Adam Myhill

Adam Myhill has spent two decades in film and video game worlds, working as a Director of Photography and CG supervisor at Electronic Arts and Blackbird Interactive.

Using his experience on multiple titles and as a film DP on a number of feature length movies, Myhill created a ground-breaking procedural cinematic and in-game camera system called Cinemachine, which is now an integral part of Unity’s offering where he now works to empower creators.

He is also the designer of CineCast, an AI cinematography system for esports and any3D content which begs the question “How do you film something when you don’t know what’s going to happen next?”

He also holds a number of technology patents around virtual cameras and procedural cinematography.

Alx Klive

Alx Klive is Founder and CEO of 360 Designs – a Los Angeles based Live VR production and technology company – with a globally recognized reputation for broadcast quality live VR. With a focus on TV-like workflows, the company’s high-end Mini EYE cameras and StitchBox products have been snapped up by the likes of Google, MTV, PBS, CNN, Red Bull, Nvidia, AMD and BT Sport. On the production side, 360 Designs has produced numerous tent-pole events – such as the Oscars, SXSW, Champions League, a concert with Bee Gees’ legend Barry Gibb, and the 2017 Eclipse. The company consistently innovates – building the world’s first live streaming 6K VR drone, gyro stabilized remote 360 cameras, developed Lean Back VR™, and employs a creative approach that equals that of a high quality live TV production. As Executive Producer, Alx leads a team of talented professionals, pioneering the future of entertainment and ‘teleportation’.

Andy Marken

Andy is Owner and President of Marken Communications Inc. a marketing and communications Consulting firm located in the San Francisco area since August 1977. The 30 year agency has been involved with a broad range of corporate and marketing activities. He is the author of more than 400 articles on management, marketing, communications, content production/distribution and a frequent speaker at management and marketing conferences. Experience includes strategic, market planning and execution with communications/Internet firms including AT&T and CERFnet as well as in storage, storage management and video solutions with firms including Philips, InterVideo, Ulead, OWCDigital, NewerTech, Sonic, Corel, Matsushita, Pinnacle, Dazzle, Cyberlink, Mountain Computer, Nikon, Plasmon, NTI, ADS Tech, Verbatim, Mitsubishi and Panasonic.

Andy Wilson

With over 17 years of working on red button interactive television services, broadcast innovation, product management and digital rights for the BBC, Andy now leads the growth and delivery of the DPP. Andy’s previous BBC work included the migration of Engineering Teams to support new technologies and studios in MediaCity UK, New Broadcasting House, UHD broadcasts, supporting the 2012 London Olympics and running the industry skills programme for File Delivery.

Andy joined the DPP from his role as Partnership Lead for BBC Make it Digital, a year-long campaign to develop the coding and digital skills of audiences across the UK. He was also Head of Delivery for BBC micro:bit, ensuring 1 million children across the UK received a new computing device to help grow their engineering and digital skills. Andy led collaboration between 54 partners, to develop and deliver the BBC’s most ambitious education and technology initiative in 30 years. Andy has experience in developing big data services, powered by machine learning, through his work in developing audience measurement tools for television and online services.

Bill Baggelaar

Bill Baggelaar is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Sony Pictures Entertainment. He is responsible for the media technology strategy, along with research & development efforts into emerging technologies that will shape the future of cloud-based production, post-production and delivery of content.

Bill brings his extensive experience in production, visual effects and post-production along with his work collaborating with industry partners and internally across Sony in developing and implementing key technologies that have been instrumental, including IMF, 4K and HDR.

Baggelaar joined Sony Pictures in 2011, focusing his efforts on streamlining and advancing 4K workflows from on-set capture to post-production for film and TV. He led the studio’s transition to the file-based world of IMF (Interoperable Master Format) for UltraHD. He also headed the team at Sony Pictures to help develop the world’s first 4K video service, Sony’s “4K Video Unlimited”.

Bill is a member of The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, The Television Academy and SMPTE.

Bill Bennett, ASC

Bill Bennett, ASC has been a cinematographer for over 40 years, spending much of that time shooting television commercials the world over, for hundreds of major clients: Ford, Lexus, Coca Cola, Apple Computer, American Airlines, McDonalds, and Budweiser.

Additionally, over the years, Bill has worked on several feature films as a Cameraman, on either the First or Second Unit. Some titles include: Superman III, The Black Stallion Returns, Howard the Duck, To Live and Die in LA, Silverado, American Flyer, The Right Stuff (aerials), Less than Zero (aerials), Bugsy (miniatures), Waiting to Exhale (title sequence), Cocktail (aerials), Dante’s Peak, and Drive. He has also worked as 1st or 2nd unit Cameraman on the Television Series: 24, and The Fosters.

In 2004 Mr. Bennett had the great honor of being invited to join the very exclusive American Society of Cinematographers. He served as a Vice President and a member of the Board of Governors for the Society, for over 10 years.

Along with Ron Dexter, ASC in the early 80’s, Mr. Bennett co-invented a device at the request of Robert Dalva, the Director of The Black Stallion Returns, called the Terra-Flite. Designed to allow smooth camera movement over rough terrain, it pre-dated the invention of the Steadicam, and utilized then-new technologies they had to create: gyroscopic stabilization, remote follow-focus, video assist, and remote pan and tilt control.

Mr. Bennett was partner with Howard Preston in the design and creation of the Preston Cinema Systems Micro-Force Zoom Control, which has become an indispensable standard of the industry, used on every set around the world.

Mr. Bennett has long been an advisor to Arri in the design of their cameras, having great influence in the design of the 435 film camera, and more recently the Alexa and Alexa Mini digital cameras. He has over the years shot demonstration films for Arri and Zeiss,
for their many models of cameras and lenses.

Mr. Bennett is holds a USA Federal Aviation Administration Pilots License, with Commercial, Multi-engine, and Instrument ratings, with 2,880 hours logged flying time. He owns and flies a Beechcraft Bonanza A36 aircraft. He is a PADI certified Scuba diver with an Open Water rating.

Bill Mandel

Bill Mandel is Vice President Industry Relations at Samsung Research America, representing Samsung in various industry groups on topics of HDR, workflow technologies and picture quality.

Bruce Devlin

Founder Mr MXF; Standards Vice President, SMPTE. Bruce Devlin is well known in the media industry for his work on files, compression and systems; particularly MXF and IMF. In the last 3 decades his presentations and Bruce’s Shorts videos have become a go-to resource for CFOs, CTOs and students wanting to figure out the business of technology. Bruce has designed everything from ASICs to algorithms to industrialisation processes. He tweets as @MrMXF, he wrote the book on MXF and is now responsible for international standardis activities at SMPTE. Bruce is an alumni of Queens’ College Cambridge UK fellow of the SMPTE and member of the DPP, IABM, The IET and IMIS recipient of SMPTE’s David Sarnoff Medal & the IMIS Achievement award recipient of numerous technology awards including Techncal Emmys passionate about makeing media technology accessible to everyone and a rider of bicycles (occasionally quickly).

Cédric Lejeune

Cedric started in 2000 as a visual effects assistant on Discreet Smoke, working on TribalX, a complex full CG/MoCap production for children and setting the network infrastructure in the small post-production facility.

In 2000 he becomes application engineer for Post Logic, a French VFX system reseller and supports a wide range of products: animation, infrastructure, effects, colour grading. He was in charge of the implementation of the first industrial digital intermediate pipeline at Éclair Laboratoires in 2002 and different setups in Paris and Europe.

In 2006 he starts his first company, Workflowers, to develop consulting and training services, accompanying film labs in the transition to digital and helping post-production to step into the cinema world. He specializes in digital cinema and video workflows, infrastructures and colour science. His work on online collaborative environment and content management tools have made him an expert of cloud technologies for media. Workflowers’ image processing tools are used by major studios in the world.

In 2015 he joins the European cinema group Ymagis to supervise the technology for post-production and mastering labs in the group (New York, London, Liège, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris). The integration of Eclair Laboratoires extends the delivery of content to broadcasters and OTT and gives an opportunity to develop a century old brand as an innovative one. He then assembled the technology and innovation team to create more efficient and global workflows across the group. He led the development of EclairColor, the HDR solution for cinema (www.eclaircolor.com).

In 2020, while continuing R&D efforts for EclairColor and developing HDR and HFR image technologies for the Chinese market, he reboots Workflowers to help media industries in their transition to a more sustainable model. With his team of media engineers, he helps studios in building and implementing organization and technical strategies with sustainability in mind. He Is a member of the EBU Sustainability group, the SMPTE Cloud Sustainability working group and a founding member of La Cartouch’Verte, an association to promote good environmental practices in animation movies production. With Workflowers he partners with Perfect Memory for the development of their semantic technology toolset for the movie studio environment.

Cedric is the co-head of the postproduction department at CST and is a member of VES, SMPTE and HPA.

Cirina Catania

Cirina Catania, Founder/Lead Creative at The Catania Group and partner, Lumberjack System, is a member of the PGA, WGA, and IATSE-Local 600. She has worked as a tech evangelist, writer, director, supervising producer, cinematographer, post-producer, or marketing exec on over 130 film, television and new media projects for the big screen as well as for networks such as National Geographic, Discovery, etc. She is one of the co-founders and former director of the Sundance Film Festival and former Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at MGM-UA and United Artists. Cirina is based in LA, D.C. and Berlin when she is not on the road filming in the Amazon or other exotic locations. She is very proud of the fact that she has not yet contracted malaria and that, after all these years, she still loves her job!

Clyde Smith

Clyde Smith is chairman of the NABA working group on file-based formats, and Senior Vice President, Advanced Technology for FOX Network Engineering and Operations. He is a SMPTE Life Fellow, a recipient of the SMPTE Progress Medal, the David Sarnoff Medal, and Outstanding service award, Broadcasting and Cable’s Technology Leadership award, The Storage Industry Service Award and is an Honorary Member of the (IABM). His previous positions include SVP of global broadcast technology and SVP of Broadcast Engineering Research for Turner. He also worked for eight years, in Communications Design and Development Engineering at the Kennedy Space Center, supporting video, photo, voice and timing and countdown systems for 48 shuttle missions, three interplanetary missions and numerous other initiatives.

Dave Siegler

Dave Siegler is Vice President of Technical Operations for Cox Media Group (CMG) at the company’s Atlanta, Ga. headquarters.

As Vice President of Technical Operations, Siegler is responsible for leading and growing the integrated media company through the rapidly changing technologies and consumer demands. Specifically, he manages CMG’s Technical Operations groups to integrate new technologies and processes across various platforms for CMG’s 14 broadcast television stations, one local cable television station and 57 radio stations.

Prior to his current position, Siegler was Cox’s Director of Broadcast Operations & Engineering for the company’s television operations in Charlotte, NC and served 13 years in various positions with Post-Newsweek Television Stations.

Dave is a Fellow Member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and is a recipient of Broadcasting & Cable’s Technology Leadership Award.

He serves as Chair of the ATSC 3.0 Personalization Interactivity & Interactivity Implementation Team, serves as Chair of NAB’s Television Technology Committee and is a member of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, He sits on the Board of Directors of the ATSC and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Broadcast Technology Society.

Del Parks

Delbert R. Parks, III is the Executive Vice President / Chief Technology Officer of Sinclair Broadcast Group. Del has been serving Sinclair since 1972 and has held various operations and engineering positions with Sinclair over the last 48 years. In his role, he supports the company’s current and future Engineering, Technical Operations, and Facilities for Sinclair.

Currently, he is responsible for the deployment of the new broadcast standard, the Next Generation Broadcast Platform, and co-leads Sinclair’s technical and operational integration of the twenty-one recently purchased FOX Regional Sports Networks, the Marquee Sports Network (Chicago Cubs), the Tennis Channel’s new IP digital facility in Los Angeles, and the transformation of the company’s media and broadcast operations as they migrate to the cloud and their future state.

Del is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel who has held various commands during his 26-year reserve career. Retiring in 1998 as the Battalion Commander of the 175^th Infantry (5^th Maryland), Maryland Army National Guard.

He is a member of the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers and in 2015 was honored as a SMPTE Fellow. In 2007, he was the recipient of Broadcasting and Cable’s Technology Leadership Award and is a member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Baltimore Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America and has been active in the scouting program for many years with his two Eagle Scout sons.

Favorite sayings: “Never suffer in silence” and “If you want something done…give it to someone who’s busy.”

Don Eklund

Don Eklund has been a part of the development and launch of multiple consumer entertainment formats since starting his career at Sony. He developed the operation that launched DVD at Sony Pictures and went on to oversee the development of software tools and hardware systems which supported compression, authoring and quality control of Blu-ray. Don continues to participate in industry standards organizations and consortiums which focus on next generation entertainment, content security and delivery systems. He has been granted numerous patents on 3D, content security and content authoring.

Ed Grogan

Edward T. Grogan received his BSEE and MSEE from Drexel University. He is now in his 43rd year working for the Department of Defense on advanced technologies. In the past he was one of the lead engineers within the DoD who helped define progressive HDTV as the format for DoD and industry. He is currently working in a field that he brought into the DoD, and adapted to government needs. In his off time he supports local community and school theatre productions by providing sound and video (now 4K HDR) to the education environment. He is a member of SMPTE, HPA and the Visual Effects Society.

Gary Demos

Gary has been a pioneer in the development of computer generated images for use in motion pictures, digital image processing, and image compression. He was a founder of Digital Productions (1982-1986), and was awarded an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Scientific and Engineering Award in 1984 along with John Whitney Jr. “For the Practical Simulation of Motion Picture Photograph By Means of Computer-Generated Images”. Gary also founded Whitney-Demos Productions (1986-1988), DemoGraFX (1988-2003), and Image Essence LLC (2005 to present). Gary Demos is the recipient of the AMPAS 2005 Gordon E. Sawyer Oscar for lifetime technical achievement. Gary is actively involved in the ASC Technology Committee and has worked on the AMPAS ACES project. Gary has presented numerous papers at SMPTE, given a SMPTE webinar, is a SMPTE Fellow, and received the 2012 SMPTE Digital Processing Medal. Gary is the inventor of one hundred patents.

Howard Lukk

Howard is Director of Engineering and Standards for the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). In this position he is working as a member of the staff responsible for maintaining the technical infrastructure for both the home office and the Standards Community.

He has worked before at NASA, DCI, Walt Disney Studios, Pixar and as a Chief Engineer at a Post Production Facility. He has worked on various live major Sporting and broadcast events, such as Woodstock 25th Anniversary, as a freelance engineer. He is also an Associate member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) and holds patents in the area of stereoscopic and computational cinematography. When he does have a rare day off you can find him filling the time making films and music.

Jesse Korosi

As the Director of Workflow Services at Sim, the 2016 HPA Emerging Leader award winner & Studio Daily Top 50 award winner, Jesse currently oversees a global workflow and development team and provides technical-level management. Over the past 18 months, Jesse and his team have overseen the dailies/post production workflow on over 100 projects spanning the globe, collectively managing over 8 Petabytes of media. Aside from working on such notable jobs as Mr. Robot, Narcos, Fargo, and The Great Wall, Jesse counts creating Sims new client facing metadata aggregation/automated transcoding database Metabanq, as his greatest achievement.

Jesse has a lifelong love of filmmaking and has worked in many different on-set and post-production roles over the last decade including: 24 frame playback editing/compositing both on and off set, on-set visual effects editing, data management, dailies, offline/online editing, and final color. Jesse uses this wealth of knowledge to provide his clients with customized workflows, that are tailored to successfully meet their unique requirements and the specific needs of their projects.

Jim Burger

Jim is a partner in the Thompson Coburn Lobbying & Policy and Intellectual Property Groups. He has worked extensively on legal and policy issues arising from the intersection of digital technology, intellectual property, communications, and government regulation. Jim has represented the Computer Industry Group and other information technology entities in efforts to secure copy protection rules for DVDs, Blu-ray/UHD discs and digital music downloads. He advises technology clients on artificial intelligence IP issues. Jim has represented technology clients before the Administration, Congress, and the FCC in regard to the Digital TV Transition, the Broadcast Flag, and international agreements affecting U.S. intellectual property law. For the past three years Jim has taught Copyright Law at Georgetown Law School. Jim also served seven years as an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia Law School, where he taught Advanced Administrative Law.

Joachim Zell

For 12 years he served as VP of Technology and Imaging Science at EFILM/Deluxe, where he designed and monitored production workflows from onset production to the movie release. Previously he was VP of Advanced Technology at Technicolor Thomson in Burbank and before that he was Marketing Manager Americas at Grass Valley Thomson. During his time in London, Joachim worked as Product Manager, Digital Film Systems for Pandora Int. He supports SMPTE as Hollywood Section Manager and serves on the ASC Motion Imaging Technology Council DI team that has defined the ASC CDL standard. Joachim is an Associate Member of the American Society of Cinematographers. He also acts as Co-Chair of the ASC’s MITC Next-Generation Cinema Display committee and Co-Produces the ASC “Standard Evaluation Material V2” short. He holds the position of ACES Project Vice Chair at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences.

In February 2020, Joachim became a Board Member of the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA).

Joachim holds a Master’s Degree in Film and Television Engineering and has co-authored four image processing patents.

John Vickery

A Senior Digital Media Executive with over 25 years’ experience working in the Media and Entertainment industry with leading brands. John focuses on increasing value by launching new businesses and products, streamlining supply chain, and global operations and enhancing customer experiences. John has held a number of operational leadership roles including a global account lead, managing large global projects, P&L management and office / people management. John is currently a co-founder and the COO of Zeroth Industries, creating the future of digital media through AI powered virtual characters.

Julián Fernández-Campón

Julián has been working in computer-related companies for 25 years. With a degree in Computer Science Engineer at the University of Málaga and a strong IT and Software Development background now is Chief Technology Officer at Tedial leading the transition over the last years to meet the new Challenges in the market with the adoption of the latest technologies in the Tedial Products, Solutions and Services and the enterprise transformation to DevOps.

Kelly Mendelsohn

Kelly Mendelsohn SVP Production; Revelations Entertainment, oversees all aspects of production for the company’s film, factual and scripted television departments. As SVP, she has worked on some of the company’s critically acclaimed projects including CBS’s Madam Secretary (currently in Season 4), the Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton film 5 Flights Up, 10 Items or Less, Levity, The C-Word, and the Emmy Award nominated documentary 16th Man. She also serves as Co-Executive Producer on Nat Geo’s Emmy-nominated series, The Story of God with Morgan Freeman (which was just renewed for season 3), Nat Geo’s The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman, and the Cooking Channel’s Food: Fact or Fiction(currently in Season 4). Mendelsohn has been with Revelations Entertainment for over 16 years. What sets Revelations apart from other production companies is the ability to fuse artistic integrity with technological innovation as well as their mission to reveal the truth. Academy award-winning actor Morgan Freeman and Emmy-nominated producer Lori McCreary lead Mendelsohn and the rest of the team in producing thought provoking entertainment that has universal appeal and soul. Prior to her production role, Mendelsohn oversaw finance and managed Digital Revelations, a division underneath Revelations Entertainment that was designed to explore the merging of entertainment and technology. While at Digital Revelations, Mendelsohn spearheaded The Open House live demo, appearing in Los Angeles, Cannes and Sun Valley, which was designed to educate the entertainment industry on how to protect content as it moves to an online platform. She is also a member of the Producers Guild of America and The Television Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Larry O’Connor

Larry O’Connor started Other World Computing while still in high school in 1988. Frustrated with the high cost and options for Apple memory expansion, he came to a better solution and started providing memory upgrades online initially as LRO Enterprises in his family’s barn in rural Illinois. A year later, the company moved from the barn and today OWC is one of the most respected suppliers of Apple product upgrades and accessories. O’Connor’s strategy has been to develop, produce and sell high-quality, reliable products under multiple brands – OWC, Macsales – through resellers and distributors. O’Connor’s vision for OWC is to be a self-sustainable organization that is a great place to work as well as a firm that develops professional-grade storage and add-in/add-on products backed by superior service and support. O’Connor graduated from Marquette University where he focused on business and computer science.

Lucas Wilson

Lucas Wilson is founder and executive producer at Supersphere, a content and technology shaping entertaining, immersive experiences globally, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, and Singapore. Supersphere collaborates with industry-leading clients and partners including Disney, FOX, Jaunt, Grey Advertising, DirecTV, and others to create the ideal blend of technologies designed to build audience and connection. A media technology veteran always attracted to new technologies that build stronger bonds between audiences and the content they love, Lucas contributed over the years to early adoption of HD, 4K, DI, and theatrical 3D workflows in Hollywood.

Mark Chiolis

Mark Chiolis is the Director of Business Development for Mobile TV Group (MTVG), which provides facilities for over 4,000 live professional and college sports and entertainment events annually, with more than 35 mobile units, and dozens of remote Cloud Control facilities, based throughout the U.S.  MTVG has been leading the 4K/UHD/HDR/Cloud live event production with key broadcasters, networks and distribution companies.

Mark is currently working to interface with customers and partners to develop and support MTVG’s entertainment, awards, corporate, concerts, egames, and esports events with current and new trucks, using both broadcast and cine workflows.

Prior to MTVG, Chiolis worked in marketing, business development, and sales for Grass Valley, Thomson, Technicolor, Philips, and BTS as well as at television stations KMUV, KRBK and KVIE.

Chiolis is an active board member of the HPA, an associate member of the American Society of Cinematographers, member of the NAB Cine Consortium, member of the SciTech group at the Television Academy (Emmys), member of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS), member of International Association of Aviation Photographers, past section manager of SMPTE, member of STE, SBE and California Broadcasters Association.

Mark Harrison

Mark began his career as an Historian at Cambridge University, before moving into the media industry. He spent many years as a Director, Producer and Executive Producer, and won numerous awards for his filmmaking, including an International Emmy and a BAFTA nomination.

Mark held senior roles within the independent production sector and the BBC. He was MD of an independent production company before being appointed BBC Head of Arts, and then Head of Multiplatform Production. He was subsequently Controller of Production for BBC North and leader of the BBC’s End-to-End Digital programme, before becoming Director of Transformation for BBC Design & Engineering.

In 2015 Mark became CEO of the DPP – the international network for media and technology, which he founded. Today the DPP has over 500 member companies from across the whole media supply chain – from global tech giants to broadcasters, and from media tech vendors to production companies. The DPP works with its member companies to generate strategic insight and create business opportunities.

Mark Schubin

Multiple Emmy-award winning SMPTE Life Fellow Mark Schubin is the world’s greatest expert on the intersecting histories of media technology and opera. He helped create the hotel in-room movie business, the first live nationwide stereo simulcast network, the first live multi-language cinema subtitles, and what was probably the first HDR-to-SDR converter (though no one knew what HDR was at the time). He has worked on moving-image projects on all seven continents (including Antarctica), including news in Kazakhstan, cable TV in Hong Kong, and the television transmission system of Barbados. He also worked on the standardization of the VU meter. His bedroom was an official test site of the ATSC, his paper on aspect ratios was cited by the FCC, and his blog at SchubinCafe.com is archived by the Library of Congress. He once piloted the Fuji blimp and has been known to wear shoes.

Matthew Goldman

Matthew Goldman is Senior Director Media Engineering & Architecture at Sinclair Broadcast Group. He has been actively involved in the development of digital television systems for 30 years. In the 1990s, he was a prominent participant in the Moving Picture Experts Group where he helped create the MPEG-2 Systems standard, the baseline transport technology used in direct broadcast satellite, digital cable, and terrestrial broadcasting. He also served as project editor for the MPEG-2 DSM-CC standard, the control signaling used in video-on-demand systems, switched digital video, and for DTV data downloads and carousels. Mr. Goldman was a co-developer of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) standard. In the mid-2000s, he defined the broadcasting industry’s first compressed-domain program splicer. Four of his projects have been later recognized by Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards. A technical paper on high dynamic range that he co-wrote received the Best Paper Award of the 2015 NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference. He is an author of the 2007 and 2017 editions of the NAB Engineering Handbook, and has been published in the IEEE Proceedings and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Motion Imaging Journal. Mr. Goldman received bachelor (high honors) and master of sciences degrees in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He holds six patents related to digital video transport. A SMPTE Fellow and former President, he is also a senior member of the IEEE, and an inductee of the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers.

Michael Chambliss

Michael Chambliss, the advanced production technology specialist for the International Cinematographers Guild (ICG), IATSE Local 600, focuses on the integration of new forms of programming and emerging production methods into the craft of cinematography and camera crew practices. He is active on the American Society of Cinematographers’ (ASC) Motion Imaging Technology Council (MITC) as well as being the ICG’s representative on the Entertainment Technology Center @ USC projects, NAB’s Cine Consortium Educational Subcommittee and additional industry forums.

Prior to shepherding the ICG’s technology initiatives, Michael was a principal of the commercial production company Chambliss-Wolff Films and a consultant for media technology investment groups. He worked as a director of photography and camera operator on commercials, motion pictures and television series for more than 20 years as well as earning a Peabody Award as the director/DP on the documentary “It Works.”

Michelle Munson

Michelle Munson is the co-founder and CEO of Eluvio and co-creator of the content fabric protocol, an open and decentralized Internet protocol for owner-controlled streaming, storage and monetization of digital content at scale. She leads the Berkeley based company and is co-inventor on 11 patents.

Michelle is an Emmy-award winning technologist who previously co-founded Aspera in 2004 and led the company as CEO until May 2017, including through acquisition by IBM in 2014. She co-invented the Aspera FASP™ transport technology.

Michelle is a recipient of the David Sarnoff Medal from the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE); the Charles Swartz Award from the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA); IABM’s Woman Entrepreneur of the Year; and named one of the top 25 “People to Watch by TV Technology.

Michelle was inducted into the College of Engineering Hall of Fame at Kansas State University in 2021. She was also the 2019 Kansas State University Commencement Speaker for the College of Arts and Sciences and the 2006 Alumnus of the Year for the College of Engineering. She holds dual B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Kansas State University, where she was a Goldwater Scholar for achievement in Science and Mathematics. She was also a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University where she received a postgraduate diploma in Computer Science.

Pat Griffis

As Technology Vice President in the CTO Office at Dolby, Patrick Griffis is charged with helping define future technology strategy for the company which includes identifying and tracking key technical trends, performing technical due diligence, and supporting advanced technology initiatives for the company. He has been an active company spokesperson on the topic of next generation imaging and in particular, “better pixels” – a term he coined for High Dynamic Range plus Wide Color Gamut. Pat spent 10 years at Microsoft leading global digital media standards strategy, including standardization of Windows Media Video technology as an international SMPTE standard. Prior to Microsoft, Pat was at Panasonic in senior management positions, including Vice President of Strategic Product Development at Panasonic Broadcast where he drove Panasonic’s HDTV strategy for the US. Pat started his career at RCA, earning eight patents in TV product design. He currently serves as Executive VP of SMPTE.

Pete Ludé

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Peter Putman

Peter Putman is president of ROAM Consulting LLC in Doylestown, PA. A 44–year veteran of the commercial AV and home theater industries, Pete has authored hundreds of columns, tutorials, and feature articles for 35 years on topics as diverse as display technology, digital video, RF and wireless signal propagation, and signal interfacing; all for a wide range of magazines and media outlets.

He has presented, instructed, and moderated panel discussions multiple times at major trade shows and technical conferences, among them SMPTE, the NAB West and East trade shows, the Hollywood Professional Association Technology Retreat, CEDIA Expo, and Integrated Systems Europe.

Pete taught seminars and workshops annually at the InfoComm trade show for 20+ years and a Senior Academy member of AVIXA University™ faculty. He was one of the first candidates to earn InfoComm’s Certified Technology Specialist (CTS) designation, and was also named InfoComm’s 2008 Educator of the Year.

Pete earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from Seton Hall University and a Master of Science degree in Television and Film from Syracuse University. He has also been a licensed Amateur Radio operator for 51 years, and currently holds Extra Class callsign KT2B. Pete is a Life Member of SMPTE and recently authored an online course on the fundamentals of ultra–high–definition television for the organization.

Peter Wehner

Peter Wehner is the Director of Engineering for Mobile Television Group. His primary responsibilities are overseeing engineering for over 4000 live events a year with a fleet of 25 mobile units and advancing new technologies. Wehner is also an integral part in new mobile unit construction such as 39 FLEX which was the first purpose built 4K and high dynamic range mobile (HDR) unit built in the US. Mobile Television Group’s 39 FLEX has been used on many ground breaking 4K and HDR productions such as Fox college football, the Masters, and several NBA games. Prior to taking on the Director of Engineering role he was an Engineer in Charge for nine years and responsible for the early implementation of dual feed production at Mobile Television Group.

Richard Friedel

Richard Friedel is Executive Vice President of Engineering, Operations & Technology for Fox Television Stations, supporting 21st Century Fox’s twenty-eight local stations throughout the United States and overseeing their rollout of ATSC 3.0 Previously, Mr. Friedel headed Fox Network Engineering & Operations, responsible for their national and regional television businesses. Early in his time at Fox, he was a member of the team that launched Fox News Channel. Mr. Friedel is a fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and life member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers. He serves as President of the Video Services Forum, President of the North American Broadcasters Association and is the former Chairman of the Advanced Television Systems Committee. He was previously awarded a lifetime achievement Emmy by the National Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Ronan Boitard

R. Boitard earned his M.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) in 2009. In 2014, he was granted his Ph.D. degree from the University of Rennes 1 while working for Technicolor and IRISA (Institut de recherche en informatique et systèmes aléatoires) on High Dynamic Range (HDR) technology, more specifically, on video tone mapping and temporal coherency. He is presently Staff Scientist, Imaging at Barco\MTT Innovation in Vancouver supporting the deployment of Light Steering technology and the associated workflow.

Scott Daly

Scott Daly is a Senior Research Scientist for Dolby Laboratories working on fundamental perceptual issues and efforts to preserve artistic intent throughout the entire video path to reach the viewer. His background includes a BSEE degree from North Carolina State University, and an MS in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. Applying visual models towards digital video and displays, he has publications on spatiotemporal and motion imagery, cinema displays, audio-visual interactions, stereoscopic displays, and high dynamic range. Awards include the Otto Schade Award from SID in 2011 for Applied Perception and a team Emmy Award in ‘89-90 for a Video Transceiver used in a prominent international news event. He is currently a member of IEEE, SPIE, SMPTE, and SID.

Scott Rothenberg

Scott Rothenberg is NEP’s Senior Vice President of Program and Planning. Scott is responsible for setting up the project management office (PMO) for all of NEP’s global projects. Scott and the PMO team are responsible for putting into place the standards, tools and processes to implement and manage global projects and programs. Scott also continues to oversee NEP’s capital budgeting, equipment planning and coordination.

In his previous role as SVP of Technology and Asset Management, Scott focused on understanding and matching clients’ needs with NEP’s technical capabilities and capacity, working tirelessly across all of NEP’s divisions to ensure that the right equipment is always in the right place, we have the right technology for our clients’ needs —and that NEP is always working to develop technical solutions to meet emerging client needs.

Scott started with NEP in 1995 as a maintenance engineer after working as a freelance technician when he provided engineering and operational support for television crews and solving all manner of problems under the pressure of live television. Scott has been a member of three Emmy Award-winning NEP technical crews (twice for NASCAR and once for PokerDome) and won a CableACE Award in 1995 for his work on “Ripken’s 2131st Game” for HTS. Scott truly loves being a member of the NEP team and enjoys sharing the outstanding dedication and commitment with his extraordinary peers and colleagues.

Serban Simu

Serban is a technology innovator and hands-on engineering leader in all things “data”. Serban has a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti in Bucharest, Romania, and a Masters degree in Telecommunication Networks from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications where he finished first in his class. He came to the United States in the late 1990’s to join Cisco Content Networking group, as a lead software engineer at Digital Fountain, and founded Aspera with Michelle Munson in 2004 where he led technology and product development for 13 years.

Skip Pizzi

Skip Pizzi is Vice President, Technology Education and Outreach, at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in Washington, DC, USA. His career has spanned the radio, television and digital media industries, working for 13 years in production engineering and technical training at NPR, and for 11 years in content creation, media standards development and technical policy analysis at Microsoft. He also spent 7 years as an editor at Broadcast Engineering magazine, and has been a columnist for numerous other industry publications. He has authored, co-authored or edited several books, most recently A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-Engineers, 4th edition, and the NAB Engineering Handbook, 11th edition, both published by Focal Press.

Skip is a frequent speaker at media technology conferences around the world, and manages all of NAB’s technical education programs. He has also been involved with numerous media standardizations efforts, and currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Advanced Television Standards Committee (ATSC) Technology Group 3 (TG3)—which has developed the ATSC 3.0 standard—and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ultra HD Forum. In 2017, Skip was presented with the ATSC’s Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied Fine Arts, International Economics and Electrical Engineering.

Steve Wong

Steve is a technologist in the Cloud, Platforms & IT Outsourcing practice for DXC Technology (formerly known as Hewlett Packard Enterprise) and is a visiting lecturer at University of Southern California Marshall School of Business Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. Steve was recognized with a 2007 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development for the Teranex Video Computer. Steve is a member of the Interactive Media Peer Group of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. In addition, Steve is a Hollywood Section SECRETARY/TREASURER of The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). Steve began his IT career in broadcasting working for Belo Broadcasting (Gannett) and Capital Cities ABC (Disney). For fun Steve enjoys screenwriting and producing independent movies and creating new media content.

Tony Davis

Tony Davis is a Senior Scientist at RealD where he works with an outstanding team to perfect the cinema experience from set to screen. Tony Davis has a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University, specializing in advanced signal acquisition and processing. After several years working as a Technical Staff Member for Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mr. Davis was Director of Engineering for a highly successful line of medical and industrial X-ray computed tomography systems at 3M. Later, he was the founder of Tessive, a company dedicated to improvement of temporal representation in motion picture cameras.

Wolfgang Ruppel

Dr. Wolfgang Ruppel is a digital technology expert and consultant with more than 20 years of experience in broadcast and media. Dr. Ruppel’s recent work includes software development of enhanced Open Source IMF tools and workflow automation utilizing Framework for Interoperable Media Services (FIMS) and queuing software for digital transfers and post production workflows. Dr. Ruppel serves as a consultant to The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences towards standardization of a new archival format based on IMF and ACES. Dr. Ruppel holds a professorship for Media Technology at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, Germany since 2006. Prior to 2009, Dr. Ruppel served as Head of T-Systems Development of a Digital Cinema distribution platform. He has worked with leading media companies and studios across North America and Europe. Dr. Ruppel earned a Dipl.-Ing. degree in 1989 and a Dr.-Ing. degree in 1994 from the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany.

Wolfgang Schram

Wolfgang Schram is a Broadcast Engineer for PRG based in the PRG Los Angeles office. He is responsible for the design of new systems to support multiple video markets worldwide. With that task he is also accountable for video standards in the engineering department, as well as input with our LED inventory and collaboration on video operating procedures. Since the late 90s, Wolfgang worked as an Engineer in Germany for N-TV, Bahn TV and OB trucks such as Wige Media & Alfa Cam. Wolfgang in his travels to the US resided for 8 years in the United Kingdom working for XL Video, CTVOB, Telegenic and finally PRG.

For the last 10 Years Wolfgang has been working in the music business as a touring Video Engineer. Some of his clients are Beyoncé, Drake, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Queen and Paul Rogers as well as U2 and Lionel Richie to name only a few.

In 2014 Wolfgang moved to Los Angeles and became a Chief Engineer for PRG Nocturne.

Since 2016 Wolfgang is Director of Video Engineering at PRG Los Angeles.

Yves Bergquist

Yves is an AI researcher and the director of the “AI in Media” Project at USC’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC). A research center at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, ETC brings together all the Hollywood studios as well as large tech companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. At the Center, Yves and his team use frontier AI methods to help media companies develop deep insights into their content, their audiences, and the cognitive relationship between the two. Yves is also the co-founder and CEO of Corto, an AI startup developing AI tools to make stories and audiences computable through the DNA analysis of narratives. Corto is in Private Beta with a dozen studios, advertising agencies, and global consumer brands.