Conference Speakers

Albert Hwang is an information artist with a background in dance, theater, installation art, and video art. His installations have been exhibited around the world, appearing in Siggraph Asia, The Last HOPE, and Innovation Lab's NEXT no. 6. His work has also been featured in Make Blog, O'Reilly Radar, and Wired's Beyond the Beyond blog. His latest work, "Spatial Computing," is an ongoing video series that sketches out a new way of interacting with our home computers, one that uses direct control of digital 3d objects in real space, in real time, with just the use of our hands.

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Amber is a Cyborg Anthropologist and corporate consultant. She founded CyborgCamp, a conference on the future of humans and computers. She was previously a blogger for Discovery Channel and worked with Fortune 500 companies at Wieden+Kennedy, a global advertising agency based in Portland, Oregon. Case is known for her skills in data aggregation, interface design, business strategy, and new communication methods. She is currently writing a book on applying anthropological techniques to better understand industry ecosystems. Amber received degrees in Sociology and Anthropology and wrote her thesis on mobile phones and their technosocial sites of engagement.

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Anselm Hook is a veteran software developer. He has a Bay Area Augmented Reality start-up at http://makerlab.com and helps run http://wherecamp.org . He is interested in helping communities and their surrounding ecosystems thrive by surfacing shared understanding and better decision making tools including tools that broadcast just-in-time situational awareness.

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Anton Yudin was born in Ukraine. After being exposed to a i386 computer his life was never the same. During the next two years he created games, GUI packages, a compiler for his own programming language, and his own multitasking supervisor. A passionate multi-language programmer, he graduated with a BS with dual majors in Computer Science and Information Systems at the Kharkov University Of Radio Electronics. Currently in a Master of Arts program at the Digital Worlds Institute he is researching 3D/VR, and is developing an OS program that blends 3D VR with real-life interaction through a Motion Capture system.

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Arturo was SFX Supervisor for SZM, the premier broadcast studio in Munich, Germany, producing visual effects for television series and feature films. He moved to NY where he became Creative Director for R/GA, an Academy Award company. He became VP of Creative at Agency.com in NY where he managed a staff of 90 creatives, including designers and art directors, information architects and copywriters. Arturo has worked in the game industry as a designer and art director for companies such as Electronic Arts, Brøderbund and Sierra Online. His interests include robotics and telepresence and bridging the virtual with the real world.

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Ben Newhouse is a developer at Yelp and is responsible for the creation and development of Yelp Monocle, one of the first implementations of Augmented Reality on the iPhone. A builder at heart, he is busily trying to make 2010 the year of computer vision on consumer devices. Ben has spent 18 months in Beijing and Taipei, and previously worked at Microsoft Research Asia. He will receive a BS in EE from Stanford University at the end of June.

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Blake Callens is Senior Software Engineer for Zugara, the only interactive marketing agency member of the Augmented Reality Consortium. He was lead engineer on the team that created the company’s web based augmented reality tools, including: · Webcam Social Shopper augmented reality clothing framework · ZugMo motion capture and body recognition engine · ZugSTAR streaming augmented reality web conferencing framework He is also the creator of ARtisan, an open source Flex framework for augmented reality development, and co-organizer of the Augmented Reality Los Angeles meetup group. He blogs his thoughts on augmented reality at onezerothrice.com.

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Brian Selzer is the President and Co-Founder of Ogmento, a developer and publisher of mobile augmented reality games and entertainment. As a creative executive and digital media pioneer, Mr. Selzer has created, produced and distributed online and mobile games, animation and social media content to a client list that includes Fox, Universal, Sony, Activision, EA, Marvel, Hasbro, Nike and many others.

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Bruno Uzzan has been driving the growth of Total Immersion since 1999 – from start-up to the company’s current position of global category leader.As a pioneer and AR visionary, he has led Total Immersion’s global expansion and built the company’s client roster with blue chip accounts that include Disney, McDonald’s, Mattel, Twentieth Century Fox and Nissan Motors. He also is responsible for developing strategic alliance, bringing his vision for the potential of next gen AR to these relationships. He holds a masters degree in management from the University of Paris Dauphine.

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Christine is an independent consultant and industry analyst focusing on mobile augmented reality and other intelligent services targeting mobile consumers. The applications of Mobile AR in the Retail and Commerce sectors as well as by print publishers of all types are highest on her current research agenda. She provides market assessments, strategic planning, technology transfer and business development services to clients and is instrumental in launching a number of AR market growth initiatives. She is an invited expert to the W3C, a member ISMAR 2009 and 2010 organizing committees, and founder Mobile Monday Switzerland and the Swiss Augmented Reality group.

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Clark Dodsworth does product strategy, innovation and development in software and devices that require a quality user experience. All his work is founded on human-centered design and has interface components. He recently completed work on an unprecedented smartphone augmented reality-based system for the Dubailand theme parks project. He co-authored the original Ambient Intelligence strategy for Philips, later adopted by the EU for its 6th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development on IST Research 2002-06, and was part of the first wireless, nationwide, geo-aware B2C startup in 1992. The product is the experience.

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Dana has been an industry leader in the online, mobile and social marketing space since he launched his first Web site in 1995. He has gone on to pioneer new ways to reach, engage and convert audiences into customers and is currently the President of Imano Inc., a globally recognized company in the digital marketing space for online and mobile engagement. Imano's iPhone application company, Acrossair, is a world leader in the development of Augmented Reality applications for the mobile market.

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David Blumberg is the Managing Partner of Blumberg Capital. David has been investing in early stage technology companies for more than 24 years. His current investment focus includes Digital Media, Social Media, Mobility, SaaS/Technology Enabled Services and Internet. Recently, David has been exploring Augmented Reality as an area for future VC investment. Prior to founding Blumberg Capital in 1991, David managed technology investments with Claridge Investments, Adler & Co., Apax, and T. Rowe Price Associates. David launched the business development efforts for Check Point Software Technologies.

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David Marimon is the leader of Mobile Augmented Reality and Visual Recognition activities at Telefonica Research and Development. His activities span from applied technology development to team leadership. David received the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain in 2003 and the Ph.D. degree from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland in 2007. Currently is leading a Spanish consortium of academic and industrial partners on a project called MobiAR about Mobile AR applications. He is also involved in the leadership of a Mobile Visual Search system called IRIS fully developed at Telefonica R&D.

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Di-Ann lives in Palo Alto, by way of Portland, OR, Boston, New York City and Amsterdam as a neogeography pioneer and serial entrepreneur employing all means to increase the world’s citizen mappers. She functions as both Chairman of Platial, The People’s Atlas, and as Community Geographer at Waze. Platial is a widely adopted online social mapping service with approximately 15MM unique users. Waze is free crowd-sourced navigation and real-time traffic. Started in Israel and past critical mass, now has top quality map, navigation and traffic data. Di-Ann is setting up US operations and crafting the cartography of “live mapping”.

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Eric Kabisch is an artist, interaction designer, and doctoral candidate in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. His current practice investigates the varied intersections between geospatial information technologies and human geography. He builds cultural artifacts that utilize custom software systems, DIY construction and usually emit some form of sound. Through the creation of these artifacts he hopes to reconsider the process of design, enabling novel forms of use to emerge through experimental approaches and interventions into existing technological practices.

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Erik has held senior operational and strategic roles since 1999 in a number of telecoms and internet companies, both startups & publicly listed companies. Erik held senior positions with Digital Mobility, and Dynamical Systems Research. Subsequently, Erik was European Managing Director of eMeta Corporation, and he was also responsible for VeriSign’s Mobile Enterprise Services (VMES), a global, mobile messaging aggregation service, in addition to Enterprise Paging, a multi-protocol mediation service for wireless carriers, including AT&T and Sprint in North America. Since January 2010 Erik is VP of Business Development at Mobilizy. Erik holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford.

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Hartmut Neven is a scientist working in computational neurobiology, robotics and computer vision. Neven co-founded two companies, Eyematic and Neven Vision. Neven Vision pioneered mobile visual search and was acquired by Google. Today he manages a team responsible for advancing Google’s visual search technologies and is the lead engineer for Google Goggles. Neven is also researching the use of quantum computing for machine learning. Neven was assistant professor of computer science at the University of Southern California at the Laboratory for Biological and Computational Vision and was the head of the Laboratory for Human-Machine Interfaces at USC’s Information Sciences Institute.

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Ivan Franco is the Director of Research and Development at YDreams: a Portuguese company that has been developing VR, AR, and mobile applications since 2000. Ivan’s work has delved into ubiquitous computing, interactive installations, and opportunities for rethinking User Experience and Electronic Arts. He has a background in Engineering with a Masters in Digital Arts.

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John du Pre Gauntt is the founder of Media Dojo and is an expert on the business impact of interactive technologies on the media and marketing industries. He has advised some of the world’s largest advertising agencies, professional services firms, technology providers and start-up companies. His written analysis of the intersection of media, technology and economics has been published by The Economist Intelligence Unit, eMarketer, The World Economic Forum and the National Association of Television and Programming Executives (NATPE).

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Lee S Dryburgh is a communications engineer, technologist and futurist. He pours great passion and energy into self-directed projects. He takes coffee and network bandwidth as input and outputs training, consulting and conferences. His expertise is in two domains: First - the way telecoms operates today at the engineering level; specifically Signalling System #7 (SS7/SigTran/CAMEL/MAP) which powers virtually all telephone calls, all SMS, cellular mobility itself, and most pre-paid cellular solutions. Second - exceptional knowledge of the future of telecommunications, in particular telephony. He can provide a detailed view of the industry in 1, 2 or even 10 year’s time.

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P. Mark Anderson brings thirteen years of experience in the development of interactive applications. After receiving a degree in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, he started his career as a Java programmer at Sun Microsystems. An early adopter of game changing technologies, Mark found his way to mobile development through 10 years of open web development at startups, universities and cafes. Mark’s web and mobile software projects include diverse work in the fields of ecology, health and fitness, e-commerce, entertainment, and augmented reality. Mark is highly gifted in bringing vision and technology to application.

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An early UX design pioneer, Mark was founder of frog’s digital media group back in 1996 and now orchestrates strategists, technologists, designers and information architects to produce groundbreaking work for Fortune 500 companies. His work focuses on the intersection of product, digital, and strategic design. Just like a real frog, he can see in all directions.

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Matt Miesnieks is the Head of Customer Development for Layar, the worlds leading Mobile AR platform. Matt is responsible for worldwide Distribution, Partnerships and Revenue and developing Layar's business model. Matt has over 20 years of commercial Internet experience with a range of infrastructure, services and app startups (from before the Web was invented), and 9 years experience directly with Mobile Data services. Originally from Sydney, and after 14 years commercialising Mobile & Internet Services through Asia Pacific, he is relishing the chance to define a new medium with Layar.

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As one of the founders and CEO of Zugara, Matthew drives the firm's strategic and creative vision for a roster of globally recognized brands. His vast experience in interactive marketing has fostered some of the most influential integrated marketing campaigns of the last decade for Fortune 500 brands including Lexus, Sony PlayStation, Reebok and Toyota. Although Matthew has a deep understanding of emerging technologies and the Gen X/Y demographic, he firmly believes that "Story, Stats, and Strategy" are the crucial elements to every successful interactive marketing campaign. Matthew's core industry passions include Interactive Video, Augmented Reality and Mobile Marketing.

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Michael Gervautz is a Director of Business Development at Qualcomm Inc. He was previously the Founder and Managing Director of Imagination Computer Services, a company that developed interactive user experiences based on sensor technologies, augmented reality and computer vision/computer graphics. Prior to that, Michael was an Associate Professor at the Institute for Computer Graphics at the University of Technology Vienna, where he led research in virtual and augmented reality, realistic image synthesis, multimedia in education and computer animation. Michael studied Computer Science at the University of Technology in Vienna where he received his M.Sc. and PhD degrees.

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Pam Kerwin handles Strategic Business Development for GeoVector Corporation, a company which has been working on commercializing augmented reality applications for many years. Pam has extensive senior management experience in both start-up and Fortune 500 companies within various industries. Prior to joining GeoVector, Pam was a senior executive at Pixar Animation Studios, an independent film production company best known for its blockbuster, Toy Story. Pam participated in Pixar’s highly successful IPO and in the creation of several blockbuster films, award winning commercials and interactive products.

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Peter Meier, born 1976, received his master in manufacturing engineering from the Technical University of Munich, before founding metaio in 2003 together with Dr. Thomas Alt. Since then, he serves as CTO and helped to make metaio one of the leading companies for the development and licensing of Augmented Reality Technology, worldwide. Peter Meier actively takes part in expanding metaio’s technology and products.

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Rob Spence, onscreen director in the cult documentary hit “Let's All Hate Toronto”, for CBC Newsworld’s “The Lens” that got the highest ratings ever. It is nationally distributed in Canada and was also a special presentation at North America’s biggest documentary festival. The Eyeborg Project, Rob and a team of engineers converting his prosthetic eye into a wireless video camera, has received international attention: Drudge; Huffpost; Today Show; Jimmy Fallon; Wired; BBC; CNN; Tech Crunch; and Fox News amongst many other outlets. Recently, Rob’s camera eye was named one of Time Magazine’s 50 best inventions of the year.

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Robert is an author, futurist, entrepreneur and a recognized world leader in pioneering commercial augmented reality with 17 years of experience. He is the author of MMO Evolution and a contributing author in Working Through Synthetic Worlds and the CEO of Neogence Enterprises and Chairman of the AR Consortium. Recognized as an Internet Gaming Pioneer by Advertising Age magazine in 1996, Robert was called a Founding Father of the Digital Nation in 1998 by The Raleigh News & Observer. He is an authority on mobile augmented reality, persistent immersive environments, virtual reality and worlds, massively multiuser online games, and simulations.

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Steve Hoffman is a founding member of the Academy of Television's Interactive Media Group and the founder of the San Francisco Chapter of the Producers Guild. He is now heading up Think Huge. Prior to this, he was the CEO of RocketOn, and the COO and cofounder of Zannel, a large-scale mobile media messaging platform. Before that, Hoffman was the North American Studio Head for Infospace’s mobile games unit. Hoffman was the Chairman & CEO of Spiderdance, Hollywood's leading interactive television studio.He also consulted for R/GA, designing projects for Kodak, Disney, Intel, AdAge, and Sesame Workshop.

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Steven Feiner is Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, where he directs the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab, and co-directs the Columbia Vision and Graphics Center. Prof. Feiner’s lab created the first mobile augmented reality system using a see-through display in 1996, and pioneered applications of augmented reality to fields such as tourism, journalism, maintenance, and construction. He is coauthor of Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice and of Introduction to Computer Graphics, received an ONR Young Investigator Award, and together with his students, has won best paper awards at ACM UIST, ACM CHI, ACM VRST, and IEEE ISMAR.

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Tony Fernandes is a User Exerience expert with more than 20 years of usability, user interface design, and product design experience and founder of theUEgroup LLC, a User Experience consultancy in Silicon Valley. Previously, Tony founded Netscape's User Experience Group, the Apple/Claris Human Interface Group and organizations at Lotus/IBM and Xerox PARC. He also launched various web and software ventures. Tony is the author of the book "Global Interface Design".

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Usman Haque, is director Haque Design + Research Ltd (www.haque.co.uk), founder of Pachube.com and CEO of Connected Environments Ltd. He has created responsive environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices and mass-participation performances around the world. His skills include the design and engineering of both physical spaces and the software and systems that bring them to life. As well as directing the work of Haque Design + Research he was until 2005 a teacher in the Interactive Architecture Workshop at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London.

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Yohan Baillot is a French and US citizen and a pioneer in the Augmented Reality research community with 13 years experience working exclusively in AR domain for the medical and military fields. Mr Baillot has a MS in EE from Polytech' Montpellier in France and a MS in CS from UCF in Orlando FL. He is the author of more than 30 academic papers and 6 patents. He is a member of the Computer Society and the founder of the ARForum, a mailing list on AR with more than 500 members.

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