Full Name
Peter Wharton
Company
TAG VS
Job Title
Director, Corporate Strategy
Expert Topics
Running Television Operations in the Cloud
Where a TV Channel Begins: Master Control and Playout
Making Sure Everything Works: The Art of Monitoring and Control
Expert Topic Description
Running Television Operations in the Cloud - Peter specializes in heling media companies migrate their playout systems into public clouds and has worked with several networks and broadcast groups on migrating and launching cloud-based linear supply chains.

Where a TV Channel Begins: Master Control and Playout - Peter has spent twenty years specializing in the design and implementation of master control and playout technologies and facilities. He is the author of the section on master control and playout in the most recent NAB Broadcast Engineering Handbook.

Making Sure Everything Works: The Art of Monitoring and Control - Television systems can be extremely complex. Peter has designed numerous monitoring and control projects for networks, station groups and media facilities and will discuss how these systems make it possible for operators to manage complex media systems.
Speaker Bio
Peter Wharton is the Director of Corporate Strategy for TAG Video Systems which makes innovative all-IP monitoring systems, and also serves as an advisor to other industry-leading media technology companies.

He is the founder of Happy Robotz LLC, a media technology engineering, development and consulting company that focuses on creating transformative cloud-based media operations through intelligent, cost-managed and highly automated end-to-end workflows.

Peter has also held a range engineering, product management, live production and business development roles at Grass Valley, BroadStream Solutions, PanAmSat, Fox and ABC Networks.

A SMPTE Fellow, he currently serves as SMPTE’s Membership VP, is the incoming Education VP and previously served as the Secretary/Treasurer and Eastern Regional Governor. He has produced the “Bits by the Bay” SMPTE technology conference in the Washington DC area since 1999.
Peter Wharton