Hardware specialist that craves evaluating and realizing disruptive technologies. Track record of initiating and managing multidisciplinary activities involving conceptual design, research and development, engineering, production, and technical marketing. From chip level (Intel, Tadiran & GEC) to large format batteries and electric vehicles (Arotech Corp. & ETV Motors) Company: Woojer http://woojer.com Related Products:...
Connell Gauld is co-founder and Platform Director of Zappar. Connell graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Masters in Engineering (Distinction). His Masters project focused on the description and rendering of interactive 3D augmented reality scenes. During this time Connell built the beginnings of the portable runtime framework that powers Zappar experiences to this day. He also ported the framework to its first mobile platform – Android. Connell co-founded Extra Reality Ltd in 2010 with Dr Taylor. At Zappar, Connell leads the Platform team, overseeing many of the technical aspects of the business including app development, server infrastructure, statistics and analytics collection and analysis, and in-house and consumer tooling. He and his team have leveraged Zappar’s underlying technologies to build a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for external clients to provision their own Zapcodes and AR experiences in an automated manner. The server infrastructure that powers Zappar’s app and AR experiences was designed by Connell to be secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable. The system has scaled seamlessly, having served experiences to tens of millions of consumers in over 50 countries across the world. Company: Zappar http://zappar.com Related Products:...
Philipp Wartenberg received his diploma in electrical engineering from TU Dresden in 2010. Even during his studies he joined the analog & mixed-signal IC design group, where he was first involved in an OLED-microdisplay IC design. After graduation he becomes a research fellow at TU Dresden before returning to Fraunhofer IC design team at the beginning of 2011. Since than he is managing several public as well as private funded IC design projects. Company: Fraunhofer FEP http://www.fep.fraunhofer.de/ Related Products:...
Meg Athavale (AKA Rabbit) spent her childhood in northern Canada running through forests, fishing, swimming, and climbing trees. She runs three successful interactive design companies, and has invented connected toys and interactive experiences for children all over the world. She nerds out on augmented and virtual reality, and has presented her vision of the future at SXSW, TEDx, and Ignite. She is a contributing writer for O’Reilly Radar and is currently working on a report about how technology is changing the nature of play. Company: Lumo Play, Po-motion and PO-MO Inc. http://megrabbit.com Related Products:...