This year (no surprise) Kranky Geek is being held virtually on Thursday, 19 November 2020. Each session will be LIVE broadcast on YouTube and there will be a real-time Q&A following each session. Sessions will be available for replay post the event. Register your interest to be kept informed.
We’re focusing (as always) on content and information with limited “talking heads” and keeping an active pace.
Kranky Geek Virtual 2020
Thursday, November 19th
Welcome to Kranky Geek
Glad to have you here, lets review what happened with WebRTC in 2020 and how is that affecting our event today and the future for all of us.
Scaling FB Video Chat Products With Covid-19
With the beginning of Covid-19 outbreak, Facebook felt the increasing demand for real time video. In a very short time we introduced a new product, Rooms, to make it easier for people to connect with others and feel the sense of togetherness. In this talk we will cover the challenges and solutions around scaling our infrastructure to support large Rooms, ensure sufficient capacity with the increasing demand, and delivering high quality on a large range of calling scenarios.
Checking the pulse of WebRTC implementations
All browser vendors will be sitting with us at the same time discussing their plans and the work they are doing with WebRTC. Find out the latest and what’s next with all the major browsers in this interaction session. Sure to be entertaining!
Implementing Always End-to-End Encryption in the Browser
WebRTC is end-to-end encrypted (E2EE ) in simple peer to peer sessions, but middle boxes like media servers often perform decryption for larger calls. Emil Ivov of 8×8 will review how 8×8 leveraged new browser API’s with WebRTC to provide true, always-on E2EE in the open source Jitsi project.
Scaling Multiparty Video Calls for Client Endpoints
Vonage has seen an unprecedented growth in overall traffic since the COVID-19 outbreak. With the urgent need for real-time video for the multiparty use case, there’s an increased importance and criticality of client endpoints performing at high levels in group video calls. Scaling a multiparty video call requires optimizing both the client and server. In this talk, we’ll cover best practices and the importance of scaling and optimizing client endpoints to ensure a great video experience in the browser and mobile applications.
WebRTC project update
The Google WebRTC team will return for their annual update and review.
Sponsors
Many thanks to Google for 5+ years of sponsorship of Kranky Geek as we help developers build developers build real time applications using WebRTC.
with industry supporting sponsors from
Expert speakers
Meet the great speakers at this year’s event
Send us your best 'Tiktok Video'
During Covid, many new applications , services and ideas have been born in the collaboration space for video, audio and sharing – all using WebRTC. Got a new start-up looking for beta users? Here’s your opportunity to showcase your company or application.
We’re looking for your 30-second video on your product, service or idea or even some technical trick you’ve discovered that you wish to promote. Using the ‘TikTok’ style, send your video content to us at [email protected]
Your short form video should be fun & informative. These videos will be featured during the Kranky Geek event and posted on our YouTube channel.*
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