Matt Smith has been a key member of the video platform team at Yahoo! since 2000, designing workflows and managing teams tasked with live event event execution and digital media creation.  He engages with technology partners like Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and others, to evolve and improve the video experience at Yahoo!.  Matt is a featured speaker at a variety of video and technology shows and events.  Prior to Yahoo!, Matt spent years at NBC-Universal, first at the affiliate level and later with the network.  Wearing many hats, Matt helped initiate the Local News program @ MSNBC, reported on technology interests for all 200+ NBC affiliates and helped evolve video from postage stamp size in the early days to the full screen HD content we see today.  He lives in Dallas with his wife and two daughters.