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Natan Linder

Natan Linder

Natan is a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces group at the MIT Media Lab. His work fuses design and engineering to create novel human experiences. Natan’s background is in Computer Science, Product Design and Entrepreneurship. As a ten-year industry veteran, he worked for Sun Microsystems, and was the co-founder of Samsung Electronics Israel R&D Center and served as its Mobile R&D General Manager. He was also an Entrepreneur in Residence at Jerusalem Venture Partners. Just before joining the MIT Media Lab, he was the Lead UI Designer at Heartland Robotics (now Rethink Robotics). Natan holds a BA in Computer Science from the IDC in Herzeliya and a M.S. in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. Natan is passionate about new consumer technologies; he holds several patents in Mobile and HCI domains. His academic and professional work has been widely published in popular press and academic conferences such as TEDx, CHI, UIST, Wired magazine, and many more. Natan is a Co-founder of Formlabs....

Nicola Liberati

Nicola Liberati

Nicola Liberati is a Postdocotoral Research Fellow at Chukyo University (Japan) and he is supported by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. He received a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Pisa (Italy) with a thesis on phenomenology and augmented reality. In 2010 he received his MA (with honours) in Philosophy at the University of Pisa with a thesis focused on Husserl. He was an assistant of Prof Alfredo Ferrarin and his fields of research are phenomenology and philosophy of technology. He is particularly interested in augmented reality, in its knock-on eff effects on our culture and on our perceiving body. Company: Chukyo University http://www.chukyo-u.ac.jp/english/ Related Products:...

Trak Lord

Trak Lord

Trak Lord is the head of US Marketing for Metaio, the leader in augmented reality software and solutions. Since joining Metaio, Trak has traveled all over the world evangelizing augmented reality. He also manages the implementation of internal sales & marketing solutions, and is Editor the Augmented Reality Blog, the most widely read source in the industry. When he’s not at Metaio, Trak enjoys vintage motorcycles, 19th Century French novels and coffee. Lots of coffee. Company: Metaio http://metaio.com  Related Products: Metaio SDK; Softkinetic 3-D Camera, RealSense 3-D Camera, PrimeSense, Occipital Scanner...

Dave Lorenzini

Dave Lorenzini

Organizing Committee: Curator. An augmented reality visionary and entrepreneur driven to change the way people look at the world....

Taylor McDonald

Taylor McDonald

Relatively new to technology, Taylor McDonald has been thrilled and honored to be part of a talented team that continues to explore and push the possibilities of AR. Based in Chattanooga, TN, Taylor was formally trained in biology and environmental science when GIS and other mapping technologies were defining the way spatial data was used in landscape and ecological conservation....

Rob Manson

Rob Manson

Rob Manson is CEO & co-founder of buildAR.com, the world’s first cloud based Augmented Reality Authoring Platform launched in 2009. Rob is one of the editors of the W3C Media Stream Depth Extensions Specification and an Invited Expert with the ISO, W3C and the Khronos Group. He’s an active evangelist within the global AR and standards communities and is regularly invited to speak on the topics of the Augmented Web, Augmented Reality, WebRTC and the development of multi-device platforms. Company: buildAR.com https://buildAR.com  Related Products:...

Ean Mering

Ean Mering

As a child, Ean found identity, expression and escape through street art and video games. Though local law enforcement eventually deterred him from graffiti, the themes of art and technology have pervaded his adult life. After attending the California Institute of the Arts, Ean started his own digital media company to provide creative services for clients including Universal Music Group. Ean has recently served as partner and Chief Production Officer at a New York based creative agency and lead a team to perform work for enterprise clients such as Google, YouTube, and Bosch. However, it is his collaboration with Re+Public and the Heavy Projects that most strongly connects with his lifelong passion of bringing impossible structures and fantasy environments to life in the real world....

Jana Rodic

Jana Rodic

Jana Rodic is founder and partner of LiveViewStudio, an interactive collective from Belgrade, Serbia. Jana graduated Sociology from London School of Economics, University of London with special focus on social psychology and ethics of information systems. Together with Marko Todorovic she worked on different projects that explore the possibilities the emerging media of AR introduces to different areas: museums, cultural heritage, publishing and education. The projects include: Augmented reality book and space installation streetartlove.rs/belgrade, AR TEDx talk, Venice Biennalle 2011, Exhibition – Augmented Portrait of a King Peter I,Vision:AR, AR cube puzzle for Science Museum, TECHCOOLTOUR (EU financed project using AR in promotion of cultural routes)… The particular focus of their work is in connecting analog and digital, and creating novel experiences where interactions in the real world have their virtual consequences....

Victor Mateevitsi

Victor Mateevitsi

Victor Mateevitsi received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Peloponnese in Greece. Currently he is a Ph.D Student at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Established in 1973, EVL is the longest standing institution in the US that combines Art & CS in a graduate program. Victor’s research interests are Human Augmentics, Persuasive Technologies, Data Visualization and Computer Graphics. He is interested in technologies that enhance human perception, augment senses and produce changes in behavior....

Matt Miesnieks

Matt Miesnieks

Former CEO, Dekko. Now at Samsung GIC. Matt’s passion is finding product/market fit for emerging technologies, and has spent the last 15 years doing that in the Asia Pacific and European markets as a regional VP and GM. Most recently Matt led worldwide customer development at Layar in Amsterdam, resulting in Layar being pre-loaded on most early smartphones. Before that Matt led Asia based commercial and product teams for Sylantro, Openwave, Ascend Communications and founded an ISP in the 90’s. Matt has a degree in Computer Science from Wollongong University. http://www.slideshare.net/dekkoexperiences/awe-2013-23257396...

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