RIST member to be honoured at NAB with Women in Technology Futurist Award

Suzana Brady

Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST) Forum chairperson and Cobalt Digital’s Suzana Brady, will be presented with the Women in Technology Futurist Award, by TVNewsCheck at NAB 2023. 

Brady has served as SVP of worldwide sales and marketing at Cobalt for six years. In her role she is responsible for directing all sales and marketing activities on a global scale.  Brady also championed Cobalt’s involvement in the adoption SL-HDR1 by facilitating numerous and varied educational initiatives designed to educate the industry on the details of this technology.

At RIST Forum, she led the organisation’s marketing and education activities since 2019, growing it to over 230 members during her tenure.

Brady will receive her award at the NAB show in Las Vegas on 18 April 2023.

TVNewsCheck publisher and co-founder Kathy Haley said: “Suzana Brady’s leadership of the RIST Forum, including significant membership expansion, while organizing outreach to educate broadcasters and technology vendors have advanced a critically important leg of the media industry’s transition from hardware to software. Her work educating the media industry about the HDR aspects of the ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard have helped fine-tune a transformative technology for local TV stations.”

Chris Shaw, Cobalt Digital’s COO said: “Suzana is an incredibly talented, brilliant woman with accomplishments too numerous to name. We are lucky to have her at the helm of Cobalt’s sales and marketing team and couldn’t be more pleased with the work she does with RIST. She is quite literally transforming the industry through her actions and dedication.”