7th FOKUS Media Web Symposium
Program Overview
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Detailed Program
9:30
10:00
Internet Delivered Media – Trends & Best Practices
Trainer:Stefan PhamAs part of this tutorial, we will give an overview as well as best practices for playback and creation of adaptive bitrate (ABR) content.
HbbTV – deep dive and hands-on
Trainer:Louay BassboussThis tutorial gives an overview of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband Television Standard (HbbTV) with particular focus on the latest HbbTV 2 specification.
Recommender Systems and Machine Learning
Trainer:Christopher KraussThe tutorial introduces basic concepts of artificial intelligence and explains them with simple and comprehensible examples of algorithms.
12:00
LUNCH, NETWORKING, DEMOS & EXHIBITIONS
13:30
Internet Delivered Media
Chair:Stefan Arbanowski13:30 - 14:30
Bob HannentBuilding The Next Sports Media Reality
Video Architect
Playback and Delivery
Rainer A. KellerhalsAI-basiertes Video Indexing
Industry Lead Media & Entertainment EMEA
Microsoft
Marc LauriacEmpowering the New TV Ecosystem
Senior Director, Customer Success, Europe
Freewheel
14:30 - 15:00 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition
15:00 - 16:00
Nicolas WeilBetter Than Broadcast: Optimizing End-to-end Streaming Latency
Senior Solutions Architect
AWS Elemental
Ali C. BegenEnding Streaming Format Wars with CMAF
Technical Consultant
Comcast
Stefan SchneidersDelivering UHD with High Dynamic Range Livestreams over the open internet to HbbTV Devices using MPEG-DASH
GM sales & marketing
IRT
16:00 - 16:30 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition
16:30 - 18:00
Andrea DueragerHbbTV Measurement and Reasearch Tool
Project Manager TV Research
ServusTV
Peter NeumannDynamic Ad Substitution – Current State and Future Outlook
Expert Platform Solutions
CBC / RTL
Christian SauerAddressable TV: How to Make TV Advertising Smarter
CEO
Webtrekk GmbH
Yannick BuchwaldCloud based Broadcast
Solution Architect
Logic Media
360° Video, VR, AR
Chair:Stephan Steglich13:30 - 14:30
Kay MesebergImmersion – Past / Present / Future
Head of Mission Innovation
ARTE
Thomas HalletTravelling in time and exploring coal mines: Our
Digital Unit
WDR
Tobias SoffnerCrafting Immersive Brand Experiences
Executive Producer
Demodern
14:30 - 15:00 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition
15:00 - 16:00
Thomas BuchholzMagenta VR Plattform
Senior Expert New Media
Deutsche Telekom
John LutherMaking 360 Video Easy for Publishers
VP of Technology
JW Player
Jerome Shao ZhijieOpen innovation of wireless X Labs in 5G Cloud VR/AR
Head of Industry Relations
Huawei Wireless
16:00 - 16:30 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition
16:30 - 18:00
Sebastian Gsuck360° Experiences with Immersive Audio
Co-Founder / CVO
MediaApes
Dominique Hazael-MassieuxWebXR – bringing virtual and augmented reality to the Web
WebXR Strategist
W3C
Hyojin SongSpatial navigation for IVI, VR, game console and TVs
Senior Research Engineer
LG Electronics
Daniel BrücknerVolumetric Video and the Future of Storytelling
Senior Digital Strategist
UFA LAB
Sönke KirchhofCase Study Volumetric VR
CEO & Executive Producer
INVR.SPACE GmbH
19:00
Media Web Night @ Arminiusmarkthalle
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.
9:00
REGISTRATION, WELCOME COFFEE
9:30
Conference Opening & Keynote
Keynote:
Holm MünstermannThe Multiple Merger – Challenges on the Road towards a Unified Video Monetization
Head of News & Broadcast Publishers DACH
Google
10:15
Internet Delivered Media – Mission accomplished?
Christopher MuellerRun Anywhere, Play Everywhere, See Everything!
CTO
Bitmovin
Franck ChevalierVideo Delivery that Changes the Business Game
Director, Solutions Engineering, EMEA
Limelight Networks
Gernot JägerThe disruption of classical TV distribution is finally there – 1&1, Salt and other real world examples from ZATTOO
Chief Officer B2B TV Solutions
Zattoo International AG
11:15
COFFEE BREAK, NETWORKING, DEMOS & EXHIBITIONS
11:45
OTT Standardization Panel
Will LawWAVE, DASH.IF
Chief Architect of Media Cloud Engineering
Akamai
François DaoustW3C
Media Specialist
W3C
Jon PiesingHbbTV, DVB
Director Standardisation
TP Vision
Thomas Stockhammer3GPP, MPEG
Director Technical Standards
Qualcomm
Rob KoenenVRIF
Tiledmedia
Panel discussion
13:00
LUNCH, NETWORKING, DEMOS & EXHIBITIONS
14:30
The next big things AR+AI+BC+5G
Alexandra MikityukBlockchain meets Media
Head of Blockchain Architecture
Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratorie
Thomas StockhammerThe Evolution of Augmented Reality Technology
Director Technical Standards
Qualcomm
Dominique Hazael-MassieuxWeb5G: Aligning evolutions of network and Web technologies
WebXR Strategist
W3C
Yvonne ThomasAnalytics’ value chain and its secret about machine learning
Product Manager
Arvato Systems
15:30
COFFEE BREAK, NETWORKING, DEMOS & EXHIBITIONS
16:00
Adressable TV – Money makes the world go round
Sebastian BusseAddressable TV – Status and opportunities of 1:1 TV advertising
Director Addressable TV International
smartclip
Oliver FriedrichSpot Replacement Everywhere: Advanced Advertising Opportunities in OTT and Broadcast Television
Strategic Partner Lead Broadcast DACH
Google
Antonio PavoliniSocial media algorithms are the new TV schedules: is there any room for really new business models?
Business Analyst in Digital Media
TIM
END OF CONFERENCE