ErinRose Widner

ErinRose Widner has been a business development and strategy leader in the M&E and technology space for the last twenty years, creating transformational partnerships and innovative solution-based services for WB, Fox, Paramount and ViacomCBS. Leveraging her M&E background, she built a global enterprise business at a post-production company, focused on speech recognition technology and ML, winning the business of Microsoft and Google.  
 
Taking the business development experience she gained at an executive level, she focused her energy on growing revenue and brand exposure for M&E products through strategic partnerships in both B2B and B2C environments for media companies. 
 
She is now the Global Head of Business Strategy, Emerging and Creative Technologies, M&E at Verizon, and is also a member of SMPTE, HPA, WICT, NAMIC, IEEE, The Sundance Institute, Film Independent and Women In Film. Additionally, she sits on the board of Rise, and leads their North American Mentoring program - a global advocacy organization supporting gender diversity across the media technology sector.