7th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

May 15–16, 2018 – Fraunhofer FOKUS

Program Overview

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Detailed Program

We enjoyed talking about interesting topics with people from different countries. This year, we concentrated on these subjects
  • As part of this tutorial, we will give an overview as well as best practices for playback and creation of adaptive bitrate (ABR) content.

  • This tutorial gives an overview of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband Television Standard (HbbTV) with particular focus on the latest HbbTV 2 specification.

  • The tutorial introduces basic concepts of artificial intelligence and explains them with simple and comprehensible examples of algorithms.

  • 13:30 - 14:30

    Building The Next Sports Media Reality

    Bob Hannent

    Video Architect

    Playback and Delivery

    AI-basiertes Video Indexing

    Rainer A. Kellerhals

    Industry Lead Media & Entertainment EMEA

    Microsoft

    Empowering the New TV Ecosystem

    Marc Lauriac

    Senior Director, Customer Success, Europe

    Freewheel

    14:30 - 15:00 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition

    15:00 - 16:00

    Better Than Broadcast: Optimizing End-to-end Streaming Latency

    Nicolas Weil

    Senior Solutions Architect

    AWS Elemental

    Ending Streaming Format Wars with CMAF

    Ali C. Begen

    Technical Consultant

    Comcast

    Delivering UHD with High Dynamic Range Livestreams over the open internet to HbbTV Devices using MPEG-DASH

    Stefan Schneiders

    GM sales & marketing

    IRT

    16:00 - 16:30 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition

    16:30 - 18:00

    HbbTV Measurement and Reasearch Tool

    Andrea Duerager

    Project Manager TV Research

    ServusTV

    Dynamic Ad Substitution – Current State and Future Outlook

    Peter Neumann

    Expert Platform Solutions

    CBC / RTL

    Addressable TV: How to Make TV Advertising Smarter

    Christian Sauer

    CEO

    Webtrekk GmbH

    Cloud based Broadcast

    Yannick Buchwald

    Solution Architect

    Logic Media

  • 13:30 - 14:30

    Immersion – Past / Present / Future

    Kay Meseberg

    Head of Mission Innovation

    ARTE

    Travelling in time and exploring c​oal mines: Our

    Thomas Hallet

    Digital Unit

    WDR

    Crafting Immersive Brand Experiences

    Tobias Soffner

    Executive Producer

    Demodern

    14:30 - 15:00 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition

    15:00 - 16:00

    Magenta VR Plattform

    Thomas Buchholz

    Senior Expert New Media

    Deutsche Telekom

    Making 360 Video Easy for Publishers

    John Luther

    VP of Technology

    JW Player

    Open innovation of wireless X Labs in 5G Cloud VR/AR 

    Jerome Shao Zhijie

    Head of Industry Relations

    Huawei Wireless

    16:00 - 16:30 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition

    16:30 - 18:00

    360° Experiences with Immersive Audio

    Sebastian Gsuck

    Co-Founder / CVO

    MediaApes

    WebXR – bringing virtual and augmented reality to the Web

    Dominique Hazael-Massieux

    WebXR Strategist

    W3C

    Spatial navigation for IVI, VR, game console and TVs

    Hyojin Song

    Senior Research Engineer

    LG Electronics

    Volumetric Video and the Future of Storytelling

    Daniel Brückner

    Senior Digital Strategist

    UFA LAB

    Case Study Volumetric VR

    Sönke Kirchhof

    CEO & Executive Producer

    INVR.SPACE GmbH

  • This year our Media Web Night takes place at the Arminius Market Hall. The historic event location combines the feeling of the old traditional Berlin with the new urban vibes. The food ranges from German to Mediterranean and is supplied by local producers.

    A shuttle service to the Media Web Night event departs at 18:30 in front of the Institute.

  • Keynote:

    The Multiple Merger – Challenges on the Road towards a Unified Video Monetization

    Holm Münstermann

    Head of News & Broadcast Publishers DACH

    Google

  • Run Anywhere, Play Everywhere, See Everything!

    Christopher Mueller

    CTO

    Bitmovin

    Video Delivery that Changes the Business Game

    Franck Chevalier

    Director, Solutions Engineering, EMEA

    Limelight Networks

    The disruption of classical TV distribution is finally there – 1&1, Salt and other real world examples from ZATTOO

    Gernot Jäger

    Chief Officer B2B TV Solutions

    Zattoo International AG

  • WAVE, DASH.IF

    Will Law

    Chief Architect of Media Cloud Engineering

    Akamai

    W3C

    François Daoust

    Media Specialist

    W3C

    HbbTV, DVB

    Jon Piesing

    Director Standardisation

    TP Vision

    3GPP, MPEG

    Thomas Stockhammer

    Director Technical Standards

    Qualcomm

    VRIF

    Rob Koenen

    Tiledmedia

    Panel discussion

  • Blockchain meets Media

    Alexandra Mikityuk

    Head of Blockchain Architecture

    Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratorie

    The Evolution of Augmented Reality Technology

    Thomas Stockhammer

    Director Technical Standards

    Qualcomm

    Web5G: Aligning evolutions of network and Web technologies

    Dominique Hazael-Massieux

    WebXR Strategist

    W3C

    Analytics’ value chain and its secret about machine learning

    Yvonne Thomas

    Product Manager

    Arvato Systems

  • Addressable TV – Status and opportunities of 1:1 TV advertising

    Sebastian Busse

    Director Addressable TV International

    smartclip

    Spot Replacement Everywhere: Advanced Advertising Opportunities in OTT and Broadcast Television

    Oliver Friedrich

    Strategic Partner Lead Broadcast DACH

    Google

    Social media algorithms are the new TV schedules: is there any room for really new business models?

    Antonio Pavolini

    Business Analyst in Digital Media

    TIM