Virtual Melbourne Video Technology Meetup - The 24 hour Meetup!

Are you sick of these unprecedented times, and getting daily emails about these unprecedented times? Then come and blow off the cobwebs and join us for the very first Virtual Melbourne Video Technology Meetup, thanks to COVID19. Save the date and connect with your local peers in the Video Technology space!

Not only is it our 2nd ever Melbourne Video Technology Meetup, we are also participating in a 24 hour Video Tech meetup. On the 24th of September, 18 independent Video Tech events will stream back to back starting UTC 6am in Auckland New Zealand then chasing the sun to finish in Seattle on the west coast of the United States.

Melbourne has lined up a fantastic lineup of speakers starting from 8pm AEST sharp:

• Speakers *
  Rafael Caricio - Sr. Software Engineer @ CBS Interactive
  https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafaelcaricio/
  "Hawkeye - Automating Video Ad-Insertion via Video Slate Detection with GStreamer"

Ben Loveridge - Coordinator, Immersive Media (AR/VR) @ The University of Melbourne
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-loveridge-7bb025b8/
"Can the use of virtual reality improve the experience of real-time networked music performance?"

Nick Krzemienski - Engineering Lead - VOD Encoding & Ops @ fuboTV
https://www.linkedin.com/in/krzemienski/
"Multi Codec HLS & DASH Encoding & Packaging"

Our Melbourne event will run via Zoom. You can watch all 24 hours of events live on the Demuxed Twitch channel https://twitch.tv/demuxed

Participating order will be Auckland, Sydney, Tokyo, Melbourne, Taipei, India, Tel Aviv, Paris, Barcelona, London, Montevideo, Kitchener-Waterloo, New York, Boston, Denver, San Francisco, Seattle (edited)

Please note: we will be streaming live from Zoom. Obviously you have no obligation to have your camera on. We ask you stay muted during the talks hold onto questions for after and behave like your boss is watching.

• Your Virtual Hosts *
  Melbourne Video Technology is a volunteer group, as part of many groups independently run around the world. Tonight's hosts will be:

James Broberg, Founder and CEO at StreamShark
https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-broberg-8654052/

Carissa Mills, Technical Delivery Manager at Brightcove
https://www.linkedin.com/in/carissamills/

• Sponsors *
  Yourselves. I'm sure our friends at AWS and Fastly can't wait to support our next in person event when we are able to.