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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Founder operating in the Virtual Reality space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Anthony Matchett
Founder of MelodyVR
Anthony Matchett is CEO of MelodyVR, a virtual reality technology company specialising in the music sector. He has extensive music industry experience and began his career as an audio engineer before moving on to the world of post-production for advertising. Then in 2011, Anthony was tasked with founding and building up Wave Recording Studios’ first interactive division, focused on servicing the audio requirements of game developers and publishers. During his time at Wave, he worked with the likes of King.com, Microsoft Studios, Sony Computer Entertainment and Ubisoft. In 2015, Anthony’s background and passion for music and technology inspired him to create Melody VR, with Steven Hancock.
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About EVR Holdings, MelodyVR: MelodyVR is a destination for music in virtual reality.
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Steven Hancock
Founder of MelodyVR
MelodyVR’s Co-founder and Chief Operations Officer, Steven Hancock, has an unwavering commitment to realizing great ideas and a belief in the power of personal relationships; an asset that helped him build events management company, Zest Hospitality Group, from scratch. The experience saw Steven work with FTSE 100 companies, while generating new revenue streams for stately homes. After selling the business in 2011, Steven joined Ibiza Rocks as Commercial Manager, overseeing sales and marketing to help build the business into one of Europe’s fastest growing youth lifestyle brands. Exposure to the A-list artists helped Steven deepen his relationships with the music industry; something that proved invaluable when securing MelodyVR’s partnerships with major labels. A true advocate for MelodyVR’s ability to benefits fans, artists and labels alike, Steven further raises the company’s profile through regular appearances on industry speaker panels.
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About EVR Holdings, MelodyVR: MelodyVR is a destination for music in virtual reality.
Charles Nduka
Co Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Emteq
Charles Nduka studied medicine at Oxford University, where he also undertook an undergraduate intercalated degree on Physiological Sciences. He completed his clinical studies for the MB BS degree at St. Mary’s Hospital, in London. He graduated as a doctor in 1994 with a Distinction in Surgery. He was also awarded Honours in Surgery by the University of London. Following his internship he spent 2 years in full-time research with Professor Sir Ara Darzi at Imperial College in the Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology. For his thesis on he was awarded a doctoral degree (MD, Doctor of Medicine) by the University of London. He undertook his surgical training in London teaching Hospitals including the Royal London & St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals. He completed his specialist training at the Royal Marsden Hospital. He was awarded the Macgregor Gold Medal for his performance in the plastic and reconstructive surgery FRCS examination. Charles has a long track record of R &D and has worked with industrial partners on clinical trials, technology evaluations or as a consultant for 20 years. Previous collaborators include Glaxo-Smithkline, 3DmD, Allergan, ICN, Johnson and Johnson. He has won numerous research awards including from the Wellcome Trust, the National Institute for Health Research, Innovate UK and the Nominet Trust. He is an internationally recognised specialist in facial muscle disorders and in 2007 established the largest unit treating facial paralysis in the UK at the Queen Victoria Hospital. He has multiple patents pending. In 2013 he identified the potential of wearable sensors for monitoring facial muscle activity and funded the development of prototype sensors and proof of concept technologies. He has taken a sabbatical from his full-time clinical role at Queen Victoria Hospital in order to focus on Emteq and develop further IP and products.
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About BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF AESTHETIC PLASTIC SURGEONS, Emteq, Facial Palsy UK, Queen Victoria Hospital: The world’s first emotion recognition and analysis platform in smart glasses
Gary Bracey
Co-Founder & CEO of Terra Virtua
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About Terra Virtua: Terra Virtua is the first fully immersive, blockchain-driven VR entertainment Platform.
Dimitri Mikhalchuk
Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Teslasuit
Dimitri Mikhalchuk is the founder and co-founder of several tech companies and start-ups. He is also in charge of the London based digital marketing agency. Previously he worked with some of the world’s leading chip and electronics manufacturers. Dimitri is an expert in electronics, haptics, wearables, robotics and software development. He’s at the top of the most influential people in the field of VR \ AR (according to Evening Standard, UK), keynote speaker, business consultant and an investor.
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About MKSTAR, Teslasuit, TravoLab: Teslasuit is a team of talented developers and designers, creating innovative products for XR and MedTech.
Andrey Chuprin
Co-Founder, Investor of Teslasuit
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About ITI Capital, Mainprimus, Teslasuit: Teslasuit is a team of talented developers and designers, creating innovative products for XR and MedTech.
Samuel Huber
Founder & CEO of Admix
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About Admix, VR Focus: Admix is the first programmatic monetisation platform for in-game advertising
Joe Bachle-Morris
Co-Founder and COO of Admix
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About Admix: Admix is the first programmatic monetisation platform for in-game advertising
Sumanta Talukdar
Co-Founder of WaveOptics
Sumanta is WaveOptics’ co-founder and CEO. Immersed in computer science, optics and photonics since university, Sumanta has worked across displays, medical systems sensors and HUD for the likes of Oxsensis, BAE Systems, Sharp and Honeywell Analytics.
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About Gardin, WaveOptics: WaveOptics designs Augmented Reality (AR) wearables with enhanced features.
David Grey
Co-Founder of WaveOptics
David founded WaveOptics with Sumanta and is its Chief Technology Officer. Optical design, imaging and illumination have been David’s specialism for over 25 years. Previously, at Carclo Optics, he led the design of Passive Infrared lenses for high volume, high quality security and lighting control, and as head of Optics at BAE Systems, David led the development of head-up its displays.
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About WaveOptics: WaveOptics designs Augmented Reality (AR) wearables with enhanced features.
Sameer Baroova
Co Founder & Chief Product Officer of FitXR
A lifelong fan of emerging technologies, Sameer found his flow in the video game industry working on mobile games from their onset, including titles such as Plants vs. Zombies and Bejewelled. Now Sameer uses his design, development, and management skills while building the best workout product on the market. At FitXR, Sameer loves combining immersive technology and AI to create unique personalised experiences that put the fun into fitness.
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About FitXR: FitXR, the leading developer of VR/AR fitness apps, is passionately dedicated to making fitness more fun and accessible for everyone.
Sam Cole
Co-Founder and CEO of FitXR
Sam draws on his experience from consulting and private equity to drive FitXR forward into the uncharted lands of fit tech. Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, Sam was always enchanted by the prospect of building a company. Meeting Sameer at business school kick-started that dream. A lover of all things fitness, Sam is excited to develop a product that will help people access professional workouts, and build healthier communities around the world.
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About FitXR: FitXR, the leading developer of VR/AR fitness apps, is passionately dedicated to making fitness more fun and accessible for everyone.
Ian Hetherington
Co-Founder of WRLD
Ian has been involved in the video game industry since 1982. He founded and was Managing Director of Psygnosis Limited, which became one of the most successful UK based publishers. Psygnosis was sold to Sony in 1993 and Ian was retained as the Managing Director of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe from 1994-1997 where he was instrumental in the design and implementation of the hardware and software for Sony’s new Playstation console, and oversaw the development of the European launch catalogue (80% market share at launch).
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About Midoki, Realtime Worlds, WRLD: A 3D cloud-based platform of real-world environments to create digital twins.
Tony Pearce
Co-Founder of Reality Gaming Group Limited
Coming from a 25 year background in senior management in the entertainment and gaming industry Tony has an excellent track record as a successful entrepreneur and CEO. Over the past 10 years Tony has raised over £15m in VC funding, started 5 companies and had 2 successful exits. Most recently Tony founded GamesGRABR an innovative platform (web, mobile and tablet) that marries the power and usability of a contemporary ‘pinboard-style’ interface allowing the user to curate their own collections, discover, engage, play and share them with other users with similar interests Previously Tony founded a games company called TeePee Games and developed a technology that allowed users to get recommendations on games across social networks such as Facebook. Tony was the CEO and Co-Founder of Player X and spearheaded the company from a two person start-up in 2004 and developed it into Europe’s largest mobile games distributor. The company was named by Library House as the fourth fastest growing VC backed company in the UK before it was acquired by Spanish mobile content company ZED in April 2009. Tony is also the co-founder of an executive networking event called the Centurions which is aimed at the digital entertainment industry and takes place every two months in London along with events in New York, Istanbul and Munich.
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About Centurions Networking Event, gamesGRABR, Reality Gaming Group Limited, TeePee Games: Reality Gaming Group develop games that connect to the blockchain utilizing digital collectables known as NFT’s (Non Fungible Tokens)
Richard Vincent
CEO & Co-Founder of FundamentalVR
Richard has 20+ years’ experience of building international businesses and has throughout his career sought opportunities for positive market disruption through technological application. It was this desire that led him to co-found FundamentalVR to help address an age-old problem for the medical market; how to create safe, realistic, measurable spaces to learn and develop skills. In his role as CEO Richard is responsible for building a world class team of medical, learning and technologist who together can realise the company’s ambition of creating the world’s first global, haptically enabled, low cost ‘flight simulator for surgeons’.
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About Fundamental Surgery, FundamentalVR: FundamentalVR delivers VR haptic ‘flight simulators’ for surgery creating a safe, measurable & repeatable space to refine to refine skills.
Chris Scattergood
CRO & Founder of FundamentalVR
A key part of his role at Fundamental, Chris visits leading surgeons, educators, hospital groups, bodies and device manufacturers across the US to understand their educational needs and requirements for successful integration into our learning platform, and continue to develop our product to support those needs. As one of the co-founders of Fundamental, in 2014 Chris and his co founder saw the opportunity to invest in Virtual Reality as the next tech platform after mobile to revolutionise the way we communicate, share and learn together. From his experience in the Healthcare sector, it was clear that VR presented a clear opportunity to make a real difference in way education could be delivered for Health care professionals.
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About Fundamental Surgery, FundamentalVR: FundamentalVR delivers VR haptic ‘flight simulators’ for surgery creating a safe, measurable & repeatable space to refine to refine skills.
Tobin Ireland
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of MetaGravity
Tobin Ireland is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of MetaGravity.
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About MetaGravity, Mobile Value Partners: MetaGravity is a deep-tech startup that is pushing the boundaries of blockchain and the Metaverse.
Ming Kong
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TG0
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About TG0: TG0 is an R&D start-up creating novel 3D controls.
Tom Carter
CTO and Co-Founder of Ultraleap
Tom started exploring ultrasound technology during a study in the final year of his Master’s degree in Computer Science at the University of Bristol. He further developed the initial concept to form the basis of his PhD studies, during which time he published numerous papers and filed various patents. Recognising the technology’s commercial viability, Tom founded Ultrahaptics in November 2013. Ultrahaptics has developed a unique technology that enables users to receive tactile feedback without needing to wear or touch anything. The technology uses ultrasound to project sensations through the air and directly onto the user. Users can ‘feel’ touch-less buttons get feedback for mid-air gestures, or interact with virtual objects.
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About Ultraleap: Ultraleap is working to create the most remarkable connection between people and technology.
Oluwaseyi Sosanya
Co Founder and CEO of Gravity Sketch
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About Gravity Sketch: Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.
Daniel Thomas
Co-Founder & CTO of Gravity Sketch
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About Gravity Sketch: Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.
Daniela Paredes
Co-Founder and Director of Gravity Sketch
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About Gravity Sketch: Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.
Aleksandra Pedraszewska
Co-Founder and COO of VividQ
Aleksandra M. Pedraszewska is a Co-Founder and COO at VividQ. She received a bachelor of arts in Land Economy (Law, Economics, Environment) at the University of Cambridge and earned a master of philosophy in Technology Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School.
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About VividQ: VividQ powers the revolution in digital display with Computer-Generated Holography.
Darran Milne
Co-Founder & CEO of VividQ
Dr Darran Milne – Chief Executive Officer, PhD (University of St Andrews & Max Plank Institute) Mathematician and Theoretical Physicist by training, with a PhD in quantum information theory from the University of St Andrews and the Max Plank Institute in Erlangen. Having started his career as a quantitative analyst at a large financial software house, he soon began to direct product development initiatives, and manage client implementation projects as a Scrum Master. As one of the co-founders of VividQ and its CTO, he directed the original research and development efforts of the team that evolved into the currently offered products. In his role as a CEO, he has been responsible for leading and execution of the company’s technology and commercial strategies.
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About VividQ: VividQ powers the revolution in digital display with Computer-Generated Holography.
Roman Pechhacker
Co-Founder and Head of Internal Development of VividQ
Roman Pechhacker is the Co-Founder and Head of Internal Development at VividQ.
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About VividQ: VividQ powers the revolution in digital display with Computer-Generated Holography.
Abesh Thakur
Co-Founder and CEO of Two Big Ears Ltd
Abesh spent two years in a Fortune 500 company as a Mainframe developer, before deciding to quit and pursue a Masters degree in Acoustics and Music Technology from the prestigious University of Edinburgh. Post completion of his degree, he co-founded Two Big Ears, with the goal of creating easy to use and effective audio toolkits, which would help developers create more immersive experience without having to worry about the Maths behind all the audio magic. He takes a deep interest in all things tech and progressive deathcore bands, and utilises his spare time in teaching Maths to Primary and Secondary school kids.
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About Two Big Ears Ltd: Two Big Ears is a Scottish company specialising in creating efficient audio toolkits for game and virtual reality developers.
Adetunji Adegbesan
Founder/CEO of Gidi Mobile
Dr Adetunji Adegbesan is the Founder & CEO of Gidi Mobile, creators of gidimo, Africa’s leading curriculum mastery & learning-as-a-service platform. Tunji has a First Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering, and a PhD in Strategic Management from the IESE Business School. He is globally respected as one of Africa’s top scholars of competitive strategy, as well as one of her leading experts on the mobile telecommunications industry. A recipient of multiple awards, he has been invited to speak at knowledge events in more than 20 countries across four continents. Immediately prior to founding Gidi Mobile, he was Director of the Centre for Competitiveness & Strategy at the Lagos Business School (LBS), where he led sessions on Competitive Strategy, as well as on issues arising out of the intersection of Strategy, Technology, and Innovation. During his 14 years at LBS, his consulting experience spanned the software, telecommunications, banking, oil and gas, publishing, logistics, identity management and electronic payments sectors; while prior to LBS, his work experience spanned software development, consulting, information systems management, and electrical engineering, in both manufacturing and service sectors. Tunji is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Academy of Management Review, the world’s leading conceptual journal in the field of strategic management. He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Businessday Newspapers (West Africa’s premier business periodical), and a peer reviewer for several of the world’s top strategy research journals. He is a past member of the Executive Committee of the Strategy Division of the global Academy of Management, as well as a past Global Representative for Africa of the Division. He has also been a Representative-at-Large for the Competitive Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society, and a member of the Research and Strategic Planning Committee of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria. He is a past Visiting Scholar & Associate Researcher at the Center for Globalisation and Strategy at the IESE Business School in Barcelona. An amateur historian, philosopher, and student of culture and geo-political affairs, Tunji has native fluency in English and Spanish, and basic literacy in French, Yoruba and Catalan.
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About Gidi Mobile: Gidi Mobile is the creator of gidimo, the developing world’s leading personal mastery & learning-for-opportunity platform
Nicholas Begley
Co-Founder of PSYT
Nick read physics at University College London, then qualified as an actuary and worked in the City of London for 8 years before retraining in psychology. He specialised in the neuroscience of mindfulness at UCL and the Institute of Psychiatry, and helped start up mindfulness company Headspace as Head of Research before founding PSYT.
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About PSYT: PSYT exists to help individuals live happy, fulfilling and productive lives.
Bobby Thandi
Founder & CEO of XR Games
Bobby Thandi joined XR Games as Founder and CEO in 2017.
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About XR Games: XR Games is an award-winning game development studio specialising in immersive AR and VR games. We make fun games people love to play and talk about.
Shashank Sripada
Founder and CEO of Bubblo (BubbleScene Ltd.)
Shashank Sripada is the Founder and CEO of Bubblo and is currently associated with Marcena Capital Ltd as the company’s Vice President. He is also a former Associate at Oak Investment Management Group. He earned hos Bachelor’s Degree in Science (BSc), Economic History at London School of Economics and Political Science and had his Master’s Degree in Science, Management at the same school.
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About Bubblo (BubbleScene Ltd.), Marcena Capital Ltd: Bubblo is an artificial Intelligence based virtual reality discovery app and marketing platform.
Damian Collier
Founder & CEO of Blend Media
Damian Collier is a British producer, entrepreneur and business consultant for music, film, TV and stage. Collier has produced both independently (through Damian Collier Entertainment) and has collaborated with major record labels including Sony BMG, EMI, Universal Music, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony/ATV Music Publishing and major film and TV studios such as Paramount Pictures, Fox, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation. He has experience in film, television, music recording, music publishing, licensing, merchandising, theatre, novels and comics. He also holds the position of managing director of the Jeff Wayne Music Group.
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About Blend Media: Blend is the world’s leading 360˚ VR video solution for Brands, Agencies and Publishers.
Solomon Rogers
Co-Founder & CEO of REWIND
Founder and CEO of REWIND, the VR content studio behind international award winning work such as the BBC’s Home: A VR Spacewalk, Björk’s NotGet VR, Red Bull Air Race VR and the acclaimed launch title Project Falcon for the FOVE eye-tracking VR headset. Sol is a BAFTA VR Advisory Group Executive, advisor and board member to globally recognised conferences including Autodesk University, FMX.de, Develop:VR, MIPCOM and MIPTV. He is co-founder of the nonprofit VR Together platform, creating VR for Good, and founder and organiser of the UK’s most popular VR meetup, VRLO. Sol was awarded the first “VR Technology & Innovation” award from UK Government Trade & Investment in 2015 and recognised as one of the digital industry’s brightest stars in the BIMA HOT 100 in 2016. Sol was a University Hertfordshire Senior Lecturer for 15 years in Digital Animation, VFX & Emerging Technology, writing four Degrees, two Masters and supervising PHDs. He is a VR evangelist and prominent international keynote speaker, often quoted in press and appearing on TV. www.REWIND.co
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About REWIND: REWIND is an award winning content production agency, working with bleeding edge technology to create unforgettable brand experiences.
Arvid Niklasson
Co-Founder of Analog
Arvid Niklasson Born in Sweden. Lives and works in London. Co-owner and director of Analog and leads the Realtime development at the studio.
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About Analog: Analog Visual Effects makers and problem solvers of cosmic impossibilities.
Simon Windsor
Founder, Joint Managing Director of Dimension
Simon has been at the forefront of immersive technologies since 2011, launching several successful companies in AR and VR, and bringing state-of-the-art immersive production facilities to the UK. He is joint-head at immersive media company, Hammerhead, and at Dimension, a pioneering volumetric video capture studio and first Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture studio partner, focused on creating next generation virtual humans. Simon is also a director at TimeSlice Films, one of the UK’s leading multi-cam and capture solutions specialists, and prior to this he was part of the management team that launched AR technology platform, String. An award winning AR and VR producer, Simon has inspired and lead projects for companies including Disney, Nike, Sky, Audi, HSBC, Magic Leap and many more, and produced original VR titles including ABE and Syren.
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About Dimension: Revolutionary volumetric production studios for the creation of next generation digital humans, XR content and virtual production.
Alexandra Hussenot
Founder & CEO of Immersionn
Alexandra is the founder of Immersionn, the world’s first VR Discovery Engine and she is also the UK lead for ‘Women in Immersive Technologies’, a community of 1000 members that aims to empower European women working in XR. She is also 1 in 10 members of the UK5G Creative Industries working group reporting the department in charge of Digital, Medias, Culture and Sport (DCMS). Prior to this, Alexandra pursued an international business career at insurance firm, Allianz, managing an £80M global business. She has also worked all over Europe during her 11 years at Sony Ericsson (now Sony Mobile) and has solid experience designing and launching software and service products, particularly covering user experience design and continuous improvements. She also lead large scale operations for mobile phone repairs and remanufacturing.
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About Immersionn: Immersionn is a content discovery company. We allow people to discover VR content they would never find
Oluyemi Jegede
CEO and Co-Founder of Big Pot
Oluyemi is a whole energy systems specialist. His interests cut across the multiple energy vectors and the interactions between energy supply, demand and the wider economy. More importantly, he is an ardent believer in the promise of a thriving Nigeria and his passion has seen him birth the Bigpot initiative.
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About Big Pot: Big Pot is a power utility company which will provide energy to small and medium-sized residences.
Temi Jegede
Co-Founder of Big Pot
Temi has extensive software development experience (JAVA, XML, C++/ C, Python, Swift, PHP, Solidity (Blockchain development) stemming from a host of industry and University-based projects that have seen him contribute to the initiative’s growth in terms of power systems and software development.
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About Big Pot: Big Pot is a power utility company which will provide energy to small and medium-sized residences.
Gemma Timms
Founder & COO of VitaeVR
Gemma Timms is an executive at Hakluyt and the co-founder of Vitae VR.
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About VitaeVR: Medical devices for early diagnosis of cognitive disease
Duncan McWilliam
Founder & CEO of VitaeVR
Duncan McWilliam is the founder and CEO of VitaeVR and Outpost VFX.
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About VitaeVR: Medical devices for early diagnosis of cognitive disease
Andrew Hawken
Co-Founder and CEO of Mesmerise
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About Mesmerise: Virtual Reality content, gaming and technology
Vidrih Zlatko
Co-Founder of Go Touch VR
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About Go Touch VR: Go Touch VR is a haptic design company formed by experts in the field developing innovative solutions for virtual and augmented reality.
Simon Taylor
Co-Founder & Research Director of Zappar
Simon Taylor is a co-founder of Zappar, and the company’s Research Director. Simon graduated with a Masters in Engineering from the University of Cambridge in 2007. He went on to complete a PhD, also at the Engineering Department in Cambridge, entitled “Fast Object Localisation for Mobile Augmented Reality Applications”. Simon’s research focused on the development of fast algorithms for locating known objects in live camera frames from smartphone devices. This research resulted in a novel approach to the problem offering far superior performance to existing published work of the time. The approach was first published at the Workshop on Feature Detectors and Descriptors held as part of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009. A demo of the approach on a smartphone was also shown at the conference, receiving a “Best Demo” award. Further updates to the approach were published at the British Machine Vision Conference, 2009. The conference organizers selected this paper as one of six to be extended for inclusion in a special edition of the International Journal of Computer Vision, published in 2011. Simon worked with Connell Gauld to integrate his algorithm into a full mobile app for AR content delivery. Together they founded Extra Reality Ltd in 2010 to pursue commercialization of their solution. After meeting Kirk Ewing and Caspar Thykier, they decided to form a new venture, Zappar, to offer a full AR content creation solution for big-brand clients. Simon has led the development of Zappar’s proprietary and patented Zapcode system.
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About Zappar: Zappar is a clever little app that can see and recognise images and objects in the world around us.
Connell Gauld
Co-Founder and CTO of Zappar
As Zappar’s CTO, Connell oversees the ZapWorks team (Zappar’s AR/VR/MR creation software) as well as being responsible for all the cloud infrastructure and the core functionality of the Zappar app (which can also be embedded into third-party apps). Connell met Zappar Co-Founder Dr Simon Taylor whilst they were both studying engineering at the University of Cambridge. They founded Zappar, along with Caspar Thykier, 8 years ago and have seen it grow into one of the leading AR platforms with $3.75M in funding, 50 staff, and four offices around the world.
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About Zappar: Zappar is a clever little app that can see and recognise images and objects in the world around us.
Caspar Thykier
Co-Founder, CEO of Zappar
Caspar Thykier is Co-Founder & CEO at Zappar.
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About Veemee, Zappar: Zappar is a clever little app that can see and recognise images and objects in the world around us.
Ieva Stelingyte
Co-Founder of EF EVE
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About EF EVE: EF EVE™ is the World’s most loved volumetric capture software, editing and distribution tools for volumetric video.
Agnis Stelingis
CEO and Founder of EF EVE
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About EF EVE: EF EVE™ is the World’s most loved volumetric capture software, editing and distribution tools for volumetric video.
Darren Jobling
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Board Member of ZeroLight
With over 25 years as a leader in the technology industry, Darren has built two pioneering organisations directly from the North East of England, establishing ZeroLight in 2014. The company has secured landmark deals with Audi, Pagani, JLR and Toyota, providing premium visualisation solutions both in dealership and online. Rated as one of the region’s Most Influential People for 5 years running, Darren is a committed entrepreneur, innovator and curator of technological talent.
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About ZeroLight: ZeroLight is a creator of the world’s most advanced car configurator solution.
Raphaëlle Mura
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Change of Paradigm
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About Change of Paradigm, MIXIMALISTE.COM: Change of Paradigm is a 3D virtualization, content and experiences creator for the fashion industry.
Philip Delamore
Co-Founder & CIO of Change of Paradigm
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About Change of Paradigm, MIXIMALISTE.COM: Change of Paradigm is a 3D virtualization, content and experiences creator for the fashion industry.
Rutger Bruining
Founder & CEO of StoryTerrace
Rutger Bruining is the founder and CEO of Story Terrace. Prior to founding Story Terrace in 2014, Rutger worked as an investment director at Arle Capital Partners for five years. Rutger starterd his career as a senior consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton in 2014. In 2003, Rutger graduated from University of Amsterdam where he completed master’s degree in Business & Economics (Finance). He also graduated with honors at Columbia University – Columbia Business School for his MBA in 2008.
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About StoryTerrace: StoryTerrace helps people to capture their life story using professional writers and software.
Dom Barnard
Founder of Virtualspeech
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About Virtualspeech: Virtualspeech provide a realistic training platform for soft skills training in VR.
Alfredo Belfiori
Founder & CEO of Flicktek Ltd
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About BetterSpace, Flicktek Ltd: Gesture control for smartwatches, IoT and VR
Neil Tocher
Co-Founder, CEO, CTO of NCTech
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About NCTech: NCTech is a big data and analytics provider. Pioneering edge-to-cloud big data capture & provision with ML/AI for Google, government & AEC
Nicholas Minter-Green
CEO & Founder of Parable Works
An expert in content creation, public relations and integrated marketing, Nicholas was president of Economist Films, steering the team responsible for creating content that reflected the newspaper’s heritage as a world leader in reporting, analysis and investigation. Before that he was managing director at TVC group, building the agency into a leading brand content-communications business and top-10 UK PR agency.
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About Parable Works: A Virtual Reality and Television Studio & Agency.
Christophe Mallet
CEO & Co-Founder of Bodyswaps
Innovation Strategist with 10 years experience across social media, digital and immersive technologies (VR/AR). Chris got his Masters from HEC and started his career as Employee #1 (Head of Strategy) of social consultancy Carve that later got sold to a large advertising group. After co-founding Immersive Tech agency Somewhere Else with Julien and running it for over 3 years, Christophe co-founded BODYSWAPS with one mission: unlock human potential in the workplace with the help of immersive technologies. Christophe is an industry thought leader, international speaker and regular podcaster on VR and learning. He has recently delivered talks for the International Labor Organisation, the European Training Foundation and the European Immersive Computing Summit.
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About Bodyswaps: Bodyswaps is a B2B immersive learning platform (VR SaaS) designed to deliver effective and scalable soft skills training.
Charles Duffy
Founder, Head of Design and Engineering of Digital Kinematics
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About Digital Kinematics: Digital Kinematics makes Plexus, high performance VR gloves for the masses
Tim Fleming
Founder of Future Visual
Tim is a fan of those moments in life that make you go “wow” and he has always loved the power of visual images to help create those moments. Crafting a career around this knowledge has led to some very interesting adventures and Tim is now an award-winning content producer, global show director and virtual reality innovator. Always wanting to try new ideas and ground them in impact with an audience, Tim has worked with the BBC, Ferrari, Sony, Nokia, Oracle, Unilever, Lockheed Martin and many others. As founder of the studio Plastic Reality, Tim has been show director for Fatboy Slim, creating shows for millions of people on the beaches of Brighton, Brazil and Bondi. 2007: Tim saw the launch of the iPhone and thought…”hmmm video in your pocket…. interesting” and founded televisual top 10 corporate production company Plastic Pictures. Sensing the same sea change in 2014, Tim set up Future Visual to focus on Virtual Reality. October 2015: Future Visual’s product SiPVR (Shopping & Immersion Platform) won the Innovate UK award to partner with John Lewis developing Immersive Retail. Jan 2016: Future Visual won an Innovate UK Smart Grant to study Operational, Transactional and Pedagogic innovation using VR. July 2016: SiPVR finished in the top 10 out of 4,000 applicants to win investment and mentoring in the Publicis Startup 90 competition. Tim has seen huge change and advancements throughout many aspects of the content producing industries, but the transformative potential of virtual reality means that the fun has just begun.
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About Future Visual: Future Visual are developing VR to help you build incredible experiences for your friends, customers and colleagues.
Sami Hamid
Co-Founder & VR Producer of Glitch Studios
Sami is an experienced international project manager who has over 10 years of project management under his belt. His adventures have seen him in critical roles in projects including the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics and 2010 Shanghai World Exposition. Sami has been in the virtual reality industry since early 2015 producing both small and large scale projects using early hardware development kits while creating and managing a VR production team consisting of developers, designers and 3D artists. Apart from co-founding Glitch Studios, Sami is also the Virtual Reality Lab Director for VR1, a Crytek led incubation initiative mentoring grass root VR projects & teams to learn and experiment with this emerging technology. He is also a VR Evangelist organising and attending VR community events and conferences around Europe and Turkey. Sami is a gamer at heart, having spent much of his youth immersed in video games of all genres. He is a self-taught programmer and enjoys developing indie VR projects in his spare time. He believes video game mechanics and game architecture are fundamental building blocks in the creation of compelling and unique virtual reality experiences.
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About Glitch Studios: Glitch Studios is a virtual reality and augmented reality production studio based in Oslo, Istanbul and London.
Dee Harvey
Founder & Director of Controvert
Over 20 years experience in interactive media production at the highest level, and a graduate of NYU.
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About Controvert: Controvert creates and develops media content using immersive technology.
Christian Rouffaert
Founder & CEO of Teragence
Christian is the founder of Teragence, a competitive network analytics vendor. Christian has 20 years of telco industry experience acorss Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He has worked across fixed and mobile operators such as Vodafone, Virgin Media and Etisalat, as well as equipment vendors such as Ericsson and Huawei. Christian founded Teragence with the objective of elevating carriers’ insight into their own and their competitors’ end-to-end network performance.
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About Teragence: Teragence delivers competitive network analytics as a service. We benchmark any mobile network, anywhere, any time – in real time
Rob Eastham
Founder and CEO of Reality Zero One
Rob Eastham serves as Chief Executive Officer and Founder at Reality Zero One.
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About Reality Zero One: Reality Zero One’s mission is to design and create a world class end-to-end reality capture and digital reality delivery platform.
Yasmine Boudiaf
Founder / CEO of Serious DAtum
Yasmine Boudiaf makes virtual reality experiences that change people’s behaviour. She uses VR as a tool to address subtle forms of behaviour and biases which can effect the way another person feels. Her main topics of interest are implicit biases, cross- cultural understanding and innovation. With a background in biomedical science and documentary film, she enjoys inter-disciplinary collaboration as a way to solve problems. She produces experiences and consults via her company Serious Datum Ltd.
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About Serious DAtum: Serious DAtum makes behaviour changing virtual reality experiences.
Shafi Ahmed
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer of Medical Realities
Ahmed is a highly experienced general and colorectal surgeon, operating at The Royal London Hospital. In 2007, he was appointed as a Consultant General, Colorectal and Laparoscopic Surgeon at Barts and the London NHS trust. In 2014, he performed the world first live-stream of an operation using Google Glass, which was watched live by 13000 students around the world.
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About Hearthy, Medical Realities: A new business offering medical training products, specializing in virtual reality and augmented reality.
Alastair Barrow
Co-Founder & Director of Generic Robotics
Alastair Barrow has over 10 years’ experience in the fields of haptics, robotics and simulation. Between 2004-2010 he worked as a research associate on simulation projects at the Universities of Reading and King’s College London alongside obtaining a PhD in Cybernetics from the University of Reading. During this time, he developed the technology behind the hapTEL project, a virtual learning platform that used haptics to train clinical skills in dentistry. This became the forerunner to one of Generic Robotics’ key products, SimuTouch. In 2011, Ally joined Dr Fernando Bello’s simulation group at Imperial College London, where he collaborated on a number of clinical training simulators and was awarded a research fellowship to explore the use of advanced haptic technologies. He joined Generic Robotics in 2013 as one of two directors and helped secure funding to propel the development of a range of training solutions combining VR and haptics. Alongside managing the multiple roles involved in running a start-up, Ally acts as Applications Lead within GR where he is responsible for the delivery of the SimuTouch clinical workstation and core software technology.
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About Generic Robotics, Imperial College London, University College London (UCL): SimuTouch is the first general purpose clinical skills training platform.
Sarah Ticho
Founder and CEO of Hatsumi
Sarah has spent her career working across the interdisciplinary arts, academia, healthcare and technology as a producer, curator, artist and researcher. Sarah has worked with organisations including the NHS, Immerse UK, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, YouTube VR Creators Lab, Lighthouse Arts, The School of Life, TEDxSydney and The Big Anxiety Festival. She has undertaken academic research with The University of New South Wales, Australia and Stanford University, California before founding Hatsumi in February 2018.
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About Hatsumi: Hatsumi develop and curate immersive experiences across arts, health and virtual reality technology.
Benedikt Reinke
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Sympatient
Benedikt Reinke is the Co-Founder & Managing Director at Sympatient GmbH
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About Sympatient: Sympatient is building the first digital anxiety clinic.
Mark Towner
Founder and CEO of Feel Three
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About Feel Three: Affordable, modular motion simulator for Virtual Reality
Andy Etches
Co-Founder and Director of Rezzil
Andy Etches is the Co-Founder and Director of Rezzil.
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About Rezzil: Rezzil improves resilience ,performance and reaction times across a wide range of sports, from beginner to Elite level.
Adam Dickinson
Co-Founder and Development Director of Rezzil
Adam Dickinson is the Co-Founder and Development Director of Rezzil.
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About Rezzil: Rezzil improves resilience, performance and reaction times across a wide range of sports, from beginner to Elite level.
Alan Yeats
Technical Director and Co-Founder of Pocket Sized Hands
Experienced VR/AR and games developer. Co-Founding Pocked Sized Hands in 2017 where I work as the Chief Technical Officer leading our development team alongside working on business development and client outreach. With Pocket Sized Hands we have gone on to win the student award at Herald Digital Business Awards 2017 and reaching the world finals of the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2017 while also nominated for a game design award at the DC Thompson Game Design awards 2017.
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About Pocket Sized Hands: We specialise in creating bespoke applications and games using the latest XR technologies.
Scott Marshall
Founder & CEO of Bamsound VR
Scott Marshall is CEO / Founder and Sound Lead at Bamsound, an immersive audio agency specialising in sound for virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and 360 productions. With over 12 years experience, their clients include Universal, Nikon, NME, BBC, Channel 4, Sky, UKTV, Saatchi & Saatchi and many others. Having worked for various facilities and freelanced in many post houses and production companies, Scott spent his career working across many genres including broadcast, factual, comedy, drama, and commercials, but has now found himself pushing audio boundaries in these new and exciting mediums. To quote Scott “With the rise in ‘new’ immersive formats, such as VR and AR, we are seeing (and hearing) how much more important it is to create a truly ‘3D’ audio landscape for productions and how critical this is in making these experiences feel real and believable.
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About Bamsound VR: Bamsound VR Immersive Audio Agency for Virtual Reality Audio 360 ExP.
Paul James
Co-Founder & Senior Editor of Road to VR
Based in the UK, Paul has been immersed in interactive entertainment for the best part of 27 years and has followed advances in gaming with a passionate fervour. His obsession with graphical fidelity over the years has had him branded a ‘graphics whore’ (which he views as the highest compliment) more than once and he holds a particular candle for the dream of the ultimate immersive gaming experience. Having followed and been disappointed by the original VR explosion of the 90s, he then founded RiftVR.com to follow the new and exciting prospect of the rebirth of VR in products like the Oculus Rift. Paul joined forces with Ben to help build the new Road to VR in preparation for what he sees as VR’s coming of age over the next few years.
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About Masternaut UK, Road to VR: Founded in 2011, Road to VR is the world’s largest independent news publication dedicated to the consumer virtual reality industry.
Rachel Gawley
CTO & Co-Founder of AppAttic Ltd
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About AppAttic Ltd, AppAttic Ltd: AppAttic’s games engage users for positive behaviour change and provide data for research, potentially saving the health economy billions.
Colin Yellowley
Founder & President of Igloo Vision
Colin is a co-founder of Igloo, and now runs its US operations. He previously had more than ten years’ experience of working in multimedia, web design and film production. Having originally launched Igloo on the contemporary arts circuits, he successfully steered the company into the simulation and visualisation sector, and continues to play a central role in its product development.
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About : Igloo Vision is the shared VR company. We create 360° immersive solutions and all of the enabling technologies.
Ralf Gehrig
Co-Founder and CXO of Brilliant Basics
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About Brilliant Basics: Brilliant Basics is a global digital product and customer experience studio.
Sarat Pediredla
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of hedgehog lab
Sarat Pediredla is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Hedgehog lab.
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About hedgehog lab: hedgehog lab is a consultancy firm that designs and builds business software.
Ed Mason
Founder, CEO of GameFace Labs
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About GameFace Labs: Worlds First ‘All In One’ standalone virtual reality headset and DARPA software platform for the next generation of VR gaming.
Giacomo Eskenazi
Co-Founder of GameFace Labs
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About GameFace Labs: Worlds First ‘All In One’ standalone virtual reality headset and DARPA software platform for the next generation of VR gaming.
David Szucs
Co-Founder of VR-Reel Media Kft
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About VR-Reel Media Kft: VR-Reel Media develops VR solutions.
Jack Churchill
Head of Digital Content Creation & Co-Founder of Rich Tea
Jack Churchill, co-founder of Rich Tea Films, a video production company priding itself on being problem solvers, creating big and bold narrative driven visual stories. Working directly with brands and agencies to create content for campaigns and projects, both internal and external. With previous experience in Ogilvy Labs, the agency’s in-house R&D team, and a continued exploration in 360 video creation across the whole workflow. Jack is keen to push forward within this ever changing world, using his background in post production and innovation to inform his decision making with 360 video for all his clients.
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About Rich Tea: Rich Tea Films Their purpose is to make the impossible, possible.
Mark Cundle
Founder and CEO of Tammeka
Mark has 15 years experience of defining and launching disruptive software in the technology sector. A seasoned marketing professional, Mark founded Tammeka to realise a life long dream of combining lead edge tech with gaming.
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About Tammeka: VR games development studio based in Ascot, UK
Albert Millis
Co-Founder & COO of Virtual Umbrella
VR thought-leader. Twitter wizard. Business genius. Bertie is Virtual Umbrella’s COO. Responsible for project delivery. client acquisition. business proposals. and VR masterclasses. He’s at his happiest introducing people to VR for the first time and testing out the shiniest. newest tech there is. As COO of the company, he has worked on immersive technology projects with clients like Nokia, AT&T, OMD, Leo Burnett, Kaleidoscope VR, Mintel, Merge VR, Ruder Finn, Imperial War Museum, BBC, BBC Worldwide, Breaking Fourth, FCB Inferno, Psytec Games, and more. From supporting national tours of experiences like Unrest VR to helping bring huge domes filled with the very best interactive and VR tech to Edinburgh’s iconic George Street, he’s on a non-stop mission to excite audiences and businesses with the potential of immersive content. When he’s not client-side, he’s leading virtual reality workshops and talks across the world, including at prestigious industry events like VR Connects, Kaleidoscope London, and Develop:VR. In 2017, he was selected as one of the 10 foremost immersive technology experts as part of the BIMA Immersive Technologies Think Tank, designed to inspire, provoke and educate the wider BIMA membership on the power of immersive technologies. As a member of the BAFTA VR subcommittee, and a curator/consultant for a range of immersive technology exhibitions (e.g. Sheffield Doc Fest, FuturePlay, VRUK: VR Studio), Bertie’s work also allows him to take a prominent role in the development of up-and-coming industry talent, using his expertise to help highlight some of the country’s most exciting new VR content. Outside of Virtual Umbrella, Bertie is the co-founder of #HelloFounder, an online resource and support network for entrepreneurs. He has also been featured on the Yogscast Jingle Jam fundraiser for the past two years, being part of a team that raised $2.6 Million (2016) and 5.2 Million (2017) for charity.
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About Hello Founder, Virtual Umbrella: Virtual Umbrella The world’s first marketing agency for VR companies and brands. We also run awesome VR events in UK.
Samantha Kingston
Co-Founder & CEO of Virtual Umbrella
Samantha Kingston is the award-winning Client Director of Virtual Umbrella – a marketing and PR specialist working only in the Virtual Reality industry. Virtual Umbrella has been active in the industry for the past two years working with companies such as Leo Burnett, Nokia, AT&T, Bam Nuttall, Uber, Lipton Ice Tea, as well as a variety of agencies and game companies. Samantha is a proactive voice within the VR community and an advocate for Women in Tech. She is often found moderating panels on equality in the workplace.
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About Virtual Umbrella: Virtual Umbrella The world’s first marketing agency for VR companies and brands. We also run awesome VR events in UK.
Samantha Kingston
Co-Founder & CEO of Virtual Umbrella
Samantha Kingston is the award-winning Client Director of Virtual Umbrella – a marketing and PR specialist working only in the Virtual Reality industry. Virtual Umbrella has been active in the industry for the past two years working with companies such as Leo Burnett, Nokia, AT&T, Bam Nuttall, Uber, Lipton Ice Tea, as well as a variety of agencies and game companies. Samantha is a proactive voice within the VR community and an advocate for Women in Tech. She is often found moderating panels on equality in the workplace.
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About Virtual Umbrella: Virtual Umbrella The world’s first marketing agency for VR companies and brands. We also run awesome VR events in UK.
Jonathan Barrowman
Founder & CEO of Gorilla In The Room
Jonathan runs two companies which specialise in virtual, mixed and augmented reality. Gorilla In The Room applies cognitive science to transform consumer research and healthcare, whilst Bigman applies its heritage in CGI and 3D technology to brands in advertising and entertainment. 18 years ago, Jonathan was curious about the dark art of marketing and began his career as a media planner buyer in London. He was Campaign magazine’s Top 10 Media Buyer three years in a row and subsequently held roles on both the agency and tech side as Head of Mobile, Global Head of Digital Strategy, Head of Client Services and Commercial Director. Jonathan has worked at a UK and international level with Nestlé, P&G, Telefonica, PepsiCo, Department of Health, General Motors, Unilever and France Telecom as well as spoken at events including Ad:Tech, Wearable Technology Show and World Federation of Advertisers.
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About Gorilla In The Room: Unlock Knowledge with Visual Technology.
Chris Lawrence
Co-Founder & COO of CGHero
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About CGHero: Outsource 3D Modelling, Concept Art, Textures, VFX & More
Mark Miles
Founder and Managing Creative Director of Rendermedia
Mark Miles began his career using 3D Studio for the DOS platform 1994, where the idea of a 3D environment in which to play and explore was fascinating. His career has spanned educational computer software and television, with contributions on projects in the educational arena earning BAFTA nominations and a BAFTA Award. The idea of taking higher-end CGI (more traditionally used in Film, TV and Games) was a genesis for launching a studio that focused on B2B in bringing businesses to life. Today, with 18 years heritage in CGI, Mark and his business partner Nadine head up Rendermedia, a Virtual & Augmented Reality Studio serving UK FT100 and FT250 with global operations bringing their business to life across AR, VR and Real-time applications. Made up of CG Artists, filmmakers, sound designers, animators and developers, Rendermedia supports global businesses in developing tools that are used across the entire operational structure of the client’s business. Mark’s team works in both commercial applications and R&D, keeping them ahead of the curve and allowing them to provide cutting-edge solutions that utilise emerging technology.
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About Rendermedia: Rendermedia is a leading, creative virtual reality agency.
Corrina McCann
Co-Founder / Chief Executive Officer of Infinite Mixed Reality
Corrina McCann is the creative director of Infinite Mixed Reality.
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About Infinite Mixed Reality, Infinite Mixed Reality: Infinite Mixed Reality is a full-service virtual reality and augmented reality agency.
Rosemary Reed
Co-Founder & Creative Director of Infinite Mixed Reality
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About Infinite Mixed Reality: Infinite Mixed Reality is a full-service virtual reality and augmented reality agency.
Julian Williams
Founder of Wizdish
Julian is an experienced control system developer, technical lead and architect for television broadcasting with 30 years’ experience with the BBC in the UK and USA. Computer games have interested Julian since the late 70’s and the Wizdish ROVR concept grew out of this interest. • Senior Control System Engineer & technical lead • 30 yrs at BBC in UK and USA • Avid gamer and Wizdish Inventor & Founder
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About Wizdish: Wizdish is the original virtual reality motion platform.
David Bridgland
Founder of Wizdish
David Bridgland studied Engineering at Cambridge and is a chartered accountant. David has over 18 years of business experience from privately owned and venture capital backed companies through to blue chip PLCs. Concentrating on early-stage businesses with innovative technologies, he has helped raise funding, grown businesses organically and through acquisition,and achieved successful trade sale exits for investors.
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About Geothermal Engineering, Wizdish: Wizdish is the original virtual reality motion platform.
Joe Ryan
CEO and Founder of VRGO
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About VRGO: VRGO is a connected chair that provides hands free movement within VR.
Tom Nield
Co-Founder of Landmrk
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About Landmrk: Landmrk is a flexible white-label platform that enables you to deliver digital content to your audience at specific physical locations.
Jakub Pietrzak
Chief Technology Officer and Founder of SKY ENGINE
Jakub Pietrzak is the Chief Technology Officer and Founder at Sky Engine.
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About SKY ENGINE: Evolutionary AI Platform for the Deep Learning in Virtual Reality with Synthetic Data for any Computer Vision applications
Stephen Walsh
CEO and Co-Founder of Geekzonia
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About Geekzonia: A social, entertainment and retail space, built to be experienced entirely in virtual reality.
Alex Deruette
Founder of Kickpush
Alex Deruette is a co-founder and creative director of Kickpush, I am a product designer with 8 years experience in web and mobile. I’ve designed products for BBC, Verizon, Tesco, Chelsea FC, O2 and Vodafone but my real passion is to collaborate with entrepreneurs and shape products from the ground up. Co-Founder of a Product design studio with specialist expertise in mobile and web UX/UI. We know that people and relationships define quality. Exploring new frontiers of design in VR and AR.
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About Baby Bundle, Kickpush: Kickpush is a London-based design studio that produces digital products.
Henry Stuart
Co-Founder & CEO of Visualise
Henry Stuart is the co-founder and CEO of Visualise, an award-winning virtual reality production studio founded in 2012. A pioneer in the VR industry since 2006, Henry is regularly invited to speak at international events and is a regular contributor for national newspapers, TV, advertising, marketing and trade journals. Over the past 4 years Visualise has produced over 60 VR experiences for clients including Thomas Cook, BBC, Financial Times, Audi, Oakley, Samsung, Wimbledon, Doctors without Borders, The Economist, O2 and many more.
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About Visualise: VISUALISE are a full service Virtual Reality production agency, creating world class VR experiences and films.
Ashley Cowan
Co Founder & CEO of VR City
VR City is a London based VR production company, creating emotionally transformative experiences in virtual reality. Their first film, the award winning ‘Witness 360: 7/7’ directed by Darren Emerson, tells of one woman’s experience of the 7/7 bombings in London. It moved straight to the vanguard of VR documentary, playing at international film festivals including IDFA, Docville and Cannes Marche du Film. Their most recent film ‘Invisible’, a powerful documentary about the uncertainty and despair of the UK’s indefinite detention system, won the UK Arts Council’s first ever VR commission and premiered at Sheffield International Documentary Festival. It is currently touring film festivals around the world and has been licensed by the New York Times to play on their VR app as ‘Indefinite’.
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About VR City: VR City is a London based VR production company, creating emotionally transformative experiences in virtual reality.
Ashley Cowan
Co Founder & CEO of VR City
VR City is a London based VR production company, creating emotionally transformative experiences in virtual reality. Their first film, the award winning ‘Witness 360: 7/7’ directed by Darren Emerson, tells of one woman’s experience of the 7/7 bombings in London. It moved straight to the vanguard of VR documentary, playing at international film festivals including IDFA, Docville and Cannes Marche du Film. Their most recent film ‘Invisible’, a powerful documentary about the uncertainty and despair of the UK’s indefinite detention system, won the UK Arts Council’s first ever VR commission and premiered at Sheffield International Documentary Festival. It is currently touring film festivals around the world and has been licensed by the New York Times to play on their VR app as ‘Indefinite’.
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About VR City: VR City is a London based VR production company, creating emotionally transformative experiences in virtual reality.
Richard Hoffmann
Founder of Area 1
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About Area 1: Area 1 is a innovative software company developing software and games for the VR & AR industry and projects.
