Helge Seetzen

Who is Helge Seetzen?

Helge Seetzen is an award-winning German technologist, businessman and entrepreneur, known for imaging & multimedia research and commercialization. He holds a series of patents in the display and multimedia spaces. and has launched e start-up companies to bring his own and others inventions to market.

Seetzen was active in the development of high dynamic range imaging technology and several of his patents cover aspects of this technology.

Seetzen left his native Germany to study physics at the University of British Columbia in 1998.

In 2004, he became co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of BrightSide Technologies, a Vancouver-based developer of High dynamic range imaging-based electronic display technologies. After Brightside was purchased by Dolby Laboratories in 2007, he joined Dolby Canada Corp., becoming director of HDR Technology at Dolby from 2008 to 2010.

Seetzen is the Chair of the Publications committee of the Society for Information Display, where he is responsible for the society’s publications including The Journal of the SID, Information Display magazine, and related publications.