Steve Mack
Steve Mack has spent the last ten years at the forefront of the streaming media industry. He is a principal at LUX Media (http://uxmedia.com), a firm specializing in interactive media design, including large-scale live event production, a/v production, authoring, encoding, hardware and software implementation, training, original music composition, and script writing. Through its 501 division, LUX also offers hosting and consulting services targeted at progressive non-profit organizations.
An accomplished author, Steve wrote The Streaming Media Bible (Wiley, Spring 2002), the de-facto standard text on the subject, as well as an article for the Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering entitled “Broadcasting on the Internet” (Wiley, 1999).
Steve has produced some of the largest and most prestigious Internet broadcasts, including U2 live from Notre Dame (Yahoo Internet Magazine’s “Top of the Net for 2001”), the ACLU 2004 Members Conference, the Rolling Stones Bridges to Babylon tour, Elton John’s Oscar Party, as well as the WOMAD, Bumbershoot, South by Southwest, and Tibetan Freedom Festivals, The New York Digital Club Festivals, the MTV Europe Awards, President Clinton’s second inaugural address, and the first ever public live Internet broadcast of a Seattle Mariners game in 1995.
Steve is a popular and sought-after public speaker, having presented and given workshops internationally at the National Association of Broadcasters, Internet World, the Mayo Clinic, the X-Media Lab in Sydney, Australia, the RealConference, Streaming Media East and West, and South by Southwest. He also chaired the Internet Audio Workshop at the 105th Audio Engineering Society conference.
Previously at RealNetworks for five years (http://www.real.com) as Executive Producer of New Programming and Special Events, Steve worked with high-profile customers and partners to create cutting-edge programming and presentations. Prior to this, Steve managed the RealNetworks Media Lab, where he oversaw the team responsible for the majority of content created for the RealNetworks websites.
Steve is a board member of the Northwest Chapter of the Recording Academy, a member of the Audio Engineering Society, and one of the organizing founders of No Vote Left Behind, a political action committee rallying the musical community in Seattle, Washington. He volunteers for the Northwest Environment Watch, a non-profit organization dedicated to a sustainable economy in the Pacific Northwest, and in his spare time maintains the Harry Shearer website.
Before his current career in interactive media, Steve was a professional musician traveling the world and releasing five albums’ worth of material with critically acclaimed Irish rock group That Petrol Emotion. During this time he built, owned, and operated Bang Bang Studios in London, England, a commercial 24-track recording studio where he produced and engineered hundreds of releases. He is still active in the music industry as a producer/engineer and solo performer.
Dan Rayburn
Dan Rayburn is recognized as the “voice for the streaming media industry” and as one of the Internet industry’s foremost authorities, speakers, and writers on Streaming and Digital Media Technologies for the past ten years.
He is Executive Vice President for StreamingMedia.com, a diversified news media company with a mission to serve and educate the streaming media industry and corporations adopting Internet based audio and video technology. Its website (www.StreamingMedia.com), print magazine, research reports and tradeshows are considered the premier destinations for professionals seeking industry news, articles, white papers, directories and tutorials.
Prior to StreamingMedia.com, he founded a streaming media services division for the Globix Corporation, a publicly traded NASDAQ company, which became one of the largest global streaming media service providers specializing in on-site event production for webcasts around the world. Prior to Globix, he co-founded one of the industry’s first streaming media webcasting production companies, Live On Line, successfully acquired by Digital Island for $70 million dollars.
An established writer, Mr. Rayburn’s articles on streaming media trends and technologies have been translated into four languages and are regularly published in major trade magazines and web portals around the world. He is co-author of the first business focused book on the industry, The Business of Streaming & Digital Media. Regularly consulted by the media for insight into business trends and technology, Mr. Rayburn has been featured in over one hundred print and on-line articles.
Mr. Rayburn also consults for corporations who are implementing digital media services and products in the broadcast, wireless, IPTV, security and cable industries. Over the past ten years he has helped develop, consult, and implement streaming media solutions for prestigious companies in the enterprise, entertainment and government sectors including webcasts for A&E, ABC, Apple, Atlantic Records, American Express, BMG, BP, CBS, Cisco, Elektra, Excite.com, HBO, House Of Blues, ifilm, Indy 500, Intel, ITN, KPMG, Microsoft, MTV, Pepsi, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Qualcomm, RealNetworks, Sony Music, Twentieth Century Fox, United Nations, Viacom, VH1 and Warner Brothers among others.
Mr. Rayburn travels internationally as a featured industry expert and is sought out to speak on the current and future direction of streaming media technology, trends and business cases. A current technology advisor to many universities in the US, he has also taught Internet Broadcasting classes at New York University (NYU) and regularly lectures at numerous academic institutions.