On the back of strong engineering talent, numerous word class research centres and good access to VC money, London has developed into a global center for AI. London-based Technology, Media, and Entertainment Consultant Rhys Hancock shares his insights into this development and the impact of (Generative) AI on the Media & Entertainment industry in the coming years.

Episode host: Carsten Mönning

Audio producer: Klaus Reinhardt

Johannes Ehrler (Chief Data & Innovation Officer) and Benjamin Weiss (Lead Data Scientist) from RTLZWEI share their story as to how their Data Science team is driving data product innovation and development with the help of an optimized team setup. The team's data products are typically human-in-the-loop in nature, owned end-to-end by team members and closely aligned with RTLZWEI editors to ensure production value. Johannes and Ben give concrete examples for this approach such as advanced video tagging for efficient short-form content creation (promos, trailers) from long-form video.

Episode hosts: Marcus Koring, Carsten Mönning

Audio producer: Klaus Reinhardt

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Our tour of the world of Web3 continues. This time we add a legal perspective to our technical view of NFTs by interviewing Steffen Kämper.

Steffen is not only a notary and a lawyer specializing in commercial legal protection, but his long-running private interest in NFTs also makes him the perfect tour guide for introducing tech enthusiasts like ourselves and our audience to the (NFT) legal framework, especially the one in Germany.

The idea for this episode came about at the kitchen table, so to speak. Steffen is Marcus' brother-in-law and there have always been interesting discussions with Steffen that we wanted to make available to a wider audience.

So, what are some important basic legal concepts in the NFT context? What about NFTs and consumer protection? What do I do in the case of incorrectly programmed smart contracts? In the future, will NFT- and crypto-related disputes settled before non-public arbitration courts only? And why are we being led to Lichtenstein at the end of our tour? Listen in!

Episode hosts: Marcus Koring, Carsten Mönning

Audio producer: Klaus Reinhardt

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We started our special Web3 Tech & Data podcast series at Christmas time last year with a deep-dive into Virtual Reality and Metaverses, followed by a close look at NFT use cases in the TV Production Industry. In today's episode, Marcus and I continue our Web3 journey by talking to the Arvato Systems subject matter experts Marco Koppik and Nicolas Ley about their innovation budgets-winning Web3 cases in the Blockchain-driven track & trace, supply chain disintermediation consortium and NFT platform development space, respectively. Please note that this Easter 2022 special has been recorded in German language.

N.B.: When mentioning "REWE", Marco Koppik is referring to "REWE Digital", the REWE Group's digital solutions provider.

Episode hosts: Marcus Koring, Carsten Mönning

Audio producer: Klaus Reinhardt

Our exploration tour around Web3.0 topics continues. In this episode we talked with JR Griffin - VP Digital Marketing & Business Develoment - from FremantleMedia about their launch of NTFs for the hit show 'American Gods'.

JR shares with us his learnings around NFT i.e. what to look out for when selecting the right media asset for the right audience. But NFTs aren't just necessarily another distribution channel for digital assets, but a way to activate and involve your fanbase with creative approaches that goes beyond NFTs as collectibles.

If you are curious to hear more, just tune in.

Episode hosts: Marcus Koring, Carsten Mönning

In this first episode following the relaunching of our AI Expert Group podcast series in the form of this Tech & Data Podcast, we talk to the VR experts Michael Schramm and Niilo Mittwoch about recent developments in the VR and metaverse space. Please note that this Christmas 2021 special has been recorded in German language.

Episode hosts: Marcus Koring, Carsten Mönning

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Audio producer: Klaus Reinhardt

We are joined by Vincent Koops. Vincent is a composer and computer scientist with a background in sound design, music composition and artificial intelligence. He holds a PhD in Music Information Retrieval from Utrecht University and is working as a Senior Data Scientist at RTL Netherlands developing AI audiovisual projects for television and video on demand. 

Our conversation focuses on generative AI for audio, more specifically, about his generative AI work at RTL Netherlands in general and his music AI work, in particular, as widely popularised by this year's "AI Song Contest", also billed as "Eurovision with a twist", which he co-organized and was a jury member of. The event resulted in a ISMIR 2020 conference paper, which Vincent co-authored. The AI Song Contest 2020, including an interview with Vincent, can still be  viewed on YouTube and was widely reported on in tech news outlets such as The Verge and Engadget.

If you want to get in touch with me, Carsten Moenning, or my co-host, Marcus Koring, to provide feedback or to suggest future guests and topics, simply connect on LinkedIn.

Episode hosts: Marcus Koring, Carsten Mönning

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In this episode, we are in conversation with Martin von Allesch, Senior IT Consultant with the Media Sales Services team of Gruner + Jahr, one of Europest largest magazine publisher based in Hamburg, Germany. Our discussion focuses on the role of Generative AI within the media business, both in terms of its current status and its future potential.

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In this 5th episode of the AI Expert Group's AI Testimonials podcast series, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we talk to this episode's guest Kai-Uwe Stahl remotely. Kai is the co-founder and co-managing director of reportingimpulse, one of the leading data visualization and Data Science strategy consultancies in Europe. We discuss the role of data visualization within data science, joint work on data science capability models and interactive AI use case analysis dashboards.

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This is episode 4 of the AI Expert Group's AI Testimonials podcast series featuring Marc Egger, Head of Data Product Development for Data and Audience Intelligence at Mediengruppe RTL and an eminent Natural Language Processing (NLP) practitioner.

Our conversation with Marc ranges from augmented media in the sense of early format greenlighting and generative script writing to smart search development for VoD platforms using state-of-the-art NLP technology. We touch upon the Mediengruppe RTL in-house data product development process and discuss Marc's experience when it comes to getting data-driven use cases all the way from ideation into production. Podcast post production, once again, by courtesy of Klaus Reinhardt.

If you want to get in touch with me, Carsten Moenning (bit.ly/37Qtw2F), or my co-host, Marcus Koring (bit.ly/2samNS0), to provide feedback or to suggest future guests and topics, simply connect on LinkedIn.

Episode hosts: Marcus Koring, Carsten Mönning

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