Industry Leaders Talk Technology and Business Innovation — and When It’s Better to Be a Fast Follower

variety.com:

Sophia Scorziello editor The “Breakthrough Tech – Media Trendsetters” panel at Variety’s Entertainment and Technology Summit brought together industry leaders Vibol Hou, EVP and chief technology officer of Paramount Streaming; Shalini Govil-Pai, VP at Google TV; Erin Oremland, GM of AgilLink at City National Bank; Soumya Sriraman, president of streaming at Qurate Retail Group; and Will Cady, global brand ambassador at Reddit to talk about innovation in media technology.

The conversation was moderated by Variety digital editor Todd Spangler. Oremland said City National Bank’s AgiLink embraces innovation in the ways it partners with clients, which includes family offices, business managers, sports professional firms and the like. “We make sure they can get the best ecosystem platform there to integrate their software with AgiLink,” she said.

In the case of Paramount Streaming, according to Hou, it’s also important to approach innovation through a lens that takes into account the needs of users. “We want to be customer forward.

They did not want buffering; they did not want pauses after ads or before,” said Hou. But for a company like Reddit, innovation sometimes comes at them in a different way.