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Susan Brazer

Susan Brazer

SUSAN BRAZER is the CEO of LionShare Media, which architects Augmented Reality and Immersive Mobile Media apps.  Susan is a global New Products and Business Development strategist in the Mobile, Media, Tech and Consumer Electronics industry. Recently, Susan was VP of Strategy and Business Development for Nokia’s smart phones and connected devices and VP Corporate Development and Product Strategy for Virgin Mobile USA, where she lead Sugar Mama mobile advertising and Stash, mobile payments services.  Prior to this, she was EVP, Business Development of Kirch Media’s venture fund for the FIFA World Cup and SVP for Viacom’s International TV service in Middle East and Africa, where managed MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, The Movie Channel, TV Land, Bloomberg and Discovery channels. Susan led the migration from analogue to digital TV in Europe at SES ASTRA and launched the DirecTV and SpectrumSaver, the 1st digital TV distribution system at Compression Labs. At Apple, Susan launched products: the 1st portable computer, the Newton, and concepted the Knowledge Navigator. Susan started her career at PepsiCo in M&A, where she conducted the acquisition of Kentucky Fried Chicken and at Philip Morris in the international treasury. Susan holds a B.A. in Economics and Architecture from Brandeis University, an MBA from Kellogg and attended London School of Economics. She is a mentor at Princeton University for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and co-founder the Northeast Corridor Smart City Initiative....

BC (“Heavy”) Biermann

BC (“Heavy”) Biermann

Heavy is a tech artist and academic living in Southern California. Deriving his pseudonym from his penchant for philosophical discussion, Heavy possesses an interdisciplinary background that comprises technology, academia, and the arts. With a PhD in Humanities [ Intermedia Analysis ] from the Universiteit van Amsterdam, he has worked as both a university professor and a tech developer in Anaheim, Prague, and Saint Louis. Since 2007, Heavy has internationally presented his academic work, which explores augmented reality, art and semiotics in public space. As a kind of synthesis between scholarly inquiry and emerging media, Heavy founded The Heavy Projects to investigate how the fusion of creativity and technology can uncover new modes of relaying ideas. Building upon existing technological and theoretical frameworks, Heavy creates innovative interfaces between digital design and physical worlds in ways that provoke the imagination and problematize existing styles of art, design, and interaction....

Anthony Cortez

Anthony Cortez

Anthony Cortez has been working in the AEC industry for over 15 years. He joined Arup in 2003 and currently holds the position of Visualization Leader in the Americas Region. He enjoys working on numerous architectural & engineering projects, creating cutting edge design visualization and animations on a variety of major projects both nationally and internationally. Based in the Arup New York office, he has produced an impressive cross section of works ranging from Arts and Culture, Aviation, Commercial Property, Energy, Forensics, Healthcare, Highways, Hotel and Leisure, Rail, Residential, Sports visualizations and animations. Projects include the Fulton Center, JFK JetBlue Terminal 5, YAS Marina Hotel, the New Tappan Zee Bridge and the Academy of Arts & Science Theater at the Lighthouse International. Some of his broadcasted and published works have been featured at Disney’s Epcot Center, National Geographic Channel, HGTV, ESPN, the Discovery Channel, CNN, MTV Cribs, the New York Times, Robb Report magazine,and Ballistic Publishing’s Elemental. Cortez enjoys working with the latest 3D tools and can deliver designs in animation, still-frame, interactive and augmented reality formats. Detailed and insightful, these visualizations energize discussion, encourage collaboration, promotes greater understanding of project goals and opens minds to the possibilities of progress....