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Chapter Speaker List

The Society has organized a list of speakers who are available to present at chapter meetings. The list is comprised of people who work for SBE Sustaining Member companies, and topics include technical, regulatory, safety, management and other issues.Each speaker's geographic availability is also noted.

• Name	Company	Phone	Availability
Topics

• Peter Howarth	AEQ Broadcast international Inc.	954-581-7999	National
Multichannel AoIP connectivity, intercom systems, audio codecs, broadcast communications

• Steve Lampen	Belden	415-440-8393	National
4K video; maximizing HD-SDI and 3G-SDI cable performance; using Category 5e, 6, 6a for audio and video applications; Ethernet AVB/TSN; Bend Radius; how cable works; how wire fails; digital audio; wire and cable

• Kerry de Boer	Blackmagic Design	408-954-0500 x320	National
4K, Ultra HD, high frame rates, live production, broadcast, A/V, video editing, cameras, color correction, video converters, video monitoring, routing, live switching, streaming, recording, HDR

• Dave Lewty	Calrec Audio	805-305-5711	National
Audio mixing, audio networking, remote broadcasting, AoIP

• Daniel Coscarella	Camplex	800-445-7568 x7409	National
Fiber optic infrastructure and design; OpticalCON; tactical and ruggedized fiber advantages and solutions; best practice handling, cleaning, inspecting and testing of fiber optic assemblies and networks; overcoming the fear of fiber

• Kim Savage	Dielectric	207-655-8258	National
RF design/implementation of translators/boosters; adaptive polarization for ATSC 3.0; antenna technology for ATSC 3.0 – MISO; digital modulation, single pulse RF breakdown; repack process and logistics; efficient UHF tunable filter using waveguide TE10 mode; improving FM combiner/filter efficiency

• Ed Czarnecki	Digital Alert Systems	585-765-1155 x122	DC, MD, VA
EAS, the FCC and You; ATSC 3.0 and Advanced Emergency Communications

• Jeff Detweiler	DTS, Inc.	443-539-4334	Baltimore/Washington DC area
HD Radio technology

• Dennis Ford	Fiber Group Inc.	800-201-1326	NC, SC, VA, TN, WV
Satellite, microwave, IP

• John Humphrey	Hitachi Kokusai Electric Comark, LLC	724-903-0321	National
High dynamic range for TV cameras

• Doug Thompson	Hitachi Kokusai Electric Comark, LLC	309-689-0301	Midwest Minnesota to Texas and Ohio to Kansas
Encoding-multiplexing; high-, medium- and low-power transmission; high efficiency transmission; ATSC 3.0: What's coming with the new standard?

• John Payne	IMT-Vislink	908-747-3015	National
High-bandwidth, bi-directional IP-newsgathering advances; latest developments in HEVC 4K UHD systems; miniaturized wireless video systems for drone/UAV, bodycam, live sports broadcast and reality-based production applications.

• Les Kutasi	Kathrein USA	207-749-3440	National
Antennas, RF systems, combiners and RF components

• Ralph Beaver	National Football League	813-376-1313	Florida
Frequency coordination for football coverage

• Benjamin Nemser	Nemal Electronics Inc	305-899-0900	National
Cabling and interconnects for HDTV and broadcast: current developments in HD/SDI, AES copper and fiber optic cables; SMPTE hybrid camera cable systems

• Van Duke	Playbox Technology	561-229-0003	West Palm Beach, FL
Television automation (channel-in-a-box), IP-TV

• Walt Gumbert	Rohde & Schwarz USA	724-312-7700	East Coast
High efficiency in modern liquid-cooled solid-state transmitter design, liquid-cooled FM transmitters

• Chris Childs	SEG a Division of Wesco Distribution	913-375-1103	Kansas City metro
Discuss the move of the national radio networks from the satellite at 139 deg. West to satellite at 105 deg. West

• Chris Schee	SEG a Division of Wesco Distribution	817-337-0797	Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
Discuss the move of the national radio networks from the satellite at 139 deg. West to satellite at 105 deg. West

• Lenny King	SEG a Division of Wesco Distribution	240-308-9033	Las Vegas, NV, and Los Angeles, CA
Discuss the move of the national radio networks from the satellite at 139 deg. West to satellite at 105 deg. West

• Harry Matthews	SEG a Division of Wesco Distribution	770-614-9174	Atlanta, GA
Discuss the move of the national radio networks from the satellite at 139 deg. West to satellite at 105 deg. West

• Bill Georger	SEG a Division of Wesco Distribution	908-910-1641	Northern, New Jersey & New York City and Philadelphia
Discuss the move of the national radio networks from the satellite at 139 deg. West to satellite at 105 deg. West

• John Shike	SAM - Snell Advanced Media	650-703-4906	National
IP, UHD, HDR

• Steve Zaretsky	Solid State Logic	212-315-1111 x15	National
IP network audio, broadcast demonstration vehicle

• Gary Learner	Verizon Digital Media Services	781-221-7400	Boston area
OTT, monitoring, quality, logging, compliance