Richard Kroon, director of technical operations for EIDR, was named the winner of the Technology Leadership Award, presented Oct. 1 in Los Angeles during the fourth annual DEG EnTech Awards event.
The DEG EnTech Awards honor technology innovators in the media and entertainment space, with DEG using a judging panel comprised of a cross-section of leaders representing entertainment technology to determine the winners.
The Technology Leadership Award “honors an individual or team for demonstrating leadership, implementing something technically that had an impact on the business as a whole (extending to the industry beyond their specific company). Recipients will have demonstrated leadership and significantly contributed to a recent project or other engagement within the last two years in the technology and operations function within entertainment technology,” according to DEG.
Along with Kroon, Deepdub’s Ofir Krakowski and Looper Insights’s Lucas Bertrand were finalists for the award.
“I’m honored and just chuffed to bits to have been recognized by the DEG,” Kroon said. “I was stunned when my name was read, and didn’t think to have prepared remarks, so I just congratulated the other finalists, and made the point that entertainment technology is a team sport — we all succeed when we work together. I’m just glad that I can do my part to help save the world from boredom, one audiovisual identifier at a time.”
Other awards presented at the event included:
- Emerging Technology Award
- Localization Trailblazer Award
- Technology Efficiency Achievement Award
- Technology Innovation in Accessibility Award
- Technology Innovation in Content Delivery (B to B) Award
- Technology Innovation in Content Distribution (B to C) Award
- Rising Star Award
Ron Geller, VP of worldwide content relations for Dolby, which sponsored the Technology Leadership Award, presented the award to Kroon.