Glenn Reitmeier, RCA/Sarnoff Laboratories and NBC Universal, Retired

Biography:

Glenn Reitmeier is widely recognized as a technology visionary and pioneer in the television industry. He has been a leader in establishing revolutionary new digital standards, including the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers standards for digital video, the Grand Alliance digital HDTV system that became ATSC 1.0, and the new ATSC 3.0 standard. As a contributor to many different standards organizations, Glenn has been a champion of technical interoperability as the foundation for a cohesive inter-industry television ecosystem. Now an independent consultant, he recently retired from 17 years at NBC Universal as SVP, Technology Standards and Policy. Previously, he spent 25 years in digital video research at RCA/Sarnoff Laboratories. During the 1980s, he was instrumental in establishing the digital video sampling standard and the Serial Digital Interface that enabled all-digital television studios.  During the 1990s, Glenn led the development of the Sarnoff-Thomson-Philips-NBC Advanced Digital HDTV system proposal that pioneered MPEG video compression and packet data transport.  He was a leader in the HDTV Grand Alliance. He served as a board member of ATSC, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and Open Authentication Technology Committee (OATC), and was Chairman of both ATSC and OATC. He is a SMPTE fellow and a recipient of the Progress Medal and the Signal Processing Medal. He is also an inaugural member of the Consumer Technology Association Academy of Digital Television Pioneers and a recipient of the NAB Television Engineering Award. Glenn holds over 60 patents and is recognized in the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame.