Thursday, October 18, 2018

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Session I: Herscher Hall, 2nd Floor, Room 202

Innovating in VR-AR-Immersive Production - The Amazing Journey of Imagination, Gear and Innovation

Ryan Moore, CEO, Experience 360°

Jessie Kim, Co-Founder & CEO, Prosper XR

BJ Schwartz, co-founder, Vanishing Point Media

Anthony Jacobson, Chief Operating Officer, SPACES

Daniel Kenyon, Founder/CEO, Furious M

Lucas Kappaz, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer, VR Americas

Larry Rosenthal, President, Creative Director, CubeVR, Moderator

Anthony Jacobson is the Chief Operating Officer of SPACES, bringing deep experience as a game industry veteran to this leading immersive entertainment company. Anthony advises a variety of companies on business development, sales, strategy and growth. Most recently, Anthony strategically advised Playfab to convert into a paid service which resulted in acquisition by Microsoft. Previously, Anthony was head of business development and publisher relations at Skillz and a SVP at video game publisher Atari where he was integral to a wide variety of projects including establishing pipelines of mobile, social, console, and PC titles. Career highlights include serving as a SVP at G-Cluster, the first cloud gaming service, which is owned by Softbank. Anthony was also

the founder and CEO of Shanghai game developer, Spicy Horse Games, as well as TMIEC, one of the video game industry's first production company’s focused on creating original intellectual property for multi-platform development. Anthony's passion for entrepreneurship began early in his career culminating in the sale of Goodstory.com to Creative Planet.

Jessie Kim, CEO, Prosper XR: Jessie has conceptualized campaigns and produced content that engages millions. She is a co-founder of Prosper VR, a virtual reality content creation studio and full-service production company that specializes in robotics. Prosper VR's patented robotics products achieve the most stable moving 360 ground and aerial footage possible today. Prosper VR works with brands such as Google Daydream, YouTube, Anheuser-Busch, Samsung, Red Bull, Nikon, MINI Cooper, and Disney. Prosper VR produced the first ever VR production at Hoover Dam that takes viewers into the Dam and above the Dam with robotics and aerial drone cinematography. They produced the first ever 360 video for Anheuser-Busch & Vayner Media. Prosper VR's first non-profit VR experience for the Humane Society garnered over 6.4M organic views in 1 month. Jessie is currently mentoring NASA JPL on how to leverage virtual reality to tell great stories. She started her career at the Discovery Channel, where she formed partnerships with school districts to create digital classroom environments to engage students. Formerly the Chief Strategy Officer of Enplug, an operating system for interactive displays, she worked with international brands like Marriott, BMW, Toyota and Google to leverage cutting-edge interactive content. It was there she identified VR and AR as the next computing platforms and made the leap into virtual and mixed reality.

Ryan Moore is the CEO of Experience 360°, a Los Angeles based Virtual Reality Experience Design Studio operating since 2015. Combined with his Experience 360° team, they have created next-generation 360° experiences for such brands as GoPro, Toyota, Jack in the Box, Visit California, Warner Brothers, Dell, ABC, Food Network, BET, and Fuse Media. Before that, Ryan’s passion for telling human-centric stories allowed him to travel globally, producing award winning documentaries on subjects such as the Organic food industry, human trafficking, domestic violence, and Atheism. Ryan currently resides in North Hollywood, California. Please see: http://experience360.tv/

Lucas Kappaz is Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer at VR Americas. He has over 15 years of experience in the media industry and during his tenure at MundoFox – just before starting VR Americas – he served SVP Digital Strategy and Content Distribution leading cutting-edge strategies to create digital native, and original experience for their audience. At VR Americas, Lucas is in charge of business development and revenue among many other things we all do as start-up co-founders. His passion for the intersection between business and technology has led him to explore the many grounds in which XR will impact our lives in the near future. Mr. Kappaz holds a Master of Business Administration from the Yale University and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Universidad de Los Andes He and his wife Rosa live in Santa Monica, California, with their two children.

Daniel Kenyon, Founder/CEO, Furious M: As founder and CEO of Furious M, Daniel Kenyon leads a team of innovative new talent and industry veterans harnessing technology to revolutionize creative impact and commercial success in transmedia entertainment. With over 25 years experience in executive management, award winning product and business development, Daniel has a history of developing as well as bringing to market winning solutions for the media, entertainment and communications industries. As VP at Automated Media Processing Solutions, Daniel spearheaded go-to-market for a global video management and delivery solution. As Industry Director for Media & Entertainment at Oracle, he initiated several strategic directives including the multi-billion dollar industry portfolio targeting media & entertainment and communications. As VP of Communications Industry Strategy and VP CRM Industry Strategy at PeopleSoft, he directed development and release of the award winning CRM for Communications, initiated strategic acquisitions and partnerships including IBM, valued at over $1Billion. Daniel was Product Evangelist for Vantive and co-founder and VP at SBI, Inc. Daniel holds a Bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley.

BJ Schwartz, co-founder, Vanishing Point Media: BJ is a VR pioneer, writer, comedian, award winning filmmaker, and Stanford trained attorney. Along with his writing, directing and producing partner Annie Lukowski, BJ founded Vanishing Point Media -- a cinematic VR Production Company -- in 2013. VPM's clients include New Deal Studios, Banana Republic, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, ABC, Stan Lee (and his POW! Entertainment), and many more. BJ has also garnered awards, notoriety and praise as both a traditional filmmaker and writer – from his highly successful film "Wolves in the Woods” (Telluride Film Festival) to his comedy writing for his satire site Citizen Schwartz. He is also a successful standup comedian performing throughout the LA area. Currently, BJ is teaching a course in Cinematic VR creation at UCLA as part of the university's extension program.

Larry Rosenthal, President, Creative Director, CubeVR: LarryR/Cube3 has over two decades of experience as a leader in the  area of virtual worlds , transmedia IP creation, Virtual Reality content, Virtual IP Law, social games, online 3D, human machine interface, Augmented Reality and networked communities for both entertainment and corporate media uses. Over the years LarryR/Cube3 has worked with over hundreds of 2D /3D software tools makers or services in all matters of finding customers and creating products and services and then forming communities and ecosystems around them. LarryR/Cube3 has spoken at industry events for over two decades. Highlights included self created seminars at Apple Computers NYC Siggraphs for many years, Macworlds, and Digital Hollywood Panels as well as local east and west coast tech/design shows/meetings and conferences. Work and projects of LarryR/Cube3 have been written about in both print and online in periodicals such as WIRED, NEW MEDIA, Macworld, and UploadVR. He founded the early VR Groups for developers and designers. The NYVRMLSIG, the SFWEB3D.