Kayvan Mirza – CEO & Co-Founder Optinvent 20 years of industry experience in consumer electronics. Has held high level positions in various companies such as Eaton, Invensys, HP, Technicolor. US educated. Holds a BSEE in Engineering from University of Illinois and an MBA from Depaul University. Completed Operations Management at ESCP. Has lived in Asia, US, and France....
Ambarish Mitra is CEO and co-founder . Ambarish and his team invented the first image recognition mobile platform aimed at bringing to life real-world newspapers, magazines, products, posters with exciting augmented reality experiences and instantaneous content being used by worlds leading brands. Previously, Ambarish was Head of Innovation at AXA and Head of Product Development at isango.com. He was the winner of the 2011 ‘Insurance IT Leader of the Year Award’ and also founded Womeninfoline.com, an Indian internet portal aimed at women which ipo’d in 2000. More recently he has created a theme based mobile social network called Stuck, which has more than 250,000 users worldwide. Blippar™ is a revolution for traditional media and advertising offering the power to turn every single piece of printed collateral or physical branding in the real world into an instantaneous interactive experience. Already embraced by the likes of Tesco, Nike, Unilever, PepsiCo, Waitrose, Cadbury, Mercedes, Samsung, Xbox,Dominos and Heinz, blippar™ is already the UK market leader and projecting rapid, international expansion with a view towards becoming the world’s default ‘lens’ on all smart phones for brand-to-consumer image recognition providing augmented reality executions...
Organizing Committee: Board Member. CEO of Daqri, a visionary and pioneer in the field of Augmented Reality...
Suresh Narasimha Founder & CEO – TELiBrahma Convergent Communications Pvt Ltd. In Summary Suresh brings with him 15+ years of experience in entrepreneurship, product creation and innovation within the mobility domains. Suresh has been successfully running TELiBrahma and has ensured that TELiBrahma has raised multiple rounds of funding from Intel, Ojas and inventus. Been India’s leading mobile advertising player growing at 300% YOY. With 90% market share in verticals like Automobile, Lifestyle and F and B, has one of the highest patents to employee ratio in the country including several patents that he has personally filed himself. Won some of the prestigious awards like Deloitte fast 50, Nasscom emerge board, Red herring global 100, NYF awards, SIU, Abbys, BigBang amongst others. For last 11 years Suresh has seen mobile industry taking different shapes and shades. Making applications work for companies and brands through appstores, advertising and solutions. Making leading brands like HSBC, Nike, Coco cola, Mercedes Benz, Cadbury’s to embrace mobile advertising and building India’s leading mobile advertising business. Launching Augmented reality as a platform and service in India delivering campaigns for 15+ brands month on month...
Kevin Nally is an artist with a degree in Fine Art Media from the National College of Art and Design, Ireland. The goal of his artistic practice is to change people’s opinions of new digital culture by creating illustrations that draw parallels between our modern-day digital worlds and the societies of the past who were also centred around the activities of a non-physical and abstract reality. His work utilizes visual imagery unique to modern digital media, (compression artifacts, 3d modelling, Augmented Reality) to better reflect this digital subject matter. He is currently working as a Creative Business Developer at Metaio Gmbh....
Shannon Novak is an artist based in Auckland, New Zealand. He works in painting, sculpture, and installation, with a focus on using geometric forms to explore his deep and abiding interest in the interrelationships between sound, colour, form, time, space, and social context. He completed a residency at CentralTrak, The University of Texas at Dallas Artists Residency in 2011, has been engaged in public commissions in Auckland, New Plymouth, and Denver, and co-founded West gallery at The University of Auckland in 2012....
Victor Ng-Thow-Hing is a principal scientist at the Honda Research Institute USA in Mountain View, CA. Previous research investigated intelligent system architectures, human-robot interaction with humanoid robots and gesture generation, visual attention modeling and proxemics phenomena. He is currently investigating advanced human-machine interfaces for future smart cars with an emphasis on multi-modal interaction with drivers....
Scott OBrien is co-founder of Explore Engage, an Augmented Reality (AR) specialist company based in Sydney, Australia specializing in AR across web, kiosk, mobile and AR glasses. In preparing for late 2012, Scott’s focus areas are related to increasing accessibility to AR, the higher end development of applications and transition from mobile to wearable AR. Explore Engage has built apps for Audi, Smurfs, Transformers (www.tf3ar.com) and future rooms combining AR with other technologies for major telecommunications companies....
Venture capitalist focusing on general mobile and consumer internet investments (community, commerce, collaboration, tools, content & media) as well as select enterprise and cloud infrastructure opportunities; specific interest areas include search, smart data, ambient awareness and semantic technology-based platforms and services – domain expertise in semantic web and web 3.0 opportunities. Worked as corporate/VC/m&a/bankruptcy attorney, start-up executive, and entrepreneur. Advisory role to start-ups....
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