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

• Luminem / Gentoo / Libav / VLC
• Works On: Libav
• Challenges
  • New https://wiki.libav.org/Blueprint/HWAccel2?
  • Better API for resampling (AVResample?) and color conversion&scaling (https://wiki.libav.org/Blueprint/AVScale?).
  • General code security, documentation
• Interested in: streaming, optimization, container formats
• Curious about: vp9, daala, opus

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:
  • Creating an industry standard for defining captioning quality and algorithm to calculate it
  • Low latency streaming with WebRTC? - foss and with Wowza
  • Sharing our new foss Nginx module for packaging (https://github.com/kaltura/nginx-vod-module)

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, …