7th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium
Program Overview
Please see the program overview and the detailed program below.
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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
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Video Architect
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Playback and Delivery
Rainer A. KellerhalsAI-basiertes Video Indexing
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Industry Lead Media & Entertainment EMEA
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Microsoft
Marc LauriacEmpowering the New TV Ecosystem
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Senior Director, Customer Success, Europe
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Freewheel
14:30 - 15:00 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition
15:00 - 16:00
Nicolas WeilBetter Than Broadcast: Optimizing End-to-end Streaming Latency
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Senior Solutions Architect
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AWS Elemental
Ali C. BegenEnding Streaming Format Wars with CMAF
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Technical Consultant
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Comcast
Stefan SchneidersDelivering UHD with High Dynamic Range Livestreams over the open internet to HbbTV Devices using MPEG-DASH
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GM sales & marketing
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IRT
16:00 - 16:30 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition
16:30 - 18:00
Andrea DueragerHbbTV Measurement and Reasearch Tool
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Project Manager TV Research
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ServusTV
Peter NeumannDynamic Ad Substitution – Current State and Future Outlook
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Expert Platform Solutions
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CBC / RTL
Christian SauerAddressable TV: How to Make TV Advertising Smarter
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CEO
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Webtrekk GmbH
Yannick BuchwaldCloud based Broadcast
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Solution Architect
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Logic Media
360° Video, VR, AR
Chair:Stephan Steglich13:30 - 14:30
Kay MesebergImmersion – Past / Present / Future
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Head of Mission Innovation
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ARTE
Thomas HalletTravelling in time and exploring coal mines: Our
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Digital Unit
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WDR
Tobias SoffnerCrafting Immersive Brand Experiences
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Executive Producer
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Demodern
14:30 - 15:00 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition
15:00 - 16:00
Thomas BuchholzMagenta VR Plattform
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Senior Expert New Media
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Deutsche Telekom
John LutherMaking 360 Video Easy for Publishers
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VP of Technology
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JW Player
Jerome Shao ZhijieOpen innovation of wireless X Labs in 5G Cloud VR/AR
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Head of Industry Relations
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Huawei Wireless
16:00 - 16:30 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition
16:30 - 18:00
Sebastian Gsuck360° Experiences with Immersive Audio
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Co-Founder / CVO
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MediaApes
Dominique Hazael-MassieuxWebXR – bringing virtual and augmented reality to the Web
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WebXR Strategist
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W3C
Hyojin SongSpatial navigation for IVI, VR, game console and TVs
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Senior Research Engineer
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LG Electronics
Daniel BrücknerVolumetric Video and the Future of Storytelling
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Senior Digital Strategist
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UFA LAB
Sönke KirchhofCase Study Volumetric VR
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CEO & Executive Producer
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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
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Head of News & Broadcast Publishers DACH
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Google
10:15
Internet Delivered Media – Mission accomplished?
Christopher MuellerRun Anywhere, Play Everywhere, See Everything!
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CTO
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Bitmovin
Franck ChevalierVideo Delivery that Changes the Business Game
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Director, Solutions Engineering, EMEA
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Limelight Networks
Gernot JägerThe disruption of classical TV distribution is finally there – 1&1, Salt and other real world examples from ZATTOO
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Chief Officer B2B TV Solutions
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Zattoo International AG
11:15
COFFEE BREAK, NETWORKING, DEMOS & EXHIBITIONS
11:45
OTT Standardization Panel
Will LawWAVE, DASH.IF
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Chief Architect of Media Cloud Engineering
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Akamai
François DaoustW3C
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Media Specialist
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W3C
Jon PiesingHbbTV, DVB
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Director Standardisation
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TP Vision
Thomas Stockhammer3GPP, MPEG
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Director Technical Standards
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Qualcomm
Rob KoenenVRIF
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Tiledmedia
Panel discussion
13:00
LUNCH, NETWORKING, DEMOS & EXHIBITIONS
14:30
The next big things AR+AI+BC+5G
Alexandra MikityukBlockchain meets Media
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Head of Blockchain Architecture
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Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratorie
Thomas StockhammerThe Evolution of Augmented Reality Technology
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Director Technical Standards
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Qualcomm
Dominique Hazael-MassieuxWeb5G: Aligning evolutions of network and Web technologies
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WebXR Strategist
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W3C
Yvonne ThomasAnalytics’ value chain and its secret about machine learning
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Product Manager
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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
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Director Addressable TV International
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smartclip
Oliver FriedrichSpot Replacement Everywhere: Advanced Advertising Opportunities in OTT and Broadcast Television
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Strategic Partner Lead Broadcast DACH
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Google
Antonio PavoliniSocial media algorithms are the new TV schedules: is there any room for really new business models?
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Business Analyst in Digital Media
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TIM
END OF CONFERENCE