7th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

May 15–16, 2018 – Fraunhofer FOKUS

Marc Lauriac

Senior Director, Customer Success, Europe

Freewheel

Marc is Senior Director, Customer Success, Europe. In his responsibility, he is heading the team in charge of all strategic customers in Europe including Channel 4, Sky, Discovery International or MTG. Marc joined FreeWheel in 2014 shortly after its acquisition by Comcast to roll-out the company’s services in Northern Europe.

Marc joined FreeWheel from DG where he built its TV advertising creatives delivery network in DACH, France and Benelux while developing the company’s client base. Before that he served at Mediapeers where he sold and deployed across Europe a SaaS solution made for international sales agencies of audiovisual rights.

Marc was also a freelance business consultant for many years in the media industry where he specialized in business development, financing, market research and innovation, working for startups, corporate clients and public agencies across Europe. He started his career in the telecom industry at Alcatel, later moving to the online creative agency Argonauten/Grey. He holds an MBA from Cass Business School in London and a master degree from EDHEC Business School in France. Marc is based in FreeWheel’s Berlin Office.

  • 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