8th FOKUS Media Web Symposium

Tue., May 21, 2019 to Wed., May 22, 2019 – Berlin, Germany

Day 1 - Tuesday, May 21, 2019

09:30 -10:00 - REGISTRATION, WELCOME COFFEE

TUTORIAL 1 - 10:00 - 12:00

HbbTV 2 - Deep Dive and Hands-on

Trainer: Louay Bassbouss, Fraunhofer FOKUS

This tutorial provides an introduction to the HbbTV standard with its most relevant features introduced in HbbTV 2. Also, it presents related specifications and gives an overview on tools for validating and developing HbbTV applications.

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TUTORIAL 2 - 10:00 - 12:00

Deep Media - Media meets AI

Trainer: Christopher Krauß, Fraunhofer FOKUS

This tutorial presents different application areas for Artificial Intelligence in the modern connected world. In hands on sessions we will practically apply these concepts and show algorithms at work while we explain how they work.

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TUTORIAL 3 - 10:00 - 12:00

Internet Delivered Media - Streaming Tech Update

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. We will demonstrate the key technologies in multiple live demos and identify challenges and best practices when applying the technologies in production.

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12:00 - 13:30 - Lunch, NETWORKING, DEMOS & EXHIBITION

WORKSHOP 1 - 13:30 - 18:00

Ad Tech - Best Practice, Standards, Technologies

Chair: Robert Seeliger , Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

13:30 - 14:30
Session 1: Use Cases

Ad-replacement and addressable TV
Frode Hernes - Vewd Software AS, SVP Product Management

Monetize Your Video Streaming
Leander Carell - nowtilus, Managing Director

Ad Detection - Tech and Use Cases
Espen Erikstad - Norigin Media, COO

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

15:00 - 16:00
Session 2: DAI Tech

Dynamic content insertion
Valentijn Siebrands - M2A, Solutions Architect

Road to Server Guided Ad-Insertion: Hulu's DAI Evolution
Zachary Cava - Hulu, Playback Architect

The Future of SSAI on OTT devices
Phil Cluff - MUX, Streaming Specialist

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

16:30 - 18:00
Session 3: Ad Tech

Unlocking Programmatic Advertising with Dynamic Ad Insertion
David Uhlman n - Google, Senior Video Solutions Consultant

Server-side Ad insertion - challenges and best practice
Alex Zhang - AWS Elemental, Product Manager for MediaTailor

The Future is NOW: How SevenOne Media and FreeWheel are making live broadcast TV addressable
Marc Lauriac - Freewheel, Head of Customer Success, Europe
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Johannes Thyssen - SevenOne Media, Project Manager Addressable TV

Addressable Broadcast TV
Sebastian Busse - SpotX, Director Addressable TV International smartclip / SpotX

WORKSHOP 2 - 13:30 - 18:00

Deep Media - Opportunities and Challenges

Chair: Christopher Krauß, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

13:30 - 14:30
Session 1: Deep Media Analytics / Deep Data

Sharing Views with an AI and why this is crucial
Adolf Proidl - XroadMedia, CEO and Founder

AI to action video analytics for a better delivery, encoding and QoE
Diego García - epiclabs, Sales Manager

Rethinking audience measurement with HbbTV
Andrea Duerager - Servus TV, Project Manager TV Research

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

15:00 - 16:00
Session 2: Deep Personalization

Alexa Smart Home – How AI makes Connected Homes more intuitive
Tim Schäffer- Amazon, Senior Product Manager

How to choose an effective AI video analysis solution
Jun Heider - RealEyes Media, Chief Technology & Operating Officer (CTOO)

User-centered media for caregivers
Carsten Müssig - Springer Nature / Springer Pflege

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

16:30 - 18:00
Session 3: Deep Artificial Intelligence

Latest Encoding Techniques: Per-Title Encoding and AI-Based Encoding
Gerald Zankl - Bitmovin, Business Development Director

Machine Learning for the Web
Anssi Kostiainen - Intel Corporation, Web Standards Technical Lead

Current and future customer requirements for AI-based analysis of real-time video content
Ingo Hoffmann - artec technologies AG, Managing Director

WORKSHOP 3 - 13:30-18:00

Internet Delivered Media - Best Practice, Standards, Technologies

Chair: Stefan Pham, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

13:30 - 14:30
Session 1: Novel Apps & Services

Leveraging SRT for ultra low latency broadcast workflows in the Cloud
Marc Cymontkowski - Haivision, VP of Engineering

Bandwidth prediction in low-latency chunked streaming
Ali Begen - Comcast, Technical Consultant

Managing Low Latency Live Streaming Delivery Challenges and Use Cases
Oliver Lietz - nanocosmos, CEO

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

15:00 - 16:00
Session 2: New Streaming Tech

Status of Dash.js
Jesús Oliva - epiclabs, Founder at Epic Labs. Video Algorithms

Technical considerations when deploying a Multi-CDN strategy
Bram Tullemans - EBU, Project Manager

Device-side delivery intelligence: rethinking the modern video CDN with peer-to-peer delivery and client-side load balancing
Axel Delmas - Streamroot, CTO

AV1, VVC and beyond. An update
Christian Feldmann - Bitmovin, Codec Engineer

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

16:30 - 18:00
Session 3: W3C M&E/ DASH-IF - Joint Topics of Interest

Low latency DASH in DASH.js
Will Law - Akamai, Chief Architect of Media Cloud Engineering

DASH Ad Insertion
Thomas Stockhammer - Qualcomm, Director Technical Standards

Web Platform APIs for Media Streaming
Chris Needham - BBC, Principal Software Engineer at BBC Research and Development

Events in DASH and CMAF

Iraj Sodagar - Senior Technical Consultant

W3C Media Timed Events and DataCue API
Chris Needham - BBC, Principal Software Engineer at BBC Research and Development

SOCIAL EVENT - 19:00

Media Web Night @ Panoramapunkt

This year our Media Web Night will take place at the event location Panoramapunkt. It is situated in about 100 meter height in the Kollhoff-Tower at Potsdamer Platz. Here you can experience the fastest elevator in Europe and enjoy a phenomenal 360° view of Berlin from the sun deck.