12th FOKUS
Media Web Symposium

June 24–25, 2025 – Berlin
© AI-generated | Fraunhofer FOKUS

Thasso Griebel

Technical Lead of Player Development

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castLabs

Thasso Griebel leads player development at castLabs, a company specialized in simplifying video delivery. With over 15 years of software development experience, Thasso creates powerful player technology used by streaming services and millions of end-users worldwide. His work achieves easy premium protected playback across a multitude of consumer devices with a focus on high performance and valuable feature-rich functionality.

Talks

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  • 13:30 - 14:30 | Session 1

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

    Pieter-Jan Speelmans

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    VP Engineering

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    Dolby OptiView

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

    Nicolas Levy

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    VP of Technology

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    Qualabs

    15:00 - 16:00 | Session 2

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

    Valentijn Siebrands

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    Streaming Solution Manager

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    Unified Streaming

    Thasso Griebel

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    Technical Lead of Player Development

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    castLabs

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

    Yuriy Reznik

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    Vice President of Research

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    Brightcove Inc.

    Will Law

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    Chief Architect, Cloud Technology Group

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    Akamai

    DVB-I prospects, initiatives and findings

    Bram Tullemans

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    Program Manager

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    EBU

    16:30 - 18:00 | Session 3

    MoQ Analytics

    Dr. Gwendal Simon

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    Distinguished Architect

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    Synamedia

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

    Oliver Lietz

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    CEO/Founder

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    nanocosmos

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

    Ali C. Begen

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    Professor

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    Ozyegin University

    Zafer Gurel

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    Software Engineering Director / Constructor Groups

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    Constructor Tech

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

    Will Law

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    Chief Architect, Cloud Technology Group

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    Akamai