This is not a drill. Faultline is still riding high from partaking in something rarer than hen’s teeth in this day and age – a real-life face-to-face briefing topped off with an actual live demo. For anyone who has had the pleasure of meeting Guido Meardi, the endearing and stubborn CEO of video compression vendor V-Nova, you will know exactly what was in store for us – a rollercoaster of emotions littered with unpublishable comments from start to finish. While lingering in the ground floor lobby of one of Bristol University’s many hidden nooks and crannies, we spotted Meardi through the floor-to-ceiling glass window of a first-floor room providing a virtual reality demonstration (hand gestures in full flow) to a…