Michael Dale

VP of Engineering at Crunchyroll

Speaker

Michael Dale is Vice President of Engineering at Crunchyroll, the world’s most popular anime brand serving a global community of more than 70 million registered users and 3 million subscribers. In this role, Dale also oversees VRV, a fandom-focused video platform featuring premium channels including Crunchyroll, Rooster Teeth, Boomerang, and more.

Dale is a long time video technologist and a pioneer in early HTML5 video. While at Wikipedia, he worked with W3C, Mozilla, Open Video Alliance on early web video standardization efforts. At Kaltura, he lead HTML5 video adoption for media customers around advertising, content protection and accessibility. As Director of Product Management at Kaltura he worked with some of the worlds largest content publishers and service operators on product alignment and strategic OTT initiatives.