Marion Ranchet currently runs The Local Act Consultancy, empowering streaming video services to launch and grow in Western Europe. With 17 years of experience in the industry, and as a film and TV lover, she advises SVOD, AVOD and FAST services on how to launch and grow in Europe through her deep knowledge of the varying markets, and with a strong content expertise and distribution​ network in place. 

You will often see Marion sharing incredibly useful nuggets of information on LinkedIn, her newsletter “Streaming Made Easy” and during industry events like IBC or MIPCOM. If you’re looking to soak up key industry knowledge, Marion is someone you definitely need in your network.

Maria brings 20+ years as a CTO deploying successful visual technology across Media and Entertainment. She heads mireality, specialising in media and AI strategy, innovation and advisory.

She recently led global Solution Engineering and Bids & Proposals for Synamedia, the largest global video solution vendor for service providers and content owners.

As the former CTO for Disney / Sony JV, FilmFlex Movies, Maria delivered some of the most successful on-demand movie services in Europe from launch, including for Virgin Media cable and broadcaster Channel 4. FilmFlex was profitable from year one.



With her unique background in Computer Science and Art, Maria started her career at IBM and Ocean Software, helping invent the beginning of audio, video and games on personal computers.

Maria is also a global public speaker, BAFTA film and TV judge, and is doing an MSc in AI.