Board of Directors

Annie Chang is the Vice President, Creative Technologies for Universal Pictures, responsible for developing strategies and designing innovative next-generation workflows across film and emerging immersive media experiences. Prior to joining Universal Pictures, Chang was the VP, Technology for Marvel Studios and held various roles at The Walt Disney Studios. During her career, she has chaired many industry leading committees, is an SMPTE Fellow, is a recipient of the SMPTE Workflow Systems Medal Award and has been honored with numerous industry awards including being named on The Hollywood Reporter’s list of top “Hollywood Innovators” in 2020. In 2021, Hollywood Professional Association honored Chang with the HPA League Honor of “The Catalyst” which recognizes a leader who has successfully inspired and sparked positive change and innovation in entertainment as a “mover and shaker,” and TVNewsCheck recognized Chang with their Women in Technology Futurist Award. In 2022, Women in Technology Hollywood honored Chang with their WiTH Leadership Award.

Bill Baggelaar is a visionary leader in entertainment technology, renowned for driving innovation in
production, post-production, and delivery of creative content. As the former Chief Technology Officer at Sony Pictures Entertainment, he spearheaded the adoption of numerous media technologies, establishing Sony Pictures as a pioneer in immersive picture and sound workflows, revolutionizing the consumer experience and solidifying the company’s position as a leading content provider.

Prior to his work at Sony Pictures, Bill held positions at Warner Bros. as the VP of Technology and as the Head of Technology for Warner Bros. Feature Animation on several animated feature films. Bill has also dedicated a significant portion of his career to the preservation and restoration of cinematic and television classics.

Bill is a highly respected, active leader in multiple industry organizations and initiatives. He serves as cochair of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ Science & Technology Council and co-chair of the ACES Project, contributing significantly to the advancement of industry standards. His leadership extends to the Television Academy’s Generative AI Summit. Beyond his role as a member of SMPTE and the Advanced Imaging Society, Bill actively collaborates with the American Society of Cinematographers on technical projects. His commitment to industry progress is further evidenced by his co-authorship of the MovieLabs 2030 Vision white paper (The Evolution of Media Creation), outlining a roadmap for the future of media creation.

Bill Mandel is Vice President of Samsung Research America’s Digital Media Solutions Lab working to grow HDR ecosystems across home and cinema.

Xperi provides DTS audio technology to content creators, digital media companies and electronics manufacturers.  Xperi creates a compelling UltraHD experience for consumers by enabling immersive audio for disc, broadcast and streaming.

As Senior Director, Strategy & Standards, Pete represents Xperi in a number of national and international standards and industry alliances including the UHD Alliance, ATSC and SMPTE.

Prior to his role in Xperi, Pete was Associate Director at the DTG (Digital TV group) in the UK, leading all activity within Broadcast, Hybrid and Advanced AV, and was Editor-in-Chief of the D-Book, the UK specification for DTT. Before this Pete began his career at the BBC before running technical operations for Freesat, the UK FTA satellite platform.

Olivier Wellmann is the Director of Product & Program for Amazon Prime Video, responsible for video playback, streaming, delivery, and video playback – across [Live, Linear, and on-demand], including ingest, encoding, packaging, streaming distribution, delivery optimization & caching, video heuristics, advertising, measurement & analytics, and video players. Before that, Olivier was Senior Vice President at Samba TV. The high growth startup brings solutions to improve the viewing experience through media management, content discovery, and addressable advertising. He was also Vice President of Product Management at Conviva that develops an AI platform for intelligent measurement and analytics for the over-the-top market. He drove as Vice President of Product Development the Middleware, UEX, and Multi-Screens Products at Nagra Kudelski. Olivier was VP of Advanced Advertising solutions at OpenTV (now Imagine Communications). Earlier, Olivier was involved with technology start-up Singularis, active in pioneering work on personalization, recommendation & profiling. In a previous life, Olivier worked in advertising with Wunderman and Young & Rubicam as a Data Miner working for Ford, P&G, Ericsson, Levi’s, or IBM on large-scale initiatives driving television ads, interactive, and customer relationship management. He holds a quantitative BS in Economics with a Financial Math specialization from HEC Switzerland, an MS from Northwestern University, and an MBA from London Business School.

As Group Manager, Home Entertainment Alliance, Panasonic R&D Company of America, Makoto Morise is responsible for partnership and alliance activities for TV, Blu-ray and VR business.

Through his professional career, Makoto has ample experience in industry group activities for Panasonic in the global home entertainment industry. Key involvement includes (a) formation and operation of Blu-ray Disc Association as Secretary, Chief Financial Officer and Director, (b) operation and strategic direction of UHD Alliance as Director and Secretary and (c ) formation and operation of HDR10+ Technologies, LLC as Manager, among others.

Miles DelHoyo is Executive Director, Technical Strategy & New Format Integration for Warner Bros. Content Creative Services. He is a workflow architect lead and content specifications author of new and emerging entertainment technologies into Warner Bros. content production & operations supply chain.  One of his primary areas of focus since 2015 has been in leading studio efforts around mastering and distributing content in a UHD High Dynamic Range picture format.

As a multimedia entertainment business professional for the past 20+ years, Miles has been at the forefront of several major digital Audio/Video technology advancements and distribution methods within the Hollywood studio industry.