Chris Pfaff produced and moderated a killer session – ‘Co-Watching: The Next Best Thing to Being There’ on the growing industry trend of co-watchig at TVOT LIVE! Spring 2021, on April 26, 2021. Industry leaders, including Jonny Williams, COO, Sceenic; Miheer Walavalkar, CEO, LiveLike, and Wim Sweldens, co-founder/chief architect, Kiswe, joined the session.

You can watch the full panel at: https://youtu.be/R2ly-X-dl5w

Chris Pfaff (upper left); Jonny Williams (upper right); Wim Sweldens (lower left), and Miheer Walavalkar, LiveLike (lower right)

MORE ABOUT ‘CO-WATCHING: THE NEXT BEST THING TO BEING THERE’

More than a decade after the “second screen” brought mobile users and TV content together, the co-watching era brings people together in a sync solution with live content. The live sports and entertainment industries have benefitted, during lockdown, from audiences not able to gather in sports venues, concert halls, festival venues, sports bars, or even in living rooms. This panel features some of the global leaders in the field of co-watching, who will discuss the technical and marketing challenges of launching and sustaining co-watching experiences.

TVOT Live!, the First Virtual TV of Tomorrow Show, was held September 8-10 through the Socio platform, and featured a cavalcade of great sessions. As always, TVOT founder Tracy Swedlow managed to draw even more of a global audience thanks to the virtual platform.

Chris Pfaff moderated the ‘Blockchain and TV,’ session on Thursday, September 10th, at 10:00 am EST (and on demand), which examined how blockchain is being used in TV advertising, video encoding and distribution, and in social TV payments.

Alongside Pfaff on the panel were:

• Adam Helfgott, CEO, MadHive

• Jason Manningham, CEO, Blockgraph

• Melanie Mohr, CEO, womprotocol.io & yeay.com

• Halsey Minor, CEO, Live Planet/Strategic Technology Partner, VideoCoin

You can view the session at:

https://app.socio.events/NzIyOQ/Agenda/83788/Session/304777

Tracy Swedlow, founder of TVOT, welcomes the virtual audience to TVOT Live!

Promo screen for the ‘Blockchain and TV’ panel at TVOT Live!

Jason Manningham, from Blockgraph (upper left); Adam Helfgott, from Madhive (upper right); Melanie Mohr, from WOM Protocol (lower left), and Halsey Minor, from VideoCoin (lower right) on the ‘Blockchain and TV’ panel

Jason Manningham discusses Blockgraph’s work in the TV space

Melanie Mohr, from WOM Protocol, discusses her global view of the blockchain market for media creators

Chris Pfaff (upper left) guides the discussion on the ‘Blockchain and TV’ panel at the first TVOT Live! virtual TV of Tomorrow Show event