Unlocking the Commercial Potential of Virtual and Augmented Reality (Hosted by Premier Members Penningtons, SVB, Grant Thornton and RBS)

MODERATOR:

Josh Dorsey
Director, Silicon Valley Bank




At SVB, our platform of financial products and services focus on entrepreneurs and the venture capital community both professionally and personally. Our team is dedicated to working with CEO/founders of hardware and deep tech companies; specifically focusing on banking, building/managing relationships, making impactful connections, and providing debt financing to companies.
Please find me on twitter: @_theDors or on linkedIn: Josh Dorsey
 

Rick Davis
General Manager


Rick is General Manager for North America at REWIND charged with expanding REWIND’s vision as an AR and VR innovator in content creation. Based in REWIND’s San Francisco office, Rick’s focus is on building scalable software and owned IP. For select brands, studios, and agencies REWIND in the United States will create world-class immersive experiences as it has done for brands like RedBull, Jaguar, Paramount, and the BBC.

Rick has worked in gaming and tech for 12 years in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. Most recently he created and evangelized the Autodesk LIVE brand, a long-term vision, and suite of products that brings real-time environments and VR to the design world for the global software company.

When he is not building companies he build strategies, brands, and products for sales organizations, global marketing teams, and start-ups and also advises SnowBrains, one of the largest destinations for skiing news and content.
 

Mark Skilton
Profession of Practice in Information Systems Management
Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK

Mark is Professor of Practice in Information Systems Management at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK. He is an Author of books on Digital Strategy and his latest book co-authored is the 4th Industrial Revolution and the impact of Artificial Intelligence on Business for Palgrave Macmillan International due November 2017.  Mark is also Global Senior Executive for Digital Strategy at Enzen, an international specialist premium Energy & Utilities engineering systems Consultancy.  

Mark has expertise in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality system with mixed reality integration for augmented customer experience, health and lifestyle, workforce knowledge collaboration, smart assets and building digital twinning to drive new business model strategies for value exploitation. He has worked extensively in his 30 year consulting track record in the top 1000 Stock Companies in over 20 countries and across multi public, private and start-up sectors. He is a recognized International thought leader in Digital company strategy, AR/VR/MR,  Telecoms, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence and IOT, Digital markets and M&A strategies, CxO practices and Technology Innovation. His work and views have been published in the FT, NYT, WSJ, Washington Post, Bloomberg, AP, Mail, Scientific American, NewScientist, Nature, Scientific American and many channels around the world including TV and Radio including BBC, Sky, ITV, Al Jazeera and many others
 

Adam Nakagoshi
Northwest Regional Creative Media Leader


Adam leads Gensler’s initiative to integrate digital technologies into our design projects. Using virtual and augmented reality technology, he works to bridge the gaps between visualization, understanding, and realization.
 
Adam is the Regional Creative Media Leader for Gensler’s Northwest Region, and is based in the San Francisco office. With a background in architecture, building information modeling (BIM), and data-driven 3D modeling, Adam works with clients such as NVIDIA, San Francisco International Airport, and the City of San Jose.
 
His leadership guides the research and development, application for project use, and the implementation of VR and AR technology into the design process for teams throughout the region. Adam holds a Masters in Architecture from the University of South Florida.
 

Steven David Madge
Vice President, Industry & Global Affairs in High Tech, Future Transportation & Smart Cities


Steven Madge is a British entrepreneur who currently holds the position of Vice President of Industry & Global Affairs at Dassault Systémes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, world leader in 3D design software, 3D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions.
 
During Steven?s early career, he became known as a renowned automotive designer and global technology hunter, focusing on design, innovation, sustainability and consumer experiences. Through technology and experience he has cross-pollinated his knowledge and expertise to the Design, Manufacturing, Retail and Merchandising divisions of Automotive, High Tech and Lifestyles industries. Clients include Audi, Apple, BMW, Boss, Coach, DELL, Google, M&S, Nike, New Balance, Skechers, Target and VF Corp.
 
Steven has worked with and consulted to some of the most exclusive and luxurious vehicle manufacturers in the world, including Aston Martin, Audi, BMW, Bentley Motors, Daimler, Land Rover, Lotus, Porsche, Tesla and Volvo. He was also intimately involved with the famed ?Back to the Future? DeLorean DMC12.
 
In his role at Dassault Systémes group, Steven is actively promoting and evangelizing the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform to help Automotive, High Tech, Lifestyle and Smart Cities to design and offer more compelling products, while shortening product development cycles, improving sustainability and offering the consumer a unique ownership experience. He sees a future where products are no longer designed in 2D, but created digitally and 3Dimensionally from the very beginning. This is referred to as the 3DExperience Platform, from ?Molecule to Shelf?, or ?Concept to Consumer?.
 
Steven is fluent in German and Dutch and has lived and worked in throughout Europe, Asia and the USA. His passions are: fast cars, travel, family and horses. He currently resides in Pasadena, California, USA.

Jason RM Smith
CCO / Creative Director / SOMA Creative

After graduating in traditional animation from Bournemouth Film School (UK) and studying under Richard Williams (NYC) Jason jumped directly into real-time animation and graphics at a number of iconic UK game studios, Argonaut Software, Bullfrog, Criterion Games & Electronic Arts.

After a decade at Electronic Arts, in 2008 Jason relocated to San Francisco to oversee film & game convergence at Lucasfilm. This involved bringing film techniques and tools from Industrial Light and Magic into games at LucasArts to improve visual quality, and taking real-time game technology to ILM to speed up movie production. Following six years of Star-Wars technology, Jason co-founded SoMa Play in 2013, a digital entertainment studio whose partners include Telltale, Ubisoft, Nordeus Games, Sony Computer Entertainment and James Cameron.

After a game-changing VR experience in 2016 Jason established the the SoMa Creative Group focused around combining global IP and entertainment experiences in VR.

Jason is an advocate and speaker for a number of UK Trade & Industry groups, has served as international juror for BAFTA (UK) & SICAF (Korea), is an advisor at ACM SIGGRAPH (US) and board-member at ViewConference (Italy). Jason consults internationally on interactive development and holds a patent in artificial intelligence & machine learning.