September syd<video> – Distributed Video, Codec Experiments & Cloud Wildcards

Details
For September we’re hosted for the first time at Canva’s offices in Surry Hills. Big thanks to Canva for sponsoring the evening with pizza and drinks.

📍 Canva – 110 Kippax St, Surry Hills
📅 Thursday 25 September, 6:30–8:30pm

👉 RSVP & sign-in are essential to guarantee access to Canva’s building. Please cancel your spot if you can no longer make it.

Talks
**Chris Miceli – Principal Engineer @ Canva - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-miceli-51a0345b/**
“Misunderstandings of Distributed Video Processing”

Chris is Principal Engineer on Canva’s Media Platform team, working on the systems that power video creation and playback at scale. Before Canva he spent seven years at Facebook on the Video Infrastructure team, focused on ingest, encoding, storage and delivery of Live and non-Live Video. He’ll share common pitfalls in distributed video pipelines — where assumptions about ordering, scaling and reliability break down — and what patterns actually help when moving pixels across distributed systems.

**Kevin Staunton-Lambert – Video Engineer / Low-Latency Streaming Specialist - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevleyski/**
“Decoding the Undecodable”

Kevin has a background across Rust, C/C++, WASM, XR and low-latency streaming. He’s contributed to standards, has the coolest home brew website and worked deeply with video optimisation, browser pipelines and experimental codecs. His talk will explore live experiments in decoding video across runtimes — for example, decoding in Chrome and attempting to re-decode in a V8 instance without codec support. It’s part hack, part demo, and a glimpse into pushing the boundaries of video in the browser.

Sponsors
Our thanks to Canva for hosting and sponsoring pizza + drinks on the night.

Sydney Video Technology is a volunteer group, as part of many groups independently run around the world.

Tonight’s hosts will be: Jeremy Brown, Adrian Britton and Grégoire Duché.