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InfoComm 2018's Center Stage Speaker Lineup to Explore Personalized, Immersive Experiences

InfoComm 2018 will bring back Center Stage to the trade show floor, June 6-8 in Las Vegas. The Center Stage sessions will explore how to increase audience engagement through personalized and immersive experiences by way of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), wearable technology, human-centered user interfaces, and more.

Leading thinkers and practitioners from the fields of entertainment, enterprise, education, and hospitality, such as Huge, Bravo Media, PixMob, FreemanXP, The Salk Institute, Local Projects, Patten Studio, and Marriott International, will take the stage (booth N1646) to present free, 20- minute sessions throughout all three days of the InfoComm show.

"We're excited to have Center Stage return after a successful debut at InfoComm 2017," said Jason McGraw, CTS®, CAE, Senior Vice President of Expositions, AVIXA™. "It's a great opportunity to learn from these bright creatives who employ technology to push the human potential to learn, connect, and entertain.”

 

Center Stage at InfoComm 2017 in Orlando

In the Center Stage Session Personalization of Digital Signage Content, David Title, Chief Engagement Officer of Bravo Media, and Manolo Almagro, Managing Partner of Q Division, will bring their expertise of advertising media psychology to discuss the complicated art of translating analytics information into a genuinely fun experience. They'll discuss what displays and sensors are needed to achieve that personal experience and how to show technology buyers they're getting their ROI.

The session The Psychology of User Interface Design led by Sundar Raman, Director of Creative Engineering, Local Projects, and James Patten, Director of Patten Studio, will explore how technologies like voice, motion, heat, and RFID sensors, can be used to analyze human actions and emotions and turn the human into a user interface.

 

The Center Stage session lineup also includes:

            
  • AR for Immersive Live Experiences. Cortney Harding, Founder of Friends with Holograms
  • Why Our Voice Assistants Need Ethics. Sophie Kleber, Executive Director of Product and Innovation
  • Huge Wearable Technology for Connecting Audiences. Vincent Leclerc, Partner and Chief Technology Officer, PixMob Christopher Cowley, Senior Director of Technology, C2 International
  • Experience Capture Technology for Improving Event Design. Haluk Kulin, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Data, FreemanXP Sergei Gepshtein, Director of the Collaboratory for Adaptive Sensory Technologies at the Salk Institute
  • Incorporating VR into the Online Classroom. Julian McCrea, CEO of Portal Experiences
  • Using Videoconferencing to Connect Learning Communities. Amar Bakshi, Founder and Creative Director, Shared_Studios Lewis Lee, Curator, Shared_Studios
  • How Buildings of the Future Will Change in Response to Human Occupants. Neil Redding, Director of Emerging Technology, ThoughtWorks, Güvenç Özel, Principal, Ozel Office
  • Combining Live Music with Both Physical and Virtual New Media. Yo-Yo Lin, Media Artist and Art Director, The Family, Steve Dabal, Co-Founder and Creative Director, The Family
  • Creating Empathy with Immersive Audio in VR and Video Games Joanna Fang, Foley Artist, Alchemy Post Sound. David Grinbaum, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Chapter Four
  • How Hospitality Brands Use VR and Interactive Video to Engage Guests. David Kepron, Vice President of Global Design Strategies, Distinctive Premium Brands, Marriott International, Bill Lally, President of Mode:Green
  • Innovators in Online Video Content Creation Reveal the Secrets to Compulsively Watchable Content. Alesia Hendley, Multimedia Journalist and AV Operator, Berry Center, Cypress- Fairbanks Independent School District, Will Curran, Founder and Owner of Endless Events
 
 

 

By putting innovators in conversation, Center Stage shows how AV is leveraged across disciplines to create something really exciting," said Rachel Bradshaw, Director of Exhibition Content, AVIXA. "Center Stage is a beacon of inspiration in the middle of the show floor." Center Stage is sponsored by Platinum Sponsors ConnectWise, Dolby, Lifesize, Mvix, and Samsung, and Gold Sponsors Williams Sound and Z-Band.

InfoComm 2018 is sponsored by Presenting Show Partner Samsung, Strategic Show Partners Blackmagic Design and Crestron, and Supporting Show Partners LG and Lifesize. June 2-8 (exhibits June 6-8) at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Visit InfoComm 2018 to register to attend.

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