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Tim Chang

Tim Chang

Tim is a proven venture investor and experienced global executive, known for his thought leadership in Gamification, Quantified Self, and Behavioral/Social Science-led Design. He has been named to the Forbes Midas List of Top 100 Tech Investors, as one of CNET’s 12 Most Influential Tech Investors and as a Power Player West, Digital Media and Mobile Power Player by Always On. Tim invests in the mobile, social, adtech, and health 2.0 themes. Tim’s investments include 3D Robotics, an Open Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) Platform, OUYA, a video game console powered by Android, Moat, a brand analytics SaaS platform, HealthTap, an interactive health network that virtualizes the doctor-patient experience, and Fitmob, mobile powered neighborhood fitness communities. He is also involved in Mayfield investments in Lyft, a collaborative ridesharing service, and Tagged, a social discovery network. His notable investments include Basis, a wrist-based health tracker and online personal dashboard. Tim’s prior investments include Badgeville (gamifi­cation as a SaaS platform) and Lumos Labs (brain wellness games). Some of Tim’s notable investments in the U.S. include early leaders in mobile and social gaming ngmoco (acquired by DeNA) and Playdom (acquired by Disney), as well as Iridigm Display Corporation (acquired by Qualcomm). Some of Tim’s notable in­vestments in China include AdChina (leading ad-network) and PCH International (leading supply-chain management company). His other China investments include All Reach Media, Lashou, and Brite Semiconductor. Tim was also involved with investments in Placeware (acquired by Microsoft), NextG Networks (acquired by a private equity syndicate), Borqs, deCarta, and Socialvibe. Prior to joining Mayfield Fund, Tim spent five years as a Partner at Norwest Ven­ture Partners. While at Norwest, he invested in the mobile, gaming and digital media sectors and established their investment practice in China and Asia Pacific. Prior to Norwest, Tim worked for Gabriel Venture Partners where he led their wireless and Asia Pacific practice. Tim began his career in venture capital in 1999 during his time at Stanford Business School as part of the founding team of CTR Ventures, a venture accelerator in Tokyo focused on seed and early-stage mobile consumer applications for the Japanese market. Tim’s operational experience includes working in Japan for five-years as a Product Manager for Gateway Inc., where he launched and held P&L responsibility for enterprise products and as a trilingual Engineer for General Motors, where he led project teams in China, Korea, and Japan. Currently, Tim serves on the advisory boards of the Verizon 4G Venture Forum, Sprint Venture Advisory Board, Gamestop Corporation, and Yoshimoto Kogyo. Tim also serves on the non-profit boards of Little Kids Rock (providing instruments and modern band programs for under-privileged youth) and CAPE (Coalition for Asian Pacifics in Entertainment). Tim holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and an MS in Electrical Engineering/System Engineering and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan....

Josh Waddell

Josh Waddell

SAP, Vice President Solution Management and Innovation for SAP’s mobile applications and mobile platforms. In this global role, he leads the widely-acclaimed Mobile Innovation Center, working with SAP customers, partners, and prospects to test and prove out new mobile innovations in the market, and then implement these in standard SAP mobile solutions. Josh and his team work across SAP’s worldwide technology and mobile solution portfolio, helping SAP customers and partners to become better-run mobile enterprises. Josh joined SAP in 2003, as a mobile technology consultant, and has since held key positions with SAP in pre-sales, operations, and mobile EcoSystem and Channels. During his tenure, Josh established SAP’s first three co-innovation partnerships with BlackBerry, Sybase, and Syclo. Prior to joining SAP, Josh worked for several mobile start-ups, where he led an impressive series of successful product launches, acquisitions, and integrations....

Kopin

Kopin

Kopin is a leading developer and provider of technologies and solutions that enhance the visual, verbal, audio, and head-gesture command capabilities of wearable headset products. Innovation is in our DNA. We are enabling a new tomorrow in which computing technology becomes a seamless extension of the human experience. Kopin’s technologies and solutions are available as components providing individual capabilities or as reference systems providing integrated solutions. For nearly three decades, Kopin’s scientists and engineers have created innovative technologies that have enhanced the way people see, hear, and communicate. Kopin has a long history of developing technologies required for wearable computing headsets for the military, consumers, or industry. Kopin has contributed to the development of head-mounted displays for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, created the Golden-i, a wearable headset reference design for industry, and collaborated on many wearable products with a range of companies including Vuzix, Motorola Solutions and Recon Instruments. Kopin has developed and commercialized game-changing technologies such as heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBT) which power billions of cellphones, and microdisplays which have brought vivid images to more than 30 million consumer electronics and military night vision devices. Today, Kopin is focused on helping its customers develop wearable headset systems more rapidly. Kopin’s technology portfolio of ultra-small displays, innovative optics, speech enhancement technology, head-gesture command, low-power ASICs, packaging, and system reference designs enable customers to accelerate the development of products for consumers, industry, and the military. Kopin has more than 200 global patents and patents pending in these areas....

Jeff Jacobsen

Jeff Jacobsen

Sr. Advisor to CEO & Golden-i Headset Program Mgr. for Kopin Corporation – world’s leading supplier of Micro Displays, Optical Modules and full integrated wireless computing headsets. Mr. Jacobsen is the visionary leading technology team behind Kopin’s Golden-i “hands-Free” Computing & Communications Headset development. Mr. Jacobsen assembled and leads the team responsible for discovering, identifying, refining, integrating and patenting the numerous technologies incorporated in the Golden-i headset solution. The Golden-I Team is responsible for over 100 US fundamental patents and has over 100 patent applications and disclosures pending. 1998 to 2003, Mr. Jacobsen founded Alien Technology Corporation a leader in low cost RFID tag development and IC assembly. A President & CEO of Alien, Mr. Jacobsen was an active leader and founding member of the MIT Auto ID Center Consortium, now called EPC Global. Mr. Jacobsen helped lead the global adoption of the Electronic Product Code (EPC), the fastest growing RFID supply chain and logistics standard. In December 2002 Mr. Jacobsen completed the world’s largest RFID tag contract with The Gillette Company for 500 million RFID simulating broad global support for EPC. Prior to Alien Technology, Mr. Jacobsen has been involved in three high tech start-up companies Kopin Corporation, ZyMos Corporation and ILSI; all three companies went public through an initial public offering on NASDAQ....

Manuel Gutierrez-Novelo

Manuel Gutierrez-Novelo

AlterSpaceAVR CEO, Founder, Chief Scientist, and Master Architect AILEENN CEO, Chief Scientist and Master A.I. and Neural Network Architect TDVision CEO, CTO, Founder and President AngelInventum Founder and President AlterSpace is the convergence point for the internet of things, Augmented Reality and media of any kind within one single Interactive and Immersive Environment. Powered by AILEENN’s Artificial Intelligence Logical Electronic Emulation Neural Network, the AlterSpace provides the ultimate tool for work, education, training, medical, military, game and entertainment while providing Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence with a human-like interaction. Manuel R. Gutierrez Novelo is the AlterSpace environment architect, AILEENN’s master architect and TDVision’s CEO & Founder. As a serial Inventor and Entrepreneur, he founded TDVision in 2003 providing an entire solution for the full HD 3D to the home ecosystem in 2006, now ISO MVC standardized for Blu-ray 3D and internationally awarded with a Lumiere 2013 for his contributions to the 3D industry. In 2012, Manuel developed AILEENN, a new infrastructure for multidimensional polymorphic, self adaptive and self learning Neural Network for Artificial Intelligence pattern analysis capable to extract abstract patterns from any type of data as a result of years of GPU/CPU multithreaded parallel processing experience. In 2014, Manuel launched the AlterSpaceAVR, a spinoff of TDVision providing a parallel digital universe where the internet of things, 3D Datasets, media, social, work, education and entertainment converge under one single interactive environment powered by AILEENN’s brain and providing interfaces for Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, control, analysis and media interaction. Manuel R. Gutierrez Novelo holds a BSEE degree with emphasis on Digital Systems and Digital Control, more than 30 patents issued world wide, former contributor to many industry standards, inventor, entrepreneur, mastering multiple programming languages and he is the founder and AILEENN, AlterSpace and TDVision initiatives architect of all the hardware, firmware and software subsystems....

Finalists in Best Startup Competition Announced. Voting for Auggies is Open!

Finalists in Best Startup Competition Announced. Voting for Auggies is Open!

Today, the five finalists for the coveted Auggie Award for Best Startup were announced. The award recognizes the most innovative and exciting startup in the fields of Augmented Reality, Wearable Tech, or Internet of Things. The Startup Launchpad Session will be moderated by AWE Partner Ubergizmo‘s founder Eliane Fiolet on May 29th at 1:30-2:30 pm. The finalists are: Jean-Michel Fournier (CEO, Bitgym). Bitgym transform cardio-exercise into an exciting & addictive experience. Dima Kislovskiy (CEO, Augary)  Augary delivers in-car software solutions which plug directly into smartphone apps and in-vehicle systems. Anush Elangovan (CEO, Nod Labs) – Nod Labs, believes technology should be unobtrusive and magical.  Ryan Rogowski (CEO, Waygo). Waygo instantly translates Chinese and Japanese by just pointing your phone camera at the text – no Internet required. George Bolanos (CEO, InsideMaps). Insidemaps is the world’s first mobile APP that allows anyone to easily create a 3D model and floor plan of their home The startup launchpad, now in its 5th year, gives five AR/wearable startups five minutes each to pitch their company and product in front a judging panel that consists of VCs and Entrepreneurs. The panel asks questions, comments and eventually selects the winner based on its likelihood for success (1:30-2:30 pm on May 29). The winner will be awarded an Auggie Award during the wrap up ceremony (4-5 pm on May 29th). Last year’s winner was Robert Wang, CEO, of 3GEARS SYSTEMS. The Auggie Award™ Competition recognizes the best teams who develop technology and solutions that make the world more interactive and our life and work more engaging, productive, and fun. Consistent with AugmentedReality.org’s mission to educate, connect, and hatch new initiatives in the augmented world, and AugmentedReality.org’s global goal to inspire adoption towards the goal of 1 billion active AR users by 2020, AugmentedReality.org is co-sponsoring this competition, offering award trophies and cash prizes. In addition to the best startup competition and Best Wearable Hack (at the AWE Hackathon – sign up now!), Auggie Awards will be handed out this year in 5 major categories and 3 subcategories to a total of 10 award trophies: 1) Best Enterprise Solution 2) Best Software – sub-category: Mobile or Wearable app 3) Best Software – sub-category: Game 4) Best Software – sub-category: Campaign, and City Visions 5) Best Tools for Developers Including SDK, or Creation Tool 6) Best Hardware – sub category: Eyewear 7) Best Hardware – sub category: Wearable, other (sensor, chip, robotics) 8) Best Film including design concept and documentary Public voting for the Auggie Awards will take place between May 1st – 23rd. Winners will be announced during the Auggie Awards Ceremony on May 28th, 2014. To vote, go to augmentedworldexpo.com/auggies/, select one category at a time and vote for your favorite nomination. Here are last year’s winners: http://augmentedworldexpo.com/past-auggie-award-winners/....

Jonathan Martin

Jonathan Martin

Jonathan Martin is an Industrial Augmented Reality Engineer in the Technology Development Division at Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS). A Mechanical Engineer by education, Jonathan has been with NNS for 5 years and has contributed to the design, analysis and construction of many NNS products including Submarines, Aircraft Carriers, and Commercial Nuclear. He actively pursues practical applications of Augmented Reality in heavy manufacturing and has done so successfully for a number of years....

NexRef

NexRef

Nexref Technologies, LLC is a multidisciplinary team of entrepreneurs, with deep roots in technology, marketing and entertainment.  The company focuses on our Mobile Engagement Platform that provides dynamic augmented reality content and real time analytics with an elegant simplicity.  This state of the art technology, better known as XR (Next Generation Reference Marker), is a turn-key advertising and marketing platform based on our patent pending technology that provides a multitude of digital marketing opportunities for bridging offline and online projects.  Nexref Technologies, LLC has global distribution and strategic partners in place to allow for rapid campaign expansion with our forward thinking creative and management team. www.nexref.com...

Jean-Michel Fournier

Jean-Michel Fournier

Jean-Michel Fournier is CEO & Co-Founder of BitGym! A revolutionary fitness & wellness digital platform. Passionate about fitness & wellness, Jean-Michel helps people to focus on a healthier life style starting with exercising. Prior to BitGym!, Jean-Michel was the COO of Janalent – A premier technology solutions provider and several time winner of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner of the Year Award. He was also Senior Vice President for UnitedHealth Group/Optum – leading Strategic technology Alliances to improve people life. Jean-Michel is an advisor of several start-ups in the Silicon Valley, California and France. He is also an active member of the Harvard Angels group. Born in France, Jean-Michel holds an Electronic Engineering degree from France, and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School....

GetVu

GetVu

GetVu, is a Leap-AXLR8R startup from India based at San Francisco. We provide new generation augmented reality experience through headset and series of plugins for android based AR SDK’s. We are the first to bring Leap Motion to augmented reality and change the way people interact with AR applications. Era of touch input is over, with the help of Leap motion, people can interact with AR application in most natural way possible using hands. We are mainly focused on Indoor AR applications and the possibilities are endless. Using GetVu technologies, developers can create a world of promising AR applications and merge the digital world and real world in whole new way. http://www.getvuar.com Verticals All Verticals Platforms Mobile, Eyewear, Gesture Device Products GetVu Headset...

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