Brian Johnston

Chief Technology Officer, Onit / OT Group  ·  Applied Laboratory Technologies

I build systems that cannot fail in public. I build systems that cannot fail in public.

Three Olympic Games. Two FIFA World Cups. A World Series. A city that moved entirely to the cloud, and an AI platform reading molecules. Different industries, same discipline: figure out what breaks, engineer so it doesn't, and make sure the people around you can run it at three in the morning without calling you.

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Two CTO chairs, and still on crew

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Onit / OT Group

Chief Technology Officer

Building the operating model and service delivery organization for a managed-services provider scaling fast, working directly with clients to turn business needs into infrastructure that meets them.

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LiveCH 1.2

Freelance Broadcast Engineer

RF Wireless · AVS · NEP

Live event crews for RF Wireless, AVS and NEP, on shows carried by FOX, Apple, NBC and ESPN. Staying close to the truck is what keeps the rest of it honest.

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Applied Laboratory Technologies

CTO & Co-founder

Leading AMBROSIA, an agentic AI platform that predicts molecular binding targets for pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and food-science clients. Built with a research scientist at the University of Guelph and grounded in work presented at ICFS 2025.

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Brian Johnston on the field at Rogers Centre before a 2025 World Series game MLB 01

World Series

Rogers Centre, Toronto. Sports Emmy for Outstanding Technical Team, FOX Sports.

MLB · FOX Sports PGM 2025
A broadcast control room monitor wall in full operation during the Rio Olympic Games OLY 01

Rio

Opening day in the gallery. Canada's first 4K Olympic broadcast.

Olympic Games · CBC PGM 2016
Brian Johnston in Red Square, Moscow, at night during the Sochi Games OLY 02

Sochi

Red Square, Moscow. CBC President's Award for Technical Excellence.

Olympic Winter Games PGM 2014
Brian Johnston on a mountain venue site under construction in PyeongChang, Korea, two years before the Games OLY 03

PyeongChang

Venue site, two years out. OTT models that put live coverage in front of 30 million Canadians.

Olympic Winter Games PGM 2018
Brian Johnston with the technical crew on the FIFA World Cup studio set FIFA 01

FIFA World Cup

On the studio set with the crew. Broadcast engineering leadership across two tournaments.

South Africa · Brazil PGM 2010 · 2014
Brian Johnston outside Levi's Stadium on Super Bowl LX game day NFL 01

Super Bowl

Levi's Stadium. On the crew engineering RF links for the in-venue videoboard show.

NFL · Levi's Stadium PGM LX · 2026

Rundown

In show order

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Western UniversityHonours BSc, Computer Science (Software Engineering)

Where the engineering habit started.

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CBC / Radio-CanadaEngineering leadership, major events

Budgets to $30M and indirect teams of 500+, with a mandate to innovate anyway. Two FIFA World Cups and the Sochi, Rio and PyeongChang Games.

11 YRS
03

City of Quinte WestDirector, Corporate Services

First Canadian municipality to run all-in on the cloud. Led the RFI for a city-wide fiber network that attracted $140M in private investment to close a rural connectivity gap written off as unfixable.

8 YRS
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Applied Laboratory TechnologiesCTO & Co-founder

AMBROSIA, agentic AI for molecular binding prediction.

ON AIR
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Freelance Broadcast EngineerRF Wireless · AVS · NEP

2025 World Series, Super Bowl LX and MLB UmpVu for RF Wireless, shows carried by FOX, Apple, NBC and ESPN. Shared the 2026 Sports Emmy for Outstanding Technical Team: Sports Event.

ON AIR
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Onit / OT GroupChief Technology Officer

Operating model, service delivery, and the architecture underneath both.

ON AIR

Recognition

Awards, firsts, and stages

2026

Sports Emmy

Outstanding Technical Team: Sports Event

FOX MLB: World Series, Toronto Blue Jays vs Los Angeles Dodgers, FOX | FS1. Credited as video engineer.

The 2026 Sports Emmy statuette beside a 2025 World Series Toronto Blue Jays cap AWD 01
Emmy Awards FOX | FS1

Awards

CBC President's Award for Technical Excellence Sochi Olympic Winter Games · 2014

Firsts

Canada's first 4K Olympic broadcast Rio Olympic Games · CBC · 2016
First Canadian municipality to run all-in on the cloud City of Quinte West
$140M in private investment for city-wide fiber Rural connectivity gap · RFI lead

Speaking

SMPTE Remote production for live sports
NAB Next generation master control playout systems
CRRBC Rural fiber engineering
ICFS 2025 Research underpinning AMBROSIA

Always glad to take a panel or a keynote.

Eleven years of live broadcast taught me how systems fail. The other half of the job is knowing what a system is for: start from the business outcome, then architect backward to the technology that delivers it.

Signal path

Let's talk shop

If you're building something that has to work in front of an audience, or a boardroom, I'm glad to hear about it.

Brian Johnston CAM 01
Brian Johnston PGM Ontario, CA