2026 ATSC Conference
Lane Michaelsen
Lane Michaelsen is a Group News Director for Sinclair, where he helps oversee news operations, storytelling strategy, and special projects across a network of content centers and stations nationwide. Over a career spanning more than four decades, Lane has built a reputation as an innovative visual storyteller, newsroom leader, and mentor who believes the best […]
Landon Brody
Landon Brody is a Solutions Consultant and AI Platform Specialist at Airia, where he works closely with enterprise organizations to design, implement, and scale intelligent AI solutions across complex business environments. Specializing in AI orchestration and agent-based workflows, Landon helps organizations build and deploy sophisticated AI agent pipelines that streamline operations, improve decision-making, and accelerate […]
Jon Accarrino
Jon Accarrino is an award-winning media executive and AI innovator driving digital transformation in the media industry. As founder of Ordo Digital, his team provides AI strategy and development services to media companies around the world. A featured writer for TV NewsCheck, Jon shares insights on the convergence of artificial intelligence and television in his […]
John Taylor
John I. Taylor is the 2026 Chairman of the ATSC Board of Directors. Active in ATSC for decades, including serving as longtime Communications Chairman, he returned to the board in 2023 after previously serving two board terms in the 2010s. As Senior Vice President for LG Electronics USA, he is the most senior U.S. government […]
Jerry Fritz
Jerry Fritz, Principal in Communications Policy Consulting, has had a 58-year tenure in the communications industry most recently as the Executive Vice President for Strategic and Legal Affairs for ONE Media Technologies, a subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group. At ONE Media, Jerry oversaw the long-term strategic planning and public policy for the company, supporting the […]
Jason Quinn
Jason Quinn serves as the Director of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer at New Mexico PBS, where he leads the engineering team responsible for maintaining and developing 35 mountaintop translator sites, as well as NMPBS facilities on Sandia Crest, in Santa Fe, and in Albuquerque. His team also provides PBS programming delivery and engineering support […]
Erin Ruttan
Erin has a long history of building programs that remove barriers to access and improving equity in everything from education to sport to digital participation. While Erin’s journey has been anything but linear, whether her work was in recreation, public engagement, technology, education or policy her north star has always been to make lives better. […]
Ed Czarnecki
With a career spanning over 25 years across the broadcast, cable, mobile, and professional services industries, Dr. Edward Czarnecki is the Vice President of Global and Government Affairs at Digital Alert Systems. In this role, Dr. Czarnecki drives the development, adoption, and implementation of cutting-edge emergency alerting technologies and standards. He is instrumental in forging […]
Del Parks
Delbert R. Parks III serves as President of Technology for Sinclair Broadcast Group, where he leads the company’s technology strategy and innovation initiatives across media operations, cloud transformation, artificial intelligence as it relates to the media operations, and next-generation broadcasting technologies. A 54-year veteran of Sinclair, Parks has held a wide range of engineering and […]
Dave Arland
Dave Arland wears many hats in the broadcasting industry, serving as Executive Director of both the Indiana Broadcasters Association and the AWARN Alliance as well as communications counsel to ATSC, Pearl TV, and A3SA. He is President Elect of the National Alliance of State Broadcasters Associations. Formerly a marketing executive at Thomson/RCA and press secretary […]
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