François Bourdua

Professionally active for over 39 years, François Bourdua has worked in TV production mainly as technical manager, and in film and television postproduction as Vice-president, technologies (CTO). During fall 2009, he started VS-TEK, a consulting and project management company. Over the course of his career, M. Bourdua, his teams and partners successfully took many technological challenges and were responsible for many technology premieres in film restoration, 2K/ 4K postproduction and D-Cinema just to name a few. More recently, thru VS-TEK he was involved in many key projects with customers like the CBC, Télé-Québec, Jonquière’s media college ATM and The Montreal Canadians hockey team. M. Bourdua is an active SMPTE member since 1997 and a committee member since 2011. He now wishes direct his involvement in the SMPTE community at a more global level by applying for the Canadian regional governor position (2023-2025 term).