Sharan Kalwani

Video conferencing refers to the conduct of an online meeting between people in different locations through two-way audio and video transmissions. To put it simply, it is like a conversation between two persons (point-to-point) or more people (multipoint) gathering together in a virtual meeting room in order to communicate and collaborate in real time. Besides the audio and video transmission, modern day cutting-edge technologies have hugely expand its functionalities, like screen sharing, file sharing, private rooms,  etc.

This presentation will detail the history of how video conferencing developed and what are the different underying technologies which each contributed to it's growth? Here we will briefly talk individual inventors as well.

Time permitting we will compare many of the popular video conferencing platforms out there.

Biography:

Sharan Kalwani is an industry technology specialist with 25+ years of experience. Sharan has degrees in both Engineering and Computer Science. He has worked in many diverse areas. He is a sought after speaker at many a diverse conference and seminars, such as Supercomputing, HPC Advisory Council, SIAM, Infiniband Trade Association, etc. He has delivered several tutorials, workshops and chaired Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions. Sharan is a senior member of IEEE, an Emeritus member of Michigan!UNIX/user group (mug.org) the oldest of the *nix user groups based in Michigan (they were first established in late 1985), member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and also leads the SIG-Linux section of SEMCO. He enjoys teaching, holds an Adjunct Faculty position at local educational sites. He has published one book "Linux and Internet Security" and is now working on his second about a new computer programming language. He is a recipient of the 2018 IEEE MGA Achievement award, 2021 IEEE Region 4 Jack Sherman award and 2022 Robert Neff Section award for his contributions to IEEE activities.

He has been the Chair of the IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section since October 2021 and Chair/Vice Chair/Secretary/Treasurer of many of the Southeastern Michigan Geo Units over the years. He also serves as a writer and editor of the Sections monthly newsletter - Wavelengths. He has also served as Vice-Chair of IEEE Sustech 2022, IEEE SusTech 2021 Global Conferences.

Address:Michigan, United States