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'Greg Gopman heads Business Development for UploadVR, where he\'s cultivating a combination of education, networking and investment opportunities for VR/AR space. Some of the exciting projects Upload is building out right now include San Francisco\'s first VR dedicated co-working space, industry-wide conferences and a $170mm capital network to nurture new companies coming into the space. Greg previously founded AngelHack, Hackathon.io, where he built a global community of 50,000 developers and 1,000\'s of startups created at 100\'s of AngelHack events taking place in 70+ cities worldwide. Ceci Mourkogiannis is the CEO and co-founder of Metta (mettavr.com) - the first virtual reality and 360 video platform dedicated to user-generated content. At Metta, Ceci focuses on user-experience design and building the community of 360 creators. Before starting Metta, Ceci and her co-founders Jacob Trefethen and Guillaume Sabran developed Papero (papero.co): an application to empower groups of friends and colleagues to discuss news articles together. In a previous life, Ceci was managing director of Libertine Media and wrote and directed theatre and opera performances in Europe (Where Three Roads Meet, 2012; Dust Song, 2013; Footnotes, 2014). Married to documentary filmmaker Henry Laurence, Ceci also has a passion for documentary film - which once resulted in her traveling across the USA with Henry to meet and interview hundreds of Justin Bieber fans. Originally from London, Ceci was an Owen Scholar at the University of Cambridge and a visiting Herchel Smith Fellow at Harvard University. Jimmy Glliberti is Americas Director of Business Development and Sales for WorldViz, a company that has been creating Virtual Reality solutions for over 10 years. He has been on the forefront of many of Tech’s major turning points. He was on the original IBM PC team. At Autodesk, he was Development Director for the first four versions of 3DS Max, the first professional 3D CGI creation tool to create VR content. He was a key player in the creation of mobile software apps and platforms at HandsOnMobile, LimeLife and GREE. He recently had been focused on broadcast video and independent filmmaking. His background in post production tools, content creation, and visual effects puts him in a wonderful place to help shape today’s bright future for Virtual Reality. Alex Haque is the Director of Developer Relations at the Montreal and San Francisco-based startup, Retinad, the analytics platform for Virtual Reality. What the hell does that mean? He talks to game and film geeks all day about virtual reality for a company that is building the software for how to determine what and where you looking and even your emotions in virtual worlds. Alex is passionate about pushing his mind to the limit or watching an episode of Rick and Morty.'
Tags: METTA , #VARForum , ksvntv , uploadvr , worldviz , retinad
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