PILOT Pitch Prize 2018
PILOT held its first ever Pitch Prize competition at NAB Show NY. Five startups pitched, and three of them - Airwavz.tv, PolyPort and Teamium - won the prize of a $50,000 investment in SAFE note. The [...]
Technology Indistinguishable from Magic
Cyber Illusionist Marco Tempest spoke to us at NAB Show about how he uses magic to push technology to do things it is not quite ready to do. Marco uses drones, augmented reality and robotics to present a bright vision of the future, which he believes will play a massive role in the future of broadcasting.
PILOT Takes 3rd in Ford Make It Driveable Challenge
Apps are not just for smartphones. Automobiles support a variety of app platforms as well, and recently PILOT sent a team of software developers to an auto app hackathon, the Ford Make It Driveable Challenge [...]
Why I Started Fighting Misinformation
Register for NAB Show New York to see the final pitches on October 17 from 3 - 6pm. Register Now I shared a fake news article online. It was the summer [...]
Freedom of Expression: nēdl Gets the Point of Radio
Register for NAB Show New York to see the final pitches on October 17 from 3 - 6pm. Register Now On any given day in the suburbs of Washington, DC, you [...]
Welcoming AWS Elemental, Facebook Journalism Project and Xperi to PILOT
I'm pleased to welcome three leading global technology companies to PILOT. AWS Elemental, an Amazon Web Services Company; Facebook Journalism Project; and Xperi have joined PILOT, an innovation initiative of the National Association of Broadcasters. [...]
PolyPort – Pitch Prize Finalist
Register for NAB Show New York to see the final pitches on October 17 from 3 - 6pm. Register Now Studio City - Los Angeles, CA - May 2016 - 11:00PM [...]
Media Technology and Innovation Scholarships
It’s no secret that the broadcast industry has been somewhat challenged in finding new, young technical staff in recent years. The growing attractiveness of other, newer media types has left broadcasting at a bit of [...]
Engagement VR: Bringing communities together through virtual reality
Hans K. Meyer, Ph.D. is an associate professor at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. His project, Engagement VR allowed newsrooms to create virtual tours of less covered parts of viewing areas. Hans won [...]
The 2019 BEITC Call for Papers is Open
The Call for Papers for the 2019 Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology Conference (BEITC) is now open. Proposals are invited for technical papers addressing the latest opportunities and challenges facing broadcast engineering and media-industry IT [...]