Turner Broadcasting CIO: Communicating globally with telepresence

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Speaker: What emerging technologies do you see as most important to TBS as a whole right now?

Speaker: As a business, collaboration, innovation is two of the hallmarks that we are constantly focused on. So when you look at Telepresence, one of the new rooms that we just put in, that basically allows full duplex of audio. It allows us to really experience and like we're in the room with someone else. I think those are key elements in driving some of our success. Again, as we -- we think about diverse thoughts of our ideas around the world and bringing those back. And how those change our products. Again, I think we need these type of environments to bring people together world wide to really talk about things. And it's been a great collaboration tool.

Speaker: What were the results from some of that Telepresence roll out?

Speaker: One of the things is the fact that we're able to articulate, as we build facilities world wide, our engineering group here in Atlanta, and the one in Buenos Aries were able collaborate in a much more detailed style through Telepresence, through video -- HD video conference, and really did a great job of building that facility. But again, a lot of the share that happens within Turner, throughout our engineering, our technology groups is just that. I mean we share. We don't silo divisions and say look it, you're on this. Are you going to build this on your own? We take past lessons learned, and we share those, and we share the newest technologies. So again, I think collaboration is key to whatever we do here at Turner.

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