A Site to honor Contributors to the SVTA and the streaming video industry
--- Jason Thibeault, CEO, Streaming Video Technology Alliance
Who Are The SVTA Fellows?
The Streaming Video Technology Alliance Fellows represent individuals who have made significant technical contributions to streaming video and/or the Streaming Video Technology Alliance.
Industry Fellows
These fellows are people who have made a significant, lasting impact on the streaming video industry. They may or may not be employees of an Alliance member company.
Technical Fellows
These fellows are Alliance members who have made a significant contribution to Alliance activities and objectives such as leading working groups, writing documents, and evangelizing the organization.
Selecting Fellows
Fellows are nominated by Alliance members and reviewed by the Fellows Nomination Committee, a sub-committee of the board. This committee then recommends fellows to the board. There are no limits to fellow awards but they are only awarded once per year.
What Do Fellows Get?
Becoming an SVTA Fellow is more than just receiving another award.
Fellows Are Awarded Full Membership
Whether Industry or Technical Fellows, each awardee is provided a Principal Membership in the SVTA, allowing them to contribute without being associated with a member company. In addition, fellows are provided a crystal award to commemorate their induction. We try to award these in person at the SVTA's SEGMENTS conference. Finally, newly awarded fellows are acknowledged in a press release and added to the fellows website. We are confident that SVTA Fellows can leverage their award and status on their LinkedIn pages, with management, and to show the general industry what they have accomplished.
Our Inaugural Fellows Award Night
During the SVTA's first SEGMENTS conference (May 16th, 2023 in New Orleans, LA), in-person fellows were presented with their awards. Although the SVTA had awarded its initial batch of fellows back in 2019, the organization was unable to field a the SEGMENTS conference (or any member meetings) because of Covid. Given that, the SVTA held off selecting and sending awards until it was able to hold a physical event to present fellows with their awards.
Fellow Spotlight
Meet one of our fellows, randomly chosen from amongst the recipients.
Christopher Kulbakas
I am deeply honoured to be recognized by the SVTA as a Technical Fellow. The SVTA presents a truly unique opportunity to pursue your technical interests in streaming video while interacting with a global network of streaming video experts. You will meet new people, have fun and learn a ton while having the opportunity to bring new ideas to life with the backing of the biggest video streaming companies on the planet!
Christopher has been on the hunt for audio silence, video macroblocking, freezing, stuttering, slow playout startup and buffering for the last 12 years and counting. During this time, Christopher has held Engineering, Technology and Product roles across organizations spanning the media streaming workflow, including: production, processing, distribution, playout and analytics. In his current role, as an Engineering Lead at CBC/Radio-Canada, Christopher is helping to build the next-generation of media streaming and monitoring systems for Live and VOD workflows for TV and Radio. Christopher is also active in the industry, including co-chairing the SVTA Industry References Committee as well as participating in the SVTA Measurement/QoE WG and the CTA-WAVE Streaming Media Tracing WG.
