Nicolas Sturmel is a senior technologist at Merging Technologies, working on simplifying and improving use of media networks. He is the product Manager of ANEMAN, an open specification software that aims at simplfying connection and monitoring devices. He is involved in the standard comittee on AES67 development where he is currently leading a project on AES67 beyond the LAN (WAN, Cloud). He also was a testing leader during the 2017 and 2018 AES67 and ST2110 testing event. Before that, Nicolas worked as Head of Research for Digigram and from the French reserach center (CNRS). Nicolas got a PhD from the University of Paris Saclay in 2011.