Stephan Steglich
Fraunhofer FOKUS, Director Competence Center FAME
Talk: Conference Opening, Day 1, 9:30 - 10:15
Dr. Stephan Steglich is director of the Business Unit Future Applications and Media (FAME) at Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) in Berlin, Germany. Stephan received his M.Sc. in computer science and PhD in Computer Science from the TU Berlin. His fields of interest include, e.g., context-awareness, user-interaction, and service front-ends. He has been involved in a number of projects that were related to Human-Machine-Interaction, next telecommunication systems, personalization and user profiling. Since 2010, Stephan is working the area next generation Web platform for cross-platform and cross-device applications and media - including topics like interactive media, web technologies, VR/360° video, media streaming and connectedTV/HbbTV. He is managing international and national level research activities and has been an organizer and a member of program committees of several international conferences. He is actively participating in standardization activities in these research areas and gives lectures at the Berlin University of Technology (TU Berlin).