Meetup_sydvideo_Version2-Final-_2020-Feb-26.flv

We're back in 2020 with another ten episode season starting with two returning speakers to kick off.

Bushfire emergency streaming
Kevin Staunton-Lambert - Switch Media - Solutions Architect
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevleyski/
The past few months have seen devastating fires across Australia. You may have caught Kev's talk at Demuxed but he has been part of a group working on ways for video engineers to save lives in such incidents.

Improving Video for Handmaids Tale
Scott Favelle - SBS - Manager, Enterprise Architecture
https://www.linkedin.com/in/favelle/
Scott was given the challenge to optimise The Handmaids Tales on SBS and will share quality analysis techniques and tools, what data we used and future options for improving the viewing experience.

Sponsors
Food and drink at this event will be provided AWS
https://aws.amazon.com

Our friends at Fastly are back on for after event social drinks sponsorship
https://fastly.com
(Location to be announced during the event)

We are also back at our regular venue thanks to our hosts
http://thestudio.org.au (media technologies incubator)

Sydney Video Technology is a volunteer group, as part of many groups independently run around the world. Tonight's hosts will be:

Amy Prosser, Senior Engagement Director at Brightcove
https://linkedin.com/in/prosseramy/
Jeremy Brown, Head of Video & Advertising Architecture at Seven West Media
https://linkedin.com/in/jeremybrownau/
Damian McNamara, Head of Digital Video Infrastructure & Operations at Seven West Media
https://linkedin.com/in/damian-mcnamara-7771958/

syd[video] changed in 2019:

• Monthly event
• Regular venue
• Fewer talks, earlier finish (8pm)
• Social drinks and a chat after