7th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

May 15–16, 2018 – Fraunhofer FOKUS

François Daoust

Media Specialist

W3C

François contributes to the development of Web platform standards within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), with a specific focus on the convergence between Web and TV. 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 Second Screen Working Group and TV Control Working Group.

With a developer background, François initially joined W3C in November 2007 from Microsoft where he integrated an on-portal mobile search engine called MotionBridge. Over the years, he served as W3C staff contact for the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group, the Web and TV Interest Group, the Web Real-Time Communications Working Group, and helped create the Web and TV Activity in 2011.
  • WAVE, DASH.IF

    Will Law

    Chief Architect of Media Cloud Engineering

    Akamai

    W3C

    François Daoust

    Media Specialist

    W3C

    HbbTV, DVB

    Jon Piesing

    Director Standardisation

    TP Vision

    3GPP, MPEG

    Thomas Stockhammer

    Director Technical Standards

    Qualcomm

    VRIF

    Rob Koenen

    Tiledmedia

    Panel discussion