12th FOKUS
Media Web Symposium

June 24–25, 2025 – Berlin

Bram Tullemans

Program Manager

EBU

Bram Tullemans is a senior expert and program manager of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Technology & Innovation. He leads technical and business programs in the domain of internet distribution. In this role he coordinates knowledge exchange related to media convergence, TV-platforms, CDNs and distribution architectures between specialists within the union and the industry. Before the EBU Bram worked as senior policy advisor at the NPO, was director/producer at IDG Communications, worked as journalist and wrote a book about digital video. He studied at the University of Amsterdam and Liverpool in the fields of Philosophy, Television & New Media and Computer Science.

  • 13:30 - 14:30 | Session 1

    Engage More, Earn More: Technical and Practical Insights into Server-Guided Ad Insertion

    Pieter-Jan Speelmans

    VP Engineering

    Dolby OptiView

    Beyond the CDN: Use Cases, Tools, and Learnings from Prototyping with CMCD v2

    Nicolas Levy

    VP of Technology

    Qualabs

    15:00 - 16:00 | Session 2

    Valentijn Siebrands

    Streaming Solution Manager

    Unified Streaming

    Thasso Griebel

    Technical Lead of Player Development

    castLabs

    CMSD + Media Quality Assessment (MQA) metadata: new tools for monitoring and optimizing streaming QOE

    Will Law

    Chief Architect, Cloud Technology Group

    Akamai

    Yuriy Reznik

    Vice President of Research

    Brightcove Inc.

    DVB-I prospects, initiatives and findings

    Bram Tullemans

    Program Manager

    EBU

    16:30 - 18:00 | Session 3

    Ali C. Begen

    Professor

    Ozyegin University

    Zafer Gurel

    Software Engineering Director / Constructor Groups

    Constructor Tech

    MoQ Analytics

    Dr. Gwendal Simon

    Distinguished Architect

    Synamedia

    Updates following IETF #122 and work ahead of IETF #123

    Will Law

    Chief Architect, Cloud Technology Group

    Akamai