Experienced Director Of Technology with a demonstrated history of working in the broadcast media industry. Strong information technology professional skilled in Digital Strategy, Management, Machine Learning, Blue Sky Research and Development (R&D), Business Applications and Business Process Improvement.In this role at Access Innovation Media (Ai-Media), Viren is responsible for research and product development of innovative solutions and technologies using in-house and offshore development teams to provide access solutions for people around the world in multiple languages - enabling global reach, local support and a world class live and recorded offering.Viren is intent on applying machine learning and artificial intelligence to complement Ai-Media’s global workforce of transcriber and translators to enable every single thing to become accessible to every single person around the world.Ai-Media is building the platforms that connect publishers with captioners to make every piece of content accessible to the world. Launched in 2003, it has expanded it's services across the globe. Millions of people across APAC, EMEA and North America rely on it's services every day to watch TV, browse social media and gain access to education. Ai-Media acquired EEG Enterprises in 2021, a market-leading North American video and captioning technology company. Its business focuses on innovative cloud workflow products for closed captioning, accessibility, and metadata processing applications. It also offers SaaS based automatic live captioning solutions. With this acquisition, Ai-Media has become a one-stop shop for all captioning, transcription and translation solutions.Viren has been actively involved in designing and building Ai-Media's live captioning platforms for broadcast and Facebook Live. Ai-Media's live and recorded captioning services are used daily by many national broadcasters, universities, corporates and governments across the globe.