Will Law
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
MSc, Aerospace Engineering 1990-01-01 - 1991-01-01
Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business
MBA, Business 1996-01-01 - 1996-01-01
University of the Witwatersrand
BSc, Aeronautical Engineering 1986-01-01 - 1989-01-01
Coursera - Stanford Online
, Machine Learning 2018-01-01 - 2018-01-01Work Experience
Akamai Technologies
Current
Akamai Technologies
DASH Industry Forum
2012-09-01 - 2019-09-01
DASH Industry Forum
Digitally Speaking
2006-02-01 - 2013-01-01
Digitally Speaking
HostCast
2002-02-01 - 2008-02-01
HostCast
INAP
2005-11-01 - 2006-06-01
INAP
Iconomed
2001-12-01 - 2002-10-01
Iconomed
Obvious Technology
1999-10-01 - 2001-12-01
Obvious Technology
Strain Monitor Systems
1997-09-01 - 1999-10-01
Strain Monitor Systems
Gulfstream Aerospace
1993-06-01 - 1996-09-01
Gulfstream Aerospace
Skills
Summary
Will Law is a Chief Architect within the Cloud Technology Group at Akamai. He has been involved with streaming media on the web for the last 24 years with a strong focus on client-side development and wrote many of the connection frameworks that drove much of the early media traffic flowing over Akamai. He has a current focus on Media over QUIC (MoQ), WebTransport, CMCD, CMSD, MPEG DASH and HLS streaming and low latency OTT delivery. Law holds Masters degrees in Aerospace Engineering and an MBA and has worked previously for Adobe, VitalStream and a series of five engineering and media-related startups. Law is a founding board member and past-Chairman of the DASH Industry Forum as well as past Chairman of the CTA WAVE Project. Currently he is Co-Chairing the W3C WebTransport Working Group, as well as chairing the CTA WAVE CMCD Task Force. He speaks at numerous conferences worldwide each year, across both broadband and broadcast and was named one of the top 50 most influential people in VOD.
