• Mark Chiolis, Mobile TV Group
  

  Mark Chiolis

  Mobile TV Group

  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.

• Craig German, HPA
  

  Craig German

  HPA

What better way for all of us to look at the future of our industry than through the eyes of 6 future industry leaders in media and entertainment.  We’re going to put 6 of HPA’s Young Entertainment Professionals (YEP’s) on the stage for a very fast paced 20-minute spin cycle talking about their challenges, opportunities and future thoughts to kick off this year’s Tech Retreat TR-X event with a bang!

• Payton List, FOX Entertainment
  

  Payton List

  FOX Entertainment

  Payton List is a leader in entertainment technology who helps build workflows, R&Ds software and technology, and manages a team of media workflow specialists and creative editorial professionals. Working collaboratively with her team, she is dedicated to problem solving and technical consulting with the goal of enabling creatives to focus on producing their best work. She also strives to create an equitable and inclusive environment at work and throughout the M&E industry. Outside of her day job, she is the co-chair of the HPA Women in Post group, which is committed to building a diverse and supportive community of media professionals.

• Jaxson McLennan, Cinematographer/Producer
  

  Jaxson McLennan

  Cinematographer/Producer

  With over a decade of experience in media and entertainment, Jaxson has honed his skills in a variety of areas within the industry. After discovering a love for cinematography in film school, Jaxson bounced around to different areas of the biz working in music and radio alongside film and television.

  After making the move to Los Angeles nearly two years ago, he now works as a freelance Director of Photography, and as a Producer, lending his talents to Lionsgate’s new podcast division.

  Jaxson was a member of last year’s YEP class, and is currently on the YEP Committee for 2023.

• Nicole Harmony, The Mill
  

  Nicole Harmony

  The Mill

  Nicole Harmony is an accomplished Project Manager and Broadcast Media specialist with broad knowledge in motion picture and the film sector. Her dynamic personality, quick wit, and blend of creative and analytical aptitudes make her a respected resource. With a background in psychology, A.I. Science, and film, Nicole brings a distinctive viewpoint to her work, delivering comprehensive solutions to streamline processes and improve workflow. As a Mastering Technician at The Mill, Nicole offers professional guidance, mastering services, and project management to the company’s Color Department, specializing in longform projects.

• Erik Mahoney, Paramount Pictures Corp.
  

  Erik Mahoney

  Paramount Pictures Corp.

  Erik Mahoney is an Engineer at Paramount Pictures Corporation in Hollywood, CA, where he thrives on providing creative technical solutions to enable new, more efficient workflows for creative teams to focus more on their final product and less on the technical hurdles along the way. Prior to joining Paramount, he studied Cinematic Arts at Azusa Pacific University and later worked for several years on staff there as a Broadcast/Production Systems Engineer. During this time he gained further experience by freelancing for various companies in production engineering and system technician roles. Most recently he has served as both the lead engineer for routing and signal transport systems at Paramount, as an Engineer-In-Charge for various multi-camera, live-to-tape productions on the lot; and also a team lead on system designs and project management for facility upgrades around the studio. Outside of his day-to-day work, Erik has served as a board member and is the current President of the Society of Television Engineers where he has sought to expand the organization’s reach and impact in order to be another resource for media engineers in the Los Angeles area and beyond. In addition to the HPA and STE, Erik is a member of SMPTE and is a Y-4 Engineer in both IATSE Local 695 and 700.

• Colin Hughes, Light Iron
  

  Colin Hughes

  Light Iron

  Colin, born a Chicagoan, started his career as a DIT and Dailies Colorist where he gained an enthusiasm for efficient workflows that put people first. Today as a software developer for Light Iron, he works to do that by creating software solutions that bridge the gap between production and post.

• Alexa Lowndes, Company 3 Method Studios
  

  Alexa Lowndes

  Company 3 Method Studios

Before we move on to the structured portion of the day, and following the opening keynote thoughts, we want to hear what your goals and take-a-ways are for both TR-X and the Tech Retreat.  We’re selecting 6 TR-X attendees, in advance, and giving them 60 seconds to talk about what they are expecting to gain by attending TR-X and the Tech Retreat.  This should provide a little background for future panelists and speakers and hopefully all, or many, of these are answered by the time Mark Schubin closes out the main program on Thursday.

• Mark Chiolis, Mobile TV Group
  

  Mark Chiolis

  Mobile TV Group

  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.

• Craig German, HPA
  

  Craig German

  HPA

Referencing a unique background in ophthalmology, neuroscience, public health, gaming, esports, wearables, and media & entertainment, Dr. Khizer Khaderi will dive into the use of AI to successfully enhance workflow and provide a personalized experience for interfacing teams and machines together.

• Dr. Khizer Khaderi, Stanford Human Perception Lab
  

  Dr. Khizer Khaderi

  Stanford Human Perception Lab

  Dr. Khizer Khaderi is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University. Khaderi is the Director/Founder of the Stanford Human Perception Laboratory (HPL) and the Stanford Vision Performance Center (VPC), and faculty at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and the Stanford Human Performance Alliance.

  Khaderi is a renowned Neuro-Ophthalmic surgeon, technologist and futurist. He founded Vizzario Inc, a perceptual AI company, spun out from HPL. Khaderi has extensive domain expertise in artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MxR), wearables, applied neuroscience, human factors, and human-machine interfaces/interaction. His research interests include developing personalized human intelligent systems for the metaverse based on the human brain and sensory systems, developing technologies to optimize human performance, and combining biological and computational principles to expand our capabilities in research, clinical practice, and everyday life. Dr. Khaderi’s approach to advance research interests and develop practical applications for everyday use is building collaborative partnerships across academia and industry.

  Dr. Khaderi’s experience across industry sectors include consumer electronics, gaming, retail, life science, sports/Esports health care, Pharma, e-commerce, to name a few. He has developed novel technologies in these areas and generated multiple invention patents. Selected as a “40 under 40”, he contributed to President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology regarding vision technology and the aging population. He also advises multiple companies, venture firms and organizations including the Global Esports Federation, Magic Leap, Riot Games, Intel, Activision, Unity, Epic Games, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, NBA, Aerie Pharma, the World Health Organization, the International Olympic Committee, the International Telecommunication Union, and the World Bank.

What does the future of production hold? The panel of creatives will explore future challenges from a training and recruitment perspective.

• Moderator: Mark Chiolis, Mobile TV Group
  

  Mark Chiolis

  Mobile TV Group

  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 Lanza, Sony Pictures, MPSE
  

  Mark Lanza

  Sony Pictures, MPSE

  Mark A. Lanza MPSE is a sound designer and supervisor for Sony Pictures Television, the president of the Motion Picture Sound Editors, and a member of the Executive Steering Committee for the Television Academy. He has worked for major studios as well as several prominent independent sound facilities. He has crafted sound for many directors including Oliver Stone, James Cameron, Bryan Singer, and Phillip Noyce. His credits cover the gamut from Sci-Fi blockbusters like Independence Day and Starship Troopers to Natural Born Killers and True Lies. He has won a Bafta Award for his work on JFK and took home a Hollywood Post Alliance award for his supervision on the Grimm TV show. He has over 30 MPSE nominations and a recent win for Phillip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, and a CAS nomination He is Currently working on Justified City Primeval and Reacher.

• Paul Debevec, Netflix
• Shannon Baker Davis, ACE, AMPAS
  

  Shannon Baker Davis

  ACE, AMPAS

  Shannon Baker Davis is an award-winning television and film editor. After 10 years editing unscripted series, like iconic shows, Project Runway and Top Chef, Shannon jumped to scripted television and features. She has edited projects such as Grown-ish, Queen Sugar, The Photograph, The Obituary of Tunde Johnson, #blackaf, and Impeachment: American Crime Story. Her latest projects include Kindred (FX/Hulu), From Scratch (Netflix), and she is currently editing a Marvel series (Disney+). Shannon is also an emerging writer/producer, having written webseries (Colored People), pilots (Alkebulan), and features, all of which have earned laurels at various festivals and screenwriting competitions.

  Shannon was recently inducted into the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, becoming only the fourth Black woman to be inducted into the Editors Branch. She is a member of ACE, where she is a mentor in their Diversity Mentorship Program. Shannon is a board member of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, where she is also a founding member of the African-American Steering Committee, the Editors Peer Group of the Television Academy, and the AVID Customer Association. Shannon grew up in Augusta, GA, earned degrees from Howard University and The American Film Institute, and resides in Los Angeles, CA, with her husband and 2 children.

• Aria Jackson
  

  Aria Jackson

  ARIA JACKSON is a Los Angeles based director, writer, and photographer. A 2017 graduate of the Cinema and Television Arts program at CSUN, Aria has written, directed, and produced multiple independent award winning shorts and has recently joined an anthology feature film, while also maintaining a career in television production and branding. Her recent credits include creative photography and videography for a wide array of multinational brands, celebrities and influencers and producing various reality TV programs.

• Kathryn Brillhart, ASC
  

  Kathryn Brillhart, ASC

  Kathryn Brillhart is a Cinematographer, Director, and Producer who leverages volumetric capture, visualization techniques, and supervising visual effects to enhance projects. For the past decade, she has helped to redefine best practices and standards in virtual production and has advocated for diversity in the film industry through her role on the Global Board of Directors for the Visual Effects Society. Kathryn is a member of the Virtual Production Committee within the ASC Motion Imaging and Technology Council as well as the Alliance of Women Directors. Her recent work and role as Virtual Production Supervisor, incorporates real-time game engine and virtual production techniques to achieve in-camera visual effects, including such projects as Warner Bros. Black Adam (2022), Netflix’s Rebel Moon (2023), and Amazon Studios’ Fallout (2023).

Atul Phadnis, founder of Vitrina AI, will talk about using AI to map, organize and connect the 600,000 companies that make up the media content creation value-chain, globally. An exploration of how AI will be used to find the themes, trends and breakthrough work taking place around the world within the increasingly global content business.

• Atul Phadnis, Vitrina AI
  

  Atul Phadnis

  Vitrina AI

  Atul is Founder-CEO of Vitrina AI, the global sourcing hub for the Entertainment supply-chain. The $255Billion entertainment supply-chain, has 600,000 specialist companies worldwide, and is changing rapidly due to globalization, tech disruption, demand-supply mismatches and business model changes.

  Vitrina was launched with a mission to dramatically improve the sourcing speed and efficiencies for specialist supplier partnerships across content stages, globally.

  In his prior role, Atul was the Chief Content Officer at Gracenote, a Nielsen company, where he headed global operations for Gracenote’s 80+ country coverage.

  In 2019-20, he left Gracenote to start Vitrina AI at Stanford Research Institute [SRI International] with the goal to map and connect the global Entertainment supply-chain ecosystem using the power of AI, NLP and worldwide TV-Film-&-Gaming industry data.

As the need for skilled workers becomes a recurring theme in the industry, the panel will address how the M&E industry can recruit, retain, and cultivate creative and technical talent.

• Moderator: Kari Grubin, Trusted Partner Network
  

  Kari Grubin

  Trusted Partner Network

  Kari Grubin is a multi-talented executive who has spent the past 25 years leading and managing studio divisions, global post production facilities, corporate departments and groups within trade organizations. Kari currently leverages her expertise through her partnership with companies and professional organizations as the Membership Services Director for the Motion Picture Association Trusted Partner Network. Kari is a also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and serves on the Production and Technology Branch Executive Committee.

  Previously, Kari spent two years developing and leading SMPTE’s Rapid Industry Solutions On Set Virtual Production Initiative. Prior to that time, she demonstrated her strong record of technical operations supervision and confident, insightful leadership of creative teams as Vice President of Mastering for Studio Operations at The Walt Disney Studios, where she developed a long-term strategic vision for mastering across the title lifecycle.

  She serves on the board of the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA), where she is the past chair of Women in Post Committee. In 2016, she co-created the Young Entertainment Professionals Program (YEP) at the HPA, which has provided outreach and mentoring to over 100 young leaders in the entertainment industry. Kari is now the Co-Chair of HPA ALL, the HPA’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Initiative to continue the expansion of HPA’s commitment to create an inclusive environment for all members of the M&E industry, especially those from under-represented groups.

  Kari is in demand as a speaker on a variety of topics and holds three US patents in media and entertainment technology as a co-inventor.

• Melinda Wright, Mobile TV Group
  

  Melinda Wright

  Mobile TV Group

  Melinda has been working with mobile production facilities and the networks they service since 2005. She is a life-long learner that enjoys the technology involved in making live broadcast successful and the teams of people, from engineers to operations and creatives, that tell the stories that bring people together. She has built her career on connecting the web of support that makes every event successful.

• Todd Bowen, BYU
  

  Todd Bowen

  BYU

  Todd Bowen, J.D.

  Postproduction and graphics manager, BYU Broadcasting

  • BYUtv founded in 2001, which is owned and operated as part of Brigham Young University. BYUtv is available through its free on-line app, cable systems, satellite, and digital carriers in the US and worldwide.
  • Postproduction manager of several original TV series, such as Studio C, Relative Race, and others.
  • Adjunct professor of Cinematic Skills and Media Law.
  • Over 35 years of media production experience in live sports, scripted, reality, and documentary.
• Angeline Buenaventura, Netflix

An exploration of the necessary skillset for the creative and technical craft workflow that will be required by AI/ML in the future. Will AI/ML alter or replace some of the creative and technical processes in today’s M&E environment? How can you best position yourself and your company to benefit from these changes?

• Yves Bergquist, Entertainment Technology Center @ USC
  

  Yves Bergquist

  Entertainment Technology Center @ USC

  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.

Warner Bros. Discovery SVP and SMPTE President Renard Jenkins leads a discussion of the challenges and opportunities for institutional organizations, including how to include new talent.

• Moderator: Renard Jenkins, Warner Bros. Discovery and SMPTE
  

  Renard Jenkins

  Warner Bros. Discovery and SMPTE

  Renard Jenkins is an experienced contention creation and creative technology executive in the Film, Television and Radio industry. He is currently Warner Bros. Discovery’s Senior Vice President, Production Integration & Creative Technology Services where he oversees teams that support 23,500 plus cast/crew members, 8,500 plus content hours and hundreds of global feature film, animation, and syndicated television productions annually. He and his teams provide creative production technology solutions and strategy for film, animation, and television productions worldwide. They also provide application, IP, production pipeline support and workflows as well as work stream design and implementation. A portion of his team are also responsible for the exploration and successful implementation of emerging and creative technologies such as virtual production, multiplatform storytelling, virtual character and meta human development, neuro-technology and better images and sound for cinema and home entertainment.

  Prior to joining WarnerMedia, Jenkins served as Vice President, Operations, Engineering & Distribution at PBS, where he was responsible for the strategic direction, technology development, engineering, and operational management of PBS’s entire media-supply chain. He and his teams were responsible for the successful simultaneous launch of the Live Linear and Cloud-based PBS Kids Channel plus Live Streaming App which also contained games and VOD. It remains as one of the most popular kid’s applications and destinations today. He also created PBS’s Advanced Format Center. He has also worked for TV One, Discovery, ESPN and Turner Broadcasting where he received multiple awards for his work in Film & Television Production, Post Production and R&D, including two national Emmys. Jenkins was also awarded the Innovator of the Year award in 2017 for his cutting-edge work and accomplishments in UHD, HDR, NGA and supply chain technology through the PBS Advanced Format Center and other industry activities.

  Jenkins is a SMPTE Fellow and currently serves as President of SMPTE. He sits on the boards of MovieLabs, the Hollywood Professionals Association, the UltraHD Forum, the Content & Entertainment Council as well as the Microsoft and Oracle Advisory Boards. He is also a recipient of a Peabody, 2 Headliners and a 2020 Broadcasting and Cable Technology Leadership award to name a few others.

  He is a champion and advocate for inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility in the technology and media industries. He is a Strategic Advisor to the Board of Directors of the Washington, DC Chapter of the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity In Communications (NAMIC), chairs the Warner Bros. Discovery Technology and Operations Equity and Inclusion Council, the SMPTE Global Inclusion Working Group and he also Co-Chairs, HPA ALL which advocates for and promotes diversity, better equity and increased inclusion and accessibility in the media and entertainment industry.

  When he is not working, he enjoys spending time with his wife and best friend of over 30 years, his daughters, and his grandchildren. He loves travel photography / filmmaking and only has one more continent left to explore. He is also a certified sound engineer and is passionate about the visual arts. When time permits, he loves to provide pro bono location sound, live mixing, studio recording, post-production and finishing services for aspiring filmmakers, animators, and musicians. His family moto is “In all things integrity and integrity in all things.”

• Joyce JC Cataldo, HPA
  

  Joyce JC Cataldo

  HPA

  Joyce oversees all sales and membership strategy and operations for HPA in her role as Director of Business Development & Membership.

  Joyce has built strong relationships with decision makers and leading companies over her fifteen years in the entertainment technology and broadcast industry. She joined HPA in 2017 after working as Manager of Special Projects for SMPTE and Director of Business Development for SMPTE and HPA. Before that, Joyce served as Senior Account Manager and Business Development Manager at Wall Street Communications.

  Prior to entering the media and entertainment industry, Joyce spent over 10 years in corporate recruiting, coordinating undergraduate recruiting at over 70 schools for J.P. Morgan. She also managed the on-campus recruitment program at NYU, her alma mater.

  Joyce’s career is based on a keen ability to connect and empathize with clients, and she enjoys many lifelong friendships that have developed from those relationships.

• Jason Dachman, Sports Video Group
  

  Jason Dachman

  Sports Video Group

  Dachman oversees all aspects of SVG’s North American editorial operations – including all news on sportsvideo.org, the daily SVG Insider newsletter, and SVG’s annual print publications – and is one of the primary contributors to SVG’s coverage of the sports-video-production industry. A member of the SVG team since 2009, Dachman also serves as Program Director for SVG’s Esports Production Forum, RSN Summit, Sports Content Management Forum, Sports Graphics Forum, and TranSPORT conference. Prior to joining SVG, he covered local sports for The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, MA, and served on the production staff of SiriusXM’s The Ron & Fez Show. Dachman began his career in the Sports Information department at Northeastern University in Boston, where he earned a BA in Media Communications and Cinema Studies. A native of Denver, CO, Jason currently resides in Queens, NY, with his wife Alyson and daughter June.

• David Grindle, SMPTE
  

  David Grindle

  SMPTE

  David Grindle joined SMPTE as Executive Director in 2022. He brings more than a decade of association leadership experience to the position along with a background in live entertainment management. Recognized globally for his work as an association leader and manager, Grindle has spoken at conferences in China, Europe, and New Zealand. He has been a guest faculty member at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Michigan Tech University, and many others. He holds degrees from Berry College and Indiana University and is a Fulbright Specialist with the US State Department.

• Stan Moote, IABM
  

  Stan Moote

  IABM

  Stan Moote is CTO of IABM, the international vendors’ association for the digital media and entertainment sector. A highly respected industry veteran, Moote began his television career in 1977 as a plant engineer for CFTO-TV in Toronto, Canada. He was involved in the original SMPTE Digital Video Standards Committee meetings creating CCIR-601 and continues by coordinating activities within the industry for standards groups. Through his domain knowledge working with video and audio, Moote developed several patents and focuses on workflow solutions, new technology, and interoperability. Stan is SMPTE Life Fellow and recipient of the SMPTE Digital Processing Medal Award.

• Eric Trabb, NAB
  

  Eric Trabb

  NAB

  Eric Trabb joined the National Association of Broadcasters in 2018 as SVP and Chief Customer Success Officer. In this role Eric is responsible for revenue generation for all of NAB’s events and digital platforms.

  Eric has 35 years of experience as a business executive and leader in the broadcast and media entertainment industry. Prior to joining NAB, Eric served as VP/Group publisher at New Bay Media,- publishers of TV Technology, Radio World, Digital Video and Government Video- where he drove the business transformation from largely print publications to a diversified product portfolio including digital, content marketing and in-person events.

  Prior to that Eric was VP of Sales at IMAS Publishing Group, where he built an international sales organization and regional brands to align with the sales and marketing goals of the international media & entertainment marketplace.

  Eric is a graduate of Rutgers University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism.

Jason Dachman, Chief Editor at Sports Video Group, leads an all-star panel discussing the most pressing topics facing live sports now and in the future. Topics include a look at which networks and companies will lock in those broadcast and production contracts from the leagues and teams, who benefits from new regulations on wagering, MVPD, DTC, RSN, NCAA, Pac-12, Big12, blending broadcast and cine solutions, new products and innovations to wow the viewers and new apps for in-venue and external interactions.

• Moderator: Jason Dachman, Sports Video Group
  

  Jason Dachman

  Sports Video Group

  Dachman oversees all aspects of SVG’s North American editorial operations – including all news on sportsvideo.org, the daily SVG Insider newsletter, and SVG’s annual print publications – and is one of the primary contributors to SVG’s coverage of the sports-video-production industry. A member of the SVG team since 2009, Dachman also serves as Program Director for SVG’s Esports Production Forum, RSN Summit, Sports Content Management Forum, Sports Graphics Forum, and TranSPORT conference. Prior to joining SVG, he covered local sports for The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, MA, and served on the production staff of SiriusXM’s The Ron & Fez Show. Dachman began his career in the Sports Information department at Northeastern University in Boston, where he earned a BA in Media Communications and Cinema Studies. A native of Denver, CO, Jason currently resides in Queens, NY, with his wife Alyson and daughter June.

• Eddie Okuno, ESPN
  

  Eddie Okuno

  ESPN

  Eddie Okuno is Senior Remote Operations Specialist for Disney Media Entertainment & Distribution (DMED) – ESPN.

  His responsibilities include on site remote technical planning for the NBA on ESPN-ABC Season, which includes the advancement of engineering and production workflows and integration of signal flow to all DMED-ESPN facilities.

  Heading into his 21st NBA on ESPN-ABC season, Eddie’s responsibilities not only covers the day to day technical management of the NBA season, but also works collectively as part of the DMED Operations Specialist team to continually enhance, innovate and improve global production and engineering workflows at DMED-ESPN-ABC.

  Technical and operations support for ESPN’s Monday Night Football was also part of Eddie’s responsibilities from 2006 until 2019.

  Prior to joining DMED-ESPN, Eddie was the Senior Technical Manager at ABC Sports and NBC Sports.

  His primary responsibility at ABC Sports was Senior Technical Manager for ABC Monday Night Football (3 Seasons including Super Bowl XL) and the 2006 BCS Championship (Rose Bowl USC vs Texas)

  Eddie’s repsonsibilities at NBC Sports was Senior Technical Manager for the NBA on NBC.

  At NBC, Eddie also worked on the NFL, multiple Super Bowls and Olympic Games.

• JP Palmer, Amazon Prime Video
• Pete Emminger, NEP
  

  Pete Emminger

  NEP

  Pete Emminger is the Global Chief Technology Officer for NEP Group and is responsible for leading the global technology group, overseeing overall technology strategy, technical design and build of our products and network operations. The group is also responsible for R&D and prototyping, supporting NEP’s ongoing commitment to innovation. Prior to his role as Global CTO, Pete joined NEP in May 2021 as SVP, Product Management for Live Production, where he focused on identifying and building strategic product plans for live production.

  Pete believes that empowering teams is the best way to encourage idea generation and to bring a high energy approach to project execution. Prior to NEP, Pete was at Blizzard Entertainment, where he built and led the Global Broadcast group, developing key internal capabilities at Blizzard in support of BlizzCon, Overwatch League and Call of Duty League. Prior to Blizzard, Pete owned a production company for 13 years where he had a key role in a wide array of live production projects.

  Pete holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Our industry imagines jaw-dropping epics and conjures fantastical heroes, regularly breaking through to new dimensions of storytelling helped by the fever pitch of technological advancement. While feeding the insatiable beast that is consumer demand for top-notch content, which is being served up in just about every way imaginable, what climax are we hurtling toward as an industry ecosystem? Epic change is coming for all of us in the craft and business of storytelling. Time to consider some professional alchemy before complete transformation could leave some of us behind.

• Jeff Rosica, Avid
  

  Jeff Rosica

  Avid

  Jeff Rosica is the CEO & President of Avid Technology, a leading technology provider that powers the media and entertainment industry. He is based in Burlington, Massachusetts—the company’s global headquarters. Mr. Rosica, who joined Avid in early 2013, is a well-known media technology industry veteran with more than 35 years’ experience in broadcast, media and entertainment. Prior to his current role as CEO, he served as the company’s President, and prior to that as the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer. Before joining Avid, Jeff served in various executive positions for many well-known technology companies that serve the broadcast, media and entertainment industries including Grass Valley, Technicolor/Thomson, BTS and Philips Electronics.

Co-Chairs, Mark Chiolis and Craig German, kicked this off earlier and they will provide a short wrap up and their own thoughts, as they know they are the only obstacle standing between you and the networking and cocktail event!

• Mark Chiolis, Mobile TV Group
  

  Mark Chiolis

  Mobile TV Group

  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.

• Craig German, HPA
  

  Craig German

  HPA

Join your fellow attendees in continuing the discussion from today’s TR-X, or start your own conversation, over a cocktail or two.

Sponsored by Signiant and Panavision

Location: Master’s Plaza

1. Your bloated archive costs more than money, Eric Radloff, Ateliere Creative Technologies
2. Creative infrastructure-as-a-service, Laura Teodosio & Ed Churchward, Arch Platform Tech
3. Audio post in the cloud, Brandon Lindauer, AWS
4. QC in the cloud, Brian Kenworthy, AWS
5. Opportunities for post-production’s evolution, Tram Le-Jones, ftrack
6. Cloud workflows for reality/non-fiction TV, Steve Marshall, Moxion
7. ARRI Alexa 35 custom color management, Peter Crithary, ARRI
8. Study of lighting for virtual production, Walter Schulz, 3500 Kelvin
9. Rental solutions & holistic virtual production, Ben Danielowski, 4Wall
10. Camera-to-cloud workflow that fits on-set, Colin McDonald, Teradek/SmallHD
11. In Depth with Dolby Vision, Samuel Bilodeau, Dolby Laboratories
12. Trends in rendering, on-premises & in the cloud, Pauline Koh, AWS
13. Brainstorm on ACES plugfests & workflow collaborations, Annie Chang, Universal, JZ, Barco
14. AI & ML: implications for high end image processing, Lance Maurer, Cinnafilm
15. Breakthrough: Fox Sports flypack, Peter Wharton, TAG Video Systems
16. Combating ransomware in M&E, Whit Jackson, Wasabi
17. Archive to survive, Mark Stolnitz, Wasabi
18. New AI/ML developments for media production, Rob Gonsalves, Avid
19. OpenTimelineIO: how can it help me? Sarah Priestnall & Dave Colantuoni, Avid
20. Lens to first edit: delivery trends, Raymond Thompson, Avid
21. Building & optimizing intelligent archives, Glen Sakata, Dalet
22. Is HDR monitoring for cinematography feasible? Wes Donahue, Teradek/SmallHD
23. How to manage business in the downturn, Dave Leopold, LucidLink
24. Cloud & app security for the new TPN platform, Mathew Gilliat-Smith, Convergent Risks
25. Rendering: built to scale, not fail, Francois Lebel, Conductor Technologies
26. Virtual production accelerator training program, Addy Ghani, disguise
27. SMPTE RIS: camera & lens metadata, Jim Helman, SMPTE RIS
28. Remote post production workflows, Alex Telitsine, Streambox
29. PTP synchronization of multiple GPUs in media workflows, Thomas True, NVIDIA
30. Artist-controlled machine learning for visual effects, Mathieu Mazerolle, Foundry
31. DE&I isn’t optional, Kylee Peña and Morgan Prygrocki, Adobe
32. Working better together in post: the right partner technology mix for Premiere, Karl Soulé, Adobe
33. Christie xenon vs. RGB laser: metamerism, speckle, color space. etc., Jason Jacobson, Christie
34. Motion grading Avatar: The Way of Water, Richard Miller, Pixelworks

Location: Oasis Ballroom

The audience will experience filmmaker-selected scenes from the film in 3D that will provide context for the discussions that follow.

HPA Board Member and Supersession Chair Loren Nielsen will set the stage for the day.

• Loren Nielsen, HPA Supersession Chair
  

  Loren Nielsen

  HPA Supersession Chair

  Loren Nielsen is the Vice President, Content & Strategy at DTS/Xperi where she leads the cinema business. Her work, onboarding new technologies was instrumental to the acceptance and implementation of the digital cinema ecosystem and earned her membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She served for over 15 years as a member of the Board of Directors of the HPA, and in 2020 was named one of the Top 50 Women in Global Cinema.

   

Attendees will get a look at the breakthrough live-action cinematographic process used for the film, including 48 and 24 fps, 3D capture and astounding underwater shooting.

• Moderator: Joachim Zell, HPA Board Member and HPA Engineering Awards Committee Chair
  

  Joachim Zell

  HPA Board Member and HPA Engineering Awards Committee Chair

  Joachim Zell, Head of HDR Content Workflow at Barco.
  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 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-Produced 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).

• Russell Carpenter, ASC, Director of Photography
  

  Russell Carpenter, ASC

  Director of Photography

  Director of Photography Russell Carpenter, ASC, has collaborated with James Cameron on three films, True Lies, Titanic, and Avatar: The Way of Water. In 1997, he won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his iconic camerawork on Titanic. Carpenter also shot the Marvel superhero epic Antman, the gambling drama 21, and scores of other films.

• Robin Charters, 3D Camera Systems Workflow Engineer
  

  Robin Charters

  3D Camera Systems Workflow Engineer

  Robin Charters,3D Systems Engineer architect, Cinematographer and Drone Flyer, known for his work on: Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, Alita: Battle Angel, X-Men: Apocalypse and Avatar: The Way of Water

• Simon Marsh, Sony Venice Product Director
  

  Simon Marsh

  Sony Venice Product Director

  Simon Marsh is a Senior Product Manager for Sony Imaging Products and Solutions of Americas. He is responsible for Sony’s flagship digital cinema cameras, the VENICE & VENICE 2 plus the RIALTO extension system.

  He started with Sony in Europe and relocated to the US in 1999. He has gained extensive knowledge across many technologies including HDCAM SR tape, Live sports replay, and Cinematic production workflows.

  In 2003 Simon was instrumental in Sony’s support for Star Wars Episode III principal photography. This was also one of the first productions to utilize a real-time metadata solution. Subsequently, he has been involved in many productions including AVATAR: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick.

• Tashi Trieu, Colorist
  

  Tashi Trieu

  Colorist

  Tashi Trieu is a film and television colorist and finishing artist with over 10 years of  experience in post-production. He’s worked on everything from indie features to tentpole studio films like Jungle Book and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He’s taught color grading and color science at film schools around the world and co-authored Modern Post, a handbook on post-production finishing. In his spare time he’s an avid bicyclist.

Attendees will get a look at the breakthrough live-action cinematographic process used for the film, including 48 and 24 fps, 3D capture and astounding underwater shooting.

• Moderator: Joachim Zell, HPA Board Member and HPA Engineering Awards Committee Chair
  

  Joachim Zell

  HPA Board Member and HPA Engineering Awards Committee Chair

  Joachim Zell, Head of HDR Content Workflow at Barco.
  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 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-Produced 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).

• Russell Carpenter, ASC, Director of Photography
  

  Russell Carpenter, ASC

  Director of Photography

  Director of Photography Russell Carpenter, ASC, has collaborated with James Cameron on three films, True Lies, Titanic, and Avatar: The Way of Water. In 1997, he won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his iconic camerawork on Titanic. Carpenter also shot the Marvel superhero epic Antman, the gambling drama 21, and scores of other films.

• Robin Charters, 3D Camera Systems Workflow Engineer
  

  Robin Charters

  3D Camera Systems Workflow Engineer

  Robin Charters,3D Systems Engineer architect, Cinematographer and Drone Flyer, known for his work on: Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, Alita: Battle Angel, X-Men: Apocalypse and Avatar: The Way of Water

• Simon Marsh, Sony Venice Product Director
  

  Simon Marsh

  Sony Venice Product Director

  Simon Marsh is a Senior Product Manager for Sony Imaging Products and Solutions of Americas. He is responsible for Sony’s flagship digital cinema cameras, the VENICE & VENICE 2 plus the RIALTO extension system.

  He started with Sony in Europe and relocated to the US in 1999. He has gained extensive knowledge across many technologies including HDCAM SR tape, Live sports replay, and Cinematic production workflows.

  In 2003 Simon was instrumental in Sony’s support for Star Wars Episode III principal photography. This was also one of the first productions to utilize a real-time metadata solution. Subsequently, he has been involved in many productions including AVATAR: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick.

• Tashi Trieu, Colorist
  

  Tashi Trieu

  Colorist

  Tashi Trieu is a film and television colorist and finishing artist with over 10 years of  experience in post-production. He’s worked on everything from indie features to tentpole studio films like Jungle Book and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He’s taught color grading and color science at film schools around the world and co-authored Modern Post, a handbook on post-production finishing. In his spare time he’s an avid bicyclist.

Clips presented in three formats.

Hollywood Reporter, Tech Editor, Carolyn Giardina interviews (via remote connection) Jon Landau Producer, Avatar: The Way of Water focusing on how the Lightstorm team was able to overcome the challenges of James Cameron’s outsized creative and technical vision. They will discuss the lessons learned from previous films and the insights that will guide them and perhaps, the industry, moving forward.

• Carolyn Giardina, Variety/Variety VIP+
  

  Carolyn Giardina

  Variety/Variety VIP+

  Carolyn Giardina is senior entertainment technology and crafts editor at Variety Intelligence Platform (VIP+), a division of Variety that operates a digital subscription offering analyzing the media and technology industries; and entertainment news leader Variety.

  She took on that role in February 2024, following more than a decade at The Hollywood Reporter, where as tech editor she covered everything from artificial intelligence to the Academy Awards. She also has worked in the U.S. and aboard, as an editor, reporter or columnist, on titles including Cinema Editor, SHOOT, The IBC Daily and SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal.

  No stranger to the community, Carolyn served multiple terms on the HPA Board of Directors, during which time she co-founded and was founding chair of the HPA Awards; and more recently helped plan and moderate a series of remote panels as part of the HPA Industry Recovery Task Force amid the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak.

  For her industry contributions, Carolyn has been honored with American Cinema Editors’ Robert Wise Award for journalistic illumination of the art of film editing, the International Cinematographers Guild’s Technicolor William A. Fraker Award for journalistic contributions to cinematography, and the Advanced Imaging Society’s Distinguished Leadership Lumiere Award.

  With a commitment to education, she also co-authored Exploring 3D: The New Grammar of Stereoscopic Filmmaking (Focal Press, 2013) and is a lecturer at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film & Media Arts.

• Jon Landau, Producer

Studios are accustomed to delivering tentpole films, but Avatar: The Way of Water is no ordinary tentpole. This session will explore how the studio teams worked with filmmakers to understand the timeframes, logistics and planning process that delivered one of the most complex films ever made.

• Kim Beresford, The Walt Disney Studios
  

  Kim Beresford

  The Walt Disney Studios

  Kim Beresford is the Vice President Planning & Motion Picture Operations at The Walt Disney Studios, and is the calm problem solving expert behind one of the most successful, high profile content delivery operations in the entertainment industry. As a 30 year Disney veteran, she is known for her spectacular herding of cats and wacky delivery timeline templates. Kim has transformed the chaos of expediting into predictable, reliable strategies that deliver high quality content.

  Kim leads a team of 50+ stars who add value by planning, localizing and delivering the Studio New Release Slate as well as a Catalogue Preservation and Broadcast Repurposing program, while ensuring filmmaker vision stays in tact across increasingly complex creative expectations and a progressively more dynamic distribution landscape.

  As an executive, Kim is focused on building and harnessing the power of teams to design and implement process and technological solutions that have an impact on a global scale with game changing results.

• Leon Silverman, Strategic Perspective; HPA Past President
  

  Leon Silverman

  Strategic Perspective; HPA Past President

  Leon Silverman, as head of Strategic Perspective Consulting helps to drive  industry strategy at the intersection of creativity and technology.  His clients  include major Hollywood Studios, industry services and creative technology  organizations. In addition, he is advisor to MovieLabs, the joint venture  technology laboratory of the Hollywood Studios, where he supports the  “MovieLabs 2030 Vision” initiative focusing on strategy and industry relations.

  Over his decades long career, he has held senior executive roles at Netflix, The  Walt Disney Studios, The Eastman Kodak Company, and LaserPacific, where  he has dedicated his career to the development and introduction of new  technology tools and workflows.

  Silverman was one of the founders and was the long-standing president of  the HPA – the Hollywood Professional Association, where he still sits on the Board.

  Silverman serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Production  and Technology Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,  where he also served a six year term on the Science and Technology Council.

  In addition, Silverman is a sponsor of and helped to design and launch the  Academy’s talent development and inclusion initiative, the Gold Rising  program.

  Silverman also serves on the Executive Committee of the new Science and  Technology peer group at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and  on the Engineering Emmy Award committee.

  He has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the HPA, the Bob Lambert Technology Leadership Award from the Entertainment  Technology Center at USC, has 2 Emmy Awards for his contributions to  technology innovation, holds 10 issued patents and numerous Disney  Inventor awards for his contributions to patent applications. He has served  multiple terms as Governor and is a Life Fellow of the Society of Motion  Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), as well as an associate member of The American Society of Cinematographers, and the American Cinema Editors.

  In October 2020, he was honored with SMPTE’s Presidential Proclamation  honoring his  “contributions to the Society and the  media entertainment  industry as a visionary, innovator, and mentor.”

Avatar: The Way of Water revolutionized countless aspects of its production. To deliver the many optimized versions of this film under extremely tight time constraints, the vendors and partners who supported the studio and filmmakers also broke new ground in delivering this film to theaters around the world. Participants will learn about the herculean efforts and new technologies used to deliver this film.

• Moderator: Loren Nielsen, HPA Supersession Chair
  

  Loren Nielsen

  HPA Supersession Chair

  Loren Nielsen is the Vice President, Content & Strategy at DTS/Xperi where she leads the cinema business. Her work, onboarding new technologies was instrumental to the acceptance and implementation of the digital cinema ecosystem and earned her membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She served for over 15 years as a member of the Board of Directors of the HPA, and in 2020 was named one of the Top 50 Women in Global Cinema.

   

• Kim Beresford, The Walt Disney Studios
  

  Kim Beresford

  The Walt Disney Studios

  Kim Beresford is the Vice President Planning & Motion Picture Operations at The Walt Disney Studios, and is the calm problem solving expert behind one of the most successful, high profile content delivery operations in the entertainment industry. As a 30 year Disney veteran, she is known for her spectacular herding of cats and wacky delivery timeline templates. Kim has transformed the chaos of expediting into predictable, reliable strategies that deliver high quality content.

  Kim leads a team of 50+ stars who add value by planning, localizing and delivering the Studio New Release Slate as well as a Catalogue Preservation and Broadcast Repurposing program, while ensuring filmmaker vision stays in tact across increasingly complex creative expectations and a progressively more dynamic distribution landscape.

  As an executive, Kim is focused on building and harnessing the power of teams to design and implement process and technological solutions that have an impact on a global scale with game changing results.

• Mark Arana, The Walt Disney Studios
  

  Mark Arana

  The Walt Disney Studios

  Mark Arana is the Vice President of Technology at The Walt Disney Studios. In this role, he leads a team of technologists charged with understanding the digital horizon; experimenting with emerging technologies to help shape new ways consumers will experience movies from the theatrical environment all the way to the home. This encompasses many areas such as distribution platforms including cinema, digital first, broadcast and other emerging platforms.

• Bryce Alden, Deluxe Cinema
  

  Bryce Alden

  Deluxe Cinema

  Bryce started his career 15 years ago as a systems engineer in Deluxe’s newly formed Digital Cinema business unit. Over the years he has held a variety of engineering and operational roles, implementing everything from mastering systems, production storage, and archives to satellite and internet based content delivery networks. In his current role as VP of Cinema Technology, he oversees technical project management, product design, and workflow implementation for the entire Cinema line of business. Bryce holds a BS in physics from the University of Southern California.

• Rich Welsh, Deluxe
  

  Rich Welsh

  Deluxe

  Rich Welsh is Senior Vice President of Innovation at Deluxe, where he works to bring next generation technologies and workflows to mastering, distribution and localization services for studios, OTT platforms and content creators worldwide. Rich has over two decades experience in movie and television post production, mastering and delivery. Prior to his role at Deluxe, Rich was founder and CEO at Sundog Media Toolkit which pioneered cloud based automated mastering for movies and TV for Hollywood studios. Sundog was acquired by Deluxe in 2020. Prior to Sundog, Rich worked as Head of European Theatrical Operations for Technicolor, and Director of Digital Cinema at Dolby Laboratories.

  Rich is also the Executive Vice President of Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). He has previously held positions as Education Vice President, Regional Governor for EMEA, chair of the SMPTE Media in the Cloud initiative and Chair of the Future of Cinema conference at NAB. He became a SMPTE Fellow in 2021.

  Rich holds a Doctor of Technology (HC) and BSc(hons) Media Technology from Southampton Solent University.

• Jon Gardner, EIKON Group
  

  Jon Gardner

  EIKON Group

  Jon Gardner is Chief Information Officer and founder of EIKON Group. EIKON Group is a global post production, mastering and localisation business servicing all the Major Hollywood Studios and Major Streaming Platforms.

  Within EIKON Jon is responsible for three significant areas of the global business. Firstly, Jon leads operations including Mastering, Encoding, Editorial, Mixing and Quality Control thru Theatrical and OTT. Secondly, Jon heads the Technology Team; defining the technology roadmap, investment strategy and deployment of the technical infrastructure across the London, Burbank and Sydney facilities. Thirdly, Jon directs the Software Development Team; defining and overseeing the development and deployment of all EIKON custom built products for both internal and external use.

  With 18 years’ experience in Post production, Jon initially worked with DTS as a Field Services Engineer, overseeing Print Master sessions at Dub stages in Europe and America. After this (in 2007) he moved to Deluxe where he spent 7 years in the EMEA Digital Cinema Team, overseeing the initial formation and subsequent expansion of the operations from 2 employees to over 200. After a brief break Jon, along with Peter Wright and Richard Fish, founded EIKON Group which is now a decade old and operates with facilities in 3 countries and over 180 employees.

  Prior to this Jon was a freelance audio engineer working with numerous bands, producers and composers. That passion for music and audio means down time is currently spent writing and mixing music in ATMOS in his home studio.

• Sean Romano, EIKON Group
  

  Sean Romano

  EIKON Group

  Sean Romano, a senior vice president of operations at Eikon Group, Burbank, is a longtime veteran of the Hollywood post-production community.

  His first experience in Digital Cinema came early with one of the first digital cinema releases Jurassic Park III. In 2006, he joined Deluxe Film Labs to work in the burgeoning field of digital cinema. Thirteen years later, he joined Eikon Group, a global leader in digital mastering and localization for the entertainment industry.

• Andy Scade, Pixelogic
  

  Andy Scade

  Pixelogic

  Andy Scade is currently the SVP & General Manager of Pixelogics Digital Cinema and Home Entertainment mastering business. He runs teams and facilities based in Los Angeles, London and Cairo servicing the top tier of content producers and distributors in the M&E space.  He’s spent the last 15 years creating innovative workflows and solutions to support content production and the transition from 35mm to Digital Cinema film distribution. This followed an interesting path to film servicing having previously being a successful recording and mix engineer for many well known singers and bands in the late 90’s and 00’s.

At the end of what is expected to be an extraordinary day, Loren Nielsen and Leon Silverman will moderate a discussion of the audience’s takeaways.

• Loren Nielsen, HPA Supersession Chair
  

  Loren Nielsen

  HPA Supersession Chair

  Loren Nielsen is the Vice President, Content & Strategy at DTS/Xperi where she leads the cinema business. Her work, onboarding new technologies was instrumental to the acceptance and implementation of the digital cinema ecosystem and earned her membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She served for over 15 years as a member of the Board of Directors of the HPA, and in 2020 was named one of the Top 50 Women in Global Cinema.

   

• Leon Silverman, Strategic Perspective; HPA Past President
  

  Leon Silverman

  Strategic Perspective; HPA Past President

  Leon Silverman, as head of Strategic Perspective Consulting helps to drive  industry strategy at the intersection of creativity and technology.  His clients  include major Hollywood Studios, industry services and creative technology  organizations. In addition, he is advisor to MovieLabs, the joint venture  technology laboratory of the Hollywood Studios, where he supports the  “MovieLabs 2030 Vision” initiative focusing on strategy and industry relations.

  Over his decades long career, he has held senior executive roles at Netflix, The  Walt Disney Studios, The Eastman Kodak Company, and LaserPacific, where  he has dedicated his career to the development and introduction of new  technology tools and workflows.

  Silverman was one of the founders and was the long-standing president of  the HPA – the Hollywood Professional Association, where he still sits on the Board.

  Silverman serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Production  and Technology Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,  where he also served a six year term on the Science and Technology Council.

  In addition, Silverman is a sponsor of and helped to design and launch the  Academy’s talent development and inclusion initiative, the Gold Rising  program.

  Silverman also serves on the Executive Committee of the new Science and  Technology peer group at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and  on the Engineering Emmy Award committee.

  He has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the HPA, the Bob Lambert Technology Leadership Award from the Entertainment  Technology Center at USC, has 2 Emmy Awards for his contributions to  technology innovation, holds 10 issued patents and numerous Disney  Inventor awards for his contributions to patent applications. He has served  multiple terms as Governor and is a Life Fellow of the Society of Motion  Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), as well as an associate member of The American Society of Cinematographers, and the American Cinema Editors.

  In October 2020, he was honored with SMPTE’s Presidential Proclamation  honoring his  “contributions to the Society and the  media entertainment  industry as a visionary, innovator, and mentor.”

Sponsored by

• Signiant
• ARRI
• Like Minded Media Ventures

Sponsored by Adobe

Location: Master’s Plaza

1. Cloud-first supply chain best practices, Sam Cook, Ateliere Creative Technologies
2. Interoperability and recomposable, automated workflows, Jim Helman, MovieLabs
3. Does everything really belong in the cloud? Chris Lennon, Ross Video
4. Event-driven supply chain, Robert Raver, AWS
5. The software that supports post-production teams, Tram Le-Jones, ftrack
6. Cloud workflows for reality/non-fiction TV, Steve Marshall, Moxion
7. Virtual production, Peter Crithary, ARRI
8. Study of lighting for virtual production, Walter Schulz, 3500 Kelvin
9. Rental solutions & holistic virtual production, Ben Danielowski, 4Wall
10. Color in the cloud with Baselight, Marlon Campos, AWS
11. In depth with Dolby Vision, Samuel Bilodeau, Dolby Laboratories
12. Professional monitor calibration, Blake Johnson, Small HD
13. Existing and future LED volumes, Mike Smith, ROE Visual US
14. AI & ML: implications for high end image processing, Lance Maurer, Cinnafilm
15. Managing data across the wide world of sports, Whit Jackson, Wasabi
16. Remote workforce, Mark Stolnitz, Wasabi
17. New AI/ML developments for media production, Rob Gonsalves, Avid
18. OpenTimelineIO: How can it help me? Sarah Priestnall & Dave Colantuoni, Avid
19. Digital nomads, Mark Chiolis, Mobile TV Group
20. Lens to first edit: delivery trends, Raymond Thompson, Avid
21. Optimizing supply chains for increased consumption endpoints, Glen Sakata, Dalet
    
22. How can TPN help you? Terri Davies, MPA
23. Talent identity in the age of (deep)fakes, William Kreth, HAND
24. Making sustainability in media tech work, Barbara Lange, Kibo121
25. Cloud color grading with DaVinci Resolve, Zach Willner, AWS
26. Sourcing creative talent globally, Julie O’Grady, LucidLink
27. Connect assets & people with the MovieLabs ontology, Louis Matignon, Perfect Memory
28. Future of documentation: unified system design, Jake Tejada & Frank Albano, Deloitte Consulting
29. Cloud implementation with shared responsibility, Mathew Gilliat-Smith, Convergent Risks
30. SMPTE Rapid Industry Solutions: on-set virtual production, Kari Grubin, SMPTE RIS
31. Office space: Where’s this hybrid work model taking us? Karl Soulé, Adobe
32. Christie CineLife+ projection workflow: I/O, BW, HFR, HDR, tools, Jason Jacobson, Christie
33. Key to future production platforms: ease of use, flexibility, both? Art Raymond, Signiant
34. Multi-primary color systems, Jim DeFilippis and Dr. Corey Carbonara, 6P Color

Location: Oasis Ballroom

See program below for dedicated Innovation Zone hours

• Seth Hallen, HPA
  

  Seth Hallen

  HPA

  Seth Hallen is Co-Managing Director of Light Iron, A Panavision Company, and president of the Hollywood Professional Association. With a proven ability to lead teams toward the successful tactical execution of strategies designed to capitalize on emerging trends and opportunities, he has been building profitable, innovative and market dominant companies for over 25 years. Prior to joining Light Iron, Seth was Head of Global Strategy for Pixelogic Media, senior vice president of global creative services at Sony DADC New Media Solutions, the chief executive officer of Testronic Labs, vice president of North American Operations for Lightworks, and the producer of the Emmy Award-winning TalkShow.TV. He holds a BA degree in radio, television, and film from the University of Maryland.

• Mark Schubin, Program Maestro, HPA Tech Retreat
  

  Mark Schubin

  Program Maestro, HPA Tech Retreat

  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.

• Mark Harrison, DPP
  

  Mark Harrison

  DPP

  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.

• Rowan de Pomerai, DPP
  

  Rowan de Pomerai

  DPP

  Rowan de Pomerai leads the technology strategy and delivery for the DPP, the media industry’s international community. The DPP provides the insight and connections our members need to do business better.

  Rowan has a strong background in media innovation. He has an MEng in Media Engineering, and has spent 15 years in the industry, working across broadcasters, production, and software companies.

We seem to have finally made it to the other side of the pandemic–how has our industry’s view of security posture changed with WFH and hybrid workflows, virtual production, and post in the cloud?

• Moderator: Chuck Parker, Sohonet
  

  Chuck Parker

  Sohonet

• Marc Zorn, Marvel Studios
• Terri Davies, Trusted Partner Network, Motion Picture Association
  

  Terri Davies

  Trusted Partner Network, Motion Picture Association

  As President of the Motion Picture Association’s Trusted Partner Network (TPN), Davies is charged with leading the next stage of the organization’s growth, which includes expanding the program to a more flexible, multi-tiered model to better serve the vendor and content owner communites and align with the rapid changes in the Movie and TV industry, and the introduction of Cloud Security assessments. She also oversees the creation, publication and ongoing management of MPA’s Content Security site and cloud best practices, as well as the operations of the assessor accreditation program.

  Davies joined TPN from Anuvu (formerly Global Eagle Entertainment), where she served as Senior Vice President, Media & Content. Prior to Anuvu, Davies was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the MediaCore Program at Deluxe Entertainment and has also consulted with the Gerson Lehrman Group as a subject matter expert on the media and entertainment industry. From 2000 through 2015, Davies held various positions at Sony Pictures Entertainment in both London and Los Angeles culminating as Executive Vice President, Business Operations, Worldwide Product Fulfillment. During her tenure at Sony, Davies drove digital transformation and efficiency across all post theatrical windows including the launch of Sony Pictures’ digital supply chain and centralization of localization and media services. She began her career in the 1990s at Tele-Cine Post-Production in London.

  Davies, a respected thought leader in the post-production community, serves on various boards including Digital Entertainment Group (DEG), Canon Club, is a current member of BAFTA and serves as a BAFTA Student Film Judge. She is also a dedicated mentor, having participated in the USC Marshall Business School’s Career Advantage Program, San Diego State University’s Mentor Program, and Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Leadership Program. Most recently, Davies joined the UC Riverside Advisory Board for the Transformation Leadership program, and she also serves as a USC International Case Competition Judge.

   

• Lisa Powell, Company3
• Micah Littleton, Technicolor
  

  Micah Littleton

  Technicolor

  Micah Littleton is the Vice President of Global Content Security for Technicolor Creative Studios.

  He brings over two decades of experience in the media and entertainment sector, initially as an audio engineer, editor, mixer, studio manager and producer, as well as a leader in research and development initiatives. He joined Technicolor in 2003 to lead creative technology teams before he was tasked with providing direction on how best to secure content in the sensitive and target-rich business of making blockbuster movies.

  In 2007, Littleton brought his deep domain expertise in the high-value content production business to develop security conventions and techniques that have been adopted by Technicolor and the partners and clients that make up the entertainment technology value chain. To that end, Littleton has been an active participant in MESA, MovieLabs, Motion Picture Association, and other industry organizations to collaborate with other players in the ecosystem in joint efforts to maintain the innovation edge over those who would compromise the integrity of the content development and distribution process.

  Most recently, Littleton has led a corporate-wide effort at Technicolor to develop and nurture a global leadership network dedicated to continuously improving the security posture of both Technicolor and its trading partners. The mission of the team is not only to implement best practices, but to observe and provide feedback in order to elevate the community’s ability to stay ahead of the constantly changing threat landscape.

  Security, according to Littleton, is a team sport. It requires all internal and external members of the community to observe, interpret and then act on the new challenges that are constantly emerging in this sector. He welcomes input and opportunities to engage with professionals in the industry who share this point of view.

• Patrick Sumby, Sohonet
  

  Patrick Sumby

  Sohonet

  Patrick has been at Sohonet for 16+ years and oversees the Global Engineering team. His team is responsible for Sohonet’s Networks, Systems infrastructure and Security as well as working to provide compelling solutions for our customers.

• Ted Harrington, ISE
  

  Ted Harrington

  ISE

  Ted Harrington is the #1 best selling author of HACKABLE: How to Do Application Security Right, and the Executive Partner at Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), the company of ethical hackers famous for hacking cars, medical devices, web applications, and password managers. He’s helped hundreds of companies fix tens of thousands of security vulnerabilities, including Google, Amazon, and Netflix. Ted has been featured in more than 100 media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Forbes. His team founded and organizes IoT Village, an event whose hacking contest is a three-time DEF CON Black Badge winner. He hosts the Tech Done Different podcast.

• Moderator: Mark Harrison, DPP
  

  Mark Harrison

  DPP

  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.

• Barbara Lange, Kibo121
  

  Barbara Lange

  Kibo121

• Louis Matignon, Perfect Memory
• Joe Zaller, Devoncroft

• Dr. Tamara Seybold, ARRI
  

  Dr. Tamara Seybold

  ARRI

  Dr. Tamara Seybold started working at ARRI in 2009. Studying Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Technical University of Munich, her interest in electronics enabled her contributing to the ALEXA development. After finishing her studies in 2012, she completed a PhD about Motion Picture Denoising at the Technical University of Munich in cooperation with ARRI.

  Seybold became a full member of the Image Science team in 2015 supporting the various iterations of our ALEXA camera system and then transitioned into the development of the ALEXA 35. Since 2020, Tamara Seybold is the Technical Lead of the Image Science team in ARRI’s R&D department in Munich.

• Carola Mayr, ARRI
  

  Carola Mayr

  ARRI

  – Studies of “Media production and technology” and “Electronic Media with focus media technology”

  – Master thesis at ARRI in 2013 in R&D departement

  – Since 2014 Image Science Engineer at ARRI, currently working on Textures Feature.

Come join Women in Post for a candid conversation about working in Entertainment Technology. Panelists Dalia Spingarn, Paramount Global, and Andrea Kalas, Paramount, along with moderator, Joanne Kim, Amazon will discuss how each of them landed in this field, what plays into their decisions about the technology they use, and what they see as current issues in tech. They’ll explore how to ensure today’s media plays well with formats to come for a greater ROI, and the enjoyment of content for future generations. This conversation will blend what we’re learning at the Tech Retreat with the reality of what these two professionals deal with on a day-to-day basis, what’s most relevant to them, and what we as technologists need to consider as we plan for the future.

Sponsored by Dell Technologies

Location: Ambassador East Patio

At IBC in 2019, the technology leaders from the major Hollywood Studios outlined a bold vision for the future of content creation. At the introduction of what has become known as the MovieLabs “2030 Vision”, the Studios promised to collaborate with partners across the content creation supply chain to begin to socialize and implement this vision. Now 3 years later, we are well on our way to implementation.  MovieLabsCTO, Jim Helman is joined by senior technology leaders from the major Studios, cloud services and leading creative applications providers who will outline their own progress and implementation journey toward the realization of the 2030 Vision.

• Moderator: Jim Helman, MovieLabs
  

  Jim Helman

  MovieLabs

  Jim is CTO at MovieLabs, a technology joint venture of five major Hollywood studios. At MovieLabs, Jim leads technical work on the 2030 Vision for media creation in the cloud and has led industry initiatives including driving worldwide standards for high dynamic range video. Jim also led the design and implementation of the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR), for which he was awarded an Engineering, Science and Technology Emmy.

  Prior to MovieLabs, Jim was chief software architect at Liberate Technologies, where he led the development of a web platform for delivering interactive cable services. Prior to Liberate, he worked at Silicon Graphics, developing real-time 3D systems for VR, location-based entertainment, and visual simulation. Jim holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics from Stanford and a B.A. in Physics and Math from Washington University.

• Annie Chang, Universal Pictures
  

  Annie Chang

  Universal Pictures

  Annie Chang is the Vice President, Creative Technologies for Universal Pictures, responsible for developing strategies and designing innovative next-generation workflows across film and emerging immersive media experiences. Prior to joining Universal Pictures, Chang was the VP, Technology for Marvel Studios and held various roles during more than a decade tenure at The Walt Disney Studios. Chang is the AMPAS ACES Project Co-Chair and served as the Co-Chair of the AMPAS SciTech Council until 2022. She was the Chair of the Interoperable Master Format (IMF) Working Group at SMPTE. She is an SMPTE Fellow and is a recipient of the SMPTE Workflow Systems Medal Award, Advanced Imaging Society’s Distinguished Leadership award and StudioDaily’s 2018 Exceptional Women in Production and Post. In 2020, The Hollywood Reporter named Chang on their list of top “Hollywood Innovators.” In 2021, Hollywood Professional Association honored Chang with the HPA League Honor of “The Catalyst” which recognizes a leader who has successfully inspired and sparked positive change and innovation in entertainment as a “mover and shaker,” and TVNewsCheck recognized Chang with their Women in Technology Futurist Award. In 2022, Women in Technology Hollywood honored Chang with their WiTH Leadership Award.

• Shadi Almassizadeh, Walt Disney Studios
  

  Shadi Almassizadeh

  Walt Disney Studios

  Experienced executive of 25+ years, with extensive experience designing, operating and supporting world-class motion picture production infrastructure and services supporting unique production and post-production workflows. Prior experience and extensive knowledge of film production and post-production pipelines and associated systems. Intimately familiar with large-scale data center infrastructure as well as cloud environments. Possessing the ability to balance the urgent needs of feature production today with long-term solutions tomorrow. Able to identify commonalities among the various stakeholders’ technology infrastructure needs and collaboratively work to bring the organization together where it makes sense, without disrupting their unique approaches for success.

• Kevin Towes, Adobe
  

  Kevin Towes

  Adobe

  Kevin is a energetic and respected technology executive with over 30 years of experience in strategy, business development, product development and strategic partnerships. Kevin has focused his career as a participant in the evolution of the Media & Entertainment industry by re-imagining cloud-based creation, distribution and monetization of video entertainment. Kevin has direct expertise in leading award-winning product management, strategic partnerships, GTM strategy and concept incubation to scaling large businesses through global partnerships, building & growing impactful & diverse teams and has held executive roles in Business Development, Product Management, Marketing, Strategic Partnerships, Solution Consulting and Startup founder.

• Toby Scales, Google
  

  Toby Scales

  Google

  Toby leads the Media & Entertainment vertical in Google Cloud’s Oce of the CISO, where he focuses on driving strategic change across the content and enterprise security disciplines.

  In his previous role at Microsoft and now at Google, he’s partnered with every major studio on cloud transformation initiatives across animation, VFX and post-production.

  Before getting involved at the intersection of Hollywood and cloud, he ran the services arm of a major MSP in Manhattan (where he developed their cloud consulting practice), and before that founded and sold his own consulting rm in Seattle, Washington.

  He now lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and two sons– who are officially recognized as the World’s Best Kids.

• Mathieu Mazerolle, Foundry
  

  Mathieu Mazerolle

  Foundry

  Mathieu Mazerolle has over 27 years of engineering and product experience in the VFX, cloud and gaming industries. He is currently the Director of Product, New Technology, at Foundry. With a 20-year heritage and a portfolio of award-winning products, Foundry advances the art and technology of visual experience. Prior to Foundry, Mathieu has worked for Amazon Web Services, Electronic Arts, Autodesk, Digital Domain, and Ubisoft.

• Katrina King, AWS
  

  Katrina King

  AWS

  Katrina King is a motion picture technologist and production technology executive with over twenty years experience supervising production and technology for motion pictures, television and live events. She has authored more than ten patents in film and tv production, interactive streaming and cloud based post-production. Katrina led the AWS Color in the Cloud project which recently won the 2022 HPA Engineering Excellence Award. She is currently Global Strategy Leader for Content Production at AWS and leads AWS’ Content Production Industry Innovation Center.

• Moderator: Dan Germain, Sony Pictures Entertainment
  

  Dan Germain

  Sony Pictures Entertainment

  35+ years of global industry experience in product strategy, innovation, and partnerships, focused on Sony Pictures Entertainment and technology used for the digital media supply chain.

• Bill Baggelaar, Sony Pictures Entertainment
  

  Bill Baggelaar

  Sony Pictures Entertainment

  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.

• Greg Geier, Sony Pictures Entertainment
  

  Greg Geier

  Sony Pictures Entertainment

  Greg Geier is Senior Vice President, Digital Media Supply Chain Strategy and Operations, Sony Pictures Entertainment. He had a critical role in transitioning Sony into a file-based Interoperable Master Format ecosystem, while strengthening the handoffs between productions and distribution. He is currently responsible for managing the DMSC team – a group that enables industry-leading workflow design, knowledge management, and media processes. Working together with stakeholders across the studio, the DMSC promotes the formation of an end-to-end, integrated, digital supply chain that enables SPE to more effectively acquire, manage, and distribute.

• Hai Dao, Sony Pictures Entertainment
  

  Hai Dao

  Sony Pictures Entertainment

  I focused on ensuring that new solutions are meeting both business needs and business opportunities. Solutions are only valuable if they are adopted by the busy users at Sony Pictures and I believe that successful evolution and transformation will come through relentlessly “solving the next problem”. Throughout my time with Sony Pictures, I have taken on several transformation programs that bring lasting impact to the studio. I come to my role in the Digital Media Supply Chain team with experience from digital media operations at Meta (formerly Facebook), as well as business-transformation experience as a Management Consultant in Deloitte Consulting’s strategy and operations practice.

• Adam Miller, Nomad Media
  

  Adam Miller

  Nomad Media

  Adam has spent over 40 years deep in the technology world and has had the opportunity to work with some of the largest and most influential companies that have shaped the modern media landscape. From rolling out the first shopping cart for BlueNote Records to 4k video automation systems with DirecTV to bringing NASA video archives online, he’s been responsible for hundreds of major technology implementations throughout his career.

  His first “hello world” application written in IBM BASIC at the age of 8 eventually led to his acceptance by Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science program. His post-college corporate experiences quickly led to the creation of his first startup as a way to escape the corporate culture and “do things his way”. The 90’s and the fever pitch of the .com era allowed Adam to grow his application development company (KORE) that opened the door to major investors and his ever-present desire to “take it to the next level.” Adam and his team helped lead the digital music revolution through clients like EMI Music Distribution, Maverick Records and Universal Music Group – all of which pushed the envelope of the technology capabilities of the time. Eventually, Adam was recruited by a small company fondly called “Clown Co” at the time – later to be renamed Hulu.

  Much like the digital music revolution, Adam had the opportunity to be on the frontlines architecting and creating the advertising technology business for Hulu from the ground-up. Eventually, Adam realized he was a “builder” – not an “operator” and his strengths have always been working with companies to effectively use technology solutions to solve their business challenges. The next 10 years were then spent building media (especially video) solutions for dozens of Fortune1000 customers like DirectTV, CBS and Mattel – until the point Adam said “this is silly – why are we building the same custom solution over and over for our customers?” The media world had evolved significantly over the last 20 years… but the supporting software had not. Nomad Media was born.

  Today, Adam spends his time directing the technology vision for Nomad surrounded by an amazing team, although the software developers grimace if he still tries to jump in and write code (they patiently fix it when he’s not looking). His opportunities and experiences throughout his career have enabled him to foster his passion and energy that he brings to customers, clients, and partners along with the leadership skills he provides his employees that he hopes will be his real legacy.

• John Hurst, CineCert

This panel will highlight the technical and content production details used to create a first-of-a-kind Web3-native movie experience created, distributed, and sold to fans on the blockchain for a major feature film.  The project is a collaboration between Warner Home Entertainment, Pretty Big Monster, and Eluvio, Inc. resulting in a “Living Movie Experience” created for the Lord of the Rings, and sold to users as a non-fungible blockchain token replacing EST of the past.

The experience allows users to enjoy directly from their blockchain wallet an Interactive immersive experience in which they can watch the full 4K UHD film (with over 20 language localizations),  discover embedded WebXR objects, and enjoy images, special audio commentary and many hours of exclusive content.  Users experience all facets directly in their Media Wallet, and own on the blockchain an NFT associated with the experience whose ownership authorizes their exclusive access to all of the content including the 4K film with strong DRM.  The experience is stored, streamed and minted as blockchain tokens, directly to end user wallets on the Eluvio Content Fabric, a content-native blockchain network.  The offerings are served directly from the master source without the use of any traditional Web2 components (CDNs, clouds, etc.).

The panel will cover a high level overview of the business motivations, the technology requirements, the creative direction, and a live demo, and summarize some learnings for this novel format.

• Mark Nakano, Warner Bros. Discovery
  

  Mark Nakano

  Warner Bros. Discovery

  Mark Nakano is the Vice President of Content Security at WarnerMedia.

  With over 20 years of experience in the media and entertainment industry, Mark has worked in nearly the entire media life cycle (production, post-production, distribution, security). For the past 10 years, Mark has worked in the security field and has deep knowledge in conditional access, DRM, anti-piracy and watermarking.

  Mark earned both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. He is one of the original engineers that launched the DIRECTV service and is also a third generation Los Angeleno.

• Jason Steinberg, Pretty Big Monster
  

  Jason Steinberg

  Pretty Big Monster

  Jason Steinberg is the Managing Partner and founder of Pretty Big Monster, a digital marketing agency focused on AR, VR, XR, and immersive digital marketing. As an integrated marketer and general manager with over twenty years of experience spanning start-ups, content production, agencies, technology, financial, and entertainment companies, he is proud to have participated in the development and launch of some of the most popular entertainment and marketing destinations on the internet including Australia.com, Harry Potter Online, Batman.com, Scooby-Doo Online and the launch of iconic online gaming experiences including the Sims Online and EA.com.

• Michelle Munson, Eluvio
  

  Michelle Munson

  Eluvio

  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.

• Moderator: J David Hoffman, Blackmagic Design
  

  J David Hoffman

  Blackmagic Design

  As Business Development Manager for the Americas at Blackmagic Design, David focuses his efforts on expanding the use of the creative tools for visual media production. His passion for innovation and technology are paired with his respect for craft and storytelling.

  David’s career spans over 25 years in visual arts and media production.

  David started his professional journey in the early 1990’s as a documentary filmmaker working on various projects in and around the high performance military aircraft industry. The experience exposed him to the full gamut of the production workflow from cameras to post production.

  David saw new and exciting prospects to visual storytelling through the emerging computer aided production technologies in the mid 1990’s. He worked on industry leading productions utilizing advanced composting and green screen technology in both broadcast and motion picture pre-visualization while working for Discreet Logic, later Autodesk Media & Entertainment.

  In the early 2000’s David was the project lead on the implementation of real-time graphics technology at CNBC and later NBCU, where in 2008 the use of fully immersive virtual set production was highlighted by NBC News coverage of the Presidential Election.

  David established his own technology and production company in 2010 and worked to provide the real time visual effect technologies he had help pioneer at the studio and network levels to a broader audience of users. He continued to innovate techniques and technologies in the virtual production market leading up to his current role with Blackmagic Design.

• Ron Ames, producer
  

  Ron Ames

  producer

  Ron Ames is a graduate of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television. He began his career working as a theater director in Los Angeles after studying acting and directing with Lee Strasberg. Ron continued his studies at the Beverly Hills Playhouse where he worked with Milton Katselas, in the storied Los Angeles, masterclass.

  Ron began working in commercial production as a producer/assistant director. He produced and A.D.’d for many of the feature directors in the classic age of television commercials. He first became involved in Visual Effects while working in commercials at Robert Abel and Associates.

  Ron eventually started directing commercials and helped start Crash Films. He also worked with Five Union Square in New York. He directed episodic television for the USA Network and for Universal Television.

  In 2003, VFX Supervisor, Rob Legato enlisted Ron to assistant direct and produce the Visual Effects unit of Martin Scorsese’s, The Aviator. Since then, Ron has worked as a VFX producer, Post Production Supervisor, and first assistant director of special units. His credits include Robert De Niro’s, The Good Shepherd, Martin Scorsese’s, The Departed, Shine A Light and Shutter Island. Ron was the producer of the Avatar prototype team for James Cameron.

  Ron was the Associate Producer/VFX Producer for Shawn Levy on DreamWorks’ Real Steel, which garnered an Academy Award
  nomination for Best Visual Effects. He also was Associate Producer/VFX Producer for Bad Robot on JJ Abram’s Star Trek Into
  Darkness and Justin Lin’s Star Trek Beyond. He worked for Marvel Films, on Joss Wedon’s Avengers Age of Ultron.

  Ron won the Visual Effects Society award for producing the best supporting visual effects for his work on “The Aviator”. Ron has also won numerous national and international awards for commercials. He is an active member of the DGA, PGA, and VES.

  In 2016, Ron joined The Imaginarium team, in London, as head of post-production and VFX to work with Director Andy Serkis and Producer Jonathan Cavendish on Breathe and to develop Animal Farm as the first all virtual production feature film. Ron also produced Travis Knight’s first live action feature film Bumblebee for Paramount Pictures.

  On Amazon’s Lord of The Rings, Ron’s experience as a modern filmmaker, led to Ron producing all the technical departments from camera capture to exhibition. Ron produced the VFX, post-production, including editorial, music and sound. Ron also produced the prosthetic makeup department. The Lord of The Rings streaming series is the first production to be completely cloud based.

  Ron has started, The Modern Film Consortium, a consultancy dedicated to the development and integration of modern filmmaking technique and cloud-based film production. Ron also teaches mindfulness at InsightLA and is a certified Change and Transition strategist at the Skillful Change organization, where Ron works with organizations, specializing in change and transition in the workplace.

• Jesse Kobayashi, visual effects
  

  Jesse Kobayashi

  visual effects

  Jesse Kobayashi is a Visual Effects Producer with over two decades of experience in the industry. His credits include The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power for Amazon Studios, Kong: Skull Island and Warcraft for Legendary Pictures, and Krampus for Universal Pictures. In addition to his work in Visual Effects, Jesse has also served as Director of Visual Effects at Legendary Pictures, and as a Post Producer at both Warner Bros. and Laser Pacific. As a graduate of Azusa Pacific University, Jesse was instrumental in the founding of its first-ever film courses. He is also a sought-after consultant for modern filmmaking and is a strong advocate for using new technologies to improve the overall quality and efficiency of the filmmaking process. When he’s not working or a consultant, Jesse enjoys spending time with his wife and three children.

• Hugh Calveley, Autodesk
  

  Hugh Calveley

  Autodesk

  Hugh is obsessed with how technology can help the filmmaking process.

  He’s been driving innovation in the entertainment industry through a succession of starts up, culminating in co-foundering Moxion, which Autodesk recently acquired.

Key industry leaders will discuss the latest innovations happening in live sports and entertainment productions, what’s on the horizon for cloud, Remi, and at home workflow solutions, as well as how the latest tools and techniques are being utilized for maximum benefit to the production and the viewers.

• Moderator: Mark Chiolis, Mobile TV Group
  

  Mark Chiolis

  Mobile TV Group

  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.

• Scott Rothenberg, NEP Group
  

  Scott Rothenberg

  NEP Group

  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.

• Nick Garvin, Mobile TV Group
  

  Nick Garvin

  Mobile TV Group

  Nick Garvin is Chief Operating Officer and Managing Partner at Mobile TV Group (MTVG). Nick
  oversees all of MTVG’s operations, which includes over half of all NBA, MLB, and NHL
  broadcasts across the country and over 4,000 live events annually. Based in Denver, MTVG
  has offered high quality broadcast engineering for nearly 30 years. In 2020, the company
  introduced Cloud Control, the first fully remote production managed service, in response to the
  evolving industry and its needs. Cloud Control allows clients to go live from over 3,000 miles
  away from the on–site event without making any production sacrifices, and maintaining their
  complete production staff. This technology is reshaping the way that events are produced and
  Cloud Control has been an overwhelming success for MTVG and all of its clients. Nick is a
  member of Forbes’ 2018 30 Under 30 class and continues to lead and inspire MTVG as it
  innovates the live production industry.

• Gary Schneider, LinkedIn
  

  Gary Schneider

  LinkedIn

  Gary D. Schneider, Lead Media Systems Architect at LinkedIn. Gary began his career in feature postproduction engineering and later into broadcast. Designing and integrating infrastructures which support large multi service facilities. During his time at LinkedIn, Gary has been building out video production environments with the vision toward multi-site interoperability leveraging both on-prem and cloud technologies.

• Hans Hoffmann, European Broadcasting Union
  

  Hans Hoffmann

  European Broadcasting Union

  Dr. Hans Hoffmann is EBU Senior Manager and head of media fundamental and production technologies in the EBU Technology and Innovation department.

  In the EBU he is leading a top expert team, and working together with the EBU Members, on emerging media technology strategies such as immersive media, IP and cloud infrastructures, Data, Metadata and Artificial Intelligence, and how the industry is managing manage its constant digital transformations through open innovations and applied innovation management. Hans is the chair of the Broadcast Technology Futures groups which consist of the senior managers of the R&D centers of BBC, RAI, NHK, VRT, YLE and CBC and co-chairs the Forum of Advanced Media in Europe (FAME) and the Inter-SDO group. He has a long and broad history in SMPTE such as past Standards VP, Finance VP and Executive VP. He was the first European President of the SMPTE 2021-22 and working together with the SMPTE home-office, the executive committee and board and the SMPTE Membership in leading the transformation of the Society. Hans is a fellow of the SMPTE and recipient of the Richard-Theile Medal of the FKTG in 2021. Previously he has been with the Institute fuer Rundfunktechnik in Munich for 9 years working as project manager and scientific staff.

The past year has brought new leadership to SMPTE. Join them as they share how lessons learned have helped lay the path for SMPTE’s future.

• David Grindle, SMPTE
  

  David Grindle

  SMPTE

  David Grindle joined SMPTE as Executive Director in 2022. He brings more than a decade of association leadership experience to the position along with a background in live entertainment management. Recognized globally for his work as an association leader and manager, Grindle has spoken at conferences in China, Europe, and New Zealand. He has been a guest faculty member at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Michigan Tech University, and many others. He holds degrees from Berry College and Indiana University and is a Fulbright Specialist with the US State Department.

• Hans Hoffmann, SMPTE
  

  Hans Hoffmann

  SMPTE

  Dr. Hans Hoffmann is EBU Senior Manager and head of media fundamental and production technologies in the EBU Technology and Innovation department.

  In the EBU he is leading a top expert team, and working together with the EBU Members, on emerging media technology strategies such as immersive media, IP and cloud infrastructures, Data, Metadata and Artificial Intelligence, and how the industry is managing manage its constant digital transformations through open innovations and applied innovation management. Hans is the chair of the Broadcast Technology Futures groups which consist of the senior managers of the R&D centers of BBC, RAI, NHK, VRT, YLE and CBC and co-chairs the Forum of Advanced Media in Europe (FAME) and the Inter-SDO group. He has a long and broad history in SMPTE such as past Standards VP, Finance VP and Executive VP. He was the first European President of the SMPTE 2021-22 and working together with the SMPTE home-office, the executive committee and board and the SMPTE Membership in leading the transformation of the Society. Hans is a fellow of the SMPTE and recipient of the Richard-Theile Medal of the FKTG in 2021. Previously he has been with the Institute fuer Rundfunktechnik in Munich for 9 years working as project manager and scientific staff.

• Renard Jenkins, SMPTE
  

  Renard Jenkins

  SMPTE

  Renard Jenkins is an experienced content creation and creative technology executive in the Film, Television and Radio industry. Jenkins is a SMPTE Fellow and currently serves as President of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. He sits on the board of the Hollywood Professionals Association, the Advisory Board of Exceptional Minds. He is a member of Siggraph and is a former board member of MovieLabs, the UltraHD Forum and the Content & Entertainment Council as well as the Microsoft and Oracle Advisory Boards. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including two national Emmys, a Peabody, 2 Headliners, a 2020 Broadcasting and Cable Technology Leadership award. Jenkins was also awarded the Innovator of the Year award in 2017 for his cutting-edge work and accomplishments in UHD, HDR, NGA and supply chain technology through the PBS Advanced Format Center and other industry activities.

  He has held Executive roles across the Media and Entertainment industry. Most recently he served as Warner Bros. Senior Vice President, Production Integration & Creative Technology Services [PICTs] where he oversaw global teams that supported 23,500 plus cast/crew members, 8,500 plus content hours and hundreds of global feature film, animation, and syndicated television productions annually.

  He and his team is responsible for the exploration and successful implementation of emerging and creative technologies such as virtual-production, multiplatform storytelling, virtual character, and meta-human development biometrics/neural-technology and better images and sound for cinema and home entertainment. Jenkins was the technical lead and designer of the Digital Backlot initiative which focused on extending the useful lifespan and monetization possibilities of visual effects, animation, artists’, and production elements & assets across multiple content creation verticals.

  Prior to joining WarnerMedia and Warner Bros., Jenkins served as Vice President, Operations, Engineering & Distribution at PBS, where he was responsible for the strategic direction, technology development, engineering, and operational management of PBS’s entire media- supply chain.

  He has also worked for TV One, Discovery, ESPN and Turner Broadcasting where he received multiple awards for his work in Film & Television Production, Postproduction and R&D.

  He is a champion and advocate for ethics, inclusion, innovation, diversity, equity, acceptance, accessibility, and the removal of harmful bias wherever possible in the technology and media industry. He is a Strategic Advisor to the Board of Directors of the Washington, DC Chapter of the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC), former chair and founding member of the Warner Bros. Technology and Operations Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility Council, current lead of the SMPTE Global Inclusion Working Group and he also Co-Chairs, HPA ALL which advocates for and promotes diversity, better equity and increased inclusion and accessibility in the media and entertainment industry.

  When he is not working, he enjoys spending time with his wife and best friend of over 30 years, his daughters, and his grandchildren. He loves travel photography, filmmaking, animation and only has one more continent left to explore. He is also a certified sound engineer, certified AI/ML engineer/practitioner and application designer. He is passionate about the visual arts and when time permits, he loves to provide pro bono location sound, live mixing, studio recording, post-production and finishing services for aspiring filmmakers, animators, and musicians. His family moto is “In all things integrity and integrity in all things.”

• Michele Wright, SMPTE
  

  Michele Wright

  SMPTE

  Michele Wright, Ph.D., is the 2022 USA TODAY Woman of the Year for Arkansas and a 2023 AARP Purpose Prize Fellow (the first from Arkansas to receive this honor in recognition of her global impact and nationally recognized contributions to diversity, inclusion, and health equity). She is a multi-dimensional Senior Executive with experience providing dynamic leadership in diverse roles, including pharmaceutical/biotechnology sales, healthcare administration, and business development to Fortune 100 companies and an international non-profit organization. She serves as the
  Director of Business Development and Outreach for the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), the global society of media professionals, technologists and engineers working together for the advancement of all things technical in the motion picture, television, and digital media industries.

  A native of Tuskegee, Alabama, she is the recipient of the Nations of Women Change Makers 2021 Global Leadership Award and a nominee of the EveryLife Foundation of Rare Diseases’ RareVoice 2021 Award for Diversity Empowerment. She was also named among JB Dondolo’s “100 Voices for our Planet” and received the organization’s 2022 “Voices for Water” Water Change-Maker Award. Dr. Wright is the CEO and Founder of My Water Buddy® and My Learning Buddy® corporations.

  My Water Buddy, Inc. is a multi-faceted enterprise that uses animation, edutainment, and storytelling and, through its engaging cast of creative, fun, relatable, and aspirational characters fashioned as anthropomorphic organs, entertainingly promotes the benefits of drinking water and educates children and their families about the benefits of achieving a more fulfilling quality of life through a healthier lifestyle.

  My Learning Buddy, Inc. is an edutainment platform featuring My Water Buddy and Family® animated characters that provides unique opportunities for elementary and special education students to grow, excel, and succeed. The platform inspires total body participation in the classroom, while helping children learn to express their feelings and engage with the world outside of the classroom. My Learning Buddy, Inc. offers Social-Emotional and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) edutainment curriculums.

  Dr. Wright is also the author and creator of THE WATER TALES: Ten Life Lessons from My Water Buddy and Family podcast and children’s book, an adventurous collection of ten short children’s stories that tell different tales centered around the importance of water, in addition to tapping into life topics that are important to children: autism, bullying, fears, self-esteem, peer pressure, etc.

  THE WATER TALES Podcast won “Best Edutainment Podcast” at the 2021 Baltimore Next Media Web Fest; awarded “Best Children’s Podcast” at the 2021 Urban Mediamakers Festival; and received the “Award of Recognition” as the winner for both Best Podcast: Episode and Best Podcast: Series at the 2021 Accolade Global Film Competition.

  She received Equanimity’s “Visionary Voice Award” for showcasing her innovative strategies and technological advancements as the creator of My Water Buddy® and My Learning Buddy®. She is also the recipient of the Sister Friends United, Inc. “Women of Excellence Business Award” and their inaugural “Five-Year Service Award.”

  With advanced degrees in engineering and public policy, she is fully committed to diversity and inclusion with a special emphasis on health equity. She has championed a diverse range of health equity initiatives as the Co-Founder, Board Chair, and Senior Executive Director of the National Organization of African Americans with Cystic Fibrosis (NOAACF).

  Through widespread involvement, partnerships, engagement, and outreach, under her leadership, NOAACF has strategically helped to ensure that communities of people who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) are well informed of the existence, prevalence, and impact of cystic fibrosis (CF) on underrepresented communities.

  Dr. Wright co-founded and co-chairs the annual Blacks, Indigenous, and Other Minority Ethnicities with Rare and Genetic Diseases (BIOMERGD) Conference, an annual event hosted by NOAACF that coincides with Rare Disease Day and Black History Month, with a mission to help increase awareness of rare diseases in BIPOC communities by focusing on one genetic disease and one rare disease each year.

  Dr. Wright also created and led the development of The Wright Cystic Fibrosis Screening Tool© – in both patient and provider versions and English and Spanish translations – to help people self-identify symptoms that could be related to CF as well as help medical providers identify people who may have CF, especially those who are BIPOC.

  Simultaneously, she developed and launched the Advocating for Health Equity and Addressing Disparities© (AHEAD) Initiative with a mission to increase awareness of health disparities in minority and underserved communities and to introduce a successful roadmap and advancement strategies toward achieving health equity in healthcare, clinical treatment, medical diagnosis, and clinical trials across a multitude of disadvantaged populations.

  Dr. Wright is also using her rare voice within the rare disease space to advocate for “Terry Wright’s Law,” written in honor of her husband and which will require that all known CF-causing gene variants (also called mutations) be used for newborn screening and diagnostic testing for cystic fibrosis. This will markedly improve equity in newborn screening for BIPOC individuals, while also benefiting all people with CF who may have delayed or missed diagnosis due to the presence of rare CFTR variants.

  She also wrote, directed, and produced the 2022 Black Reels Awards nominated “Outstanding Short,” 54 YEARS LATE©, a multiple global award-winning docudrama that tells the gut-wrenching true-life story of her husband Terry Wright’s late diagnosis of cystic fibrosis at the age of 54 despite being seen by an array of healthcare practitioners, enduring countless hospitalizations and surgeries, and having all the classic symptoms of CF – a progressive and genetic disease that’s often perceived to affect only the Caucasian population.

  Dr. Wright helps to highlight and drive diversity, inclusion, and equity and remains fully committed to increasing awareness of health disparities in minority, underserved communities, and disadvantaged populations while helping to bring valuable resources, knowledge, empowerment, and support to patients, families, healthcare professionals, and the community. In 2022, she and her husband, NOAACF Co-Founder Terry Wright, became the first persons of color to receive the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) Arkansas Chapter’s annual “Breath of Life Award,” CFF’s Highest Award bestowed.

  Dr. Wright is a nationally recognized motivational speaker. She was the commencement speaker for the Tuskegee University 2022 Graduate and Professional Schools Commencement Ceremony and was a featured speaker at the inaugural “World Woman Summit,” which included representatives from more than ten different countries. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of receiving her Bachelor’s degree from Tuskegee University, she returned to her alma mater and served as the keynote speaker for the “Order of the Engineer” Spring Pre-Commencement Ceremony, which is held in honor and recognition of all Engineering student graduates.

  She was the guest speaker and the first recipient of the “Outstanding STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) Leadership Award” presented by the Area Development Director of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) on behalf of the South Metro Atlanta Tuskegee Alumni Club (SMATAC) during their inaugural “Signature Scholarship Gala.”

  Dr. Wright is the President and Board Chair of the Milton Pitts Crenchaw Aviation Training Academy (MPCATA), an organization whose mission is to provide young people opportunities to pursue careers in aviation and the aerospace industry. She concurrently serves as a Board Member and the Technical Executive Officer for the Arkansas Mentoring and Networking Association, Inc. (AMNA), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting opportunities for historically underrepresented STEM students in Arkansas, including opportunities to gain valuable access to STEM scholarships, internships, professionals, and careers.

  She is a national and international multiple award-winning corporate leader who has worked with several top-ranked corporations including Genentech Biotechnology Company, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, and The Procter & Gamble Company. She also has served with the American Red Cross as Chief Executive Officer of the Greater Ozarks-Arkansas Region (GOAR).

  Dr. Wright holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, with a double specialization in Health and Leadership Policy; she also has a Master of Science degree from the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI), where she chartered the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), was the first National GEM Consortium (GEM) Fellow to ever attend, and became UTSI’s first African-American full-time student to receive a Master’s degree in Engineering Management/Industrial Engineering; and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Tuskegee University, where she was Miss United Negro College Fund, Miss Engineering, President of the Engineering Representative Council, and graduated as Electrical Engineering Student of the Year.

  Her life mantra is “The Best Is Yet to Come,” which she plans to extend towards helping and positively impacting children, women, and underrepresented populations worldwide. Dr. Wright and her husband reside in North Little Rock, Arkansas.

Sponsored by:

• Adobe
• AMD
• AWS
• NetApp Berkeley Communications

Sponsored by Ateliere

Location: Pinz & Pints

1. Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST), Ciro Noronha, Cobalt Digital
2. Creative infrastructure-as-a-service, Laura Teodosio & Ed Churchward, Arch Platform Tech
3. Virtual lighting fixtures for virtual production, Peter Crithary, ARRI
4. Karl Paulsen and Merrill Weiss ask each other questions
5. Rental solutions & holistic virtual production, Ben Danielowski, 4Wall
6. Professional monitor calibration, Blake Johnson, SmallHD
   
7. Thinking spectrally, what is color anyway? Tucker Downs, ROE Visual US
8. New AI/ML developments for media production, Rob Gonsalves, Avid
9. Lens to first edit: delivery trends, Raymond Thompson, Avid
10. How to future-proof for business continuity, Dave Leopold, LucidLink
11. Virtual production for live–to-air environments, Dan Baum, disguise
12. AWS cloud-based post production, Alex Telitsine, Streambox
13. Generative AI: from concepts to production, Thomas True, NVIDIA
14. Cloud VFX pulls and returns, David Rosen, Sony Electronics
15. How a global unified file system answers media workflow challenges, Dominic Harland, GB Labs
16. Leveraging drone tracking for realtime AR graphics, Brian Olson, Pixotope
17. Content personalization: envisioning the future ecosystem, Jesse Pitt, Deloitte Consulting
18. Preservation and Restoration why it is important to us all, Anthony Magliocco, EMTM
19. Save time & make money with LiDAR & digital twin technology, Ryan Metcalfe, Preevue
20. Navigating the AI landscape: empowerment & control, Karl Soulé, Adobe
21. The role of editorial in virtual production, Morgan Prygrocki, Adobe
22. The future of VFX in editorial, Darren Frankel, Adobe
23. Data pipeline for LED virtual production, Johannes Wilke, Glassbox Technologies
24. Multi-vendor supply-chain network on cloud, Rohan Warey, Prime Focus Technologies
25. Cracking the AI code, Ankur Jain, Prime Focus Technologies
26. Cloud storage for video that’s faster and cheaper than AWS, Colby Winegar, Storj
27. On-set to cloud VFX workflow management, Patrick Palmer, AWS
28. AWS MovieLabs alignment, Kim Wendt, AWS
29. Good/better/best reference video from cloud, Zach Wilner, AWS
30. Remote production: your cloud or mine? Rick Seegull & Greg Macchia, Riedel
31. Building a modern post facility: hybrid teams and management, Jeff Sengpiehl, Key Code Media
32. ASC Framing Decision List (FDL): why does it matter? Jesse Korosi, Netflix, ASC ADM
33. Metadata-aware hybrid-cloud production environments with Hammerspace, Mike Bott
34. Film & TV ontologies & why asset managemet sucks w/o them, Sarubin & Stapleton, Universal

Location: Oasis Ballroom

See program below for dedicated Innovation Zone hours

A “speed dating” series of rapid fire presentations highlighting aspects of the MovieLabs2030 Vision that can and are being implemented today. During these presentations each company will demonstrate a real-life workflow or technology challenge they faced, how they implemented a solution, and how that aligned to the 10 Principles of the MovieLabs 2030 Vision. Join us for a trip from the British Royal Opera, to Wakanda, to the depths of the Disney vaults, and up into the clouds!

• Moderator: Mark Turner, MovieLabs
  

  Mark Turner

  MovieLabs

  Mark Turner is President, Entertainment Technologists Inc and coordinates the Production Technology program for Movielabs that created the 2030 Vision for the future of content creation. In Mark’s 27 years in the global media industry he has always been at the intersection of technology and business. Mark has held roles from product management, to sales, strategy, business development and partnerships for start-ups to multi-billion corporates including Ryff, Technicolor, Levels Beyond, RSTOR, Wasabi, Dolby , Microsoft, BT Media & Broadcast, Eutelsat and Xinsere.

• Scott Levine, Skywalker Sound
  

  Scott Levine

  Skywalker Sound

  Scott Levine oversees the software development efforts at Skywalker Sound, synthesizing the institution’s renowned creative services with groundbreaking technology design.

• Rohan Warey, Prime Focus Technologies
  

  Rohan Warey

  Prime Focus Technologies

  Rohan Warey is Vice President, Presales at Prime Focus Technologies. Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) offers customers AI first transformational solutions that help automate the media supply chain. In his current role, Rohan heads the Presales function for Prime Focus Technologies across US & Canada. Rohan has 15+ years of global industry experience in consulting, product strategy, product management and pre-sales working with clients in the media and entertainment & sports industries to streamline and automate their media supply chains.

• George Kilpatrick, Overcast HQ
  

  George Kilpatrick

  Overcast HQ

  George is a board adviser and senior consultant specialising in media business turnaround strategy and cloud technology adoption. George is Chief Operating Officer of Overcast HQ (the Enterprise Video management company) where he has recently joined the board. He is also currently advising Qsensei (a search technology business) and working with Deluxe Cinema where he recently lead the post-acquisition integration of Eclaire Theatrical Services.

  Before that George was appointed CEO of Masstech Innovations which he successfully turned around and sold to Telestream in March 2021, while also winning an Emmy for Technical Innovation.

  George’s earlier media career was with Technicolor where had 8 years of business and product leadership roles in post-production before being appointed the Media and Entertainment Industry Lead for AWS in EMEA.

  He has specialised in innovation leadership and the introduction of content management and cloud solutions for media workflows.

• Brandon Lindauer, AWS
  

  Brandon Lindauer

  AWS

  Brandon Lindauer is a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect focused on content production. Brandon has spent nearly two decades in the M&E industry and is passionate about raising the bar in post-production. He has worked at several studios both large and small creating innovative solutions to improve operations, and has extensive experience in cloud computing. Before coming to AWS he held positions such as Chief Engineer, Director of IT, and Principal Architect. Brandon is now the Technical Lead for the AWS Content Production Industry Innovation Center.

• Alex Libby, ProductionPro
  

  Alex Libby

  ProductionPro

  Alexander Libby started ProductionPro in 2013 after years of stage managing on Broadway and producing in film. While working with film director Stephen Daldry on the movie “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, it dawned on Alexander that the creative film production process was far from efficient and that an out-of-the-box approach would be necessary to help elevate the work of directors, producers and their teams. Today after multiple accelerators, rounds of funding, ProductionPro is the go-to solution for directors, designers and producers. It’s been embraced by some of Hollywood’s biggest studios. The road to success hasn’t been easy nor a given, but Alexander and his team have persevered through to change the way entertainment is produced.

• Shadi Almassizadeh, Walt Disney Studios
  

  Shadi Almassizadeh

  Walt Disney Studios

  Experienced executive of 25+ years, with extensive experience designing, operating and supporting world-class motion picture production infrastructure and services supporting unique production and post-production workflows. Prior experience and extensive knowledge of film production and post-production pipelines and associated systems. Intimately familiar with large-scale data center infrastructure as well as cloud environments. Possessing the ability to balance the urgent needs of feature production today with long-term solutions tomorrow. Able to identify commonalities among the various stakeholders’ technology infrastructure needs and collaboratively work to bring the organization together where it makes sense, without disrupting their unique approaches for success.

• Moderator: Chris Lennon, Ross Video
  

  Chris Lennon

  Ross Video

  Chris Lennon serves in Ross Video’s Office of the CTO as Director, Standards Strategy. He is responsible for Ross’ activities in global standards and trade organizations

  Chris also serves as Executive Director of the Open Services Alliance (OSA), a global industry organization focused on interoperability among microservice oriented media systems. The OSA produced the media industry’s first microservices standards, working closely with SMPTE, in 2020, and continues to lead the way in this rapidly evolving area.

  Chris has held a variety of leadership positions in the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), including Standards Director, Local Section Manager, Technology Committee Chair, and currently, Western Region Governor. He is a SMPTE Fellow and recipient of SMPTE’s prestigious 2008 Citation.  He also has served in a variety of roles, including Secretary of the SMPTE Rocky Mountain Section.

• Thomas Burns, Dell
  

  Thomas Burns

  Dell

  Thomas Burns, Dell Technologies CTO for Media & Entertainment, has re-engineered global post-production workflows and developed HDR imaging solutions for episodic and feature projects. He has built a boutique VFX facility in Shanghai, a feature animation studio in Toronto, and was the architect of Oxygen Media’s storage and networking infrastructure in Manhattan’s Chelsea Market. Burns began his career at Silicon Graphics, Inc., developing Maya animation software and managing digital disk recorder products.

• Renard Jenkins, Warner Bros. Discovery
  

  Renard Jenkins

  Warner Bros. Discovery

  Renard Jenkins is an experienced contention creation and creative technology executive in the Film, Television and Radio industry. He is currently Warner Bros. Discovery’s Senior Vice President, Production Integration & Creative Technology Services where he oversees teams that support 23,500 plus cast/crew members, 8,500 plus content hours and hundreds of global feature film, animation, and syndicated television productions annually. He and his teams provide creative production technology solutions and strategy for film, animation, and television productions worldwide. They also provide application, IP, production pipeline support and workflows as well as work stream design and implementation. A portion of his team are also responsible for the exploration and successful implementation of emerging and creative technologies such as virtual production, multiplatform storytelling, virtual character and meta human development, neuro-technology and better images and sound for cinema and home entertainment.

  Prior to joining WarnerMedia, Jenkins served as Vice President, Operations, Engineering & Distribution at PBS, where he was responsible for the strategic direction, technology development, engineering, and operational management of PBS’s entire media-supply chain. He and his teams were responsible for the successful simultaneous launch of the Live Linear and Cloud-based PBS Kids Channel plus Live Streaming App which also contained games and VOD. It remains as one of the most popular kid’s applications and destinations today. He also created PBS’s Advanced Format Center. He has also worked for TV One, Discovery, ESPN and Turner Broadcasting where he received multiple awards for his work in Film & Television Production, Post Production and R&D, including two national Emmys. Jenkins was also awarded the Innovator of the Year award in 2017 for his cutting-edge work and accomplishments in UHD, HDR, NGA and supply chain technology through the PBS Advanced Format Center and other industry activities.

  Jenkins is a SMPTE Fellow and currently serves as President of SMPTE. He sits on the boards of MovieLabs, the Hollywood Professionals Association, the UltraHD Forum, the Content & Entertainment Council as well as the Microsoft and Oracle Advisory Boards. He is also a recipient of a Peabody, 2 Headliners and a 2020 Broadcasting and Cable Technology Leadership award to name a few others.

  He is a champion and advocate for inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility in the technology and media industries. He is a Strategic Advisor to the Board of Directors of the Washington, DC Chapter of the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity In Communications (NAMIC), chairs the Warner Bros. Discovery Technology and Operations Equity and Inclusion Council, the SMPTE Global Inclusion Working Group and he also Co-Chairs, HPA ALL which advocates for and promotes diversity, better equity and increased inclusion and accessibility in the media and entertainment industry.

  When he is not working, he enjoys spending time with his wife and best friend of over 30 years, his daughters, and his grandchildren. He loves travel photography / filmmaking and only has one more continent left to explore. He is also a certified sound engineer and is passionate about the visual arts. When time permits, he loves to provide pro bono location sound, live mixing, studio recording, post-production and finishing services for aspiring filmmakers, animators, and musicians. His family moto is “In all things integrity and integrity in all things.”

• Evan Statton, AWS
  

  Evan Statton

  AWS

  Evan Statton is the Chief Technologist in Media and Entertainment at AWS. He has spent the last 20 years inventing the future of media technology with some of the largest media companies in the world. Evan currently leads a worldwide team of Solutions Architects whose work impacts thousands of customers in all facets of media and entertainment. His work includes leading technology roadmap sessions within AWS, as well as visioning and education sessions with M&E customers around the globe. As a result, Evan has influenced over 40 AWS features including the ability to manipulate fully uncompressed 4K video in the cloud – once again driving technical development in uncharted territory. Evan has earned seven patents in video processing and transmission, and recently earned a Hollywood Professional Association Award for Engineering Excellence.

  Prior to his time at AWS, Evan deployed the first national HD IP transmission system for MLB.com at a time when many in the industry were saying IP transport was not possible. Evan’s work paved the way to broad industry adoption of IP video transport which is now the industry norm. He then spent 4 years at NBCUniversal leading the design and implementation of over 200 transmission and playout channels.

  Evan holds a Masters degree in electrical engineering and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in TV & Film, both from New York University. When not helping customers design their media workflows, Evan enjoys spending time skiing in the mountains of Colorado or trying to train his dog.

• Bastien Minniti, Amazon Studios
  

  Bastien Minniti

  Amazon Studios

  Bastien Minniti is a Media and Entertainment executive with over 20 years of business strategy and technology expertise.

  Bastien’s professional arc includes diverse disciplines such as film processing, DVD Compression & Authoring, Next Generation Digital Media Workflows (broadcasting, OTT, In-Flight Entertainment, Set-Top Box, mobile, web, etc.) and operational leadership for several major OTT platform launches for companies like M-GO, AT&T, and Netflix.

  In response to rapid technological advancements, Bastien joined Amazon Studios on their mission to become the First Next Generation Studio.

  Prior to joining Amazon Studios, Bastien held executive positions at Technicolor, Deluxe Entertainment, IDC-LA, Blu Digital Group, and FotoKem.

  Bastien holds a patent for method and systems for dynamic discovery of related media assets.

Gain real-world production knowledge at this session, which covers tips and tricks used by VP professionals. It will cover:

• Driving plate setup and considerations
• “3D Plates” a novel technique which adds parallax to flat backgrounds
• Ghostframe for simultaneous multi-cam shoot

• Moderator: Addy Ghani, disguise
  

  Addy Ghani

  disguise

  As the VP of Virtual Production, Addy is immersed in Studio workflows and Industry standards for real time visualization for film and television. Addy is building a Disguise creator community and strategies that will further the proliferation of Virtual Production.

  Prior to joining Disguise, Addy designed and built world class stages for DreamWorks, Verizon Media and NBCUniversal to help creatives visualize their dreams. Addy is well versed in VFX and animation, as well as emerging formats like AR and VR. He is an unofficial Unreal Engine Evangelist and a Fellow, and loves to converse about the possibilities of game engines as a storytelling tool.

• Ely Stacy, disguise
  

  Ely Stacy

  disguise

  I been working for disguise’s Technical Solutions team for over two years involved in specifying and integrating dozens of Virtual Production and XR stages as well as training operators in the Disguise Virtual Production Accelerator. Every stage is different and presents different challenges to overcome, from cameras to camera and talent tracking to GhostFrame and broadcast integration. Technology and entertainment has been evolving quickly over the last few years with industries overlapping and a demand for bigger and better experiences. I am excited to be involved in these projects and continuing to push boundaries.

• Mike Smith, ROE Visual
  

  Mike Smith

  ROE Visual

  Mike Smith has over a decade of experience as a production technician for various live events. For the last three years, he has worked as the Technical Director at ROE Visual US. Prior to this role, Mike freelanced as an LED engineer for concert tours and tradeshows for five years, and before that worked as a freelance lighting technician for ten years. Mike has a thorough understanding of ROE LED systems and how they are used in various applications from virtual production to live events. Mike also leads the education outreach efforts for ROE’s US office and curates the content delivered in the ROE Academy training sessions.

• Henrique “Koby” Kobylko, Fuse Technical Group
  

  Henrique “Koby” Kobylko

  Fuse Technical Group

  As a creative and technical individual who is passionate about virtual production, I am proud to serve as the Director of On-Set Virtual Production for Fuse Technical Group. My expertise in virtual production processes, particularly in-camera VFX and the use of LED volumes, allows me to guide and assist other creators in realizing their vision. I strive to develop on-set workflows that are both efficient and effective, utilizing cutting-edge technology and digital tools to bring their ideas to life.

  I recognize that it is the passion and dedication of a talented team that truly shines through to make a great product. My goal is to support that collaboration and contribute to the growth and advancement of the art of virtual production in the film industry.

Ultra-high-resolution LED immersive environments are coming to our performance centers and cinemas. As the pixel density grows and the screen size gets larger, it presents many challenges for the entire post production process. During this presentation, the engineer team at Key Code Media will review each step, from capture to delivery, for production companies looking to deliver the highest quality of content in a collaborative editorial workflow.

• Jeff Sengpiehl, Key Code Media
  

  Jeff Sengpiehl

  Key Code Media

  Jeff has been helping post production companies plan, develop, and build the next generation of video production and finishing workflow. Earlier he worked as Chief Engineer for organizations like Los Angeles-based Chainsaw Edit. He has impressive credentials, including technical engineering for American Idol, The Oscars, and Game of Thrones. Jeff is also one of the pioneers of the UHD, HDR, and OTT revolution. By leveraging his knowledge of Avid, Adobe, and other edit and production systems and also his expertise in Theatrical and Episodic television post-production and finishing, he has helped many organizations in 2020 pivot in those difficult times. Jeff is also KCM’s host of two regular webinar series, evangelizing tools and technology to the industry at large – Broadcast, Post, Live and Audio-Visual. He is a member of The Hollywood Chapter of The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE).

• Ed Locke, Key Code Media
  

  Ed Locke

  Key Code Media

Invaders from Mars, released in 1953, won the HPA’s inaugural award for Preservation and Restoration. Like many potential winners, this film represents the arts and science that come together to preserve motion picture and television content for future generations. The HPA is committed to recognizing those individuals who do this very important work.

• Moderator: Anthony Magliocco, EMTM
  

  Anthony Magliocco

  EMTM

  Anthony’s career includes over forty years leading high technology companies communications and business development with the content creation and distribution segments of the media and entertainment industry. Positions included sales, marketing, product management, and general management. Ten of those years spent bringing high-speed networking and telecommunications technology to the entertainment business. A large party of Anthony’s working life included working with International companies supporting their US operations or their export business.

  EMTM my company is now celebrating 13 years in business, clients include Visual Effects Software and a VFX studio.

  Pro-bono leadership work includes
  SMPTE Los Angeles Board of Managers, Peer Group Governor of the Television Academy, Secretary, and Co-Chair of the Visual Effects Society Los Angeles Section, HPA Awards Committee, Marketing Committee UCLA Film and TV Archives and leadership roles for the Temple University Alumni Association in Los Angeles.

  Anthony continues expanding endeavors in cinematography, photography, lighting, and audio production. He has been producing content for musical groups, non-profit organizations and students trying to enter the entertainment business.

• Janice Simpson, The Walt Disney Company
  

  Janice Simpson

  The Walt Disney Company

  Janice Simpson (she/her) is a Library Archivist for Disney Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company (TWDC). Janice joined TWDC from NBCUniversal, where she served as Director of Governance and Preservation from 2012-2020. She was the Director of Global Preservation Programs at Deluxe (formerly Ascent Media) from 2005 to 2012 and served as President of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) from 2005 to 2008. Janice was the first AMIA Managing Director (1997-2005) and received AMIA’s William S. O’Farrell Volunteer Award in 2012.

  Over the course of her career, Janice has worked on and overseen both analog and digital preservation projects and has been an active volunteer for a variety of professional organizations and festivals, including the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA), the Archives Association of Ontario (AAO), the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). In 2022, Janice served as a member of the jury for the inaugural Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Restoration Award. Janice holds a Master of Archival Studies degree from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

• Vincent Pirozzi, Roundabout Entertainment

There were a lot of significant AI and ML developments last year. This session will cover the following topics: using knowledge graphs for asset libraries, semantic search with image/text embeddings using OpenCLIP, the Whisper model for speech-to-text, semantic text search, new large language models like ChatGPT, text-to-image generators like Stable Diffusion, DALL-E 2, and Midjourney, and the latest research on the ethics of developing and using AI and ML systems.

• Rob Gonsalves, Avid
  

  Rob Gonsalves

  Avid

  Rob Gonsalves joined Avid Technology as their 15th employee in 1989. He helped develop the industry’s preeminent nonlinear editing system Avid Media Composer, specializing in programming video effects, color correction. His work on multi-camera editing software led to Avid winning a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award. He later spearheaded the development of the architecture of Avid’s media enterprise products. He is currently researching the use of AI for media production. Rob holds over 50 patents in the media and entertainment industry.

• Bill Feightner, Colorfront
• Tom Graham, Dolby
  

  Tom Graham

  Dolby

  Tom is a 30-year veteran of the post production industry working for Digidesign, Avid & Dolby and a variety of consulting/freelance work. He was one of the first to use Pro Tools to record and edit the orchestra on Hollywood scoring stages on over 40 feature films, including Collateral, Ice Age, Star Trek Nemesis, Solaris, and Serenity. He also produced and co-wrote a short film in 2011 called Agent MX-Z3RO for Avid that is still used in training curriculums. He is excited to be at Dolby for the last five plus years evangelizing Dolby Vision technology for content creators, post production and mastering.

• Ryan Metcalfe, Preevue
  

  Ryan Metcalfe

  Preevue

  Ryan Metcalfe is the founder and Managing Director of the Preevue, a specialist provider of LiDAR laser scanning and digital twins for the Creative Industries.

  In theater,, Preevue provides Production Visualization to West End and Broadway productions and collaborates with performance spaces to develop full digital twins, with clients including the Royal Opera House, The Royal Shakespeare Company, and the National Theatre.

  Theater credits include Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Bat Out of Hell The Musical, and Moulin Rouge! The Musical, and further projects with clients including Ambassador Theatre Group, Mirvish Productions, and Lloyd Webber Theatres. Further work includes building digital twins for spaces including London’s Science Museum and the American Museum of Natural History.

  In 2023, Preevue expanded into M&E with clients including Disney and NBCUniversal.

  Ryan and his work with Preevue have been featured in publications including The Stage, LSI, Live Design, BroadwayWorld, Playbill, Broadway.com and The Guardian, and he has spoken at conferences and events including The International Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference, LDI, PLASA, and Immersive Architecture Asia.

The successful integration of Lens Metadata into the Visual Effects Production pipeline is not yet fully realized. With new tools, techniques and a bit of R&D, we are about to see some fascinating developments that allow creatives to emulate better backgrounds, foregrounds, AR objects and overlays. The results are more accurate, more realistic and closer to what audiences expect. Learn how Lens Metadata is quickly becoming a way for filmmakers to get the “look” right, when it comes to the Visual Effects workflow and content creation.

• Snehal Patel, Zeiss
  

  Snehal Patel

  Zeiss

  Snehal Patel is a film and television professional with over two decades of experience creating content and adapting new technology. He grew up in Chicago where he began is career, then moved to Mumbai for a few years, participating in one of the largest entertainment industries in the world. In his current position as Head of Cinema Sales, Americas, Snehal manages sales of cinema lenses for Carl Zeiss SBE, LLC in the film industry markets of North, Central and South America. A longtime Associate Member of the American Society for Cinematography, he is instrumental in developing educational initiatives and creating content with filmmakers at all levels of their career. Snehal is also an active member in SMPTE RIS OSVP, organizing the Essential Camera/Lens Metadata group, and is a regular industry speaker on Lens Metadata applications for VFX and Virtual Production integration. He is proud to call Hollywood his home and looks forward to telling many more stories.

It involves the death of a princess and the 18th-century water works of the Périer brothers.

• Mark Schubin, Program Maestro, HPA Tech Retreat
  

  Mark Schubin

  Program Maestro, HPA Tech Retreat

  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.