Judith Baumgarten
Fraunhofer COMEDD...
Anna Jen
Director, New Business Development – Epson...
John Murray
John Murray is co-founder and CTO of Seebright, a new startup which is developing an open platform for augmented reality experiences based on existing hardware. He is a graduate student at the Expressive Intelligence Studio at UC Santa Cruz and is currently co-authoring a platform studies book on Flash for MIT Press, examining the intertwining role of culture and the platform’s evolution. John has taught art and computer science students programming and game design using platforms such as the Kinect, Flash and HTML5. He can be found on twitter as @lucidbard and online at lucidbard.com....
Meron Gribetz
Meron is the Founder and CEO of Meta-View. In 2005 I fell in love with startup culture. At that time I was working on one of the first mobile QR code technologies. Our group pioneered QR use in every day scenarios, and I became fascinated in all things where tech intersects with the way people perceive and interact with their surroundings. To that end, I have studied Computer Science (focusing on Augmented Reality) and Neuroscience (because we all know where AR ends up) at Columbia University. Since I started the company, we have collaborated with Epson and a number of other companies to create the world’s first consumer device that was built from the ground up for AR. During the next few years we hope to open the field of Augmented Reality to mainstream, and to that end, we are running a crowdsourcing campaign soon. Stay tuned via our website meta-view.com …...
Kayvan Mirza
Kayvan Mirza – CEO & Co-Founder Optinvent 20 years of industry experience in consumer electronics. Has held high level positions in various companies such as Eaton, Invensys, HP, Technicolor. US educated. Holds a BSEE in Engineering from University of Illinois and an MBA from Depaul University. Completed Operations Management at ESCP. Has lived in Asia, US, and France....
Pete Wassell
Organizing Committee: Sponsors & Exhibitors, Hackathon Chief Executive Officer at Augmate Corporation...
Stephen Willey
Steve Willey, M.A.Sc., MBA, CEO Innovega: Steve has built his career from a passion for development of ground-breaking products. A diverse technology and business background has enabled him to work in fields of displays and imaging, wireless communications, human interfaces, navigation, telematics, consumer electronics, industrial electronics, and government-sponsored development. His entrepreneuring style has enabled him to participate in a variety of early stage ventures, IPOs, and M&A exits. Steve is named on 9 U.S. patents, the majority relating to new intelligent eyewear solutions....