10th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

June 13–14, 2023 – 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
  • 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).

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

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

  • 13:30 - 14:30 | Session 1

    5G-MAG: Fostering collaboration towards 5G Media Services and Applications

    Jordi J. Gimenez

    Head of Technology

    5G-MAG

    Conceptual business and architectural approach to enhance online delivery with satellite services

    Bram Tullemans

    Program manager broadband technology and online services

    EBU

    5G Media Streaming Advances– towards a universal Media Distribution Platform

    Thomas Stockhammer

    Senior Director Technical Standards

    Qualcomm Technologies

    15:00 - 16:00 | Session 2

    Towards AR for the masses with 5G Media standardization

    Emmanuel Thomas

    Senior Media Engineer

    Xiaomi Technology

    Understanding Metaverse and the Network Requirements

    Thibaud Biatek

    Senior Standardization Specialist

    Media Connectivity & Architecture, Nokia Networks, France

    Leveraging 5G for Media & Entertainment Use Cases

    Williams Tovar

    5G Media Streaming Solutions Director

    Ateme

    Thasso Griebel

    Technical Lead Player Development

    castLabs

    16:30 - 18:00 | Session 3

    Current use cases for tv productions via private 5G

    Daniel Wolbers

    Head of Bid Solution Management

    Media Broadcast

    5G for mobile journalism and media productions – an insight into currenct projects at RTL Germany

    Jens Schilder

    Project engineer

    RTL

    Media production with 5G

    Thorsten Lohmar

    Expert Media Delivery

    Ericsson Research

    SWR 5G Campus Network – Towards Nomadic Use

    Markus Berg

    Head of Broadcast and Media Systems

  • 13:30 - 14:30 | Session 1

    Green Streaming and Future of Digitalisation

    Rajeshwar Bachu

    Founder & CEO, Zero-Carbon GmbH & Co-Founder

    42hacks

    Estimating the end-to-end carbon footprint of video streaming

    Max Bläser

    Media Engineer

    RTL Technology

    Exploring the Energy Consumption of Video Streaming: Components, Challenges, and Opportunities

    Samira Afzal

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt

    15:00 - 16:00 | Session 2

    Reduce digital advertising environmental impact

    Charlotte Delpech

    Product Manager

    IMPACT+

    Sustainability & Streaming – How can we do better?

    Jan Outters

    Director Technology & Standards

    Ateme

    Energy efficiency of streaming – challenges and limitations

    Peter Pogrzeba

    Senior Project Manager

    Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories

    16:30 - 18:00 | Session 3

    TV Streaming Powered by Air

    Stefan Kaiser

    Engineering Director

    Zattoo

    Green Media Production

    Donald Houwer

    CEO | Executive Board

    Edison Filmgesellschaft mbH | Bundesverband Green Film & TV Consultants Deutschland e.V.

    Keynote: Working towards energy efficiency at scale

    Dom Robinson

    Greening of Streaming

    Director | Co-Founder | CBDO & Founder | Exec Chairman

    Panelists:

    Sebastian Siepe

    Co-founder and CTO

    EINBLIQ.IO

    Alexander Leschinsky

    Co-Founder | Managing Director

    G&L Geißendörfer | Leschinsky GmbH

    Jan Outters

    Director Technology & Standards

    Ateme

    Christoph Neumann

    R & D Researche

    Exploration | Broadpeak

  • 13:30 - 14:30 | Session 1

    OpenAI-based Media

    Alexander Heidler

    Account Executive Media and Telecommunication

    Microsoft

    AI @ ARTE: Current implementations to boost technological and creative excellence

    Kemal Gorgülü

    Chief Technology Officer

    ARTE

    LLMS in conversational AI and Dialogue Management

    Robin Rabe

    Director of Conversational AI

    Muuuh! Group

    15:00 - 16:00 | Session 2

    Shooting a ZDF Show in the Metaverse

    Kalle Max Hofmann

    Founder and expert on visual effects

    Tunermaxx Media GmbH

    Your journey to your own corporate metaverse

    Oliver Schuler

    Managing Director

    TriCat

    Metaverse Purpose

    Fax Quintus

    CEO

    i-mmersive

    16:30 - 18:00 | Session 3

    Online Live Experience

    Kiyoshi Tanaka

    Associate Professor

    Otsuma Women´s University

    How the new Apple headset will transform streaming experiences forever

    Robin Sho Moser

    Head of Web3 & Metaverse

    DACH | EPAM Continuum

    Using (generative) AI to improve video viewing experiences

    Martin Prins

    Head of Product

    Media Distillery

    Generative AI on AWS

    Ralf-Dieter Wagner

    Head of AI/ML EMEA Central

    Amazon Web Services

  • 13:30 - 14:30 | Session 1

    This Little MOQ Maneuver’s Gonna Cost Us 51 Milliseconds

    Ali C. Begen

    Professor / Technical Consultant

    Ozyegin University / Comcast

    Understanding and trouble-shooting live DASH timing with livesim2

    Torbjörn Einarsson

    Media Streaming Expert

    Eyevinn Technology

    Balancing Bytes – Multi CDN at BR

    Katrin Tomm

    System Engineer

    BR

    15:00 - 16:00 | Session 2

    Subtitles Jungle and HbbTV

    Coralie Leveillé-Menez

    Project Manager

    arte

    The German DVB-I Pilot – Next Step to the Market

    Remo Vogel

    Distribution Strategy Consultant

    rbb

    Moving Media Workflows to AWS made easy

    Patrick Bichiou

    Software Engineer

    LOGIC media solutions GmbH

    The evolution of Server Side Ad Insertion technology to Encoder Based Ad Manipulation or EBAM

    Valentijn Siebrands

    Solutions Architect

    M2A Media

    16:30 - 18:00 | Session 3

    Sources of latency in low-latency glass-to-glass content distribution workflows

    Alex Giladi

    Comcast Fellow

    Comcast

    Low-latency cloud-based streaming evaluation framework (LLL-CAdViSE)

    Babak Taraghi

    Ph.D. Candidate

    Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (AAU) | Institute of Information Technology (ITEC)

    End-to-end Low Latency HLS workflows: technology status and challenges for the industry

    Nicolas Weil

    Principal Product Manager

    AWS Elemental

    Exploring the future of real-time video processing with WebCodecs and Streams

    François Daoust

    Media & Entertainment champion

    W3C

  • 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:

    Multi-Modal ChatGPT4 ready for future networks

    Dr. Alex Choi

    Chairman O-RAN Alliance, Head of T-Labs

    Deutsche Telekom

  • Preparing for the Metaverse: learning from first use cases

    Regina Umbach

    Director

    DACH – Tech | Telco & Utilities | Meta

    31 years of Metaverse – where we are today and what role AI will play in it

    Sebastian Klöß

    Head of Consumer Technology | AR/VR & Metaverse

    Bitkom

    BCG Perspective on Factory of the Future – How Industrial Metaverse & GenAI contribute to net-zero target

    Tilman Buchner

    Partner & Global Leader ICO

    Boston Consulting Group

  • Telco Energy Efficiency and Sustainability at Deutsche Telekom

    Rita Tasnadi

    VP Telco Sustainability and Energy Efficiency

    Deutsche Telekom

    DASH content steering at Scale

    Will Law

    Chief Architect

    Cloud Technology Group, Akamai

    Yuriy Reznik

    Technology Fellow and Vice President of Research

    Brightcove

  • W3C

    François Daoust

    Media & Entertainment champion

    W3C

    HbbTV

    Jon Piesing

    Director Standardisation TP Vision and Vice-Chair HbbTV Association

    TP Vision

    DASH-IF

    Iraj Sodagar

    Senior Technical Director

    Tencent America

    WAVE

    Will Law

    Chief Architect

    Cloud Technology Group, Akamai

    DVB

    Elfed Howells

    Huawei | DVB Promotion & Communications Module

    Media Standards Adviser | Chair

    3GPP / MPEG / Metaverse Standards Forum

    Thomas Stockhammer

    Senior Director Technical Standards

    Qualcomm Technologies

  • How AI will shape the future of television

    Christina von Messling

    Head of Europe

    Future Today Institute

    Connected TV Advertising in Germany – Status Quo, Challenges & Outlook

    Oliver Friedrich

    Lab Lead CTV, BVDW (IAB Germany) | Head of Video Publisher Partnerships DACH

    BVDW (IAB Germany) | Google

    Perfect interplay between sports and technology: DFL and AWS create added value for fans and partners

    Lajos Lange

    EMEA Leader Enterprise Technologists | Enterprise Solutions Architecture

    AWS

    AI in big data – example football: how does AI change the game

    Jan Outters

    Director Technology & Standards

    Ateme

    Last mile to the customer: Acknowledge complexity and be prepared to merchandise

    Bernd Riefler

    Founder & CEO

    veed analytics