Egon Verharen

Dr.ir. E.M. (Egon) Verharen is Manager Innovation at the NPO (Dutch national public service media organization) and oversees the innovation programme for the national public broadcasters. The Innovation team stimulates and facilitates innovation projects on media production and distribution, investigating new technology, platforms, interaction, content formats and workflows. His expertise is in streaming and distribution, enterprise architecture, innovation management and deployment of new technologies.
Before joining NPO in 2006, he was innovation manager at SURFnet, the Dutch higher education and research network, and an assistant professor at Tilburg University. He received his MSc (computer science) at University of Twente and his PhD (intelligent agents) at Tilburg University. He served in international coordination committees, such as the European Broadcasting Union Technical Committee (2010-2018 of which chair from 2014-2018) and is a regular presenter at (inter)national conferences.
He sees himself as a gadget loving, video addicted, (acid)jazz listening family man with an interest in innovation management and the development of new digital products and services.