Introducing the Innovation Track at Montevideo Tech Summer Camp

A focused room inside a much bigger experiment

Every January, Qualabs brings together people who like building things. Engineers. Designers. Open source contributors. Founders. Operators. The Summer Project runs for three months leading up to it, with distributed teams prototyping real tools in the open. Then everyone who can heads to Montevideo for Summer Camp, which is part workshop, part community gathering, part cultural exchange. It’s one of the few places where media technology feels like a shared craft instead of an industry.

During my time at Microsoft I was invited repeatedly, but I could never carve out time to participate or attend. This year I’m not only going, I’m going to be very active.

As part of Summer Project, I’ve been working with Qualabs on an effort with SMPTE focused on how AI can help us understand and activate large archives of mixed media. SMPTE has a deep archive of its own, but they are also looking at the bigger question of rights, usage, and how different companies can responsibly work with their data. …