9th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

June 20–24, 2022 – Fraunhofer FOKUS

Will Law

Chief Architect, Edge Technology Group

Akamai

Will Law is Chief Architect within the Edge Technology Group at Akamai and a leading media delivery technologist. Involved with streaming media on the Internet for the last twenty years, he has a strong focus on client-side development and wrote several of the early connection frameworks. Currently focusing on low latency streaming, MPEG DASH, technology evaluation, CMCD, CMAF, and WebTransport, Law is Co-Chair of the W3C WebTransport Working Group and the CTA Common Media Server Data Working Group and past President of the DASH Industry Forum and Chairman of the CTA WAVE Project. He holds Masters degrees in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA and has worked previously for Adobe, Internap and a series of five engineering and media-related startups. He is a well-known public speaker in the media technology field, speaking internationally on subjects ranging from Adaptive Delivery and DASH through to New & Disruptive Technologies for Media Distribution.

  • DASH-IF

    Nicolas Weil

    Senior Product Manager

    AWS Elemental

    WAVE

    Will Law

    Chief Architect, Edge Technology Group

    Akamai

    DVB

    Peter MacAvock

    Head of Delivery, Platforms and Services | Chair of the DVB Project

    EBU Technology & Innovation

    HbbTV

    Jon Piesing

    Director Standardisation TP Vision and Vice-Chair HbbTV Association

    TP Vision

    3GPP/MPEG

    Thomas Stockhammer

    Director Technical Standards

    Qualcomm

    W3C

    François Daoust

    Media & Entertainment Champion

    W3C

  • Keynote:

    Grimm fairy tales (as told to video engineers)

    Will Law

    Chief Architect, Edge Technology Group

    Akamai