Attended by over 2,500 executives last year, the Streaming Media West conference is back in Silicon Valley this week. Yesterday, Ashwin opened up the conference with a Welcome Keynote Address talking about the state of streaming media, the power of peer networking, and concluded with a live demo of BitTorrent DNA. I was surprised to see the room packed promptly by 9:00 a.m. with at least 400+ conference delegates. Furthermore, based on the pack of people who rushed the stage to speak with Ashwin immediately following his address, it’s evident that the industry wants to understand how best to leverage P2P technology for their content delivery needs. In fact, to address these issues, our CTO Eric Klinker recently contributed an article to streamingmedia.com to help educate content publishers on their content delivery options.

Also taking place at Streaming Media West today is the culmination of their First Annual Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards. A total of 92 companies submitted almost 120 products and services, and more than 3,000 readers of Streaming Media magazine and StreamingMedia.com logged their votes. Winners were selected by readers as companies that most exemplified technological and business innovation. BitTorrent was the winner and will be the recipient tonight of the top honors for “P2P Delivery Network.”

“This is a tremendous opportunity for us to acknowledge not just the winners of these awards but the continued growth and vitality of the streaming media industry,” said Streaming Media editor Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen. “The winners exemplify technological and business innovation, as well as outstanding customer service and brand messaging. I think the fact that the winners were chosen by end users makes them all the more meaningful.”

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