Sean Gardner is the head of video strategy and market development for AMD’s AECG business (formerly Xilinx). A 25yr industry veteran in the video streaming and broadcast markets. Starting with shift from Analog to digital. Including emergence of key technologies like SDI, DVI, HDMI and usage image processing while at Gennum. Moving to Texas Instruments in early 2000's and he began focusing on the emerging streaming market. At TI he focused on establishing the sucess of the DaVinci processor family on the infrastructure side of the market.  In 2015 joined Xilinx Broadcast group but in 2017 moved to form Xilinx's Cloud Video initiative. This has included multiple significant investments and the acquisitions.