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Mark Billinghurst

Mark Billinghurst

Professor Mark Billinghurst is a researcher developing innovative computer interfaces that explore how virtual and real worlds can be merged. Director of the HIT Lab New Zealand (HIT Lab NZ) at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, he has produced over 250 technical publications and presented demonstrations and courses at a wide variety of conferences. He has a PhD from the University of Washington and conducts research in Augmented and Virtual Reality, multimodal interaction and mobile interfaces. He has previously worked at ATR Research Labs, British Telecom, Nokia and the MIT Media Laboratory. One of his research projects, the MagicBook, was winner of the 2001 Discover award for best Entertainment application, and his AR Tennis project won the 2005 IMG award for best independent mobile game. He was awarded the 2013 IEEE VR Technical Achievement Award for contributions to research and commercialization in Augmented Reality. In 2001 he co-founded ARToolworks, one of the oldest commercial AR companies. Company: HIT Lab NZ, University of Canterbury http://www.hitlabnz.org/ Related Products:...

Peter Verstraeten

Peter Verstraeten

Business experience : – CEO Augnition : company active in research and development of solutions to mobilize business processes with mobile and wearable technology – former CEO and founder of S&V Management Consultants and Equazion. Equazion was awarded as a top innovative company in supply chain management by AMR. Both companies were active in business strategy and business process improvement in industry. Companies were sold to Mahindra Satyam and subsequently to PWC. – former researcher operations management at the Vlerick Business School (University Ghent – Belgium) Education : master in engineering, MBA, master in corporate finance, CPIM, 6 Sigma Black Belt More info Linkedin Company: Augnition http://augnition.com Related Products:...

Motti Kushnir

Motti Kushnir

Motti Kushnir is the CEO of InfinityAR. He has years of marketing, product development and business experience in the high-tech sector. He studied and received his MBA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Kushnir has managerial professional experience from his years serving as Chief Marketing & Product Officer at Telmap Ltd., VP, GM at Amdocs Ltd., and AVP Marketing for the Mobile Internet Solutions Division at Comverse and as a Director at Motorola. Company: InfinityAR http://www.infinityar.com/ Related Products:...

Gina Chung

Gina Chung

Gina is Project Manager, DHL Trend Research at Deutsche Post DHL. DHL Trend Research is a dedicated unit that focuses on delivering insights and driving innovation projects on social, business and technology trends that will impact the logistics industry. She has been with DHL’s innovation division since 2012 and prior to her current role she worked on a variety of research projects focusing specifically on last-mile delivery in cities and the effects of urbanization. In her current role, Gina is leading the Augmented Reality initiative at DHL Trend Research. The initiative aims to identify and evaluate potential applications for Augmented Reality across the supply chain. She collaborates closely together with DHL’s largest customers, industry partners and leading research institutes in order to drive such innovation topics within DHL. As a digital native, she also scouts new trends and start-ups and supports the Trend Research partner network. Gina studied at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and holds two bachelor’s degrees in commerce and arts. Deutsche Post DHL is the world’s leading postal and logistics services group. Its integrated DHL and Deutsche Post brands offer comprehensive services in international express, air and ocean freight, road and rail transportation and contract logistics. The Group generates more than 55 billion euros in revenue with about 480,000 employees in more than 220 countries and territories. Company: Deutsche Post DHL http://www.dhl.com/trendresearch Related Products:...

Thomas Alt

Thomas Alt

Thomas Alt founded Metaio GmbH in February 2003 together with Peter Meier and is currently serving as the CEO. Over the last decade, Thomas has grown Metaio into one of the most important names in Augmented Reality, serving customers around the world in diverse areas such as retail, manufacturing and aerospace. With over 120 employees worldwide and offices in Munich, San Francisco and New York, Metaio continues to bring to market the most innovative technology in the field of Augmented Reality and computer vision, both for device manufacturers, and end users. Thomas received his PHD in 2002 from Otto-Von-Guerike Universität Magdeburg, where he focused his dissertation on Augmented Reality. Company: Metaio http://www.metaio.com Related Products:...

Martin Lechner

Martin Lechner

Martin Lechner co-developed the first version of the Wikitude World Browser on the Android platform, and started building up the team behind the Wikitude technology soon after. He is now the CTO of Wikitude, part of the company management team and manages a team of 20+ developers. In addition to his day-to-day job at Wikitude, he is chairing the Augmented Reality Markup Language (ARML) 2.0 Standards Working Group within the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). ARML 2.0 has recently been published as an official OGC Standard for describing and interacting with AR scenes. Martin initiated and managed the group throughout the entire process, comprising more than 50 institutions and individuals, including several universities and multi-national companies. Martin studied both Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Salzburg, Austria and the Victoria University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He is holding a PhD in Applied Computer Sciences and an Master in Mathematics. Before joining Wikitude, he was working as a software engineer for Sony DADC. Company: Wikitude http://www.wikitude.com Related Products:...

Ann McNamara

Ann McNamara

Ann McNamara is an Associate professor in the Department of Visualization at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on the advancement of computer graphics and scientific visualization through novel approaches for optimizing an individual’s experience when creating, viewing and interacting with virtual and augmented spaces. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER AWARD entitled “Advancing Interaction Paradigms in Mobile Augmented Reality using Eye Tracking”. This project investigates how mobile eye tracking, which monitors where a person is looking while on the go, can be used to determine what objects in a visual scene a person is interested in, and thus might like to have annotated in their augmented reality view. Ann has long served on the ACM SIGGRAPH conference committee and will serve as General Submissions Chair for 2015. Company: Texas A&M University http://viz.arch.tamu.edu/ Related Products:...

Yohan Baillot

Yohan Baillot

Yohan Baillot is a French and US citizen who has worked in the development of AR systems for the last 20 years, mainly for the defense and first responders sectors, notably supporting the US Navy Battlefield Augmented Reality System (BARS) and then through a new AR division he created at ITT. During the last couple years he leveraged his experience with the emerging AR market on many verticals by providing core AR technology and guidance to businesses developing AR products in the emerging professional AR markets. Recently he founded ARCortex, a network of experienced AR consultants to expand his consulting practice and promote the development of AR infrastructures to enable the huge upcoming AR consumer market Company: ARCortex http://www.arcortex.com Related Products:...

Zachary Taschdjian

Zachary Taschdjian

Zac is a genial, omnivorous data punk wrapped in the pelt of an art nerd. Current research interests include data visualization, tangible and embedded computing, extended/embodied cognition and all things machine learning. Zac is a UX lead at GE Global Research. Company: General Electric Global Research http://www.geglobalresearch.com/ Related Products:...

David Francis

David Francis

David is a contextual marketing evangelist, working to re-engineer the value proposition of one of world’s largest industries: Print Communications. As Head of Blue Star Interactive, David has built the first AR-dedicated division inside one of Australia’s largest print companies, servicing more than 3000 blue-chip companies across extremely diverse vertical markets. David has conceived and produced AR for some of the world’s largest brands and is a regular speaker and panelist at digital marketing innovation events. He works with AR software and hardware manufacturers to focus on User Experience, legacy and future proofing. Ostensibly, David is a content-creator, understanding the toolkits to deliver AR that fits the human mind, our senses and behaviours.. Company: Blue Star Group http://BlueStarGroup.com.au Related Products:...

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