Abstract: Programs, systems, and methods for facilitating low contact or no-contact registration, check-in, and attendance to an event. Registration is provided to an event virtually such that an attendee of the event may provide a single click registration or registration may be performed automatically be detecting, by a first sensor, the attendee and providing automatic registration. Automatic check-in to the event may be provided to the attendee by obtaining, by a second sensor, information indicative of the attendee and determining registration information from an attendee profile. The attendee may be provided access to event activities to which the attendee is registered. Furthermore, data associated with attendance at the event may be tracked and the attendee may be provided incentives based on the tracked data.

Abstract: Media, methods, and systems are disclosed for processing composite streaming video in connection with a centralized service. A request is received to initiate mixing a composite video live stream having a constituent stream quantity, one or more streaming video assets, and one or more media providers. If needed, one or more subsequent media servers are provisioned. The one or more constituent video streams and the one or more streaming video assets are received at a mixing server. The composite video live stream is rendered based thereon. The rendered composite video live stream is encoded into a standardized encoded video stream, which may be stored in one or more shared memories. The standardized encoded video stream is encoded into a provider-specific encoded media stream, which is then transmitted to a corresponding media provider.

Abstract: Media, methods, and systems are provided for a shim to enable dynamic selection of RTC during virtual events. A virtual event may be created, and an RTC provider may be selected for the virtual event. A connection request to connect to the RTC provider may be received from a client device. Thereafter, connection data may be signaled to the client device. A signaling message may be received from the client device. The signaling message may be intercepted and translated by the shim. The signaling message may then be transmitted to a signaling server for connecting to the RTC provider. Changes of state of the virtual event may be monitored to determine if a new RTC provider should be leveraged.

Abstract: Media, methods, and systems are provided for audio rerouting to echo cancel audio in web browsers hosting video streams. Spoken audio from a presenter in a video stream may be received via a microphone on a presenter computing device using a first audio connection. Echo cancellation for the presenter may be enabled. Media audio from the presenter may be received originating from a second audio connection. In response to receiving the media audio, a loopback connection for the presenter may be created. In the loopback connection, the presenter may act as both the sender and receiver of the media audio. The loopback connection may have echo cancellation enabled and use the first audio connection. Once the loopback connection is created, the audio may be routed through the loopback connection. The audio may then be played out of an audio output device for the presenter with echo cancellation enabled.

Abstract: Systems, programs, and media for creating virtual events and presenting the virtual event content to attendees of the virtual events are described herein. A virtual event hosting system may receive input from an event creator for creating an event comprising stages, sessions, networking, and expos. The event may provide a virtual environment for presenting users to make presentations and attendees to view and interact with the presenting users and other attendees. Data associated with the event and the attendees may be collected for analysis to improve engagement in future virtual events.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and media are disclosed for propagating video streams based on geographical proximity and required transmission latency. A first video stream is received from a first presenting client device at a first origin video server connected to at least one other origin video server forming a mesh network. The first video stream is relayed to at least a second origin video server from the first presenting client device. The first video stream is transmitted from the second origin video server to an edge video server. The first video stream is received from the second origin video server by one or more edge video servers. The first video stream is broadcast to a plurality of participant client devices. A second video stream is received from a second presenting client device. The second video stream is transmitted via the second origin video server to the plurality of participant client devices.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for producing and mixing a video stream based on a predetermined video layout template and a set of selectable video streaming parameters. A plurality of individual video streams is received from a respective plurality of participant users and mixed into a mixed video stream on a mixing server which is distributed to a plurality of viewing users. An authoring server allows an authoring user to configure various video streaming parameters which instruct the mixing and display of the mixed video stream.

Abstract: Media, methods, and systems are disclosed for mitigating network resource contention. Event scheduling details are received regarding one or more virtual events. In response to determining that an upcoming virtual event will begin within a predetermined time threshold, various steps are performed. First, a predicted number of event participants is determined. Next, database artifacts associated with the upcoming virtual event are prefetched. Then static event display resources are accessed prior to a start of the upcoming virtual event, and the database artifacts and the static event display resources are cached. A network protocol request to access network resources is received from a client device. The database artifacts and the static event display resources are pushed to a client-side cache associated with the client device, and a minimal network response is transmitted to the client device.