Greg Bensberg - Head, Digital 3 & 4 Ltd

Gregory Bensberg is the Head of Digital 3&4 Limited, the UK’s main commercial public service DTT multiplex carrying ITV and Channel 4 services to over 98% of UK households. He is a leading authority on both the technical and regulatory aspects of digital broadcasting and has over 30 years’ experience as a regulator and digital broadcast engineer. He has previously worked as a policy and technical expert for Ofcom, the UK government and the Independent Television Commission for over 20 years. He acted as a key technical and regulatory adviser to a number of Government Ministers between 2002 and 2003 whilst they were developing the UK government’s switchover policy. He was also responsible for leading Ofcom’s spectrum clearance programme (800 MHz and 2.6GHz) which enabled the UK’s 4G spectrum auction in 2013. He developed and led the planning and licensing of the UK’s digital switchover programme (including its UHF spectrum strategy) and its adoption of the DVB-T2 standard and the launch of terrestrial HD services in 2009. He also led Ofcom’s Digital Dividend Review project in 2005/06, which laid out the process and principles for the eventual European digital dividend programme. Gregory is a chartered engineer and holds an MBA and BSc. He joined the ITC in 1992 after spells working for Marconi, the IBA, Quantel and Thames Television. He was awarded an MBE in 2014 for services to communications and media.

Yush Kalia - Director of Sales and Marketing, Dimension Studio

Yush Kalia has over a decade of experience in mixed reality, working with ambitious companies and directors to consistently deliver innovative, world-first executions. He’s an industry champion and a member of the BAFTA Virtual Reality Advisory Group, advocating for impactful VR, AR and volumetric video uses across the entertainment industry. Prior to Dimension, Yush was a founding member of the Hammerhead VR team, and has worked at leading digital, social and PR agencies managing accounts including Xbox, Diageo, Evian, SKY, and Lego. 

Devi Kolli - CEO, I3 SIMULATIONS Limited

Devi has over 16 years of experience planning and delivering transformational digital strategies for real time human computer interaction. Her tech investment portfolio spans across retail, healthcare, theme parks, workplace training and education globally. Devi is one of the early extended reality (XR) tech pioneers who spent countless hours educating markets on how to adapt immersive applications into everyday communications be it for work, play or learn. i3 Simulations, is one of her start-ups dedicated to introducing intelligent and adaptive workplace training simulations across healthcare industry. Devi is a seasoned entrepreneur, international speaker and creative tech advisor to several start-ups and serves as a board member at Central Bedfordshire College, Luton Council Economy Group, and ambassador to Keech Hospice Care. In her advisory roles, she is responsible to drive forward thinking in planning and adoption of next-generation technologies.

Nicole Stewart-Rushworth - Immersive Technologist, Digital Catapult

Nicole is a Technologist at Digital Catapult in the Immersive Team, she has been with Digital Catapult for 6 years specialising in Immersive technology, managing the network of Immersive Labs and supporting Digital Catapult’s programmes. With a background in theatre and technology, she has worked with creators and developers to realise their projects, provide business and technical support, and educate organisations about immersive technologies.

Nadia Aziz - Innovation Consultant, Unbounded Future Ltd

Nadia is an Evangelist of emerging technologies with an expertise in AR & VR and IoT technologies. She has advised C-level executives in Telecom and Media organisations for digital transformation and M&A projects over more than a decade. While being a SIG Champion of Future Devices and Technologies at Cambridge Wireless, she has recently co-founded Unbounded Future, a Deeptech consulting firm based in London. Previously Nadia led Emerging Technologies at NTT Data UK where she supervised R&D and innovation in Augmented (AR) & Virtual Reality (VR), AI, and IoT. Nadia is a supporter of Women in STEM initiatives and is a mentor at the University College London (UCL) IXN programme. She is an industry advisor to IoTerra, a USA-based B2B marketplace for IoT products and was a co-producer for the GIANT Health Event.

David Crawford - Emeritus Professor, Computer Science & Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Professor, Digital Media Research, Ravensbourne University

David Crawford is Visiting Professor at University of Essex Colchester, and Emeritus Professor at Ravensbourne University London. David has worked for over 50 years across the telecoms/broadcast industries and UK academic institutions. His research interests are in new imaging techniques, applications for mixed reality technologies, and networks for multidimensional media. David facilitates and lectures in the UK on Degree Apprenticeship courses, promoting work-based learning curricula and collaborative industry-academia training.

David has worked in senior positions at BT, RE, Crown Castle and Harris Broadcast, and as a Director of a start-up company, TeamCast, in France. He has run his own technical consultancy company, and chairs and presents regularly at international events. David is a Member of the Royal Television Society, Fellow of SMPTE, Special-Interest-Group Champion for Cambridge Wireless on Content Production & Delivery, and Honorary Chairman of the Creative Science Foundation. He has previously served as a Council/Board Member of the Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET), the Conference Chair at IBC, and Executive Chair at the ‘mixed reality’ Community Interest Company, PlayLa.bZ.

Tony Lavender - Managing Partner, Plum Consulting

Tony Lavender is a managing partner at Plum Consulting. He has more than 35 years experience in technology, communications regulation, policy and spectrum management. His clients include governments, equipment vendors, network operators and regulators. Tony was a specialist adviser to the UK Parliament 2016 Culture, Media and Sport Committee Inquiry into “Establishing world class connectivity throughout the UK”, he chairs the Steering Board of the UK Spectrum Policy Forum and he was a member of the UK Government’s Expert Panel, established as part of the UK Spectrum Strategy, on “Incorporating Social Value into Spectrum Allocation Decisions”. He has worked on a wide range of studies including on the 5G mmWave ecosystem, spectrum sharing, spectrum valuation and more broadly on electronic communications infrastructure strategy. Tony is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Chris Nokes - Senior Technical Advisor, Ofcom

Chris is a Senior Technical Advisor with Ofcom, investigating broadcasting and media technologies. He was previously the Head of Distribution Core Technologies Section at BBC Research & Development. With over thirty years' experience in Broadcasting R&D, Chris has been involved in the development of digital television since 1994, including as a key contributor to the DVB-T2 technical study group, and editor of the DVB-T2 specification and Chair of the RF Group of the UK Digital Television Group (DTG).