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Keeping the Nation On-Air: How We Think About Resilience at the BBC
Abstract
At the heart of the BBC is delivering value to all, serving audiences across the UK and the world on TV, radio, and online with trusted and impartial news and high-quality British content. This means creating services which are highly visible, always-on, and resilient in an environment which never stops and where there's no tolerance for downtime or compromise. We'll look at the architecture the BBC employs to fulfil its obligations and secure its brand, consider how these might apply across other industry and spaces, and share some stories from the Nation's biggest broadcaster.
Speaker
Tom Everest
Head of Department for Architecture and Supply Chain @BBC
Tom Everest is the head of department for Architecture and Supply Chain across broadcast and end-user technology at the BBC. Day-to-day, he looks after the architecture of the broadcaster's media supply chain, helping solution and delivery teams to build robust, resilient, standardised, and connected workflows and systems. A BBC lifer, Tom started in research and development in the twentieth century and since then has held a number of architecture, contractual, operational, and project management roles across the BBC's distribution and content production activities.
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