Dr Emma Young

Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards

27 November 2025
The Brewery, London

Judges

Dr Emma Young

Founder & Executive Producer, Out of the Woods Media

Emma is a creative technologist and executive producer with over 20 years’ experience at the intersection of broadcast, AI, and immersive media. During her seven years at BBC R&D, she explored everything from immersive audio and live XR to AI-driven storytelling and intelligent production workflows — helping shape what the future of media might feel like.

She’s a frequent keynote speaker, strategic advisor, and founder of Out of the Woods Media, where she develops high-end, future-facing content. Emma returns to the Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards judging panel with a sharp eye for originality, technical ambition, and meaningful audience impact.

Everybody sees what happens on the screen and what goes out, but there's so much work and effort goes into production, the preplanning and making these things happen, to be recognised for that work that goes on preproduction is amazing!
Richard Wormwell
dock10
Being able to show those unsung heroes within the technical innovation space is a really important achievement and it's a great awards to be part of...
David Harnett
Timeline TV
To recognise people that do stuff that isn't normally recognised, you know it's normally the hosts, the executive producers and the creative directors, but yeah the technical stuff makes it happen!
Lisa Edwards
Studio Ramsay
We're such an important industry to the country, and to everyone we serve from our clients to everyone at home, and there's a huge amount of work that's gone into the last couple of years innovation wise and it's great to be recognised.
Jai Cave
Envy Post Production