If you are a decision maker in the broadcasting, cinema, TV production and digital media markets across New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands, Media Technology Pacific is a must-attend event where you’ll gain visibility of the latest emerging technologies influencing content viewing and listening.
The third bi-annual event will be held at the Pullman Hotel in Auckland on Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd August 2018.
Ian holds an LLB from the University of Otago and was inducted into the New Zealand Hi-Tech Hall of Fame in 2009. In 2010 he was named North & South magazine’s New Zealander of the Year. In the same year, he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the New Zealand Computer Society, the top honour for the ICT sector in New Zealand.
He was named a Companion of the NZ Order of Merit in 2012’s New Year Honours List, for services to television and business. He also won the Creative sector of the World Class New Zealander Awards in the same year.
In 2013, Ian was also named Outstanding Māori Business Leader of the Year.
It may come as a surprise then that Ian claims to have no skills whatsoever. He is at a loss to understand why anyone would want to hear his story. However, he suspects the reason he received such accolades is that he lives at the bottom of the world, where no one has been able to check him out.
That, and the fact he’s had the good fortune to have worked alongside some of the most talented people in the world.
The Chair of the 2018 Media Technology Pacific Conference is ANZ broadcast industry veteran, Gerry Smith.
Gerry has been involved in the technical side of broadcasting all of his working life. Most recently, he held the position of Chief Technology Officer with Prime Television.
During his 14 years at Prime Media, Gerry was responsible for the implementation of Prime Media Group’s centralised technical operation. He was also responsible for the Group’s conversion to digital transmissions.
Prior to joining Prime Media Group in late 1999, he was Head of Engineering for the TV3 and TV4 Networks in New Zealand.
Matthew Goldman is SVP Technology at MediaKind (formally Ericsson Media Solutions), where he is focused on video processing and media delivery solutions. He has been actively involved in the development of DTV systems since 1992. He helped create the MPEG-2 Systems standards, and he has been influential in SMPTE, AIMS, ATSC, DVB, and the Ultra HD Forum. Four of his projects have been later recognized by Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards. Mr. Goldman received BSEE and MSEE degrees from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He holds six patents related to digital video transport. A SMPTE Fellow, he is also a senior member of the IEEE and an inductee of the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers. Mr. Goldman is currently serving as SMPTE President.
Duane Mutu is one of the leading esports experts in the region, having held senior roles in the gaming industry for over 10 years.
He is the co-founder and director of leading esports company Let's Play Live. His business has partnered with Sky City entertainment to build a world-class esport broadcasting facility inside Auckland's Sky Tower.
Duane is also a leading gaming presenter and host for both Sky TV and twitch.
Mr Dickens is Chief Digital Officer for Seven West Media, joining the company in February 2015. Clive has over 30 years’ experience in digital and broadcast media. His first digital role in 1995 was with the award winning team at Capital Interactive in the United Kingdom.
Clive was an advisor to the founders of Shazam. Clive was also a Founding Director of UK Radio Player Limited, a joint venture between UK Broadcasters and the BBC.
In 2013 he relocated to Australia to overseeing strategic and operational aspects of the company's diverse and multifaceted digital content and platforms at Seven West Media.
Paul has been with Optus since 1994 and has over 25 years’ experience in the Satellite industry.
Since July 2011 he has held the role of Vice President Optus Satellite.
Paul leads a team responsible for all facets of Optus’ satellite business across Australia and New Zealand.
Jason Foden has been the CEO of Freeview since August 2017 and is driving change in the brand and advancements in the Freeview proposition. He will talk to the progress Freeview has made to change the way viewers engage with Free-To-Air content and the future changes the industry needs to make as IP streaming continues to grow.
Prior to taking up his role at Freeview, Foden was the General Manager of OnDemand at TVNZ for over three years. During his time there he led the business growth and commercial performance of OnDemand. He also spent several years at Telecom (now Spark), most recently as Head of Voice, Messaging and Media Product Management.
Joan Warner is the Chief Executive Officer of Commercial Radio Australia (CRA), representing Australian commercial radio broadcasters.
The CRA also managed the planning, rollout, and implementation of DAB+ digital radio in five metropolitan capitals. This covers 64% of the population. It continues to lead strategy development for DAB+’s implementation into regional Australia.
An industry veteran, Nick has over 30 years of experience in entertainment, media production, television and related technologies. He has held senior roles in international tech companies including Avid, Grass Valley, Atex, General Dynamics and Vizrt. His roles have included sales, business development, technology partner management and professional services.
Nick has spent 20 years living and working in Asia, having arrived in Singapore in 1999. After 14 years, he now resides in Penang, Malaysia. Nick currently manages the sales and business development for VSN, covering the Asia-Pacific region.
Paul Spain is the host of NZ Tech and NZ Business podcasts, a regular TV commentator on
Paul's passion lies in combining his entrepreneurial skills, broad technology know-how and years of business experience to help individuals and organisations succeed.
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Anna Lockwood is an experienced media industry executive specialising in sports and broadcast consulting, and is currently the Head of Market Development at Telstra Broadcast Services. Anna has had previous global leadership roles in London, Singapore and Boston, and now works at Telstra at the convergence of the traditional broadcast industry and leading edge telecommunications and digital platforms. In addition to her role at Telstra, Anna is on the Board of SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) Australia Section, represents Telstra as a Director on the IABM (International Association of Broadcast Manufacturers) Board, and is a Board Member of EGAA (Esports Games Association of Australia). She brings her interests in innovation, sports, and women in technology to her board and industry engagement.
Ricki Cook started in live production nearly 20 years ago. After deciding to switch fields to network engineering in his early 20’s, it wasn’t too long before the two worlds collided when it was evident that IP was going to be here to stay in production & broadcast. Ricki is now a Solutions Architect for Lawo as well as a consultant & principle audio, video & network architect for organisations such as Hillsong.
Stephen is responsible for leading Radio New Zealand thinking and activities around audience research, brand and marketing, product development and communications.
He has held numerous senior roles in the NZ media industry, including Head of Multi-Platform at Māori Television, Group Head of Digital at Fairfax Media, Head of Media and Entertainment at Vodafone NZ and Assistant Chief Executive and Head of Content at TVNZ.
David Harris is Managing Director of Guinevere Capital which is currently applying performance and business models from traditional sports to esports. He has recently created and invested in a number of esports teams and content projects including; LG Dire Wolves, Dire Cubs, Sydney Drop Bears, Supa-Stellar, The Next Gamer and the Esports High Performance Centre at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Dave has an 18 year background in traditional sports and management consulting with previous roles including NRL General Manager (Marketing, Content & Digital), Gemba Group, Boston Consulting Group and an array of sports teams across EPL, Football League & International and Australian Cricket. Dave has an MBA from Oxford University.
Jamie Annan is Studio Services and Operations Manager for the Media and Content team at the NZRB, which oversees all racing and sports betting in New Zealand, and runs two TV channels (Trackside 1 and Trackside 2) to deliver racing content across the country. Prior to the NZRB, Jamie worked in racing broadcasting in the UK and before that in Wellington and Hawkes Bay in various broadcasting roles.
Most recently his role has been closely involved with updating the New Zealand Racing Board national OB fleet and moving into a remote production environment for Greyhound coverage.
Jana Rangooni is CEO of RBANZ, which manages the non-competitive interests of NZ’s commercial radio broadcasters as well as wider industry issues like radio audience research. She has previously worked in Music and Talk Radio in both New Zealand and the United Kingdom in a range of areas of the business, from On-Air and News to General Management and Group Content Director. In her time at Mediaworks she also worked on cross-platform projects like The Paul Henry Show, the integrated newsroom and launch of Newshub.
Mark is responsible for the delivery of all Professional and Field Service engagements undertaken by the Grass Valley services teams in the region. As the industry embraces a shift to the IP domain for the processing and delivery of video and audio signals and to the cloud with the virtualisation of core broadcasting applications Mark is a key driver in reshaping the way Grass Valley engages with its clients and in partnering with them with as they adapt their businesses through this disruptive landscape.
Prior to his current role, Mark was head of Solutions Delivery for Grass Valley where he and his team project managed many of the largest business transformation and relocation projects undertaken by clients in Australia and New Zealand.
Leon has extensive radio knowledge from 25 years in the business. At MediaWorks, Leon oversees all Radio music brands, content & people as well as relationships with other parts of the business. Prior to this Leon spent 20 years as Content Director for The Edge, taking it from a small station in Hamilton to become the biggest station in NZ.
Nestor Amaya is Vice President of Infrastructure for Ross Video, where he oversees product strategy, global marketing, and brand development for Ross's routing, connectivity, signal processing and control product lines.
Nestor joined Ross Video in 2016, when it acquired COVELOZ Technologies, a live media networking technology company that Nestor founded in 2009 and led as President. In his 20 years prior to joining Ross, Nestor contributed to the development of many performance-critical networking products, having led the development of various types of IP-based networking chips and products. This technical and business experience serves as our customers adopt software defined, IP-connected systems.
Jason Spiller is a Marketer, Product Manager and Community Architect, with experience across the game, esports and technology sectors. Over the last ten years Jason has built dedicated communities and overseen year on year growth in profitability in the companies he has worked with. During his time at Microsoft he exponentially grew the ANZ Games and Xbox Live business, and Jason is currently developing the OMEN product marketing strategy for HP in Australia and New Zealand. Jason is a founding Board Member of the EGAA (esports Games Association of Australia).
A passionate gamer with a background in IT networking, Conrad had a hobby of running LAN gaming events with friends. In 2002 Conrad founded Ping Zero, a company built to formalise this hobby into a recognised business. Ping Zero started from this grass roots beginning, and has always been about supporting the New Zealand gaming community. In 2016 Conrad left his full time job with the New Zealand Defence Force to pursue his passion in gaming, and take Ping Zero to the next level. Ping Zero is now in its 16th year, organising multiple events throughout New Zealand during the year. Ping Zero brings together pro and grassroots gamers, in a welcoming and fun social environment.
Luke Durham leads Switch Media’s technical innovation and research team. He has close to 20 years’ experience in the IT industry and is a specialist in digital video technologies including DVB systems, embedded set top box software, Live and VOD Streaming Video, IPTV Deployments, Mobile Applications, and Highly Scalable Cloud based system architectures.
After various roles with the NZ Racing Board, Michael is now one of several responsible for the development and ongoing support of broadcast systems used to televise live Greyhound & Equine racing in New Zealand, including the new Christchurch based remote production facility.
Mike O’Connell is Executive Vice-President in the Americas and Australasia regions for Pixel Power, a media entertainment technology provider for master-control, automation, playout & channel-branding, both in traditional and IP/virtualized broadcast playout. Beginning his television career in studio engineering Mike has worked the many disciplines of operations and engineering with New Zealand’s major broadcasters and holds a deep knowledge of all aspects of multichannel broadcasting.
Mike has been instrumental in winning major projects with household-name broadcasters in the software-defined/virtualized playout/automation/master-control arena that has become the cutting edge of new technology platforms for Pixel Power.
Mike has previously held senior roles with Quartz Electronics, Gencom, TV3 and TV4 Networks, TVNZ and is based in Grass Valley, California.
Stephen brings decades of marketing, digital and content expertise as Executive Director of Creative and Sport. Stephen champions strategy, creative and production for many of Australia’s leading brands. A lifelong passion for sport has also seen Stephen elevate our Sports marketing and technology offering to new heights, as recognised recently by Mumbrella who named KOJO Australia's leading Sports Agency.
He places great importance on nurturing a positive work environment and believes that if you put people first, the rest will follow. Stephen also bestows a similar level of importance upon his love for AFL. As a lifelong Richmond Tigers fan, one of Stephen’s proudest moments was witnessing the Tiger's 2017 Premiership win live at the MCG, with KOJO Sports content lighting up the stadium.
Marc Segar is Director of Technical Services for NEP Australia where he oversees the Technology Department, the department is responsible for the in-field engineering of fourteen highly specified, modern outside broadcast trucks and the new all IP Andrews Hubs as well as the design and integration, which is all done in-house
Marc moved from London and joined NEP (Global Television) in 2001 and has over 25 years in the broadcast industry and his most notable project to date is the Andrews Hubs and the four new 100% IP and connected trucks that are delivering up to 9 live projects every week from the centralised locations from all over Australia and all the challenges associated with being the first of something.
In his role as Regional Director - Australia & New Zealand, Chris is responsible for the general management of the Auckland and Sydney Accedo business. Accedo’s mission is to solve the technology challenges of delivering world class OTT and broadcast video application solutions to a wide range of clients globally.
With a background is strategic product management and experience in project and program management within the New Zealand media market, Chris has a deep understanding of the trends and challenges of this space.
Chris and the Accedo team work closely with companies including Spark, Nine, SBS, Fox Sports, SKY NZ, Telstra, TVNZ, Les Mills, Samsung, Sony and many others to help them design, develop and deploy a range of best in market Video On Demand services across Australasia.
Dean has over three decades of experience in developing world class content and talent in New Zealand and internationally. Prior to joining the Radio Network as a Chief Content Officer in September 2013 and eventually becoming Managing Director Radio, Dean was an international consultant in the UK specialising in strategy, competitive analysis and execution. He then joined DMG Radio Australia as Group Programme Director and was responsible for launching the highly successful Nova Network. Dean has vast multi media experience having worked in music and entertainment Touring with TV Touring and established a successful talent management company Plus1 Talent, developing the futures of key Australian talent including Darren McMullen (The Voice, The Big Music Quiz, Minute to Win it, The Outsiders) and various radio stars.
As NZME’s Group Director Entertainment, he has been responsible for the successful integration, strategy and execution of the companies entertainment assets across radio, publishing magazines, digital social and video.
Pullman Hotel, Auckland
