Before Dr. Wolf Siegert became director of IRIS® Media in 1987, he excelled in three 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 and satellite programmes.

On his way to achieving his first career, he was taught by extroverted personalities such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and introverted writers and directors such as George Tabori. The foundations for his second career were laid, while at university, where he studied subjects that he had previously produced on stage; however, he learned the most when he started lecturing. His third career has been facilitated by radio, television and film-studios, where he has now become one of the pioneers of programming strategies for the new electronic and digital channels.

He has therefore accomplished at least three things: he realised his early ambitions to stimulate ideas and to test them in an sociocultural context on stage; he realised his ambition for radical research by achieving honours with two state exams and a PhD.; and he successfully changed the world, at least as far as the German broadcasting and the European telecommunication scenarios are concerned!

Twenty years ago he was one of the first to promote the change of paradigms from film to video.

In the 80s he continued these kinds of activities by building up the first cable-TV-networks in France and Germany. In 1989 he started the first interactive broadcasting program for German TV.

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, for example by assisting and promoting the implementation of multimedia pilot applications. His ambition to run multimedia applications on an internationally standardised, public network in Europe has become reality with the introduction of the EURO-ISDN standard at the end of 1993, promoted in the press by IRIS® Media.

Since founding IRIS® Media he was hired as a "new media" reader and writer as well as an IT-consultant because of his professional experience and broad range of knowledge in England, France, the United States and Germany, including the new "German Länder". With his long experience in these areas, he has become a proven multimedia 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.

Since 2004 Wolf is the editor in chief of "DaybyDay ISSN 1860-2967". He is a member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) as well as the German German Journalists Association (DJV) and its elected member of the Berlin board for the third time. Teaching in Europe, Asia and the US, he joined the Education and Science Workers’ Union (GEW) as early as 1974.
In the early 90s Dr. Siegert was appointed member of the European Union DG XIII "ISDN User Forum" (EIUF) Steering Committee. Further nominations included those by the Blenheim Group for membership on the NetWorld Advisory Board for 2 years and by Springer Science+Business Media to join the Board of the German MultiMedia Congress for 3 years. In 1997 he became co-founder of the EIUF Ltd. and one of its directors. In 2003 he became one of the first European members of the Digital Cinema Society (DCS) and then President of the German Chapter. In 2016 he started as one of the co-founders a publicly funded association “Virtual Reality Berlin-Brandenburg e.V.” He was one of the founding members of the European VISION Consultancy Group and the VisionConsult GmbH as well as the founder of the Vision Media Group and IRIS® Technologies GmbH.

Since the late 80’s he was committed to redefine the perspectives of these major trade-fair appearances: IFA (1989-2001), CeBIT (2005-2012) and NAB-Show (2012-2014).

Today he is working for some of the major players in the European film-, television- and telecommunications-industry developing and promoting mid and long-range strategies for the digital era (D-Cinema, DVB-T, Mobile Multi-Media, Games & Virtual Worlds). As they say: "As a ’changineer’ his career track has been that of a hybrid character with a PCM-type-performance!"

Any recreational time? Yes: for his family and friends. He enjoys music and fine wines, swimming and cycling. Empowered by his highflying ambitions he topped his motorcycle licence by a French ULM-licence and enjoys flying microlight planes.

Né en 1949 à Brême;
marié, 1 enfant
A Berlin depuis 1995

Wolf SIEGERT est un expert reconnu de la valorisation des applications multimédia dans les secteurs de la radio-télévision et des télécommunications à travers la numérisation.

Il a commencé sa carrière comme spécialiste du théâtre, du cinéma et de la vidéo appliquée à ses expressions artistiques. Partant de ces domaines, il a réalisé un parcours académique et obtenu son Doctorat d’Etat en 1983.

C’est avec cette double compétence qu’il a entamé une carrière dans le secteur public en Rhénanie-Palatinat.

Puis il a créé IRIS® Media, dont il est le directeur depuis 1987.

Dans les années 1990, il a été co-fondateur du Vision Consultancy Group et de la société Eiuf Ltd. En l’an 2000, il a été à l’origine de la VCI GmbH [Sarl] et du Vision Media Group. Enfin en 2008 il a créé IRIS® Technologies GmbH [Sarl] .

Depuis sa Maîtrise et son Doctorat de troisième cycle obtenu en 1976, Wolf SIEGERT n’a cessé d’apprendre de nouvelles langues «étrangères» comme le «Fortran» l’ «DSS1» et le protocole de transmission de fichiers sur RNIS, à l’introduction duquel il a activement participé. Ont suivi des expérimentations dans le monde H-320 de la visiophonie, les premières applications dans le domaine du multimédia et des streaming-médias. Aujourd’hui, ce sont les systèmes numériques et les protocoles issus du monde «TCP/IP» qui sont dominants dans son activité.

Son travail académique s’est poursuivi en parallèle avec la mise en oeuvre de ses compétences de créativ et d’historien. Grâce à ce processus, il a pu inventer une nouvelle qualité de concepts médias: aujourd’hui il travaille régulièrement pour les institutions de formation et de recherche les plus réputées, en 2010 it été nommé Changineer par ses confrères à Stanford CA.

L’histoire des médias numériques s’écrit en ce moment-même. Sur ce sujet, Wolf SIEGERT intervient comme inventeur et designer de concepts, comme consultant en stratégie, comme un metteur en scène et en tent que éminence grise reconnu. Entre autres chez: IFA (1989-2001), CeBIT (2005-2012) et NAB-Show (2012-2014).

Grâce à la pertinence de son analyse et à sa longue expérience de la coopération avec les secteurs de la culture, de l’économie et de l’administration, il permet à ses clients de faire dialoguer les mondes analogique et numérique d’une manière nouvelle et originale.

1949年出生于不來梅市, 自1995年起生活在柏林。
施歌德博士，獲國際認可的數碼增值策略專家，廣泛涉及廣播電視及通訊業的多媒體應用領域。

施歌德博士集作家，歷史學家，藝術家和哲學家為一身，以他的學術造詣為基點，進一步更新媒體策劃質量，漸進地獲通數碼世界的通行綠卡。為此，他被同行和朋友們給予了一個新的職業稱號：“轉型工程師”（“Changineer”）。

他分別在1974年和1976年通過兩個國家考試並獲得了榮譽證書，並且通過終身不斷自修印證了跨專業學習的成果：語言專業上從法語到Fortan計算機語言； 從IT-協議如E-DSS1到夾片。

他獵涉並征服了新領域，如：
— 圖像和視頻電話
— 多媒體和流媒體應用
— 虛擬世界及其社區
— 廣播內容通過DVB-T和IPTV的數字傳輸
— 通過VDSL和LTE傳播的電影和電影節目：
與美國（DCI，SMPTE，DCS），德國（ARRI，DVS，FHG，T-Systems的媒體廣播），及歐洲（EDCF）的領先企業合作 。

其目標始終是數字系統和媒體應用中的範式轉變的預知和監導，包括與主要運營商的合作，如IFA（1989-2001）和CeBIT（2005-2012）。

他的工作成果建樹於諸多的學術演講和教學講座， 書籍和大量的論文及文章的出版。他曾多年為Klick.online做雜誌主編和作家。自2004年開始了自己的全數碼網絡日誌“DaybyDay” （“天天”）並於2005年取得ISSN版號1860-2967 。 自2008年第一次被選舉為柏林勃蘭登堡的德國記者協會董事會成員，至今已經連任三屆。

施歌德博士以對一代數字媒體的歷史，從設計到分析，從評述到做檔案記錄為己任，且由此派生出了他在數碼媒體行業的新角色：作為見證人和發展策劃人；作為主持人和策略思想家 －正如，2010年在美國斯坦福大學他被介紹成“轉型工程師”（“Changineer”）所描述的那樣：通過其從未間斷的、並卓有意義的在“跨文化對話”經濟和管理層面的探討，使他具備了獨具特色的專業素質 。