Dom Robinson

Dom Robinson
Director and Creative Firestarter
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Contributing Editor, StreamingMedia.com, UK

Dom Robinson has spent over 20 years focussed specifically on the complex challenges facing the exploding ‘Streaming Media’ market. A pioneer in the sector, he was responsible for the propositioning, architecture, technical design and implementation of many, now well established, online media publishing workflows. He has always had a strong focus on live / linear content delivery, which requires not only a deep understanding of the computational issues involved, but also of intricacies of network provisioning.

He founded the first large-scale Content Delivery Network in Europe. This CDN was pioneering in its focus on driving IP Multicast adoption in the consumer markets, and between 2001 and 2009 it grew to carry over 150m streams each month for clients as diverse as Sky Sports, RT News and over 60% of the UK’s Internet Radio. He was responsible for putting the UK Parliament, Number 10 Downing Street, Glastonbury Festivals (for the BBC) and FatBoySlim online; in many cases breaking new ground while doing so, both technically and in terms of providing entirely new consumer propositions. He produced the world’s first 3D webcast (for Universal, broadcasting a Keane concert) and coauthored several Patents that now underpin many common media workflows. He also began using Satellite IP for Contribution and Distribution models in 1998, building a satellite-based CDN for Enfocast / Microsoft in 2001/2002 and consulting with Eutelsat and Astra on several of their deployments.

Widely recognised as a sector visionary, he holds several International Awards for his work, and regularly Chairs or speaks at conferences ranging from Cloud TV, SDN/NFV, CDN, Distributed Compute, OTTTV and IPTV. He has been a Contributing Editor of StreamingMedia.com (and its print magazine) for 15 years, and has been published by Wiley Academic Press.

Streaming Forum 2019

Tuesday, 26 February 2019

3:45 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.	OTT moves towards microservices
3:15 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.	The relevance of telcos in the video distribution landscape

Streaming Forum 2018

Tuesday 27 February 2018

10:10 a.m. - 10:55 a.m.

Broadcaster Streaming Strategies

Streaming Forum 2017

Wednesday 1 March 2017

11:30 a.m. - 11:55 a.m.

Virtualisation for media publishers, CDNs and operators

Streaming Forum 2016

Tuesday 23 February 2016

4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

The UK: Pioneering Multicast and Building Real Networks that Scale to Live Broadcast-Size Audiences

Wednesday 24 February 2016

4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Roundtable 4: The Holy Grail of Scale

Streaming Forum 2014

Tuesday 24 June 2014

1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Case Study: Enabling Freeview to Deliver OTT Services

Wednesday 25 June 2014

1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.	Next-Generation Content Delivery Architectures
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	The Changing Landscape of Live Video Acquisition

Streaming Forum 2013

Wednesday 19 June 2013

2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

MPEG DASH & HEVC: Seeing Through the Hype

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

The Future of CDNs

Streaming Media Europe 2012

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Live from (Almost) Anywhere

Wednesday, 17 October 2012

1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Case Study: Virtualising Thomson Reuters Streaming Workflow

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Video Infrastructure Update

Streaming Media Europe 2011

Tuesday, 18 October 2011

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

The Live Streaming Revolution

1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

The State of the European CDN Market

Streaming Media Europe 2010

Conference Day 1 - Thursday 14 October 2010

2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Content Delivery Update

Streaming Media Europe 2009

Conference Day 1 - Thursday 15 October

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

The CDN Market Grows Up: Here Come the Telcos

Streaming Media Europe 2008

Thursday 16 October 2008

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Evaluating and Choosing Content Delivery Methods