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.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
I’m extremely happy that my contribution to our industry for the last 15 years is recognized, and it’s quite humbling, to be honest. It is notably humbling, because most of the work I’m recognized for is achieved through community effort and team work. Open source is the way of the future.
Son of a professor of macroeconomics, Jean-Baptiste Kempf attended the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris, passed a scientific baccalaureate, studied in a preparatory class for the Grandes Ecoles and then joined the École Centrale Paris in September 2003. He graduated in 2006 , specializing in IT and Telecommunications.
He began his work on VideoLAN, a second year study project at the École centrale, and on VLC in 2003. He got involved in the VIA Centrale Réseaux association as vice-president, which works at the improvement of the computer network of the students. To give the project independence vis-à-vis the École centrale, in 2008 he founded the VideoLAN association, of which he has been president since.
In 2012, he created the company Videolabs which sells services around VLC and financially supports the development of the software4.
In September 2020, he was appointed Chief Technology Officer at Blade, replacing Arnaud Lamy. When Blade was taken over by OVHcloud in 2021, he was relieved of his duties as technical director.
In 2022, he became a member of the Board of Directors of Weytop, a French Cloud PC company.
