7th FOKUS Media Web Symposium

Fraunhofer FOKUS FAME Media Web Symposium Keyvisual Partner 2018

Tue., May 15, 2018 to Wed., May 16, 2018 – Berlin, Germany

Day 1 - Tuesday May 15, 2018

09:30 -10:00 - Registration, Welcome Coffee

TUTORIAL 1 - 10:00 - 12:00

Internet Delivered Media - Trends & Best Practices

Trainer: Stefan Pham, Fraunhofer FOKUS

As part of this tutorial, we will give an overview as well as best practices for playback and creation of adaptive bitrate (ABR) content.

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TUTORIAL 2 - 10:00 - 12:00

HbbTV – deep dive and hands-on

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Trainer: Louay Bassbouss, Fraunhofer FOKUS

This tutorial gives an overview of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband Television Standard (HbbTV) with particular focus on the latest HbbTV 2 specification.

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TUTORIAL 3 - 10:00 - 12:00

Recommender Systems and Machine Learning

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Trainer: Christopher Krauss, Fraunhofer FOKUS

The tutorial introduces basic concepts of artificial intelligence and explains them with simple and comprehensible examples of algorithms.

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12:00 - 13:00 - Lunch, NETWORKING, DEMOS & EXHIBITION

WORKSHOP 1 - 13:30 - 18:00

Internet Delivered Media

Chair: Stefan Arbanowski, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

13:30 - 14:30

Building The Next Sports Media Reality
Bob Hannent - DAZN, Video Architect: Playback and Delivery

AI-basiertes Video Indexing
Rainer A. Kellerhals - Microsoft, Media & Entertainment Industry Lead EMEA

Empowering the New TV Ecosystem
Marc Lauriac - Freewheel, Senior Director, Customer Success, Europe

14:30 - 15:00 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition

15:00 - 16:00

Better Than Broadcast: Optimizing End-to-end Streaming Latency
Nicolas Weil - Amazon, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS Elemental

Ending Streaming Format Wars with CMAF
Ali Begen - Comcast, Technical Consultant

Delivering UHD with High Dynamic Range Livestreams over the open internet to HbbTV Devices using MPEG-DASH
Stefan Schneiders - IRT, Geschäftsfeldleiter Auftragsforschung

16:00 - 16:30 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition

16:30 - 18:00

HbbTV Measurement and Reasearch Tool
Andrea Duerager - ServusTV, Project Manager TV Research

Dynamic Ad Substitution - Current State and Future Outlook
Peter Neumann - CBC/RTL, Expert Platform Solutions

Addressable TV: How to Make TV Advertising Smarter
Christian Sauer - Webtrekk GmbH, CEO

Cloud based Broadcast
Yannick Buchwald - Logic Media, Solution Architect

WORKSHOP 2 - 13:30 - 18:00

360° Video, VR, AR

Chair: Stephan Steglich, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

13:30 - 14:30

Immersion - Past / Present / Future
Kay Meseberg - ARTE, Head of Mission Innovation

Travelling in time and exploring coal mines: Our approach to Web VR
Thomas Hallet - WDR, Digital Unit

Crafting Immersive Brand Experiences
Tobias Soffner - Demodern, Executive Producer

14:30 - 15:00 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition

15:00 - 16:00

Magenta VR Plattform
Thomas Buchholz - Deutsche Telekom, Senior Expert New Media

Making 360 Video Easy for Publishers
John Luther - JW Player, VP of Technology

Open innovation of wireless X Labs in 5G Cloud VR/AR
Jerome Shao Zhijie - Huawei, Head of Industry Relations

16:00 - 16:30 – Coffee Break, Demos & Exhibition

16:30 - 18:00

360° Experiences with Immersive Audio
Sebastian Gsuck, MediaApes, Co-Founder / CVO

WebXR - bringing virtual and augmented reality to the Web
Dominique Hazael-Massieux - W3C, WebXR Strategist

Spatial navigation for IVI, VR, game console and TVs
Hyojin Song - LG Electronics, Senior Research Engineer

Volumetric Video and the Future of Storytelling
Daniel Brückner - UFA LAB, digital strategist

Case Study Volumetric VR
Sönke Kirchhof - INVR.SPACE, CEO

SOCIAL EVENT - 19:00

Media Web Night @ Arminiusmarkthalle

This year our Media Web Night takes place at the Arminius Market Hall. The historic event location combines the feeling of the old traditional Berlin with the new urban vibes. The food ranges from German to Mediterranean and is supplied by local producers.

A shuttle service to the Media Web Night event departs at 18:30 in front of the Institute.

Day 2 - Wednesday May 16, 2018

09:00-09:30 - REGISTRATION, WELCOME COFFEE

9:30 - 10:15

Conference Opening & Keynote

Opening by Conference Chairs:
Stefan Arbanowski and Stephan Steglich

Keynote:
The Multiple Merger - Challenges on the Road towards a Unified Video Monetization
Holm Münstermann - Google, Head of News & Broadcast Publishers DACH

10:15 - 11:15 SESSION