ErinRose Widner is a Media & Technology Strategist who most recently led global strategy and business development for emerging and creative technologies at Verizon Business.

Her work focuses on advancing AI, edge compute, and next-generation infrastructure for media and entertainment customers worldwide.

She began her career in localization and post-production, building business with major studios and enterprise clients including Paramount, Fox, Microsoft, and Apple. After developing expertise in subtitles and dubbing, she launched a global enterprise division centered on speech recognition powered by NLP and machine learning. She later expanded revenue and brand visibility for media technology products across retail, e-commerce, and SaaS markets through her own consultancy and with Vitec Production Solutions.

A frequent industry speaker, ErinRose has presented at NAB, IBC, AWS M&E Symposium, and SMPTE’s Media Technology Summit. She serves on the North American board of Rise, an award-winning global advocacy membership organization supporting gender diversity across the media technology sector, where she also leads the mentoring program.