2017 IEEE Broadcast Symposium Keynote Speaker James Snyder, Library of Congress -National Audio Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC)Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division (MBRS)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MEDIA ADVISORY: James Snyder – Senior Systems Administrator for the Library of Congress’ National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC), Emmy award winning digital media engineering, data & media archiving, preservation, production and project management specialist will be a Keynote Speaker at the 2017 IEEE Broadcast Symposium.

WHAT: James Snyder - Senior Systems Administrator for the Library of Congress’ National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC), Emmy award winning digital media engineering, data & media archiving, preservation, production and project management specialist will be a Keynote Speaker at the 2017 IEEE Broadcast Symposium. James administers the overall technical infrastructure for audio, video and film preservation and digitization technologies, including long-term planning & implementation, long-term data preservation planning & implementation, technology services to the United States Congress and organizations on Capitol Hill, as well as standards participation and technology liaison with media content producers worldwide.

With 37 years’ of industry experience James handled projects for commercial, non-commercial and government organizations including MCI, Verizon, Intelsat, PBS, ABC, the Advanced Television Test Center, Fox News, Reuters and Discovery. He has also consulted on projects for Sarnoff Corporation, Turner Engineering, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, the News Corporation, FedNet and multiple agencies of the U.S. Federal government. He has worked on key projects leading to the ATSC digital television standard, the HD Radio digital radio standard, the AXF Archive eXchange Format (SMPTE 2034) standard, and the first consumer commercial HDTV satellite service Unity Motion. James teaches on analog & digital audio, video, television transmission and engineering basics for the industry professionals through many public and private organizations.

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WHERE: 2017 IEEE Broadcast Symposium at the Key Bridge Marriott in Arlington, Virginia

WHEN: Tuesday, October 10^th thru Thursday, October 12^th

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