Alex Giladi

Alex Giladi is a Comcast Fellow and an Emmy-winning technologist. He has been working on issues related to video content encoding and distribution since 2000.

His current areas of interest are video encoding and adaptive streaming. He has been working on aspects of distributed content-adaptive video encoding, adaptive streaming, low-latency streaming, content security, and cloud DVR. He currently leads an advanced technologies group within Comcast. Prior to Comcast, he worked on various aspects video transport and video coding in InterDigital, Huawei, Vubiquity, Digital Fountain, and Harmonic. 

Alex has been a prolific contributor to the MPEG DASH standard and served as an editor of several standards and amendments related to DASH, content security, and MPEG-2 Systems. He is currently one of the editors of the MPEG DASH specification and the president of the DASH Industry Forum.

Alex founded the popular Mile-High Video annual conference series held in Denver since 2017 and has been the conference organizer since then.

Alex holds a MSEE degree from Stanford University and BSc degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and holds more than 90 patents.