6th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

May 16–17, 2017 – Fraunhofer FOKUS

Thomas Stockhammer

Director Technical Standards

, 

Qualcomm

Thomas Stockhammer received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees from the Munich University of Technology, Munich, Germany. After acting as cofounder and CEO of Novel Mobile Radio (NoMoR) Research for 10 years, he joined Qualcomm in 2014 as Director Technical Standards. In his different roles he has co-authored more than 200 research publications and more than 100 patents.

In his day job, he is the active and has leadership and rapporteur positions in 3GPP, DVB, MPEG, IETF, ATSC, CTA, VR Industry Forum and the DASH-Industry Forum in the area of multimedia communication, TV-distribution, content delivery protocols, virtual reality and adaptive streaming.

Talks

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  • tandards for Global OTT Video: The WAVE Project

    Will Law

    , 

    Chief Architect of Media Cloud Engineering

    , 

    Akamai

    OTT on the web platform

    François Daoust

    , 

    Media Specialist

    , 

    W3C

    HbbTV  at „OTT StandardizationPanel

    Stefan Schneiders

    , 

    GM sales & marketing

    , 

    IRT

    DASH & CMAF Standard Update

    Iraj Sodagar

    , 

    President and Chairman of Board

    , 

    DASH-IF

    What’s happening in MPEG and 3GPP on OTT?

    Thomas Stockhammer

    , 

    Director Technical Standards

    , 

    Qualcomm

  • 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