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We are happy to welcome all of you at the Cable Center in Denver!

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The Cable Center,
Denver on Feb. 2-5, 2026

The MHV/2026
Technical Program

is presented below:

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4

Note: the technical program is not final and may be subject to change. 

February 2, 2026: Day 1

8:00-9:00

Breakfast and Gathering at the Cable Center, Denver

9:00-9:15

Opening Remarks : Main Track

9:15-10:45                       

 Tutorial Track: "Introduction to Video Coding", Yuriy Reznik, MIT (Part 1)

9:15-10:45

Video Streaming 1: Measurement, Monetization, and Decisioning

  1. “The Shortest Distance To Successful Streaming Ads Is Not a Linear Line”, David Hassoun (Muxed Consulting)

  2. “Enabling TV advertisement interactivity, at last, with SIMID”, Bertrand Berthelot, Fabre Lambeau (Broadpeak)

  3. “CMCDv2 – the authoritative diff”, Will Law (Akamai)

  4. “MIND THE GAP! Standards-based Per-Segment Media Quality Signaling for Live Streaming and Quality-Aware Decisioning”, Alexander Leschinsky (G&L Geißendörfer & Leschinsky GmbH); Brenton Ough (Touchstream International Pty); Adrian Roe (id3as-company Ltd); Will Law (Akamai Technologies)

  5. “Precision Envelope Management”, Daniel Silhavy (Fraunhofer FOKUS); David Eisenbacher, Olga Kornienko (EZDRM); Minh Nguyen, Stefan Pham (Fraunhofer FOKUS)

  6. “AI powered just-in-time per-title encoding”, Phil Cluff, Justin Greer (Mux)​​​

10:45-11:15

Break 1

11:15-12:45                       

 Tutorial Track: "Introduction to Video Coding", Yuriy Reznik, MIT (Part 2)

11:15-12:15

Video Streaming 2: QoE, VQA, and Perceptual Optimization

  1. “Improving Dialogue Intelligibility in Streaming Media”, Tim Addy, Scott Norcross, Mike Ward, Pau Arumi (Dolby Laboratories)

  2. “Focused Frames: Enhancing Video Quality Assessment Through Perceptual Pre-Cropping”, Cheng-Han Lee, Bowen Chen (The University of Texas at Austin); Neil Birkbeck, Yilin Wang, Balu Adsumilli (Google Inc.); Alan Bovik (University of Colorado Boulder)

  3. “Field Data Evaluation and Prototype Implementation for Real-Time Video Quality Assessment in Remote Driving”, Kiminobu Makino, Naoya Kaneko (Toyota Motor Corporation)

  4. “OLED’s power attenuation on streaming context”, Emmanuel Sampaio, Franck Aumont, Olivier Le Meur (InterDigital); Thomas Maugey (Inria)

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12:15-12:45

Keynote 1: Sergey Fedorov (Netflix)

12:45-14:00

Lunch

14:00-14:45                    

  Tutorial track: "The AV1 Video Compression Standard", Dr. Luc Trudeau

14:00-14:45

Panel 1: Low-Latency Streaming

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  1. “Implementing Lower Latency, Startup and Switching for DASH (L3D)”, Daniel Silhavy (Fraunhofer FOKUS); Alex Giladi (Netflix), Alex Balk (Comcast); Khaled Jerbi (ATEME); Minh Nguyen, Görkem Güclü, Stefan Pham (Fraunhofer FOKUS)

  2. “On Speed Test for Concurrent Evaluation of Classic and Low Latency Service Flows in L4S Regime”, Dhananjay Lal (Adeia Inc.)

  3. “Do HTTP/2, HTTP/3, and priorities affect low-latency adaptive streaming?”, Alex Giladi (Netflix); Nicolas Levy (Qualabs); Piers O'Hanlon (BBC)

  4. “A Public Low-Latency Streaming Trial”, Piers O'Hanlon, Melissa Darragh, Ryan McCartney, Stephen Perrott, Chris Poole (BBC R&D)

14:45-15:45

Video Streaming 3: Low-Latency Experience

15:45-16:15

Break 2

  1. “Non-Intrusive SRT Monitoring: Deep Insight Without Stream Impact”, Andrey Pozdnyakov, Anton Proshutya (Elecard Devices, LLC)

  2. “Intelligent Live Origin and Resilient Live Streaming”, Xiaomei Liu, Raj Ummadisetty, Joseph Lynch, Chris Newton (Netflix, Inc.)

  3. “Enhancing RTMP for Modern Live Streaming on YouTube Live”, Kirk Haller, Nicole Quah (Google/YouTube)

  4. “Resilient RTP Streaming with DRL-Enhanced Retransmission and Context-Aware Switching”, Keith Chow, Kenneth Wan (Nokia)

16:15-17:15

Video Streaming 4: Resilient Live Delivery and Protocol Modernization

18:00-21:00

Welcome Reception

Sponsored by Fastly

February 3, 2026: Day 2

8:00-9:00

Breakfast and Gathering​​

 Tutorial Track: Adaptive Streaming​ 101

9:00-9:30         â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹

1. "Introduction to Adaptive Streaming", David Hassoun (Muxed Consulting)​         

9:30-10:15​​​​

2. "ISO-BMFF and CMAF", Cyril Concolato (Netflix)​               

10:15-10:45         â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹

3. "Low Latency HTTP Streaming", Alex Giladi (Netflix)

10:45-11:00      â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹

4. "Rate Adaptation", Ali Begen (Ozyegin University)

9:00-11:15

  1. “Ultra-low latency software (HEVC and VVC) encoding: capabilities and applications”, Mauricio Alvarez-Mesa, Chi Ching Chi (Spin Digital); Benjamin Bross (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute)

  2. “Overview of AV2 Coding Tool and Performance Result”, Zhijun Lei (Meta Platforms)

  3. “AV1 and YouTube Live – A Case Study in Real-World Adoption”, Kirk Haller, Alexey Rubin (Google/YouTube)

  4. “Real-Time 8K UHD Video Ingestion and ML-Based ROI Generation with Slice-Wise GPU Processing and RDMA Acceleration”, Dennis Sandler (NVIDIA Corporation)

  5. “Overview of Emerging Standards for Machine-to-Machine Video Coding”, Md Eimran Hossain Eimon, Velibor Adzic, Hari Kalva, Borko Furht (Florida Atlantic University)

  6. “Learned Image and Video Compression: Foundations, Algorithms, and Open Challenges”, Dror Porat, Dotan Levi (NVIDIA)

  7. “Super Resolution at YouTube Scale”, Matthew Smart (Google)

  8. “Generative AI using Standards-based Neural-Network Post-Filters”, Sachin Deshpande (Sharp)

  9. “Enabling Resource-Efficient AI Video Analytics with Hierarchical Codecs”, Guendalina Cobianchi, Manzoor Razaak (V-Nova Ltd); Ben Cope, Palanivel Guruvareddiar (Intel Corp.)

Video Coding 1: Practical Encoding Systems, Real-World Deployments, AI for Compression

11:15-11:45

Break 1

11:45-12:15

Keynote 2: Jean-Baptiste Kempf (VideoLAN)

12:15-12:30

Sponsors' 5-min (Gold) presentations: Ateme, Fastly; and 3-min (Bronze) presentations: Beamr  (Part 1)

12:30-14:00

Lunch

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14:00-14:45                       

Tutorial Track: DASH Developer Day

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Unconference and DASH editors' AMA

Please send questions, topics of interest, and lightning talk proposals to alex.giladi@gmail.com

14:00-14:45

Panel 2: Women in Streaming Media

14:45-15:15

Break 2​​​​​​

15:15-16:30​

Tutorial Track: Advanced Advertisement in Adaptive Streaming                           

             

1. "Introduction to Server-Guided Ad Insertion", Olivier Cortambert (Yospace)​   

       

2. "Advertisement Signaling: SCTE 35, ESAM, and ESNI", Stuart Kurkowski (Comcast)​                                     

  1. “Blast from The Past: MOQ Live Streaming with AI-Generated Event Timeline”, Zafer Gurel, Ali C. Begen (Ozyegin University); Gwendal Simon (Synamedia); Will Law (Akamai)

  2. “Leveraging a structured concurrency framework to implement MoQ support in a Web Video Player”, Wolfram Hofmeister, Adis Talic, Vojtech Zalesky, Leto Baxevanaki, Daniele Lonenzi (Bitmovin)

  3. “Client-Side Video Analysis for Content Filtering with MoQ”, Andrew Freeman, Jeremy Bellert, Greg Speegle (Baylor University)

  4. "Content Steering Beyond Multi-CDN: Intra-CDN Edge Cache Switching as a Use Case", Burak Kara (Synamedia, Inria), Gwendal Simon (Synamedia) 

  5. "Cost-Optimal Satellite-Assisted Video Delivery", Yuriy Reznik (Streaming Labs)

15:15-16:30

Video Streaming 5: MoQ Adoption, Players, and CDN-Based Streaming

16:30-17:00

Break 3

17:00-17:45​​​​

Tutorial Track: "Deliver HDR and SDR at a fraction of the cost, while preserving creative intent

​​Sponsored by Ateme

18:00-21:00

Happy Hour 

February 4, 2026: Day 3

8:00-9:00

Breakfast and Gathering

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9:00-11:00                         

Tutorial Track: Content Security

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1. "Introduction to Content Security: DRM and Watermarking", Thasso Griebel (CastLabs)

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2. "Authenticity and C2PA", David Eisenbacher (EzDRM)

  1. “MOQ-n-Roll: Live Sports Watch Parties”, Ayse B. Demir, Mervegul Parlak, Zafer Gurel, Ali C. Begen (Ozyegin University); Burak Kara, Gwendal Simon (Synamedia)

  2. “Ultra-High Resolution, Ultra Real Time - How to Push the Boundaries of Spatial Immersion for Live”, Jan Outters (Ateme); Jonathan Newth (Focal Point VR); Eric Toullec (Ateme); Paul James (Focal Point VR)

  3. “Implicit Adaptation for Point Cloud Streaming with MoQ”, Andrew Freeman (Baylor University); Michael Rudolph (Leibniz University Hannover); Amr Rizk (Leibniz University Hannover)

  4. “SyncPlay: Synchronized Video-on-Demand Playback with MOQ”, Kerem Bekmez, Ahmet Pehlivanoglu, Zafer Gurel, Ali C. Begen (Ozyegin University)

  5. “Streaming large scale live events: How to transition to MOQ?”, Nominoë Kervadec, Christoph Neumann, Guillaume Bichot (Broadpeak)

  6. “Ultra low zapping time with optimized I-frame delivery method for next-generation video streaming technologies”, Grzegorz Grzesiak, Michal Konarzewski, Marcin Bialek (Samsung Electronics Poland); Hobum Kwon (Samsung Electronics); Grzegorz Pastuszak (Warsaw University of Technology)

  7. “Fast Multi-Rate Encoding Framework for Uniform-Quality 360-Degree Virtual Reality Streaming”, Amritha Premkumar, Christian Herglotz (BTU Cottbus, Germany)

  8. “AR lounge - Making AR and VR real for live sports”, Jan Outters (Ateme S.A.); Prof. Romuald Mosqueron (HEIG-VD); Stéphane Guérin (Immersiv.io); Laurent Zwahlen (NuLink); Pedro Aço (Six Floor Solutions); Prof. Marco Mattavelli (EPFL)

9:00-11:00

Video Streaming 6:  MoQ Adoption (Cont.), Live and Immersive Experience

11:00-11:30

Break 1

11:30-12:00

Keynote 3: David Bohunek, Naman Diwaker (Peacock)

12:00-12:30

Sponsors' 3-min (Bronze) presentations: Broadpeak, MulticoreWare, Nanocosmos, Qualabs, Vecima, V-Nova, Wowza (Part 2)

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30                         

Tutorial Track: Control Plane Technologies​

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1. "CMCD v1 and v2", Nicolas Levy (Qualabs)

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2. "CMSD", Prof. Ali Begen (ÖzyeÄŸin University)

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3. "Content Steering", Gwendal Simon (Synamedia)

14:00-14:45

Panel 3: IBC Accelerator

  1. “The EBU DMF Media eXchange Layer (MXL) SDK for Multi-Vendor Live Video Production”, Thomas Edwards (Amazon Web Services); Vincent Trussart (Grass Valley); Willem Vermost (EBU); Sithideth Viengkhou (Riedel Communications)

  2. “A Robust Interoperable Media Framework for Streaming Scalable Linear Delivery Experiences”, Yasser Syed (SME- Video Workflows & Streaming); Benjamin Gaverick (Fox); Ricardo Resende (TV Globo)

  3. “Removing Browser Multimedia Format Limitations through Standardized Filter Pipelines”, Maja Bystrom (Bevara); Jérôme Gorin (GeNumEr)

  4. “Browser-Based Playback of VVC Multi-Layer Bitstreams via Chromium Integration”, Shunsuke Iwamura, Shimpei Nemoto, Yuichi Kondo, Atsuro Ichigaya (NHK)

14:45-15:45

Video Streaming 7: Production Workflows, Interoperability, and Browser Delivery

Break 2

15:45-16:15

  1. “Live Provenance Anchoring for C2PA in Streaming Media”, David Eisenbacher (EZDRM)

  2. “When a Man-in-the-Middle tries crashing the live stream party, the C2PA bouncer steps in”, Roberto Ramos Chavez, Mohamad Raad, Arjen Wagenaar (Unified Streaming); Adam Goldberg (Sony Electronics)

  3. “The Common Access Token: One Token to Access Them All”, Chris Lemmons (Comcast)

  4. “Towards Practical Traitor Tracing in Distributed and Large User-Bases”, Vladimir Zivkovic, Vyacheslav Shoshin, Abhijeet Golwelkar, Ronald Peters (Irdeto)

16:15-17:15

Video Streaming 8: Security, Privacy and Enforcement at Scale

17:15-17:30

Main Session Closing Remarks 

February 5, 2026: Day 4

9:00-15:00                         

"MoQ: Brainstorming Session on MSF and CMSF"? 

This session is at Thrive Cherry Creek North.

Reserve here , room capacity at Thrive is very limited. 

17:00-19:00                         

Social Event (sponsored by Vecima)

Whiskey Star Smokehouse

231 S Main St, Breckenridge, CO 80424

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