7th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

May 15–16, 2018 – Fraunhofer FOKUS

Will Law

Chief Architect of Media Cloud Engineering

Akamai

Will Law is Chief Architect within the Media Engineering group at Akamai and a leading media delivery technologist. Involved with streaming media on the Internet for the last fifteen years, he has a strong focus on client-side development and wrote many of the early connection frameworks that still drive much of the traffic flowing over Akamai today. Currently focusing on MPEG DASH and HTTP streaming, technology evaluation, 4K distribution, WebRTC, mobile media, cloud transcoding, connected devices and multi-bitrate switching, Law is a founding board member of the DASH Industry Forum, holds Masters degrees in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA and has worked previously for Adobe, Internap and a series of five engineering and media-related startups. He is a well-known public speaker in the media technology field, speaking internationally on subjects ranging from Adaptive Delivery and 4K Distribution through to New & Disruptive Technologies for Media Distribution.

  • WAVE, DASH.IF

    Will Law

    Chief Architect of Media Cloud Engineering

    Akamai

    W3C

    François Daoust

    Media Specialist

    W3C

    HbbTV, DVB

    Jon Piesing

    Director Standardisation

    TP Vision

    3GPP, MPEG

    Thomas Stockhammer

    Director Technical Standards

    Qualcomm

    VRIF

    Rob Koenen

    Tiledmedia

    Panel discussion