7th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

May 15–16, 2018 – Fraunhofer FOKUS

Bob Hannent

Video Architect

Playback and Delivery

Originally trained as a broadcast engineer and having worked for Telenor and the BBC as a satellite specialist, Bob has moved through several fields including teaching broadcast technology, consumer electronics, IPTV, content security and now OTT streaming. He is now working in the video architecture team of Perform one of the largest sports media companies in the world and focusing mostly on head-end architecture and playback their DAZN product. DAZN is a fast growing live sports platform offering a wide range of tournaments for a simple, market leading subscription price. It has launched in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Canada and Japan, with more territories to follow.

  • 13:30 - 14:30

    Building The Next Sports Media Reality

    Bob Hannent

    Video Architect

    Playback and Delivery

    AI-basiertes Video Indexing

    Rainer A. Kellerhals

    Industry Lead Media & Entertainment EMEA

    Microsoft

    Empowering the New TV Ecosystem

    Marc Lauriac

    Senior Director, Customer Success, Europe

    Freewheel

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

    15:00 - 16:00

    Better Than Broadcast: Optimizing End-to-end Streaming Latency

    Nicolas Weil

    Senior Solutions Architect

    AWS Elemental

    Ending Streaming Format Wars with CMAF

    Ali C. Begen

    Technical Consultant

    Comcast

    Delivering UHD with High Dynamic Range Livestreams over the open internet to HbbTV Devices using MPEG-DASH

    Stefan Schneiders

    GM sales & marketing

    IRT

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

    16:30 - 18:00

    HbbTV Measurement and Reasearch Tool

    Andrea Duerager

    Project Manager TV Research

    ServusTV

    Dynamic Ad Substitution – Current State and Future Outlook

    Peter Neumann

    Expert Platform Solutions

    CBC / RTL

    Addressable TV: How to Make TV Advertising Smarter

    Christian Sauer

    CEO

    Webtrekk GmbH

    Cloud based Broadcast

    Yannick Buchwald

    Solution Architect

    Logic Media