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”, the 2020 “TVOT (TV of Tomorrow) Leadership Award” and was named a Fellow of SMPTE in 2023.

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).

Tom Barbeau joined the Comark Communications organization as an Embedded Systems Software Engineer back in 1999. He worked for the organization until his group was spun off into Thomson Video Networks in 2010, where he functioned as a Senior Systems Engineer until 2016 supporting customers and the TVN product line of encoding and compressed domain MPEG-2 equipment. TVN was acquired by Harmonic in 2016 and he continued with them in a similar role. He rejoined Comark in February of 2017 as the Vice President of Engineering. In his current role as Vice President of Engineering, he oversees the design and development of Comark’s high power RF amplification and transmission products that are used for broadcast, scientific and industrial applications. Tom is also responsible for overseeing the coordination and integration of third-party equipment into Comark Digital Services products, and for long term strategic product planning and focus.

​Prior to joining Comark originally, Tom worked in the Defense, Aerospace, and Commercial business sectors where he worked in developing guidance system components and in creating embedded controls systems for ultrasonic imaging and high speed OCR scanning systems.

​Tom holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Western New England College, Springfield, MA. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (IEEE-BTS) and a member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE). Tom also retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the US Army Reserves, where he had a career spanning 28.5 years that included multiple company and battalion command positions, and two mobilizations, including one combat tour in Iraq.

Tim Bischoff is Chief Technology Officer for Kentucky Educational Television, a major producer of public affairs and cultural programming; educational media for early childhood, K-12, and workforce development; and a partner in public safety communications.

Tim leads technology strategy and operations for KET's network center in Lexington; production facilities in Louisville and Frankfort; websites and apps for streaming video, professional development, and e-commerce; public safety and tower services; and a 16-transmitter statewide broadcast network that reaches 10 media markets and 7.2 million people.

Under his direction, KET repacked all its transmitters, launched ATSC 3.0 stations in Louisville and Cincinnati, expanded livestreaming and VOD services, converged broadcast and digital workflow automation, launched a statewide localized emergency alert system, rebuilt core network infrastructure and a next generation master control, and is implementing 4K production and editing, as well as a new production facility in Louisville. Tim leads a team of 40 people, including engineering, IT, facilities, broadcast operations, transmission systems, and digital product development.

At age 15, Tim earned his first paycheck working in television – directing and running cameras for minor league baseball games. In the past 33 years, he’s worked throughout the TV business: engineering and IT, digital and marketing, management and production. He produced and directed the documentary The Everlasting Stream, which broadcast nationwide on PBS primetime.

A graduate of Western Kentucky University, with a degree in Broadcasting, Tim has received two regional Emmy Awards. He lives in Lexington with his wife and their three teenagers.

Kelly Campbell is the Engineering Manager for Kentucky Educational Television, Kentucky’s statewide PBS network. He leads a team of seven engineers who upgrade and maintain KET’s three production facilities in Lexington, Louisville, and Frankfort. Additionally, Kelly and his team oversee KET’s post-production systems, archiving, broadcast automation, playout, and other critical systems. In 2020, KET began working towards producing a statewide daily public affairs broadcast, Kelly and his team worked to evaluate equipment needs, system functionality and upgraded their Lexington studio production facilities to support a daily public affairs broadcast. Kentucky Edition premiered on June 1st 2022 and is nearing the start of its second season. Kelly has been working in the within industry sense the late 90’s. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 2003 with a B.S. in Electronic Media Management and resides within the Lexington area.

Zandra Clarke is a seasoned broadcast professional at Warner Bros. Discovery. Responsible for coordinating NBA on TNT transmission logistics for all broadcasts, All-Star Weekend, Play-off, and Conference Finals. She provides world-class customer support that reinforces Warner Bros. Discovery's brand of excellence and flexibility. She has coordinated the transmission of various live sports and entertainment broadcasts.

An Advance Television Systems Committee board member and also a Society of Broadcast Engineering, Certified Television Operator. Currently a Director of Membership, she has served as Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer for both; the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers and the Society of Satellites Professionals International of Atlanta.

John M. Contestabile is the Director of Public Safety Solutions at Skyline Technologies. He works closely with the public safety and transportation communities providing consulting services and developing solutions to meet their operational needs. He joined Skyline in 2019 after 10 years with Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Lab where he was the Program Manager for Homeland Security/Emergency Response Systems. Prior to that, he served for over 30 years with the State of Maryland Department of Transportation in a variety of technical/engineering and management roles raising to the position of Acting Assistant Secretary for Administration. In addition to working at MDOT, Mr. Contestabile was named by Maryland Governor O’Malley as the Director of the Maryland Statewide Communications Interoperability Program, reporting to the Superintendent of the Maryland State Police. Previously, Mr. Contestabile served as the Acting Deputy Director of the Office of Homeland Security.

Mr. Contestabile currently participates on several committees including the Resilience Section for the Transportation Research Board, the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council Video Technology Advisory Committee, and the Department of Homeland Security - Science and Technology Directorate Video Quality in Public Safety leadership team. He completed a three-year mayoral appointment to the District of Columbia - Homeland Security Commission and, between 2017-20, Mr. Contestabile was appointed by Maryland Governor Hogan as a member of the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission. Mr. Contestabile is a former board member of the Public Safety Spectrum Trust, a former Vice Chair of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Special Committee on Transportation Security and Emergency Management, a former member of the National Infrastructure Advisory Committee Transportation Resilience work group, as well as a former member of the Department of Homeland Security’s “Safecom” Interoperable Communications Advisory Committee.

Mark Corl is the SVP of Emergent Technology Development at Triveni Digital. His team focuses on strategies to address the disruptive changes in TV technology caused by the continuing exponential advances in computing and networking primarily leveraging the new capabilities offered by ATSC 3.0. Their recent focus has been directed toward data distribution innovation supporting educational datacasting and the emerging Broadcast Positioning System technology. Mark has also been providing education and consulting for many organizations interested in adopting the new ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard.

​Mark is a recent ATSC board member and contributes extensively to the ATSC efforts as the chair of the S38 Specialist Group on Interactive Environment, the chair of the Caribbean Implementation Team and the chair of the India Implementation Team currently in hiatus. Mark is also a contributing author to many of the documents comprising the overall ATSC 3.0 standard.

​During his 27-year tenure at Triveni Digital, Mark has led both product development efforts as well as custom projects. Prior to Triveni Digital, Mark was a software engineer and system architect for Xerox Corporation and had a software engineering position at Texas Instruments. Mark holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Bucknell University.

Vinnie Curren is the principal of Breakthrough Public Media Consulting. Breakthrough helps public media companies navigate today’s dynamic and competitive media world. Breakthrough’s primary client for the past few years has been the Public Media Venture Group. In that role, Curren works with PMVG members to plan their transition to NextGen TV and develop business and service models that leverage the expanded capabilities of the new technology. Prior to forming Breakthrough Public Media Consulting, Curren served as Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a position that he held for nearly a decade. Curren had overall responsibility for managing CPB’s policy, grant-making and station support activities, with the objective of ensuring that all Americans receive robust public media services for free and commercial-free. Prior to being named COO, Curren was CPB’s Senior Vice President for Radio.

Curren has been a major market station general manager (WXPN, Philadelphia). He is a member of the Advisory Board of the James H. and Mary B. Quello Center at Michigan State University and has served on the boards of the Development Exchange (now Greater Public) and the Station Resource Group, which he chaired for several years. Curren has received several awards including Public Radio International’s award for innovation and leadership. He holds a BA from SUNY Buffalo (Psychology) and an MS from the University of Pennsylvania (Organizational Dynamics). In his spare time, Curren is an avid motorcycle rider and shade-tree mechanic, and has toured parts of Spain, Mexico, and the U.S. on two wheels.

Chad Davis is the Chief Innovation Officer at Nebraska Public Media, where he leads Nebraska Public Media Labs, an R&D-focused collective developing grounded applications for groundbreaking media. Since the launch of Labs, the unit has developed workflows and best practices for drone videography (Chad was the station's first licensed drone pilot), online content, podcast creation, and 360-video production, as well as publishing the station's first virtual reality experience, "Expedition Nebraska." Currently, the team's focus is on narrative-based interactive content and video game development for web, mobile and VR, with an emphasis on accessibility.

Chad is also the co-founder and inaugural chair of the Public Media Innovators peer learning community (PLC), hosted by NETA. The mission of the PLC is to organize and educate those within the public media systems who are interested in creating the next generation of public media. As a part of that initiative, he also publishes the Public Media Innovators Weekly newsletter.

In addition to his public media work, Chad is a freelance travel photographer and drone videographer. And he's a huge fan of just about every genre of alternative music that emerged during the 80s and 90s.

Thomas Edwards is a Principal Media & Entertainment Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, specializing in broadcast workflows. He previously worked on advanced technology projects for PBS, Fox & Disney. He is a board member of the Video Services Forum and the Streaming Video Technology Alliance, a SMPTE Fellow, was awarded the SMPTE Workflow Systems Medal, and received an Innovator statue for contribution to VSF's Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for "Standardization of SMPTE ST 2110."

Marc Hand is the CEO, founder and board member of the Public Media Venture Group, a consortium of 32 public broadcasters that operate 115 public television stations reaching over 250 million people. PMVG is focused on business and technology developments built on the NextGen TV/ATSC 3.0 as well as other technology platforms. PMVG is focused on strengthening and extending the role that public stations play in theor local communities. Hand is also a co-founder and board chair of the National Trust for Local News, a national nonprofit focused on assembling a capital pool combined with national scale operating expertise to acquire newspapers, with a goal of preserving and sustaining local news institutions.

In 2001, Hand co-founded and was the CEO of the Public Media Company (formerly Public Radio Capital), a national non-profit that fosters public media growth. As CEO, Marc built strategic public media alliances, established relationships with financial institutions for public media investments, and provided expertise in developing and closing public media transactions. Since its founding, the Public Media Company completed transactions valued at over $400 million, working with over 300 public media entities. Prior to co-founding Public Media Company Marc worked for five years at the Station Resource Group, helping public radio stations expand services via acquisitions, collaborations, and partnerships, leading to the founding of Public Radio Capital in 2001. Marc was also a commercial radio station owner and broker/financial advisor with media brokerage and investment firms focused on commercial media transactions.

Information Security Manager Heather Hankins provides critical support within NETA’s cyber environment, searching for vulnerabilities and risks in hardware and software, monitoring and managing attacks and intrusions, implementing improvements, and developing new layers of protection.

Hankins has been an invaluable member of NETA since 2015. She has a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems and has certifications as a Ransomware Specialist, Insider Threat Specialist, Security Awareness Trainer, and Supply Chain Cybersecurity Specialist. Heather started the Cyber Peer Learning Community in 2023 and is a member of Infragard, and the PBS ETAC IT Cyber Security Working Group.

Eric Hyyppa is the President of the National Educational Telecommunications Association. Prior to joining NETA, Eric served for 11 years as Director and General Manager of MontanaPBS in Bozeman, Montana. He has a background in Information Technology, including a BS in Computer Science from Montana State University. He is a PBS veteran, with over 25 years in public broadcasting and extensive experience in television production, including work for every major network and many independent companies. He is a former member of the Society of Motion Picture Television Engineers and the Society of Broadcast Engineers.

Eric is past chair of the board of directors of the National Educational Telecommunications Association, past chair of the board of trustees of America’s Public Television Stations, past chair of public television’s Affinity Group Coalition, and past co-chair of the Organization of State Broadcasting Executives. He has also served on the board of directors of PBS as well as the board of directors for the Montana Broadcasters Association.

Joey Kloss leads the Technology and Engineering Department at Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc. He holds the responsibility for overseeing a wide variety of infrastructures: Radio/TV Broadcast, Statewide RF, Digital Platforms, Information Technology and Cybersecurity. He also leads the ongoing expansion efforts into emerging technologies to drive strategic and tactical direction. In his previous role at Rocky Mountain Public Media, he served as the Chief of IT & Broadcast Engineering. He was responsible for the company’s increasing development and expansion efforts into unifying and modernizing the growing media company. 

Before joining Rocky Mountain Public Media in 2018, Joey worked in a variety of technical positions for clients ranging from small business to corporate markets. Specializing in Broadcast IT Systems, design, and integration. He focused on critical and strategic planning where he was instrumental in driving new directions with modern technology strategies.

Albert Lai is the global Strategic Industries director for Media & Entertainment for Google Cloud. His focus is on helping media organizations transform their business and deliver new audience experiences using cloud and AI/ML.

Prior to joining Google, Albert was the SVP/GM of Hallmark Labs, where he led the development and growth of Hallmark Channel’s SVOD service, consumer digital products, and enterprise AI/ML and data management initiatives. As Brightcove CTO for Media, Albert led the formation and growth of the global media business unit and its technical leadership, expanding the company’s multi-platform solutions and advancing its next generation video platform. He served on the technical advisory board of immersive video distribution platform Vrideo, in addition to holding senior positions at prior appointments with OTT service providers and technology providers to OTT service providers.

Albert earned his bachelor of science in computer science from Stanford University. He resides in Greater Houston.

Erik Langner leads the Information Equity Initiative (IEI), and is responsible for its strategy, partnerships and fundraising as the organization expands across the globe. IEI partners with public television stations to deliver public interest datacasting services ranging from K-12 education, public and maternal health, early childhood, emergency management, and programming to individuals experiencing incarceration.

Prior to co-founding IEI, Langner was President of Public Media Company (PMC), a boutique non-profit investment bank serving public broadcasters in the United States. During his fifteen years at PMC, Langner managed dozens of mergers, acquisitions and strategic partnerships to preserve and expand public media access for millions of Americans. While at PMC, Langner co-founded and sits on the board of VuHaus, public media’s first music network, bringing together over twenty public media music organizations to expose emerging artists to larger local and national audiences.

Earlier in his career, Erik was a corporate attorney at Latham & Watkins in San Francisco and Kirkland & Ellis in New York City, and also worked at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, and the United States Mission to the United Nations Refugee Program, also in Geneva.

Erik graduated from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Les Levi is the President, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of HC2 Broadcasting, the largest low-power TV broadcast company in the US, with more than 250 Class A and LPTV television stations nationwide. Founded in 2017, HC2 Broadcasting operates stations in more than 100 markets in the US, covering more than 80% of the top 50 DMAs. Beginning 2022, HC2 has converted several of its stations to ATSC 3.0. In many major markets, HC2 Broadcasting owns and operates two or more stations and is entering into partnerships with PBS stations to provide OTA “lighthousing” for ATSC 3.0 along with commercial co-ventures.

Doug Lung started working with RF and transmitters in 1964, building a transmitter from a schematic diagram and assorted parts for his ham radio station WN3CFK (now AH6DL). He's maintained an interest in transmission since then, including work at radio stations WHAG, WJRH and WSAN. In 1976 he helped put UHF TV station KSCI on the air in Los Angeles and in 1982 did the final commissioning, proof of performance and FCC licensing for Hawaii’s first commercial UHF station, KSHO. In 1985 he joined some of the KSCI team in launching Los Angeles' second Spanish TV station, KVEA. Its success led to the creation of the Telemundo station group and network. As VP of Engineering for Telemundo, Lung was responsible for the design and build out of new stations, updating acquired stations and, in 1994, transitioning Telemundo's satellite distribution to digital. After NBC purchased Telemundo in 2002 he focused on transmission system design, TV coverage analysis and the transition to digital broadcasting. He continues this work as NBC VP of Broadcast Technology. He has shared his knowledge and experiences through over 300 articles in TV Technology magazine and IEEE Broadcast Technology. In 2023 he received the NAB Television Engineering Achievement Award and is the 2023 recipient of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society's Jules Cohen Award for Outstanding Broadcast Engineering.

Ian has leveraged his facility design experience for the public media sector for the last ten years.  At AZPBS he helped launch the first PBS station in ATSC 3.0 through a partnership with the PEARL Group’s Phoenix model market test. He then upgraded their studio & field production systems to 4K capability from lens to final edit, which helped convince the PBS NewsHour to partner and locate their West Coast Bureau in their studios. At AZPM he leads the team that has designed their greenfield IP based TV, radio and streaming facility that broke ground in this January. The facility is designed to be a sharable model for public media with the implementation of VR studios, SMPTE 2110 video routing and impactful spaces for community engagement.

Mare Mazur is President and General Manager of Vegas PBS and the first woman to lead the station in its 53-year history. In her position she oversees Vegas PBS’ overall strategic direction and the management of day-to-day affairs across all business units. She also serves as the executive director of the Southern Nevada Public Television (SNPT) Board of Directors. An award-winning television executive, Mazur was previously general manager of Arizona PBS. Under her leadership, Arizona PBS produced 120 hours of news content annually, and launched two new local programs, receiving multiple regional Emmy nominations and awards.

Prior to joining Arizona PBS, Mazur was executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Los Angeles-based KCETLink Media Group. There, she oversaw KCET’s move to a new state-of-the-art facility and was a member of the executive team that guided the successful merger between KCET and LinkTV to form the KCETLink Media Group.

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Mazur was the executive producer for KCET’s nationally distributed programs A Place of Our Own and its Spanish language companion Los Niños en Su Casa. Under her direction as chief content officer for KCET the station received more than 380 awards for programming, including four George Foster Peabody Awards and three Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards. Mazur herself is the recipient of two Peabody Awards, a duPont Award and a regional Emmy Award. Prior to joining KCETLink Media Group, Mazur was senior vice president of series development at Cosgrove/Meurer Productions, and prior to that served in a similar role at Patchett Kaufman Entertainment. A graduate of Santa Clara University, Mazur also has worked in program development for both the NBC and CBS networks.

Debasish Mishra joined the WNET Group in 2020 as Chief Technology Officer to lead WNET's technology transformation to a digital-first organization. Debasish previously served as Vice President and Chief Architect for NBCUniversal, leading a similar transformation of NBCU's cloud strategy for which he was recognized with a Stevie Award by the American Business Association.

In addition to the media industry, Debasish held technology strategy and transformation roles in multiple industries for complex, global organizations including Corning, Microsoft, and Merck & Co. Debasish earned a master's degree from Carnegie Mellon University and is particularly proud to be a Michigan Wolverine. 

Parag is a technology serial entrepreneur with over 26 years of industry experience, out of which 18 years have been in indigenous high technology startups. At Saankhya he has been the CEO since April 2014. He co-founded Saankhya and was the CTO and VP Marketing between 2007-2014 contributing to the product roadmaps and designing the award winning Saankhya SDR architecture. Saankhya is India’s first private fabless semiconductor company. Prior to Saankhya he co-founded Smart Yantra technologies in 2000 and Vayavya Labs India’s first Electronic Design Automation Company in 2006. Smart Yantra was acquired by Genesis Microchip in 2004. Early on in his career he worked on the Mission Computer hardware and software for India’s indigenous LCA Tejas and at Philips Innovation Labs as one of its early members building worlds early DTV and STB receivers.

​Parag is considered one of the foremost experts in the world on Software Defined Radios (SDR) as a technology for broadcasting, TV White Space Technologies for rural broadband and defense communications. He is also credited with nurturing and building the hardware startup ecosystem in the Bengaluru region. Under his leadership Saankhya has designed and successfully launched indigenous SDR chipsets and sat-com products for a variety of applications.

​He is a named inventor on 19 US and India patents in the areas of VLSI design, CPU/SDR architecture, Digital Communications, Signal Processing and Hardware-Software Co-design/ Code generators. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering (1992)from Karnatak University, India.

Madeleine Noland is the President of the Advanced Television Systems Committee Inc. A 20-year industry veteran who is 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. Previously, she chaired various ATSC 3.0-related specialist groups, ad hoc groups and implementation teams since 2012.

Noland began her career in the television industry in 2004 with Backchannelmedia Inc., an interactive television technology developer. It was during her work there that she first became involved in ATSC projects. In 2012, she moved on to product and project management roles at Telvue Corp. before joining LG Electronics CTO’s office in 2013. Noland represented LG in a variety of industry organizations for over six years.

Most recently, Madeleine was awarded the prestigious 2022 David Sarnoff Medal by the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE) in a ceremony held in Hollywood, California. 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, while the Chair of TG-3, 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 Next Gen TV.

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, and she plays keyboards in a band called “Brave Pursuit.”

As Chief Technology Officer for Austin PBS, Chris is responsible for all technology strategy and operations, and has led a multi-year initiative to revitalize both. From automation/playout to field acquisition to post-production, he has focused on increasing efficiency and capacity while enabling transformation, culminating in the design and build of the Austin Media Center - a state of the art production facility that's currently the largest 12G installation in the country. He also oversees the ongoing digitization and archival of over 40 years of Austin City Limits, and co-produced the VR series "ACL: Backstage." And in his free time, he's the Co-Chair of the Major Market Group CTO Cohort and represents Texas in the Organization of State Broadcast Engineers.

Joonyoung Park is senior vice president and fellow at DigiCAP. DigiCAP has been supplying NextGen Broadcast end-to-end solutions to broadcasters in South Korea and the US. Joonyoung is the architect of HomeCaster product line where HomeCaster is a home gateway device capable to recast both ATSC 1.0 and 3.0 signals over Wi-Fi and Ethernet. HomeCaster has been commercially deployed to US schools and has been helping to close so called the homework gap utilizing datacasting. Before joining DigiCAP, Joonyoung had been leading new Internet device development & commercialization at NAGRA, as vice president of engineering for 5 years.

Skip Pizzi is Owner and Principal at Skip Pizzi Media Consultant LLC, a media technology consulting firm based in the Philadelphia area. His career has spanned the radio, television and digital media industries, with 13 years at NPR, 11 years at Microsoft, and 10 years at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB, where he held the position of Vice President, Technology Education and Outreach). He has also been a featured columnist for numerous industry publications, and spent 7 years as an editor at Broadcast Engineering magazine.

Skip has authored, co-authored or edited several books, most recently A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-Engineers, 4th edition, and the NAB Engineering Handbook, 11th edition, both published by Focal Press/Routledge.

He has served as Vice Chair of the Advanced Television Systems Committee’s Technology Group 3 (TG3, which developed the ATSC 3.0 standard) since its inception in 2011, and currently also chairs the ATSC Brazil Implementation Team (IT-4), which is working with Brazilian broadcasters and technologists to design that country’s next-generation television standard. He was the 2017 recipient of ATSC’s Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award, the organization’s highest technical honor.

Skip currently represents LG Electronics/Zenith and Fraunhofer USA in several media standards development organizations, and is a senior advisor to the Public Media Venture Group. He has also served as project manager for the NextGen TV transition of public stations WNET and WLIW in New York City.

Ransomware survivor & cybersecurity leader in the public sector. I led the recovery efforts & technological pivot of KQED's systems after a massive ransomware attack on June 15, 2017. In hindsight, the most brutally stressful chapter of my career (so far), and an experience I wouldn't trade for the world.

A highly reputable, 30+ year Executive with multiple disciplines on the global technology stage. Positions range from Global Sales Leadership and Business Development to Global Design and Strategy for Product Deployment and Support. Strong track record of start-up implementation and scale in segments ranging from VOIP to Long-range Communication solutions for the Railroad Industry. He is credited creating four embedded form factors EmITX, Pico-ITX, Nano-ITX and Femto-ITX.

His efforts and solutions have positively impacted a wide range of industries from; Military applications, Medical, Telco, parallel computing, Industrial, Retail, Oil& Gas, Enterprise IT, storage solutions and currently AI, 5G and distributed edge computing technology implementations.

​Alp was born in Yverdon, Switzerland and grew up in Istanbul, Turkey (he speaks English, Turkish and French) graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a Physics Degree and attended graduate school at San Diego State University in Physics.

Jim Stenberg is an owner and principal engineer of Over The Air RF Consulting LLC, a broadcast engineering consultancy.  He started the company with Paul Shulins in 2023 after acquiring Greg Best Consulting.  OTA RF LLC serves both television and radio license holders with RF coverage and interference prediction, FCC licensing assistance and transmission infrastructure project management.  Prior to forming OTA RF, Stenberg was EVP of RF infrastructure at Signal Infrastructure Group PBC where he oversaw nextgen TV Single Frequency Networks (SFN) and other RF infrastructure design and installation.   Prior to joining SIG, he was with American Tower Corporation for 8 years as a principal broadcast RF engineer where he was a subject matter expert for the company regarding broadcast antennas and rf systems particularly their multi-tenant broadband systems.  Earlier he ran his own broadcast consulting and field service business, worked for several filter/antenna manufacturers and designed and built numerous TV and FM RF systems.  He has been awarded 9 US patents, written and presented numerous papers, and in 2020 he was awarded the NAB Television Engineering Achievement Award.  He lives in Portland, Maine and has a BSEE from the University of Massachusetts - Lowell.

Ling Ling Sun is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Nebraska Public Media, a state network, joint licensee provides content and services through its statewide TV and Radio over the air broadcast transmission and other multi-media platforms. Using a viable system model as a tool, Ling Ling leads technology transformation at Nebraska Public Media and has led her team successfully completed and embarked many projects and initiatives that enhance and expand Nebraska Public Media services.

​From 2013 to 2018, Ling Ling served two terms, as Chair of PBS ETAC, and a member of PBS Interconnection Committee. Currently, Ling Ling serves as chair of the NAB BEIT Conference Program Committee, and as a member of Nebraska Information Technology Commission Technical Panel. She is a 2019 National Technology Leadership Award honoree by Broadcast & Cable. Ling Ling was among the “Top 50 Women Leaders in Technology of 2022” and “The Top 50 Women Leaders in Media of 2023”, announced by “Women We Admire”. She is Marquis Who’s Who 2023 Honored Listee.

Brant Wells is the Senior Director of TV and Digital Operations at WKAR Public Media in East Lansing, Michigan. In this role, Brant oversees the station’s television production from end to end, digital platform distribution, and engineering/master control operations. Brant is also an adjunct professor at Michigan State University teaching post production. In his leadership role, Brant is dedicated to the future of Public Television through education, mentorship, and service with emphasis on DEIB initiatives to support the next generation of storytellers. Brant served on the PBS Digital Media Advisory Council (DMAC) from 2019 to 2022 serving as Vice Chair in 2020 and Chair in 2021. Currently he serves on the Engineering and Technology Advisory Council (ETAC), PBS Digital Distribution Working Group and PSB Local Presence Working Group. Prior to joining WKAR in 2016, Brant spent 11 years as a post-production specialist in Los Angeles and Florida.

Denise Willsey heads up HPE North America Sales Strategy and Business Development focused on Broadcast and Media & Entertainment. Denise has more than 20 years experience in the telecommunications industry. In her current capacity, she takes responsibility for cloud solutions and services enabling Broadcasters and M&E companies to transform their operations and evolve their business generating new and diversified revenue streams. Denise lives in Kansas City, enjoys traveling and is a die hard Kansas City Chiefs fan.