11th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

June 11–12, 2024 – Fraunhofer FOKUS
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François Daoust

Media & Entertainment champion

, 

W3C

François tracks standardization opportunities for media and entertainment within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) where he serves both as Entertainment Champion in the Industry team and as Media

Specialist in the Strategy team. François is also staff contact for the media-related Media Working Group, Second Screen Working Group and GPU for the Web Working Group. With a developer background, François initially joined W3C in November 2007 from Microsoft. Over the years, François has also served as W3C staff contact for the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group, the Web and TV Interest Group, the TV Control Working Group and the Web Real-Time Communications Working Group.

Talks

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

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  • 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

  • 13:30 - 14:30 | Session 1

    Year 2 of Gen-AI – Time to scale! Several customer cases

    Alexander Heidler

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    Account Executive Media and Telecommunication

    , 

    Microsoft

    AI-Based Indexing for Improved Content Discovery

    Rick Stremmel

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    Sales Engineer

    , 

    Moments Lab

    Driving Automotive Ecosystems

    Sven Eckoldt

    , 

    Driving Automotive Ecosystems

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    CARIAD

    15:00 - 16:00 | Session 2

    Impact of AI on OTT platforms: Exploring the potential of Machine Learning and Generative AI

    Piotr Czekala

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    Co-Founder & CTO

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    Insys Video Technologies

    Knowledge Safe – Experts are retiring, their knowledge too? – How AI-based approaches help to retain valuable knowledge in organizations

    Katharina Vögl-Duschek

    , 

    Senior Learning Consultant

    , 

    tts Knowledge Products GmbH

    Johannes Wendt

    , 

    Learning Consultant

    , 

    tts Knowledge Products GmbH

    Updates from the Lab: Gen AI’s Fast-Forward Impact on Media

    Jörg Müller

    , 

    Consultant

    16:30 - 18:00 | Session 3

    Session chair:

    Lena Gehlhaar

    , 

    Senior Innovation Manager Immersive Tech

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    Berlin Partner for Business and Technology

    Julia Krüger

    , 

    Senior Managerin Innovation Medien

    , 

    Kreativwirtschaft, Berlin Partner for Business and Technology

    Porting Arte Apps to Apple Vision Pro: Our Journey and Insights

    Kemal Gorgülü

    , 

    Chief Technology Officer

    , 

    ARTE

    Immersive 3D worlds in web browsers

    François Daoust

    , 

    Media & Entertainment champion

    , 

    W3C

    8K Video and 3D Audio for Immersive Live Experiences

    Mauricio Alvarez-Mesa

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    CEO and Co-founder

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    Spin Digital