Chris Lennon

Director of Standards Strategy at Ross Video

Speaker

Chris Lennon serves in Ross Video’s Office of the CTO as Director, Standards Strategy, where he leads Ross’ participation in standards bodies and trade organisations, and oversees the company’s global thought leadership programme.

He is also Executive Director of the Open Services Alliance (OSA), a global industry group now part of SMPTE’s Rapid Industry Solutions, focused on enabling interoperability among microservice-based media systems. Under his leadership, the OSA delivered the media industry’s first microservices standards and remains at the forefront of this fast-evolving space.

Chris has held several senior roles within SMPTE, including Standards Director, Western US Governor, and Chair of multiple Technology Committees. A SMPTE Fellow and recipient of the 2008 Citation, he currently serves on the IABM Board and the SMPTE Rocky Mountain Section.