9th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

June 20–24, 2022 – Fraunhofer FOKUS

Matthew Scharr

Software Development Manager

AWS Elemental MediaTailor

Matthew Scharr is a Software Development Manager at AWS Elemental. He has 10 years of experience with OTT streaming video workflows. Matthew currently leads engineering development for AWS Elemental MediaTailor’s Server Side Ad Insertion team, a content personalization and monetization service that allows video providers to serve targeted ads to end users at broadcast quality. His recent work focuses on delivering manifest manipulation for DASH and HLS streaming formats that can scale for millions of concurrent viewers.

  • 13:30 - 14:30 Uhr | Session 1

    Integrating Programmatic TV into the P7S1 broadcasting environment

    Kai Mysliwiec

    Head of Addressable TV Player Engineering

    SevenOne Entertainment Group

    Programmatic advertising across all screens – ad insertion solutions for cTV, set-top boxes and HbbTV

    David Uhlmann

    Head of Video Solutions EMEA

    Google

    15:00 - 16:00 Uhr | Session 2

    Manifest Manipulation for Live and VOD SSAI workflows at scale

    Matthew Scharr

    Software Development Manager

    AWS Elemental MediaTailor

    Interoperable TA signalling for DASH according to DVB and SCTE

    Rufael Mekuria

    Lead Research Engineer

    Unified Streaming

    HbbTV-TA: an implementer’s perspective

    Giuseppe Pascale

    Senior Product Manager

    Vewd

    16:30 - 18:00 Uhr | Session 3

    SSAI is great. Data and measurement will make it greater

    Ahmed Swidan

    Director of Personalized TV

    Ateme

    Road to launch Dynamic Ad-Substitution on HbbTV

    Georg Senzenberger

    Product Manager

    Nowtilus

    AI driven real-time product placement analysis

    Marc-André Thißen

    Head of IPTV

    anyscreenTV