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Kevin Arthur

Kevin Arthur

Kevin Arthur is a Senior User Experience Researcher in the Perceptual Computing group at Intel. He leads user research on new use cases and best practices for RealSense 3D depth cameras, including mixed and augmented reality experiences. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he specialized in human-computer interaction in virtual reality systems. He previously did user experience and software R&D work at Amazon Lab126, Synaptics, and Industrial Light & Magic....

Aditya Pandyaram

Aditya Pandyaram

Aditya is a product and operations oriented entrepreneur. Prior to Augmate, he has spent several years at General Electric, during which he has won numerous awards spanning the fields of engineering, product, and operations. While at GE, Aditya has worked on products including: smart grid infrastructure, gas turbine diagnostics and prognostics, oil & gas pipeline separation, transportation, and measurement, and Industrial Internet (IoT) transportation analytics – focused on maintenance, outage prediction, and supply chain optimization. Aditya has studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Aditya is also passionate in the education space, a passion he pursues through his STEM focused non-profit....

HP Aurasma

HP Aurasma

Since launching in 2011, Aurasma has quickly risen to become the world’s leading augmented reality platform with over 80,000 customers operating in over 100 countries. Our vision is to enable an augmented world, where every image, object and place has its own Aura. Download the free Aurasma app or become a customer and start changing the way you see and interact with the world today. http://www.aurasma.com/  ...

Ralph Osterhout

Ralph Osterhout

Founder and CEO Ralph is a developer, designer and entrepreneur. In his career, he has developed over 2,000 different products and hundreds of separate product lines for companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500s, as well as the government. He founded ODG in 1999, after several decades founding, building and selling companies in consumer products, sporting goods, defense contracting, personal electronics and high tech toys. He has over 160 US Patents and Applications to his name. He graduated from San Jose State University with a BS in Psychology....

Dexter Lilley

Dexter Lilley

Executive Vice President and COO, Index AR Solutions Dexter Lilley is the Executive Vice President and COO of Index AR Solutions. Prior to Index, Dexter held several executive positions in the shipbuilding industry. Most recently, he served as Director of Strategy and Business Development for Huntington Ingalls Industries, creating value through diverse innovations such as HII’s teaming agreement with one of the top wind energy companies and winning corporate development funding for augmented reality. Prior to joining Strategy and Business Development, Dexter was Director of Steel Fabrication and Assembly. Previously, he was Director of Component Fabrication and Assembly at Newport News Shipbuilding. In these construction and manufacturing roles, he acted as an agent of change, bringing lean manufacturing tools and techniques into the company to drive significant improvements on touch labor cost and using modern scheduling techniques, such as theory of constraints, to dramatically improve schedule performance.  Earlier in his career, Dexter was selected to participate in the NNS’ prestigious Process Innovation Initiative. He also served several roles of increasing responsibility in the company’s Finance Division....

Steve Dann

Steve Dann

CEO, Amplified Robot An AR & VR Expert and Augmented Reality Evangelist, Steve is a regular writer and contributor to media blogs, and is a thought-leader in the digital media and augmented reality sectors. He is a regular broadcaster and speaker on the subject of AR, VR and New Technology at conferences and events. Based in London, Steve is currently the CEO of Amplified Robot, Co-Founder of Medical Realities, Co-Founder of TiO 360 and Chairman of Berwick Post Ltd and is responsible for the strategy and commercial activity of those companies. Most recently, he has been spearheading Amplified Robot’s drive into Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Virtual Training, Virtual Retail and Digital Technology. Steve trained as a film editor initially, before founding one of the UK’s largest creative post production Groups, VTR Plc. He has over 30 years experience in the Broadcast Post Production Market; selling creative and technical services to International Broadcasters, Production Companies and Advertising Agencies. He is also the founder and organiser of the Augmenting Reality Meetup Group, which regularly meets to discuss, view and demonstrate the latest innovations in AR, VR and related Technologies. Email: steve.dann@amplifiedrobot.co.uk Twitter: @ArReality AR/VR Newsletter: http://bit.ly/1klN0RK Website: www.amplifiedrobot.co.uk...

Sean Thoennes

Sean Thoennes

CoFounder, MediaX Sean has nearly 30 years of media production experience with over 25 of those years spent with The Walt Disney Company. He has worked with subsidiaries such as Disney Signature Films, ESPN, ABC, Disney Institute, and many more. Additionally, Sean has worked with Viacom-owned Nickelodeon and Department of Defense contractor Statistica creating thru-sight videos for the Bradley Fighting Vehicle and M1-A1 Abrams tank. After pioneering a desktop video editing business model at Disney in Orlando and overseeing the development of a Studio News program that lasted over a decade, Sean found new challenges in the nascent field of Media Psychology. Combined with his years in media and as an advocate of new technologies, psychology offered a theoretical grounding that garnered respect and speaking engagements beginning in 2008 with the BEA, where he spoke on cognitive aspects of producing for smart phones and Web videos. He continues to join panels at conventions for the APA, IEEE, National Social Science Association, and others, with a primary focus on the exponential growth of technology and its compatibility with the evolution of society, politics, and the human psyche. Having conducted research and authored a study on social media interaction with Barack Obama during the 2012 campaign, Sean is currently penning a book tentatively entitled NEO: Anthropogenic Evolution, Technology and the Human Psyche. He is also an adjunct faculty member teaching in Fielding Graduate University’s Media Psychology Masters program. You can contact Sean via Twitter @SeanThoennes or Linked-In sean-thoennes....

Carrie Perry

Carrie Perry

Media psychologist, Brandman University Carrie, a media psychologist and professional educator, also runs her company, Write Right, A Pen for Hire.  Her academic background and employment experience includes financial analysis, business management, corporate training, and educational director of a national learning center. Carrie is employed at Brandman University, teaching courses such as Media Literacy and Digital Citizenship, Information Literacy, Human Development, Advanced Business courses, and Behavior and Cognition. She also consults within the areas of Digital Strategies, Organizational Communications, Persuasive Communications, and Media Psychology. Applying cognition, color, and persuasive psychological theories, Carrie offers a unique perspective on how consumers apply mass mediated information into their daily lives, as well as confront the daily realities of information overload. Central to all aspects of her professional and educational pursuits is persuasive communication. Carrie’s academic professional career began has continuously fed her passion for digital communications, 4D technology, media technology, and social advocacy. She has presented at national conferences including the American Psychological Association National Conference and consults for both for-profit and non-profit organizations. You can contact Carrie on twitter @drdvperry and on Linkedin at carrie-perry....

Shane Pase

Shane Pase

Cofounder, MediaX Shane is a media psychologist and cofounder of the MediaX LLC new media technologies group, an award winning conceptual designer, and currently authoring the first book on the psychology of augmented reality. Shane has over 17 years experience utilizing human behavior analytics to develop creative and outside the box solutions for both for profit and non-profit corporations and small businesses. By combining theories from cognitive, behavioral and social psychology, he is able to provide valuable insights into our experience with and the effects of media technologies. Shane is a member of the adjunct faculty at Fielding Graduate University’s Media Psychology program teaching courses on general media psychology, augmented reality and immersive technologies. He has presented internationally at internationally at such prestigious conferences as IEEE ISMAR, EEE WorldComp, National Social Science Association and American Psychological Association National Conventions exploring the cognitive effects of augmented reality and immersive media, using new technologies for social change and disruption, and the ethics of new media technologies. You can find him on Twitter and Linkedin @shanepase. He also authors blog on Neopropagandia.com....

Jerri Lynn Hogg

Jerri Lynn Hogg

Media psychologist, Fielding University Jerri Lynn is a media psychologist, 2015 president for the American Psychological Associations’ Society for Media Psychology and Technology, and author of the soon to be released books, The Science of Audience Engagement and Mad Men Unzipped. Passionate about social media, technology, and digital environments, Hogg researches and consults on how we communicate, connect, and find balance in changing environments. As a psychologist she applies theory, practice, and research to humanizing the technological landscape and digital experience. Hogg is a faculty member of Fielding Graduate University’s Media Psychology program and a senior research fellow at the Media Psychology Research Center, a research and consulting organization helping companies create positive and effective media, messaging, and technology. Hogg is also an international presenter and consultant examining the cultural influence on human behavior and digital media, virtual communities and worlds, connection through social media communities, the psychology behind effective communication design, new and changing learning communities, and how to create solid user experience design. Jerri Lynn was recently a judge for the annual SoMe Awards (Social Media).  You can find her on Twitter @HoggJL. She also authors a blog for Psychology Today.com called “The Digital Life”....

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