Carys is a Principal Engineer in Sky’s Display Engineering team. With over 10 years at Sky, Carys previously worked in Content Engineering roles. Her work has included workflow/solutions design, compression quality evaluation, technology assessment and advocacy, authoring of technical specifications and HDR research and deployment. Her current focus is image quality on Sky’s TV Sets - Mostly in panel/TV Set implementation, but with an understanding of Sky’s “Glass to Glass” image handling. Her primary motivation is to see engaging content being delivered to ordinary homes in its’ best form. Carys’ involvement with SMPTE began whilst studying Media Technology in Salford. She has since become an active user of Standards and has presented at SMPTE conferences centrally and in the UK. She is an active member of the SMPTE UK board of managers, and a current SMPTE Education Director. Carys is passionate about retaining engineering students and early careerists, via healthy technical community. As a result, her efforts with SMPTE often focus on embedding sustainable strategies for student engagement into SMPTE's core activities. This includes the development of SMPTE UK's annual "Young Innovators" events - Bringing students and employers together, whilst showcasing the work of those in their early tech careers.