Munson, Michelle

Michelle Munson is the co-founder and CEO of Eluvio, which provides an open and decentralized, streaming, content distribution, and storage network built for the third generation Internet. Michelle is an Emmy-award winning technologist who co-founded Aspera in2004 and led the company as CEO until May 2017, including through acquisition by IBM in 2014. She co-invented the Aspera FASP™ transport technology used in the digital media supply chain to replace satellite and traditional tape-based delivery technologies. Michelle is a recipient of the David Sarnoff Medal from the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE); the Charles Swartz Award from the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA); IABM’s Woman Entrepreneur of the Year; and others. She currently serves as an SMPTE Fellow and on the board of Avid Corporation. Michelle is an inventor on fourteen U.S. patents and is a frequent speaker in the areas of content networking, machine learning, blockchain and cloud infrastructure. Michelle was inducted into the College of Engineering Hall of Fame at Kansas State University in 2022. She holds dual B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Kansas State University and was a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University and received a postgraduate diploma in Computer Science. 

 

See the other sessions Michelle is speaking at here.