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Featured Speakers
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Friedrich Kirschner, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, New York
Friedrich Kirschner is a filmmaker, visual artist and software developer. He re-purposes computer games and realtime animation technology to create animated narratives and interactive performances.
His work has been shown at various international animation festivals and exhibitions, including the Laboral Gameworld exhibit in Gijon, the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York, the Ottawa international Animation festival and the Seoul Media Art Biennale. He is currently a production fellow with the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York.
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Professor Keiji Mitsubuchi, Digital Hollywood University graduate school
Digital Hollywood University is Japan’s first university specializing in digital content, with established branch schools in the major cities of Japan and previously Los Angeles. The university has groomed more than 30,000 graduates to date and the university’s networks extend widely in every segment of the digital content industry.
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Ricard Gras, Founder & Creative Director, Inter-Activa and Director, Machinima Europe Board
Inter-Activa is known for their Machinima and virtual world projects. Electronic Arts, SEGA and SONY are amongst the companies which games INTER-ACTIVA have engaged for its productions. It is also one of the first European companies to develop virtual content for the Second Life environment. Over the past years they have also worked as consultants in many projects that involved interactive and linear media companies working together in cross-platform concepts.
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Xu Hui, Founder and CEO, HiPiHi
HiPiHi is a leading 3D virtual world operator in one of the world's largest market, China. HiPiHi World is rich and complex platform where content is user-generated; users can live up to their own imaginations in this the virtual reality which has a complex social structure and a full functioning economy.
Xu Hui is the Founder and CEO of HiPiHi. Xu Hui graduated from Business school of Wuhan University in 1990. He pursued international EMBA in Peking University in 2001. Before HiPHi, he was Managing Director of MyWeb China and Chairman and CEO of Jingqi Xishu E-commerce. Xu was awarded 'Top 10 China Internet Heros' in 1999. As a pioneer and practitioner in China market, he has tremendous experience in business management and financial investment in Internet industry.
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Jeremy Snyder, VP of Community & Operations, Metaversum
Jeremy Snyder is responsible for day-to-day platform operations, community management and customer support at Metaversum. Jeremy also heads up Metaversum Asia, based in Singapore. Prior to Metaversum, Jeremy gained his experience at several companies as Senior IT Manager and Director for Managed Services and Hosted Business Solutions. He expanded his entrepreneurial career as co-founder of Extensive Development LLC, a consulting in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business. Jeremy has a BA in Computational Linguistics from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA in Enterprise Management from George Mason University.
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Mr. Richard Childers, CEO, Virtual Space Entertainment
Virtual Space Entertainment develops high-definition, photo-realistic virtual reality. They are currently working with Avatar Reality to develop "Blue Mars", which features stunning graphics, realistic characters and endless gaming attractions that will allow players to build and simulate real-life scenarios set on a terra-formed Mars in the year 2177 AD. Blue Mars 2150 will be the first high definition, real time virtual world.
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