Maria Ingold | Strategy & Innovation CTO | Speaker
Bio
Maria brings over 20 years as a CTO, deploying successful visual technology across Media and Entertainment. She heads mireality, specialising in media and AI strategy, innovation and advisory.
She recently led global Solution Engineering and Bids & Proposals for Synamedia, the largest global (Americas, APAC and EMEA) video solution vendor for service providers and content owners. As the former CTO for Disney / Sony JV, FilmFlex Movies, Maria delivered some of the most successful on-demand movie services in Europe from launch, including for Virgin Media cable and broadcaster Channel 4. FilmFlex was profitable from year one. With her unique background in Computer Science and Art, Maria started her career at IBM and Ocean Software, helping invent the beginning of audio, video and games on personal computers.
Maria is also a global public speaker, BAFTA film and TV judge and board advisor. She is undertaking an MSc to help shape the impact of AI on media and storytelling.
Curriculum Vitae
- Partner, Artificial Intelligence & Innovation, OTTRED
- Global Vice President Solution Enginering, Synamedia
- Founder and CEO, mireality
- Head of Technology and Operations (CTO), FilmFlex Movies (Disney and Sony JV)
- Head of IT and Development (CTO), OnMedica
- Technical Director (CTO), Digital Arts
- Technical Lead of Broadband / Future TV, Razorfish
- Technical Director (CTO), Notting Hill Electronic Publishers
- Director of Operations, Studio X UK
- Lead Programmer, Ocean / Infogrammes / Atari
- Multimedia Graphics & Video Programmer / Artist, IBM
