Video Streaming to Mobile Platforms

Summary: This talk will introduce the audience to the approaches (progressive, streaming, adaptive streaming) available to stream video content to your mobile platform. It will discuss the requirements for supporting video content within your native and web application including the protocols, encodings and media formats. An overview of the deployment options including the various Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) and Video Delivery Platforms will be provided.

Bonus Presentation! The Indy Development Firm Experience and Apple Developers Conference - We will also be joined by Michael Antaran of Marvel Apps (http://www.marvelapps.com/), who will give us the story of building a successful independent iPhone app company. Michael will have just returned from the Apple Developer conference in Austin, TX, and can also hold a discussion about all of the newest things coming out of the Apple dev world.

Speaker Bios:

Laurentiu Cucos is a technical consultant at Compuware Corporation in Detroit, currently working on a Compuware Ventures initiative where he is experimenting with mobile app aspects like sensors, dynamic proximity networking and cloud integration. Prior to this, he has worked on High speed network monitoring solutions, Lock and wait free programming and Performance on Virtual Machines. Laurentiu has published and co-authored a number of papers regarding load sharing and other performance-related issues. Laurentiu has a Doctoral degree in Computer Science from Western Michigan University in "Load sharing strategies in Distributed Environments"

Priya Rajagopal is a software architect at Compuware Corporation in Detroit, working on application performance monitoring solutions. She moonlights as an iOS app developer, building mobile apps in her own time. She co-organizes the Mobile Monday Ann Arbor meetup group. Prior to mobile development, she has worked on a wide range of technologies including IPTV, Social TV, targeted advertising, network management and security and was an active contributor to the IPTV standards. She has co-invented 20 U.S patents.You can follow her on twitter @rajagp or read more about her ramblings on technology and related stuff in her blog at: http://www.priyaontech.com (http://www.priyaontech.com/)

Michael Antaran is the founder of Marvel Apps, a four year old independent iPhone software company.