| Marie-José Montpetit Motorola USA |
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Your content, your networks, your devices: social networks meet your TV experience
Dr Marie-José Montpetit is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Motorola Home and Network Mobility Technology Office. She is the principal architect of "Seamless Video Mobility" that targets new IP video experiences to any device (PC, mobile, STB) any time (pause and pickup) and anywhere (wireline and wireless) by leveraging IP Content Distribution networks, agnostic network access and standards based protocols and middleware. This novel approach to IPTV won the Motorola Innovation Award for 2007 and was declared a Corporate "Big Bet" also in 2007.
Dr Montpetit is the author of a graduate class on IPTV that is now part of the MIT online library and has presented guest IPTV conferences and tutorials at MIT Communication Future Program in 2005 and 2006 and IEEE Consumer Communication Conference in 2006. This tutorial will soon be part of the online "IEEE Tutorial Now" library. Dr Montpetit has also reviewed 5th and 6th EU Framework proposals and projects in the field of digital communication, advanced video, Internet and wireless networks.
Dr Montpetit is currently the Motorola MIT Media Lab Resident for 2008-2009 where she intends to further some of those IPTV concepts into virtual reality, Peer to Peer networks and home care.
Dr Montpetit has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal Canada.
On Motorola: Motorola is deploying milllions of IP STB in Europe (via the Kreatel acquisition) and North America and provides end to end IPTV solutions. http://www.motorola.com/iptv
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| Prof. Ulrich Weinberg HPI - School of Design Thinking, HFF - Film & Television Academy Germany |
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Media reconsidered - Innovation through Design Thinking
Prof. Ulrich Weinberg studied fine arts and design at the Academies of Fine Arts in Munich and Berlin. 1980 to 1986 freelance work as TV graphics designer at public and private production houses. Since 1986 specialized on 3D computeranimation (mental images, ART+COM, etc.) on scientific, industrial and art projects for companies like ARD, BMW, Daimler Benz, Siemens, Schering, Telekom, ZDF. Founder of the companies TERRATOOLS and CYPARADE, specializing on 3D animation, simulation and interactive 3D projects such as computer games and cross media projects.
Since 1994, Mr. Weinberg is working as a professor for computer animation at the Film & Television Academy Babelsberg (HFF). 2003 Co-initiator and head of n_space, the interdisciplinary network of excellence for nonlinear media in Potsdam. Since 2004 Visiting Professor at CUC Communication University of China CUC, Beijing. 2005 head of “Innovation Forum Nonlinear Media”. 2005-2007 director of Digital Media Institute DMI at HFF. Since 2005 programme director of EU symposium INSIGHT OUT.
Since June 2007 head of “School of Design Thinking” at HPI Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam.