Folker loves driving technological advances in real-time 3d computer graphics. He brings together the best and most passionate people who believe that smarter software technology and optimized workflows can provide a new level of stunning quality, accessibility for everyone, easy scalability and radical cost efficiency. Success is closely related to agility, looking beyond current well-worn paths, and exploiting the amazing possibilities of teamworks, mathematics and software engineering.He is spearheading LynxStep GmbH (https://lynxstep.com), which provides consulting, services and solutions, for example, for cloud-based real-time 3d applications like high-quality scalable 3D web product configurators, I4.0 and digital twin applications, interactive virtual worlds, data visualization, real-time video processing, animation and compositing, live streaming, virtual production and previz of movies and series, virtual and augmented reality, broadcasting graphics, simulations and PC, mobile and consoles gaming.His team provided seminal expertise and key software components to various award winning products and productions, including, for example, the children's media award "Der weiße Elefant" for contributing to the quality of media services for children or several E3 awards for the world-wide best video game of the year, for customers like Intel, ATI, Funcom, Siemens, Volkswagen, Ravensburger Digital, ARD, ZDF, and Pro7Sat1.Folker is credited for contributing to the specification of the OpenGL standard, the world-wide leading cross-platform 3d graphics API. He was selected as jury member for allocating government funding for ambitious collaborative multi-year high-tech projects of companies and universities.He is a teacher about 3d engine development and has talked at various conferences, including for example the Future Internet Assembly (FIA), The World Animation & VFX Summit, Games Convention Developers Conference (GCDC), and Microsoft Gamefest.Folker has a Diploma in theoretical physics with mathematics as minor.