David Meares

David Meares is now a freelance consultant, after a career in the BBC research department where he rose to be head of the studio group. In his 38 years at the BBC he led a wide range of projects including acoustic scale modelling, digital television, applications of speech recognition, display technology, surround sound and compression coding. He represented the BBC on a number of international standards groups and on international collaborative projects.

This broad experience suits him ideally for the wide number of tasks he has been doing over many years for IBC. Since introducing the idea 16 years ago, David has organised the New Technology Campus and has served on the Papers Committee and at various times as a member of the Management Committee and Conference Committee. This year he is taking on the role of deputy chair of the Technology Working Group.

David is a graduate in electrical engineering from Salford University, who, in his spare time, delights in carrying out conservation work on historic buildings.

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