<img height="1" width="1" src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=414634002484912&amp;ev=PageView%20&amp;noscript=1">
SMPTE UK and MPTS present... The Media Technology Conference 2024
Donate
SMPTE UK and MPTS present... The Media Technology Conference 2024
Donate

Welcome to
Washington DC Section

Join Our Friends List Bits by the Bay 2024
Welcome! 
 
The Washington D.C. section of SMPTE includes society members from the Washington/Baltimore metropolitan area as well as members in the Tidewater, Virginia and other nearby regions.
Section Officers include a chair, a secretary/ treasurer and six managers. There are also other volunteer positions such as Program, Membership and Publicity Chairs.
 
Our regular meeting is the third Thursday of the month at 7pm ET.  Check below for the latest update, and 
 
Follow us on Social Media

Our Next Event 

ANNOUNCING MINI BITS BY THE BAY 2024!

May 22, 2024 2-9pm National Geographic (and Zoom) Washington, DC

After a long hiatus, Bits By the Bay, the Washington area’s own technical conference for media professionals, is returning on Wednesday, May 22, 2024 in a one-day form factor.  We hope to return to the full two-day format in 2025 at the renovated Chesapeake Beach location.  Jointly organized by the SMPTE Washington, DC Section and SBE Chapter 37 and hosted by National Geographic, the event will run from 2pm to 9pm and will feature three technical area with multiple expert presenters.
 
The hybrid meeting will be hosted at National Geographic in downtown DC (1145 17th Street, NW - Dupont Circle Metro). and limited to 50 people in person.  You can also participate via Zoom. 
 
Complete details on the event page. Click here.
 

 

 

Upcoming Events...

 

If you have topics you would like us to cover, or want to ogranize an event yourself, reach out to managers@smptedc.org!

Let's hear from you! Members and friends of SMPTE-DC, what topics would you like to learn about? 

Send your ideas to managers@smptedc.org

Questions? Please send an email to managers@smptedc.org

 

Reminders & Notices

Follow SBE37 for Radio/TV specific events

Follow DC AES for all things audio

Job Openings:
 
Contact managers@smptedc.org if you have a job or need a job!

Past Events
March 19, 2024

MEDIA FORWARD WKHS 50 years of broadcast instruction

Learn More
January 9, 2024

SBE Chapter 37 Virtual Meeting

Learn More
December 12, 2023

Annual Holiday Party SMPTE, SBE, AES!

Learn More
October 10, 2023

Special Online Event TOWN HALL!

Learn More
August 29, 2023

Washington DC Town Hall

Learn More
July 11, 2023

Advanced Monitoring & Control Use Cases for Broadcasting

Learn More
March 30, 2023

SMPTE Washington DC March Meeting

Learn More
December 14, 2022

SMPTE Washington DC Holiday Party 2022

Learn More
November 9, 2022

SMPTE Washington DC and SBE Chapter 37

Learn More
November 3, 2022

SMPTE Washington DC November Meeting

Learn More
October 25, 2022

SMPTE Washington DC September Section Meeting

Learn More
October 18, 2022

SMPTE Washington DC October Meeting

Learn More
September 29, 2022

SMPTE Washington DC September Meeting

Learn More
May 26, 2022

SMPTE Washington DC May Section Meeting

Learn More
March 2, 2022

SMPTE Washington DC March SectionMeeting

Learn More
February 3, 2022

SMPTE Washington DC Section February Meeting

Learn More
December 20, 2021

Washington DC Virtual Holiday Party

Learn More
April 21, 2021

Virtual tour of the new NBCU News Group

Learn More
March 22, 2021

Washington Lunch and Learn

Learn More
February 24, 2021

Washington February Event

Learn More
January 28, 2021

January meeting - esports Production During COVID

Learn More
October 29, 2020

Media Forward Student Night Town Hall

Learn More
September 30, 2020

SBGF's KidsCLICK, LTN, IMAGINE COMM.

Learn More
September 23, 2020

Soundscriber & the Recovery of the Apollo Mission Control Audio Recordings

Learn More
September 16, 2020

"The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project: The Value and Fragility of our Historic Electronic Records”

Learn More
July 30, 2020

History of TV with Mark Schubin

Learn More
July 16, 2020

SMPTE-DC Member Town Hall

Learn More
June 18, 2020

Using PBCore Metadata to Drive Media Workflows

Learn More
June 16, 2020

Interoperable Media Format - IMF

Learn More
March 26, 2020

Media Forward: Establishing the Apollo 11 Audio Archive

Learn More
January 16, 2020

NextGen TV Summit at WETA-TV

Learn More
October 29, 2019

Media Forward event with our Student Section at Montgomery College

Learn More
September 19, 2019

Verizon Media "Doing Live Events for OTT on Scale"

Learn More
August 13, 2019

What you need to know about the 600Mhz Transition

Learn More
June 11, 2019

WTOP Radio facility tour

Learn More
May 14, 2019

The IP Workshops (2110 training)

Learn More
April 24, 2019

RagingWire Data Center VA3 facility tour

Learn More
March 21, 2019

Middle East Broadcasting Network facility tour

Learn More
January 17, 2019

Amazon Web Services

Learn More