Dr. Andrea Basso serves as Principal Investigator in AT&T Labs - Research, New Jersey USA.. In previous positions he served as Technical Director and Chief Architect in NMS Communications. Dr. Basso has more than fifteen years of expertise of research and development in multimedia communications systems and services, including speech and video coding, media adaptation, multimedia delivery for broadband and wireless networks, caching, scalability and interworking aspects of multimedia. Dr. Basso has significant expertise in communications protocols for media delivery and he is involved in the development of standards in several international bodies including IETF, ISO/MPEG, ITU-T and IMTC. Earlier he held academic senior positions in research and development at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Dr. Basso has been Visiting Scientist at Stanford University, Palo Alto CA (USA), and IRST (Italy). Dr. Basso holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and a Master degree from University of Trieste, Italy. As adjunct associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Victoria, Canada Dr. Basso is author or co-author of more than 60 publications and 3 books in the area of video processing and networked multimedia services and holds 12 patents.

Chris Steck is Director of Technology Strategy for RealNetworks where he owns the technology roadmap for Real’s media delivery products and services and directs Real’s standards body initiatives. Chris is also the CTO and a board member of the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium. In the past Chris has architected CTI call control software for Interactive Voice Response and also worked on networking and communications protocols and APIs at Microsoft including the Telephony API (TAPI), WinSock II, IP Multicast and RSVP. He’s also founded a startup for embedded VoIP PBX and call control software for WiFi access points, and architected mobile data services software for J2ME and smartphone devices.