Excited about solving REAL technical and operational challenges in streaming video? Submit your presentation at SEGMENTS:2026 Atlanta and share your solution with friends and colleagues.
Submit A Presentation For SEGMENTS
SEGMENTS is a forum for people to connect about running a streaming service. You can share the technologies that excite you, the day-to-day challenges you may face keeping viewers happy, and know that the people in the room are probably excited just as much (because more likely than not, others in the room are also working on the same thing).
Our conference isn’t a forum where only the CEO or the next wiz-kid with splashy slides and goofy name for their startup get to speak. It’s a place where everyday people, working on streaming come together. If you’re working in streaming operations, so are we! We’d be excited for you to come and participate in this conference devoted specifically to streaming operations.
You may have applied or spoken at other conferences. But just know that our process is simple: we’re gathering the names and topics of people who are willing to be part of SEGMENTS
So if you think this sounds interesting all you have to do is give us your name, email, affiliation, and a general description of the operations-related area you’d like to talk about. We have a bunch of volunteers that, after all the presentations have been submitted, will help determine the final list of presentations.
So what are we looking for?
SEGMENTS presentations are usually from 15-18 minutes long and follow a standard format:
- I had (or saw) a problem
- Here’s how I tried to address it
- And here was the outcome
Where Does Your Presentation Fit?
understanding where it fits can help our selection committee
SEGMENTS is chunked into “sections”. Within each of the sections, presentations address a part of the streaming workflow.
Workflow
Over-arching challenges and foundational issues with the streaming video technology stack and streaming workflow.
Ingest
Challenges with acquiring content and making it available to other components within the streaming workflow.
Content
Challenges with encoding, bitrate ladders, optimizing profiles, packaging, and other content preparation tasks.
Playback
Challenges with content playback such as buffer optimization, offline viewing, and device synchronization for live events.
Manipulation
Challenges with manipulating content including applying DRM, transcoding, watermarking, and edge-based processes.
Deliver
Challenges with delivering content to players and devices while ensuring a high quality of experience for each viewer session.
Analytics
Challenges with real-time monitoring, analyzing streaming data to improve workflow reliability, performance, scalability, and QoE.
Operations
Challenges with operating a streaming platform and exploration into solutions to common challenges in real-world situations.
wondering what to speak about?
A dash of hands-on, a healthy dose of technology, and a way to possibly solve a challenge...no matter how outlandish!
Many of our presentations focus on addressing possible solutions to real-world streaming challenges such as scaling for live, addressing latency within the workflow, and putting a stop to content theft. But there’s no right or wrong topic. So long as your presentation addresses solving real-world challenges in operating a streaming platform, we will give it due consideration.
submit your topic
Become One of Our Speakers
Submission Deadline: 6/1/2026
Are you interested in getting on stage in front of an audience eager to improve the streaming video experience? Do you have technical expertise in one of the stages of the streaming video workflow? Have you collected best practices in technical implementation that could benefit your peers? Then we need you! Fill out the form below with your presentation suggestion and our content committee will review it promptly.
Sorry but the submission window for SEGMENTS:2026 Atlanta has been closed.