Sandeep Tiku

Sandeep Tiku is Chief Technology Officer of DAZN Group, the subscription sports streaming service operating across more than 200 markets. At NAB Show on 20 April 2026, Tiku demonstrated the Delta Protocol, an AI-driven live video transmission approach that sends only changed pixels between frames rather than full-frame video, with the receiving device locally reconstructing the full experience. The Delta Protocol subsequently became an official IBC 2026 Accelerator project, placing DAZN's transmission research inside the same open-standards infrastructure conversation as the SMART STORIES consortium.

As CTO, Tiku oversees the technical stack underpinning DAZN's live sports distribution, which carries high-stakes latency and bandwidth requirements across mobile and connected-TV platforms in competitive broadband markets. The Delta Protocol, if deployed at scale, would reduce delivery costs significantly for high-motion sports content — the category where conventional H.264/H.265 compression is least efficient because fast-moving frames generate large diffs regardless of codec setting.

Tiku operates at the technical leadership level of a company that has historically pursued aggressive rights acquisition (including Serie A and Bundesliga) while managing infrastructure costs under a subscription-only model. His Delta Protocol work sits alongside DAZN's separate distribution experiment in April 2026 — livestreaming a Serie A fixture free on TikTok — as evidence of a dual-track strategy: cost reduction on the encoding side and audience expansion on the distribution side.