ErinRose Widner is a Media & Technology Strategist who most recently led global strategy and business development for emerging and creative technologies at Verizon Business.

Her work focuses on advancing AI, edge compute, and next-generation infrastructure for media and entertainment customers worldwide.

She began her career in localization and post-production, building business with major studios and enterprise clients including Paramount, Fox, Microsoft, and Apple. After developing expertise in subtitles and dubbing, she launched a global enterprise division centered on speech recognition powered by NLP and machine learning. She later expanded revenue and brand visibility for media technology products across retail, e-commerce, and SaaS markets through her own consultancy, and then later as a Channel Marketing Leader at Vitec Production Solutions growing user and partner engagement. She currently serves on the IBC Council, and is a strategic board advisor to AIKO, a real-time personalized data analytics platform focused on enhancing the sports viewing experience.

A frequent industry speaker, ErinRose has presented at NAB, IBC, AWS M&E Symposium, EBU and SMPTE’s Media Technology Summit. She is also a strong advocate of gender parity, having served on the North American board of Rise, an award-winning global advocacy membership organization supporting gender diversity across the media technology sector, and most recently led the N. American mentorshiop program for three years.