Talks
I often give talks and presentations - here's a few highlights:
April 2024Broadcasting in a Networking World
NetMcr - Manchester, UK 🇬🇧
Building on my talk at SMPTE Young Innovators, I wanted to educate a room full of network engineers what challenges I've faced as a broadcast engineer.
March 2024So, you want to run your own streaming service?
SMPTE UK Young Innovators 2025 - Univeristy of York, UK 🇬🇧
With my final university project looming, I wanted to make something that would allow me to explore the physical side of working with video. The world positions itself as cloud-native... but what does that really mean. After some debate, I decided to deploy some physical hardware to make this happen.
September 2024SMPTE Education: Empowering the Innovators of Tomorrow
IBC2024 - Amsterdam, NL 🇳🇱
Along with Renard Jenkins and Richard Welsh (SMPTE President, SMPTE Executive Vice President), we discuss the future of education within the broadcast industry. We also discuss SMPTE's plans to empower young engineers and what we've done so far.
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Adventures with Iridium
Electromagnetic Field 2024 - Eastnor, UK 🇬🇧
How do you transmit data when there’s 205,000 people trying to access the same mobile
network in a field? Satellites, of course! After facing dilemmas of tracking the staff shuttles at a major UK
festival, we decided to look at other options and discovered some cheap Iridium satellite constellation
hardware on eBay.
When they arrived, we surveyed what we had purchased, discovered it was ex-Ministry
of Defense hardware, and hasn’t been scrubbed properly. After getting a new pair of trousers and making the
relevant disclosures, we worked to reverse engineer the hardware and get some usable data transmitting into
space (and back down).
Mobile Phones and Media
Cloud Native Media #13 - London, UK 🇬🇧
The mobile phone has completely changed the media landscape - I take CNM on a walk through history, stopping at key devices and milestones along the way.
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The Brick to the Foldable
MIPI Alliance Member Meeting #62 - Lisbon, PT 🇵🇹
Being the opening presentation of the meeting, I spoke to MIPI members about milestones in mobile phone history, from the brick phone in the 1980s, to foldables in the present day. This prompted lively discussions and stoked interest in the Mobile Phone Museum project.