AI & ML
Hosted by London Video Technology
When
Thursday 12 November 2026
6:30pm – 9:00pm
Where
Holborn, London (exact venue shared with confirmed attendees)
Price
free
The London Video Technology meetup's first event of its tenth season, at a new venue in Holborn sponsored by Fastly.
Three talks: Nigel Megitt of the BBC on DAPT, one open standard for transcription, translation, dubbing and audio description; Mark Ison, Director of Engineering at ITV, with war stories from broadcasting the World Cup; and Sebastiaan Van Leuven of Anam.ai on evaluating real-time conversational avatars. Doors and pizza 18:30, talks from 19:00.
Ticketed through Luma. You need to give your real name plus LinkedIn or role and company, and bring photo ID. The exact address goes to confirmed attendees only.
the people who keep the BBC and ITV on air at peak load, plus a startup doing real-time AI video, in one room. Best for streaming, media and video-infrastructure engineers.
Nigel Megitt · Executive Product Manager, BBC
Mark Ison · Director of Engineering, ITV
Sebastiaan Van Leuven · Head of Media Infrastructure, Anam.ai
Holborn, London (exact venue shared with confirmed attendees)
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Organiser
London Video Technology
Nigel Megitt
Executive Product Manager, BBC
Mark Ison
Director of Engineering, ITV
Sebastiaan Van Leuven
Head of Media Infrastructure, Anam.ai
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