(Buffer-Free Video)^AI brings together engineers, leaders, and innovators from Media & Entertainment and GenAI to share what they’re building and how it’s actually working in production. We’re looking for practical stories, hard-earned lessons, and forward-looking tech that’s reshaping how content is delivered and experienced. 
 

Ideal topics include:

• Piracy Prevention​​ 

  • Using edge-native token parsing to stop piracy in real time.

  • Tracking and mitigating distributed live streaming piracy at scale.​​

• Data Management 

  • Automating archive metadata tagging.

  • Creating a uniform ad metadata standard across the entire video supply chain. 

• Ad Insertion 

  • Solving live Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI) failures at peak concurrency.

  • Managing and cleaning up fragmented ad insertion metadata across multiple platforms.

• Operations

  • Unifying multi-CDN telemetry. 

  • Defining operational excellence: What to measure and how to act on it. 

  • Building a strict cost-governance framework for cloud-native video pipelines. 

  • Leveraging real-time metrics to isolate and mitigate global QoE degradation instantly. 

• AI 

  • Letting autonomous AI agents refactor a decades-old media codebase. ​

  • Managing AI costs. 

  • Deciding when and where to implement AI tools.