November syd<video> – Final event 2025 with Will Law!

Thanks to Canva’s offices in Surry Hills hosting in September we now have a new home for syd\ where we have our most popular ever speaker returning to close us out for the year.

📍 Canva – 110 Kippax St, Surry Hills
📅 Tuesday 18 November, 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
Will Law - Architect of Internet Media Delivery Standards
Proposal for CMSD-based transmission of Media Quality Assessment (MQA) data
Will Law's impact as the Chief Architect at Akamai has been huge in driving the adoption of next-generation streaming protocols and formats (like DASH, QUIC, and CMCD) through key standardisation leadership roles, ensuring interoperability, improved quality of service, and lower latency across the global video streaming ecosystem.

Colin Hendry - Media Technical Specialist @ SBS
5:48 PM Friday - Sounds great, I can do a breakdown of FAST channels.

Urvashi Pal - Sr. Technical Solutions Architect &
Javed Shaikh - Senior Solutions Engineer @ Akamai
“Misunderstandings of Distributed Video Processing”
Urvashi Pal and Javed Shaikh are key Senior Technical Leaders in the Asia-Pacific (APJ) region, driving the adoption of Akamai's specialized media and cloud infrastructure solutions through client-facing (Presales) roles. Their combined impact lies in fusing next-generation video delivery with advanced cloud architecture

Sponsors
Our thanks to Canva for hosting and sponsoring pizza + drinks at the venue.

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.