8th FOKUS Media Web
Symposium

May 21–22, 2019 – Fraunhofer FOKUS

Will Law

Chief Architect

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.

  • 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

  • Best Practices for Deploying DASH and HLS at Scale

    Will Law

    Chief Architect

    Akamai

    The Ultimate Challenge of Saving Money While Streaming High Quality Videos

    Stefan Lederer

    CEO/Co-Founder

    Bitmovin

    Resilient End-to-End Live Streaming Workflows

    Nicolas Weil

    Senior Product Manager

    AWS Elemental

    ZDFmediathek – status & perspectives

    Jochen Schmidt

    Leader of team „Neue Informations- und Mediensysteme“

    ZDF

  • 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