Working for 8K’s Continued Progress
Participation in the Work Groups of the 8K Association (8KA) is open to members at the Associate and higher level. In order to be a part of a work group you must be a member of the 8K Association.
8K Association Board of Directors
Members of the Board of Directors for the 8K Association are elected from Principal members to provide oversight of the Association’s activities and set strategic direction and goals.
8K Association Officers
President
Bill Mandel
Samsung Research America
Executive Director
Mike Fidler
8K Association
Treasurer
Kathy Loney
VTM Group
Secretary
Cassie Graves
VTM Group
8K Association Board Members
Our Work Groups
The Technical Work Group develops the specifications for certifying 8K TVs. Members look at the key trends in 8K display and playback to add new features and options to ensure consumers have an enjoyable and up-to-date experience with their 8K TVs.
You must be an 8KA member to join a Work Group.
Chair
KG Lee
Samsung Electronics
The Certification Work Group must develop the test methods to validate that an 8K TV meets the rigorous performance and interface requirements set forth in the 8K TV Technical Specification. This group also works with manufactures to validate self-certification results and to audit third party test labs to test 8K TVs to the 8KA spec. This group also will perform market audits of available Certified 8K TVs to validate the as-manufactured products still meet the 8KA specification.
Request To Join Certification WG
You must be an 8KA member to join a Work Group.
Chair
Pete Sellar
Xperi
Certification Program Manager
Juan Reyes
Tech Align Group
The Marketing Work Group helps to manage the 8KA newsletter, The 8K Monitor, develops 8KA press releases, helps coordinate seminar presentations and webinars, organizes media briefings, performs outreach to certain groups, executes social media postings, manages the 8KA YouTube videos, and updates/maintains the organization’s two web sites (www.8kassociation.com and www.discover8k.com).
You must be an 8KA member to join a Work Group.
Chair
Mike Fidler
8K Association
The Content & Distribution Work Group focuses on expanding the creation of 8K content and help to improve the technology and business case for the distribution of 8K content. Part of its mission is to secure 8K content for use by members and other select organizations via the Content Creator membership option. The group also tries to support independent filmmakers in their quest to capture and finish content in 8K. Members are also participating in the creation of new 8K reference content in a project organized by the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC).
Other activities include outreach and liaison with Standards Development Organization particularly in the distribution part of the ecosystem, help with benchmarking in encoding/decoding solutions, and tests to validate the visual improvement that 8K content can offer.
Request To Join Content & Distribution WG
You must be an 8KA member to join a Work Group.
4K/8K Visual Quality Committee Chair
Hosub Lee
Samsung Electronics
Encode-Decode Committee Chair
Mauricio Alvarez Mesa
Spin Digital Video Technologies
Encode-Decode Committee Chair
Ravindra Velhal
Intel
The Legal Work Group deals with contracts and matters that may require legal counsel to advise on. It also manages the Trademark actions the 8KA undertakes.
You must be an 8KA member to join a Work Group.
Chair
Yeowan Youn
Samsung Electronics
