11th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

June 11–12, 2024 – Fraunhofer FOKUS
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Emily Dubs

Head of Technology

, 

DVB Project

The DVB Project is an industry-led consortium that designs open technical specifications for digital media delivery. As its Head of Technology, Emily leads on all technical and standardization matters within DVB, represents the organization around the world at conferences and tradeshows, and supports DVB’s working groups.

 

Emily has worked in the digital television industry for more than two decades, with expertise across both broadcast and broadband technologies. Prior to becoming DVB’s Head of Technology, she worked in a variety of roles – including hardware development, technical marketing, product management and strategy – for companies including Harmonic, ENENSYS Technologies and SmarDTV.

Talks

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  • 14:00-15:00

    SmartTV HbbTV++ – What is the next step in Hybrid TV

    Klaus Merkel

    , 

    Institut für Rundfunktechnik, Germany

    How to make a SmartTV

    Volker Blume

    , 

    Philips, Germany

    Interactive TV experience

    Frank Lonczewski

    , 

    Deutsche Telekom, Germany

    15:00-16:00

    Adaptive Streaming / DRM / Metadata

    ZDF Mediathek – How to serve all this media

    Robert Amlung

    , 

    ZDF, Germany

    Metadata – The missing link

    Alexander Adolf

    , 

    Condition-ALPHA Digital Broadcast Technology Consulting, Germany

    Adaptive Streaming

    Eric Rosier

    , 

    Ericsson

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

    16:30-17:30

    Media Cloud / Audio & Video

    How to store and deliver live TV

    Stefan Lietsch

    , 

    Zattoo, Germany

    Cloud Based Media

    Stefan Jenzowsky

    , 

    Siemens AG Österreich, Austria

    The audio cloud

    Anirban Majumdar

    , 

    Dolby, Germany

    Delivering personalized social media content to the bush

    Arkady Zaslavsky

    , 

    CSIRO, Australia

    17:30-18:00

    Panel Discussion: Broadband Broadcast Convergence

    Jan Wendt

    , 

    MMH NetRange, Germany

    Adel Al-Hezmi

    , 

    QUWIC – Qatar university wireless innovations Center, Qatar

    Yun Chao Hu

    , 

    Huawei

    Randolph Nikutta

    , 

    Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany

    Dirk Hetzer

    , 

    Media Broadcast, Germany

  • 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

  • SVTA

    Jason Thibeault

    , 

    CEO

    , 

    Streaming Video Technology Alliance

    3GPP, MPEG, Metaverse Standards Forum

    Thomas Stockhammer

    , 

    Senior Director Technical Standards

    , 

    Qualcomm Technologies

    DASH-IF

    Iraj Sodagar

    , 

    Senior Technical Director

    , 

    Tencent America

    CTA-WAVE

    Will Law

    , 

    Chief Architect

    , 

    Cloud Technology Group, Akamai

    DVB

    Emily Dubs

    , 

    Head of Technology

    , 

    DVB Project

    HbbTV

    Jon Piesing

    , 

    Director Standardisation TP Vision and Vice-Chair HbbTV Association

    , 

    TP Vision

    W3C

    François Daoust

    , 

    Media & Entertainment champion

    , 

    W3C

  • 5G Broadcast among other terrestrial broadcast systems: merge, interwork or compete?

    Emily Dubs

    , 

    Head of Technology

    , 

    DVB Project

    Content Steering and Optimal Traffic Routing in Systems with Hybrid Connectivity 

    Yuriy Reznik

    , 

    Technology Fellow and Vice President of Research

    , 

    Brightcove

    Improving workflows resilience with CMAF Ingest and cross-region failover

    Nicolas Weil

    , 

    Principal Product Manager

    , 

    AWS Elemental

    Feel, noise, and bits: the film grain synthesis approach to reducing bitrate

    Alex Giladi

    , 

    Comcast Fellow

    , 

    Comcast

    Video Piracy – a Lost Battle? Piracy in OTT and how to combat it

    Maria Malinkowitsch

    , 

    Director Product Management

    , 

    Verimatrix