A Site to honor Contributors to the SVTA and the streaming video industry
--- Jason Thibeault, Executive Director, 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.
Sanjay Mishra
The Streaming Video Alliance brings together some of the best minds in the industry, and I deeply appreciate being chosen as an Alliance Technical Fellow.
Accomplished Telecommunications professional with extensive experience in launching new and strategic products and services. Laser sharp Focus on technology innovation in areas of web-based media and cloud-based platforms. Skilled at service and product definition, system and network architecture, market and technology assessment and business process engineering,
Holder of US Patent for innovative design of enabling a mechanism for online ordering content such as video-on-demand. The mechanism allows ordering via a set-top-box on a TV or Internet-based online ordering. Content can be rendered on a TV or any device connected to the Internet. The mechanism also simultaneously initiates provisioning and billing of the asset on the underlying Network and Operations & Billing Support Systems (OSS/BSS) granting either perpetual ownership license and/or setting time-limit for rentals based on type of purchase. [US Patent: 9446261]
