A Site to honor Contributors to the SVTA and the streaming video industry
--- Jason Thibeault, CEO, Streaming Video Technology Alliance
Who Are The SVTA Fellows?
The Streaming Video Technology Alliance Fellows represent individuals who have made significant technical contributions to streaming video and/or the Streaming Video Technology Alliance.
Industry Fellows
These fellows are people who have made a significant, lasting impact on the streaming video industry. They may or may not be employees of an Alliance member company.
Technical Fellows
These fellows are Alliance members who have made a significant contribution to Alliance activities and objectives such as leading working groups, writing documents, and evangelizing the organization.
Selecting Fellows
Fellows are nominated by Alliance members and reviewed by the Fellows Nomination Committee, a sub-committee of the board. This committee then recommends fellows to the board. There are no limits to fellow awards but they are only awarded once per year.
What Do Fellows Get?
Becoming an SVTA Fellow is more than just receiving another award.
Fellows Are Awarded Full Membership
Whether Industry or Technical Fellows, each awardee is provided a Principal Membership in the SVTA, allowing them to contribute without being associated with a member company. In addition, fellows are provided a crystal award to commemorate their induction. We try to award these in person at the SVTA's SEGMENTS conference. Finally, newly awarded fellows are acknowledged in a press release and added to the fellows website. We are confident that SVTA Fellows can leverage their award and status on their LinkedIn pages, with management, and to show the general industry what they have accomplished.
Our Inaugural Fellows Award Night
During the SVTA's first SEGMENTS conference (May 16th, 2023 in New Orleans, LA), in-person fellows were presented with their awards. Although the SVTA had awarded its initial batch of fellows back in 2019, the organization was unable to field a the SEGMENTS conference (or any member meetings) because of Covid. Given that, the SVTA held off selecting and sending awards until it was able to hold a physical event to present fellows with their awards.
Fellow Spotlight
Meet one of our fellows, randomly chosen from amongst the recipients.
Thomas Stockhammer
I am very pleased and happy to be selected as SVTA Industry Fellow. DASH-IF was founded to make the ISO standard on Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) a commercial success and to provide a technology for global media and TV distribution over the Internet, traditional broadcast systems and mobile – and we seemingly succeeded. On behalf of Qualcomm, I had been involved from day one since 2009 in the development of the standard and the foundation of DASH-IF in 2012, leading the editing work in ISO MPEG and 3GPP as well chairing the DASH-IF Technical Working Group. The recent DASH-IF transition to being a member of the SVTA family is rewarding and exciting. DASH remains the only open global standard addressing many diverse markets. Nevertheless, most rewarding is the continuous collaboration with excellent people, many of whom are now friends. Looking forward to more good years to come in the SVTA community.
Dr. Thomas Stockhammer joined Qualcomm in 2014 and now acts as Senior Director Technical Standards. In his different roles, he coauthored more than 250 research publications, more than 250 patents and 1000s of standards contributions. He is the active and has board, leadership and rapporteur positions in 3GPP, DVB, MPEG, IETF, ATSC, CTA, ETSI, Metaverse Standards Forum, SVTA and the DASH-Industry Forum in multimedia communication, TV-distribution, 5G broadcast, content delivery protocols, immersive media representation, adaptive streaming, XR and the Metaverse. Among others, he leads MPEG-I Scene Description efforts, SVTA DASH-IF working group, 3GPP Video and XR activities as well as DVB-5G activities. He received several awards for work on DASH, media delivery and 5G Broadcast, namely the INCITS Technical Excellence Award 2013, the 3GPP Excellence award 2017, the CTA Technology & Standards Achievement Award 2019 and 2023, ISO/IEC Excellence Award 2024, the DASH-IF Leadership Award 2024, the IEC 1906 Award 2024, the SVTA Industry Fellow award as well as an Emmy Inventor Award for in 2022. He is regular speaker and Program Committee Member at events such as IBC, DVB World, Mile High Video, MWS or BroadThinking. In 2023, he was elevated to IEEE Fellow for his contributions to media delivery and video streaming standards.
