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The Augmented Reality Event 2011 will feature industry luminaries: Bruce Sterling, Vernor Vinge, Will Wright, Jaron Lanier, Blaise Aguera y Arcas.

ARE 2011 will include 113(!) speakers from 82 AR Companies which will deliver 30 hours of talks across 3 tracks: business, technology & programming, and production & design.

It will feature special activities such as a Startup Launch pad, an ARt Gala with live performances and displays by top AR artists, and the “Auggies” – best AR demo competition. The exhibition area will be open throughout the 2 days of the event and will include the latest product demos by the leading AR companies, as well as a career fair to help grow the fledging industry.

A press conference will kick start the event, as a vehicle for AR companies to launch new products and services. The event wrap up will feature Marco Tempest with a live AR Magic show.

The Exhibition area (in Hall D) will be open throughout the event from 10am to 4pm. On Tuesday, May 17th, it will also be open during the ARt Gala between 5:00 – 6:30 pm.

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Day One – Tuesday 17-May-2011

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8:15-9:00 am

ARE 2011 Press Conference  Moderated by Ryan Wagner

Great America XK – First Floor

Opportunity for AR companies to announce new products with major tech media

9:00-9:45 am

Keynote: Bruce Sterling

Main Theater

10:00-11:00 am

AR Market: Today and Tomorrow

Business Track  (Great America J – First Floor)

Gary Hayes (MUVEDesign)- New AR Business Models

Laurel Papworth (Community Crew) – Building Mobile AR Social Communities for Business

AR Technologies – State of the Art

Technology Track  (Great America 1-2 – Second Floor)

 

Thomas Alt (CEO, Metaio) – History, present and future of AR tech.

Mark Billinghurst (HIT Lab NZ) – Overview of AR Authoring Tools

Roy Ashok (Qualcomm) – Developing AR Apps with QCAR

AR and Entertainment

Production Track  (Great America K – First Floor)

Brian Selzer (Ogmento) – Changing the way we play

Tony Howlett (Ingz) – Starships and Aliens Live in AR Space: Traveller AR

Josh Shabtai (Vertigore) – Star Wars: Falcon Gunner

11:30-12:30 pm

Build your AR Startup

Business Track  (Great America J – First Floor)

Cole Van Nice (Chart Venture Partners) – Through the Looking Glass: A Venture Capitalist’s Perspective on Building an AR Start-up from the Inside

Ben Esplin (Pillsbury Law) – Legal advice for AR startups

Augmented Reality Mobile Platforms

Technology Track  (Great America 1-2 – Second Floor)

 

Martin Lechner (Mobilizy) – Developing with the Wikitude World Browser

Ben Blachnitzsky (Metaio) – Developing Junaio social AR browser

Gene Becker (Layar) – Developing AR Layers

Dave Murphy (Nokia) – Mirror Worlds and Mixed Realities

AR in Marketing and Advertising

Production Track  (Great America K – First Floor)

 

Chas Mastin (whistlebox) – AR for Brands

Charles Woodward (VTT) – Cross-Media AR Applications: Case Dibidogs

Shailesh Rao (GoldRun) – Extending the Mobile AR Footprint

Teri Schindler (EVP, Davis Brand Capital) – Using AR as an Interactive Medium

12:30-1:30pm

AR Exhibits and Lunch (Hall D)

1:30-2:30 pm

Mission Critical AR

Business Track  (Great America J – First Floor)

Joseph Rampolla (Parkridge Police) – The Law Enforcement Perspective of AR

Joseph Juhnke (CEO Tanagram) – AR Display for Firefighters

Chuck Benton (TSI) – Enhancing Situational Awareness in the Military

Mark Zaller (AerialFireTech) – AR for Aerial Firefighters

New Approaches in Mobile AR

Technology Track  (Great America 1-2 – Second Floor)

Vikas Reddy (Occipital)- Augmenting panoramas in realtime

Lukas Gruber (Graz) – Panorama image-based AR browser

P. Mark Anderson (Spot Metrix) – 3DAR: New tools for iOS AR

Unlocking Content with AR

Production Track  (Great America K – First Floor)

Gene Becker (Layar) – Bringing the Past to life

Marc Rene Gardeya (Hoppala) – Geobased AR Content Management in the Cloud

Rob Manson (MOB) – streetARt – how to get tens of thousands of users in 160
countries in 2 weeks

Brian Mullins (CEO, Daqri) – How content publishing is going to change the AR industry

3:00-4:00 pm

AR for eCommerce

Business Track  (Great America J – First Floor)

Matt Szymczyk (CEO,Zugara)

Marc Hayem (Previznet)

Elena Silenok (Founder, Clothia)

Andrea Carignano (CEO, Seac02) – e²-commerce, the experiential e-commerce: Moving from geeks-AR towards multichannel business applications

Ambient Discovery

Technology Track  (Great America 1-2 – Second Floor)

Tish Shute (UgoTrade) – Changing the Rules of the Game:  Mobile Area Networks & Social Augmented Experiences

Michal Avny – Real Time Search In The Time Of Augmented Reality

Aaron Parecki (GeoLoqi)

Ben Cerveny (Bloom/VURB) – Ambient Information Displays

AR in ART

Production Track  (Great America K – First Floor)

Amir Baradaran (artist)  – FutARism: The Possibilities of AR in Art Making

Ina Centaur (mShakespeare) – ClayAR

James Alliban – Shaping the Future

Sander Veenhof – AR For Artists

4:10-5:10 pm (***Note the short break)

Game Changers in AR

Business Track  (Great America J – First Floor)

Bruno Uzzan (CEO, Total Immersion) – Game Changers in AR

Maarten Lens-FitzGerald (Co-Founder Layar)

Trak Lord (Vitamin AR) – Hyperlocal Hitchhikers: Where is Mobile AR headed?

Emerging Mobile Hardware for AR

Technology Track  (Great America 1-2 – Second Floor)

Noah Zerkin (Integrated Realities)- Hands-on AR: Wearable input devices from Open Hardware

Leon Farasati (Qualcomm) – Optimizing on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Mobile Dev Platform

Bernard Fraenkel, (CTO, Total Immersion) Future of Tablet AR

AR for Experiential Learning

Production Track  (Great America K – First Floor)

Christopher Stapleton (Simiosys) – Telling a Big Story in a Small Space.

Rob Rothfarb (Exploratorium) – Recomposing Man Ray and Magritte

Steve Snyder (Franklin Institute)

Jeremy Roberts (PBS KIDS Interactive)

5:10-6:30 pm

Exhibition Hall D

 

Reception, Drinks and Art Gala

Art works and live performances by artists and curators: Helen Papagiannis, James Alliban, Amir Baradaran, Ina Centaur, Sander Veenhof, Rob Rothfarb (Exploratorium), Noah Zerkin, Christopher Manzione, Bob Ketner (The Tech Museum)

6:30-8:30 pm

Main Theater

 

“The Auggies” – a demo-jam session

Teams compete for the coolest 4 min. AR demo. An expert panel: Bruce Sterling, Will Wright, Vernor Vinge, And Jaron Lanier comment on demos American Idol-style. Winners determined by the audience and receive the prestigious “Auggies Award.”

Demos by: Previznet, Georgia Tech, Mobilizy, Whistlebox, Ogmento, Metaio, Vertigore, Occipital, MVS Labs, Joinpad, Mob Labs, Churchill, Traveller AR, Dokobots*

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Day Two – Wednesday 18-May-2011

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9:00-10:00 am

Main Theater

Keynotes:

Jaron Lanier

Blaise Aguera y Arcas (Microsoft) - Bing Maps and Augmented Reality

Frank Cooper (Chief Consumer Engagement, PepsiCo) – AR For Customer Engagement (Cancelled)

10:20-11:00 am

Using AR to Change the World

Business Track  (Great America J – First Floor)

Pamela Rutledge, Garry Hare, Jerri Lynn Hogg (The Media Psychology Research Center)- Using AR to Change the World

Jennifer Huang and Marlo McKenzie – Sacred Land Film Project

Lessons in AR Webcams and Magic Mirrors

Technology Track  (Great America 1-2 – Second Floor)

Blake Callens (Zugara) – AR+UX – Best Practices for AR Usability

Alpay Kasal (Lit Studios) – Augmented Experiences from the trenches

Scott Wellwood, (VP, Total Immersion) – AR in eCommerce apps

AR and Story Telling

Production Track  (Great America K – First Floor)

Adriano Farano (OWNI) – AR and Story telling

Helen Papagiannis (Artist) – Creating compelling content with Story telling in AR

Paige Saez (Artist)

11:30-12:30 pm

Startup Launch Pad

Business Track  (Great America J – First Floor)

Hosted by Ina Fried (All Things Digital)

Judging panel with:

Jay Wright (Qualcomm), Mark Subotnick (Intel), DiAnn Eisnor (Waze)

5 AR startups present business models and products and compete for: Best ARE Startup award.

Pitching AR startups: Mobilizy, Previznet, Innovega, Neogence, Gravity Jack

Visual Intelligence

Technology Track  (Great America 1-2 – Second Floor)

Shailesh Nalawad (Google Goggles) – AR Vector: Solving AR Challenges

Dr. Alex Kilpatrick (TIS) – cloud-based platform for biometric matching

Laurent Gil (CEO, Viewdle) – Face Recognition

John DeWeese and Otavio Good (Quest Visual) – Word Lens

Hands-Free AR

Production Track  (Great America K – First Floor)

Chris Arkenberg – A Roadmap to Hand’s-Free Augmented Reality

Jason Wilson – Remote Hearing

Anselm Hook (Parc) – Augmented Cognition

12:30-1:30pm

AR Exhibits and Lunch (Hall D)

1:30-2:30 pm

The Future of AR Glasses

Business Track  (Great America J – First Floor)

Paul Travers – CEO, Vuzix

Douglas Magyari – CEO, Immersion Intl.

Stephen Willey – CEO Innovega

AR Standards And Open Source

Technology Track  (Great America 1-2 – Second Floor)

Blair MacIntyre and Alex Hill (GA Tech) – Argon standard-based AR browser

Damon Hernandez (Web3D) – Standards for Mixed Reality

Avi Bar-Zeev (Principal at Microsoft) – Open web infrastructure for read/write spatial data for AR

Mark Billinghurst and Philip Lamp (CTO, Artoolworks) – Building and open source AR Business

User Experience in AR

Production Track  (Great America K – First Floor)

Tish Shute (UgoTrade)

Ivan Franco (YDreams)

Brendan Scully (Metaio)  – AR Feng Shui

Mike Kuniavksy (ThingM)

3:00-4:00 pm

UI / UX for AR

Business Track  (Great America J – First Floor)

Sally Applin – AR and Social and Sensors, Oh My!

Jon Cabiria (CEO, Teksylos) – AR and the Human Factor: Designing for the Mind

Amber Case (GeoLoqi) – Non-Visual AR

Clark Dodsworth (Osage) –  Context Is King: AI, Salience, and the Constant Next Scenario

AR Solutions at Work

Technology Track  (Great America 1-2 – Second Floor)

Steven Feiner (Columbia Uni.) – Augmented Reality for Maintenance and Repair

DiAnn Eisnor (Waze) – AR In cars

Greg Howes (Idea Builder Homes) – AR in Buildings

Mauro Rubin (Joinpad) - Augmented XP for transmission system maintenance

Developing AR Games

Production Track  (Great America K – First Floor)

Blair MacIntyre (GA Tech)- Developing AR apps and games

Paulius Liekis (Paparazzi game)- Post Mortem: AR development with Unity

Morgan Jaffit (Defiant)- Traditional game dev. in AR, challenges and triumphs.

Oriel Bergig (Ogmento) – Developing Commercial AR games for the masses

4:15-5:00 pm

Big Finale

Main Theater

 

Marco Tempest – Live Magic AR Performance

Event Wrap up – Fireside Chat with Bruce Sterling and Vernor Vinge

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