About
mireality /mir-ree-al-i-tee/ or /my-ree-al-i-tee/
noun: Maria Ingold’s reality — innovation comes from diversity of thought.
mireality combines strategy, innovation, visual technology, speaking, writing and creativity.
mireality builds successful solutions using six steps:
- Where you are: Strategic, commercial, risk and technical audits.
- Where you want to go: Market / product research, risk analysis and vision creation.
- How to get there with RoI: Brief, business case, reporting and plan development.
- Implement: Lead successful implementation across disparate stakeholders.
- Operate: Profitably deploy new products and services while maintaining existing offerings.
- Talk about it: Share case studies and receive feedback to factor in and repeat.
Maria Ingold
AI in Media CTO | Speaker | Writer | Creator
Innovation and Visual Technology
Maria is a strategic innovator (20+ years as a CTO) in media technology, specialising in video streaming and artificial intelligence monetisation and saving. Recognised as one of the top influencers in AI in media, she heads mireality, a strategy and technical media and AI innovation consultancy and has advised AI media start-ups, including iSIZE, recently sold to Sony Interactive Entertainment.
She previously led global Solution Engineering and Bids & Proposals for Synamedia, the largest global (Americas, APAC and EMEA) video solution vendor for service providers and content owners. As the former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Disney / Sony JV FilmFlex Movies, Maria delivered some of the most successful on-demand movie services in Europe from launch, including for Virgin Media cable and broadcaster Channel 4. FilmFlex was profitable from year one.
Combining Computer Science and Art, Maria started her career at IBM and Ocean Software, helping invent the beginning of audio, video and games on personal computers.
Maria is also a global public speaker, including TEDx talk “Innovating the Impossible”, a BAFTA film and TV judge, occasional actor, and is doing an MSc in Artificial Intelligence.
Maria works with companies who want better return on investment (ROI) on innovation.
Speaking
Global speaker and thought leader — over 200 times — including NAB, IBC, "TEDx: Innovating the Impossible". Keynotes, presentation, chairing, C-level interviews and panels. Topics: AI / ML / Generative AI, video streaming (VOD / OTT ), innovation and sustainability.
CTO / Advisory
Strategic and technical innovator aligning customer, business, and product. Permanent / board advisory / consulting / fractional / interim across telecoms and media, artificial intelligence, streaming, digital innovation, start-ups and private equity.
Writing
Published and internal writer on strategy, technology and trends. Magazine and journal articles, white papers, positioning papers, proposals (RFQ, RFI, RFP). Topics include: AI, ML, Generative AI, video streaming, smart home, IoT, wearables, VR, innovation, and sustainability.
Maria belongs to the rare breed of people who understand both technology and business, and to top it off she’s a joy to work with. Maria is insightful and detail-oriented, and she clearly cares about the projects she’s involved with.
Maria is that unique person who is extremely passionate about the projects she works on. The passion can be found not only in her deep knowledge of Digital Media but the respect of her peers in the industry. This is probably why she is consistently asked to speak at industry events each year.
