Dr. Thomas Stockhammer joined Qualcomm in 2014 and now acts as Senior Director Technical Standards. In his different roles, he coauthored more than 250 research publications, more than 250 patents and 1000s of standards contributions. He is the active and has board, leadership and rapporteur positions in 3GPP, DVB, MPEG, IETF, ATSC, CTA, ETSI, Metaverse Standards Forum, SVTA and the DASH-Industry Forum in multimedia communication, TV-distribution, 5G broadcast, content delivery protocols, immersive media representation, adaptive streaming, XR and the Metaverse. Among others, he leads MPEG-I Scene Description efforts, SVTA DASH-IF working group, 3GPP Video, Advanced Media Delivery, and XR activities as well as DVB-5G activities. He received several awards for work on DASH, media delivery and 5G Broadcast, namely the INCITS Technical Excellence Award 2013, the 3GPP Excellence award 2017, the CTA Technology & Standards Achievement Award 2019 and 2023, ISO/IEC Excellence Award 2024, the DASH-IF Leadership Award 2024, the IEC 1906 Award 2024, the SVTA Industry Fellow award as well as an Emmy Inventor Award in 2022. He is regular speaker and Program Committee Member at events such as IBC, DVB World, Mile High Video, MWS or BroadThinking. In 2023, he was elevated to IEEE Fellow for his contributions to media delivery and video streaming standards.