David Carver

PictureTel LLC develops, manufactures, and markets videoconferencing systems. It offers video streaming, visual, and data collaboration technologies to facilitate businesses, schools, medical facilities, government, and other organizations. It is a subsidiary of Polycom, Inc. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Andover, MA.

Blackwave has a firm grasp of the challenges facing today’s video and content distribution environment in which all content is not created equal. Positioned to meet local, regional, and global distribution application needs. Blackwave improves the efficiency of cable companies, IPTV providers, content delivery networks and aggregators, and mobile service providers. By incorporating our proprietary software with industry-standard hardware, the company reduces management and maintenance costs to layout and dynamically adjust content delivery as usage patterns are established optimize performance without the need of administrator intervention achieve granular provisioning to service a large number of concurrent users, and maintain Quality of Service levels as title demands and video types fluctuate

Founded by Ruben F. Salinas III, Johns Creek Partners LLC is a private equity firm located in Kansas City, Missouri.

Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE) is a professional society of media professionals, technologists, and engineers working in the digital entertainment industry. The private company is based in White Plains, NY. The society fosters a diverse and engaged membership from both the technology and creative communities, delivering vast educational offerings, technical conferences and exhibitions, the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, and access to a rich network of colleagues essential to career success. SMPTE people form a professional society of individuals and corporations collaborating for the advancement of all things technical in the motion picture, television, and digital media industries.

Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. provides educational and scientific computing services. It offers journals & magazines, conferences, workshops, electronic forums, and online books & courses. The company has office in China. Association for Computing Machinery was founded on September 15, 1947 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, Inc. develops standards for cable telecommunications systems. The company is headquartered in Exton, PA.

IEEE Computer Society operates a society of institute electrical and electronics engineers. It services include digital library, publication, and conferences and events. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.