8th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

May 21–22, 2019 – Fraunhofer FOKUS

Tim Schäffer

Senior Product Manager

Alexa Smart Home

Tim Schäffer leads the Alexa Smart Home product for Germany, Italy and Spain. Besides the product management, he was also responsible for the launches of Alexa Smart Home in Italy and Spain in 2018. The focus of his role is to obsess over making it easier and more intuitive for Amazon customers to control their connected home via voice. He drives the launches of new Smart Home features, working closely with technical and non-technical teams across Amazon to deliver best in-class solutions for customers and clients. Before joining Amazon in 2017, Tim was heading the OTT / Big Screen Product teams at maxdome at ProSiebenSat.1 . Tim earned his undergrad in Audio Engineering, before completing his Master’s Degree in International Business in San Francisco.

  • 13:30 - 14:30 Uhr | Session 1: Deep Media Analytics / Deep Data

    Sharing Views with an AI and why this is crucial 

    Adolf Proidl

    CEO

    XroadMedia GmbH

    AI to action video analytics for a better delivery, encoding and QoE

    Diego García

    Sales Manager

    Epic Labs

    Rethinking audience measurement with HbbTV

    Andrea Duerager

    Project Manager TV Research

    ServusTV

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

    15:00 - 16:00 Uhr | Session 2: Deep Personalization

    Alexa Smart Home – How AI makes Connected Homes more intuitive

    Tim Schäffer

    Senior Product Manager

    Alexa Smart Home

    How to choose an effective AI video analysis solution

    Jun Heider

    Chief Technology & Operating Officer (CTOO)

    RealEyes Media

    User-centered media for caregivers

    Carsten Müssig

    Product Manager

    Springer Pflege

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

    16:30 - 18:00 Uhr | Session 3: Deep Artificial Intelligence

    Latest Encoding Techniques: Per-Title Encoding and AI-Based Encoding

    Gerald Zankl

    Director of Business Development

    Bitmovin

    Machine Learning for the Web

    Anssi Kostiainen

    Web Standards Technical Lead

    Intel Corporation

    Current and future customer requirements for AI-based analysis of real-time video content

    Ingo Hoffmann

    CTO

    artec technologies AG