Summer Camp 2027 · Both calls open on 14 October
Bring the challenge. We build the answer together.
The 2027 thread
Hasta la vista, downtime!
Operating Global Streaming in the Age of Agents
That’s the thread the whole edition hangs from. Both calls below are ways of pulling at it: one builds open source around it, the other turns it into business ideas.
Every edition of Summer Camp starts with a challenge someone lives every day. This year there are two ways to bring yours, and each one has its own call.
The whole 2027 edition runs under one theme: Hasta la vista, downtime! — Operating Global Streaming in the Age of Agents. It moves through these three verticals, and both calls live inside them. In each one the question is the same: where do agents come in?
Everything it takes to build the pipeline and keep it running: engineering is the art of building the tools, operations the art of keeping them alive.
How content reaches every audience in the world, in their language, on their screen and in their market.
How global scale turns into a sustainable business.
Summer Projects Track
Engineers, builders and video enthusiasts
Open-source projects the community builds together. One call a week plus async work, from November to January, closing at the Demo Day, on 3 February during Summer Week in Montevideo.
Innovation Challenge
Founders, product and business people
Find a real industry problem, form a team, build a business model and pitch it at the MTV Night. 4 to 6 remote sessions using design thinking methodology, November to January.
Open until 23 October
Bring the challenge, we build the answer together. Any challenge that fits the spirit of the edition is welcome. It doesn’t have to be fully formed when it reaches us — working out what the problem really is comes first.
We’ve been doing this every summer since 2023, and the reason is simple: none of us got here alone. Everything we use at work was built by someone who decided to share it. So whatever a Summer Project builds goes back out the same way, open source — and that part never changes.
Tech Sponsor
Support technically, help unblock, join the weekly syncs.
Every project has one, from the kickoff to the Demo Day.
Industry Supporter
Help validate the problem and guide impact.
An organization that needs the thing built and can try it in production.
Contributor
Join an existing project and help build something that matters.
You can propose a challenge and end up building someone else’s. Most people do.
Summer Project 2026
Real-time MoQ
The problem MoQ is an emerging standard and plenty of people are interested, but it’s hard to actually try.
The proposal Implement three or four pieces that lower the barrier to adoption: MoQ in OBS, an easy way to turn HLS into MoQ, and so on.
Summer Project 2026
AI Co-Pilot for archives
The problem SMPTE holds an enormous archive, and it’s very hard to know what’s in there or to build anything new on top of it.
The proposal A copilot over that archive, so anyone can understand the history of video without digging through it by hand.
14–23 Oct
The call
Bring your challenge.
26–30 Oct
Shortlist and vote
The community picks.
2–6 Nov
Scoping
Each project gets a Tech Sponsor.
Nov → Jan
Build
One call a week plus async work.
Summer Week
Demo Day
Every project shows what it built.
Summer Projects
New in 2027 · Open until 30 October
A call for first-time founders and for people from across the media industry who want to work on the business challenges our industry faces today. Over 4 to 6 remote sessions you find a problem worth solving, form a team around it and build a business model.
Mentors from the industry join along the way, and the Qualabs team helps build the prototypes. You don’t need an idea, or a company, or a deck.
Same thread as the rest of the camp, seen from the business side: what streaming in the age of agents costs, who pays for it and where the money is.
MTV connects first-time founders from Uruguay and LATAM with the media community we already know.
First-time founders
You know the media industry and want to start something of your own.
No company, no deck, no co-founder. Come alone if you need to; teams form along the way.
Industry people
Product, business and engineering profiles who live these challenges.
You bring what the problem actually costs: in money, in time, in people.
Mentors and advisors
Experienced people who want to guide the teams.
A few hours across the sessions, where your scar tissue saves someone months.
Students
Studying engineering, design or product, and looking for something real to build.
You join a team as a builder, next to people who do this for a living.
14–30 Oct
The call
Tell us how you want to join.
30 Oct – 5 Nov
Selection
We review every application.
Nov → Jan
Teams at work
Teams form around the problems and build a business model, over 4 to 6 sessions.
Summer Week
MTV Night
The teams pitch to investors and industry leaders, over dinner.
Innovation Challenge
