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VRARA Fireside Chat
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| With Matt Miesnieks (Founder/CEO, 6D AI), Annisa Kau (Mktg & Partnerships, TeamBlind), Jeff Meador (COO, Portico), Alia Le Cam (Head of Mktg & Comms, Umbra), Sony Green (Biz Dev, Kineviz), Emily Olman (Founder, Spatial First), Mike Boland (Chief Analyst, ARtillry). |
| WeWork Mid-Market, 995 Market St, San Francisco |
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Aug 22 (Wed) , 2018 @ 05:30 PM
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Please join us Wednesday, August 22nd for the next VRARA SF Chapter Meet-up at WeWork Mid-Market in San Francisco for a chance to get to know the new chapter leadership, followed by a fireside chat with Matt Miesnieks (CEO & Co-Founder of 6D.ai, investor, & influential technology writer), & Emily Olman (VR/AR Association San Francisco Chapter Co-President).
The San Francisco VR/AR Association's membership has grown significantly over the last three years, & to keep up with that pace, we've recently added significantly to our chapter leadership team to include some of the brightest stars in the ecosystem. The first part of the evening will include a panel discussion with our growing team: Annisa Kau, Sony Green, Alia LeCam, & Jeff Meador about the goals for the VRARA SF Chapter's coming year, & we will also get a sneak-peak at community member's answers to the question, "What makes San Francisco the best city for XR?" from our soon-to-be-published VRARA SF Ecosystem Report.
We will then be joined by Matt Miesnieks for a fireside chat to reflect on this past year since ARKit & ARCore released, & talk about the influence of ARCloud on the evolving augmented reality landscape. We will also get a chance to talk with Matt about 6D.ai's approach to solving for the foundational technology to usher in the next age of spatial computing. The 6D.ai SDK (now in BETA), uses standard built-in smartphone cameras to build a real-time 3D semantic, crowd sourced map of the world, all in the background without a depth camera. This means that spatial computing apps that were only possible to build on expensive HMD's are now possible on ARCore & ARKit smartphones. We will get a chance to hear from Matt personally about how their AI neural-networks will help developer's applications understand the world in 3D.
Matt Miesnieks, CEO & Co-Founder, 6D.aiMatt is renowned as one of the AR industry's thought leaders through his influential blog posts. This is his 3rd AR startup, he also helped found SuperVentures (investing in AR), built AR system prototypes at Samsung, & had a long commercial & technical career in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR software infrastructure in 2009.
VRARA SAN FRANCISCO LEADERSHIP TEAM
Annisa Kau, Project Manager
VRARA SF Events Manager
Annisa has a background in public media & most recently represented national distribution for independent documentaries on PBS, including Emmy award-winning television series Independent Lens & POV. Currently, by day, she's building partnerships for a tech start-up; by night, she's working with local filmmakers to continue her passion for storytelling & hopes to incorporate immersive storytelling into her future projects.
Jeff Meador, Portico
VRARA SF Membership Director
Jeff Meador is the COO of Portico.ai & also serves as the co-chair the VR/ AR Association's training committee. He began his career working with Stanford's Multimedia Laboratory in the 1990s, developing some of the first online interactive experiences for classrooms. He has maintained his passion for leveraging & extending technology to create effective & engaging methods of learning. In recent years, his focus has turned to immersive media such as Virtual & Augmented Realities. As COO of Portico, he leads the vision & strategy of how to deploy interactive, conversational role play tools to training content creators. He is a champion of standards, best practices, & the science of learning, having authored or co-authored several white papers for the VR/AR Association in support of using immersive reality to augment traditional training. His proactive, results-oriented approach has led to numerous awards & accolades from diverse sources such as Forbes, Engadget, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, & more.
Alia Le Cam, Umbra
VRARA SF Communications Director
Alia Le Cam is a UX-driven marketer with strong international experience. Prior to joining Umbra as Head of Marketing & Communications, Alia has held a career focused in Marketing & Communications for innovative technology startups as well as corporate giants like Tommy Hilfiger & Tiffany & Co. Most recently she worked to script the conversation around social humanoid robotics in our daily lives while at SoftBank Robotics, the world's largest humanoid robotics company. Alia focuses on creating brand stories & establishing communications messages that drive market understanding to help influence the way brands interact with their customers.
Sony Green, Kineviz
VRARA SF Sponsorshps Director
Sony works with Kineviz' clients & partners to devise XR-based solutions for visualizing graph & high-dimensional data. He has worked for Salesforce, the CDC, LucasArts, Yahoo, IGN, & several tech start ups. Sony brings a cross-disciplinary approach with a grounding in 3D animation to the work of business development.Emily OlmanCo-Founder, Spatial First, CEO, Hopscotch InteractiveVRARA SF Chapter Co-President
Emily Olman is CEO & Co-Founder of Spatial First an AR cloud platform for real estate headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to this,Emily founded Hopscotch Interactive, a 3D/VR marketing services company to accelerate the adoption of new media & technology for property marketing using reality capture. She has spoken on VR for Real Estate both in the U.S. & abroad, & in her role as theVR/AR Association SF Chapter Co-President, she advocates & evangelizes for VR/AR acceleration on a global scale. She also participates in the VR/AR Association Real Estate Committee, setting standards & best-practices worldwide. As a consultant, she educates her clientson the current state of technology, & its current business applications from traditional property marketing to mixed-reality services. She also moderates three influential Facebook Groups: ARVR Women & Allies, Matterport Official User Group, & Real Estate VR/AR News.
Mike BolandChief Analyst, ARtillry.coVRARA SF Chapter Co-President
Mike Boland was one of Silicon Valley's first tech reporters of the internet age, as a staff reporter for Forbes (print) starting in 2000. He has been a tech industry analyst at top-tier research firms since 2005, & is now Founder & Chief Analyst of ARtillry Intelligence, covering AR & VR. Mike is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as Augmented World Expo, VRLA, & ad:tech. He has authored in-depth reports on the changing tech & media landscape including social networking & mobile. He contributes regularly to highly read online news sources such as TechCrunch, Business Insider, VentureBeat & the Huffington Post. A trusted source for tech journalists, his comments have appeared in A-list publications, including The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal & The New York Times. Before his career as an analyst, Mike was a San Francisco-based journalist for business & technology print publications, such as Red Herring, Business 2.0, & Mobile Magazine.
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