Margret is an alumna of UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering and Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. She has a Primetime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Television, was one of the Most Powerful Women in Cable for seven years, and was named an iTV All-Star for her lifetime achievement in interactive television. She is a YWCA Silicon Valley Tribute to Women honoree, and one of Silicon Valley Business Journal's Women of Influence. Margret regularly speaks on design & innovation and women in technology and leadership at forums including SXSW, CES, Grace Hopper, and UC Berkeley. Margret serves on the Advisory Council for the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, and holds 32 patents.

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/margretschmidt

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3293362/

Interviews:

November 2015: Berkeley Engineer: Alumni Notes Margret Schmidt

May 2015: Insight At Berkeley: Get this Show on the Code: A Conversation with TiVo Pro Margret Schmidt

February 2015: Wiselike / CareerDean AMA with TiVo’s Chief Design Officer

March 2014 - TiVo’s Margret Schmidt on balancing executive role with being a ‘nerd parent’

October 2012 - TiVo’s Margret Schmidt Talks to GraphicDesign.com about UI/UX Design

January 2009 - Interviewed by Peter Merholz of Adaptive Path

July 2008 - Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox: Weekly User Testing: TiVo Did It, You Can, Too

December 2004 - Interviewed by Matt Haughey of PVRBlog

Speaking Engagements:

Chrome Developer Summit 2019: Q&A with the Chrome leads (11/12/19)

Google Developer Experts Summit 2019: Chrome: our role as web citizen (10/27/19)

Grace Hopper 2019: PM, UX, or Eng - Which Career is Right for You? (10/2/19)

Grace Hopper 2019: Navigating ‘Style’ Feedback (10/4/19)

Grace Hopper 2018: Journey Lines: How to Build Team Trust in an Hour (9/27/18)

Grace Hopper 2018: Pivot or Die (Your Career That Is) (9/26/18)

LWT: Advancing Women in Leadership & The Women’s CLUB of Silicon Valley: Leadership Journeys in Technology (5/30/18)

The TV of Tomorrow Show 2017:  The Death of the Remote, and the Rise of the Conversational UI (6/28/17)

When She Speaks: Age of the Customer (5/12/17)

Product Intelligence and Experience Summit 2017: Developing an High-Performance Product Development Team (3/16/17)

WITI Women in Technology Summit: Innovative Technology Trends - Connected, Collaborated Information (6/6/16)

WICT Women Leading Innovation: TV’s Changing Landscape (4/19/16)

Design Thinking 2016: Design Leadership: Navigating the Politics of Large Design Projects (3/25/16)

NCTC Winter Educational Conference 2016: The Future of the User Interface (2/15/16) - Vimeo: video (start at 20:00)

CableLabs MTO Summit: What Cable Can Do to Increase Customer Engagement through Personalization and Content Integration (11/4/15)

Products That Count: Disrupting TV (8/26/15)

CableLabs Summer Conference 2015: How’s Your User Experience? (8/3/15)

OPEN Silicon Valley Forum 2015: What’s next for the Digital Living Room (6/6/15)

WICT Northern California: A Taste of WICT (6/4/15)

WITchIS: Women in Technology (5/13/15)

Bay Area Research Forum: Consumer Data: the Good, the Bad, the Not-So-Ugly (5/8/15)

SXSW 2015: Consumer Data: the Good, the Bad, the Not-So-Ugly (3/14/15)

UC Berkeley Engineering Leadership Professional Program: Innovation & Design Thinking (returning guest lecturer: Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2018)

LeadOn CA 2015: Customer-Focused Product Design (2/24/15)

UC Berkeley A. Richard Newton Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series: Margret Schmidt (10/21/14)  - YouTube: video

The TV of Tomorrow Show 2014: Dragons of Design (6/11/14)

DevCon 5: Opening Keynote: Want Your Users to LOVE You? Make Sure You Are Doing These Things (12/10/13)

Silverlign STIR: Mobile Marketing for the Digital Age (7/16/13)

Product Development Summit: What if Designers Were Responsible for Shipping Products? (5/7/13)

The TV of Tomorrow Show 2011: Designing for Television’s Multiplatform Future (5/18/11)

Mx 2009: Intense Collaboration: How TiVo Does It (3/3/09)

CES 2009: Wii Shall Overcome: The Triumph of Simplicity and the Lessons we can Learn from Nintendo (1/9/09)

Web Experience Forum 08: Bringing the Spirit of the DVR to the Web: TiVo launches a new tivo.com (10/14/09)

Set Top Box 2008 + Interface 2008: Keynote: Are you Designing a Product Your Users Will Love? (10/8/09)

BayCHI Design Research BOF: Bringing the Spirit of the DVR to the Web: TiVo launches a new tivo.com (6/3/08)

CableNEXT: Beyond the Grid: Harnessing the Power of Advanced User Interfaces (11/27/07)

AFI Digital Content Festival: TiVo Interactive Advertising Platform (7/26/06)

DUX 2005: User-Steered Content (11/4/05)

UXPA 2005: Making User-Centered Design Work at TiVo (6/30/05)

BayCHI Monthly Program: Revolutionizing Consumer Electronics: Welcome to the TiVolution! (12/14/04)

Talks to corporate design teams at:
Google (2020), Hulu (2019), Citrix (2013), Apple (2010, 2007), Sun (2008, 2005), Wells Fargo (2011), Intuit (2009), Snapfish by HP (2009), Cisco WebEx (2009), Walmart.com (2009), Microsoft (2008)

Patents:

# 7,861,258 Customizing DVR functionality (issued 12/28/10)

# 7,934,170 Method and apparatus for displaying branded video tags (issued 4/26/11)

# 8,261,300 Method and apparatus for advertisement placement in a user dialog on a set-top box (issued 9/4/12)

# 8,549,553 Customizing DVR functionality (issued 10/1/13)

# 8,761,585 Method and apparatus for restricting DVD content (issued 6/24/2014)

# 9,036,981 Method and apparatus for advertisement placement in a user dialog on a set-top box (issued 5/19/15)

# 9,037,999 Adaptive search result user interface (issued 5/19/15)

# 9,088,826 Method and apparatus for advertisement placement in a user dialog on a set-top box (issued 7/21/15)

# 9,094,718 Customizing DVR functionality (issued 7/28/15)

# 9,270,963 Program Shortcuts (issued 2/23/16)

# 9,326,031 Method and apparatus for advertisement placement in a user dialog on a set-top box (issued 4/16/16)

# 9,332,314 Method and apparatus for automated bidding and advertisement placement on a set-top box (issued 5/3/16)

# 9,363,564 Method and apparatus for advertisement placement in a user dialog on a set-top box (issued 6/7/16)

# 9,837,122 Customizing DVR functionality (issued 12/5/17)

# 9,854,312 Program shortcuts (issued 12/26/17)

# 9,866,888 Systems and methods for creating a virtual channel for binge watching (issued 1/9/18)

# 9,961,386 Systems and methods for navigating custom media presentations (issued 5/1/18)

# 9,967,534 Digital video recorder video editing system (issued 5/8/18)

# 9,998,790 Augmented reality content recommendation (issued 6/12/18)

# 10,038,929 Systems and methods for creating a virtual channel for binge watching (issued 7/31/18)

# 10,091,549 Methods and systems for recommending media assets based on the geographic location at which the media assets are frequently consumed (issued 10/2/18)

# 10,104,439 Systems and methods for navigation of groups of media assets (issued 10/16/18)

# 10,142,686 System and methods for disambiguating an ambiguous entity in a search query based on the gaze of a user (issued 11/27/18)

# 10,158,823 Methods and techniques for adaptive search (issued 12/18/18)

# 10,263,796 Systems and methods for managing power based on media asset consumption (issued 4/16/19)

# 10,362,361 Systems and methods for dynamic inclusion and exclusion of a video from a media guidance interface (issued 7/23/19)

# 10,390,098 Systems and methods for enabling a user to start a scheduled program over by retrieving the same program from a non-linear source (issued 8/20/19)

# 10,419,799 Systems and methods for navigating custom media presentations (issued 9/17/19)

# 10,419,794 Systems and methods for synchronizing media asset playback from multiple sources (issued 9/17/19)

# 10,448,112 Managing collections of episodic media content (issued 10/15/19)

# 10,587,917 Methods and systems for recommending media assets based on the geographic location at which the media assets are frequently consumed (issued 3/10/20)

# 10,645,456 Program Shortcuts (issued 5/5/20)

Recognition:

2017 iTV All-Star

2016 Most Powerful Women in Cable (Top Women in Technology List)

2015 Most Powerful Women in Cable (Top Women in Technology List)

Advisory Council Member, Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (JHU CTY)

Board Member, Northern California Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT)

UC Berkeley Women in Technology Leadership Panel

2014 Most Powerful Women in Cable (Top Women in Technology List)

2014 CES Innovations Design & Engineering Awards Judge

2013 Silicon Valley Business Journal Women of Influence Honoree - YouTube: video

2013 YWCA Silicon Valley Tribute to Women (TWIN) Honoree

2013 Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards - YouTube: video

2013 Most Powerful Women in Cable (Top Women in Technology List)

2012 Most Powerful Women in Cable (Top Women in Technology List)

2011 Most Powerful Women in Cable (Top Women in Cable Tech List)

2010 Most Powerful Women in Cable (Top Women in Cable Tech List)

2009 BBC’s Beat the Boss USA: “Outdoor Craze” (Season 5 Episode 3) - YouTube: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4

2006 Primetime Emmy® Award

10+ Gallon Blood Donor at Stanford Blood Center