About
Maarten Carpentier
Broadcast strategist and founder of Intevent. Helping media organisations make the move to modern, software-defined infrastructure, and making sure their people move with it.
Both sides of the table.
Maarten has spent 17 years in broadcast technology. His work centres on large fixed installations and infrastructure renewals: the projects where a broadcaster commits to a technical direction for the next decade.
He has worked closely with both the organisations that make those decisions and the vendors that deliver them. That gives him a practical view of where projects succeed, where they stall, and why the gap between a strategy slide and a working control room is usually about people, not technology.
He has led pre-sales engineering teams and built the workflows, procedures and tools they rely on, experience he now brings to clients who need to design, tender and roll out change of their own.
Through Intevent he works independently with broadcasters, production companies and media organisations: from C-level strategy to training the trainers after go-live.
Areas of expertise
- SDI to IP transition
- Software-defined infrastructure
- CAPEX vs OPEX models
- Facility roadmaps
- System design
- RFP design & vendor selection
- Workflow optimisation
- Operator training & processes
- Business continuity
Career highlights
- 2024 – nowSenior Director Global Solutions, Broadcast SolutionsMember of the group CTO office. Large fixed broadcast installations and infrastructure renewals, working with both customers and vendors.
- 2022 – nowFounder, InteventIndependent strategy, design and guidance for broadcast infrastructure change.
- 2018 – 2022Chief Technology Officer, DB VideoResponsible for technology at a Belgian broadcast and event production company. During COVID, steered the move to a hybrid model: fixed broadcast production facilities combined with Webble-Up, an interactive online platform for virtual and hybrid events with registration, networking, polls, Q&A and breakout rooms.
- 2009 – 2017Video Engineer, DB VideoVideo engineer and technical project coordinator for large live events, including governmental high-level events in Belgium and Tomorrowland.
Where Maarten likes to contribute
Leadership & advisory
Helping shape the direction of media and technology organisations, where strategy, technology and people come together.
Talks & panels
On the move to IP and software-defined production, remote workflows, and leading teams through technical change.
Writing
Sharing what works and what doesn't, through whitepapers and learnings on Insights.
For events, panels and publications
Short bio
Maarten Carpentier is a broadcast strategist and the founder of Intevent. With 17 years in broadcast technology, he helps media organisations navigate the move from SDI to software-defined infrastructure, from C-level strategy and RFP design to operator training after go-live. He writes about infrastructure transformation at intevent.be.
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