Julien Deswaef 
#Blender open movies are always the star on display somewhere in those video tech conferences.
Talking about moving from a #Flash video player to pure html 5, Jeroen Wijering dropped the #Silverlight keyword in the mix and the audience burst laughing. ;)
The panel circles around web APIs and their benefits when combined to video. And finally, they're addressing the elephant in the room, and #Google's dominance in the browser market. Suddenly everyone seems to feel uncomfortable and cautious and conversation closes on those words: "go download #Firefox".
"ISPs are throttling video streaming down to 400kb/s at the end of the month for a lot of users in the US. And we might see more aggressive tactics like this in the future from ISPs" - Steve Heffernan
"The most difficult thing for the users of the #JWPlayer was video encoding. We spent most of our time responding to user support requests asking why their video would not play." - Jeroen Wijering
Jeroen Wijering just gave credit to #Macromedia for his first iteration on the #JWPlayer.
In regards to emerging markets, "when you ASS-U-ME, you make an ASS of U and ME".
Itay Kinnrot, R&D at #Kaltura
"Saregama Carvaan is a portable digital audio player with in-built stereo speakers and pre-loaded with 5000 Hindi songs. It's completely offline, costs $100 and sold 1M copies in India."
How Itay Kinnrot introduced his talk on delivering video to emerging markets.
Saregama Carvaan - Best Digital Audio Player with 5000 Evergreen Songs
Saregama Carvaan, a perfect gift for music lovers, is a digital audio player that comes with 5000 evergreen songs with in-built Bluetooth speakers, USB drive & FM radio. Saregama Carvaan is available in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil & Bengali.
"Automatic Curation of Golf Highlights using Multimodal Excitement Features" http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2017_workshops/w2/papers/Merler_Auto-Curation_and_Personalization_CVPR_2017_paper.pdf
Research paper on automatic curation of sports event through #MachineLearning, so you don't have to sit through it. I really liked that they picked #golf for this. ;)
"There is a lot of subjectivity and bias in data sets that we introduce by the way we are measuring things, how we are measuring it and what we are measuring." - Diane Strutner #reframevideo