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Gaia Dempsey

Gaia Dempsey

Co-Founder and VP, Marketing, DAQRI Gaia Dempsey has been a creative force at DAQRI since the beginning, bringing her unique vision and imprint to every major DAQRI project ranging from successful educational initiative Elements 4D, to industrial augmented reality applications for Tier 1 defense contractors. Unorthodox in her approach to marketing thanks to an entrepreneurial background, she is passionate about bringing new products to market and creating win-win scenarios for partners, customers, and investors. In addition to leading DAQRI’s Marketing function, Gaia manages education and art-related partnerships. Prior to DAQRI, Gaia began her startup career at Idealab where she brought her social media expertise to the first startup incubator, then went on to co-found interactive and digital marketing firm Demeter Interactive. Gaia studied Comparative Literature and Urban Design at New York University....

Dan Eisenhardt

Dan Eisenhardt

Dan Eisenhardt, CEO of Recon Instruments, is recognised for bringing the first consumer Heads-up Display technology to the market. In so doing, he turned a technology, once only used by the military, into a fashionable, affordable solution for sports use. Recon Instruments has been showered with some of the world’s most coveted awards and accolades including CES Best of Innovation for Engineering and Design, an Edison Award, Innovation World Cup and a Distree EMEA Award. Dan’s passion for sport coupled with his background in engineering led him to co-found Recon Instruments with the mission to provide customizable, real-time information to athletes of all levels direct-to-eye in a unobtrusive way. With distribution that includes being sold in Apple stores worldwide, and partnerships with some of the best eyewear brands in the world, such as Oakley, Eisenhardt has kept Recon Instruments at the frontier of this technology and has been pivotal in evolving and growing the Heads-up Display category....

Lauren Elliott

Lauren Elliott

Best selling Author of 23 original computer software titles with over 30 million copies of work in circulation – including the Where in the World is Carmen SanDeigo software series. Over 25 years experience in creative direction, management and development. Winner of over 50 awards in originality and lifetime sales categories. Founder and Creative Director of software development/ internet development / and book publishing companies. Founder of SeePort – Cloud based Social Videophone company Graduate of San Francisco’s Founder’s Institute 2009 Founder of SaveThisPlace.com – geoloco game and mobile application – raising money for good causes. Founder and CEO of PNN – Personal News Network, and Saysher.com Web based publishing platform and search engines for woman. Lauren is currently a Creative something or other… at Stupid Fun Club...

Jacob Ervin

Jacob Ervin

Jacob Ervin is an application developer for metaio Inc. in San Francisco. Prior to joining metaio, Jacob worked with Augmented Reality everywhere from research laboratories (HIT Lab, New Zealand) and civil defense contractors (Roam 3) to international symposiums (ISMAR 2009 Webmaster) and world recognized art exhibits....

Steven Feiner

Steven Feiner

Steven Feiner is Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, where he directs the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab, and co-directs the Columbia Vision and Graphics Center. He and his lab have been doing augmented reality research for over 20 years, creating the first outdoor mobile augmented reality system using a see-through display in 1996, and pioneering experimental applications of augmented reality to fields such as tourism, journalism, maintenance, and construction. Prof. Feiner is coauthor of the well-known textbook Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, received an ONR Young Investigator Award, and was elected to the CHI Academy. Together with his students, he has won the ACM UIST 2010 Lasting Impact Award for their early work on supporting 2D windows in augmented reality, and best paper awards at ACM UIST, ACM CHI, ACM VRST, and IEEE ISMAR....

Richard Ferraro

Richard Ferraro

Richard Ferraro is Chief Marketing Officer at Catchoom, the leading standard for image recognition worldwide now also offering the easiest-to-use augmented reality toolkit, CraftAR. Richard has many years of experience in mobile app development as well as startup experience in location-based services and social networks. His career in mobile started at the GSMA where he was Mobile Programs Director. Richard is a keen blogger, holds an MBA from EADA Business School in Barcelona and is a member of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council His book, Location-Aware Applications, was published by Manning Publications in July 2011 and was described as “the Rosetta Stone of location-based mobile services”....

Sahar Fikouhi

Sahar Fikouhi

I am a London based designer and co-founder of Darf design, working predominantly with augmented reality and mobile technology. Having trained in both architecture and computation, I have previously worked as an architect for a number of companies, including Foster and Partners, where I was focused on seeking new computational strategies for architectural design practices. Recently graduated from a Masters in architecture from UCL, where my work was predominantly based on creating spatial propositions using hybrid digital and physical spaces which transcend the limitations of material architecture. Our work at Darf design is a continuation of this study and focused on creating meaningful spaces of interaction and discourse through digital technology....

Jon Fisher

Jon Fisher

Jon is CrowdOptic’s Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder. Prior to CrowdOptic, Jon served as CEO of Bharosa (Oracle NASDAQ: ORCL), NetClerk (BidClerk) and AutoReach (AutoNation NYSE: AN). Jon is a recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year, Award (Emerging Category, 2007) and lives in Marin County, CA with his wife and daughter. More information about Jon is available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Fisher....

Vitaliy Goncharuk

Vitaliy Goncharuk

Vitaliy Goncharuk is a CEO and a co-founder of Augmented Pixels (formerly AR23D Studio – founded in 2010). Augmented Pixels develops effective solutions based on Augmented Reality technology for furniture companies, retail chains and toy brands. The company has its own AR SDK. In 2013 Augmented Pixels was shortlisted in Top 5 “Best AR Developers 2013”, while in 2014 it was nominated by the Financial Times for Boldness in Business Awards in the same category as Bosh, Tesla Motors, Squire and 2 other companies. Vitaliy started to work in a sphere of mobile technologies in 2001. Before starting AR23D he worked on many projects, one of which was for the game platform Nokia N-Gage. In 2013 AR23D Studio, which appeared to be pretty profitable, closed round A of funding and right now is actively working on new products in Augmented Reality. Augmented Pixels Co http://augmentedpixels.com...

Marc Goodman

Marc Goodman

Marc Goodman is a global thinker, writer and consultant focused on the disruptive impact of advancing technologies on security, business and international affairs. Over the past twenty years, he has built his expertise in next generation security threats such as cyber crime, cyber terrorism and information warfare working with organizations such as Interpol, the United Nations, NATO, the Los Angeles Police Department and the U.S. Government. Marc frequently advises industry leaders, security executives and global policy makers on transnational cyber risk and intelligence and has operated in nearly seventy countries around the world. In addition, Marc founded the Future Crimes Institute to inspire and educate others on the security and risk implications of newly emerging technologies. Marc also serves as the Global Security Advisor and Chair for Policy and Law at Silicon Valley’s Singularity University, a NASA and Google sponsored educational venture dedicated to using advanced science and technology to address humanity’s grand challenges. Marc’s current areas of research include the security implications of exponential technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, the social data revolution, synthetic biology, virtual worlds, genomics, ubiquitous computing and location-based services. Since 1999, Marc has worked extensively with INTERPOL, the International Criminal Police Organization, headquartered in Lyon, France where he continues to serve as a Senior Advisor to the organization’s Steering Committee on Information Technology Crime. In that capacity, Marc has trained police forces throughout the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America and Asia and has chaired numerous INTERPOL expert groups on next generation security threats....

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