Enabling Change Smartly Craig Todd Senior Vice President and Chief


Technology Officer, Dolby Craig Todd is Sr. Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Dolby Laboratories. He has a Degree in Physics from the California Institute of Technology, and has been with


Dolby since 1977.


With more than 40 years of experience, Craig has been involved in many state-of-the art entertainment technologies. He designed the surround sound matrix system that enabled 35mm film prints, and stereo media, to deliver surround sound. Craig led the development of Dolby Digital and was heavily involved in the effort to set the Digital TV standard for the U.S. He is considered an expert in many areas of audio/video technology. His current activities include bringing wide color gamut high dynamic range imagery into the home via both legacy, and new electronic media, formats, as well developing and bringing to market next generation audio technologies. Craig has participated in a variety of standards setting activities including ITU-R, DVB, SMPTE, AES, IEC, CEA, and ATSC.


He is Vice-Chair of ITU-R Working Party 6C where he has contributed to many of the ITU-R audio and video Recommendations, and he was recently re-elected to the Board of Directors of the Advanced Television Systems Committee. Craig is a Fellow of both the AES and SMPTE, recipient of the SMTPE Samuel L. Warner Medal for achievement in motion picture sound, recipient of an Emmy for his loudness metering work in ITU-R, and holder of more than 20 patents.


Rick Asahina Director, Business Development, Asia


Pacific Region, TVU Networks Currently a Director of Business Development for TVU Networks, Asahina has more than 30 years experience in the broadcast technology industry, and has worked in various capacities


of sales, marketing, and product management for organizations throughout Asia, Latin America and the United States. After receiving an engineering degree from Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan, Asahina spent 25 years of his career at Sony working with broadcast, security, medical, digital cinema and display technologies. Asahina is based in TVU’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA.


Michel Beke


SVP Product Strategy, MediaGeniX NG Michel is co-founder of MediaGeniX. Designing robust media solutions that enable broadcasters to optimally run and develop their media business is Michel’s passion. Active in the broadcasting business


since 1993, Michel evolved from development through analysis to business consulting as the business evolved from single channel linear TV to multi-channel linear and on-demand services. Before working in the broadcast industry, he worked on image compression for use in document management systems. Michel holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science.


Hiroki Nonoshita


IT Architect, Ikegami Tsushinki Co Ltd Hiroki Nonoshita joined Ikegami Tsushinki. co.ltd in 2005. Since 2006, he had been developing a recording software, driver softwares and desktop applications as a software engineer. In 2012 or later, he began


doing a survey of filebase systems using IT resources such as server virtualization and cloud computing as an IT architect.


Martin Roberts


Operations Director, Adstream Martin Roberts has over 20 years of experience working in the Broadcasting industry. Worked in London for 10 years, before moving to Dubai to launch the Middle Easts first fully digital pay TV platform - Showtime OSN. Then moved


to Abu Dhabi to launch the largest production facility in the Middle East - twofour54. Now working as the Operations Director - Asia for Adstream.


Brad Redwood


Director Business Development, PlayBox Technology APAC


With over thirty years’ in the broadcast industry working with television, production and new media products, I joined PlayBox Technology Asia Pacific as Director of Business


Development. I began my broadcast career as a trainee at National NINE Network Australia studying electronics and communications and achieving promotion to senior management. Prior to joining Playbox, I was a Manufacturers Rep, VP International Sales & Marketing at Masstech, Director of Operations at Network TEN and Product Specialist for Pinnacle. I live in Berowra in northern Sydney, Australia with my amazing wife. I’m passionate about television, gardening and sailing my SunMaid trailer yacht.


Dr Masayuki Sugawara


Deputy Director, NHK Science and Technology Research Laboratories, NHK


(Japan Broadcasting Corporation) Masayuki Sugawara received the B.S. and M.S.


engineering, degree in electronic


degrees in electric communication Ph.D.


engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. He joined NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), Tokyo, Japan, in 1983. Since 1987, he has been researching solid-state image sensor, HDTV camera, and ultra-high definition television system at Science and Technology Research Laboratories (STRL). He was an associate professor at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo from 2000 until 2004. He has been attending ITU-R SG6 meeting since 2004 and been active in the working parties that deal with programme production. At present, he is Deputy Director of NHK STRL. He is a member of IEEE, SMPTE, IEICE and ITE.


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