Interview with TIM GUILDER, HEAD OF PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY What is your standout achievement within Can you describe the Studios technology? sustainability journey Starlink was a stand-out project, and, in turn, more sustainable as it all surprised by the differences that can winning awards both internally and fits in a back-pack. It no longer needs be made beyond sustainability – both that ITV Studios has been externally. Replacing big satellite to be near a mains outlet either – practically and commercially. on over the past year? dishes, the Starlink technology has flight-safe batteries and a foldaway 2023 was a year of increased been used to allow live content to solar panel can keep the system Our Global Innovation Hub promotes information sharing and collaborating be streamed back for contribution, running off-grid for many hours. cross-territory engagement and with our Studios colleagues, both in and giving production teams access often, a cross-pollination of ideas the UK and internationally. Through to tools, email and file transfer What are some of the and results. For instance, in areas the ITV Studios Green Team and the workflows whilst in the field. As a challenges you face? outside of connectivity, recent Global Innovations Hub sessions, we new technology, it had to be tested experiments with LED lighting and have all been exchanging ideas on in many environments to prove its We’re all creatures of habit and battery power on a shoot showed ways we could be more sustainable. performance. It ended up a game- deviating from a ‘well-trodden path’ that energy consumption was much It begins with everyone being more changer for news gathering, filming in can be a tough sell in any occupation. lower than originally estimated, mindful of their carbon footprint. extreme conditions or just very remote So, once we have a tangible example proving that alternative energy We have started to put some of the locations, providing connectivity in of a new method or technology, we sources can be relied upon. The main concepts into practice – using cleaner, areas where a fibre connection has make it our mission to publicise and goals are to remove any risk through quieter energy sources on shoots and been delayed and/or a cellular signal circulate the newfound knowledge in-parallel experimentation, build up smaller, lighter equipment that doesn’t is poor. It’s more user-friendly than around the Production Teams, those case studies and to never stop need so much power in the first place. historical Satellite kits, more compact many of which have been pleasantly challenging how we do things. ITV Social Purpose Impact Report 2023 28