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Jonathan Burns

Jonathan Burns

Jonathan Burns is the Vice President of Development for Ad-Dispatch and Managing Partner for BoostAR. As a pitch person, Jon loves speaking about the big picture – helping his audience experience ‘ah-ha moments’ as they begin to understand the potential that augmented reality holds for marketers and brands. Jon is extremely passionate when it comes to educating the market on all things AR and he’s spoken to audiences across North America. While Jon sure knows how to get people enthusiastic, he’s the first to remind his clients that technology without a purpose is pointless. He works tirelessly to strike a balance between the creative use of new technology and strong marketing strategy; because after all, Jon knows that it’s the results that matter most....

Nathan Kroll

Nathan Kroll

President Ad-Dispatch Inc. Nathan’s has been recognized and awarded as the BDC Young Entrepreneur of the year, E&Y Entrepreneur of the year (technology), 2009, 2010, 2011 “Progress magazine fastest growing companies in Atlantic Canada”, 2009,2010, 2011 “Profit Magazine fastest growing in Canada”. In June off 2009 he was introduced to a technology called augmented reality. Immediately recognizing that AR was an emerging technology, he began building the internal software development and creative development teams to be able to build augmented reality. With the purchase of Volt media in late 2009 the final pieces of the puzzle were in place to launch Augmented reality in Canada. In the past four years, Ad-Dispatch has created the Augmented Reality industry in Canada and in the last 2 years Ad-dispatch has exploded onto the US market. Ad-dispatch has been one of most active companies introducing AR to mainstream North America with products like Stamps Alive, Superhero AR (Avengers cinematic release), Webslinger (Spiderman Cinematic release) Turtles AR, Absolut AR, and a consumer product App called Boostar. Ad-dispatch has built and is building Augmented reality for Walt Disney, Marvel, Wal-Mart, Nickelodeon, GM, Mattel, Absolut, Drambuie, Labatt Blue and more. Nathan’s ability to recognize the potential of augmented reality has allowed Ad- dispatch to become an industry leader. A leader of what is expected to be a 3 billion dollar industry by 2015....

Ambarish Mitra

Ambarish Mitra

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...

Brian Selzer

Brian Selzer

As a pioneering creative executive for over 15 years, Brian Selzer has made his career pushing the boundaries of digital media and entertainment. Having established business models that drive today’s online, mobile and social media space, he is a recognized leader and innovator in the interactive industry. Brian has created, produced, marketed and distributed award-winning content to a client list that includes Sony, Microsoft, EA, Activision, Fox, Universal, Warner Brothers, Paramount, MTV, Marvel, Hasbro, Pepsi, Nike, Lego, NBA and others. As an entrepreneur, Brian has co-founded several globally recognized companies, including Ogmento, Inc., the first venture-backed developer and publisher of augmented reality games and entertainment. He currently serves as the Vice President of Business and Product Development at DAQRI, the leading augmented reality developer helping businesses leverage the latest innovations in computer-human interaction. Brian is a recognized speaker at industry events and a sought after advisor on augmented reality initiatives, location-based apps and services, immersive technologies, emerging media platforms, games, gamification, transmedia, and the future of entertainment. Company: DAQRI http://www.daqri.com  Related Products:...