5th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

May 20–21, 2015 – Fraunhofer FOKUS

Antonio Pavolini

Business Analyst in Digital Media

Telecom Italia

Currently a Business Analyst for Digital Media in Telecom Italia, Antonio Pavolini has been working in the media industry for over 16 years. After a series of jobs in corporate communication, first in an agency (Burson-Marsteller, Brodeur) and then in a company (Saritel), from 2009 to 2011 he worked in the field of Strategy for the Gruppo Telecom Italia, focusing in particular on scenario analysis and strategy planning.

 He is currently a Business Analyst for Social Media at Telecom Italia. Moreover, he is part of the Teaching Committee for the Masters Degree in Marketing Management (MUMM) at the School of Economics at the Sapienza University of Rome. Many of the topics he is interested in have been the subject of radio programmes (such as “Proxy Bar” broadcasted from 2008-2009 and “Conversational“, broadcasted on Radio Popolare Roma from 2010-2011). In 2012, together with other authors, he published “Connecting Television, La Televisione al Tempo di Internet” (Edited by Guerini e Associati).

  • 13:30 - 14:30

    HbbTV: current market situation and outlook on HbbTV 2.0

    Klaus Merkel

    Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT)

    HbbTV Application Toolkit and showcases

    Annette Wilson

    Project Manager

    Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb)

    Drone Wars – Attacking Smart TVs via the broadcast RF segment, and countermeasure

    Alexander Adolf

    CTO and Technology Consultant

    Condition-ALPHA

    Benjamin Michéle

    IT-Security Consultant

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

    15:00 - 16:00

    W3C Glass to Glass Internet Ecosystem task force

    Giuseppe Pascale

    PM Connected TV Content and Advertising

    Opera

    Benefits & Challenges of Cloud-Transcoding for Live and OnDemand Content Use Cases

    Stefan Lederer

    CEO/Co-Founder

    Bitmovin

    Video transcoding for multiscreen environment

    Ludovic Pertuisel

    Senior Product Manager​

    ​Thomson Video Networks

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

    16:30 - 18:00

    Interactive Video – a new way of storytelling

    Jörn Berkefeld

    CEO

    BitTubes

    W3C TV Control API

    Sean Lin

    Software Engineer

    Mozilla Foundation

    Android as TV operating system (past, today, tomorrow)

    Milan Bjelica

    Head of Group “Next Generation TV”

    RT-RK

    Usability analysis of HbbTV

    Sven Pagel

    Business Informatics and Media Management

    Univ. of Appl. Sc. Mainz

    Tobias Simon

    Media Design and Usability

    Univ. of Appl. Sc. Mainz

    The cold war to connected TV

    Antonio Pavolini

    Business Analyst in Digital Media

    Telecom Italia