MonteVIDEO Tech Day 2026 | Inspiring Talks & Discussion

Montevideo Tech Day is back! 🚀
As part of Summer Camp 2026, we’re hosting a new edition of Montevideo Tech Day, focused on technical conversations across the end-to-end video workflow.
This is a space to dive into how modern video systems are built today — from ingest to playback, through short technical talks, lightning updates, and a closing Mate Talk discussion.

🛠️ What’s on the agenda?
Throughout the evening, talks will explore different stages of the video pipeline through a mix of 15min tech talks and 3–5 min lightning talks, in this order:
🕔 Starting 5:45 PM

• “The Story of Enhancing RTMP” — Kirk Haller
• “Let’s Talk About ‘The Other SSAI’” — Stefan Kaiser
• “The Shortest Distance to Successful Streaming Ads Is Not a Linear Line” — David Hassoun
• “A n00bs Guide to Decoding Video Bitstreams” — Henry McIntyre

⚡ 6:55 – 7:05 PM | Lightning Talks

• “Evolution Under MOQ Revolution: How to Deploy to Production Without Losing Sleep” — Luiza Sadowska
• “Standards and the Importance of Interoperating” — Glenn Deen

Continuing with Tech Talks

• “Putting Down a MARKer: Open Source Testing Frameworks for Forensic Watermarking” — James Hynard
• “Agentic Metadata Enrichment: Why Human-in-the-Loop Is the Only Path to Trust” — Bhavesh Upadhyaya

🧉 Roundtable Mate Talk - 7:40pm UY
“What Emerged from the Innovation Track 2026”
Panelists: David Hassoun · Sean McCarthy · Olga Kornienko · Casey Occhialini · Bhavesh Upadhyaya

Event details:
🗓 During Summer Camp Week — January 2026
🕠 Late afternoon / evening (UY time)
📍 Montevideo, Uruguay
🌍 Live streamed on YouTube (free for registered participants)
Save your spot and join the conversation! 🎥💬