Brian Mullins
Organizing Committee: Board Member. CEO of Daqri, a visionary and pioneer in the field of Augmented Reality...
Suresh Narasimha
Suresh Narasimha Founder & CEO – TELiBrahma Convergent Communications Pvt Ltd. In Summary Suresh brings with him 15+ years of experience in entrepreneurship, product creation and innovation within the mobility domains. Suresh has been successfully running TELiBrahma and has ensured that TELiBrahma has raised multiple rounds of funding from Intel, Ojas and inventus. Been India’s leading mobile advertising player growing at 300% YOY. With 90% market share in verticals like Automobile, Lifestyle and F and B, has one of the highest patents to employee ratio in the country including several patents that he has personally filed himself. Won some of the prestigious awards like Deloitte fast 50, Nasscom emerge board, Red herring global 100, NYF awards, SIU, Abbys, BigBang amongst others. For last 11 years Suresh has seen mobile industry taking different shapes and shades. Making applications work for companies and brands through appstores, advertising and solutions. Making leading brands like HSBC, Nike, Coco cola, Mercedes Benz, Cadbury’s to embrace mobile advertising and building India’s leading mobile advertising business. Launching Augmented reality as a platform and service in India delivering campaigns for 15+ brands month on month...
Kevin Nally
Kevin Nally is an artist with a degree in Fine Art Media from the National College of Art and Design, Ireland. The goal of his artistic practice is to change people’s opinions of new digital culture by creating illustrations that draw parallels between our modern-day digital worlds and the societies of the past who were also centred around the activities of a non-physical and abstract reality. His work utilizes visual imagery unique to modern digital media, (compression artifacts, 3d modelling, Augmented Reality) to better reflect this digital subject matter. He is currently working as a Creative Business Developer at Metaio Gmbh....
Shannon Novak
Shannon Novak is an artist based in Auckland, New Zealand. He works in painting, sculpture, and installation, with a focus on using geometric forms to explore his deep and abiding interest in the interrelationships between sound, colour, form, time, space, and social context. He completed a residency at CentralTrak, The University of Texas at Dallas Artists Residency in 2011, has been engaged in public commissions in Auckland, New Plymouth, and Denver, and co-founded West gallery at The University of Auckland in 2012....
Victor Ng-Thow-Hing
Victor Ng-Thow-Hing is a principal scientist at the Honda Research Institute USA in Mountain View, CA. Previous research investigated intelligent system architectures, human-robot interaction with humanoid robots and gesture generation, visual attention modeling and proxemics phenomena. He is currently investigating advanced human-machine interfaces for future smart cars with an emphasis on multi-modal interaction with drivers....
Scott O’Brien
Scott OBrien is co-founder of Explore Engage, an Augmented Reality (AR) specialist company based in Sydney, Australia specializing in AR across web, kiosk, mobile and AR glasses. In preparing for late 2012, Scott’s focus areas are related to increasing accessibility to AR, the higher end development of applications and transition from mobile to wearable AR. Explore Engage has built apps for Audi, Smurfs, Transformers (www.tf3ar.com) and future rooms combining AR with other technologies for major telecommunications companies....
Eghosa Omoigui
Venture capitalist focusing on general mobile and consumer internet investments (community, commerce, collaboration, tools, content & media) as well as select enterprise and cloud infrastructure opportunities; specific interest areas include search, smart data, ambient awareness and semantic technology-based platforms and services – domain expertise in semantic web and web 3.0 opportunities. Worked as corporate/VC/m&a/bankruptcy attorney, start-up executive, and entrepreneur. Advisory role to start-ups....
Patrick O’Shaughnessey
AWE CTO and Tutorials...
Helen Papagiannis
Dr. Helen Papagiannis is recognized as a leading expert in the field of Augmented Reality (AR). She has been working with AR for nearly a decade with a focus on storytelling and creating compelling experiences in AR. Dr. Papagiannis was named among the NEXT 100 Top Influencers of the Digital Media Industry in 2013, and is featured as an innovator in the book, “Augmented Reality: An Emerging Technologies Guide to AR”, published in 2013. Her work and research in the field include her past roles as Chief Innovation Officer at Infinity Augmented Reality Inc. (New York City and Tel Aviv), and Senior Research Associate at York University’s Augmented Reality Lab in the Department of Film, Faculty of Fine Art (Toronto). She has presented her interactive work and PhD research at global conferences and invited events including TEDx (Technology, Entertainment, Design), ISMAR (International Society for Mixed and Augmented Reality) and ISEA (International Symposium for Electronic Art). Dr. Papagiannis’s TEDx 2011 talk was featured among the Top 10 Talks on Augmented Reality and Gamified Life. Prior to her augmented life, she was a member of the internationally renowned Bruce Mau Design studio where she was project lead on “Massive Change: The Future of Global Design”, an internationally touring exhibition and best-selling book examining the new inventions, technologies, and events changing the world....
Christine Perey
Christine Perey is a Spime Wrangler and evangelist for mobile AR with 20 years experience in new multimedia communications markets and technologies. She was the publisher and editor of The QuickTime Forum from 1991-1993 and the founder of The QuickTime Movie Festival. She is an invited speaker at mobile industry events and serves on panels and committees dedicated to the advancement of rich media experiences in business and consumer markets. Perey performs market development and regularly prepares custom market research reports on contract with clients. She organizes the International AR Standards Community http://www.arstandards.org, chairs face-to-face meetings and leads programs to drive the adoption of open and interoperable AR. She blogs at http://www.spimewrangler.com and tweets at @cperey...