ATTENDING NAB?
PLEASE JOIN OUR RECEPTION!
Monday October 11, 2021
At 18:00 PST
Artisan Hotel 1501 W. Sahara, Las Vegas, NV 89102
(Please RSVP ASAP or no later than September 13th)
*Transportation will be provided from and to Las Vegas Convention Center
Join us at the Artisan Hotel (above) for cocktails, food, giveaways, conversation and more!
Special Guest in Attendance: Drake Smith, NCI Board of Trustees.
Drake Smith was a former Chief Technology Officer for the National Captioning Institute and oversaw all key service improvements including the development of speech recognition-based captioning, a web-based scheduling and resource allocation system, and the delivery of services by data networks rather than phone lines to improve reliability. Mr. Smith’s relationship with NCI spans 30 years, beginning with his development of the world’s first single-chip closed caption decoder while at ITT Semiconductors. Before joining NCI, he helped promote the use of closed captioning technology overseas, and he represented NCI on the ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) working group that created the captioning standard for digital TV. Mr. Smith continues to serve NCI as a member of its Board of Trustees.
Mr. Smith holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology from University of Lowell, and a Master of Software Engineering degree from Brandeis University. He resides in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.