Speakers include:

         

        Tony Beswick is Senior Vice President of Business Operations and Technology for Sony Pictures Entertainment and has over 20 years of experience in engineering, operations and management, encompassing many disciplines related to cable, satellite, international and studio production/ post-production. Previously Beswick served as vice president and managing director for Ascent Media Group where he was responsible for the management and operations. It was here that he first became involved in the industry trend to move from physical content management to data file management within the post-production environment. He also served as Vice President of Operations and Engineering for Audio Plus Video International where he was responsible for all aspects relating to technical operations. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

        Martin Jacobson is presently Head of Technology and Development at The Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images. He studied Electronic Engineering Technology and has twenty-five years experience in technology issues including communications and audiovisual applications and systems. For more than a decade he has focused primarily on digitization and preservation issues related to audiovisual content. He has recently led a successful effort to create an automated mass digitization facility with a capacity of 650 thousand hours per year. He teaches classes in Digital Archiving at the University of Stockholm, and Audiovisual Digitization at the University of Gothenburg.

        Edrolfo Leones is Director of Global Media Asset Strategies for The Walt Disney Company. He partners with senior managers across the Company developing strategic initiatives to integrate diverse Media Asset Management (MAM), Intellectual Property Rights Management (IPRM) and emerging business technologies.

        Victoria McCargar is a digital archives consultant and veteran journalist whose research focus is the long-term preservation of digital objects. She worked at the Los Angeles Times for more than 25 years in both news and access technology, participating in numerous innovative digitization projects in various media. She has participated in digital preservation research for InterPARES, PREMIS, and the Center for Research Libraries and was awarded the David Rhydwen award for scholarly research benefiting news librarianship by the News Division of SLA in 2006. She holds master’s degrees in library and information science from UCLA and in science and medical reporting from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Consulting clients include the Annenberg Foundation, Tribune Co., University of Missouri Libraries, Columbia Missourian, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Los Angeles Gay Men’s Chorus.

        Nate McQueen is a systems architect working in the area of digital asset management for the ResearchChannel. His projects include DigitalWell, ResearchChannel.org and building infrastructure for streaming services at the University of Washington. His previous experience includes ground breaking work in Web-Casting and live streaming for the 96' Democratic National Convention and infrastructure management during the .com era.

        Andy Maltz is Director of the Science and Technology Council at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has been involved with entertainment technology management, business development and system design for over 25 years. As the first director of the Academy's new Science and Technology Council, Mr. Maltz was responsible for initiating the Council’s operations, and developing and implementing its operational plan.

        Previous to the Academy, Mr. Maltz was CEO of Avica Technology Corporation, where he led the first worldwide commercial deployment of digital cinema servers, drove the development of key technologies for digital cinema, and was heavily involved with the digital releases of many major motion pictures in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Previous to Avica, Mr. Maltz served for five years as a consultant to companies such as Microsoft and Sharp Electronics Corporation, where he spearheaded the development of the Advanced Authoring Format, a widely adopted professional media interchange file format. From 1985 through 1994 he was executive vice president of operations and engineering for nonlinear editing pioneer Ediflex Digital Systems. Mr. Maltz received his B.S.E.E. from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

        Mr. Maltz is an active member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, an associate member of the American Society of Cinematographers, and a member of the National Archives Public Advisory Committee for Electronic Records Archives.

        Colleen Quinn is the Director of Product Management for Ascent Media’s Digital Media Center, focused on the development of AMG’s Digital Asset Management application. Quinn brings over ten years of expertise in television production, technology design and software development. Prior to joining AMG, she served as Vice President of Technology for Countrywide Lending. In this role, she was responsible for the development, deployment and enhancement of all operational business systems. Quinn served as principal and partner with SoftArt Management Consulting where she lead the deployment of ROI driven supply chain/sourcing strategies and the implementation of e-procurement technologies.

        Tom Regal holds a B.S. Degree in Music with a concentration in Studio Recording from the College of St. Rose in Albany, NY. After a number of years in the music industry, Tom has devoted the last 15 years specializing in audio restoration and preservation of films. He has engaged in a wide range of projects from salvaging damaged elements to complete soundtrack restorations, including films such as Springtime for Henry (1928), The Love Trap (1928), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Rebel Without a Cause (1955), The Shining (1980), and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

        Currently, Tom is Director of the Audio Restoration and Preservation group for Universal Studios. The group is based at BluWave Audio and is responsible for the preservation of the audio assets for NBCUniversal as well as the continued development of their digital archival specification.

        As part of the Universal Studios Sound department, BluWave Audio is an internationally recognized post-production sound facility that specializes in the restoration and preservation of audio elements.

        Milt Shefter is President and Principal of Miljoy Ent. Inc, a Media Asset Strategies Project Management and Consultancy. His clients include copyright owners of large libraries of moving image and recorded sound content. He was the Moving Image Consultant for the U.S. Library of Congress' new National Audio Visual Conservation Center. Milt is past President of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, and past Chair of the International Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archive Associations. He serves on the NPFA committee overseeing nitrate film issues. He is currently a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the American Society of Cinematographers.

        Philip Spiegel is Director, Archives and Cataloguing at National Geographic. Phil has over 17 years of stock library, post production and media experience. At National Geographic, he is currently leading a team that is working on a major initiative to digitize the Archive holdings to support multiple business unit needs, increase revenue streams and improve society-wide accessibility to the vast content holdings. Prior to his role at NGDM, Philip worked for nearly 3 years at Corbis Motion and nearly 13 years at The Image Bank / Getty Images.

        Madi Solomon is currently an independent consultant and taxonomy analyst specializing in rich media. As the former Corporate Nomenclature Taxonomist for The Walt Disney Company, Madi was responsible for the development of their core metadata standards, cataloging best practices and corporate taxonomy.  She continues to work with the company on the development of their Moving Image Core metadata model.   Prior to joining Disney, she was Project Associate at the Getty Information Institute in Network Initiatives in Standards and Vocabularies, and Curatorial Assistant for the Broad Art Foundation. 

        Linda Tadic is Director of Operations for ARTstor, a subscription-based digital library of over 500,000 images of art, architecture, and cultural objects with contributions from around the globe. ( www.artstor.org). She has over 20 years experience working with and managing film, digital, and broadcasting collections. Prior to her position with ARTstor, she was Manager of the Digital Library at Home Box Office (HBO). Previously, she was Digital Projects Coordinator at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Ms. Tadic’s archival film and broadcasting experience includes the position of Director of the Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, one of the largest collections of broadcasting in the United States. She was President of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) from 1998-1999, and is currently chair of its Digital Initiatives Committee. Ms. Tadic is an adjunct professor at the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program at New York University, and is co-author of the book Descriptive Metadata for Television: an End-to-End Introduction (Focal Press, 2006). She has an MLIS from the University of California, Berkeley; an MFA from the University of California, San Diego; and a BFA from California Institute of the Arts.

        Jeff Taylor is Chief Engineer, Post Production Sound at Universal Studios.

        Mr. Taylor is currently serving as the Chief Engineer at Universal Studios Post Production Sound Services. He is responsible for all design work in the continual updating and expansion of the Sound Facilities. Mr. Taylor was the principal designer of the Bluwave Audio Facility located on the Universal City Lot.

        Prior to joining Universal, Mr. Taylor was the Managing Director of Research and Development at Sony Pictures. While at Sony, Mr. Taylor was the development manager for Sony’s digital theatrical release system, SDDS. Mr. Taylor holds numerous patents in the US and Japan for his work while at Sony.

        Mr. Taylor has also worked at Walt Disney Pictures Feature Animation, Lucasfilm Ltd., Motown Studios, and Sunset Sound Recorders.

        Mr. Taylor received his education at California Institute of the Arts. He is an active member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, SMPTE, and AES.