9th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

June 20–24, 2022 – Fraunhofer FOKUS

Mauricio Aracena

VRIF President & Standardization Manager

Ericsson

Mauricio Aracena is President of Virtual Reality Industry Forum (VRIF) and Media Standardization Manager at Ericsson and he has more than twenty years experience in working with multimedia technologies for the mobile phone industry. He has actively contributed to defining the next generation multimedia standards for 3GPP, ATSC and DVB. Currently, he is leading the standardization strategy for XR within Ericsson. Mauricio holds a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and an MBA from Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden.

  • Metaverse – A holistic view on the virtual revolution!

    Elmar Arunov

    Research Manager

    Telekom Labs

    5G, AI and XR enabling the Metaverse

    Paul Higgs

    VP Video Industry Development

    Huawei Technologies (UK)

    VRIF into the Metaverse interop madness

    Mauricio Aracena

    VRIF President & Standardization Manager

    Ericsson

    Technologies for the Metaverse: XR, AI and 5G

    Thomas Stockhammer

    Director Technical Standards

    Qualcomm

  • 13:30 - 14:30 Uhr| Session 1

    5G-MAG: Shaping the Connected Media Future

    Jordi J. Giménez

    Head of Technology

    5G-MAG

    5G Broadcast – History, Status and Opportunities

    Thomas Stockhammer

    Director Technical Standards

    Qualcomm

    Sustainable Live streaming over 5G at Roland Garros

    Julien Lemotheux

    TV & Video Senior Standardization Manager

    Orange Innovation

    15:00 - 16:00 Uhr | Session 2

    CDN enabled by mmWave connectivity in a railway environment

    Stefan Schinkel

    CTO

    PaxLife Innovations GmbH

    Weaving Client, Edge and Cloud computing for the Web

    Dominique Hazael-Massieux

    Web Standards maker

    W3C

    16:30 - 18:00 Uhr | Session 3

    5G Media Metaversa

    Mauricio Aracena

    VRIF President & Standardization Manager

    Ericsson

    Live from The Other Room: the XR concert venue with live performances in volumetric video

    Harmke Heezen

    Co-Founder

    High Road Stories

    MPEG-I Scene Description

    Imed Bouazizi

    Principal Standards Engineer

    Qualcomm