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Susan Brazer

Susan Brazer

SUSAN BRAZER is the CEO of LionShare Media, which architects Augmented Reality and Immersive Mobile Media apps.  Susan is a global New Products and Business Development strategist in the Mobile, Media, Tech and Consumer Electronics industry. Recently, Susan was VP of Strategy and Business Development for Nokia’s smart phones and connected devices and VP Corporate Development and Product Strategy for Virgin Mobile USA, where she lead Sugar Mama mobile advertising and Stash, mobile payments services.  Prior to this, she was EVP, Business Development of Kirch Media’s venture fund for the FIFA World Cup and SVP for Viacom’s International TV service in Middle East and Africa, where managed MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, The Movie Channel, TV Land, Bloomberg and Discovery channels. Susan led the migration from analogue to digital TV in Europe at SES ASTRA and launched the DirecTV and SpectrumSaver, the 1st digital TV distribution system at Compression Labs. At Apple, Susan launched products: the 1st portable computer, the Newton, and concepted the Knowledge Navigator. Susan started her career at PepsiCo in M&A, where she conducted the acquisition of Kentucky Fried Chicken and at Philip Morris in the international treasury. Susan holds a B.A. in Economics and Architecture from Brandeis University, an MBA from Kellogg and attended London School of Economics. She is a mentor at Princeton University for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and co-founder the Northeast Corridor Smart City Initiative....

Margaret Martin

Margaret Martin

Margaret Martin, Founder and CEO of Merlin, has over 20 years of experience in leading educational and media technology companies to commercial success. Her experience includes 13 years in the Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and Portland, Oregon technology markets. Margaret founded and led several of Atlanta’s first Interactive Media companies and her early work includes development for Turner Broadcasting properties’ TBS, Cartoon Network and TBS Advertising in New York. Margaret founded IQTV, an educational technology company featured at AT&T’s Distance Learning Lab and along with Georgia Tech professors, she founded her first Georgia Tech startup whose product inFusion, an integrated media distance learning tool, is still in use today. Margaret’s extensive breakthrough technology experience paired with her ability to drive revenue has enabled Merlin to grow over the past two years with a small grant and Fortune 100 customer derived revenue.  ...

Steve Mann

Steve Mann

Legendary Wearable computing pioneer, Steve Mann, received his PhD degree from MIT in 1997, and is currently a full professor at University of Toronto where he is also the Chief Scientist of the Rotman School of Management’s CD Lab. He is the inventor of the MannGlassTM HDR welding glass, the EyeTap Digital Eye Glass, and has been recognized as “the father of the wearable computer”, the “father of wearable AR”, and founder of wearable computing as a new discipline. He has been described as a modern-day Leonardo da Vinci, and is also a sculptor, artist, and inventor of the hydraulophone, a public water feature that is a fun and playful musical instrument installed as public art around the world. He has been featured by news organizations including AP News, New York Times, LA-Times, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, WiReD, NBC, ABC, CNN, David Letterman (#6 on Letterman’s Top Ten), CBC-TV, CBS, Scientific American, Scientific American Frontiers, Discovery Channel, Byte, Reuters, New Scientist, Rolling Stone, and BBC. Thousands of articles about him have appeared worldwide in many languages. His award winning documentary cyborglog ShootingBack, and the ideas from his visionary book “CYBORG: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable Computer” (Randomhouse Doubleday, 2001) inspired a 35mm feature length motion picture film about his life, said, by P.O.V., to be Canada’s most important film of the year. Together with his students James Fung and Chris Aimone, as well as artist, scientist and intellectual Ariel Garten, Mann founded InteraXon, a Canadian company that is currently commercializing the cyborg technology developed by Mann, Fung, and Aimone. InteraXon created a large-scale public art installation open to the public as the flagship project of the Ontario Pavillion during the entire time of the Olympics from February 12-28, 2010. Mann was the inventor of, and one of the 4 people that developed the EyeBorg camera, named one of the 50 best inventions of the year by TIME. He has written more than 200 research publications, books, and patent publications, and has been the keynote speaker at more than 25 scholarly and industry symposia and conferences and has also been an invited speaker at more than 50 university Distinguished Lecture Series and colloquia. His work has been shown in numerous galleries and musems around the world, including the Smithsonian Institute, National Museum of American History, The Science Museum (Wellcome Wing, opening with Her Majesty The Queen June 2000), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA in New York), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Triennale di Milano, Austin Museum of Art, and San Francisco Art Institute. He also won first place in the Coram International Sustainable Design Award for his interactive water feature, and is the recipient of the Leonardo Award for Excellence....

ESRI

ESRI

Esri inspires and enables people to positively impact the future through a deeper, geographic understanding of the changing world around them. http://www.esri.com/arcgis...

TWNKLS

TWNKLS

TWNKLS is a full-service AR bureau that focuses on the creation, development and implementation of mobile AR applications. Our clients are represented in the cultural, retail, edutainment, marketing & branding, construction & industry sectors. http://twnkls.com/...

SAP

SAP

Gain a competitive edge using technology innovations. Learn how your business can become more competitive by leveraging the latest technologies to collaborate, decide, operate, and adapt better.   http://www.sap.com/...

Autodesk

Autodesk

Imagine. Design. Create. Autodesk is a world leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software and services.   http://www.autodesk.com/...

Keynote: Bruce Sterling

Tuesday June 4, 2013 – Tuesday June 4, 2013 Map and Directions | Register Description: Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author who is best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology which helped define the cyberpunk genre. In the last few years, Bruce has been regarded as the prophet of augmented reality, covering and critiquing the emerging field and has headlined previous ARE events. Register...

Andrew McPhee

Andrew McPhee

Andrew McPhee is CEO and co-founder of Obvious Engineering, a computer vision platform and IP company working to add a digital dimension to the physical world, using mainstream mobile devices. He sees digital content that is responsive to physical objects and space as a natural evolution of how we live our lives in the digital age, bridging the online/offline gap. Having started his first company at age 20, Andrew is a user experience fanatic who worked in visual effects for film before moving into interface, interaction and application design. Andrew has previously grown Harmonypark, a successful technology R&D, prototyping and incubation company, helping to create and launch successful products and businesses over the past seven years before co-founding Obvious Engineering....

University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Illinois at Chicago

The largest university in the Chicago area, UIC has 27,580 students, 15 colleges-including the nation’s largest medical school-and annual research expenditures exceeding $335 million. UIC operates the state’s major public medical center and serves as the principal educator of Illinois’ physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses and other health-care professionals. Check out the Spider Sense Exhibit. http://www.evl.uic.edu/...

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