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Ori Inbar

Ori Inbar

Ori Inbar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Augmented Reality.ORG, a global non-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing augmented reality (AR), and the producer of Augmented World Expo – the world’s largest event dedicated exclusively to the AR industry. Augmented Reality.ORG’s mission is to promote the true potential of AR, and hatch augmented reality initiatives that offer unique value to its active users. In 2009, Ori was the co-founder and CEO of Ogmento, one of the first venture-backed companies conceived from the ground up to develop and publish augmented reality games – games that are played in the real world. Ori has been an enterprising champion of the augmented reality industry since 2007. He established Games Alfresco – a leading augmented reality blog that helped popularize AR, and co-founded the Augmented Reality Event (ARE) – the world’s largest and most influential conference for AR – now in its 4th year. Ori is a recognized speaker in the AR industry as well as a sought after adviser for augmented reality initiatives. Previously, as Senior Vice President of Solution Marketing for SAP’s platform, Ori was responsible for the positioning and marketing of SAP NetWeaver – which under his leadership grew from a mere concept to a billion dollar business for SAP. Prior to SAP, Ori joined TopTier Software, as one of the first employees of this start-up. He lead the development and introduction to the market of more than 15 multimedia and business applications including the world’s leading enterprise portal, which in 2001 was acquired by SAP for $400 Million. Ori has a double major in Computer Science and Cinema from Tel Aviv University, and is a graduate of INSEAD University business leadership program....

Leading Augmented Reality Innovators Confirm Participation in AWE 2013

Thanks to the amazing response for the AWE 2013 call for proposals, we have been able to select – so far – a list of 76 AWEsome innovators in the Augmented World. Here is the list of companies and organizations confirmed to present at AWE 2013: (For the latest list of 94 confirmed speakers go here) 13th Lab AD-Dispatch Anomaly AR23D ARDirt ARLab ARUP Augmate AugmenteDev AugmentedReality.ORG BuildAR CandyLab Catchoom Columbia University CrowdOptic Daqri Darf Design Dekko Digital Delta Design Early Adopter EchoVC eMagin Epson ExploreEngage Fraunhofer Frozen Chili Studio Full Swing Future Crimes Institute Grey Area Foundation for the Arts Heavy Projects HIT Lab NewZealand Honda Research Institute Honigman InfinityAR Interhacktive ISMAR Kimera Systems Layar Live View Studio Meta-View Metaio Microsoft Research MIT Media Lab Mitsubishi Electric NASA Ngrain Nvidia Occipital Ogmento Optinvent Orbotix Parc PatchedReality Perey Consulting Qualcomm Queens University RealityPrime Recon Instruments Samsung Seabery Seac02 SecondSite Sesame Workshop Simiosys Six-15 SmartTech Publishing Stupid Fun Club SuperTouch Group Telibrahma Tomi Ahonen Consulting Total Immersion University of Illinois at Chicago  Vertigore Vuzix Wikitude Zugara  ...

ARE 2013 Dates announced: June 4-5, 2013 in Santa Clara, California

ARE 2013 Dates announced: June 4-5, 2013 in Santa Clara, California

ARE – the largest international event for augmented reality and the global stage for AR innovation, is now owned and produced by AugmentedReality.ORG. In 2012, over 600 registered to ARE: buyers and builders of AR in entertainment, media, education, healthcare, government, tourism, automotive, sports and other vertical markets, united in the 2 day must-attend event to Educate, connect, and boost awareness to the innovation in the fledgling industry. With this proven track record and the tremendous momentum in the Augmented Reality industry, the new non-for-profit organization is embarking on a mission to expand the impact of the community from a few days a year to a yearlong set of intensive activities. In 2013, AugmentedReality.ORG will extend its reach from a single event to 4 large annual events, as well as dozens of local meetups that will educate, connect and spark innovation in AR all over the world. ARE 2013 (and partner events) will spotlight inspiring keynotes by industry luminaries, and feature more than a 100 speakers from leading AR companies in more than 30 sessions. Organized into business, technology and production tracks, the conference program is designed to address topics such as: Current augmented reality market scope and what’s expected in the next 5 years, Latest augmented reality innovations, engines and tools, Showcases and postmortems of landmark augmented reality projects How to leverage AR to advance your brand, attract and keep your customers and how to build successful campaigns and products that will delight users. To catalyze innovation, AugmentedReality.ORG is launching a set of “AR Challenges” in diverse domains, a multi year competition with the goal to inspire and mentor starts ups, entrepreneurs, engineers, and designers to build innovative solutions for real world problems – that demonstrate the real power of AR. Winners of these challenges will be determined by AR.ORG members, and will be awarded significant monetary prizes that will help bring their products to market. Recipients of the awards will be announced at ARE on the 4th of June at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California. For more updates about ARE 2013 check the new site http://augmentedreality.org/are . Registration will be opened in January 2013. See you there! AR.ORG team...