New Technologies

Joanna Peña-Bickley - Empowered by wearable tech

Thu, 22 Oct 2015 14:11:44 GMT

"Wearable tech is reshaping industries with global impact."

In this talk, Joanna Peña-Bickley, Chief Creative Officer at IBM Interactive Experience gives us an odyssey of the current state of the field and how humans are adapting it.

With the wearables technique that exists today, we have the opportunity to create enchanting human experiences. Wearables have transformed industries like entertainment, health, security, financial services, fashion and retail and will continue to transform and reshape the industries.

Mike Hearn - Fight for the right to be ruled by machines

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 16:17:50 GMT

"New infrastructures are being designed to remove power from the people who designed them."

In this keynote session, Bitcoin developer Mike Hearn talks on the topic ”Fighting for the right to be ruled by machines”. He outlines a possible scenario over the next 50 years, in which an ever worsening political situation results in some people deciding that only computers/robots can be trusted to control the critical infrastructure of society (cars, planes, mobile networks, legal systems etc) and therefore that the people currently in charge of them need to be evicted from those positions of power.

ROBOTS AND HUMANS

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 16:05:21 GMT

“Robot ethics is about humans.”

Kate Darling is a Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center and the Yale Information Society Project. Robots are likely to take an increasingly bigger part of our lives. To understand what it means for humans and how we are going to interact with our new friends Kate will talk about her research on people's instinctual and emotional perception of robots.

A change from robots being present behind the scenes in manufacturing spaces etc. to being present in all areas of our lives is becoming a reality, whether you like it or not. Emotional affections to human alike robots are the new evolving thing. Kate takes us on the journey of anthropomorphism and what the future holds.

Laura Michelle Berman - Better focus with wearables

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:53:47 GMT

“The greatest potential with wearables are still ahead of us.”

Laura Michelle Berman is the co-founder of Melon, a brainwave-monitoring headband and award-winning mobile application for measuring and improving focus. She speaks about her experience designing and building a wearable product and share her vision for how wearable technology will evolve over time.

Ida Tin - Empower women with wearables

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:52:20 GMT

"Collecting data is extremely important for the individual woman but also for society.”

Ida Tin is the co-founder and CEO of Clue, a period tracking and fertility app with the ambition is to empower women, to allow them to take better control of their lives and to help female health and science.

In this talk Ida talks about why female health and family planning is interesting and trendy to study in health technology. Understanding the menstruation cycle is valuable to women individually, and by using data collected you gain insight on fertility, miscarriage and pregnancy at an individual as well as at a global scale.

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino - Connecting to the internet of things

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:46:57 GMT

”It’s all about the things.”

Interaction designer Alexandra Deschamps-Sosino, Designswarm, talks about how to design connected products that are meaningful to humans.

We live in an in-between world where technology and reality is kind of blurry. But, we have the opportunity to experiment with the technology that we have. The Internet of Things should never be a reflection of the industry but push forward and move beyond that.

James Haliburton - Why you won’t use the next big thing

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:44:43 GMT

"There will be no more rockstar designers."

In this talk James Haliburton, co-founder and CEO of the strategic design consultancy Topp, talks about why you won't use the next big thing and why designers of IoT experiences will need to check their egos at the door, as the most important innovations will be distributed, invisible, and will only be recognized when they don't work as intended.

Kati London - IoT: Designing for socially relevant engagement

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:42:32 GMT

”We need to make sense of data while support our own humanity.”

The Internet of Things promises more data and intelligence, however designing for socially relevant engagement is key to making meaning out of these technologies. Through examples that draw on humanizing data Senior researcher Kati London, Microsoft Research, talks through opportunities and challenges in this space.

One example is when she draws on her own experiences and demonstrates botanicals; an invention that basically humanizes plants, giving them abilities such as emotions and dialect.

Interview with Adam Pruden

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 16:52:10 GMT

Interview with Adam Pruden, Frog Design, by Andreas Ekström, HD-Sydsvenskan.

Adam Pruden - Drones in everyday life

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:59:11 GMT

"We are entering a post-smartphone era."

Senior Interaction Designer Adam Pruden, Frog Design and his co-workers examined if drones could be the next big smart device and concluded that it is very possible.

In this talk, Adam explains how drones will enter our everyday lives and not only work as smart devices but also as wearables. He gives us a glimpse of a future forecast of how drones will interact with us at a very intimate scale.

Mads Wilson - Access to space

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:20:36 GMT

"Imagine a world where companies can have their own rockets and launch their own satellites."

Mads Wilson from Copenhagen Suborbitals talks about why it’s important to develop cheap access to space, and how this can be accomplished with off-the-shelf components.

Copenhagen Suborbitals are working towards the ambitious achievement of launching a manned rocket by 2017. Mads showcases testing sessions and explains whilst it's fairly easy to get a rocket up into the space, getting it back down to earth in a safe manner, is quite the challenge.

Aral Balkan - Privacy, Data, Democracy

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:38:46 GMT

"We need to move beyond the Silicon Valley model."

Aral Balkan is the founder and lead designer of Ind.ie, a social enterprise creating independent alternatives to Spyware 2.0.

Aral insists that we as individuals must have ownership and control of our digital selves. We are the products that companies and corporations sell to their customers. This is the business model of Silicon Valley which regulators of today don't question enough.

Aral’s work protects fundamental freedoms, human rights, and democracy by creating independent consumer technologies that don’t spy on you. He is the author of the Ind.ie Manifesto.

Aral is currently working on coding the core of the Ind.ie platform, a beautiful distributed social network called Heartbeat. In this talk he tells you all about it.

Nell Watson - Machines will replace humans at every level

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:43:16 GMT

"Machines will replace humans at every level."

Children automatically gather a lot of capabilities and evolve through pattern recognition. When can we teach machines to do the same?

According to Nell Watson, CEO of Poikos, we are already on our way. As the technology grows more powerful and sophisticated, we are moving towards creating true artificial intelligence. We are already at the stage of a bee and it's only a matter of time until our new colleague's mind was created by IBM.

Amir Rubin - Machines Understanding of Humans

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:43:04 GMT

"What if machines could sense the world the same way humans do?"

Perceptions shape our experiences and allows us to experience new realities. Having machines perceive the world as humans, do open up for a new paradigm of what it means to experience content.

By using laser sensors we can create exact 3D replicas of the physical world, bringing the content into our reality instead of the other way around. Paracosm co-founder Amir Rubin explains and shows examples of how it can be used.

Ivan Poupyrev - Designing for new technologies

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:42:09 GMT

"Gadgets are your friends."

To make sense of technology we need to use it in new and interesting ways. Instead of just ending up in a large pile of junk, how can we think beyond gadgets? Can we make it more sustainable by making the physical world interactive?

Labeled one of the best interaction designers in the world, Ivan Poupyrev, Technical Program Lead at the Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP), shows some mind-blowing examples of combining new technology with our environment.

Sarah Jeong - The what and how of Bitcoin

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:27:48 GMT

"Human beings want to trust each other and the systems around them."

Can money exist without a government? And is the biggest value of the coin actually the gold or the face of the king?

Sarah Jeong, writer and Harvard Law School graduate, discusses the trust issues surrounding the Bitcoin blockchain. She concludes that even though Bitcoin may have started out as a reaction to the financial system, it has actually become a part of it.

Juan Cartagena - How to own your reputation online

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:26:22 GMT

"Should we let algorithms run the show - or should we do it by human hand?"

Juan Cartagena is the founder of Traity, a startup focusing on measuring people's reputation across social networks. He speaks of the growing importance of reputation in an economy where transactions between strangers are becoming more common.

Also, he mentions the challenges this entails - most notably, to which degree algorithms should be allowed to determine reputation.

David Gram - Increasing the Longevity of Content

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:53:21 GMT

"We are like mad scientists that are allowed to experiment."

How to create a longevity in a product that was invented 80 years ago? And how to still stay relevant in the ever changing world?

David Gram, Marketing Director of Lego Group's Future Lab, speaks about his experience of Intrapreneurship within the Lego Group. With this approach, it is always a challenge to stay true to the core values and be a rebel at the same time. You have to accept that people will hate your project in the beginning, because that's what the invention of future play is about.

Evan Sandhaus - How to archive content

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:45:54 GMT

"Our relationship with the past has started to change."

Evan Sandhaus presents the future of the past told through the lens of the New York Times archive. He talks about the challenges of how to digitally manage the 46,595 issues that New York Times has produced since 1851.

Let's face it: users don't have the time and inclination to find their way through the 163 year-old archive. Hence, the New York Times has found a way to successful digital archiving, based on three pillars: distribution, discovery and curation.

Masakazu Takasu - Interactive design from Japan

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:44:33 GMT

"Done is better than perfect."

Masakazu Takasu, technical evangelist at teamLab, takes us on a journey to his homeland of Japan and their exciting ways of using technology, design and science. teamLab combines these disciplines to create innovative digital solutions often with physical elements of interaction.

Through playing and experimentation, connecting prototyping with 3D graphics, art and much more, they're creating a whole new world of gaming, interactive decorations and augmented reality.

Juliana Rotich - How to enable others to make things happen

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:29:56 GMT

"It is in sharing that we create value."

Out of the need for better media coverage, Ushahidi was born. Co-founder Juliana Rotich explains why this new technology is a door opener to create a more transparent and better world - not only in Africa, but also on a global scale.

Through the concept of crowdsourcing, knowledge is being put in people's hands. This enables us to find true stories in data and give the world a better picture of what is really going on.

Mattan Griffel - Teach yourself to code

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:42:41 GMT

"Coders are the modern day artists."

The what, why and how of learning how to program. Like painting with a blank canvas, programming can help you make reality of the ideas in your head.

Mattan Griffel, co-founder of One Month, argues that by brute-force learning you can quickly pick up coding skills that allows you to manipulate the world around you, instead of being directed by the ones who can.

Ingrid Burrington - Where the internet is located

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:42:02 GMT

"Infrastructure is only something you notice when it stops working."

Internet is more than just what you interact with online. With miles of fiber lines and future ways of providing wireless connection, the major online companies are moving beyond tech into infrastructure while we are losing access.

Artist and writer Ingrid Burrington brings up the question on how we can use the infrastructure to take control of our own communication.

Fabian Hemmert - Tactility in a digital world

Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:49:13 GMT

Fabian Hemmert is a Design Researcher concerned with the role of our body in our interactions with technology. During his studies towards an M.A. degree in Interface Design, he worked for Nintendo of Europe and Marvel Comics.

We all know how paper feels and that we interpret things by touching them But how does digital features feel, and how can we better understand "digital materials" to design augmented digital experiences.

Alexis Ohanian - Lagom is not enough

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:08:31 GMT

Alexis Ohanian is an entrepreneur and investor from Brooklyn, NY, best known as the co-founder of the social news site reddit.

With a proven record of making something people love as the model for success, he will come to The Conference to talk about the importance of giving a damn about the people who are about to use and consume what you create.

Golden Krishna - Communication without a Digital Interface

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:36:48 GMT

Golden Krishna speaks about how "The best interface is no interface". Today there is an app for everything, not seldom apps with good intents but that aren't helpful at all. Are we losing sight of the goal of actually solving problems? It's time to think outside the screens and start making true, Good Experience Design.

Golden Krishna is a Senior Designer at Samsung where he specializes in designing things that do not exist today.

Tomonori Kagaya - Communication without a Digital Interface

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:36:39 GMT

Many people believe that the future of interaction is on screens. But what if we can design communication that doesn't involve screens? Tomonori Kagaya, the founder of Neurowear, showcase the world's first commercialized neuro headset that expresses the user's feelings. With this new invention we can truly connect with technology and we will not need a parallel universe to control things with our mind anymore.

Tomonori Kagaya is the founder of Neurowear. A japanese project organization developing emotionalized communication gadgets. Their neuro headset Necomimi was selected as one of the 50 top innovations by TIME Magazine, 2011. Up next is the Neuro headphones that will know your taste in music even better than yourself.

Mike Dewar - Big Data - Understand and Visualize

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:35:11 GMT

Mike Dewar, Data Scientist at The New York Times R&D Lab, will talk about how we can build tools to let us see behavioral phenomena from a heady new perspective with big data and data science.

In an increasingly complex and networked world, tools for recording, filtering and visualising data is powering a new breed of storytelling.

Petra Sundström - Forefront technologies and design thinking

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:02:02 GMT

Petra Sundström is a leading researcher within the fields of Human Computer Interaction and Interaction Systems Design. She is Lab Manager for the Crafted Technology and Experiences lab at SICS and Mobile Life. With a background in engineering, and with long experience of multidisciplinary design research, Petra is passionate about forefront technologies combined with creative design thinking.

We all know how paper feels and that we interpret things by touching them But how does digital features feel, and how can we better understand "digital materials" to design augmented digital experiences.

Birgitta Rosén - Tactility in a Digital World

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:56:42 GMT

Birgitta Rosén is an occupational therapist and researcher with with more than 30 years of experience from hand therapy at the department of Hand Surgery Malmö, Lund University.

Matt Novak - Thinking 100 Years Ahead

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:07:30 GMT

"In the struggles of the past, we find the better future"

Gizmodo journalist Matt Novak delivers an intriguing speech about the history of tomorrow. Analyzing past visions of the future can tell us a lot about different generations hopes and fears. There is this romantic notion that the future used to be better and that the future ahead is not as bright as in the 1950's Space Age. But fact is, the technical evolution the last century did not just happen out of nowhere. This speech will leave you feeling a bit puzzled but yet optimistic.

Matt Novak writes about past visions of the future for Gizmodo's Paleofuture blog. He started the Paleofuture blog independently in 2007 as a way to explore how the people of yesterday imagined the future.

James Bridle - Naked Lunch

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 11:07:10 GMT

The world is shaped by new technologies, but perhaps it is shaped more by how we understand those technologies, how they impact our daily lives, and the mental models we have of them. James will talk about architectural visualisation, online literatures, contemporary warfare and contemporary labour, in an attempt to articulate new ways of thinking about the world.

James Bridle is a writer, artist and technologist based in London, UK. He exhibits and speaks worldwide on the subjects of literature and technology, networks and culture. In 2011, he coined the term “New Aesthetic”, and his ongoing research around this subject has been featured and discussed worldwide.

Martin Källström - Wearable Technology

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:01:27 GMT

Martin is the founder and CEO of Memoto. He is an experienced entrepreneur and technologist, thinker and tinkerer. The past decade was a period of transformation for him. Since both his parents passed away in cancer and his two daughters came into his life, he realized how much value there is in the small everyday moments that ties our lives together.

Technology is by now an essential part of our lives. The trend is clear, it's getting closer to our bodies. The quantified self-trend has been thriving for some years, but what happens if the technology we carry goes from measuring to documenting and enhancing our sense in real time? How will this new technology be adopted, and will we eventually become cyborgs?

Millie Clive-Smith - Wearable Technology

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:00:41 GMT

Millie is part of the team behind Eidos, a project exploring sensory augmentation technologies. She will discuss the evolution of Eidos and how we can think beyond today's wearable devices and AR to a future where technology will be used to directly enhance the human body.

Technology is by now an essential part of our lives. The trend is clear, it's getting closer to our bodies. The quantified self-trend has been thriving for some years, but what happens if the technology we carry goes from measuring to documenting and enhancing our sense in real time? How will this new technology be adopted, and will we eventually become cyborgs?

Matthew Berman - Lean Marketing and Growth Hacking

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:27:35 GMT

Matthew Berman, Distribution Hacker in Residence at 500 Startups, will speak about growth hacking, and his experience from helping companies that they invest in with user acquisition, analytics, growth, and development.

Growth hacking, or lean marketing, is a set of tactics and best practices for getting people to use what you are creating. It’s about having a sense of design, human behavior on the internet and technology, and to feed what you learn to the developing processes of a product or service.

Fabian Stelzer - Lean Marketing and Growth Hacking

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:27:00 GMT

Fabian Stelzer, Co-founder at EyeQuant, will introduce the importance of testing one's design intuitions with new tools and ask the question: What do neuroscientists and Piet Mondriaan know about capturing attention that the rest of us may not?

Growth hacking, or lean marketing, is a set of tactics and best practices for getting people to use what you are creating. It’s about having a sense of design, human behavior on the internet and technology, and to feed what you learn to the developing processes of a product or service.

Marcin De Kaminski - Change Making

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:26:35 GMT

Marcin De Kaminski, Internet researcher at Lund University, will present the outlines of hacktivism, policy hacking and how to change society by the use of progressive technologies. In a world of technology, we need to hack it all.

Let’s acknowledge that what we all do can actually make a better world. You can set the agenda for events bigger than your everyday life. All people, from all fields, have the power to make an impact – a techie just as much as a truck driver.

Peter Sunde - Dark Side of Innovation

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:47:33 GMT

Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, will share is thoughts on how he and file sharing site innovated our contemporary media landscape and what we all can learn from that.

What do pirates, computer hackers and inner city gangs have in common with Silicon Valley? Innovation.

Anna Haupt - Origins of Creativity

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:02:33 GMT

Anna Haupt is one of two founders of the Swedish company and invention Hövding – the invisible bicycle helmet.

Many things have been said about where ideas come from. Pablo Picasso said that ”the chief enemy of creativity is good sense” and Tomas Edison insisted that ”genius is 1% talent and 99% perspiration”. Seems that being a bit crazy and working hard is the way forward. This session will explore factors for being creative.

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Hojun Song

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:34:34 GMT

Hojun Song is a South Korean artist and engineer that is making narratives and raising questions by creating absurd objects like radiation jewelry and the strongest weapon in the world. Currently he’s working to launch his own small satellite.

Sofia Svanteson - The Future of Interaction Design

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:46:22 GMT

Sofia Svanteson is an award winning Swedish entrepreneur, designer and inventor who is dedicated to coming up with strategies and design for meaningful digital services and products.

Technology is useless if we aren’t able to interact with it in a meaningful and useful way. In this session we let two thought leaders in the field present their visions for the years to come.

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Sriram Peruvemba - Public Computing and the Screens World

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:34:17 GMT

Sriram Peruvemba, Chief Marketing Officer at E Ink, the leader in ePaper displays.

What if all surfaces are potential screens?! This session will present some visionary ideas of what new possibilities media producers will have at their hands in a near future for showing there work in public spaces.

Venkatesh Rao - Public Computing and the Screens World

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:01:17 GMT

Venkatesh Rao, consultant, independent researcher and blogger at ribbonfarm.com

Henric Trotzig - Move Into the Cloud

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:52 GMT

Henric Trotzig is Lead Developer at Kanal 5 Play, an ambitious attempt at bringing the TV experience to the web.

We are increasingly turning to the cloud for storage and processing power, increased flexibility, real time access, seamless collaboration, and convenience in our private and professional lifes. But what is the cloud and how does it all work? What’s in it for me and is it always the way to go?

Dan Gärdenfors - Public Computing and the Screens World

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:17:05 GMT

Dan Gärdenfors, Senior Concept Designer, spends his time inventing, designing and communicating futuristic user interfaces at Research In Motion TAT.

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Tine Thygesen - The Interest Graph

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:47:59 GMT

Tine Thygesen is the founder of Everplaces, a tech company that lets you keep track of wonderful places you’ve discovered.

We’ve had the social graph for some years, letting us use the relation between people. Now we are increasingly benefiting from understanding the relationships between ourselves and the things around us, with the building of interest graphs. Here we will dig deeper into it by looking at it from both a consumers and brands perspective.

Kate Hartman

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:45:37 GMT

Kate Hartman is an artist, wearable design technologist, and Assistant Professor of Wearable & Mobile Technology and Director of the Social Body Lab at OCAD University in Toronto. Her work spans the fields of physical computing, wearable electronics, and conceptual art.

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Anton Johansson - Move Into the Cloud

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:25:57 GMT

Anton Johansson is CMO at Twingly, he will give an intro to the possibilities with the tools for the cloud and how it makes product development faster than ever.

Kirby Ferguson - Creating with fans and build on other peoples work

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:48:37 GMT

Kirby Ferguson is a New York-based writer, producer, director and editor. He is currently at work on the fourth and final part of the popular web video series, Everything is a Remix. Kirby is taking us on a journey spanning back through centuries of western culture. He’ll illustrate how inventions are the products of copying, transforming and combining previous ones.

Megan Miller - How to live a hyperconnected life

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:00:19 GMT

Megan Miller is the U.S. director of R&D at Bonnier. Megan introduces the current quantified-self trend, and a look at potential future scenarios. What happens when even our physical bodies are connected online, and we ourselves become a part of the “Internet of Things”?

Måns Adler & Anders Hallberg - Internet of Things, when everything is connected

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:46:19 GMT

Måns Adler is the co-founder of the video service Bambuser that enable everybody to live stream video from mobile phone or webcam. He holds a masters degree in the art of work science as well as a degree from the KaosPilots.

Joakim Formo - Internet of Things, When everything is connected

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:46:16 GMT

Joakim Formo is Senior Researcher at the User Experience Lab at the research department of the global telecommunications company Ericsson.

In this presentation Joakim shows an intriguing concept under the working name the Social Web of Things. It is a platform and an interaction model currently under development at Ericsson Research, and a result of their research on how most people could easily interact with large numbers of interconnected smart objects, and intuitively understand the internet of things as something new yet quite familiar.

David Cuartielles - Internet of Things, When everything is connected

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:46:09 GMT

David Cuartielles is an Electronics engineer by training and researcher at Malmö University for the last 10 years. David founded Arduino five years ago together with an international team.

Måns Adler - Internet of Things, When everything is connected

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:46:05 GMT

In 2007 Måns Adler founded the video service Bambuser that enable everybody to live stream video from mobile phone or webcam. Ericsson predicts 50 billion devices to be connected by 2030. The web will move into the era of things and when it happens we need things to be mediated so it gives us meaning. This is a great opportunity for the media industry. But the big question is of course, how?

Vivian Rosenthal - Augmented Reality, Beyond digital media.

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:26:39 GMT

Vivian Rosenthal is the founder and CEO of Goldrun. Rosenthal is discussing GoldRun which uses augmented reality to create new interactions between our digital and physical lives.

Alex Olwal - Augmented Reality, Beyond digital media

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:25:34 GMT

Alex Olwal (Ph.D.) is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab. In this presentation Alex is discussing AR technology that, for example, can be used as transparent 3D windows for industrial machines, or that allows the combination of multiple displays + tracking to enable new medical user interfaces.

Michaela Schmied - Augmented Reality, beyond digital media

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:24:27 GMT

Michaela Schmied is an augmented reality-marketeer at Augmented Event and SweetAR. Michaela will introduce augmented reality and talk about AR for websites, for your mobile phone and stand-alone setup in a store or at an event.

Rahul Sen - Seeing the future through the users’ eyes

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:11:53 GMT

Rahul is an interaction designer with a background in architecture and theatre. Rahul uses his diverse history to probe and create interesting intersections between people, pixels and our physical World.

Hampus Jakobsson - Seeing the future through the users’ eyes

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:09:00 GMT

Hampus Jakobsson founded TAT 2002 with five of his friends and they grew the company to 170 employees in three continents, got their technology in half a billion phones from Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Motorola, and did the user interface design of Google Android. TAT got acquired by RIM 2010, and Hampus works for the Strategic Alliances team, responsible for spotting innovation and innovators in Europe.