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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM – Immersive Hollywood: VR – AR - MR

Session I: Herscher Hall, Guerin A, Live Webcast

VR/AR/MR as a Branding/Advertising Strategy: The Immersive Experience as Image Maker - Movies/TV/Brand/Experiential/LBE

Rachel Lanham, General Manager, WunderVu, XR STUDIO, PIXVANA

Mark Laisure, CEO, Vortex Immersion Media

Grant Ogburn, Head Of Client Services, Tiltshift Agency, Publicis Groupe

Dmitry Shapiro, founder and CEO, Metaverse

Christine Lawton, Partner, Nolan Heimann LLP

Kevin Cornish, Founder & Director, Moth + Flame & Conversive

Peter Csathy, Founder & Chairman, CREATV Media, Moderator

 

Kevin Cornish, Founder & Director, Moth + Flame & Conversive: Kevin Cornish is an Emmy Nominated, immersive filmmaker who specializes in designing pop culture experiences for prestige IP and talent. His body of work includes high profile projects for Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why, AMC’s Walking Dead, and Taylor Swift. He most recently created Talk to the Reasons, an immersive mobile experience for 13 Reasons Why, which makes fans feel like they’re getting FaceTime calls, text messages and Instagram posts from characters on the show. The project was the first of its kind for Netflix and nominated for an Emmy. He has worked with brands including: Netflix, IMAX, Google, Facebook/

Oculus, AMC, Discovery, MTV, AT&T, Ram Truck, and AMD. His work has been recognized by Cannes Innovation Lions, AICP NEXT, Sundance, Tribeca, and the Future of Storytelling Prize. In 2015, Kevin founded Moth + Flame, a company dedicated to merging art with technology to help de ne the next generation of storytelling. The company’s capabilities include an end-to-end pipeline, from creative services, production, deployment, and social discovery to awards campaign production. Kevin was the first immersive director signed by CAA’s Virtual Reality department. Both Kevin and Moth + Flame are represented by CAA and Farah Films & Management.

 

Rachel Lanham is the General Manager of WunderVu, PIXVANA’S XR STUDIO, where she oversees day-to-day operations and focuses on building relationships with innovative companies that are looking to unlock the power of XR.  She previously served as an executive and client partner at Avenue A, which became aQuantive before being sold for $6.3 billion to Microsoft.  Joining in 1999, Lanham was one of the key contributors to driving growth, helping pioneer digital advertising concepts and practices for many well-recognized brands such as Weight Watchers, MillerCoors, and Levi's.

 

Dmitry Shapiro is CEO of GoMeta, a stealth startup working on building a Metaverse.  He recently left Google after 4 years, where he worked on various social initiatives and global infrastructure.  Prior to Google, Dmitry built three venture backed companies, raised over $100M in venture capital, fought and won a pivotal DMCA case, and was later named the Chief Technology Officer of MySpace Music.  Dmitry immigrated to the United States from Russia when he was 9 years old, grew up in the South, used to be a staunch conservative, but now has a serious crush on President Obama

 

Christine Lawton is a partner at IP firm Nolan Heimann LLP where she specializes in digital and emerging media, branded product, consumer technology and retail transactions, and launched the firm’s IP Monetization and Business Strategy practice group. She has 15+ years’ executive experience launching and monetizing businesses at the convergence of entertainment, technology and retail, helping Disney, DreamWorks, Universal and Fox innovate consumer experiences. With business, creative, financial and legal expertise across all aspects of the complex structural  transactions necessary to launch and support B2B and B2C businesses, Christine applies rare combined perspective and oversight capabilities to digital, entertainment, media, retail, consumer tech, branded merchandising, and traditional licensing and distribution businesses. Christine has guided home entertainment, television, video game, mobile, digital distribution platform, music, toy, and retail relationships, and has structured, negotiated and drafted financing, acquisition, marketing, promotion, distribution, publishing, hardware, software and consumer products agreements. At Fox, Christine led a 20-person, global, home entertainment legal and business advisory team, including a digital legal licensing unit. Also at Fox, she structured and negotiated partner relationships to launch Fox’s Innovation Lab for immersive technologies. At Universal Studios Home Entertainment, she ran a 13-person Business & Legal Affairs department. In that role she structured and negotiated partnerships valued up to $100M, manufacturing and distribution relationships valued annually at $10M-$50M, and multi-year alliances with Lionsgate, Summit and DreamWorks that shepherded the home entertainment releases of The Hunger Games, Twilight, and Shrek franchises. At DreamWorks, Christine was head of Business Affairs for worldwide home entertainment, domestic syndicated television, and worldwide pay and free television. At Disney, Christine was Director of Business & Legal Affairs at Buena Vista Home Video, responsible for video licensing, acquisition, manufacturing and distribution, and promotional partnerships.

 

Grant Ogburn, Director of Client Services and Solutions, TiltShift: Grant Ogburn thrives at the intersection between brand, engineering, and production teams – bridging the gap between engineering-speak and brand, while driving excitement around the adoption of new technologies. In his current position as Head of Client Services at TiltShift, Publicis Groupe's full-service AR/AV agency, he leads global digital strategy development and implementation initiatives, with partnership brands such as Lexus, BMW, and Mazda. Throughout his career, Ogburn has worked at top agencies including Wunderman and Team One, as well as brand side in various roles at Amazon, Microsoft, AOL and Xbox among others. Ogburn graduated from Washington State University with a Bachelors of Communications in Marketing & Advertising.

 

Mark Laisure, CEO, Vortex Immersion Media: Mark Laisure is an award winning entrepreneur and CEO of Vortex Immersion Media as well as a producer, inspirational speaker and Co-Host of The LIFE CHANGES Radio Show and Live Event Series. His passion thrives in service of others and amongst life changing technologies and conscious immersive content. His talks vary, with a focus on personal transformation of self and within business. Mark spent his early career on and around Wall Street as principle with Firms such as UBS Paine Webber, Wellington Shields & Co. and Dillon Read & Co. Mark has been a guiding force within several start-ups, takeovers, and turn-arounds most notably; Inktomi Corporation (acquired by Yahoo!), Emmy Award winning Teranex (video processing), Mesh Networks (mobile WiFi, acquired by Motorola,) Theseus Logic (clock-less semiconductor) Zeros & Ones, Inc. (digital convergence) and ONEHOPE Wine (cause centric commerce.) Mark has received numerous awards as an entrepreneur and inventor including; A Prime Time Emmy for technological innovation in film and television processing, R & D 100 award (The Oscar's of Inventing) and Businessweek Magazine Product of the Year.

 

Peter Csathy, Founder & Chairman, CREATV Media: Connector, Dealmaker, Advisor, Investor, Entrepreneur, Executive, Mentor, Thought Leader.  Peter Csathy's career spans traditional media, new/digital media, and technology (with a unique ability to bridge those worlds).  Previously CEO Manatt Digital Media, CEO Sorenson Media, CEO SightSpeed (acquired by Logitech), President & COO Musicmatch (acquired by Yahoo!), COO eNow/Relegence (acquired by AOL), SVP Universal Studios, New Line Cinema, Entertainment/IP Attorney.  Negotiated deals in excess of $3 billion.  Deep network across media, entertainment & tech.