Month: May 2023

Jackson Walker LLP

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Kalahari Resorts & Conventions
Round Rock, TX

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Web: www.jw.com

The media law group at Jackson Walker is one of the most prominent in the country, representing clients in the television, radio, newspaper, magazine, and publishing sectors. It’s also one of the most longstanding media law practices, having served media clients for over 100 years. Our attorneys have advised clients in matters related to the Oklahoma City bombing, Hurricane Katrina, the Branch Davidian incident in Waco, and the Rhode Island nightclub fire. JW defended Oprah Winfrey in a suit brought against her by Texas Cattlemen and successfully defended The Chicago Tribune in its first libel trial in over forty years.

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Vertical Bridge

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Kalahari Resorts & Conventions
Round Rock, TX

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Web: www.verticalbridge.com
Phone: 561-948-6367
Address: 750 Park of Commerce Drive, Suite 200
Boca Raton, FL 33487
United States

Vertical Bridge REIT, LLC is the largest private owner and operator of communications infrastructure and locations in the United States. The Company owns, operates and master leases over 320,000 tower, rooftop, billboard, utility attachment and other site locations, including the nation’s largest and tallest collection of broadcast tower sites. Based in Boca Raton, Florida, Vertical Bridge was founded in 2014 and is led by a senior management team with over 350 years of collective experience in tower infrastructure and a broadcast team with more than 215 years of broadcast industry expertise. For more information, please visit www.verticalbridge.com.

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Signiant

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Kalahari Resorts & Conventions
Round Rock, TX

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Web: www.signiant.com
Phone: (781) 221-4000
Address: 1 Harwell Place
Lexington, MA 02421
United States

Signiant’s advanced transport technology has long been trusted by the media industry for mission critical file transfer applications across the global supply chain. Our software provides fast, reliable, secure movement of large datasets via any IP network, with comprehensive control and visibility at any scale. These benefits are more important than ever in today’s hybrid cloud/multi-cloud world, where the Signiant Software-Defined Content Exchange (SDCX) SaaS platform plays a foundational role in the modern media technology stack. This unified means of accessing media assets across diverse, distributed storage repositories has set the stage for innovations that extend Beyond Fast File Movement.

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Nexstar Media Group, Inc.

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Kalahari Resorts & Conventions
Round Rock, TX

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Web: nexstar.tv

Since its inception, Nexstar has remained at the forefront of industry innovation by implementing new standards and technologies that leverage its award-winning local programming and content into complementary revenue streams. The Company has also significantly expanded the reach of the station group by completing select accretive transactions that have positioned Nexstar to better compete in today’s rapidly transforming industry environment. This approach has enabled Nexstar to deliver greater levels of service to its local communities and to continue investing in its business and employees.

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Haynes and Boone, LLP

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Kalahari Resorts & Conventions
Round Rock, TX

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Web: www.haynesboone.com
Phone: 512-867-8476
Address: 98 San Jacinto Blvd, Ste. 1500
Austin, TX 78701
United States

Haynes and Boone, LLP is an international corporate law firm with 19 offices, spanning Texas, New York, California, Charlotte, Chicago, Denver, Washington, D.C., Virginia, London, Mexico City and Shanghai, providing a full spectrum of legal services in technology, financial services, energy and private equity. With 700 lawyers, Haynes Boone is ranked among the largest U.S.-based firms by The National Law Journal, The American Lawyer and The Lawyer. Haynes and Boone, LLP has ranked nationally in 32 practice areas and regionally in over 100 practice areas in the 2024 “Best Law Firms”.

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Evertz

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Kalahari Resorts & Conventions
Round Rock, TX

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Web: www.evertz.com
Phone: (905) 335-3700
Address: 5292 John Lucas Dr.
Burlington, Ontario L7L 5Z9
Canada

Evertz is the leading global innovator of complete end-to-end solutions for media companies for content creation, connection, and capitalization. Evertz™ solutions can acquire content remotely from any location over RF, using public or 5G networks to facilities based on IP-based or 12G-SDI infrastructure. Evertz™ virtualized tools produce live events with video/audio mixing, capture and other key features. Evertz provides solutions to connect these stories and content to large scale audiences over traditionally linear channels, across free ad-supported stream TV (FAST) channels, direct-to-consumer (D2C) or OTT platforms with innovative technology for interactive overlays on the mobile and connected TVs.

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Tameca Jones

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TAB2023

August 2-3

JW Marriott

Downtown Austin

Austin’s Empress of Soul, Tameca Jones, is a beloved soul singer praised for her intense, passionate vocal delivery and fierce performances. After gaining a strong reputation as a gifted cover artist, Jones started writing her own original compositions and debuted them at the 2015 Austin City Limits Festival.  She released her debut EP “Naked” in 2016.  She toured with Gary Clark Jr and shared stages with Leon Bridges, Willie Nelson and Lukas Nelson, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Shakey Graves, BB King, and countless other major artists.  In November 2023, she will release her debut full length album “Plants and Pills.”

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Perry Priestley

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Kalahari Resorts & Conventions
Round Rock, TX

Perry Priestley has worked in the professional broadcast industry for over 49 years. He joined Broadcast Electronics in June 2019 in the position of Chief Operating Officer and now is the Chief Sales Officer. Previously he held the position of CEO at Anywave Communication Technologies Inc. He has also held positions in Sales and Business Development with Linear Industries Brazil, Ibiquity Digital Corporation (now Xperi), Thales-France (now Thomson Broadcast), EEV-Marconi, and Philips (Pye TVT) in the UK. Perry has presented at over 200 technical broadcast conferences worldwide, has been the lead commercial coordinator in notable projects around the world, and has been a significant contributor to many new product releases in the radio and television broadcast market.

Perry earned a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from Cambridge University, England, and a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Telecommunications from Cambridge College of Technology.

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Jessica Jett Hill

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Kalahari Resorts & Conventions
Round Rock, TX

Jessica Jett Hill holds dual roles at Advantage Systems, Inc. as Vice President of Digital and Director of Logistics. As VP of Digital, she oversees digital sales team training and client pitches, and evaluates digital solutions offered by Advantage Systems Interactive.  Jessica also handles behind-the-scenes details for Advantage Systems as the leading Revenue Generation partner in the Broadcast Industry, contributing to process and presentation development.

She joined the company in 2003 as a Project Manager and played a key role in establishing Advantage Systems Interactive, which has evolved into a full-service digital agency. Jessica collaborates with small businesses and broadcast sales reps, shaping digital strategies, overseeing training and proposals, and coordinating projects nationwide.

With a background in the radio industry, her true passion lies in marketing, particularly assisting small businesses. She has gained valuable insights from her experience as a Sales Rep, Promotions Director, and local business Marketing Coordinator, and excels at simplifying complex concepts for others.

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