Tech Meetup | "AI in Production: What's Actually Shipping in Media Workflows"

Everyone's talking about AI in the media workflow — QoE optimization, multi-CDN decisioning, auto-cropping, clip and highlight generation. The demos look great. But the real question is: what's actually running in production? That's the focus of our next Tech Meetup (Thu, July 30): not the pitch decks, but the practice, where AI is genuinely deployed in live media operations and content workflows, what broke on the way there, and what still keeps a human in the loop.

Three talks. Three real projects. No pitch decks.

🔴 "Faster Answers Under Pressure: An AI Root-Cause Co-Pilot for Streaming Ops"

Nicolás Caballero @ Qualabs When quality drops, the dashboard turns red. Explaining why is the hard part — complex diagnostic work under pressure. We'll share how we put an LLM in that loop: how to trust it at 3am when it's confident and wrong, how to keep it cost-effective, and where AI actually earns its place versus where it's just overhead.

✂️ "Pass, Fail, or Ask a Human: AI Quality Control for Video at Scale"

Emil Santurio @ Qualabs Producing highlights at scale means every clip needs a quality check before it airs. Clean cuts. Right moment. On-brand. But here's the thing: quality isn't one thing. Some checks are mechanical rules. Some need you to actually look at the frame. Some are genuinely subjective and editorial. The real challenge isn't "use AI" — it's knowing which tool fits each check. Pick the wrong one and you either miss errors or burn cost and trust. We'll share the honest lessons from putting this into production: which checks we let code handle, which needed computer vision, which still need a human, and what we'd do differently.

🌍 "From Voice to Subtitle to Sign Language"

Alexander Leschinsky @ G&L Accessibility at scale isn't a feature — it's a workflow. Alexander is sharing how sign language (BSL, ASL, and now German Sign Language) is being integrated into professional live and on-demand encoding, subtitling, and delivery. Working with UK-based Signapse, putting sign language on equal footing with subtitles. The honest part: what works, what's harder than expected, and how it changes your infrastructure.

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