8th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

May 21–22, 2019 – 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 250 research publications and more than 150 patents.

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

Talks

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  • Combining AI and 5G for new user experiences

    Thomas Stockhammer

    , 

    Director Technical Standards

    , 

    Qualcomm

    Next Generation Media Delivery by 5G

    Maurice Uhlmann

    , 

    Product Manager for Broadcast Transmitters

    , 

    Rohde & Schwarz

    5G Roadmap for Media

    Dr. Per Fröjdh

    , 

    Director of Media Standardization

    , 

    Ericsson

    Of Flying Cars and Empty Screens – Challenges for the Connected Vehicle

    Sven Eckoldt

    , 

    Global Product Director

    , 

    ACCESS Europe

  • DASH-IF

    Iraj Sodagar

    , 

    Senior Technical Consultant

    WAVE

    Will Law

    , 

    Chief Architect

    , 

    Akamai

    HbbTV

    Jon Piesing

    , 

    Director Standardisation

    , 

    TP Vision

    DVB

    Paul Szucs

    , 

    Senior Manager, Technology Standards Office

    , 

    Sony Europe

    3GPP / MPEG

    Thomas Stockhammer

    , 

    Director Technical Standards

    , 

    Qualcomm

    VR Industry Forum

    Rob Koenen

    , 

    Founder & CBO

    , 

    Tiledmedia

    W3C

    Chris Needham

    , 

    Principal Software Engineer

    , 

    BBC

  • 13:30 - 14:30 Uhr | Session 1: Novel Apps & Services

    Leveraging SRT for ultra low latency broadcast workflows in the Cloud

    Marc Cymontkowski

    , 

    Vice President Engineering

    , 

    Haivision

    Bandwidth prediction in low-latency chunked streaming

    Ali C. Begen

    , 

    Technical Consultant

    , 

    Comcast

    Managing Low Latency Live Streaming Delivery Challenges and Use Cases

    Oliver Lietz

    , 

    CEO and Founder

    , 

    nanocosmos

    14:30 - 15:00 Uhr | Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition

    15:00 - 16:00 Uhr | Session 2: New Streaming Tech

    Status of Dash.js

    Jesús Oliva

    , 

    Co-Founder and Media CTO

    , 

    Epic Labs

    Technical considerations when deploying a Multi-CDN strategy

    Bram Tullemans

    , 

    Project Manager

    , 

    EBU

    Device-side delivery intelligence: rethinking the modern video CDN with peer-to-peer delivery and client-side load balancing

    Axel Delmas

    , 

    Co-Founder and CTO

    , 

    Streamroot

    AV1, VVC and beyond. An update

    Dr. Christian Feldmann

    , 

    Video Codec Engineer

    , 

    Bitmovin

    16:00 - 16:30 Uhr | Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition

    16:30 - 18:00 Uhr | Session 3: W3C M&E/ DASH-IF - Joint Topics of Interest

    Low latency DASH in DASH.js

    Will Law

    , 

    Chief Architect

    , 

    Akamai

    DASH Ad Insertion

    Thomas Stockhammer

    , 

    Director Technical Standards

    , 

    Qualcomm

    Web Platform APIs for Media Streaming

    Chris Needham

    , 

    Principal Software Engineer

    , 

    BBC

    Events in DASH and CMAF

    Iraj Sodagar

    , 

    Senior Technical Consultant

    W3C Media Timed Events and DataCue API

    Chris Needham

    , 

    Principal Software Engineer

    , 

    BBC