Maria Ingold heads strategic and technical innovation consultancy, mireality. She brings over 25 years’ expertise in deploying successful emerging visual technology across film, TV, video, games and media.

As the former CTO for a Disney / Sony JV, Maria created some of the most successful on-demand movie services in Europe from launch and profitable from year one.

Maria is also a global public speaker, including the TEDx talk “Innovating the Impossible”, a BAFTA film and TV judge, and on the Industrial Advisory Board for the University of Essex, School of Computer Science and Engineering.