Streaming technology guest lecture topics — syllabus fit & how to book

A ground-up walkthrough of the modern streaming stack — ingest, transcoding, packaging, CDN delivery, and adaptive playback. Students learn how a live frame travels from a camera to a billion screens, with real-world design decisions around redundancy, latency, and cost. Ideal for systems or networks courses that want a production-scale case study grounding theoretical concepts.

An engineering-level deep dive into content delivery networks: PoP placement strategy, cache hierarchy, request routing, origin shielding, and edge compute. Covers the practical tradeoffs operators face between cost, performance, and cache-hit ratios, using real CDN architectures as reference. Best suited for advanced networking or cloud infrastructure courses.

How media processing — transcoding, packaging, DRM, manifest generation — moved from on-premises hardware to elastic cloud platforms. Covers workload scheduling, cost modeling, multi-cloud architectures, and the engineering tradeoffs behind building media pipelines at scale. Bridges the gap between computer science platform concepts and the real-world demands of video at internet scale.

A technical introduction to Media over QUIC — the IETF standard being designed to replace RTMP, HLS ingest, and WebRTC for low-latency live streaming. Covers QUIC foundations, the MoQ object model, relay topology, and how this protocol simplifies fan-out at scale compared to today's patchwork of ingest solutions. Ideal for advanced networking courses and students interested in protocol design.

Examines the engineering challenge of sub-second and low-latency live streaming: LL-HLS, LL-DASH, WebRTC, and the emerging MoQ standard. Covers where latency originates in the stack, the tradeoffs each approach makes, and the business contexts — sports, betting, auctions, live commerce — that drive demand for sub-second delivery. Suitable for both technical and applied media production programs.

A practical breakdown of over-the-top (OTT) and Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV (FAST) business models: how platforms acquire content, monetize audiences, distribute on connected TV devices, and compete with broadcast and cable. Covers the mechanics of vMVPDs, AVOD/SVOD/FAST hybrid models, and the economic logic behind channel strategy. Equally relevant for business strategy, media industry, and platform design courses.

The unit economics of streaming: subscriber acquisition cost, ARPU, churn mechanics, content cost amortization, and how platforms reconcile infrastructure spend with LTV. Draws on publicly reported financials and industry benchmarks to teach how economic pressure shapes product and technology decisions. A high-signal lecture for MBA strategy, digital economics, or media industry courses.

How advertising is stitched into streaming video without breaking playback: programmatic ad decisioning, VAST/VMAP standards, server-side ad insertion architecture, and the privacy and latency constraints that make streaming ad tech uniquely difficult. Covers both the business logic — CPM, fill rate, ad pod strategy — and the engineering requirements. Cross-disciplinary; valuable for ad tech, marketing technology, and systems courses alike.

How senior PMs navigate product decisions in technically complex, infrastructure-dependent domains: defining roadmaps across platform, player, and CDN teams; writing specs that translate business requirements to engineering constraints; and managing the tension between reliability, latency, and cost. Draws directly on experience as a Senior Principal PM at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and VP of Cloud Platform at Broadpeak.

A practitioner's account of designing and shipping cloud-native media platforms — from API surface and tenant isolation to observability, SLA management, and the organizational dynamics of platform vs. application teams. Covers the decisions that separate a scalable platform from a large monolith. Useful for students in cloud engineering, SaaS product design, or digital transformation courses.

What it takes to lead engineering organizations in fast-moving infrastructure companies: building cross-functional trust, managing through ambiguity, hiring and retaining technical talent, and communicating technical strategy to business stakeholders. Grounded in experience leading teams across Paris and the United States at companies shipping streaming infrastructure to millions of viewers daily.

A candid account of building a senior technology career across national boundaries — navigating visa sponsorship, cultural adaptation, professional network building in a new country, and the career calculus of international mobility in the streaming and cloud infrastructure industry. Mathias speaks from direct experience relocating from France to the United States while advancing through VP- and Principal PM-level roles.