12th FOKUS
Media Web Symposium

June 24–25, 2025 – Berlin

Nicolas Levy

VP of Technology

Qualabs

Nicolás Levy is the co-founder and VP of Technology at Qualabs, a leading media software engineering outsourcing firm, with over fifteen years of experience in video technology. A Telecommunications Engineer with an MBA, he has worked with global media & entertainment providers and top video technology companies, contributing to the design and implementation of media solutions including video workflows, players, analytics, and more. An active contributor to open-source projects and a participant in the SVTA, his current focus includes MPEG-DASH, CMCD v2—where he is a key contributor—MoQ, and the development of video player reference implementations based on these specifications. He also co-organizes the Montevideo Tech Meetup, a technical event for video developers, as well as the Montevideo Summer Camp.

  • 13:30 - 14:30 | Session 1

    Engage More, Earn More: Technical and Practical Insights into Server-Guided Ad Insertion

    Pieter-Jan Speelmans

    VP Engineering

    Dolby OptiView

    Video coding improvements for delivery of low-latency and interactive video services

    Lukasz Litwic

    Senior Research Manager

    Ericsson

    Beyond the CDN: Use Cases, Tools, and Learnings from Prototyping with CMCD v2

    Nicolas Levy

    VP of Technology

    Qualabs

    15:00 - 16:00 | Session 2

    Beyond Encryption: Authenticating and Protecting Live Video in a Post-Trust Era

    Valentijn Siebrands

    Streaming Solution Manager

    Unified Streaming

    Thasso Griebel

    Technical Lead of Player Development

    castLabs

    CMSD + Media Quality Assessment (MQA) metadata: new tools for monitoring and optimizing streaming QOE

    Yuriy Reznik

    CTO

    Streaming Labs

    Will Law

    Chief Architect, Cloud Technology Group

    Akamai

    DVB-I prospects, initiatives and findings

    Bram Tullemans

    Program Manager

    EBU

    16:30 - 18:00 | Session 3

    MoQ Analytics

    Dr. Gwendal Simon

    Distinguished Architect

    Synamedia

    How to integrate MoQ into a comprehensive real-time video platform

    Oliver Lietz

    CEO/Founder

    nanocosmos

    MOQtail – Made with 100% QUIC. Zero latency. Zero hangover.

    Ali C. Begen

    Professor

    Ozyegin University

    Zafer Gurel

    Software Engineering Director

    Constructor Tech

    Updates following IETF #122 and work ahead of IETF #123

    Will Law

    Chief Architect, Cloud Technology Group

    Akamai