José Velázquez, MA

José Velázquez has been involved in and around the world of digital video acquisition, compression and delivery since its coming of age in the early 90s. Trained at the BBC in broadcast operations and TV production, he also holds an MA in Documentary Research for Film and TV (London College of Communication, UAL) José joined IBM in 2016 in the capacity of Architect for the Telco and Media vertical, helping major broadcasters deploy AI-infused solutions that deliver deeper understanding and insights from their existing media archives. He also teaches as associate lecturer in the interdisciplinary programme for the Masters Degree in Digital Humanities at Univesity Pablo de Olavide, Seville, focusing on the digitization, indexing and cognitive analysis of audiovisual archives. José is passionate about #Accessibility, #Preservation and #AI, and is actively engaged in technology that is more human, empathetic and adaptive to everyone. To this day, he remains a hapless theremin player...