Category: News

We look forward to meeting with you at the Show! We are excited to be a gold sponsor of the Media Production & Technology Show (MPTS), taking place on 10-11 May at Olympia London.  MPTS is renowned for shining a spotlight on the hottest issues facing the media and broadcast industry, as well as featuring exclusive […]

Rise and Caretta Research are conducting a global, industry-wide survey on diversity and inclusion in the broadcast and streaming industry. We are looking across the entire supply chain, from ingest to distribution, buyers and sellers. We would like to invite you to take part. We have a hunch that diversity and inclusion is good with business – […]

It’s the 100th NAB and Rise is celebrating in style! We are hosting and participating in a series of events to help ensure that gender diversity is at the heart of the show. We hope that you can join us and we look forward to meeting with you in Las Vegas! Please share this list […]

On International Women’s Day, we are thrilled to announce our partners for 2023/2024 – and launch applications for our award-winning mentoring programme in the UK, Europe, North America, Singapore and ANZ regions. Building on the phenomenal success of the last two years, we are excited to see the continuous growth of our global reach and […]

Rise has grown significantly over the last few years, and we are looking for a number of talented, highly motivated people who are passionate about addressing gender diversity issues in the media technology sector to join us. Vacancies include: Rise Mentoring Programme Managers: UK & Europe and North America  The award-winning Rise mentoring programme has been […]

The Rise Up Academy and British Cycling’s City Academies, two projects that inspired Discovery Sports Events at the UCI Track Champions League grand finale in London. As the 2022 UCI Track Champions League season came to its spectacular conclusion at Lee Valley VeloPark in December, Discovery Sports Events shared a special moment with young people […]

We are proud to announce the winners of the 2022 Rise Awards, which were presented on 30 November 2022, in partnership with BT Sport and Timeline TV. More than 250 guests attended the sold-out event, hosted at the BT Sport Studios, to celebrate the achievements of this year’s winners and nominees. The ceremony was also […]

In advance of this year’s Rise Awards 2022 ceremony, we are delighted to announce the recipient of the 2022 Woman of the Year award is Daniella Weigner, co-founder and Managing Director of Cinegy GmbH. A huge congratulations to Daniella, who will receive her award during the Rise Awards 2022 ceremony, which will be held on […]

Rise has grown significantly over the last few years, with the establishment of the Rise Up Academy, our award winning worldwide mentoring programme, the Rise Awards and more recently the Strive to Rise programme. The support of our industry has been fundamental for these successful programmes and their impact is really starting to drive the change in gender diversity that we […]

We are delighted to reveal the shortlist for this year’s Rise Awards, including four new categories; Ally, to be awarded to a male who has significantly helped the gender diversity cause; Project Management or Delivery, Business Operations and Special Recognition. With just over 250 nominations and from over 10 countries, the shortlist judges saw a […]

The Rise Up Academy Summer School took place on 2-5 August at the Global Academy in Hayes. Over 500 young people aged 11-18 registered to attend two 2-day sessions. It was a real team effort and made possible thanks to the incredible support of our sponsors, delivery partners and army of industry volunteers.  During the […]

For the fourth consecutive year, the Awards recognise inspirational women and companies who are stand-out performers, innovators and leaders in the global broadcast media technology industry. is delighted to announce that entries are open for its annual Rise Awards with the introduction of two new categories, Ally of the Year that honours men who have […]

The FREE Rise Up Academy Summer School offers years 7-13 UK students two fun packed days getting hands-on media technology experience. Sounds interesting? Rise, and our industry sponsors, including BT Sport, ITV, Discovery, Sky & disguise invite you to register for this exciting summertime experience during the first week of August. Where and when the […]

We are excited to announce the pairing up of mentees and mentors for the fifth annual mentoring scheme in the UK, third in Singapore, second in North America and the introduction of our first mentoring schemes in North and Central Europe and ANZ. The 2022 mentoring programme sees a variety of experienced broadcast media technology […]

Running throughout 2022, the Rise Training Programme is designed to offer practical support, advice and guidance to women at all stages of their careers, their allies and organisations from across the media technology sectors.   By attending, you will gain insights into key development areas, to supercharge your career progression and help you to develop strategies […]

Talent is the lifeblood of the UK’s media industry – and we must ensure that we are attracting the brightest and best diverse young people to enter and choose a long term career in our industry. But we know there are barriers to achieving this. And we need your help to identify some of the […]

On International Women’s Day, we are thrilled to announce our sponsors for 2022/2023, and also the launch of this year’s mentoring programmes.  Building on the success of last year, 2022 sees the continuous expansion and growth of Rises’ education arm ‘Rise Up Academy’, as well as our fifth annual mentoring scheme in the UK, third […]

Rise is delighted to announce its newly appointed Head of Americas and Head of Sponsorship for the North American chapter, which was formed in 2020. Rise welcomes Hilary Roschke as Chair of Board and Jill Porubovic as Head of Sponsorship and former Co-Chairs Serena Harris and Meghan Ross will stay on the Board. Roschke, the […]

We are delighted to announce two recipients of the Woman of the Year award for this year’s Rise Awards. A huge congratulations to Inga Ruehl of Sky Sports and Borika Vucinic of Bell Media who will receive their awards, sponsored by Zixi, during the Awards ceremony, which will be held on Thursday 18 November from 17:00 […]

Leading industry awards reveals shortlist of inspirational global women from countries including Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, UK and USA  London, UK, 21 October 2021 – Rise, the award-winning advocacy group for women in the broadcast media technology sector, is thrilled to reveal the shortlist for this year’s Rise Awards.  The judges saw an outstanding […]

Rise is delighted to announce the pairing up of mentees and mentors for the ScreenSkills Rise Mentoring Programme. This new ScreenSkills Rise Mentoring Programme, funded by ScreenSkills as part of the BFI Future Film Skills programme using funds from the National Lottery, supports Rises’ 2021/22 expansion of its mentoring schemes within the broadcast media technology […]

Announcing the launch of our 2021 mentoring programme for applications – and who our 2021/22 sponsors are.  This year sees the expansion and growth of Rise’s education arm, Rise Up, as well as our fourth annual mentoring scheme in the UK, our second in Singapore and the introduction of our first mentoring programme in North […]

Rise is delighted to announce the launch of the Rise Up UTC Mentoring Programme, our first mentoring programme for young women aged 16-18 years, in partnership with University Technical Colleges (UTCs). With a focus on STEM subjects and funded by Government, Rise is partnering with five UTCs, supporting a total of 23 young women across […]

Rise North America’s co-chairs, Meghan Ross and Serena Harris share more about the inspirational women who will be helping to drive Rise’s work in the USA and Canada. “2020 was quite a year. We all experienced quite the rollercoaster of emotions.  Except this rollercoaster had gone off the tracks, lost electricity, stalled while you were […]

Rise announced today that its North American chapter, formed earlier in 2020 by Serena Harris, Sales Director at Annex Pro, has appointed Meghan Ross, Director of Global Channel Marketing at EditShare as co-chair. Additionally, Rise North America will be presenting its first event, an ‘In Conversation With’ webinar featuring Sandy Nasseri, CEO of MelroseINC on […]

Expansion to North American and APAC regions and new board members appointed Rise, the membership organisation for for gender diversity within the broadcast technology sector, is proud to announce that its originally UK based organisation, will also launch in North America and APAC. In addition to the exciting news about global expansion, Rise has appointed […]

Now in its third year, the award-winning mentoring programme is seeking applications for mentees in a variety of broadcasting roles – Rise, the advocate group for gender diversity within the broadcast manufacturing and services sector, launched its third annual mentoring scheme today. The UK based programme will work with 20 mentees from the following sectors of […]

Award-winning advocate group for gender diversity within the broadcast manufacturing and services sector Rise, has collaborated with BT Sport, Sky and other industry partners to launch ‘Rise-Up’, a new industry-led schools outreach programme aiming to inspire and educate children about engineering and technology opportunities in the broadcast, media, and entertainment industries.  Since its beginning in […]