The Audio Engineering Society will be giving us an update on their latest work before we get an update on the latest developments on projects within the standards community. You’re encouraged to bring questions for the presenters.

Guest Speaker: Bruce Devlin
Bruce Devlin has been working in the media industry for 30 years and is the chief media scientist at Dalet Digital Media Systems as well as the founder of Mr MXF Ltd. and co-founder of the Media Bay LLC. He is well known in the industry for his technology presentations, especially his educational YouTube series—Bruce’s Shorts. Devlin has designed everything from ASICs to algorithms. He tweets as @MrMXF chaired the SMPTE working groups and literally wrote the book on the MXF format. Devlin is an alumnus of Queens’ College Cambridge England. He is a member of the International Association of Broadcast Manufacturers (IABM) and Digital Production Partnership, a fellow and U.K. Governor of SMPTE, a recipient of SMPTE’s David Sarnoff Medal, a recipient of BKSTS’ Achievement award, keen to educate the world about media and a rider of bicycles (occasionally quickly). Devlin is also a recipient of the SMPTE Excellence in Standards award.

Guest Speaker: Thomas Bause Mason
Thomas Bause Mason, whose extensive engineering experience includes the development of patented media technologies and in-depth involvement in standards creation while serving in roles with West German Television (WDR), Cologne Broadcasting Center (CBC), Ascent Media, and NBCUniversal in Los Angeles, is currently the owner and managing director of Open Media Consulting. While at NBCUniversal, he was the company’s lead on the Video Services Forum (VSF) TR03/TR04 and SMPTE ST 2110 standardization effort. Mason also has chaired the North American Broadcasters Association (NABA) Media over IP (MoIP) Subcommittee; organized the MoIP Workshop — presented by the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS), NABA, SMPTE, and VSF — that promoted the use of SMPTE ST 2110; and chaired the SMPTE Studio Group on Flow Management in Professional Media Networks.

Guest Speaker: Bruce C. Olson
Bruce C. Olson is the founding member of Olson Sound Design, a consulting firm started in 1991 specializing in acoustical and technical systems design. As the Chair of the Audio Engineering Society Standards Committee (AESSC), and having served as the Chair of the AES Working Group on Grounding and EMC Practices (SC-05-05), Vice-Chair of the AES Technical Committee for EMC (AESTC-EMC), and as a member of various AES standards groups, Bruce is actively involved in the latest technology in audio and acoustics. He has also served as Chair, Treasurer, and committee member of his local AES chapter, Governor of the AES, and President of his local ASA chapter. He is a Fellow of the AES and the ASA, and a member of IEEE, SMPTE, Syn-Aud-Con and USITT.

Guest Speaker: Rich Cabot
Dr. Cabot received BS, MS and PhD degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After 6 years in engineering at Tektronix, he co-founded Audio Precision. Upon leaving in 2001 and completing an MBA at Pepperdine University, he started XFRM, Inc. a research and consulting firm in digital audio technology. Dr. Cabot is Standards Manager for the Audio Engineering Society and is a Fellow and past President. He has presented numerous papers on, and holds numerous patents in, several areas of audio technology