12th FOKUS
Media Web Symposium

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

Will Law

Chief Architect, Cloud Technology Group

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Akamai

Will Law is Chief Architect within the Cloud Technology Group at Akamai and a leading media delivery technologist, involved with streaming media on the Internet for the last twenty years. Currently focusing on Media Over QUIC, WebTransport, low latency streaming, MPEG DASH, CMCD, CMSD and CAT, Law is Co-Chair of the W3C WebTransport Working Group and the CTA Common Media Client Data Working Group and past President of the DASH Industry Forum and Chairman of the CTA WAVE Project.  He holds Masters degrees in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA and prior to Akamai worked for a series of engineering and media-related startups.

Talks

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  • “…or wherever you get your television” – offering an open future to streaming TV

    Emily Dubs

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    Head of Technology

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    DVB

    Oh look…Squirrel: Understanding the Impact of Innovation in the Streaming Video Tech Stack

    Jason Thibeault

    , 

    CEO

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    SVTA

    MOQ – Overview, Status and Demos

    Will Law

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    Chief Architect, Cloud Technology Group

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    Akamai

    Live Cloud Production with AWS – Broadcast Innovation in the Cloud

    Thomas Pister

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    Head of Solutions

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    LOGIC media solutions GmbH

    Improving Streaming Inter-operabilty in Smart TVs

    Jon Piesing

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    Director Standardisation TP Vision and Vice-Chair HbbTV Association

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    TP Vision

  • 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

    Video coding improvements for delivery of low-latency and interactive video services

    Lukasz Litwic

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    Senior Research Manager

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    Ericsson

    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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    CTO

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    Streaming Labs

    Will Law

    , 

    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

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    Constructor Tech

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

    Will Law

    , 

    Chief Architect, Cloud Technology Group

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    Akamai