Looking to the Future: The Next Generation Dr. Man-Nang Chong Dr. Man-Nang Chong is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of GDC Technology Limited. Whilst you may know him best in this role, he was actually an associate professor of the School of Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from 1992 to 2000. In 1996, Dr. Chong led a team to win the “Worldwide Texas Instruments’ Digital Signal Processing Solutions Challenge” award with a digital motion picture restoration solution. With the prize money, he founded Nirvana Digital, a leading digital signal processing company, in 1999. The company was subsequently acquired by Acterna Incorporation in 2000. Shortly after this GDC Technology was born and the rest, as they say, is history.
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Adam MacDonald, European Sales Manager, GDC s well as being a successful business
we provide innovative products and services to help cinemas
leader, Dr Chong is passionate about the
enhance the moviegoing experience for audiences around the
cinema industry and making sure our
world. We offer a comprehensive suite of products and services
industry thrives at the cutting edge of
that enable cinema operators to deliver the highest quality
technology; something that can only
moviegoing experience possible to their audiences. Many know
happen with talented engineers entering
GDC as a media server company. Over the last three years, we
the business. Cinema Technology took
have become more than ‘just an IMB’ company with a
some time to find out more about Dr. Chong’s passion for ‘paying
comprehensive suite of enterprise software solutions and audio
it forwards’.
products.
CT: Can you start by telling us a bit about the company?
CT: We recently became aware of the GDC Scholarship
Chong: First, thank you for this opportunity to share some
programme, tell me more and how you believe initiatives like
thoughts with your readers. We are all fans of CT Magazine at GDC
this might help to address the skills shortage the industry
Technology and it is an honour to be part of this edition. At GDC,
currently faces and why education matters.
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Top Left: GDC showcasing technology solutions at CinemaCon 2023. Top, Dr Man-Nang Chong.