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MEDIA WEB SYMPOSIUM 2010
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	Dr. Stefan Arbanowski - Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Dr. Stefan Arbanowski is head of the Competence Centre Future Applications and Media (FAME) at Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS in Berlin, Germany. Stefan Arbanowski received his Ph.D and M.Sc. in computer science from the Technical University Berlin (TUB), Germany. He gave lectures in broadband networks, mobile communications, service platform, and middleware technologies at TUB. Since 1995, he participated several national and international research projects related to service platforms (e.g. IN/TMN, TINA, IMS), UMS, rich media, IPTV, mobile and personal communications. Currently, he is coordinating Fraunhofer FOKUS' IPTV activities, bundling expertise in the areas of interactive applications, media handling, mobile telecommunications, and next generation networks. FOKUS channels those activities towards networked media environments featuring live, on demand, context-aware, and personalized interactive media. He is member of eMobility European Technology Platform Steering Board and was chairman elect of the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) Service Platform Working Group (WG2) for 2004-2005. Beside telecommunications and distributed service platforms, he has published more than 70 papers in respective journals and conferences in the area of personalized service provisioning. He is member of various program committees of international conferences.
	Sebastian Artymiak - VPRT, Germany Graduate engineer Sebastian Artymiak has been working for VPRT since 2004. First he started in the position as adviser for media technology. Since 1st August 2009 he advanced to Director of Media Technology where he is responsible for all the association´s activities in the field of technology development, new technologies and infrastructure. Prior to his engagement with VPRT, he worked in military research with Augmented Reality (extended reality) at EADS for audiovisual operating systems in jet fighter Eurofighter. He graduated at Technische Universität Ilmenau in Germany. Beside that Sebastian Artymiak gained working experience abroad as software engineer for data base with a London websecurity enterprise. In Colombia he worked as administrator at the Industrial University Santander.
	Dr. Kenji Baheux - Sharp Corporation, Japan Dr. Kenji BAHEUX is a junior manager in the Network Service Business Development Group, at Sharp Corporation (Japan). The Network Service Business Development Group aims at providing integrated device + service solutions to a wide range of domains. His main focus is to identify and design new business opportunities for Sharp, particularly in the area of digital media and mobile advertisement. Kenji works with contents/service providers and advertisers to develop end to end solutions that leads to further growth and delivers innovative user experiences.
	Dirk Bartels – Versant, USA Dirk Bartels is a successful serial entrepreneur and innovator with 25 years experience in the global technology industry. Since 1995 based in the Silicon Valley, he founded and led 2 successful venture funded start up companies, Poet Software, a leading object database company that merged with Versant Corporation in 2004, and Progio Mobile, an innovative mobile personal training system. Currently, Dirk is responsible for Versant's product and marketing strategy.
	Bernd Becker – Chairman Eurocloud Deutschland_eco e.V. Dipl. Ing. Bernd Becker, Chairman of Eurocloud Deutschland_eco e.V. and Vice President Eurocloud Europe has a long track record in the ITC industry. He started his career at Nixdorf Computers and was in charge of different responsibilities at various Siemens Business Units. Among others, he was heading the Microsoft Competence Centre at Siemens, where he founded the ASP Technology Forum as a cooperation between Siemens, Microsoft and Fujitsu Siemens Computers. In his latest responsibility at Siemens, he was acting as Business Manager for Web-based Services on a global basis. With Scout2Cloud he just recently started his own business by providing Enabling Services for Cloud Providers and Consulting Services for Enterprise Companies on their way into the Cloud. At eco, the Association of the German Internet Economy, he was Member of the Board for more that eight years. Today, he acts as General Manager for eco.
	Volker Blume – Philips, Germany
	Thomas von Bülow – Euro Cloud Deutschland_eco e.V. Thomas von Bülow is managing director of the Bitobito GmbH, which he founded 2005 as company who provides innovate webbased businness critical applications for small and medium sized companies. Before that he founded together with 3 former IBM managers a company for IT and Internet infrastructure and applications for big companies. He worked 10 years for IBM in different sales and management position in Germany and Europe, mainly in the Service and e-business offering. He helds a degree for the university of St. Gallen Switzerland in Business Administrations. In 2008 Tag It! were founded as a Spin Off together with PQ-Unternehmensberatung. Tag It! provides an online service for videoprocessing and invideo content tagging. Thomas von Bülow is member of the board of the eco e.V. the biggest german Internet Association. He is one of the founders of the EuroCLoud Germany, the biggest CloudComputing association in Europe.
	Dr. Pablo Cesar – CWI, Netherlands Dr. Pablo Cesar is a tenure track researcher in the Distributed Multimedia Languages and Infrastructures research group at CWI (The National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands). He received his Ph.D. from the Helsinki University of Technology in 2006. He has (co)authored over 40 articles (conference papers and journal articles) about multimedia systems and infrastructures, social media sharing, interactive media, multimedia content modelling, and user interaction. He is involved in standardization activities (e.g., SMIL from W3C) and has been active in a number of European projects such as Passepartout, SPICE, iNEM4U, and Ta2. He is co-editor of the book "Social Interactive Television: Immersive Shared Experiences and Perspectives" and has given tutorials about multimedia systems in prestigious conferences such as ACM Multimedia and the WWW conference.
	Malte Cherdron – Moviepilot., Germany Malte Cherdron is the COO of Moviepilot GmbH, a film community and recommendation provider based in Berlin. Leveraging the expertise of Germany's leading film community, Moviepilot offers effective, taste-based recommendation services for movies and TV series. Prior to Moviepilot, Malte served as the COO of VZ Netzwerke (schülerVZ, studiVZ, meinVZ), and as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, with a focus on telecoms and media. An economist by training, Malte holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Mannheim.
	Tahar Cherif - Chief Technical Consultant, Sharp, France Tahar Cherif is engaged in innovative applications and content services ecosystem build-up for Sharp Media Tablet. Tahar has graduated from Supelec-Paris and has obtained a MScEng from Dentsudai-Tokyo.
	Jörg Eggink - Product Manager, Connected Home, Access Europe, Germany Jörg is responsible for defining ACCESS’ strategy and product roadmap for DLNA, OTT, Content Delivery and server backend initiatives, including Widgets and content transcoding. He previously led ACCESS’ Network Services and System Solution department, which successfully launched the global i-mode service with European operators. Prior to ACCESS he worked at NEC. He holds a Diploma Degree in Communication Engineering from University of Applied Sciences Cologne and is also a Graduate in Business Administration from the University of Hagen.
	Henning Eid - Intel, Germany Henning Eid is heading the Business Development for Consumer Electronics in the Central European region for Intel. Mr. Eid received an MBA in Marketing at the Fachhochschule Akademie für Erwachsenenbildung in Lahr and graduated as Electrical Engineer at the FH Wiesbaden. Working for Intel, he has held a variety of functions from Application Engineer to Strategic Alliance Manager. His focus is to develop new business for Intel in the area of consumer electronics. In this mission, Mr. Eid works with manufacturers, system integrators and service providers to develop next generation solutions that also bring internet contents to TVs and create new user experiences.
	Robert Fahle – RTL Interactive, Germany Robert Fahle (Graduate of the Cologne School for Journalism / Master’s degree in economics at Cologne University) is Head of Mobile at RTL Interactive, Cologne. He is responsible for the development of broadband programs, content for interactive television and mobile internet (UMTS, Mobile Video & TV etc). After five years of editorial work on economical topics for magazines and radio & television stations, Fahle took on an editor’s position at RTL Television in 1995. He worked as a TV producer and Content Manager and became one of the founders of RTL’s Online Department. In April 2000 the author of several books about the telecommunication and media market began his work for RTL Interactive (Head of Multimedia Development). In August 2004 RTL started to expand the mobile activities and asked Robert to become Head of Mobile Media. Since September 2007 he is responsible for the mobile strategy and the operational business of the mobile platforms at RTL interactive.
	Oliver Friedrich – T-Systems, Germany Oliver Friedrich is a senior project manager at T-Systems International. He holds a M. Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany with specific emphasis on telecommunication networks. Oliver is working on IPTV and related topics as hybrid TV solutions, cross-domain application stores and overall architectural issues . He is actively involved in the IPTV standardization process in the Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) and published several papers and articles in this context. In parallel he is currently finishing his PhD in the field of IPTV at the chair for 'Next Generation Networks' at TU-Berlin. From April 2010 to August 2010 Oliver was also working for the Open IPTV Forum as overall project manager and ambassador. He was responsible for the OIPF's first Proof-of-Concept deployment in Singapore.
	Rainer Häring - IT-Rockstars Services Ltd., UK -since 2009 - Director of IT-Rockstars Services Ltd. - since 2000 - Senior Consultant and Lead Developer (Tomorrow Focus AG, o2, T-Systems, Mercer Management Consulting) - since 1994 - IT Freelancer for Enterprise Backend Services, SaaS, PaaS, XaaS - Education: Master of Science IT , Liverpool
	Dr. Dirk Hetzer - Media Broadcast 1991 - 1993: research staff at Technical University of Berlin since 1993: project manager at T-Systems Nova, Berkom GmbH: 2001 - 2003: head of department Middleware at T-Systems Nova, Berkom 2004 - 2005: head of department Services and Applications for NGN, TZ Darmstadt 2005 - 2006: head of department Media & Voice Solutions, T-Systems, ENPS TZ since 2006: Head System Solution & Engineering, MEDIA BROADCAST
	Heinz Honemann- Alcatel-Lucent, Germany More than 20 years of experience in commercial roles in transportation and telecommunication business. After several leading positions in Transport Automation, Radio Space & Defense, Fix and Mobile Networks Heinz served over 10 years as Director Pricing, Commercial Strategy for Alcatel’s world wide Switching, Next Generation Networks and Convergence Network business. Since 2009 he is Vice President of Alcatel-Lucent Network Applications activity in Europe, Middle-East & Africa. Alcatel-Lucent’s Network Applications Enablers provide service providers, strategic industries, media companies and consumers with open, smarter & richer solutions on all screens and devices. Based on a broad commercial experience in several industries, Heinz is truly excited in creating new business models with an open eco system of partners in innovative environment. Heinz Honemann 45 Years, based in Stuttgart, Germany, married, has two children and is interested in sport & culture.
	Dr. Philipp Hoschka – W3C Philipp Hoschka is a Deputy Director of the W3C. His main interest is bringing the benefits of Web technology to mobile and other non-PC devices. In 2006, he founded W3C's Ubiquitous Web Domain which includes W3C's Mobile Web Initiative created by Philipp in 2005. In the past, he pioneered work on integrating audio and video into the Web. Philipp founded, chaired and served as editor for the Working Group that developed the W3C Standard SMIL which today is an integral part of mobile phone MMS messaging. Philipp also lead W3C's "Television and the Web" Activity. He previously directed W3C's Architecture Domain, which issues all core XML specifications from the W3C. Philipp chaired numerous W3C workshops that explored new Web developments, such as Workshops on the Mobile Web Initiative, Web Services, Television and the Web, Push Technology and Real-Time Multimedia and the Web. Philipp holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
	Dr. Klaus Illgner-Fehns – Institut für Rundfunktechnik, Germany Dr. Klaus Illgner-Fehns received his diploma degree in electrical engineering with an emphasize on communications engineering at Aachen University of Technology, Germany, in 1991. Subsequently he got employed as a research assistant at the Institut for Communications Engineering, RWTH Aachen, where he conducted research in the area of digital image processing, and coding and transmission of digital video. In January 1998 he earned a doctorate with summa cum laude in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen for his thesis on "Scalable Video Coding". The development of algorithms for processing of digital images in digital cameras and the implementation on specifically designed DSP based embedded systems on chip, as well as contributions to the design of those chips were the main topics of his work at Texas Instruments, Dallas, USA. In July 2000 Dr. Illgner joined Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, in Munich, where he was responsible for a team developing new technologies in the field of multimedia communications in heterogeneous networks. Technologies for the utilization of networks with new service concepts, in particular including broadcast, were on the agenda. As a technical consultant he supported at management level the development of a company position on mobile broadcast and got the company involved in the relevant technical fora. In November 2004 he was appointed managing director of the Institut für Rundfunktechink (IRT), Munich. As research institute of the public broadcasters in Germany, Austria and Switzerland the main focus is on building up strong expertise in new broadcast and media technologies but also telecommunications knowledge. IRT’s aim is to support the European broadcast community in technical issues including the economical impact on the market. In parallel he started to position the IRT internationally as a research and technology company.
	Ajit Jaokar – Futuretext, UK Ajit Jaokar is the founder of the London based publishing and research company futuretext focussed on emerging Web and Mobile technologies. In 2009-2010, Ajit was nominated as part of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Internet by the world economic forum. Ajit chairs Oxford University's Next generation mobile applications panel and conducts a course on Web 2.0, Social networking, Mobile Web 2.0 and LTE services at Oxford University. Ajit’s thinking is widely followed in the industry and his blog, the OpenGardensBlog, which was recently rated a top 20 wireless blog worldwide. Media appearances include BBC – Newsnight – 3phone launch; CNN money; BBC digital planet. Ajit’s latest books are Open Mobile, Social Media Marketing and Mobile Web 2.0. His recent talks and forthcoming talks include: CEBIT 2009;MobileWorld Congress(2007, 2008, 2009); Keynote at O Reilly Web20 expo (April 2007);Keynote
	Katrin Jordan, Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany Katrin Jordan is a member of Deutsche Telekom’s Group Technology – Strategy and Architecture Team. She is engaged in a number of terminal related development projects, is chairing the GSMA Terminal Steering Group and has the lead for DT’s engagement in the webinos Project. In the past, Katrin Jordan has been actively engaged in industry fora work, driving mobile terminal related matters: She chaired the OMTP/WAC Transition Committee and has been an Alternate Board Member on the OMTP Board. She was a member on the OMTP Terminal Plenary Committee and BONDI Steering Committee and has chaired a number of industry activities set up to drive consistent and secure terminal implementations (Mobile Application Security, Signing Scheme Requirements, DRM). Outputs have since served as basis for terminal implementations and further industry work. Katrin Jordan joined the Deutsche Telekom Group in 1999 after graduating with an MBA from the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Belgium. She also holds an “Honours in Commerce” Degree from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
	Rob Koenen – Intertrust Technologies, USA Rob Koenen works for Intertrust Technologies as its VP of Standards and Community Initiatives. With a long background in standards development and industry consensus organizations, he currently chairs the Requirements Working Group of the Marlin Developer Community, and co-chairs the Requirements WG of the Open IPTV Forum. Rob chaired the Requirements Group in MPEG for close to 10 years, laying the basis for the MPEG-4, MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 standards. He also initiated the MPEG Industry Forum, and acted as its first President, growing the organization to over 100 members across the industry and propelling the MPEG-4 standard to its current ubiquitous adoption. Mr. Koenen holds officer positions in the Marlin Developer Community, Marlin Trust Management Organization and the Corel DRM interoperability initiative. Prior to joining Intertrust, Mr. Koenen worked for KPN Research as a Senior Scientist and Senior Programme Manager. Mr. Koenen holds a Masters degree from Delft University, where he studied Electrical Engineering, specializing in Information Theory.
	Christen Krogh - Chief Development Officer, Opera Software ASA Christen Krogh has been with Opera since 2001 as part of Opera’s executive team. Until 2007 he held the position as Vice President of Engineering. Krogh currently serves as head of Opera’s Products department. In this capacity he is responsible for Products management of all of Opera’s products and services. Krogh has a B.Sc Hons in Computing Science from Glasgow University, and a Dr. Philos from Oslo University. prior to working for Opera, Krogh held a series of research positons with Oslo University and SINTEF.
	Dr. Axel Küpper - Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany Since December 2009 I'm a professor for Service-centric Networking at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, which is a public-private partnership of Deutsche Telekom AG and Technische Universität Berlin. Before, I was an assistant professor and research assistant at the Mobile and Distributed Systems Group at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where I received my postdoctoral lecture qualification (in German: Habilitation). Prior to that, I was a research fellow at the Chair of Computer Science IV at Aachen University of Technology, where I received my Ph.D. and diploma (both in computer science). My research topics include new and innovative services and service concepts for the Internet and mobile networks, in particular Ubiquitous Computing, Location-based Services, and Software as a Service. My group and I are also addressing problems and challenges of Electronic and Mobile Commerce, service discovery, and open marketplaces. Besides research and teaching in these areas, other professional activities include the organization of workshops, the participation of programme committees and related reviewing activities. Furthermore, I'm a member of the leadership team of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories.
	Hong-Yon Lach – Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France Hong-Yon Lach is Director of Scientific Coordination in the Applications Research Domain at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, responsible for research and collaboration strategies of its activities in knowledge extraction, social networking, visual communications, web of things, etc. During 1997-2009, he was with Motorola Labs, where he managed and led technological and software research in mobile agent, semantic web, IP mobility across heterogeneous networks in mixed IPv4-IPv6 environment, secure IP mobile multicast, and IP-based converged networking with integrated AAA, mobility and QoS. He was honoured as Distinguished Innovator and member of the Science Advisory Board Associate (SABA) at Motorola. During 1987-1997, he was a research engineer at Apple Computer working on OSI, IP, and wireless LAN technologies. He was a key contributor and editor of the MAC/CAC layers of ETSI HIPERLAN/1 wireless LAN standard. Hong-Yon received a BS degree, summa cum laude, in Computer Science with a minor in Economics, from the American University of Paris, France, in 1987. Until now, he has been granted 10 patents.
	Frank Lonczewski - Deutsche Telekom, Germany Frank Lonczewski graduated in 1990 and holds a Dipl. Math. from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. After stations at the Institute of Computer Science of the Technical University of Munich and the German digital TV pioneer Kirchgruppe, he joined T-Online International AG in 2005. Following the merger on Deutsche Telekom AG in 2006, today Frank is responsible for the product management of Deutsche Telekom’s IPTV product T-Home Entertain.In this position, he is in charge of managing all customer facing aspects of the product core, including the definition of its hardware and service propositions as well as its user experience. Frank is one of the founding members of the German Usability Professionals’ Association (German UPA) established in 2002 where he continues to put his focus on strengthening usability engineering in German-speaking countries especially in the field of consumer electronics.He also is a member of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
	Emanuel Maxl - evolaris next level GmbH, Austria Emanuel Maxl is Head of Market and Usability Research at evolaris next level. He is responsible for research in the area of interactive media and developing methods using new technologies to measure acceptance of new media. One of his research focuses is applying mobile phone technologies in exploring customers. Emanuel Maxl is also a lecturer at the Department of Information Science and Information Systems at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz and chairman of the Austrian Association of Market Research.
	Klaus Merkel - IRT (Institut für Rundfunktechnik GmbH), Germany Klaus Merkel, born in 1966, graduated as an telecommunications engineer from the Technical University in Munich. He joined IRT in 1992. Since 1995 he has been working in programme distribution over various digital platforms, including interactive applications. Since 2004 IPTV and hybrid systems have been the main focus of his work.
	Christian Nord - Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Sweden Christian Nord is a Director at the CTO of Sony Ericsson where he has been leading the Standardization and Technical Areas organization. He specializes in mobile and web technologies. Christian has 15+ years in the mobile telecom industry and has held various product, software and network architecture manager roles at Ericsson and the France Telecom/Orange Group. He currently leads the Sony Ericsson delegation at W3C and has participated in many different standardization forums including 3GPP, OMTP and NGMN.
	Antonio Pavolini - Telecom Italia, Italy Antonio Pavolini has been working in the media sector for over 16 years. After a long standing experience in PR multinationals, like Burson-Marsteller and Brodeur (where he was Director of the Rome Bureau for 3 years, with EMEA-Wide assignments for several top-tier ICT corporations), he became Corporate Communication Director at Saritel, the company in charge of managing Internet Data Centers for the Telecom Italia Group. From 2009 he covers the role of Senior Analyst, Media Industry in the Strategy and Innovation Department of Telecom Italia, with the responsibility of identifying key trends ans developing consistent strategies in the media arena.
	Christian Räck - Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Head of research group "Intelligence Functions", which focuses on research, development and innovation activities in the following areas: Social media services, mobile Internet, semantic Web, information retrieval and recommender systems. Project management, information technology consulting, business development and IP exploitation.
	Michael Schidlack - BITKOM e. V, Germany After graduating in Economics, Michael Schidlack born in 1960, was Managing Director of a company in the CE and Information and Communication Technology business from 1985 until 2002. He held positions on the Board of Directors at the Bundesverband für Technik (Cologne) and the Deutsche Videoinstitut (Berlin/Hamburg). He was also a member of the Assembly of Delegates at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Bielefeld and acted as advisory body for the computer cooperation Comteam (Lilienthal) and T-Mobile. In addition to this he was nominated for the European Advisory Board by Nokia and by Expert Cooperative committees. From 2002 until 2006 he was employed as Senior Consultant/Project Leader at BBE Retail-Experts GmbH in Cologne/Hamburg und consulted market leading companies from Trade and Industry, primarily in advising IT and CE specialists. Furthermore he took on projects for Ministries and Associations and in this advisory capacity numerous surveys and articles of his were published about the CE Market. Since 01.01.2007 he is employed as Head of Department for Consumer Electronics and Digital Home at BITKOM.
	Axel Schmiegelow - sevenload GmbH, Germany Axel Schmiegelow, co-founder and CEO of sevenload, develops the company's business and licensing model, plans international expansion and growth, oversees corporate communications, as well as establishes long-term partnerships with international IP holders. Axel's venture capital fund, dw capital, laid the foundation for sevenload's successful business model and a was driving force behind preparing the company to become a leading global social media network for Web TV, photos and videos. Axel has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant, agency executive and serial entrepreneur, and is considered an expert in marketing, new media and start-ups. Axel's talent lies in his enthusiastic and entrepreneurial spirit combined with a business savvy, venture capitalist understanding and attitude. Outside of sevenload, Axel is co-founder and CEO of the denkwerk Group and through dw capital his current start-up portfolio includes: Qype, oneview, itravel, armedangels, itellity and popula. Axel is currently Chairman of the Social Media group from the Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft (BVDW) e.V. and is responsible for generating dialogues between ad and media agencies as well as social media platforms. The group works on projects such as creating standard ad formats and pricing models for the advertising industry in Germany - specifically advertising focused on and towards social media. These projects are particularly important in increasing the effectiveness of advertising campaigns as well as lifting traffic. As Chairman of the BITKOM e.V.'s working group IPTV/WebTV, Axel represents the interests of leading telecommunications and new media companies. The goal of the group is to maintain market information policies, support the networking infrastructure between suppliers, monitor the market's development as well as manage the IPTV market's positioning in Germany.
	Uwe Schnepf, Managing Director, nacamar GmbH, Germany Since more than 15 years Uwe Schnepf works in New Media and Internet Business. He focused on developing and operating components of technology and management for the playout of IP-based audio and video data live and on-demand. Mr. Schnepf worked on the publication of the first German Internet Radio in 1995 and the DVB implementation of ARD, ZDF and ORF in the mid 90s. As project manager he was responsible for the relaunch of the website of the Team Telekom including a live-audio transmission of the Tour de France in 1998 and as technical project manager responsible for the development of the Telekom Broadcast Network of the Deutsche Telekom AG. Since 2001 he is responsible for the Business Unit “Streaming – New Media” of the nacamar GmbH which expanded within the last years towards a full service Provider New Media (Asset Management, 3-Screen-Playout, Player- App- and Ad-Integration, Streaming, Shared Hosting…). Uwe Schnepf is graduated engineer in engine building and construction design (University of Kaiserslautern) and studied MSc of Information Technology / Knowledge Based Systems at the University of Edinburgh. Further he organises a research group for IPTV at eco e.V. and was founder member of the German IPTV-Verband.
	Sven Slazenger, Managing Partner, Interlake Media GmbH, Germany Sven Slazenger is managing partner of the 1997-founded IT service provider Interlake. Interlake Media offers expertise in worldwide media streaming, video player platforms and technical integration of online video projects. Sven Slazenger has a Masters Degree in Communication Sciences from Munich's Ludwig Maximillian University. He is also actively involved with the German Association for Service Providers in the Online Industry (BDOA), runs the IPTV working group there and is a board member in the Swiss German Business Club (SDW). In his spare time, Sven enjoys gourmet travels and boating.
	Dr. Stephan Steglich - Fraunhofer FOKUS. Germany Dr. Stephan STEGLICH is Head of department Future Applications and Media (FAME) at Fraunhofer FOKUS. He received his M.Sc. in computer science (in 1998) and PhD (in 2003) in Computer Science from the TU Berlin. His fields of interest include, e.g., context-awareness, user-interaction, and service front-ends. In 1998 and 1999 he has worked intensively in the research area of Intelligent Mobile Agents. Since 1999 he has started research activities in the area of user-centric communication. He has been involved in a number of projects that were related to Human-Machine-Interaction, UMTS/VHE, personalization and user profiling. Currently Stephan is working the area next generation Web platform (WebX.0, mobile Web) for cross-platform and cross-device applications and media. Stephan is managing international and national level research activities and has been an organizer and a member of program committees of several international conferences. He has actively participated in standardization activities in these research areas and gives lectures at the TU Berlin, chair for Open Communications Systems (OKS).
	Veronica Tan – IDA, Singapore Veronica Tan is a senior manager in the Info-communications Development Authority (IDA), a statutory board of the Singapore Government. IDA oversees the regulation and industry development of the telecommunications and information technology sectors in Singapore. Veronica is the technical lead of the NIMS initiative in Singapore, which aims to develop a strategy to build up capabilities, infrastructure and the industry ecosystem in the area of interactive multimedia application and services.
	Rodja Trappe – Hoccer GmbH, Germany Rodja Trappe is Executive Officer of the Hoccer GmbH, a Berlin based company which empowers people to spontaneous transfer information between devices at hand. He studied computational visualistics at the University of Koblenz-Landau and later worked as a research associate in the University's computer graphics department, where he developed a prototype for markerless tracking, supervised theses, and wrote a DFG application. During that time he also created a virtual graffity application for Lama GmbH. In early 2008 Rodja Trappe started developing software for the media agency ART + COM AG where he helped completing the BMW Museum and lead the team responsible for customizing Android Phones for the T-Gallery in Telekoms Headquater.
	Dr. George Voulgaris - VisionMobile Ltd, UK George has a multidisciplinary background in academic research, wireless technology due diligence and product management positions. He is currently wearing three hats in VisionMobile: Operations Director, Project & product manager and Analyst. As an Analyst, he has previously been involved in mobile handset UI customization solutions projects and his current interests are in the area of Mobile Analytics. As a product manager, he is in charge of the Mobile Industry Atlas product family. VisionMobile is engaged with the EU FP7 funded "webinos" project (http://webinos.org) as a lead for all dissemination activities and as a contributor of thought leadership and know-how in the areas of mobile application developer experience analysis, mobile OS analysis, IPR licensing & governance analysis. George is the main liaison and coordinator for VisionMobile's partnership within the "webinos" project consortium. He is a member of the webinos Project Management Board and the General Assembly.
	Dr. Matthias Wagner – Docomo Lab Europe, Germany Dr. Matthias Wagner is the Director of the Smart and Secure Services Research Group at DOCOMO Euro-Labs, the European research laboratories of the leading Japanese mobile operator NTT DOCOMO. His research unit is concerned with service provisioning and contextual intelligence in the next generation of mobile systems. Matthias Wagner has more than fifteen years of work experience in academic and corporate R&D. He held different positions within NTT DOCOMO and acted in coordinating roles in pan-European and international research activities.While in the past ten years his work was tightly connected to the area of telecommunications, his professional roots are in the computer science domains of AI and database systems.
	Jan Wendt - MMH NetRange, Germany Jan Wendt (43) is founder and CEO of NetRange MMH. With more than 100 clients MMH is a major brand for technical solutions in the interactive television sector. Jan Wendt started his career as a consultant for Sportfive, one of the market leaders in global sports marketing, where he was working for more than 6 years as Vice President. Before setting up MMH in 2004, Jan Wendt was working as Commercial Director for a Formula 1 racing team for 3 years.
	Heiko Willers - rtv media group, Germany Heiko Willers is head of Business Development and Strategic Marketing at the rtv media group - one of Europes market leaders in solutions for TV navigation. Working for the Nuremberg based Bertelsmann company, Mr. Willers is developing Electronic Program Guides for multiple platforms in a variety of European countries. Prior to working at the rtv media group, Mr. Willers has worked several years in the management of the German TV Magazine TV Movie. He is also working as a visiting lecturer at the University of Paderborn.
	Markus Willner - Deutsche Telekom, Germany Senior Project Manager Open Development Platforms Current Topics: Quality- and Launch management of Developergarden.com, Technical Project management for the Developergarden.com project. My work experience: IT- and Telco project management in international research-, development and innovation projects, IT consulting, E-Commerce and E-Business lecturer, project fields: P2P, Galileo, IP v6, IPTV, community services, VOIP IM clients, international working experience in France, Hungary, Canada, Brazil and China
	Falk Wöhler-Moorhoff, Managing Consultant, Detecon International, Germany Falk Wöhler-Moorhoff is a Managing Consultant with DeteconInternational in the competence practice Business Innovation. He has worked for ten years in the telcoindustry with a focus on innovation management and subjects related to industry convergence, particularly in the field of New Media and Smart Energy. He has worked for major telcooperators and leading industry players on various national and international assignments.

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