Gerard Phillips from Arista joins me to talk about how he got into broadcast and how technology has moved on in the intervening time. Touching on defence projects, his time at Snell + Wilcox grappling with FPGAs and ASICs to uncompressed video, Gerard's journey helps us understand the reason software-defined products are so important and gives us an insight to recruitment today.

For the first time, our industry has a comprehensive report on the state of diversity, equity and inclusion. Polly and I discuss both the good and the bad news from the report. If you want to read it yourself, you can get it from Rise: https://risewib.com/survey/