BBC North East Tech Hub Meet Up #6

Background

The BBC has been broadcasting from Newcastle for over one hundred years. Now it’s also the base of our North East Technology Hub and home to teams from the BBC’s product group, responsible for developing world-beating services like iPlayer, Sounds, Sport and Bitesize.

The event is informal, and will start around 1700 and run through to 1930.

Agenda

• Generative AI for Media in AWS (Simon Christie - AWS)
  Generative AI is evolving quickly and presenting a breadth of options available for the media industry to enable efficiencies and service improvements.
• My Journey with Kafka so far.. (Jon Bowman - BBC)
  Hear my journey with Kafka so far and what some of the use cases for it are as well as some of the challenges and common pitfalls with Kafka and how to alleviate these.
• Stream Enrichment at Scale (Amelia Lloyd - BBC)
  Hear how the BBC's stream team have built a pipeline to generate realtime insights from large scale analytics data.