“TKT Broadcasting: Grand Jury 2021” is a prestigious group of technical directors and chief engineers at TV companies, radio stations, film studios, and video platforms representing leading organizations from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine. The Grand Jury members provide independent assessments and share their expertise on technological solutions at TKT roundtables.
Members of Grand Jury:
Arzu Abdullaev, CTO at Caspian International Broadcasting Company (CBC Azerbaijan);
Elnur Alizade, Director at technical production association AZTV (Azerbaijan);
Ernar Baimoldaev, CTO at TOO Astana TV (Kazakhstan);
Victor Balakaev, CTO at First Channel Eurasia (Kazakhstan);
Nazim Baratov, Chief engineer at First Channel Eurasia (Kazakhstan);
Aidin Bazhikeev, partner at TKT Media Group in Kazakhstan;
Vyacheslav Bereznyak, CTO at KTK Channel (Kazakhstan);
Alexey Brusnitsky, Director at the technical department of TV Center (Russia);
Sergey Efimov, Ph.D., Deputy Head of the Production and Technological Department at VGTRK;
Alexey Gankov, CTO at Soyuzmultfilm cinema studio’s technopark (Russia);
Ernur Kasabekov, CTO at Khabar Agency (Kazakhstan);
Andrey Khlaponin, CTO at TRC Ukraine (Ukraine);
Oleg Kolesnikov, Head of IT, broadcast and media services at Ekaterinburg 2023 World University Games Organizing Committee (Russia);
Timur Kulgarin, CTO at CTC Media (Russia);
Gocha Kumsiashvili, Director of technical support and production at Georgian Public Broadcaster (Georgia);
Denis Maximov, CTO at REN TV (Russia);
Andrew Mamontov, CTO at Russian Media Group (Russia);
Philip Petrenko, CTO at “1+1” (Ukraine);
Vaagn Nazaryan, CTO at Shant TV (Armenia);
Vitaly Plamedeala, CTO at PRO Digital SRL (Moldova);
Gennady Plamedeala, CTO at NTV Moldova;
Sergey Pronchenko, CTO at TVRcompany Shahar TV (Kazakhstan);
Yury Rezvyakov, CTO at Tricolor/ National Satellite Company (Russia);
Iskandar Salikhov, Director at digital technologies development department at National TVRcompany of Uzbekistan;
Andrey Tebenkov, CTO at NTK (Kazakhstan);
Inna Tribelgorn, CEO at NSP/National Sports Production (Kazakhstan);
Alexander Trubin, Director at network control center at Alma Telecommunications Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan);
Alexey Vashurin, Deputy CTO at Belteleradiocompany (Belarus);
Igor Vernovsky, CTO at STV (Russia);
Denis Vykhodtsev, CEO at VTV Broadcast & Production (Kazakhstan);
Vladimir Shirokov, General producer at TV Сompany START (Russia);
Artem Zhilin, CTO at Pryamiy Channel (Ukraine).