ACM Mile High Video

Overview

ACM Mile-High Video is a technical conference brand focused on video coding, streaming, and delivery engineering. The event has been held since 2016 and is described by its organizers as a place to share real-world problems and solutions in video technologies, with participation from both industry and academia.⁴⁶

History

Mile-High Video began in 2016 as a 4-hour MPEG DASH workshop held at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, according to a 2026 industry report about the conference.¹ The event later expanded into a multi-day technical forum and, by 2022, recordings on the official YouTube channel refer to “ACM Mile-High Video Conference” talks and workshops.⁵ The ACM Digital Library shows formal conference proceedings for the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Mile-High Video conferences in 2024, 2025, and 2026, confirming its continued development as an ACM-affiliated event series.²⁹

Product Lines

Manufacturing

This is a conference brand rather than a manufactured-product company, so it does not have product manufacturing. Its outputs are conference sessions, proceedings, and recorded talks distributed through ACM and the official site.²⁵

Notable Products

• Mile-High Video Conference proceedings - Peer-reviewed conference proceedings published through the ACM Digital Library.
• Technical program - Annual session lineup covering streaming, video coding, and advertising technology topics.
• Conference talk recordings - Recorded presentations hosted on the official YouTube channel.

Reputation

Within the video engineering community, Mile-High Video is presented as a serious technical venue for practitioners and researchers working on streaming and coding systems.⁴⁶ Its strengths appear to be practical, industry-relevant content and a mix of academic and commercial speakers.⁶⁹ A likely limitation is that it is a niche event centered on a specialized professional audience rather than a broad consumer-facing brand.