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Enabling Change Smartly Dr Amal Punchihewa
Director ABU Technology Dr Amal Punchihewa is the Director of ABU Technology. He possesses nearly 30 years of experience in all three sectors of broadcasting; viz Academia, Research and Industry in senior broadcasting technology and ICT roles,
including research and developments, regional capacity building in media and head of engineering of national TV-Sri Lanka, having started career as a computer engineer.
Amal graduated with Master of Electronics Engineering (Digital Video Signal Processing) at the Technical University of Eindhoven, PhD on image and video compression artefacts. He has published over 100 scholarly articles in reputed journals and conference proceedings. Amal is a Chartered Professional Engineer-CEng, Fellow of IET(UK), Senior Member of IEEE(USA) and Member of IPENZ, New Zealand. He is also a Vice-Chair of WBU-TC (World Broadcasting Union-Technical Committee).
Andy Hickman CTO, Digital TV Labs
After working at Philips Research Laboratories on MHP and TV-Anytime, Andy joined Cabot Communications as a PM delivering a number of digital TV receiver platforms. Andy then joined Tektronix, heading up their video test
development team in Bristol. At Digital TV Labs he leads the R&D team responsible for delivering new testing products, which include the official CI+ Test Tool, Ligada HbbTV test harness, and the HbbTV 1.5, UK Freeview Connected, TNT2, TDT Hibrida and OIPF receiver test suites. Andy is a member of the HbbTV Association Steering Group, a Chartered Engineer and holds a first class honours degree in electrical engineering from Cambridge University.
Laurent Le Morvan
Business Development South East Asia, STB & Gateway Business Unit, STMicroelectronics
Laurent Le Morvan graduated in France from University Paris 11 with a Master Degree in
Electronic Engineering and from Grenoble Ecole de Management with a Mastère in Marketing.
He joined ST in 1993 as a Product Marketing Engineer. In 1998 he relocated to Singapore and then Shanghai to spearhead the business development of ST Analog Power & MEMS division in Asia Pacific.
In November 2008, Le Morvan joined back the South Asia Sales & Marketing organization based in Thailand then Singapore to have STMicroelectronics STB & Gateway solutions enabling the Digital Services Convergence in South East Asia homes.
Greg Price
Sr Engineer, Dolby Greg Price is a Sr. Engineer for Dolby based in San Francisco, California USA. He is responsibility for supporting broadcast and post-productions facilities in North and South America as well as the Asia Pacific Region. He
works closely with broadcasters such as HBO, Starz, Comcast and AT&T to support the implementation continuing use and delivery of high quality Dolby platforms. Mr. Price has worked with Dolby since 2010 and has contributed and supplied supported to events such as the Grammy’s and Academy Fantasia, Before joining Dolby, Mr. Price was working at Discovery Channel’s US post production facility supporting the post production environment. He holds a BM degree in Music Production and Engineering from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts USA.
Geoffrey Low Trainer, Dolby
Geoffrey Low is a top-tiered professional audio engineer based in Singapore, highly sought-after for audio work in studio, “live” and broadcast. Having engineered for well- known broadcasters and artistes both locally
and internationally, he has earned an acclaimed reputation in his music mixing.
Geoffrey graduated from London City University with a
M.Sc. in Music Information Technology and is presently a senior lecturer at Singapore Polytechnic; he plays a key role in developing the course structure of Music and Audio Technology.
Since 2007, he has been involved with Dolby as a trainer for its broadcast products and has conducted several surround production training for broadcasters and educational institutes. Being an advocate of surround-sound broadcast, Geoffrey is a pioneer trainer in the Dolby Champions Program.
Joan Warner CEO, Commercial Radio Australia/
WorldDMB Joan Warner is the Chief Executive Officer of Commercial Radio Australia which represents 99% of all commercial radio broadcasters. Ms Warner was responsible for
the planning, rollout and implementation of DAB+ digital radio in the five metropolitan capitals covering up to 60% of the Australian population and continues the DAB+ implementation for commercial radio broadcasters across regional Australia.
In her role as CEO she also oversees the whole of industry marketing campaign, Radio Codes of Practice, audience survey contracts and industry copyright agreements. Ms Warner is responsible for the annual National Commercial Radio Conference, Siren Creative Awards and Australian Commercial Radio Awards.
Ms Warner has worked at senior executive levels in the private and government sectors and holds four degrees including a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Education.
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