David Woolgar Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London

• Facilitated industry collaboration amongst member organisations through one-to-one contacts and via the DTG’s Working Groups and events programme. Supporting & liaising with Government, Regulators, and other industry.
• Held responsibility for D-Book, the UK’s broadcast TV Specification, facilitating the Working Groups that contribute to its development and maintenance.
• Held responsibility for U-Book, the industry Guidelines document for usability & accessibility.
• Liaised with national & international bodies, such as Ofcom, DCMS, techUK, HbbTV, EBU, HDMI.
• Managed an international Plugfest activity to share knowledge and promote best practice across other organisations; HDMI, CTA, EBU, Ultra HD Forum.

London, United Kingdom

• Acted as the value proposition lead for digital device commercial issues linked to content distribution, technology platforms, broadcaster engagement and consultation & regulatory responses. This was on behalf of.
• Led/supported techUK Working Groups: Strategy & Technology Group, Digital Radio Group, CE Council.
• Represented techUK in discussions with Ofcom, Digital UK, Freeview & BBC.
• Presented techUK’s Digital Radio Group members’ views to DCMS as part of its Digital Radio and Audio Review.
• Represented techUK as a director on the board of Digital Radio UK.

Belgium

• Industry representation, Digital TV standardisation and requirements capture, as an independent Consultant representing the Belgium TPV Technology Innovation Centre in the UK and the Nordic region.
• Representative on DTG on Working Groups with major contributions to UK's D-Book Specification, U-Book and Test Suite requirements. A key supporter of accessibility for mainstream products and not niche one-offs. Early.
• Representative on NorDig Working Groups. Key contributor to both the NorDig IRD Specification and NorDig Test Plan covering all aspects of receiver operation, pushing where appropriate for alignment with the UK’s.
• Representative on DVB-GBS and at techUK’s Strategy & Technology Group and CE Council.
• Provided technical representation in product-level negotiations with industry organisations such as Freeview, BBC, Digital UK & Freesat.

• Industry representation, Digital TV standardisation and requirements capture, as an independent Consultant representing TP Vision, Netherlands in the UK and the Nordic region.
• Representative on DTG on Working Groups with major contributions to UK's D-Book Specification, U-Book and Test Suite requirements. A key supporter of accessibility for mainstream products and not niche one-offs.
• Representative on NorDig Working Groups. Key contributor to both the NorDig IRD Specification and NorDig Test Plan covering all aspects of receiver operation, pushing where appropriate for alignment with the UK’s.
• Representative on DVB-GBS and at techUK’s Strategy & Technology Group and CE Council.
• Provided technical representation in product-level negotiations with industry organisations such as Freeview, BBC, Digital UK & Freesat.

UK

Industry representation, Digital TV standardisation and requirements capture, maintaining continuity through the transfer of the Philips TV business to TPV Technology (TP Vision).

UK

• Extensive experience in the Consumer Electronics field, covering a range of market segments, including AV, Semiconductors, Healthcare and Energy.
• Project led and co-authored the development of an HDMI CEC software stack for NXP Semiconductors.
• Co-inventor of a key patent for the CEC functionality within HDMI.

Bsc, Electronic & Electrical Engineering

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