Michael Borthwick aims to become the leading provider of independent technology advice to the cultural sector globally. Michael has provided extensive consulting expertise to clients including the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne. Michael developed of the Concept Design for the ACMI Media Platform which streams dozens of channels of MPEG2 and MPEG4 video to plasma screens throughout the Centre over a Gigabit Ethernet backbone. Michael was a member of the tender evaluation panel for this US$2million system and is the author of the 70 page ACMI Streaming Strategy which identifies opportunities, workflows and technical challenges associated with external web streaming media at ACMI. Michael presented two half-day workshops on digital video and convergence to museum IT professionals at the Museum Computer Network conference in Las Vegas in November 2003 and has written extensively on digital platforms and systems for Digital Media World magazine. Specialties:Media delivery system architectures with a particular orientation towards the needs of cultural institutions including museums, science centers, universities and libraries; video compression systems and codecs; video system engineering, analog and digital video production and distribution, video streaming, content management and e-learning systems.