6th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

May 16–17, 2017 – Fraunhofer FOKUS

Stephan Steglich

Director Competence Center FAME

Fraunhofer FOKUS

Dr. Stephan Steglich is Head of department Future Applications and Media (FAME) at Fraunhofer FOKUS. He received his M.Sc. in computer science (in 1998) and PhD (in 2003) in Computer Science from the TU Berlin. His fields of interest include, e.g., context-awareness, user-interaction, and service front-ends. In 1998 and 1999 he has worked intensively in the research area of Intelligent Mobile Agents. Since 1999 he has started research activities in the area of user-centric communication. He has been involved in a number of projects that were related to Human-Machine-Interaction, UMTS/VHE, personalization and user profiling. Currently Stephan is working the area next generation Web platform for cross-platform and cross-device applications and media. He is managing international and national level research activities and has been an organizer and a member of program committees of several international conferences. He is actively participating in standardization activities in these research areas and was initiator and the coordinator of the EC funded www.webinos.org project.

  • Keynote:

    “Hacking Media” – Immersive Story

    Andreas Gall

    Chief Innovation Officer

    Red Bull Media House

  • 13:00 - 14:20 Content driving VR

    VR – reshaping TV

    Jan Thiel

    Co-founder and Managing Director

    A4VR

    ZDF and VR, first Experiences and future Prospects

    Rainer Kirchknopf

    Distribution and New Technologies

    ZDF

    Development of VR/360° live sport service

    Thomas Buchholz

    Senior Expert New Media

    Deutsche Telekom

    360&VR@mediaset.it Project

    Maria Laura Simonetti

    Head of Knowledge and Innovation Projects

    Mediaset

    14:20 - 14:50 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition

    14:50 - 16:10 VR tech and standardization

    Mobile-powered Virtual Reality: Standards and Technologies

    Thomas Stockhammer

    Director Technical Standards

    Qualcomm

    Update on the W3C WebVR activities

    François Daoust

    Media Specialist

    W3C

    Web-based Signage in W3C

    Kiyoshi Tanaka

    Senior Research Engineer, Supervisor, 2020 Epoch Making Project

    NTT Service Evolution Laboratories

    5G – the VR use case

    Christian Nord

    Head of Standardization

    Sony Mobile Communications

    DASH VR streaming

    Cyril Concolato

    Associate Professor

    Telecom ParisTech

    16:10 - 16:40 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition

    16:40 - 18:00 Delivering VR

    Challenges of Encoding 360°, AR, & VR Content

    Reinhard Grandl

    rincipal Solutions Architect

    Bitmovin

    Efficient streaming of VR360 content: TiledVR and the impact of network latency

    Ray van Brandenburg

    CTO and Founder

    tiledmedia

    Becoming part of the Story: Interactions within 360° Videos

    Igor Fritzsch

    General Manager

    BitTubes

    VR beyond 360°

    Thomas Bedenk

    VR Consultant

    Exozet