Christine Perey
CEO, PEREY Research & Consulting, Switzerland
Christine Perey is an industry analyst, researcher and an advocate for interoperable Augmented Reality. From 2009-2016, she led the grassroots community dedicated to this purpose. She is on numerous boards, is a member of many standards groups and co-chairs the IEEE SA ARLEM WG and the OGC Geopose SWG. She is the founder of the AR for Enterprise Alliance (AREA), chairs the Research Committee and leads the AREA Interoperability and Standards Program. Since 2018, she is a founder of the Open AR Cloud (OARC) association and serves on the governing board. She co-chairs the OARC Reality Capture, Indexing, Mapping and GeoPose Working Group.
Thomas Bierhoff
Head of technology in Atos, Germany
Dr.-Ing. Thomas Bierhoff holds a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and information technologies and has over 18 years of working experience in R&D. In 2015 he took over the head of technology for the Atos business unit Civil and National Security being responsible for innovative technology and solution portfolio development. Since 2016 he leads in parallel a global Atos investment program for strategic technology portfolio and offering development in the domain of digital transformation of industrial field services and operations.
Eric Villain
Researcher and Research Project Manager, Orange, France
Eric Villain is Researcher and Research Project Manager in the field of Augmented Reality and he researches and develops contextual services for twelve years. As an expert in the use of AR for Orange, Eric Villain conducts research on user interactions with contextual services and contributes to the development of innovative prototypes in this field.
Dimitrios Kyritsis
Professor of ICT for Sustainable Manufacturing in EPFL, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Dimitris Kyritsis is Faculty Member at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the School of Engineering of EPFL, where he is leading a research group on ICT for Sustainable Manufacturing. His research interests are Closed Loop Lifecycle Management, IoT, Semantic Technologies and Data Analytics for Engineering Applications. Prof. Kyritsis is actively involved in EU research programs in the area of Factories of the Future and Enabling ICT for Sustainable Manufacturing. On top of the above, Prof. Kyritsis is a member of the European Academy for Industrial Management as well as of WEF GFC on Advanced Manufacturing and Production.
Gwendal Simon
Distinguished CDN Architect at Synamedia, France
Gwendal Simon is a Distinguished Software Architect at Synamedia. Previously, he was a Research Expert at Huawei and a Full Professor at IMT Atlantique (2006-2019). He received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees from University Rennes 1 in 2000 and 2005 respectively. He was a visiting researcher at University Waterloo during 2011-2012 and a visiting senior researcher at Adobe Research in San Jose California during 2018-2019. He was a research engineer at Orange R&D lab (2001-2006). He has co-authored a dozen of patents and over 100 conference/journal papers in network, multimedia (video, gaming, virtual reality), and systems. He received several best paper awards (including IEEE ICC and ACM MMSys). His academic duties include the promotion of reproducible research. He is Chevalier des Palmes Academiques.
Guillaume Moreau
Head of the Computer Science at École Centrale de Nantes, France
Guillaume Moreau received his Ph.D. in computer science from Rennes University in 1998. After a first position at Mines Paristech, France, he moved as Associate Professor with Ecole Centrale de Nantes in 2002, where he became a Full Professor in 2011. His research activity takes place at the Ambiances, Architectures and Urbanity lab, where he is the head of the Computer Science team. His research covers various activities in the fields of virtual reality and augmented reality, with urban and architectural matters as a privileged application domain. At this time, he mainly studies perception issues in virtual and augmented environments. He is a member of the expert group for ANSES (French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety) for determining the sanitary effects of Virtual Reality.
Guillaume Pierre
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rennes 1, France
Guillaume Pierre is a Professor in Computer Science at the University of Rennes 1, France. Prior to this he spent 13 years at the VU University Amsterdam. His main interests are Fog computing, Cloud computing, and all other forms of large-scale distributed systems. He took part in several European and EIT Digital projects and acted as the lead designer of the ConPaaS platform-as-a-Service environment. He is currently the coordinator of the H2020 FogGuru Maria-Sklodowska project, the leader of the Myriads research team at INRIA/IRISA and the academic coordinator of the international “cloud and networking infrastructures” master program at the University of Rennes 1.
Ralf Schäfer
Director of the Video Division at Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
Ralf Schäfer is Director of the Video Division at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) in Berlin where he is responsible for 100 researchers and 50 undergraduate students. He studied electrical engineering at the Technical University Berlin (TUB) and joined HHI as a researcher in 1977. In 1984 he received his doctorate at TUB in the area of digital video coding of TV signals. His research interests cover all areas related to images and video, from acquisition to display and from algorithm development to ASIC implementation. Ralf Schäfer is member of the German Society for Information Technology (ITG), where he chaired the experts group Digital Coding for more than 20 years. Furthermore he is member of the German Society for Television and Motion Picture Technology (FKTG), where he belongs to the URTEL Award Committee.
Eberhard Wahl
Head of New Business Technology at Trumpf, Germany
Eberhard Wahl is Head of New Business Technology at TRUMPF, Germany. He studied business-economics first and completed his education with an engineering degree afterwards. Eberhard Wahl has focused on innovations in the area of tension between market-pull and technology-push. He has already successfully accompanied various technology changes and initiated many new products. In the field of networked production solutions, Mr. Wahl was an evangelist of the first hour – even before it was called Industry 4.0. Mr. Wahl is currently overseeing the development of a new business area at TRUMPF in the field of real-time location and has also launched a standardization initiative for this purpose, which is growing strongly.
Lars Vogel
Director New Work Experience, T-Systems Multimedia Solutions, Germany
Lars Vogel graduated as a master of Economics (Diplom Kaufmann), specializing in business computer science. He has gained extensive experience as an international product manager in the publishing industry and as a project manager of a global software provider for over eight years. As Program Manager New Business Development Lars Vogel realized various innovation projects working for T-Systems Multimedia Solutions, Germany’s leading Internet and multimedia company. His focus was on the implementation of innovative business concepts under consideration of the latest technologies. Today, Lars Vogel is Director New Work Experience and heading the office of T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH Munich. The focus is on customer solutions with XR Technologies, 5G and spatial computing, process intelligence and employee journey.
Stéphane Marie
Innovation project manager at LAB4i, France
Dr.-Ing Stéphane Marie received his M.Sc. in Mechanical and Automation Engineering from the INSA de Rennes in 2007 and a Ph.D. in Mechanics from the Université Européenne de Bretagne in 2010. His research fields were in operational research and system identification using gray-box modeling technics. Since 2013 he works in the R&D department of the Altenov group. His current position leads him to manage research and innovation projects in the fields of Data Analytics, Machine Learning, IoT and AR for industrial applications.
Gudrun Klinker
Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany
Prof. Gudrun Klinker is a professor at the Technical University of Munich and Head of the research group FAR (Forschungsgruppe Augmented Reality). Her research focus lies on bringing augmented reality technology into real applications by combining augmented reality with concepts of mobile and ubiquitous computing. This includes, among others, the fields of sensing, ubiquitous tracking and industrial augmented reality. Klinker is counted among the co-founders of the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR). She has served on numerous program committees such as VR, Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), three-dimensional User Interfaces (3DUI), and User Interface Software and Technology (UIST).
Barbara E. A. Piga
Assistant Professor at the Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), Italy
An Architect by education, Barbara E. A. Piga is Assistant Professor at the Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), where she is also Research Scientist and Coordinator of the Laboratorio di Simulazione Urbana Fausto Curti – labsimurb (POLIMI – Department of Architecture and Urban Studies) since its foundation in 2007. At labsimurb she is the project leader and responsible for the experiential simulation and sensory design research. She is the POLIMI Coordinator of two recent European Projects on Augmented and Virtual Reality for Collaborative Urban Planning, where she developed the exp-EIA© (experiential Environmental Impact Assessment) method.
Audrey Sétrin
Virtual Reality Designer at Groupe Legendre, France
Audrey Sétrin graduated in interactive media at Laval 3Di. During her scholarship, she worked at Renault’s Design department and Vinci Construction. At Vinci she discovered construction’s needs in virtual and augmented reality. She joins Groupe Legendre in March 2020 where she develops virtual and augmented reality for the construction field.
