12th FOKUS
Media Web Symposium

June 24–25, 2025 – Berlin

Yuriy Reznik

CTO

Streaming Labs

“Yuriy Reznik is the founder and CTO of Streaming Labs, Ltd (London,UK). Previously, he held engineering and management positions at Brightcove, Inc. (Boston, MA, 2016-2025), InterDigital, Inc. (San Diego, CA, 2011-2016), Qualcomm Inc. (San Diego, CA, 2005-2011), and RealNetworks, Inc. (Seattle, WA, 1998-2005). In 2008, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford University (Stanford, CA). Since 2001, he has also been involved in the work of ITU-T SG16 and the MPEG standards committees, making contributions to several multimedia coding and delivery standards, including ITU-T H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 ALS, ITU-T G.718, ITU-T H.265/MPEG HEVC, and MPEG DASH. Several technologies, standards, and products that Yuriy Reznik has helped develop (RealAudio/RealVideo, ITU-T H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, Zencoder, Brightcove CAE, and MPEG-DASH) have been recognized by the NATAS Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards. Yuriy Reznik holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Kyiv University (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2005). He is a senior member of IEEE, a senior member of SPIE, and a member of the ACM, AES, and SMPTE. He is a co-author of over 180 conference and journal papers, and a co-inventor of over 80 granted U.S. patents.”

  • 13:30 - 14:30 | Session 1

    Connected Media Experiences powered by Open Standards and Open-Source

    Jordi J. Gimenez

    Head of Technology

    5G-MAG Media Action Group

    Improving the efficiency of streaming over satellite networks by unequal error protection of mABR streams

    Yuriy Reznik

    CTO

    Streaming Labs

    Latest Updates on 5G Broadcast

    Thomas Stockhammer

    Senior Director Technical Standards

    Qualcomm Technologies

    15:00 - 16:00 | Session 2

    Features in 5G-Advanced for media services

    Rufael Mekuria

    Principal Engineer

    Huawei Technologies (Netherlands)

    Towards XR application awareness in 3GPP networks

    Serhan Gül

    Senior Researcher

    Nokia

    5G in PSM – Where do we stand today

    Dr. Roland Beutler

    Distribution Strategy

    SWR

    16:30 - 18:00 | Session 3

    Spotlight on Volumetric Video: Use Cases, Standards and Implementation

    Ralf Schaefer

    Vice President Standards Video Lab

    InterDigital

    Latest developments of 5G-MAG XR tools

    Nils Duval

    Software Engineer

    Motionspell

    XR and wearables: Current state and perspectives on upcoming 5G/6G features

    Emmanuel Thomas

    Chief Multimedia Technology Expert

    Xiaomi Technology

  • 13:30 - 14:30 | Session 1

    Engage More, Earn More: Technical and Practical Insights into Server-Guided Ad Insertion

    Pieter-Jan Speelmans

    VP Engineering

    Dolby OptiView

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

    Lukasz Litwic

    Senior Research Manager

    Ericsson

    Beyond the CDN: Use Cases, Tools, and Learnings from Prototyping with CMCD v2

    Nicolas Levy

    VP of Technology

    Qualabs

    15:00 - 16:00 | Session 2

    Beyond Encryption: Authenticating and Protecting Live Video in a Post-Trust Era

    Valentijn Siebrands

    Streaming Solution Manager

    Unified Streaming

    Thasso Griebel

    Technical Lead of Player Development

    castLabs

    CMSD + Media Quality Assessment (MQA) metadata: new tools for monitoring and optimizing streaming QOE

    Yuriy Reznik

    CTO

    Streaming Labs

    Will Law

    Chief Architect, Cloud Technology Group

    Akamai

    DVB-I prospects, initiatives and findings

    Bram Tullemans

    Program Manager

    EBU

    16:30 - 18:00 | Session 3

    MoQ Analytics

    Dr. Gwendal Simon

    Distinguished Architect

    Synamedia

    How to integrate MoQ into a comprehensive real-time video platform

    Oliver Lietz

    CEO/Founder

    nanocosmos

    MOQtail – Made with 100% QUIC. Zero latency. Zero hangover.

    Ali C. Begen

    Professor

    Ozyegin University

    Zafer Gurel

    Software Engineering Director

    Constructor Tech

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

    Will Law

    Chief Architect, Cloud Technology Group

    Akamai