Bernard Hammer is responsible at Siemens for technical and strategic standardization issues in the field of IP-based communications for enterprise networks.

His main task is the management of standardization efforts at Ecma, ETSI and IETF on call control/ signaling for multimodal communications, enterprise mobility and interworking issues. He is the chairman of the Technical Committee TC32 of Ecma International which specifies international standards for evolving enterprise networks and wireless PANs. Besides he represents Siemens in the Ecma General Assembly.

Prior to Siemens B. Hammer was Assistant Professor and Director of the Image Processing Group at the Institute of Communication Devices and Data Processing, Aachen, Germany. In 1983 he joined the Corporate Technology research center of Siemens, where he was responsible for various image communication projects with ISO/IEC and ITU-T (MPEG, H.320/ H.323). During this time he was the chairman of multimedia division of the German National Body DIN. In 1994 he changed to the semiconductor division of Siemens working on concept engineering of MPEG ICs. Since 1998 he is with the Siemens communication division.

B. Hammer holds a Dr.-Ing and Dipl.-Ing degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Aachen,. He has a number of patents in the field of image coding/ processing and is author of various publications on multimedia communications.