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Scott O’Brien

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

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

Patrick O’Shaughnessey

AWE CTO and Tutorials...

Helen Papagiannis

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

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...

Fabrizio Polo

Fabrizio Polo

Computer Vision Engineer, Orbotix, Inc. After a decade in pure mathematics, Fabrizio has joined Orbotix in the startup world, engineering new computer vision algorithms to back cutting edge augmented reality games. Originally a firmware team member, Fabrizio still contributes heavily to the robotic control system, the on-robot sensor fusion algorithms and factory calibration systems. A compulsive problem solver with a programming problem, Fabrizio rarely sees the light of day. On those rare occasions when he’s not working on his hobby language project you will find him playing disc golf....

Jeffrey Powers

Jeffrey Powers

Jeff Powers is co-founder and CEO of Occipital, a Boulder and San Francisco based startup company focused on mobile computer vision. With co-founder Vikas Reddy, Jeff led the development of RedLaser, a popular barcode-scanning application that was eventually acquired by eBay in June 2010. Remaining independent, Occipital launched 360 Panorama later, which has since been the best-selling panorama capture application on iOS. Jeff is currently focused on carefully expanding the Occipital team, and working on new applications that will begin to make the real world computationally interactive. Jeff is also an angel investor in tech startups, including the mobile robotics company Orbotix and the seed-stage accelerator TechStars Boulder....

Joseph Rampolla

Joseph Rampolla

AWE.tv Anchor...

Chris Rojas

Chris Rojas

Chris Rojas has worked at SparkFun Electronics, SuperTouch and currently for Intel’s Perceptual Computing Lab for the Advanced Technologies group. Chris builds prototypes that show off new ways of interacting with technology. His prototypes often involve mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, writing computer vision algorithms and creating 3d environments and interfaces to show off the technology....

Hafez Rouzati

Hafez Rouzati

Hafez Rouzati is a Graduate Researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Augmented Environments Lab where he studies under AR pioneer Blair MacIntyre. He is also the Architect and Lead Developer of the Argon AR Web Browser (http://argon.gatech.edu). Hafez’s research interests include Augmented Reality, Ubiquitous Computing, Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction....

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