John Footen is a leader in Deloitte’s Media & Entertainment practice with over 30 years of experience in the industry. In his role at Deloitte, John works with a wide variety of broadcasters, studios, telecom companies and the firms that serve them. His client work focuses on technology strategy, media systems architecture and design, roadmaps, innovation and artificial intelligence. John is an acknowledged industry expert in Systems Design, Software Architecture, Cloud, and AI, all of which have a major impact on today’s broadcast television and professional media systems.

Prior to working with Deloitte, John was an executive with several consulting firms and professional media technology vendors. He has been responsible for managing large and complex media solutions projects for many types of media enterprises. He has extensive international media experience; having lived and worked in North America, Asia, and EMEA.

John has served on multiple SMPTE technology committees. He has led teams which have received two technology Emmy awards as well as multiple patents. He was a recipient of the prestigious SMPTE Medal for Workflow Systems and was named a Fellow of SMPTE. John holds degrees in computer science and film & television from New York University. He is also the co-author of the book, “The Service-Oriented Media Enterprise: SOA, BPM, and Web Services in Professional Media Systems,” as well as numerous articles in industry journals and magazines.