8th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

May 21–22, 2019 – Fraunhofer FOKUS

Chris Needham

Principal Software Engineer

BBC

Chris Needham is a Principal Software Engineer at BBC R&D focusing on audio and video media on the web and open source software, developing prototypes for future BBC applications and services. He has over 20 years experience in software engineering, in the media industry, and in the defence and medical device industries before that. At W3C, Chris is co-chair of the Media & Entertainment Interest Group, and a contributor to the Second Screen Working Group and media related specifications in the Web Platform Incubator Community Group.

  • DASH-IF

    Iraj Sodagar

    Senior Technical Consultant

    WAVE

    Will Law

    Chief Architect

    Akamai

    HbbTV

    Jon Piesing

    Director Standardisation

    TP Vision

    DVB

    Paul Szucs

    Senior Manager, Technology Standards Office

    Sony Europe

    3GPP / MPEG

    Thomas Stockhammer

    Director Technical Standards

    Qualcomm

    VR Industry Forum

    Rob Koenen

    Founder & CBO

    Tiledmedia

    W3C

    Chris Needham

    Principal Software Engineer

    BBC

  • 13:30 - 14:30 Uhr | Session 1: Novel Apps & Services

    Leveraging SRT for ultra low latency broadcast workflows in the Cloud

    Marc Cymontkowski

    Vice President Engineering

    Haivision

    Bandwidth prediction in low-latency chunked streaming

    Ali C. Begen

    Technical Consultant

    Comcast

    Managing Low Latency Live Streaming Delivery Challenges and Use Cases

    Oliver Lietz

    CEO and Founder

    nanocosmos

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

    15:00 - 16:00 Uhr | Session 2: New Streaming Tech

    Status of Dash.js

    Jesús Oliva

    Co-Founder and Media CTO

    Epic Labs

    Technical considerations when deploying a Multi-CDN strategy

    Bram Tullemans

    Project Manager

    EBU

    Device-side delivery intelligence: rethinking the modern video CDN with peer-to-peer delivery and client-side load balancing

    Axel Delmas

    Co-Founder and CTO

    Streamroot

    AV1, VVC and beyond. An update

    Dr. Christian Feldmann

    Video Codec Engineer

    Bitmovin

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

    16:30 - 18:00 Uhr | Session 3: W3C M&E/ DASH-IF - Joint Topics of Interest

    Low latency DASH in DASH.js

    Will Law

    Chief Architect

    Akamai

    DASH Ad Insertion

    Thomas Stockhammer

    Director Technical Standards

    Qualcomm

    Web Platform APIs for Media Streaming

    Chris Needham

    Principal Software Engineer

    BBC

    Events in DASH and CMAF

    Iraj Sodagar

    Senior Technical Consultant

    W3C Media Timed Events and DataCue API

    Chris Needham

    Principal Software Engineer

    BBC