Wolf Siegert

Background

About Wolf Siegert

Before Dr. Siegert became director of IRIS® Media in 1987, he excelled in 3 independent careers- as an expert in theatre and film- as a lecturer and visiting professor in Europe and East Asia- as a journalist and TV producer, responsible for launching new cable & satellite programmes.He was one of the first to promote the change of paradigm from film to video and from analogue to digital. Since this century, he is involved in digital transmission strategies of TV as well as film & games.In the 80s, he started building up the first cable-TV-networks in France and Germany. In 1989, he launched the first interactive broadcasting program for German TV (ARD).In the 90s, he transformed “number crunchers” into multi-media-machines and twisted wire telephone cables into digital networks on behalf of all the European Telco’s. Since 1989 he has been directly involved with the PTO’s both in France and Germany by assisting and promoting the implementation of multimedia pilot applications. His long-term ambition to run multimedia applications on an internationally standardized public digital network in Europe has become reality with the introduction of the EURO-ISDN standard at the end of 1993.Since founding IRIS® Media he was hired as a "new media" reader and writer as well as an ICT- expert because of his professional experience and broad range of knowledge in the United Kingdom, France, the United States and Germany, including the new "German Laender". With his long experience in these areas, he has become a proven media communications expert. He is well acquainted with high potential technologies, especially in the field of computing and networking, whilst still keeping a firm base in the traditions of the arts and sciences.Working as a "Changineer" for start-ups as well as some major players in the film, television- and telecommunications-industry, he is developing and promoting mid and long-range strategies for the Digital Era (DVB-T & DVB-T2 HD | HD/3D-Cinema | Mobile- & Trans-Media | VR & AR ).