Jon is CrowdOptic’s Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder. Prior to CrowdOptic, Jon served as CEO of Bharosa (Oracle NASDAQ: ORCL), NetClerk (BidClerk) and AutoReach (AutoNation NYSE: AN). Jon is a recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year, Award (Emerging Category, 2007) and lives in Marin County, CA with his wife and daughter. More information about Jon is available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Fisher....
Vitaliy Goncharuk is a CEO and a co-founder of Augmented Pixels (formerly AR23D Studio – founded in 2010). Augmented Pixels develops effective solutions based on Augmented Reality technology for furniture companies, retail chains and toy brands. The company has its own AR SDK. In 2013 Augmented Pixels was shortlisted in Top 5 “Best AR Developers 2013”, while in 2014 it was nominated by the Financial Times for Boldness in Business Awards in the same category as Bosh, Tesla Motors, Squire and 2 other companies. Vitaliy started to work in a sphere of mobile technologies in 2001. Before starting AR23D he worked on many projects, one of which was for the game platform Nokia N-Gage. In 2013 AR23D Studio, which appeared to be pretty profitable, closed round A of funding and right now is actively working on new products in Augmented Reality. Augmented Pixels Co http://augmentedpixels.com...
Marc Goodman is a global thinker, writer and consultant focused on the disruptive impact of advancing technologies on security, business and international affairs. Over the past twenty years, he has built his expertise in next generation security threats such as cyber crime, cyber terrorism and information warfare working with organizations such as Interpol, the United Nations, NATO, the Los Angeles Police Department and the U.S. Government. Marc frequently advises industry leaders, security executives and global policy makers on transnational cyber risk and intelligence and has operated in nearly seventy countries around the world. In addition, Marc founded the Future Crimes Institute to inspire and educate others on the security and risk implications of newly emerging technologies. Marc also serves as the Global Security Advisor and Chair for Policy and Law at Silicon Valley’s Singularity University, a NASA and Google sponsored educational venture dedicated to using advanced science and technology to address humanity’s grand challenges. Marc’s current areas of research include the security implications of exponential technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, the social data revolution, synthetic biology, virtual worlds, genomics, ubiquitous computing and location-based services. Since 1999, Marc has worked extensively with INTERPOL, the International Criminal Police Organization, headquartered in Lyon, France where he continues to serve as a Senior Advisor to the organization’s Steering Committee on Information Technology Crime. In that capacity, Marc has trained police forces throughout the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America and Asia and has chaired numerous INTERPOL expert groups on next generation security threats....
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Creator of Second Life and A lifelong entrepreneur, in 1995, Philip Rosedale created an innovative Internet video conferencing product (called “FreeVue”), which was later acquired by RealNetworks where (in 1996) he went on to become Vice President and CTO. In 1999, Rosedale left RealNetworks and founded Linden Lab. There he led the creation of a virtual civilization called Second Life, fulfilling his lifelong dream of an open-ended, Internet-connected virtual world. In 2010, he co-founded LoveMachine (www.lovemachineinc.com) as a lab to build several new ideas at the edge of work, computing, commerce, and intelligence. Out of this work, grew Worklist, a global community of web developers, and Coffee & Power. In November, 2011, Rosedale released Coffee & Power version 1.0, a site that enabled people to connect for small jobs and services using a free-market system and distributed work principles. He is currently working on C&P 2.0, which includes a mobile application to extend and expand your work identity online....
Renowned game creator of The Sims, SimCity and Spore, widely acknowledged for creating the simulation video game genre, unveiled the highly anticipated SporeTM in September 2008. Fans eagerly embraced the creation tools in Spore and have created over 100 Million pieces of user-created content, as of Summer 2009. Spore has been distinguished with such honors as Popular Science’s “Best of What’s New Award,” Popular Mechanics’s “Breakthrough Award,” PC Magazine’s “Technical Excellence Award,” Time Magazine’s “50 Best Inventions of 2008,” and the Jim Henson Technology Honor. A true gaming industry legend as a result of his pioneering contributions to video games, Wright has been the recipient of several prestigious awards and honors. Rolling Stone named Will Wright “One of the 100 People who are Changing America,” in March 2009, placing him among artists, leaders, scientists, and policymakers who are “fighting every day to show us what is possible.” IN 2008, Will received the first-ever Gamer God Award at the Spike Video Game Awards as a testament to his revolutionary work....
Known as the “prophet of Augmented Reality”, Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor, and critic, was born in 1954. Best known for his ten science fiction novels, he also writes short stories, book reviews, design criticism, opinion columns, and introductions for books ranging from Ernst Juenger to Jules Verne. His nonfiction works include THE HACKER CRACKDOWN: LAW AND DISORDER ON THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER (1992), TOMORROW NOW: ENVISIONING THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS (2003), and SHAPING THINGS (2005). He is a contributing editor of WIRED magazine and writes a Wired.com weblog. During 2005, he was the “Visionary in Residence” at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. In 2008 he was the Guest Curator for the Share Festival of Digital Art and Culture in Torino, Italy, and the Visionary in Residence at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. He has appeared in ABC’s Nightline, BBC’s The Late Show, CBC’s Morningside, on MTV and TechTV, and in Time, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Fortune, Nature, I.D., Metropolis, Technology Review, Der Spiegel, La Repubblica, and many other venues....
Meron is the Founder and CEO of Meta-View. In 2005 I fell in love with startup culture. At that time I was working on one of the first mobile QR code technologies. Our group pioneered QR use in every day scenarios, and I became fascinated in all things where tech intersects with the way people perceive and interact with their surroundings. To that end, I have studied Computer Science (focusing on Augmented Reality) and Neuroscience (because we all know where AR ends up) at Columbia University. Since I started the company, we have collaborated with Epson and a number of other companies to create the world’s first consumer device that was built from the ground up for AR. During the next few years we hope to open the field of Augmented Reality to mainstream, and to that end, we are running a crowdsourcing campaign soon. Stay tuned via our website meta-view.com …...
Brian Haberlin is a comic book artist, writer, editor and producer. He began his career in comics working at Top Cow Productions, where he co-created the Witchblade franchise, which has since expanded to include multiple spin-offs, a live action television series, an anime, and an upcoming film. He founded Haberlin Studios in 1995, producing commercial illustrations and digital coloring for Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Image Comics. He then co-founded Avalon Studios, which published many successful fantasy and sci-fi titles, including Stone, Aria, Area 52, and M-Rex. Haberlin also served for two years as Editor in Chief of Todd McFarlane Productions and penciled and inked its flagship title, Spawn. His work is in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian Museum....
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