Jaclyn Pytlarz
Dolby
Staff Researcher
Wednesday Technical Session Primers
HDR and WCG Image Quality Assessment Using Color Difference Metrics

Pradeep Ramachandran
Multicoreware Inc
Principal Engineer
Speed-Distortion Optimization: Tradeoffs in Open Source HEVC Encoding

Andy Rayner
Nevion
Chief Technologist
Wide Area Facilities Interconnect with SMPTE ST 2110

Pierre Hugues Routhier
Digital Troublemaker
Advanced Imaging Technologies Specialist
How Will We Archive and Preserve the Movies of Tomorrow ?
Wednesday Technical Session Primers

Jonatan Samuelsson
Divideon
Co-founder and CEO
MPEG-5 EVC

Shingo Sato
NHK
Engineer
8K Camera Recorder using Organic-photoconductive CMOS Image Sensor and High-quality Codec

James Schwalm
The First Man
Visual Effect Team
The Magic of the Award Winning “First Man”: How a Realistic 1960’s Apollo 11 Space Experience Was Created on Earth 50 Years Later

Roger Schwenke
Meyer Sound Laboratories
Senior Scientist
A New Signal for Measuring Loudspeaker Maximum Linear SPL

Richard Seegull
Riedel Communications
VP System Consulting
GPIO Over IP – AMWA IS-07 as a General-Purpose API that easily scales

Jeffrey Shapiro
Exceptional Minds
Executive Director
Moving Expectations Forward: A Story by Jeffrey Shapiro

Doug Shelton
Net Insight
Manager, PreSales Engineering, Americas
Live Cloud Ingest Using an Open Approach to RIST, SRT and Retransmission Protocols

John Shike
ASG LLC
Key Accounts Manager
Engagement with the Next-Gen: SMPTE’s Role in K-12, Higher Education, and Other Institutions

Michael Smith
Wavelet Consulting LLC
Engineer
Film Grain and Film Scanner Noise in HDR Video

Steve Sneddon
NBCUniversal
VP, Production Engineering
Large Scale Deployment of SMPTE ST 2110: The IP Live Production Facility

Chris Swisher
NBCUniversal
Large Scale Deployment of SMPTE ST 2110: The IP Live Production Facility

Dan Tatut
Marquise Technologies
VP Business Strategy & Development
Auxiliary Video Track in IMF

Kyle Tedeschi
AWS
Solution Architect

Randy Thom
Skywalker Sound
Director of Sound Design
The Creative Process of Designing Today’s Movie Soundtracks - Produced by AES

Yvonne Thomas
DTG (Digital TV Group)
Strategic technologist
How millennials grow in the Media Industry: A Story by Yvonne Thomas
Tuesday Technical Session Primers

Simon Thompson
British Broadcasting Corporation
Senior R&D Engineer
A novel method for the simultaneous creation of live, HDR and SDR video.

Mark Turner
Entertainment Technologists Inc.
President
Charting the Course to the Future: MovieLabs’ Vision for Navigating the Next 10 Years of Content Creation

Willem Vermost
EBU
Senior IP Media Technology Architect
How we Tested the Media over IP Devices to Build our New Facility

Brian Vessa
Sony Pictures
Executive Director
The Creative Process of Designing Today’s Movie Soundtracks - Produced by AES
The Nuts and Bolts of Designing and Installing a Cinema/Dubbing Stage Sound System for Today’s Soundtracks - Produced by AES

Pierre Vincent
Delair Labs
Founder and CEO
Solid Cinema Screens with Front Sound: Do They Work?

Terry Virts
One More Orbit
Astronaut, Col.
Been There and Made That: An Intimate Conversation with Todd Douglas Miller and Col. Terry Virts

Ben Waggoner
Amazon
Principal Video Specialist
Wednesday Technical Session Primers

Mikael Wånggren
Net Insight
Product Owner
Live Cloud Ingest Using an Open Approach to RIST, SRT and Retransmission Protocols

Jack Watts
Trench Digital Ltd.
Consultant
Automated VFX Pipeline for the Purpose of Servicing the Creation of Downstream Masters

Bernard Weiser
Entertainment Industry Professionals Mentoring Alliance
President
Maximizing Your Career and Its Potential

Leigh Whitcomb
Imagine Communications
Architect
How to Successfully Commission a SMPTE ST 2059/PTP System
A Practical Guide to Securing SMPTE ST 2110 Systems

Kelly White
Disney Parks
Sr. Director, Operational Intelligence
CODE: Rosie: Using Disney Magic to Increase Gender Diversity in Tech: A Story by Kelly White

Josh Winstead
Amazon Web Services
Technical Marketing Engineer
Beam Me Down Scotty: Using the Cloud for Live Streaming from Space

Tomasz Witkowski
Sundog Media Toolkit Ltd
Senior Workflow Engineer
Automated VFX Pipeline for the Purpose of Servicing the Creation of Downstream Masters

Christopher Witmayer
NASCAR
Director of Broadcast, Production and New Media Technology
Influence: A Story by Chris Witmayer
Wednesday Technical Session Primers

Iris Wu
Ambidio
Founder

Angela Zapata
Creative Technology Group
Maximizing Your Career and Its Potential

Chris Zembower
NBCUniversal
Systems Architect
“Using Infrastructure-As-Code and the Public Cloud to Power On-air Media Creation Platforms”

Michael Zink
Warner Bros.
VP Emerging & Creative Technologies
Film Grain and Film Scanner Noise in HDR Video

Marc Zorn
eZorn Consulting Group
Independent Consultant
Why does traditional corporate infosec not fit M&E? Let's examine a more effective approach.

Jake Zuena
Dolby Laboratories
Associate Engineer, Applied Vision Science
An Investigation of Creative Power and the Value Wide Color Gamut Brings to Motion Picture Mastering