9th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

June 20–24, 2022 – Fraunhofer FOKUS

Markus Herkersdorf

CEO

TriCAT

Markus Herkersdorf is co-founder and managing director of TriCAT GmbH. The graduate engineer in aerospace engineering, former officer and pilot, is considered a proven expert in virtual-immersive 3D learning and working environments. He advises companies and decision-makers on all aspects of virtual transformation. With his company, he has been implementing a strong and future-oriented vision on new, hybrid and technology-supported forms of meeting, learning and collaboration of people for years. He is particularly interested in the future of learning and distributed human collaboration based on the possibilities that virtual-immersive environments as well as AI open up today and in the future.

  • 13:30 - 14:30 Uhr | Session 1

    AI in Media made easy with Video Indexer

    Maayan Yedidia Dotan

    AI Product Manager

    Microsoft

    AI-based video production for Soccer

    Cise Midoglu

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering (SimulaMet)

    Personal media nuggets, the mining right of the aggregator

    Adolf Proidl

    CEO

    XroadMedia GmbH

    15:00 - 16:00 Uhr | Session 2

    Glimpse into the Metaverse – with an Overview of the Status quo in Germany

    Sebastian Klöß

    Head of Consumer Technology & AR/VR

    Bitkom e.V.

    Metaverse Standards Forum

    Thomas Stockhammer

    Director Technical Standards

    Qualcomm

    Metaversum – and now, concretely?

    Markus Herkersdorf

    CEO

    TriCAT

    16:30 - 18:00 Uhr | Session 3

    Hybrid events: creating a »I was there« feeling

    Jens Kretschmann

    UX Designer & Product Owner

    Arvato Systems

    Key enabling technologies toward metaverse: photorealistic 5G cloud VR

    Harrison Hongseo Yun

    Media Architect

    Telekom Innovation Laboratories – Deutsche Telekom

    The next quantum leap in VR quality

    Rob Koenen

    Chief Business Officer

    Tiledmedia

    Voice AI revolution in media – technological insights and fields of application

    Robin Rabe

    Director of Development

    Future of Voice