PRESIDENT, ONE Media
SVP of Advanced Technology, SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP (SBG)
Baltimore, MD
Mark Aitken joined Sinclair Broadcast Group in 1999 and is Senior Vice President of Advanced Technology having responsibility for development and deployment of NextGen technologies such as ATSC 3.0 and 5G. Mr. Aitken joined Sinclair having 25 years of industry experience with CCA Electronics and COMARK.
Mr. Aitken serves as President of ONE Media, Sinclair’s Innovation subsidiary, and is a board member for Saankhya Labs (Indian based chip designer and SDR leader). He additionally serves as a Board member for the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) the Advanced Television Broadcast Alliance (ATBA).
He is a recipient of several prestigious industry awards including the 2008 “Broadcasting and Cable Technology Leadership Award”, 2013 recipient of the ATSC "Bernard Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award", 2018 awardee of “Future's Industry Innovator Award”, the NAB “2018 Television Engineering Achievement Award”, the 2019 ATBA Award for “Perseverance and Endurance” and the 2020 “TVOT (TV of Tomorrow) Leadership Award”.
Mr. Aitken is a member of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers (AFCCE), the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE).
John Ellerton is Head of Futures and Innovation at BT Media and Broadcast, and Chair of the UK Section of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
An alumnus of Salford University in the United Kingdom and École Centrale de Lyon in France, he has since gained over 25 years’ experience creating specialist network and workflow solutions for broadcasters and media companies worldwide including national-scale production networks for the UK’s public-service broadcasters, and distribution of live television and radio to global audiences.
John now leads BT Media and Broadcast’s future thinking in broadcast and media services, which includes the use of 5G networks and Low Earth Orbit satellites in live event production, high availability ground and cloud workflows for programme and channel creation, and global scale live content distribution.
John is a regular participant in the IBC Accelerator innovation programme and was a champion of the team that won ‘Project of the Year’ in 2022.
As Chair of the UK Section of SMPTE, John has overseen the Section’s reinvigoration after the pandemic, with hugely successful monthly meetings attended by a diverse group from across the UK’s film, production and TV industry, student events and a world-class regional conference held annually.
Unique Scientific, Inc. / Unique Media Systems
Martin P. “Marty” Feldman is vice-president of sales of Unique Scientific, Inc., a design and build integrator located in Enfield, New Hampshire. Marty is now in his 42nd year as a broadcast sales and systems design professional. He has designed and overseen the building of television and AV facilities of all kinds. After college, Feldman worked briefly as a public affairs assistant at Boston’s WJIB-FM and is a three-time recipient of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Certificate of Administrative Merit, earned while serving as a Public Affairs Officer in the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. In 2000 Feldman was contracted through his firm to work on a pilot web project for the Medical Division of ABC News, a project that lasted for about one year. Feldman was made a SMPTE life member in 2016 for 30+ years of outstanding service to the Society. Feldman is the incumbent chairman of SMPTE’s New England Section.
Goals:
To create more awareness of the very real benefits that derive from active SMPTE membership—career enhancing benefits that include continuing education, networking, standards development and the sharing of ideas that encourage innovation.
Cristina Gomila joined Sky in 2019 as Managing Director Content Technology and Innovation, where she is responsible for all Broadcast engineering and operations teams and the transformation of the existing content supply chain. She was previously with Technicolor, where she built a successful career for over 17 years. She started in 2002 as a Research Engineer contributing to several video coding standard activities (MPEG) and industry consortiums. She was promoted in 2014 to Head of Research & Innovation in recognition for her vision and leadership to finally become in 2016 Group Chief Technology Officer and member of Technicolor’s Executive Committee. She spent most of her career between USA and France manging one of the world’s leading research team in media technology at the origin of significant algorithmic advances in fields such as Light Fields, VR/MR and the optimization of the VFX workflows. Cristina holds an MS degree in Telecom Engineering from the UPC (Spain) and a PhD degree from Mines ParisTech (France). Additionally, she has authored more than 60 granted patents and many video coding standard contributions and publications. Through her career, she has been a beacon of achievement for women engineers and scientists.
FRANK GOVERNALE
Senior Vice President, Operations Paramount/CBS
Frank Governale currently holds the position of Senior Vice President, East Coast Operations, Paramount/CBS, where he has responsibility to oversee all Broadcast Operations for the CBS Television Network. Frank reports to Phil Wiser, EVP CTO & Head of Multiplatform Operations.
Before that, Governale served as Vice President, Operations, CBS News, 1997-2017. He was responsible for the Division’s technical personnel and facilities worldwide, its computer and data services, and the exploration of the newest technologies to ensure the most efficient newsgathering capabilities. He also was responsible for labor relations, including contract negotiations with the major collective bargaining units.
Prior to that, he was General Manager, News Operations (1996-97). He also was Director, Bureau Operations (1990-96). In the latter position, Governale was responsible for the design, construction and operations of the technical facilities at all of the CBS News bureaus, including capital budget planning, the deployment of crews and equipment, and the acquisition of equipment, manpower and research and development for future technologies.
Prior to that, he was Director, Operations, CBS News Special Events (1988-90) and Technical Director, CBS Operations and Engineering (1983-88). He joined CBS as a video operator (1981-83).
Governale was a video engineer for EUE Screen Gems (1981) and chief engineer for A&G Video Inc. (1980-81). He began his career in broadcasting as a freelance video maintenance engineer and operator (1978-80).
Governale was born in the Bronx, N.Y. He graduated from the New York Institute of Technology. He and his wife, Sharon, live in Tampa, FL and have a son, Pierce age 23 and daughter, Cali age 21.
Jim is CTO at MovieLabs, a technology joint venture of five major Hollywood studios, which he helped found in 2006. At MovieLabs, Jim has led industry-wide initiatives including driving worldwide standards for high dynamic range video and building the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR). Jim provides technical leadership for all MovieLabs projects, including production technology and content security. Prior to MovieLabs, Jim was a founding team member at a Netscape spin-off, Liberate Technologies, whereas chief software architect he led the development of a web-based platform for interactive cable services. Earlier at Silicon Graphics, Jim designed real-time 3D systems for VR, location-based entertainment, and visual simulation. He has also consulted extensively for leading technology companies, venture capitalists and research labs. Jim holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Applied Physics from Stanford University and a B.A. in Physics and Math from Washington University.
Polly Hickling
Working in academia for 13 years, Polly has spent the majority of her career delivering Media Technology graduates to the industry whilst working as the course leader for Solent Universities Media Technology programme. This involved orchestrating the curriculum design through several iterations, always working closely with industry to meet their technical needs as well as aligning with higher education pedagogy. This close relationship with industry allowed for many student opportunities to be developed whilst they studied and ensured 100% employment rate into industry for several of the course titles within the programme.
During the last few years Polly has focused on resolving the educational pipeline as well as diversity and inclusivity. This has seen her sit on boards for several organisations. SMPTE, as Education Director and a SMPTE UK Manager, IET Media Network Committee member, the Head of Education for Women in Streaming Media and a Rise Up Champion. Her main output within these roles is around delivering education focussed meetings, events and initiatives.
Since September 2022 Polly has been working as the Learning and Development Lead for Media at Eviden. This role sees her tackling the knowledge and skills gap from within industry. In particular Polly is developing accessible learning strategies that amalgamates the knowledge needed for technology transformation project delivery.
Ievgen Kostiukevych is the team leader for media over IP and cloud technologies at the European Broadcasting Union. With over a decade of experience in media over IP integrations and solutions architectures and a keen focus on infrastructure design, timing and synchronization, cloud technologies, and interoperability challenges, Ievgen is shaping the future of the media over IP and cloud technologies sector.
Apart from his primary role, Ievgen holds a prominent position in the industry as an active participant in standardization initiatives and educational outreach. His additional roles include an AMWA board member, JT-NM Tested Program coordinator, SMPTE 32NF TC co-chair, and AES TC member. His commitment to professional education and knowledge sharing is evident in his work as a media over IP trainer at EBU Academy. Through a balanced blend of leadership, technical expertise, and commitment to continuous learning, Ievgen is instrumental in bringing together innovative minds and fostering a climate of advancement and cooperation.
Ievgen holds a specialist’s degree (EU Master of Engineering (MEng) equivalent) from the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” and several professional certifications.
Madeleine Noland is the President of the Advanced Television Systems Committee Inc. A 20-year industry veteran widely respected for her consensus-building leadership style, she chaired the technology group that oversees the ATSC 3.0 next-generation broadcast standard before being named ATSC President in May 2019.
Noland began her television career in 2004 with an interactive television technology developer, where she first became involved in ATSC. In 2013 she joined LG Electronics CTO’s office representing LG in a variety of industry organizations, including ATSC.
Madeleine was awarded the prestigious 2022 David Sarnoff Medal by the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers. She has also received TV NewsCheck’s 2019 “Futurist” Women in Technology Award and was named one of 2018’s “Powerful Women in Consumer Technology” by Dealerscope magazine. In 2016 she received the ATSC’s highest technical honor, the Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award recognizing her leadership related to the development of ATSC 3.0.
Credited on three U.S. patents for television technology, Noland is a member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – Broadcast Technology Society. Noland graduated cum laude from the University of Massachusetts. She enjoys travel, music, and spending time with her husband, Bill, and two cats.
Peter Putman recently retired as president of ROAM Consulting LLC. A 45-year veteran of the commercial AV, display, and home theater industries, Pete authored hundreds of columns, tutorials, and feature articles for consumer and trade magazines and Web media outlets over three decades, on topics as diverse as display technology, digital video, RF and wireless signal propagation, and video signal management
He also presented, instructed, and moderated classes and sessions at major trade shows and technical conferences, among them SMPTE, the NAB West and East trade shows, the HPA Technology Retreat, CEDIA Expo, and Integrated Systems Europe.
Pete taught industry certification courses at the InfoComm trade show for 20+ years and was a Senior Academy member of AVIXA University™ faculty. He was among the first candidates to earn the Certified Technology Specialist (CTS) designation and was also named the 2008 Educator of the Year for InfoComm.
Pete earned a B.A. degree in communications from Seton Hall University and an M.S. in Television and Film from Syracuse University. He has been a licensed Amateur Radio operator for 53 years, holding Extra Class callsign KT2B. Pete is also a Life Member of SMPTE.
Charles Q Robinson
Principal Member, Sound Tech Research
Dolby Laboratories
Charles Robinson received BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Illinois, where he specialized in audio signal processing. He began his professional career just as real-time digital audio signal processing was becoming a practical reality.
Since joining Dolby Research in 1995 areas of research have included acoustics, audio coding, loudness, interactive audio and spatial audio with applications to broadcast, gaming, cinema, and live sound. Charles has authored or coauthored over a dozen patents in audio signal processing, contributed to two Emmy-award winning products, and is a member of SMPTE, AES, and IEEE.
As audio research lead for spatial audio Charles Robinson was responsible for the conception of the Dolby Atmos audio format and sound system design. Current work includes adapting Dolby Atmos for application to large format live events, and VR/XR applications.
Responsible for leading the development of UHD High Dynamic Range(HDR) and Wide Color Gamut(WCG) “single-master” production systems, workflows and conversion standards. A 7 year effort during multiple events including Olympics and live-linear sports productions.
Principal Architect, Entertainment Systems
Sep 2011 - Jan 2013
Designer, broadcast non-linear editing workflows from ingest, edit, transcode, and digital delivery, Media Asset Management.
Senior Engineer, Operations and Technical Services
Sep 2008 - Sep 2011
Collaborative post production workflow design for Saturday Night Live, SyFy/USA Cable Networks Promo Dept, The Jimmy Fallon Show, Tonight Show/Conan O'Brien, Tonight Show/Jay Leno, and Soundminer/MusicMiner media asset management system.
Saturday Night Live Audio Editor Mixer, Video Editor, Post Production Technologist, NBCU, Operations and Technical Services
Nov 1989 - Sep 2008
Mixer, Editor, Technologist for Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Network Advertising and Promotion, and Dateline.
1985-1989
Platinum Island / Ciani Musica Recording Studios, Chief Engineer
Built/maintained audio recording studios
2 Patents: HDR Visualization and Comfort Measurement
1 Patent: Content/Object Synchronization
IBC Special Award 2021
Tokyo Olympics: Production and distribution workflows in UHD, high dynamic range colour / Dolby Atmos.
Simon Thompson is a Senior R&D Engineer with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) having joined via the graduate scheme 20 years ago. Whilst initially working on diverse projects including RF spectrum management, advanced radio cameras, video codec testing and additional services for DVB broadcasts; he has worked for the past 8 years on production workflows for UHD programmes. He has worked with colleagues on a range of large productions including the Coronation of HM King Charles III, the FIFA World Cup, Wimbledon tennis and UEFA European Championships.
Simon chairs the European Broadcasting Union Video Systems and Workflows group and is a member of the International Telecommunication Union Rapporteurs' Group 24, World Wide Web Consortium colour on the web groups, Digital Television Group's Production technology group and the SMPTE Board of Editors. With the EBU he has worked with colleagues on test events including the European Championships in Berlin and München, undertook codec testing, led, produced guidelines for monitors and cameras and worked with partners across the industry to formulate a common workflow.
Simon has a Master of Engineering degree from the University of Southampton and is registered as Chartered Engineer with the UK Engineering Council.
Kelly T. Williams
Vice President, Engineering and Technology Policy NAB Technology Department
Kelly joined NAB in 1989. During his tenure he has focused on broadcast technology innovation and has managed a diverse portfolio of technical, regulatory, and legislative issues. Currently, he runs NAB’s ATSC 3.0 laboratory. In addition to Next-Gen Television deployment, Kelly focuses on cyber security policy, implementing video accessibility regulations in broadcast stations, as well as the Emergency Alert System and public alerting.
Kelly has participated in many industry technology committees including ATSC, NABA Technical Committee and ITU-R study group 6, IEEE 802, and the Consumer Technology Association Video Systems Committee (R4.) In addition, he’s represented broadcasters’ interests on numerous federal advisory committees.
Prior to joining NAB, Kelly spent 9 years in various engineering positions at WHMM-TV (now WHUT-TV) in Washington D.C. where he designed, installed, and maintained video production and post-production systems and was E-I-C for field operations (OB). He is a member of IEEE, SBE and SMPTE.
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