Carys Hughes

Carys is a Principal Engineer in Sky’s Display Engineering team. With over 10 years at Sky, Carys previously spent time in Content Engineering roles, with work including workflow/solutions design, compression quality evaluation, technology assessment and advocacy, authoring of technical specifications and HDR research and deployment.

Her current focus is on image quality on Sky’s own TV Sets - mostly from the perspective of panel/TV Set implementation, but with a working understanding of Sky’s “Glass to Glass” image handling. Her primary motivation is to see engaging, immersive content being delivered to ordinary homes in its’ best form.

Carys’ involvement with SMPTE began as a student, whilst studying Media Technology at Salford. She has become a practicing user of technical standards, an active member of the SMPTE UK board of managers, and has presented at SMPTE conferences centrally and in the UK. Carys has previously served on SMPTE’s EAC and is a former Rise mentee/mentor. Amongst other things, she is passionate about the intentional enablement of students and early career professionals to access, participate in and contribute to healthy technical community.