Kaltura Connect 2020 | Kaltura Connect Conference | 21 January 2020 | Hilton New Orleans Riverside, 2 Poydras St, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA

Join us for three amazing days of workshops, panels, and networking. Learn about the latest trends, research, and best practices in video across organizations from education to enterprise to cloud TV. Discuss challenges and opportunities with hundreds of your peers.

Come home inspired, with the actionable insights you need to keep your organization at the forefront of the video revolution!

Kaltura Connect is the place to learn the very latest in video from the world’s leading video experts. Come to Kaltura Connect for in-depth discussions, tutorials, and workshops with leaders from across education, media, and multiple industries. Leave with tips, insights, and new relationships to leverage to take your video to new levels.

With 50+ panels and breakouts on everything from increasing accessibility to increasing marketing penetration to increasing ROI , we have something for everyone.

2020 Speakers

Mark Sunday
Former SVP and CIO, Oracle

Lior Raz
Actor, Screenwriter, and Producer

Wolfgang Zeller
Head of Video, Consumer Product & Services, Group Technology, Vodafone

Archana Anand
Chief Business Officer, ZEE5 Global

Rob Abel
Chief Executive Officer, IMS Global Learning Consortium

Ceri Hughes
Director, Head of Learning, KPMG UK

Faisal Ijaz
Associate Director, KPMG China

Rubén Durán
Kaltura Admin & Founder of XRlab & Studio, Houston Community College

Nick Barber
Senior Analyst, Forrester

Jodie Bartz
Business Analyst, Mayo Clinic

Michelle Haugen
Sr. Patient Education Specialist, Mayo Clinic

Dr. Bryan R. Lewis
Assistant Dean for Technology & Operations, Lecturer in IT, University of Virginia

Claus Ladefoged
Head of Digital, TV2 Regionerne

Mandy Bickerman
CIO Social Enterprise Capability Lead, Accenture

Christopher Stone
SVP of Product Development, Oracle

David Boyll
Senior Director, Media Technology, Oracle

Nicole Elaine Esplin
Senior Communications Manager, Oracle

Marc-André Houle
Principal Product Manager, Oracle

Melanie Crowsey
Digital Media Producer & Head of Studio, Thomson Reuters

Alon Shtruzman
CEO, Keshet International

Damon Burke
Instructional Designer, Northern Arizona University

Ben Keen
Analyst & Advisor, Technology, Media, & Telecoms

Chad Garcia
Instructional Design Project Manager, University of South Florida

Dan Rayburn
Principal Analyst, Frost & Sullivan

Stephen Donnelly
Media Team Manager, University of Edinburgh

Fern Feistel
SVP, Marketing & Content Operations, XUMO

Allen Klosowski
SVP, Advanced Solutions Group, SpotX

Russ Lichterman
Director of Educational Technology and Multimedia, Wilmington University

Tom Preston
Director of Solution Architecture, EBSCO Information Services

Michael Bucco
Senior Director, Product Management, EBSCO Information Services

Dan Driscoll
Director of Platform Product Management, EBSCO Information Services

Paul R. Chapman
Director of Enterprise Video, Refinitiv

Melinda Kraft
Kaltura Service Owner, ITS Teaching and Learning, University of Michigan

James McGookey
Manager for Collaboration Technologies, Indiana University

Nate Pairitz
Lead Engineer, Indiana University

Hannes Richter, Ph.D.
Digital Workplace Site Lead Basel, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research

Dani Pettin
Learning Experience Video Designer, Capital One

Eric Harvey
Global Program Director, SAP

Philippe Kahn
IT Technology Manager, SAP

Dennis Schuetzsack
Head of Enablement Platforms, Ecosystems and Enablement, SAP

Erik Kikkenborg
Media Service Manager, NORDUnet

Aron de Boks
Digital Channel Strategist, ABN AMRO

Arjan Uijl
Product Owner Social Collaboration, ABN AMRO

Melissa Webster
Program VP, Content & Digital Media Technologies, IDC

Robin Greene
Senior Manager/Exec. Producer Media Production and Publishing, AO Foundation

Kari Haakana
Head of Services, Yle Areena

Karen Williams
EVP, Product Strategy & Customer Services, Saba

Raul Burriel
IT Consultant, Oregon State University

Steven McNellie
Senior Platform Manager, Airbnb

Artem Zhdanov
Learning Spaces Engineer, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Kamalesh Donthula
Head of Technology, Learning, Thomson Reuters

Sean Holland
Instructional Designer, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Dr Graham McElearney
Senior Digital Learning Adviser, The University of Sheffield

Jackie Klatt
Student Success Coach, University of New Hampshire

Gregg Loughman
Vice President & General Manager, HealthStream

Rob Hall
IT Manager, Technology Solutions and Demand, Skanska

Steven Ngoi
Head of Learning Environments, Melbourne Polytechnic

James Cahall
Co-Chief Executive Officer, OTTera, Inc.

Drew MacGregor
Acting Director of Application Services, Technology Services, University of Illinois

Eric McCarn
Sr. Product Analyst, HCA Healthcare Inc.

Alexander David Anderson
Academic Technology Systems Analyst, University of Minnesota

Sean DeMonner
Executive Director of Teaching & Learning, Information Technology Services, University of Michigan

Derek Featherstone
Chief Experience Officer, Level Access

Doug LeBlanc
Director, Video & Broadcast, CRH

Brian Montgomery
Regional Head NALA- FIT A/V Meeting Services, Roche/Genentech

Kyle Rudman
Senior Systems Engineer, CSX

Amit Kumar Banka
Director Video Platform Operations, Flipkart

Richard Bernard Brilli II
Senior Director of Design & Animation, CPR Interactive

Amir Bar
Global Advisor - Knowledge & Processes Analytics, Halliburton

Xavier Lleixa Rillo
Co-Founder and CTO, DigimEvo

Simon Jaeger
Marketing Consultant & Creative Producer, University of Technology Sydney

Christopher Phillips
Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Coordinator, Utah State University

Udit J. Shah
Head of Product Management, EdCast Inc.

Aviram Bogin
GM OTT, RGE

Shawn Przybilla
Media & Entertainment Specialist Principal Solutions Architect, AWS

Yonatan Biton
R&D Group Leader, Yotpo

Raj Nijjer
VP, Brand Marketing, Yotpo

Hadar Weiss
Co-Founder and CEO, Peer5

Tim Dickinson
Director of Strategy, Watershed

Tom Racca
CEO, Ramp

Devin Drake
CEO, Virtuvent

Ofir Zukovsky
CEO, Newrow

Sam Thompson
VP Product, Newrow

Ron Yekutiel
Co-founder, Chairman & CEO, Kaltura

Dr. Michal Tsur
Co-founder, President & General Manager, Enterprise & Learning, Kaltura

Dr. Shay David
Co-founder, President & General Manager, Media & Telecom, Kaltura

Nuno Sanches
General Manager, Media and Telecom, Kaltura

Renan Gutman
Head of Product, Enterprise and Learning, Kaltura

Gideon Gilboa
SVP, Product and Marketing, Media & Telecom, Kaltura

Jeff Rubenstein
VP, Global Product Strategy and Business Development, Kaltura

Zohar Babin
VP, Platform & Growth, Kaltura

Eran Kornblau
VP, Architecture, Kaltura

Itay Kinnrot
VP, R&D, Media & Telecom, Kaltura

Shuki Eytan
VP EMEA, Media & Telecom, Kaltura

Raphael Joseph
VP of Global Solutions Engineering, Kaltura

Liad Eshkar
Managing Director of Partnerships and Strategy, Kaltura

Jess Portnoy
Senior Director, Packaging and Open Source, Kaltura

Lior Benderski
Senior Director of Product, Kaltura

Hillel Cohen
Director of UI/UX, Enterprise & Learning, Kaltura

Ido Achrak
Director of Product, Enterprise & Learning, Kaltura

Assaf Berkovitz
Director, Platform Integrations Architect, Kaltura

John Hasty
Senior System Engineer, Regional Clouds Chief Architect, Kaltura

Avital Tzubeli
Developer Advocate, VPaaS, Kaltura

Oded Ben Zur
Senior Director of Product Innovation and Partners, Kaltura

Tal Weinblum
Senior Director of Product Marketing, Media & Telecom, Kaltura

Gilat Tzitrinovich
Director Of Training & Learning, Kaltura

Matan Friedman
Senior Technical Trainer, Kaltura

Tal Binder
Technical Trainer, Kaltura

Rony Dahan
Technical Trainer, Kaltura

Leetal Elitzur
Technical Trainer, Kaltura

Noa Oron
Director of Business Development, VPaaS, Kaltura

Yair Neumann
Director of Product, Kaltura

Sean McMann
Director, Enterprise Sales, Southeast, Kaltura

Grant Beevers
Senior Digital Learning Specialist, Kaltura

Zoe Fiddes
Customer Success Manager, EMEA Region, Kaltura

Matt Davis
Senior Director Customer Success, Kaltura

Darren Stahl
Sr. Director of Sales, Education, Kaltura

Jack Sharon
Senior Director Solutions Engineer, EDU, Kaltura

Don Michels
Sales Engineer, Kaltura

James Vlisides
Solutions Engineer, Kaltura

Moshe Maor
Back-end Core Development Manager, R&D, Kaltura

Guy Jacubovski
R&D Lead for Live/Webcast/eCDN/Capture, Kaltura

Lars Jensen
Director of Presales Engineering, Kaltura

Anna Connaughton
Customer Success Manager, Kaltura

Ofer Luft
Senior Director, Platform Solutions, Kaltura

Ronit Schwartz
Director of Business Development & Partnership, Media&Telecom, Kaltura

2020 Sponsors

• 3Play
• Akamai
• Amazon Web Services
• Annoto
• Aver
• Brand3D
• Cattura
• Epiphan Video
• Extron
• Fastly
• Haivision
• Hive Software
• Idomoo
• Inmobly
• Padcaster
• Peer5
• Powtoon
• Ramp
• Rev
• Saba
• Sela
• Verbit
• VideoKen
• Wibbitz
• Watershed
• Wochit