12:00pm PDT
Shaping Virtual Reality: Empathy and Inclusion in Emerging Tech
Moderators
Manager, UW CoMotion
Xuny Haley is the Manager for University of Washington's CoMotion Labs at HQ, an incubator space that exclusively incubates spatial computing startups. She has worked for a variety of startups for three years, ranging from VR software startups to Ultimate Frisbee broadcasting startups...
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Speakers
Brian is the Narrative Designer at Tomorrow Today Labs, a freelance writer, editor, designer, and a VR accessibility advocate and analyst.
Emerging Tech Lead | Senior UX Designer, POP
As an optimistic realist, Di Dang leads the Emerging Tech group at digital agency POP. She advises clients from a variety of industries on how emerging tech will impact their business. Di loves leading UX through the full product development cycle for solutions that may include, but...
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Jason Pace is the Executive Director of the University of Washington Bothell’s Digital Future Lab, an interactive media research and commercial game development studio focused on transforming how the technology industry approaches diversity. Jason started the lab in 2012 after...
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At the intersection of human rights and education, Emily is the EdTech Game UI/UX Designer for the bilingual social enterprise Genius Plaza. Emily's team was awarded 2016 MIT AR/VR Hackathon's Best Virtual Reality Hack with the education platform KidCity VR. Emily earned a joint Bachelor's...
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12:30pm PDT
Building Inclusive Technology
Speakers
Community Builder, WXR Fund
Eva has been working in VR for almost 2 years as a design researcher and community builder, and now deep into exploring how the brain works so she can better understand how we can ethically design for virtual reality experiences. While the technology is growing increasingly impressive...
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Director of Design & Ethics, Microsoft
Mira Lane is the Director of Design & Ethics in Artificial Intelligence for Business at Microsoft. Her team is responsible for design strategy and ethical frameworks for new products leveraging AI to create business value. Mira Lane’s background as an artist and technologist gives...
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Accessibility Evangelist, Microsoft
Megan Lawrence is an Accessibility Evangelist at Microsoft. She has worked with the disability community for over 13 years conducting research to not only provide accessibility solutions but to ensure that users with disabilities are an integrated part of the design, development...
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ARVR Academy
Senior Executive, Quality Architect, and Leader with over 30 years of experience building and inspiring teams that delight customers with innovative solutions spanning many emerging and existing technologies in US and International market. After receiving his Master’s degree in...
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COO, Doghead Simulations
Lily Snyder is fundamentally changing the way people communicate through immersive technologies. She cares about making remote work work with new tech like virtual reality. Before co-founding Doghead Simulations, she worked extensively implementing manufacturing execution systems...
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