Five Americans, four Russians, three Chinese, two Koreans, and one each from Belarus, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Taiwan and Ukraine are competing live for Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition.
Participants perform on Yamaha CFIIIS concert grand pianos, equipped with state-of-the-art Disklavier Pro recording technology.
This system, which was pioneered by Yamaha, is the fusion of the acoustic piano and computer electronics and allows all solo rounds of the competition to be downloaded via MIDI to be enjoyed anywhere in the world. The concerti with the orchestra and the gala concert of the competition are broadcast live at www.livestream.com/piano_e_competition. The judges, can listen and watch the contestants from anywhere around the world.
The next round of performances will start today at 12PM(ET). The full schedule is available here: http://www.piano-e-competition.com/schedule.asp
USA TODAY is broadcasting the memorial service taking place at the famous Harlem Theater where Michael Jackson performed in 1967. Watch the live broadcast now at www.livestream.com/usa_today1 or on USA TODAY’s entertainment blog Lifeline Live.
NBA’s Timberwolves streamed their draft last night and are doing the post-draft coverage now.
Check it out at www.nba.com/timberwolves or www.livestream.com/wolvesbroadcast
USA Track & Field partnered with Flotrack.org to provide live webcasts, using Livestream Premium, of both open and junior events at the 2009 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Ore.
The Championships started today, Thursday 25 June, and will go through Sunday 28 June, at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field. This event is the selection event for the 2009 IAAF World Championships which will be contested in August in Berlin, Germany.
In addition to race coverage, Flotrack provides fans with exclusive interviews with track & field superstars, as well as behind the scenes access to select areas such as at the practice track and trackside press conferences.
With more than a thousand viewers tuned in right now, this webcast illustrates the interest in live sports coverage, and Livestream is excited to be the partner of choice for those events.
Check out the full schedule here and tune in to www.livestream.com/flotrack_usatf to watch the live coverage.
Amid allegations that Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won re-election through fraud, massive protests continue in Tehran and other Iranian cities on a scale not seen since the revolution in 1979. While expressing concerns over these events, the Obama administration has indicated an intention to continue its attempt at dialogue with Iran.
Tonight Thursday 25 June, from 6:30PM to 8PM (ET) Asia Society brings together two leading Iran experts to take a closer look at what’s happening in Iran and what it all means. How should we assess the outcome and aftermath of Iran’s presidential election? Has Iran entered an entirely new phase of its post-revolutionary history? How will these developments impact President Obama’s efforts to engage the country and US-Iran relations more broadly?
Speakers:
- Arang Keshavarzian, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University (he was in Iran for the presidential election and its immediate aftermath).
- Suzanne DiMaggio, Director of Policy Studies, Asia Society (moderator).
The event will be broadcast live at www.livestream.com/asiasociety
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Livestream announced that event producer GigaOM will use its Web video service to broadcast a live, Internet extension of its upcoming conference series starting with Structure 09, on Thursday June 25 in San Francisco.
The innovative partnership underscores the value of extending the reach of events by using live streaming to enable those that can’t attend to tune into the conference proceedings remotely. The official streaming partner deal also includes GigaOM’s Mobilize, NewTeeVee Live and GreenNet conferences, all held in San Francisco, all scheduled between September and March 2010.
In this milestone event streaming partnership, Structure 09: Put Cloud Computing to Work, will be available online in real-time. The focused one-day event features keynote speakers Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, and Paul Sagan, President and CEO of Akamai Technologies. Featured speakers include Werner Vogels, VP and CTO of Amazon, Russ Daniels, VP and CTO at Hewlett-Packard, and Raj Patel, VP of Global Networks for Yahoo!.
“It’s easy to get the feed online and thereby greatly extend the audience that can be part of our events,” Surj Patel, VP of Development at GigaOM, said of the exclusive partnership. “We also chose Livestream because they have all the tools and the necessary services to provide the highest quality streaming.”
In just five years, Invisible Children, an organization dedicated to ending Africa’s longest-running war, has made sure that millions of people worldwide have heard the story of Joseph Kony and his abducted child soldiers. They have organized global rallies that have brought more than 250,000 youth activists to take a stand on the issue.
They have journeyed to Chicago to share their story with Oprah Winfrey, Larry King has invited them to his stage to further the cause, and on June 22nd and 23rd the team rallied in DC to urge the Obama Administration to pass legislation that will make Africa’s war history. All those recent events were streamed live, and enabled Invisible Children to reach out to their online community, through the interactive broadcasting and social networking capabilities of Livestream.
The two-day lobbying campaign in Washington D.C. called How It Ends, aimed at raising awareness to the cause. The entire event was streamed live using Livestream’s partner LiveU, and brought together experts, celebrities, musicians and activists from across the country to learn about the crisis and meet with elected leaders to promote policy measures to end it, making it one of the largest lobbying initiatives in America’s history. U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, director Tom Shadyac, actress Kristen Bell were among the famous speakers involved.
Check out the broadcast’s gallery on our Facebook page and go to www.invisiblechildren.com to learn more about the organization.
For the first time in history, the UN Refugee Agency organized a live broadcast from some of its overseas operations. On Saturday 20 June, 15′000 unique viewers tuned in from all around the globe to watch UNHCR staff and refugees share their stories and experiences on the occasion of World Refugee Day 2009.
The stream ran for 12 hours on Saturday, linking refugees in eastern Chad, internally displaced people in Colombia and UNHCR staff in Pakistan and Syria to the world. Viewers were able to present their questions to field staff and refugees through moderators in the United States.
This amazing interactive experience was made possible thanks to the work of UNHCR, VSee and i-ACT, who used Livestream to bring the live and pre-recorded streams to the world, combining amazing logistical capabilities with cutting-edge broadcasting technologies.
The recordings of the live webcast will be available in the next few days. In the meantime, visit our Facebook page to check out screenshots from the different segments, as well as behind-the-scene photos from the headquarters in California.
Go to www.unhcr.com to learn more about the agency and its work with refugees.
After 2 days of panels, round-tables, Q&As and brainstorming with most amazing speakers and participants, the first Open Video Conference ended minutes ago on a surprising (and entertaining) note with Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, who joined the audience for an exclusive Q&A live from Sweden.
The OVC was put on by Kaltura, Yale Internet Society Project, and Participatory Culture Foundation in partership with Mozilla, Red Hat, Creative Commons, Level 3, and Akamai.
The conference addressed all dimensions around online video: culture, technology, politics, legislation, education. A resource-full exchange, which can watched and re-watched on-demand here:
www.livestream.com/openvideoconference
Here’s a small selection of screenshots from this morning’s broadcast. More images are available on our Facebook Page .
