Nicolas Lodge

Dr Nicolas Lodge has spent his professional career leading the research, development and commercial exploitation of cutting-edge television and advanced media technologies. In this time he has founded very many award-winning European collaborative research consortia and international standardisation activities, notably in: video compression, digital terrestrial TV transmission, audio description, 360° immersive media, virtual human deaf signing, psychovisual phenomena and visual modelling. He also champions technologies for sensory-impaired media users.

Throughout the 1990’s Nick was head of strategic R&D and international standards for the all the UK’s commercial television broadcasters. Throughout most of the next decade he was Chief Executive of ProVision Communications, a high tech wireless media company based in Bristol. Currently, Nick runs his own successful international technology consultancy, Lodgical Media. His clients include several media technology companies and universities, as well as IBC, where he jointly organises the conference sessions on advanced media research. He holds BSc, MBA and PhD degrees and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology and of the Royal Television Society. In 2020 he received a Videonet Lifetime Television Achievement Award which recognised his pioneering work in digital terrestrial TV and audio description.