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Greetings!
The Society of Television Engineers is pleased to announce the upcoming presentation on Thursday, December 18th, 2025 at the Elks Lodge in Glendale.
At the December meeting, Bil Apker will present The Broadcast Ecosystem and the real operational challenges in today’s facilities.
Broadcast plants have evolved rapidly over the past year, becoming more interconnected and software-driven than ever before. As workflows now span multiple vendors, timing domains, and mixed SDI/IP environments, engineers are facing increasing challenges in understanding how the entire signal chain behaves as a unified ecosystem.
This presentation offers a practical, year-end engineering review of where workflow complexity increased in 2025 and how that impacts troubleshooting, stability, and day-to-day operations. We’ll discuss why failures now appear between systems rather than inside them, and why engineers need clearer visibility across the full workflow—not just isolated device-level alarms.
Bil will introduce Operational Intelligence (OI) in a simple, engineering-centric way: as the next logical step after data aggregation, enabling cross-system insight and helping engineers interpret behavior across routing, timing, multiviewers, automation, cloud, and other interdependent layers.
This trend is not unique to broadcast; Microsoft recently announced similar needs across its enterprise ecosystem, reinforcing that modern operations require unified data and machine-assisted interpretation.
This session is designed for engineers dealing with real operational challenges in today’s facilities — increasing complexity, more data than ever, and less actionable insight.
This will also serve as a fantastic networking opportunity to connect and exchange information about available opportunities in the media industry.
In-Person
Elks Lodge, Glendale, CA
6:00 pm Social Hour
7:00 pm Dinner
8:00 pm Presentation
Online
Zoom
7:30 pm Networking
8:00 pm Presentation
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