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MEDIA ADVISORY: Impressive Lineup of Keynote Speakers for the 2019 IEEE Broadcast Symposium; Michelle Munson, Co-Founder and CEO of Eluvio and Mark Schubin, Multiple-Emmy-Award-Winning SMPTE FellowIEEE (News - Alert) Broadcast Technology Society: This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190509005116/en/ 
Michelle Munson (Photo: Business Wire) WHAT: This year the 2019 IEEE Broadcast Symposium has an impressive lineup of Keynote Speakers participating in the event. Michelle Munson, co-founder and CEO of Eluvio will be speaking on Tuesday, October 1 and Mark Schubin, Multiple-Emmy-award-winning SMPTE Fellow will keynote on Wednesday, October 2. Michelle Munson is the co-founder and CEO of Eluvio, a new Berkeley-based start-up creating new software technologies for a content-centric Internet focused on scalability, content protection, and native commerce. She previously founded East Bay software company Aspera in 2004 and led the company as CEO until May 2017, including through acquisition by IBM (News - Alert) in 2014. She and co-founder Serban Simu created the Aspera FASP™ transport technology, an Emmy-award winning technology used throughout the digital media supply chain for high-speed low cost secure digital content transport, replacing satellite and traditional tape based delivery technologies. Michelle holds several patents and is a frequent speaker in the areas of content networking, machine learning, block chain and cloud infrastructure. She was the 2016 Charles Swartz awardee and is a SMPTE Fellow. Michelle has dual B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering and in Physics from Kansas State University and was a Goldwater Scholar for achievement in Science and Mathematics, and later a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University where she received a postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science. In 2016 she was named the IABM Woman Entrepreneur of the Year and TV NewsCheck Woman of the Year, and she was named one of the Most Influential Women in Business by the SF Business Times in 2017. She was the 2006 KSU College of Engineering Alumni Fellow (the youngest recipient ever), and is an active trustee for the National 4-H Council and 2017 4-H Luminary for her leadershipwith youth. Multiple-Emmy-award-winning SMPTE Fellow Mark Schubin has been working in television since 1967, writing about it since 1972, and chairing the HPA Tech Retreat program since 1998. He has shot for the Rolling Stones, lit Luciano Pavarotti, mixed Stevie Wonder, hooked up the TV in Eric Clapton's bedroom, and performed forensic analysis for the Woody Allen/Mia Farrow child-custody battle. He worked on Japan's first regularly scheduled HDTV broadcast, Kazakhstan's first news network, and Hong Kong's first cable-TV system. He has also worked on standards ranging from the VU meter to digitally compressed video transmission to the national TV system of Barbados. His clients range from the Metropolitan Opera to Sesame Street, MTV, The News Hour, the AFL-CIO, the U.S. Congress, and the World Book Encyclopedia. His writing has been translated into French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. His blog, http://www.schubincafe.com, is archived by the Library of Congress. Marvin Kitman, writing for The Los Angeles Times syndicate, called him "a leading thinker." In the acknowledgements to his book Fast Forward: Hollywood, the Japanese, and the VCR Wars, James Lardner of The New Yorker wrote of Schubin that "he has the spectacularly rare ability to make technical matters clear to a nontechnical person." Graham Binns of London's Rediffusion Group said in the European publication Intermedia (News - Alert), "He has a complete mastery of the technical background to video. He rattles off data and ideas with fluency and with wit." Register at https://bts.ieee.org/broadcastsymposium/registration.html WHERE: Marriott Hartford Downtown, 200 Columbus Blvd., Hartford, CT WHEN: Tuesday, October 1st thru Thursday, October 3rd ABOUT BTS: The IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (BTS) is a membership organization open to everyone in the broadcast industry and allied fields. The BTS mission is to serve the needs of its members; to enhance their professional knowledge by keeping them informed of the latest research results and industry trends, and provide enriching educational and networking opportunities. Follow IEEE BTS:
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