Gulliver Smithers is a Product-oriented CTO and digital strategist with over 20 years of experience across the media sector working for some of the best-known brands in the world. Gulliver previously worked at Sony as the CTO to their D2C and digital supply chain division and before that as an SVP running the global product and tech teams for Sony’s LA Studio. Earlier in his career he was the VP of Product at the BBC, the CTO at Base79 where he oversaw a successful exit, and the Director of On-Demand at ITV. Gulliver is passionate about; sustainability in business, digital strategy & product innovation; agile & lean software development; technical innovation; cloud computing and architecture; product roadmaps, growth and management; multi-platform application development; and video on demand. Gulliver holds a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and currently lives in Los Angeles.