MTSS Summit 2026
The Media Tech Sustainability Summit returns for its
4th installment on Wednesday 24 June.
Less Talk. More Action.
We're reimagining the Summit this year!
With interactive workshops, the Summit brings together the people building the future of sustainable media technology.
Each 45-minute session is designed to engage you directly with experts to hear industry progress and exchange ideas that will help shape what's next.
Welcome and Opening Keynote
1500 CET | 1400 BT | 0900 ET | 0600 PT
Welcome Remarks
Barbara Lange
Kibo 121
Barbara Lange is a distinguished entrepreneur, executive business leader, and industry speaker with a proven track record in global not-for-profit professional associations. She has served as Executive Director and CEO, earning a reputation for strategic leadership, innovation, and driving organizational success. Known for her ability to collaborate effectively with Boards, Barbara excels in optimizing performance and ensuring long-term growth. Her career includes executive leadership roles at the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA), two of the media tech industry's most influential organizations. Additionally, she has held key positions in business development and product management at IEEE, further solidifying her expertise in advancing technology-driven industries. In 2022, she founded Kibo121, a consultancy committed to guiding industry towards sustainable solutions, encompassing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations. In 2023, together with Dovetail Creative, Kibo121co-founded the Media Tech Sustainability Series (MTSS), a non-commercial program to aid the media tech industry on sustainability issues through webinars, training, and industry events. A certified Sustainability Excellence Associate (SAE), Barbara is deeply engaged in sustainability initiatives. She serves on the board and chairs a working group for the Greening of Streaming industry initiative, sits on sustainability committees for SMPTE and ATSC, and advises the TV NewsCheck Women in Technology Awards committee. She is also a leadership council member for GalsNGear and contributes to the White Plains City Sustainability Committee. Additionally, she is an active member of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP), SMPTE, and HPA.
Lisa Collins
Dovetail Creative
Lisa has been building powerful networks and communities for over 25 years, ensuring the groups she works with thrive and grow. After a flourishing career working for a variety of associations, membership bodies and not for profit organisations, Lisa launched her own agency, Dovetail Creative Ltd, in 2021 and now supports a variety of organisations with all aspects of community, member and customer forum engagement, events, marketing strategy, and consultancy. Lisa has worked within the broadcast, media, and entertainment space for over 12 years, working most recently with membership organisation, IABM. Lisa is a frequent speaker and moderator at industry events and is on the board for RISE and Trade Association Forum. In addition, Lisa is involved in several mentoring programmes enabling her to pass on skills and knowledge to help others grow. Lisa has a passion for ESG initiatives and is co-producer of the Media Tech Sustainability Summit and Corporate Star Awards.
Opening Keynote:
Built to Last: 101 Years of Innovation, Sustainability, and Leadership
Explore how innovation, resilience, and sustainability have helped shape Shure's 101-year journey. From product design and operations to long-term business strategy, they'll discuss why sustainability is increasingly essential to building companies that endure.
Keynote Speaker
Althea Ricketts
Shure
Althea Ricketts is Vice President, Enterprise Initiatives, and Chief Transformation Officer at Shure Incorporated, a global leader in microphones and audio electronics. In this role, she partners directly with the CEO and President on enterprise-wide priorities, including sustainability, inclusion, diversity, equity and access, corporate communications, and program management. A respected leader in the professional audio electronics industry, Althea was named a “Living Legend” by Commercial Integrator magazine in September 2023. Since joining Shure in 1992, Althea has held a broad range of leadership and functional roles across the company. Her experience spans inclusion, diversity, equity and access; sustainability; strategy and implementation; marketing; U.S. and international sales; customer experience; product repair services; strategic planning; sales and operations planning; business process optimization; business analytics and multi-year planning; project and program management; ERP, CRM, and Salesforce implementation and support; and both Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Throughout her tenure, Althea has been instrumental in advancing customer-facing efficiency initiatives and enterprise transformation efforts. She served as the lead resource for Shure’s original secure Dealer Extranet, creating a self-service platform for U.S. customers across Customer Service, Sales, and Marketing needs; following its success, the platform was expanded to Shure’s international offices. She also played a key leadership role in Shure’s Value Chain Stabilization project, which optimized the company’s end-to-end supply chain. Recognized as a subject matter expert in the Order-to-Cash process, Althea brings a customer-centered, global perspective shaped by extensive domestic and international experience. Althea also led the development of Shure’s sustainability strategy and continues to champion initiatives that create positive environmental and social impact. She leads a cross-functional team focused on Shure’s four sustainability pillars: Our Associates, Our Community, Our Products, and Our Environment. In addition to her corporate leadership, she dedicates significant time to mentoring, volunteering, board service, panels, and webinars, where she shares expertise in DEI, sustainability, and enterprise transformation. Her industry recognition includes being named to the Pro AV 2024 Watch List and being recognized by Crain’s Chicago Business as one of its 2022 Notable Executives of Color in Manufacturing. Before joining Shure, Althea worked in the financial planning, entertainment, and manufacturing industries. She earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Grinnell College, an MBA with honors and a concentration in international business from Keller Graduate School of Management at DeVry University, and graduate-level certifications in DEI from Cornell University and in Sustainability and Well-Being from the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. Born in Jamaica, Althea is also a proud mother. Her son played Division I lacrosse in college and is now pursuing a Doctor of Chiropractic degree. Outside of work, Althea enjoys attending hockey and lacrosse games, traveling, and spending time at her family cottage in Galena, Illinois.
Moderator
Farrell Calabrese
FMC Impact
Farrell Calabrese is the founder of FMC Impact and co-founder of REBOOT, where she helps leaders, teams and organizations create the conditions for meaningful transformation. Working at the intersection of sustainability, strategy, communications and leadership, she partners with organizations navigating complex change, from circular economy initiatives and sustainability strategies to organizational alignment and culture transformation. Through her work in materials innovation, systems thinking and the circular economy, Farrell became fascinated by a simple question: What creates the conditions for long-term resilience and performance? She discovered that the same principles that help products, supply chains and organizations thrive also apply to people. Sustainable performance requires recovery. Adaptability requires awareness. Meaningful change requires alignment. Today, she helps leaders build the capacity to navigate complexity, align stakeholders and create lasting impact, grounded in the belief that the future will be shaped not only by better strategies and technologies, but by leaders who can create the conditions for people and systems to thrive together.
Workshop 1
1545 CET | 1445 BT | 0945 ET | 0645 PT
Imperative Measurement: From Fragmentation to Frameworks
What can we measure today and where should we act? Connect data, tools, and infrastructure to identify practical opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions.
Moderator
Michael Harrit
BBC
Michael Harrit is Lead Architect Sustainability at the BBC focused on scope 3 throughout the media supply chain and with engaging suppliers to minimise the environmental impact of the media industry. He is driven by transforming the media business, its processes and technologies to become more sustainable and holds a master’s degree in science in electronic engineering and an MBA in strategy and innovation. Before joining the BBC, Michael was the Marketing Director for Sony’s professional media business across Europe, Multimedia Director at NTV in Moscow and Chief Architect at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR).
Speakers
Lee Otterway
Dot Group
Dot Group is a UK-based technology company specialising in data-driven workflows across media, broadcast, and enterprise environments, with a strong focus on high-performance data movement, cloud integration, and operational visibility. Through its GreenDot initiative, Dot Group is extending this expertise into sustainability, addressing the challenge of how energy consumption is understood and managed across modern technology estates. GreenDot was developed in response to a recognised gap between how sustainability is typically reported and how systems operate in practice. It focuses on capturing real-world, operational energy usage to provide a more accurate, bottom-up view of consumption across interconnected infrastructure. This approach is informed by Dot Group’s experience working with organisations ranging from small businesses through to global enterprises, as well as supporting large-scale media workflows through technologies such as IBM Aspera. This has led to a broader, industry-agnostic perspective, recognising that meaningful progress in sustainability depends on alignment across the full ecosystem, not just individual organisations or vendors. Dot Group is particularly interested in advancing more unified, globally consistent approaches to real-time carbon measurement, alongside improving visibility into the full lifecycle impact of technology infrastructure.
Ben Schwarz
Greening of Streaming
Ben Schwarz is a recognised international thought leader in sustainability and converging media. After ten years in IT, he became CTO of a music start-up, then spent a decade at Orange researching and launching media services, including IPTV. Since 2008, Ben has been an independent consultant on strategy, business, communications, and technology. He has authored over a dozen industry white papers and contributed to several blogs. Ben has been active in trade organisations since 2015 and is President of Greening of Streaming, an independent, member-driven NGO measuring the real energy cost of streaming. He lives in Paris.
Mark Mandato
CBC
Mark Mandato is the Sr. Manager, Key Growth Initiatives at CBC / Radio-Canada. He works across multiple internal teams ( including on-going Sustainability and Green Media projects ) to help establish, implement and direct digital ad product and monetization strategies. This work includes direct product development oversight, pricing on all platforms, forecasts, inventory allocations and category planning to meet revenue objectives.
Break
1630 CET | 1530 BT | 1030 ET | 0730 PT
Workshop 2
1645 CET | 1545 BT | 1045 ET | 0745 PT
From Ambition to Action: Building More Sustainable Sports Productions
Sports production presents unique sustainability challenges—from mobile units and travel to technology infrastructure and operations. This session explores the strategies, technologies, and lessons learned that are helping organizations reduce impacts while delivering world-class live events.
Moderator
Moritz Ladwig
Green Producing
Moritz Ladwig is a freelance media creative and engineer with special expertise in sustainability for media productions. He reached his masters degree in Stuttgart, Germany in 2021 and has worked for multiple outlets, some of them especially created for young audiences such as ‚funk'. After working for the Bundesliga media production he now set his mission to create better content to reach younger audiences while shaping the media landscape in a greener way.
Speakers
Emili Planas
Broadcast & Media Executive
Senior CTO and COO with 30+ years of experience in broadcast engineering, live sports production, and technology strategy. Proven leader in UHD-HDR, IP video, remote production, and channel launch at global scale. Until May 26 leading technology and operations at Mediapro, serving LaLiga, ESPN, Movistar+, DAZN, Fox Sports, America’s Cup, F1, etc. Board member of UHD Spain and advisor at SVG Europe and GVx.
Tim Glass
Formula E
Tim Glass is Formula E's Broadcast and Content Director. He is responsible for producing the championship’s International Feed, the English language presentation show, digital and unscripted content. Tim has 25 years experience in live broadcasting spending over two decades at Sky Sports which included six years as F1 Senior Producer where he was part of the team that won the BAFTA for best Sports Production in 2022.
George Bevir
SVG Europe
George Bevir is editorial director at SVG Europe, where he leads editorial across the organisation’s events, website and newsletters. He joined SVG Europe from IBC, where he launched IBC365. Earlier in his career, George worked at Broadcast magazine as facilities and technology editor and launched Broadcast Tech. He has also written about the media and telecoms sectors in the Middle East. Before moving into journalism, George worked at the BBC and Red Bee Media.
Alex Redfern
EVS
Alex Redfern leads EVS’s R&D department, overseeing the development and delivery of innovative solutions that support the company’s strategic vision. He holds a BSc in Media Technology from Southampton Solent University and has been a key contributor to EVS for more than 15 years. Throughout his career, he has gained extensive hands-on experience spanning customer support at major live events, the design of complex large-scale production systems, and the leadership of a global team of solution architects. He has also been instrumental in strengthening strategic partnerships across the NALA region. Today, Alex focuses on ensuring that EVS’s technology investments are closely aligned with its broader business objectives, helping shape the company’s future innovation roadmap.
Break
1730 CET | 1630 BT | 1130 ET | 0830 PT
Workshop 3
1745 CET | 1645 BT | 1145 ET | 0845 PT
Operations: Where Sustainability Meets Reality
Sustainability meets real-world constraints in production and workflows. Explore tradeoffs, challenges, and opportunities to reduce impact while maintaining performance, quality, and scale.
Moderator
Agnès Pleinecassagne
Eutelsat
I have been with Eutelsat for over 25 years, building a career that combines communication, business development, and sustainable transformation. After starting in external communications, I quickly sought to move closer to the core business. I then spent more than 15 years in commercial roles, supporting telecom operators and European TV broadcasters in their satellite capacity needs. Since 2023, in response to growing client expectations around environmental challenges, I have transitioned toward Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) topics. Following a year of dedicated training, I evolved my role to fully integrate these dimensions into our commercial activities. Today, I support teams in addressing increasing client requirements and contribute to structuring collaborative approaches with our partners. Objective: to build a sustainable and high-performing model where every stakeholder across the value chain plays an active role in environmental and societal transformation.
Speakers
Humans Not Robots
Kristan Bullett is CEO and co-founder of Humans Not Robots, a UK-based deep-tech company redefining digital efficiency through sustainability analytics. With over two decades in media technology, he has shaped the streaming and OTT strategies of major players including the BBC, Disney, Sky, and Channel 4. At HNR, Kristan leads the development of HNR to ZERO : an AI-powered observability platform that delivers granular, actionable insights across the digital supply chain. By measuring emissions, power consumption, and cost in real time, the platform helps organisations optimise everything from cloud infrastructure to content delivery. HNR’s goal: a 30% reduction in environmental impact for data-heavy businesses, turning operational telemetry into a blueprint for a cleaner digital future.
Avinash Kumar
Vizrt
I lead Vizrt’s sustainability strategy, manage ESG reporting, and ensure we stay aligned with global standards. In a nutshell, I work across teams to make sustainability a true business driver rather than just a compliance exercise. Outside of work, I enjoy traveling and cooking. I call it “research,” but really, it’s just me chasing good food around the world.
Bob Boster
Clear-Com
Bob Boster is President of Clear-Com, where he leads the global provider of professional real-time communications solutions serving live events, broadcast, sports, government, transportation, and critical infrastructure markets. With more than three decades of experience in professional audio, communications, and technology leadership, Bob has helped organizations around the world improve collaboration, operational efficiency, and reliability. He is a passionate advocate for innovation and sustainable technology practices that extend product lifecycles and maximize long-term value. A frequent industry speaker and contributor, Bob brings a unique perspective on the intersection of communications technology, operational resilience, and sustainability.
Danna Mann
TAG Video Systems
Danna Mann joined TAG Video Systems in 2018 as an Event Coordinator and quickly rose through the ranks to become the Company’s Marketing Director. Danna is responsible for guiding the company’s worldwide marketing initiatives, achieving a track record of success in developing and executing effective campaigns and strategies. Having completed ESG and sustainability professional training, Danna has also taken on leading TAG's corporate responsibility efforts, further solidifying the company's commitment to ethical practices. Under Danna’s leadership, TAG has grown into a globally recognized brand known for its forward-thinking technology achievements.
Break
1830 CET | 1730 BT | 1230 ET | 0930 PT
Workshop 4
1845 CET | 1745 BT | 1245 ET | 0945 PT
Future Pressures: AI, E-Waste,
and Systemic Impact
AI, satellites, and e-waste are reshaping sustainability challenges. Explore emerging risks, unintended consequences, and how the industry can balance innovation with environmental responsibility.
Moderator
Zena Harris
Green Spark Group
Zena Harris builds sustainability programs that embed sustainable practices, influence stakeholders and shift industries. Professionally, she has worked in three sectors - industrial engineering and construction, higher education, and entertainment – in a corporate, nonprofit, and entrepreneurial context respectively. In 2014, she founded the sustainability consulting company, Green Spark Group, with the focus of advancing sustainability practices in film and television, and the mission to “change the climate of entertainment”, working throughout the United States and Canada. Zena manages a team that focuses on entertainment production strategy, best practice implementation, education, and data analysis. Zena serves as president of the board of the Sustainable Entertainment Society, a nonprofit she founded, and she is part of the Sustainable Production for Entertainment Certification (SPEC) technical team to create a standard and certification for the entertainment workforce. To elevate people doing amazing work behind the scenes, she co-hosts the podcast The Tie-in with Mark Rabin. Zena holds a master’s degree from Harvard University in Sustainability and Environmental Management.
Speakers
Studio B1
Ray Kent is a Partner, Senior Principal, and Director of Technology and Innovation at Studio B1, a theater design and performance venue consulting firm with offices in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky and Cleveland, Ohio. A third-generation theater practitioner, Ray brings 39 years of experience in the field, 25 of them in consulting, and has designed over 400 performance venues across his career, including Arts United Center, where he served as Senior Theater Planner. Ray holds a dual MFA in Lighting Design and Production Management from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University, a dual BFA in Lighting Design and Technical Direction with a minor in Dance from Ohio University's School of Theater, and a Certificate in Executive Leadership for Creative Industries from the Yale School of Management. He is a full member of the American Society of Theatre Consultants (ASTC) and a LEED Accredited Professional in Building Design and Construction. Raymond is also a founding member and consultant with NEXXT AI focusing on AI in the audiovisual industry. Ray is a keynote speaker and frequent presenter at national and international conferences and has taught at colleges and universities across the United States for the past 25 years. He is the author of A Spin Around Moving Lights, the first book written on automated lighting, and a frequent contributor to industry publications on topics including AI, projection mapping, lighting design, accessibility, and sustainability.
Josh Gordon
Josh Gordon Group
Josh Gordon is a Fractional CMO working with broadcasters and media organizations, and their suppliers, and associations. He a member of the sustainability committees of the ATSC and NABA (North American Broadcasters Association) and is the owner of the ATSC 3.0 Sustainability LinkedIn group. Gordon serves on the Board of Managers for SMPTE’s New York Section. Prior to his marketing career Gordon worked at Broadcast Engineering Magazine for 20 years and is the author of four books on sales and marketing which have been translated into multiple international versions. He recently completed a white paper on ATSC 3.0 Energy Efficiency for the ONE Media Division of Sinclair Broadcas
Amy Polvado
Facilimax
Amy Polvado is a technology entrepreneur, infrastructure developer, and researcher at the intersection of artificial intelligence, real estate, and the built environment. She is the Founder and CEO of Facilimax, Inc., an AI-powered digital twin platform built on NVIDIA Omniverse serving data centers, government and defense, and higher education clients. Her flagship implementation spans the entire Penn State University campus, establishing Facilimax as a leading reference in enterprise-scale digital twin deployment. She is also CEO of Red River Infrastructure, a Texas data center development company with an 1,800-acre pipeline and 2-gigawatt capacity at the Texas Gigapark in Caldwell, Texas. Amy serves as Chairwoman of the US Proptech Council, where she leads national initiatives on affordability, competitiveness, and technology adoption in the built environment. She hosts the Data Center News Show and Real Estate Rewired, publishes the Proptech Weekly newsletter, and authored the book From Data to Deals. Her career spans semiconductor manufacturing at Applied Materials and IBM, building a real estate private equity firm to over one billion dollars in assets, and commercializing enterprise technology across multiple sectors. She holds a BS in Organizational Leadership from Purdue University and an MS in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently a doctoral student at Purdue Polytechnic Institute, where her research focuses on deploying digital twins to edge wearable devices. Amy is based in Austin, Texas.
Closing Keynote
1930 CET | 1830 BT | 1330 ET | 1030 PT
When they said it could not be done, we did it anyway!
Moderator
In this closing keynote, we explore the challenge of quantifying the carbon footprint of post-production processes through a real-life case study
Clear Cut Group and Cut the Carbon talk us through the environmental challenges facing the post-production sector, their determination to get on top of these, the award-winning solution they found, and how they’re now going from strength-to-strength!
Lisa Spencer
Irdeto
Lisa Spencer is the Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Irdeto. She is a seasoned executive with more than 20 years of experience in building awareness, and cultivating interest, engagement, and preference in a variety of industries such as technology, cybersecurity and B2B SaaS. She is an accomplished storyteller with a track record of creating demand generation and customer retention programs that contribute to the bottom line. Based in the Netherlands, Lisa holds a double major in Journalism and French from Carleton University (Canada).
Speakers
Rowan Bray
Clear Cut Pictures
Rowan is the Managing Director of one of the leading post-production companies in the UK. Clear Cut Group operates under four brands, with multiple sites across London and Birmingham, offering end to end post-production services. The business has built an enviable reputation for factual, current affairs, specialist factual and feature documentary programming serving all the major global media outlets. Prior to joining Clear Cut, in 2017, Rowan held senior management roles in Molinare, Prime Focus, DGP and Arena. In total Rowan has over 40 years’ experience working in the post-production sector. As well as her role as Group Managing Director of Clear Cut, Rowan is currently Co-Chair of the Facilities Council of the industry’s trade body UK Screen Alliance; Chair of the Green Champions Group, addressing sustainability issues in the post sector. She is also Co-Chair of the sector’s Trailblazer group for Post-Production Apprenticeships as well as serving on Skillset’s HETV working group for skills development in Post and VFX. These roles reflect her interests, beyond running Clear Cut, focussing on promoting the globally recognised Post-Production sector in the UK, building skills development across the workforce and promoting sustainability initiatives for the wider post-production community. Outside of work, Rowan is heavily involved in local fund-raising, sings in a choir, is refurbishing a French cottage (slowly) and is a very proud Mum.
Alethea Lindsay
Cut the Carbon
Alethea Lindsay runs Cut the Carbon, a sustainability consultancy to the screen industry that specialises in its digital sectors - post-production, VFX, animation and virtual production (VP). Her work developing the CTC Methodology, a framework for measuring the carbon emissions of converged technologies in post-production, won best sustainability initiative at the 2025 Broadcast Tech Innovation awards, and provided the industry with the first-ever carbon measurement of the offline edit process. Now Cut the Carbon is working with key industry players towards the roll-out of further sustainability initiatives in post. It is also engaged in a research partnership with the University of Nottingham to draft the first UK toolkit for VP carbon measurement. Alethea has 25 years TV industry experience as a producer/director and editor. She has an MSc in Environmental Management, a post-graduate diploma in Systems Thinking, and is a member of the Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP).
Closing Remarks
2000 CET | 1900 BT | 1400 ET | 1100 PT
PLEASE NOTE: The program is subject to change
Speaker
Bob Willard
Bob is a leading expert on sustainability justifications, sustainability reporting frameworks, and sustainable procurement. Over the last 23 years, he has given over 1,800 presentations, has authored six books and published two white papers. He provides six Master Slide Decks and over a dozen free, open-source tools and resources for sustainability champions and procurement professionals. For the last few years, Bob has focused on Sustainable Procurement and Net-Zero Procurement as market forces to mobilize businesses in the race to net-zero GHGs. He currently serves on the Circular Innovation Council board and the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC) board – he co-developed the SPLC Navigator with SPLC staff. Bob is on the core faculty of the Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR) Sustainable Procurement Fellowship program, is an Ambassador for the Sustainable Procurement Pledge, and is an Advisor to the Mission from MaRs – Net-Zero Procurement Mission. He teaches a 4-webinar ISSP course on Sustainable Procurement which provides guidance on how to use his free, open-source Sustainable Procurement Toolkit and Net-Zero Procurement Toolkit. Bob is a currently a Buy Social Canada Community Champion, and serves on the B Corp Standards Advisory Council, the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC) board, the Circular Innovation Council board, and the Whitby Sustainability Advisory Committee, He was one of five inaugural inductees into the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) Hall of Fame in 2011, has received three Clean50 awards including a Lifetime Achievement award in 2023, and has earned six “Best for the World - Overall” and five “Best for the World – Community” awards since becoming a Certified B Corp in 2012. Sustainability Advantage was the first company to reach the highest Diamond tier of Canada’s Net-Zero Challenge in 2023.
