Ian Wagdin

Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards

27 November 2025
The Brewery, London

Judges

Ian Wagdin

VP Technology and Innovation, Appear

Ian is VP Technology and Innovation at Appear where he works with industry to explore the latest in live production. He has worked in production for 30 years and has been at the forefront of many changes including the move from SD to HD and from tape based to file based workflows.

He has extensive experience in technical operations having worked in News, Sport, Children’s TV Long form production. He previously worked with the BBC R&D team where he worked on IP production and the use of 5G in production for which he was nominated and won several innovation awards.

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