The 2010 Streaming Media Dream Team
Joachim Roos: CEO
Edgeware
www.edgeware.tv
Previous Job Titles:
• VP Engineering at Xelerated
• Director Engineering at Net InsightProudest Achievements:
• Founding Edgeware, building it to a recognised
technology leader and driving market success in this
highly competitive segment.
Next Big Thing You're Working On:
"To build Edgeware into a mainstream provider of equipment
to the large CDNs."
Biggest Trend in Online Video:
"The shift from mostly YouTube-like services that are not monetised to new premium quality services that target TV sets in addition to other devices, services, and delivery platforms, which are attractive alternatives to IPTV.
Biggest Trend in Online Video:
"To monetise the end services and make them reach a scale
that can generate real profit."
Jean Noël-Saunier: Co-Founder and CEO
Flumotion
www.flumotion.com
Previous Job Titles:
• Country Manager, Akamai
Proudest Achievements:
• Attracting a highly skilled team, providing a unique service offering to clients, and creating strategic partnerships with world-leading telcos such as NTT, which rely on Flumotion streaming technology for their global CDN strategy.
Next Big Thing You're Working On:
"Deploying our multiformat technology on telco networks
worldwide and offering a unique video platform to the world's biggest Media and Entertainment companies."
Biggest Trend in Online Video:
"Even more Telcos will enter the CDN market, ensuring that all businesses include online video in their digital strategies. Connected TV will bring content back to television screens, which will result in an increase in audio and video consumption."
Sven Slazenger
InterLake Media
www.interlake.net
Previous Job Titles:
• Founder and Managing Partner at InterLake System
• Board member of the German Assn. of Service Providers for the Online Industry (BDOA) and head of the IPTV working group at BDOA
• COO of ALWAYSi, a user-generated video startup
Proudest Achievement:
• Enjoying work every day and having a team that sticks together like glue.
Next Big Thing You're Working On:
"Helping to bring standardisation forward in the fields of online video advertising, streaming formats, and online video technology. Do we really need hundreds of APIs and video formats?"
Biggest Trends in Online Video:
"Less hype; fewer but better organised online video projects; more complicated technical back ends and more complex process integration"
Konstantin Wilms: Chief Architect
Streaming Media Hosting
www.streamingmediahosting.com
Previous Job Titles:
• Principal Developer, Logic Innovations
• Senior Systems Design Engineer, NDS
Proudest Achievement:
• Being responsible for the back-end and satellite/terrestrial system architecture and overseeing deployment for the first rollout of the largest terrestrial datacasting system deployed in the USA.
• Developing an IP multicast file distribution system for satellite/terrestrial networks for embedded set-top box systems, which weighed in at 50KB of compiled client-side code, supporting carouseling, error recovery, built-in annoucement mechanism, and packet-based erasure correction for lost packets.
Next Big Thing You're Working On:
"A complete rethinking of what comprises a CDN customer's management console, doing away with the notion of segregation of services, statistics, and content as separate entities, which have been traditionally tied to each other by some fashion of archaic user interface."
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