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Adam Adelman

Adam Adelman

Adam Adelman is the co-founder and president at Mighty Cast, Inc., the company behind the Nex Band and its patent-pending base and token technology. Prior to starting Mighty Cast, Adelman co-founded Juno Baby, LLC., a multiple Emmy Award winning line of children’s educational-development products that blend original music with puppet characters intended to develop, inspire and nurture children’s minds and emotions. He has more than 15 years of industry experience and was an analyst for New Media and Emerging Technology. Company: Mighty Cast http://www.mightycast.com/ Related Products:...

Karl Martin

Karl Martin

Karl Martin is the co-founder and CEO of Bionym. He is an innovator and entrepreneur, one that is constantly driven to create new things that capture the imagination. He is a recognized expert in biometrics, security, and privacy, having served as an expert witness, and an international speaker on these subjects. Being a successful entrepreneur in the wearable technology field, Karl also has unique insights into the startup world, and the future of wearable technology. He holds a Ph.D in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto, where he was formerly an instructor. Karl has invented multiple security and biometric technologies still in current use today. Prior to co-founding Bionym, he was the principal at a consulting firm that developed biometric solutions for industrial and government clients. Karl has been quoted internationally in several major media outlets, including WIRED, CBC, BBC, New York Times and Time Magazine. He is an active volunteer in the IEEE. Company: Bionym http://www.GetNymi.com Related Products: The Nymi...

Joe Burton

Joe Burton

Joe Burton, Senior Vice President Engineering and Development and Chief Technology Officer, Plantronics. Joe Burton serves as Chief Technology Officer, responsible for setting and driving Plantronics’ technology direction and leading the company’s global engineering teams and programs. Prior to joining Plantronics, Mr. Burton has held several key executive, engineering leadership and architecture-level positions at Polycom, Cisco, and Active Voice. During Burton’s 10 year career with Cisco, he served as Cisco’s Chief Technology Officer for Unified Communications, encompassing call management, IP phones, contact center, conferencing, unified messaging, unified communications applications, and advanced technologies and products. Mr. Burton was most recently EVP, CTO, Chief Strategy Officer, and General Manager for Service Provider at Polycom where he led Polycom’s long-term strategic agenda and next-generation focus areas. He is the author of several communications patents and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Regents College in New York....

Cary Bran

Cary Bran serves as the Senior Director of Innovation and New Ventures at Plantronics. In this role he leads the research and development of next generation software and device concepts and products, including efforts to deliver integrations between wearable devices and the next generation of web browsers. Cary’s background includes more than fifteen years of experience developing enterprise collaboration and communications software solutions. Prior to joining Plantronics, Cary was at Cisco Systems for more than a decade, where he held positions in software architecture, business development and technical strategy. As part of his tenure at Cisco he led the internal WebRTC evangelism efforts and contributed to the IETF and W3C WebRTC standards development. Cary holds a BS (Cum Laude) in Computer Science from Seattle University and an MBA from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. Company: Plantronics http://www.plantronics.com Related Products:...

Giovanni Landi

Giovanni Landi

AR/VR solutions architect, he designs and develops applications based on AR, VR and Realtime 3d. As a consultant he collaborated with scientific institutions (University of Genoa, Festival della Scienza di Genova). After graduating in Oceanography from the University of Genoa he founded UBICA srl, an academic SpinOff aimed at the creation of Realtime 3d data visualization tools (mainly 3d interactive marine cartography). He developed VR/AR applications for Public Institutions as Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova (Ministero dei Beni Culturali), University of Genoa, CANTON DE GENEVE, etc. and for private clients like Bristol-Myers Squibb(Medical), Gold(StreetWear), SIME(Engineering), Darts, ETT. As part of the Alcotra-Innovation Project he participated to joint experimentations exploring the applications of AR/VR in museum environments. He is the winner of the 2013 Auggie Award, in the Best Augmented Reality Marketing Campaign category, for the Gold(StreetWear) brand’s AR campaign. He won the 2013 edition of the Startup Weekend in Genoa with the LYSO project. He has been invited to present his AR works during the “3D-Stadtmodelle” Workshop hosted by the DGfK (German Cartographic Society e.V.) and during the “Mobile Geospatial Augmented Reality” (GAR) Workshop hosted by the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, in Barcelona during the 2013 MWC. He was a speaker at the 2014 Augmented World Expo, presenting his work about AR and Cultural Heritage. His work about AR and linear perspective in the Holy Trinity fresco by Masaccio (1426) was also presented at the 2014 ISMAR. With ETTspa he curated the interactive exhibition 2014: Ritorna al futuro!” during the 2014 edition of the Festival della Scienza in Genoa. His art project P2P (a performance based on AR and RGBd filming) will be funded by the Compagnia di San Paolo and will debut in fall 2015. Company: ETT spa http://ettsolutions.com Related Products:...

Jason Jerald

Jason Jerald

Jason Jerald, PhD, is Co-Founder and Principal Consultant at NextGen Interactions and has been creating computer graphics and next-generation 3D computer interfaces for over 20 years. His work with virtual/augmented reality has been featured on ABC’s Shark Tank, on the Discovery Channel, in the New York Times, and on the cover of the MIT Press Journal Presence: Teleoperators and Telepresence.   Jason has worked with various organizations including NASA, General Motors, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Valve, Oculus VR, Virtuix, and Sixense Entertainment.   Jason has held various technical and leadership positions including building and leading a team of ~300 individuals. He has served on the ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE Virtual Reality, & IEEE 3D User Interface Committees.   Jason received a Bachelors in Computer Science with an emphasis in Computer Graphics and minors in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from Washington State University. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a focus on virtual reality and visual-temporal perception. Jason holds over 20 publications and patents in the areas of computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and virtual/augmented reality. Jason is a global speaker, delivering presentations at conferences and programs throughout the world. His book “Perceptual and Interaction Design for Virtual Reality” published by Morgan & Claypool will launch August 9th at the SIGGRAPH book store....

Dana Coester

Dana Coester is a Glass Explorer, Creative Director for the WVU School of Journalism Media Innovation Lab and Assistant Professor at the PI Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University. Coester is currently developing applications for Glass and engaged in research about the radical potential for wearables and augmented reality to transform journalism practice. In addition to developing for Glass, Coester’s current experiments are in new economic models for media in white space, and new narrative forms at the intersection of digital storytelling and neuroscience. These experiments span community media, art installation, poetry and experimental film. Coester is a former art director and contributor with Time Inc. and earned her master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1993. Coester doesn’t believe technology is “just a tool.” Company: WVU http://wvumag.wvu.edu/coester Related Products:...

Matthew Ramirez

Matthew Ramirez

Matt Ramirez is the lead Augmented Reality Developer/Project Manager at Mimas based at the University of Manchester. He was previously involved in the technical development and support of the JISC funded SCARLET+ Augmented Reality project, this follows on from the award winning SCARLET project. He has over 15 years experience in web and e-learning projects (UK and international) for a variety of disciplines including medicine, IT, science, special collections and business. These have used multimedia content authoring tools such as Flex, Flash, Blender, Unity to name a few. Matt’s role is also concerned with the research and development of new technologies (e.g. wearables/mobile/multimedia development projects and haptics) with the Manchester Medical, School Business, Pharmacy and Dental School. This aims to improve the student experience by embracing innovative learning methods and providing cutting edge support materials. He is currently involved in a number of Augmented Reality projects with diverse subject areas such as clinical skills, dentistry, statistics, geology and examining how 3D printing can bring extra dimension and value to this medium. In the last 18 months he has published 6 articles across a diverse range of journals (Sconul Focus, CILIP Update, AR[t]) on AR from both a subject and pedagogical viewpoint. Read more about Matt’s work at http://teamscarlet.wordpress.com and @team_scarlet. Company: MImas http://www.mimas.ac.uk Related Products:...

Gideon Shmuel

Gideon Shmuel

Gideon joined eyesight with over 20 Years of knowledge and experience in the Telecom and Enterprise Software markets, presenting an impressive track record in sales and enterprise development. Gideon has been involved in delivering complex solutions in growing technology organizations as well as running and establishing the business activities and operations of several companies across international markets. Most recently Gideon performed the role of VP Sales at cVidya Networks. Prior to that Gideon held a number of executive roles, in a number of countries, including Olista, Top Image Systems, LCR Telecom and Esprit Telecom. Gideon holds a B.A. from the Collage of Management in Israel, and an M.A. in Marketing Management from Middlesex University in England. Company: eyeSight Technologies http://www.eyeSight-tech.com Related Products:...

Macron

Macron

Macron has been dedicated to developing gesture recognition solutions and automatic inspection systems based on image processing. Macron has developed diverse machine vision systems through innovative technologies and expertise. Macron has numerous patents for our advanced image processing technologies. Currently we focus on developing breakthrough gesture recognition solutions. We have developed a virtual mouse for smart display and a touchless touch-screen for digital signage. http://www.macronsystem.co.kr Verticals Print, Media & Entertainment Platforms Eyewear, Gesture Device Products Virtual mouse for smart glasses Virtual mouse for smart display, Virtual mouse for digital signage...

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