Live Video Meetup at LinkedIn

Join us for an evening of talks, discussion, and networking on topics related to live video served on the internet. Learn how engineers at companies such as Microsoft, LinkedIn, and LiveU build applications and infrastructure to support social applications built around live video streaming. Food and drink will be provided at our LinkedIn NYC office at the Empire State Building.

Topics:

1. "The Challenges of Live from Anywhere"

Speaker Bio: Chris Perry is a Product Manager at LiveU coming home to his broadcast roots working with television stations and networks helping to provide reliable video transport solutions. Chris spearheads many of LiveU’s flagship software solutions including LiveU Matrix, the company’s content curation and distribution platform and the LiveU Smart app for mobile field reporting. Chris hails from Massachusetts where he lives with his wife enjoying his time off cooking, boating, and chasing their 2-year-old daughter.

You can find more details at https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-perry-9890a3a/

2. "LinkedIn Live Video Streaming Infrastructure Using Azure Media Services"

Speaker Bio: Yurong Jiang is a Senior Engineer at LinkedIn. He has lead contributions to build Linkedin Live infrastructure and other core media processing platforms. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.

You can find more details at https://www.linkedin.com/in/yurong-jiang-82360776/

3. "Scaling Live Video Application Infrastructure for 50k Viewers"

Speaker Bio: Daniel Fermanian is a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn. He leads backend engineering for the video application tier, most recently acting as tech lead for live video at LinkedIn.

You can find more details at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dfermanian/

Note: attendees will be required to sign an NDA.