John Footen
With more than three decades of M&E experience under his belt, John Footen is a managing director who leads Deloitte Consulting LLP’s media technology and operations practice. He has been a chairperson for various industry technology committees. He earned the SMPTE Medal for Workflow Systems and became a Fellow of SMPTE. He also co-authored a book, called “The Service-Oriented Media Enterprise: SOA, BPM, and Web Services in Professional Media Systems,” and has published many articles in industry publications.
Latest articles by John Footen

Content Is King. Long Live the King!
By John Footen published
Expertise To counter competitive threats from generative AI, the best defense is to make great programming

A Media Technologist’s Guide to Evolving Skills
By John Footen published
Opinion Programming languages, prompt engineering and data skills are an important part of the AI future

Could AI Become Its Own Worst Enemy?
By John Footen published
MEDIA MATRIX Arguably, the greatest danger to the future of AI is AI itself

2024 Olympics Come Alive With Media AI
By John Footen published
MEDIA MATRIX AI can’t compete, but, it can enhance and verify storytelling

What is the Media Matrix?
By John Footen published
OPINION Where will AI take the M&E industry? We’re just starting to find out

IT Just Doesn't Get it!
By John Footen published
The engineer Charles Kettering said, "There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."

I Can See Clearly Now!
By John Footen published
Perhaps one of the more common complaints I hear is about the inability to present clearly the massive amounts of information that are generated on a daily basis.

The Future is Yours!
By John Footen published
Lao Tzu, the father of Taoism, said, "Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge."

Rome Wasn't Built in a Day
By John Footen published
Every time we approach solving a problem—no matter in what arena—we are faced with unexpected changes and circumstances that we must adapt to.

Computing on Cloud Nine
By John Footen published
In simplest terms the cloud is about accessing resources over a network.

SOA: Are We There Yet?
By John Footen published
With so many things happening I thought it to be a good time to give an update.

Sharing Random Observations
By John Footen published
I'll recount a few random things I saw at IBC2011 in September, in Amsterdam.
Why? Because I Said So!
By John Footen published
I answer some of the more frequent questions I get about service design and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Following the 10 IT Commandments
By John Footen published
Oftentimes the work of someone looking at a facility can be as much an art as it is a science.

Standards Are Dead! Long Live Standards!
By John Footen published
What should also be obvious is that standards are evolving more and more quickly. The average lifespan of a standard is declining.
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