Conviva™ — Experience LIVE
Conviva is the first live media platform that
enables media companies to deliver an inviting, exciting and uniting online live experience.
About Conviva's LIVE Platform
Conviva solved the toughest problem of the Internet - the delivery of high-quality live video experience to audiences all over the world. This scientific break-through, called Conviva C3 (Concurrent Coordination and Control), along with advancements in media management provides a real-time intelligent, interactive and secure live video distribution platform.
Why Media Executives Are Working with Conviva
LIVE energizes brand to drive greater
brand loyalty:
- "Better than being there" experience
- Engage audience to share and invite friends
- Increases audience view time and site stickiness
LIVE content pays and increases
revenue and channels:
- Monetize perishable content
- Leverage a new platform for long/short form content
- Target advertising with expanded rotation and improved results
Command the LIVE audience:
- Real-time Intelligence drives results
- Create instant new channels to capitalize on breaking events
- Control unpredictable traffic and costs
Go Live Now
Contact Conviva. Get the whitepaper or talk to us about creating an inviting, exciting, uniting live experience.
Thank you to
for designing and developing
the next generation live showcase and website.
Thank you to
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for the cockpit
racing footage in our live showcase.
Carlos Ramón, CEO, President
Carlos brings to Conviva a 20 year high-tech track record of success, a global view and passion to exceed customer expectations. Prior to Conviva, Carlos was General
Manager of Akamai Technologies' international business that grew 400% under his
leadership in just over three years. An advocate of customer relationships,
Carlos has held senior positions with leading, high-growth, enterprise software firms including
VP of Business Development at Peoplesoft and VP of Latin America at Vantive. Carlos
holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Baylor University and is a graduate of
the Stanford Business School SEP. A global citizen fluent in 4 languages, Carlos has
lived in Brazil, France, Chile, Uruguay and the United States.
Dr. Hui Zhang, Chief Scientist, Co-Founder
Dr. Zhang brings nearly 20 years of pioneering research experiences to
the designing and building of the Conviva LIVE platform. From his
student days at UC Berkeley to the present at Carnegie Mellon University
where he is a Professor, Dr. Zhang has established himself as one of the
world's leading authorities on Internet QoS, video streaming, network
control, and future Internet architecture. Dr. Zhang supervised Ion
Stoica's 2001 award-winning Ph.D. dissertation on Internet QoS. His ESM
research group at CMU pioneered the overlay multicast research and
developed world's first peer-to-peer live streaming system. Dr. Zhang
was elected to be a Fellow of ACM in 2006 and received the Alfred Sloan
Fellowship in 2000. He is also a past recipient of the National Science
Foundation Career Award in 1996. Prior to Conviva, Dr. Zhang served as
Chief Technology Officer of Turin Networks from 2000 to 2003.
Dr. Ion Stoica, Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder
Dr. Stoica is an accomplished scientist and author. Before co-founding Conviva in 2006, Dr. Stoica co-developed two key technologies: Chord, one of the first distributed-hash table protocols, and Internet Indirection Infrastructure, a highly flexible communication platform. The two technologies were critical in the creation of Conviva's LIVE Platform. Dr. Stoica received the ACM Best Dissertation Award in 2001 for his PhD thesis "Stateless Core: A Scalable Approach for Quality of Service in the Internet." Dr. Stoica's other achievements include the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, The Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE), and the 2007 CoNEXT Rising Star Award. Dr. Stoica is both the Chief Technology Officer for Conviva and continues his research and mentorship of scientists as an Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley.
Mike Ramsay,Venture Partner, NEA
Mike joined NEA in 2007 as a Venture Partner focusing on NEA's expanding consumer
investing activities. As co-founder of TiVo, Mike revolutionized the dynamics of
media and broadcast industries. He served as CEO and Chairman of TiVo from its founding in 1997 till 2005. Prior to starting TiVo, Mike was Senior Vice President of the Silicon
Desktop Group for Silicon Graphics (SGI) where he was responsible for engineering,
marketing and business development for all desktop products, with P/L responsibility
for approximately half the company's revenue. He had previously been President of
Silicon Studio, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Graphics focused on enabling
applications development for merging interactive digital media markets. Prior to
SGI, Mike held R&D and engineering management positions at Hewlett-Packard and
Convergent Technologies and earned a first-class B.S.E.E. from the University of
Edinburgh, Scotland.
Dr. Forest Baskett, General Partner, NEA
Dr. Baskett brings a rich convergence of analytical and process science to Conviva. Dr. Baskett has been a Partner at NEA since 1999 and focuses on technology investments. Before
joining in NEA, Dr. Baskett served as the SVP of R&D and CTO of Silicon Graphics, and before
that managed the west coast labs of DEC. Dr. Baskett was also involved with Cray O/S development at Los Alamos Labs and VLSI research at Xerox PARC. Dr. Baskett was also instrumental in
the founding of Sun Microsystems, SGI, and MIPS, while he was a professor at Stanford University.
Peter Sonsini, Venture Partner, NEA
Pete brings valuable understanding of external markets and experience in strategic thinking to Conviva's Board of Directors. He has 10+ years of operating experience in Silicon Valley that spans
executive sales, marketing and finance roles. Prior to joining NEA, Pete was on
the executive team at VMware where he built the company's initial strategic alliances
and grew annual sales through OEMs from $0 to $40 million in four years.
Adam Grosser, General Partner, Foundation Capital
Adam is an innovator in media and online presence. Adam has been a General Partner
at Foundation since 2000. Prior to joining Foundation, he was President of Excite@Home
in charge of both residential and commercial services. He was also founder and president
of Catapult Entertainment, and worked at Sony Pictures, LucasArts Entertainment,
and Apple Computer.
Dr. Carl Ledbetter, Managing Director, UV Partners
Dr. Ledbetter is the newest addition to the Conviva Board of Directors. As a 25 year business leader running billion dollar businesses and a former Professor of Mathematics, he brings a rich combination of business insight and technical expertise to the seasoned leadership team at Conviva. Prior to joining UV Partners, Ledbetter was Senior Vice President, Engineering/Research and Development and Chief Technology Officer at Novell, Inc. and was responsible for Novell's Venture Fund. Earlier in his career Dr. Ledbetter was President of AT&T's Consumer Products Division and held senior positions at Sun Microsystems, IBM, and Control Data Corporation.
