 Emily Dubs
Head of Technology, DVB Project Office
Emily took up the post of Head of Technology in the DVB Project Office in January 2020 having spent more than 20 years in the digital television industry. She has worked with several DVB Members across a variety of roles, including with Thomson Video Networks (now Harmonic), TeamCast (now ENENSYS Technologies) and SmarDTV/Neotion. Emily has strong expertise in the traditional broadcast world along with a solid grounding in emerging technologies from the broadband world. As Head of Technology, Emily leads on all technical and standardisation matters within DVB, and along with DVB Chair Peter MacAvock is the public face of DVB, representing the organisation around the world at conferences and tradeshows and supporting DVB’s modules and working groups.
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 Kensuke
Hisatomi
NHK, Japan
Kensuke Hisatomi received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in applied physics from Waseda University, Japan, in 1997 and 1999, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in information science and technology from the university of Tokyo in 2016. He joined NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) in 1999. From 2003 to 2007, he was with the Engineering Administration Department, NHK, where he was involved in the development of digital broadcasting. He has been with Science & Technology Research Laboratories, NHK, since 2007 where he was involved in the research on 3D video processing, 3D reconstruction, and integral 3D video. He was a visiting researcher with Surrey University, U.K., from 2010 to 2011. His current research interests include augmented reality, virtual reality, and light-field display. |
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Jinane Karam
Spectrum expert, Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, Lebanon
Jinane has long experience in telecom regulations and has also a significant role in developing the national spectrum policy, the National Frequency Allocation Table and the licensing guidelines for different radio services. She represented TRA and the Lebanese administration in number of international and regional meetings such as the ITU-D Study Group meetings, ITU-R Study Groups and Working Parties, as well as the World Radiocommunications Conference in 2007, 2012 and The World Telecommunications Development Conference in 2014 and 2017. She was appointed as Vice Rapporteur for ITU-D SG1 Q8/1 for the Study Group Period (2014-2017) and currently, she is Vice Rapporteur for ITU-D SG1 Q2/1 (2018-2021) dealing with strategies and methods of migration to digital TV and sound broadcasting and trends in broadcasting technologies and applications. Prior to joining the TRA, Jinane worked as spectrum engineer at the Ministry of Telecommunications. Mrs. Karam holds a Master in Electronic Engineering and a Master in Radiocommunications Engineering from UVSQ, France. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications, Computer Networks from Saint Joseph University USJ, Lebanon.
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 Nam-Doo Kim
Research Fellow, Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI)
Nam-Doo Kim is a research fellow working for the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI), a government-affiliated leading ICT policy research institute. He received his Ph. D. in communication in 2006 from the University of Texas-Austin. He joined KISDI in 2008, and since then he has conducted a number of policy studies focused on regulations of broadcasting and other audiovisual media services at the Broadcasting and Media Research Division of KISDI. He specializes in media regulations and policy issues related to ICT convergence.
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 Arvind Kumar
Advisor (Broadcasting), TRAI, India
Mr Arvind Kumar did M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras. He has more than 22 years of Experience in the Telecom and Broadcasting Sector and 15 years in Telecom and Broadcasting Regulations. He has worked at various senior positions in the Research and Development centre of Government of India i.e. Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). He has worked in a number of very important subject such as Data privacy, Promoting Domestic manufacturing, Licensing, Spectrum Management, Broadband, Convergence, Tariff, Interconnection and QOS related issues in broadcasting sector. He has also worked as a Rapportuer in International Telecommunication Union (ITU-D) on ‘Migration from existing networks to next generation networks’ from 2006-2014. Presently he is working as an Advisor (Broadcasting and Cable Services) in TRAI.
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 Leilei Li
Professor-level Senior Engineer, Academy of Broadcasting Planning, NRTA
Dr. Leilei Li has worked in the Academy of Broadcasting Planning, NRTA since 2009. He graduated with PhD from Loughborough University in UK. He has published over 30 conference and journal papers including in IEEE transactions and won lots of awards of provincial level. His interest fields include signal processing, frequency planning & coordination for digital terrestrial TV (DTTV), technical tests and research on DTTV. As an experienced expert on DTTV technology, he has attended several international meetings for frequency planning and coordination in border areas since 2009. In addition, he also provides technical support work for NRTA on ITU and attended several ITU-R meetings. He is also the chairman spectrum topic area of ABU Technical Bureau.
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 Noah Luo
ITU-T SG16 Chairman, Director, Dept. of Industry and Standards (West Europe), Huawei
Noah Luo is ITU-T SG16 Chairman. Mr. Luo is a senior standards and strategic expert from Huawei Technologies, Co., Ltd., director of Huawei Dept. of Industry and Standards (West Europe) which has a wide range of responsibilities including standards, industry collaboration, ecosystems and telecom regulatory policies, etc. Mr. Luo is active in various standards fields including Network Functionalities Virtualization(NFV), multimedia communication, cloud computing, etc. He is now leading Huawei’ s standards work in the areas of NFV and multimedia.
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 Satoshi Miyaji
Chair ITU-T SG9, KDDI, Japan
Dr. Miyaji has a long history of participating in the ITU-T SG9 (“television and sound transmission, and integrated broadband cable") almost for twenty (20) years as an expert of broadcasting and telecommunications particularly for cable television networks and services. He served as Vice Chairman of SG9 and Chairman of WP1/9 for eight (8) years in 2009 – 2016. At the WTSA-16 (General Assembly of ITU-T), he has been appointed as Chairman of SG9 for the Study Period 2017 – 2020. In KDDI, he is now responsible for development and deployment of entertainment-related business and services such as video streaming, music distribution, e-books, live concert, and so on. |
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 Jon Montalban
Senior Researcher, Assistant Professor, University of the Basque Country I IEEE BTS
Jon Montalban works as a Senior Researcher and Assistant Professor at the University of the Basque Country since 2016. He has been part of the TSR (Radiocommunications and Signal Processing) research group for more than ten years. He has held visiting research appointments at Communication Research Centre (CRC), Canada, and Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland. He was part of one of the international groups that developed the Layered Division Multiplexing technique, currently part of the ATSC 3.0 standard. His current research interests are in the area of wireless communications architectures and networking for 5G and beyond. He is the co-recipient of the Scott Helt Memorial Award to recognize the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting in 2019. He has served as a reviewer for several renowned international journals and conferences in the area of wireless communications and currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Access and the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. |
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Richard Moreton
Samsung Electronics R&D Institute UK, Business Development and Industrial Affairs
Richard works in the Business Development and Industrial Affairs team for Samsung R&D Institute where he supports Samsung's European activities within the digital television market, including development of new TV standards and forming strategic partnerships to help showcase the latest technology on Samsung's televisions. Samsung is pioneering in the industry with its latest televisions supporting a new range of innovative advanced features with more in the pipeline. With over twenty years' experience in the TV industry Richard has been involved with both hardware and software for digital televisions, particularly digital terrestrial, since shortly before its launch in 1998 and also has experience in the RF, semiconductor software and television segments. |
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 Parag Naik
Co-founder and CEO, Saankhya Labs
Parag is a technology serial entrepreneur with over 28 years of industry experience, out of which 19 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 companies. He is also a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to Saankhya he co-founded Smart Yantra technologies in 2000 and Vayavya Labs India’s first Electronic Design Automation Company in 2006. Parag is considered one of the foremost experts in the world on Software Defined Radios (SDR) and Cognitive Radios as a technology for telecom, broadcasting, and is one of the inventors of the 5g broadcast broadband technology. He has designed and invented multiple Computer languages and Instruction Set Architectures. mHe is a named inventor on 40+ international patents in the areas of VLSI design, CPU/SDR architecture, Digital Communications, Signal Processing and Hardware-Software Co-design/ Code generators. Most recently he was chosen by Economic times as one of the “50 promising entrepreneurs in India-2020 “. |
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 Yukihiro Nishida
Chairman, ITU-R Study Group 6, NHK, Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Nishida is an executive research engineer (Fellow) at the Science and Technology Research Laboratories, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Tokyo, Japan. He has been involved in the research and development of many areas of broadcasting technologies, including high-definition television (HDTV), ultrahigh-definition television (UHDTV), high-dynamic range (HDR) TV, digital broadcasting, video coding, multiplexing, and quality evaluation. He is also active in the standardization of broadcast technologies in the International Telecommunication Union – Radiocommunication (ITU-R) Sector and the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB), Japan. He was appointed as the chairman of the ITU-R Study Group 6 in October 2015 and reappointed in October 2019, after having served as the vice chairman of the ITU-R Study Group 6 and the chairman of the Working Party 6B for eight years. |
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 Philomena Pragasam
Director, Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Philomena Gnanapragasam is the Secretariat-Director of the Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) formed under the auspices of UNESCO. She holds a double degree in Psychology and Political Science from UK and Malaysia respectively. She is two time recipient of the Prime Ministers loyalty award and has 15 international awards for radio and television including the prestigious Golden Globe Award. Prior to joining AIBD Philomena was Station Manager of Malaysia’s Pioneer English Radio Station, Traxxfm, RTM. She has significant experience in both radio and television programming and news. Philomena also sits on the board of several universities in Malaysia and as an industry expert, she advises on the media curriculum for communication studies. Currently she is working on reinvigorating AIBDs mandate as an intergovernmental body focusing on key policy and current issues in the region. Her most recent initiative is the Health Communication Manual for media which focuses on accurate reporting of covid 19 and vaccine awareness.
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Amal Punchihewa
Researcher in Broadcast, media & ICT, ITU Expert and Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE-BTS
Amal Punchihewa graduated with BSc (Eng) Hons specialised in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Sri Lanka, MEng from the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands & PhD from Massey University in New Zealand. He has published over 130 scholarly articles (peer-refereed technical journal and conference articles) in various journals including IEEE and IET digital libraries and transactions. He has held visiting positions at Tokyo University of Science (Japan) as a visiting associate professor and visiting professor. He was a Royal Dutch fellow of Netherlands and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS of Japan). He has served on technical/programme committees, organizing committees and as track/session chairs for many international conferences. He advised on many International conferences including CCBN conference in China, BES in India and BCA in Singapore. Amal inspires innovation of media technology in the complete chain of media, starting from acquisition to consumption in the broadcasting industry. He influences the development of media technology in the best interest of the global community. Amal is a Chartered Professional Engineer and Fellow of IET(UK) and a senior member of IEEE(USA) He is also a distinguished lecturer of IEEE-Broadcast Technology Society. He is FEngNZ(Rtd.) was elected a Fellow for advancing engineering knowledge and practice. Amal is recognised in New Zealand and internationally as an information and communications technology engineering expert. He has been a leader in regional and international broadcast engineering, supporting the development of modern radio & television services. He possesses more than 35 years of experience in all three sectors of broadcasting; viz. Academia, Research and Industry in senior broadcasting technology and ICT roles, including research and developments, regional capacity building in media and head of engineering of national television - SLRC-Rupavahini in Sri Lanka, having started a career in computer engineering. Amal facilitates and advocates technical guidelines and standards, and provides expertise related to the convergence of media, and evolving technology needs. He creates, encourages, and manages member communities, and understands and explains the trends that shape the media, to empower media & ICT stakeholders to continue to take good strategic decisions.
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 Andy Quested
Chair, ITU-R WP 6C & Co-chair, ITU IRG-AVA
Andy Quested joined the BBC as a Technical Assistant in 1978 becoming a video-tape editor in 1985 where he worked on many comedy, children’s and documentary series including editing all episodes of the BBC comedy “Keeping Up Appearances”! He also worked on the introducing of non-linear editing, stereo and widescreen production. In 1998 Andy moved to a new BBC technology department working on the BBC’s first HD programmes including Planet Earth I and the first UHD programme, Planet Earth II. He is an active member of SMPTE, becoming a Fellow in 2014 recognising his work on prediction standards and has chaired several ITU-R Rapporteur Groups including the group that developed the HDR Recommendation ITU-R BT.2100. In 2015 he became chair of Working Party 6C itself where he initiated new areas of study on Advanced Immersive Sensual Media Systems and the use of Artificial Intelligence in content production and international programme exchange At the end of 2020 after over 40 years Andy left the BBC however he is currently the lead of the EBU Production Strategic Programme Group, chair of the ITU-R Working Party 6C on production and exchange and co-chair of the ITU group on audiovisual media accessibility. At the end of 2020 after over 40 years Andy left the BBC however he is currently the lead of the EBU Production Strategic Programme Group, chair of the ITU-R Working Party 6C on production and exchange and co-chair of the ITU group on audiovisual media accessibility. |
Tatsuo Shibata
Director, Japan Cable Laboratories
Tatsuo Shibata is currently with Japan Cable Laboratories (JLabs), a non-profit organization comprised of Japanese cable operators and vendors, where he is involved in research, development, and standardization of new technologies. Before joining JLabs, he was with KDDI and KDDI R&D Labs, and developed technologies related to mobile TV and cable television. He was KDDI's focal point for KDDI Corporation during 1996-2004, and while overseeing the company's ITU-T activities, he served as a rapporteur of ITU-T TSAG.
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 Ana Eliza Faria e Silva
Co-chair ITU IRG-IBB, Head of Technical Regulatory Affairs, TV Globo
Graduated on electrical engineer from UNICAMP, she holds a Master’s in subjective video evaluation from UNICAMP, an MBA in Management from the Dom Cabral Foundation and an MBA in Telecommunications from IBMEC. She has been involved in several groundbreaking projects in video transmission and led the DTTB standardization in Brazil. She is currently the head of the Technical Regulatory Affairs at TV Globo and coordinates projects towards the Analogue switchover in Brazil. Her current interests are the development of innovative and disruptive businesses models from the next generation of TV technology. Ana is the former Director of Technology of Brazilian Society of Television Engineering and former chair of the Technical Module within Forum of the Brazilian Digital Terrestrial Television System. She remains an active contributor to ITU-R where she is a vice chair of the Broadcasting Study Group.
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 Supatrasit Suansook
Director of Television Engineering Division, Broadcasting Technology and Engineering Bureau, Office of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), Thailand
Supatrasit Suansook is a Director of Television Engineering Division, Broadcasting Technology and Engineering Bureau, Office of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), Thailand. He received his B.Eng. (Honors) in Electrical Engineering from Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) and M.Sc. in Telecommunications from University of Maryland at College Park (USA). He has experiences in both telecommunications and broadcasting sectors. Mr.Supatrasit has been involved in broadcasting industry since 2011, which was the beginning of transition to digital television in Thailand. He is responsible for developing technical regulations and policy of digital terrestrial television including technical specifications, frequency planning, and spectrum management/coordination. In 2019 - 2021, he has been actively working in the 700 MHz re-stacking project, covering the frequency re-planning, project management, and other technical matters. In 2020, he conducted the feasibility study on 4K trial project in Thailand. In addition, Mr.Supatrasit is a delegate to several ITU meetings and regional meetings related to technical issues of broadcasting service.
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 Brian Winji
Regulator, Telecommunications Radiocommunications and Broadcasting Regulator, Vanuatu
Mr Brian Winji is the Telecommunications, Radiocommunications and Broadcasting Regulator of Vanuatu. He comes with a wealth of knowledge and experience in Telecommunications, ICT and Broadcasting. He possesses over fifteen years of experience in the Telecom Industry with Telecom Vanuatu Limited as the Technical Manager, one year as the Technical, Market Monitoring and Competition Manager with the Telecommunications and Radiocommunications Regulator (TRR) of Vanuatu, now as TRBR, one year as the CTO with Orcanet-NZ, one year with the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) as the GBN Technical Advisor, and possess a lot experience in Project Management and Financial Management. Prior to his appointment as the Regulator, Mr Winji has been involved in a lot of Telecommunication projects in Vanuatu as well as internationally. From 1999-2015, Mr Winji was with Telecom Vanuatu Limited, providing a leading role as a Technical Manager and Project Manager, achieving targets while meeting customer expectations. From 2015-2016, he was with TRR as the Technical Manager working on high-level and important projects that includes developing, implementing and enforcing regulatory instruments. From 2016 to 2017, he was recruited by OrcaNET-NZ as CTO, reviewing technical design with Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) for the EM-IIG submarine cable project. In 2017, he was the Technical Advisor with the OGCIO on the “TC PAM VANUATU NETWORK RECONSTRUCTION AND STRENGTHENING PROJECT”. In 2018-2019, he was with Power and Communications Solutions Limited as the Project Manager working on numerous projects related to Telecommunications and Vanuatu Rural Electrification Project (VREP). He is a highly qualified Ni-Vanuatu with a Master of Business Administration from the University of Liverpool, a Master of Engineering Science in Telecommunications and Networking from Curtin University of Technology and a Bachelors degree of Electrical and Communication Engineering from the Papua New Guinea University of Technology.
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 Frank Yan
Deputy Secretary General of China UHD Video Industry Alliance (CUVA), Vice President of Huawei's Industry Development
Frank Yan, Deputy Secretary General of China UHD Video Industry Alliance (CUVA), Vice President of Huawei's Industry Development. He collaborates with industry partners to jointly develop industry initiatives, establish and foster industry alliances, facilitate technical standards and industry policies, plan industry level congress and events, and finally grow market with industry partners. Frank Yan has been engaged in industry development, business consulting and telecom network consulting, and marketing for more than 20 years.
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Hideki Yamamoto
Vice-chairman, ITU-T SG16, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (OKI), Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Hideki Yamamoto is a product manager of video delivery system business unit in Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd in Japan. The product, called OKI MediaServer, is popular as an IPTV platform based on ITU-T H.721 and H.702 and was adopted in ITU IPTV IPv6 Global Testbed (I3GT). He has a long history of IPTV standardization in ITU-T. He was one of editors of the ITU-T recommendation of IPTV audience measurement (ITU-T H.741.0 - H.741.4), IPTV based digital signage system framework (ITU-T H.780), multimedia framework for IPTV (ITU-T H.763.3), accessibility profiles for IPTV services (ITU-T H.702) and so on. Now, he is a vice chairman of ITU-T SG16 (Multimedia and digital services), co-Chairman of WP2 (e-services including accessibility, human interface, vehicular multimedia, digital health and so on) in ITU-T SG16, and Chairman of Expert Group on Multimedia Applications in Asia-Pacific Telecommunity Standardization Program (ASTAP).
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