming experience compelling for end users (besides the great content), read my blog post about the event
• To read the White Paper about delivering PDC10 as a Global Conference, find the download at the Windows Azure blog post
• To try the PDC10 player yourself, visit the PDC website and select some on-demand content from the sessions list using the Play buttons