Thomas Edwards is a Principal Media & Entertainment Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, where he helps customers achieve success in building applications and services on the cloud. He previously worked on advanced technology projects for broadcasters PBS, Fox & Disney. He is a board member of the Video Services Forum and the Streaming Video Technology Alliance, a SMPTE Fellow, was awarded the SMPTE Workflow Systems Medal, and received an Innovator statue for contribution to VSF's Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for "Standardization of SMPTE ST 2110".