Michael Dale:

  • Kaltura
  • Works on: Player infrastructure: delivery live / vod ( DASH, HLS, MSE, multi-track audio ) , accessibility ( Captions, WebVTT?, WAI-ARIA ) , security ( EME, multi-drm ), Advertising ( VMAP, VPAID, VAST )
  • Challenges: Cross Android device consistent playback OS libraries / testing
    • DRM fragmentation
    • Accessibility: Consistent key board shortcuts among players?
    • Low[er] latency live streaming ( WebRTC? relay? low latency Dash? MultiCast?? )

Scott Kellicker

  • Wowza Media Systems
  • Works On: Streaming Server, network DVR, Captions
  • Challenges:
    • Cross device/browser video playback
    • Streaming bitmap/teletext (DVB) captions
    • low latency streaming

Steve Heffernan

  • Brightcove / Video.js
  • Works On: Web players
  • Challenges:
    • Cross browser EME
    • Project modularization and interoperability

Guillaume Martres

  • Master student in Computer Science at EPFL
  • Works On: Daala, VP9, Libav
  • Challenges:
    • Currently: improving the visual quality of Daala

Luca Barbato

Shachar Zohar

  • Peer5
  • Works on: Javascript based delivery, WebRTC? optimizations, P2P? mesh networks.
  • Challenges: Video player integrations, CORS adoption (expose headers).
  • Interested in: MSE with hls, Flash to javascript media bridge, low latency streaming

Zohar Babin

  • Kaltura
  • Works on: Video Platform Service, Live and VOD Transcripts and Captions, Metadata driven workflows
  • Interested in:

Itay Kinnrot

  • Kaltura
  • Works on : Player infrastructure: Movile/Web, delivery live / vod ( DASH, HLS, MSE, multi-track audio ) , accessibility ( Captions, WebVTT?, WAI-ARIA ) , security ( EME, multi-drm ), Advertising ( VMAP, VPAID, VAST )
  • Challenges: HLS everywhere, DASH with EME, Modular DRM.

Will Thompson

  • Works on: browser-based video archive exploration
  • Interested in: basic nonlinear editing, inter-device synchronisation, …