9th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

June 20–24, 2022 – 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
  • In this tutorial we will deep dive into 5G Media related technologies and standards. 5G is seen as enabler for many applications in the media industry.

  • Within this tutorial, we will give an overview on Dynamic Ad-Insertion (DAI) infrastructures including SSAI OTT Streaming as well as Dynamic Ad Substitution (DAS).

  • As part of this tutorial, we will give an overview as well as best practices for playback and creation of adaptive bitrate (ABR) content.

  • In this tutorial, we will take a deep dive into media player related topics. The main part of this tutorial focuses on dash.js – the official reference client of the DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF).

  • 13:30 - 14:30 Uhr| Session 1

    5G-MAG: Shaping the Connected Media Future

    Jordi J. Giménez

    Head of Technology

    5G-MAG

    5G Broadcast – History, Status and Opportunities

    Thomas Stockhammer

    Director Technical Standards

    Qualcomm

    Sustainable Live streaming over 5G at Roland Garros

    Julien Lemotheux

    TV & Video Senior Standardization Manager

    Orange Innovation

    15:00 - 16:00 Uhr | Session 2

    CDN enabled by mmWave connectivity in a railway environment

    Stefan Schinkel

    CTO

    PaxLife Innovations GmbH

    Weaving Client, Edge and Cloud computing for the Web

    Dominique Hazael-Massieux

    Web Standards maker

    W3C

    16:30 - 18:00 Uhr | Session 3

    5G Media Metaversa

    Mauricio Aracena

    VRIF President & Standardization Manager

    Ericsson

    Live from The Other Room: the XR concert venue with live performances in volumetric video

    Harmke Heezen

    Co-Founder

    High Road Stories

    MPEG-I Scene Description

    Imed Bouazizi

    Principal Standards Engineer

    Qualcomm

  • 13:30 - 14:30 Uhr | Session 1

    Integrating Programmatic TV into the P7S1 broadcasting environment

    Kai Mysliwiec

    Head of Addressable TV Player Engineering

    SevenOne Entertainment Group

    Programmatic advertising across all screens – ad insertion solutions for cTV, set-top boxes and HbbTV

    David Uhlmann

    Head of Video Solutions EMEA

    Google

    15:00 - 16:00 Uhr | Session 2

    Manifest Manipulation for Live and VOD SSAI workflows at scale

    Matthew Scharr

    Software Development Manager

    AWS Elemental MediaTailor

    Interoperable TA signalling for DASH according to DVB and SCTE

    Rufael Mekuria

    Lead Research Engineer

    Unified Streaming

    HbbTV-TA: an implementer’s perspective

    Giuseppe Pascale

    Senior Product Manager

    Vewd

    16:30 - 18:00 Uhr | Session 3

    SSAI is great. Data and measurement will make it greater

    Ahmed Swidan

    Director of Personalized TV

    Ateme

    Road to launch Dynamic Ad-Substitution on HbbTV

    Georg Senzenberger

    Product Manager

    Nowtilus

    AI driven real-time product placement analysis

    Marc-André Thißen

    Head of IPTV

    anyscreenTV

  • 13:30 - 14:30 Uhr | Session 1

    AI in Media made easy with Video Indexer

    Maayan Yedidia Dotan

    AI Product Manager

    Microsoft

    AI-based video production for Soccer

    Cise Midoglu

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering (SimulaMet)

    Personal media nuggets, the mining right of the aggregator

    Adolf Proidl

    CEO

    XroadMedia GmbH

    15:00 - 16:00 Uhr | Session 2

    Glimpse into the Metaverse – with an Overview of the Status quo in Germany

    Sebastian Klöß

    Head of Consumer Technology & AR/VR

    Bitkom e.V.

    Metaverse Standards Forum

    Thomas Stockhammer

    Director Technical Standards

    Qualcomm

    Metaversum – and now, concretely?

    Markus Herkersdorf

    CEO

    TriCAT

    16:30 - 18:00 Uhr | Session 3

    Hybrid events: creating a »I was there« feeling

    Jens Kretschmann

    UX Designer & Product Owner

    Arvato Systems

    Key enabling technologies toward metaverse: photorealistic 5G cloud VR

    Harrison Hongseo Yun

    Media Architect

    Telekom Innovation Laboratories – Deutsche Telekom

    The next quantum leap in VR quality

    Rob Koenen

    Chief Business Officer

    Tiledmedia

    Voice AI revolution in media – technological insights and fields of application

    Robin Rabe

    Director of Development

    Future of Voice

  • 13:30 - 14:30 Uhr | Session 1

    The benefits of server-client cooperation when DASHing or HLSing

    Ali C. Begen

    Professor | TechnicalConsultant

    OzyeginUniversity | Comcast

    Video encoding optimizations for live video streaming

    Hadi Amirpour

    Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

    Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA | Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt | Austria

    S4Streaming and Low latency: a server side versus client-side solutions measurement campaign

    Guillaume Bichot

    Head of exploration

    Broadpeak

    15:00 - 16:00 Uhr | Session 2

    Streaming Analytics

    Sandra Groß

    Project Lead Streaming-QA & Streaming-Technology

    CBC | RTL

    Mezzanine encoding done right – understanding its emerging trends and best practices

    Annette Hopland

    Product Owner

    Appear

    CMAF with a C as a common and efficient interchange/delivery format

    Eric Toullec

    Fellow Research Engineer – Advanced Technologies

    Ateme

    16:30 - 18:00 Uhr | Session 3

    Network Topologies for CDN and Media driven Technology Networks

    Boldizsar Nagy

    Vice President Business Development

    Uniberg

    Joint Conformance Project (JCCP)

    Romain Bouqueau

    CEO and Media Technologist

    Motion Spell | GPAC

    Cloud streaming and sustainability

    Jérôme Vieron

    Co-Founder and CTO

    Quortex

    Media requirement on LG webOS platform

    Hyojin Song

    Senior Research Engineer

    LG Electronics

  • 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:

    Grimm fairy tales (as told to video engineers)

    Will Law

    Chief Architect, Edge Technology Group

    Akamai

  • On the evolution of video and streaming

    Yuriy Reznik

    VP Research

    Brightcove, Inc. (USA)

    Next Gen VoD Encoding advancements

    James Holding

    Solutions Director (EMEA)

    Bitmovin

  • Metaverse – A holistic view on the virtual revolution!

    Elmar Arunov

    Research Manager

    Telekom Labs

    5G, AI and XR enabling the Metaverse

    Paul Higgs

    VP Video Industry Development

    Huawei Technologies (UK)

    VRIF into the Metaverse interop madness

    Mauricio Aracena

    VRIF President & Standardization Manager

    Ericsson

    Technologies for the Metaverse: XR, AI and 5G

    Thomas Stockhammer

    Director Technical Standards

    Qualcomm

  • 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

  • Integrating Programmatic TV into the P7S1 broadcasting environment

    Kai Mysliwiec

    Head of Addressable TV Player Engineering

    SevenOne Entertainment Group

    Hands on remote controls

    Rachel Mischke

    Product Consultant at Zattoo TV platform

    Zattoo

    The real streaming wars, a journey through the streaming market and how we ended up here

    Magnus Svensson

    Media Solution Specialist

    Eyevinn Technologies

    Programmatic advertisement for ATV

    Oliver Friedrich

    Head of Video Publisher Partnerships DACH

    Google