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21 September 2023 16:30-18:30 EESTEpicenter Helsinki

Imagine a world where our physical surroundings blend seamlessly with digital elements, enabling us to live and work in spaces that are enhanced by technology. In this rapidly approaching future, innovations such as 5G networks, spatial computing, and cutting-edge sensor technology are key players, paving the way for this profound integration of our digital and physical lives.

Into the Metaverse is an Epicenter event series focusing on everything you ever wanted to know about the metaverse. For our sixth event in this series, we will delve into this transformation and examine how our environments, industries, and daily interactions are set to change dramatically as we venture further into mixed reality realms.

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Schedule

16:30

Welcome

Grab a drink, network, and settle in.

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16:45

Keynote: Shaping Our Mixed Reality Future: Exploring the Convergence of the Built Environment, Web, and Real World

The convergence of the built environment, web technologies, and the real world is laying the groundwork for a future where digital and physical experiences seamlessly intertwine. With the advent of 5G connectivity, spatial computing, and advancements in sensor technologies, we are witnessing the birth of a new reality where information is no longer confined to screens, but seamlessly integrated into our surroundings. This talk will explore how the built environment, and its industries, are being reshaped by augmented and virtual reality, creating immersive spaces that bridge the gap between the physical and the digital. Simultaneously, the web is evolving into a dynamic canvas for interactive and collaborative experiences, blurring the lines between online and offline interactions. Prepare to be inspired as we unpack the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead on our journey into the mixed reality future.

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Damon Hernandez
CEO & Co-Founder, Mixx Reality
17:00

Keynote: AI and Digital Identity and Privacy - Oh My!

Today, the word "Metaverse" immediately conjures up glasses+headsets, digital worlds, and potentially disruptive (and lucrative) ways we live, play, and business. However, with great potential for disruption comes great potential for danger and abuse (unintentional, or otherwise). We will highlight three such areas of active debate within the industry, with the goal of stimulating greater awareness and debate outside of it.

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George Tang
Co-Founder, Mixx Reality
17:15

Panel: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities in the Mixed Reality Future

Engage with industry experts as they unpack the challenges and opportunities presented by our journey into the mixed reality future.

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Damon Hernandez
CEO & Co-Founder, Mixx Reality
Moderator / Joey Bayer
Head of Community / Epicenter Helsink
George Tang
Co-Founder, Mixx Reality
Tuija Pakkanen (M.Sc.)
Lead, Sustainable Built Environment, VTT
17:40

Networking

Grab a drink, enjoy some food, and don't be shy meet a new friend!

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18:40

Thank You and Goodbye

Meet Our Experts

Damon Hernandez
CEO & Co-Founder, Mixx Reality

Damon works in many areas of interactive 3D, web, & XR industries as a designer, developer, advisor, speaker, entrepreneur, investor and executive that has been active in virtual environments, the 3D web, and other Metaverse related technologies for over 20 years. He is passionate about the web’s convergence with other technologies including 3D, IoT, GIS, CAD/BIM/CAM, AR/VR, mobile and advises a variety of entities that use these technologies for enterprise focused applications. Since 2007, he has been working closely with various built environment professions on the adoption and use of innovative technologies.

As a co-founder of Mixx Reality, he is taking his passion for immersive tech and the real world to new levels. Previously he was at SIMLAB, where he was working to make property ownership & management more user friendly for owners via digital twins. At Samsung Research America he focused on making the web browser experience awesome and enhanced with immersive web technologies and new types of interfaces. He is a co-founder of IDEAbuilder, a high tech building company that uses immersive technologies and robotic manufacturing to build timber structures more efficiently. He has worked with 3D web and virtual world companies and was acting director of a student initiated organization with the Web3D Consortium, where he worked with the Consortium’s global outreach and education initiatives. He has built numerous mixed reality applications and has led dozens of research projects in multiple domains.

As founding team member of the Augmented Reality Developer Camps, VR Hackathon, & founder of the AEC Hackathon, he is actively working to help grow the use of innovative technologies.

George Tang
Co-Founder, Mixx Reality

George is the co-founder of Mixx Reality - a Helsinki-based XR startup building the future experience of the Web for today - with an open, inclusive, and individual-respecting focus. As a serial tech entrepreneur, his professional interest falls squarely at the intersection of responsible (and ubiquitous) AI, evolving cybersecurity and identity/privacy practices, and (the messy process of) Reality convergence. In his down time, you might run into him randomly in natural+liminal places communing with the land and her denizens.

Tuija Pakkanen (M.Sc.)
Lead, Sustainable Built Environment, VTT

Tuija is a geographer who works as a Lead in Sustainable Built Environment at VTT. Her goal is to study directions in which technological research for sustainable built environment should navigate in Finland. Previously, she acted as a senior specialist at the Ministry of the Environment in the Ryhti project, building and designing the national information system for the built environment. Currently, she is engaged in examining impacts of immersive digital technologies on the built environment and exploring how future of working change our everyday life and our physical built environment.

Moderator / Joey Bayer
Head of Community / Epicenter Helsink

Joey Bayer has been responsible for creating conversations that matter for more than 16 years.From creating the space, to connecting key players, to driving / setting the agenda, Joey brings together individuals for moments that both transform and inspire.

Over the course of his career, Joey has hosted the world's most fascinating and influential people - from world leaders, like Bill Clinton, to iconic legends like Liza Minelli, to the CEOs of today's Fortune 500 companies.

Joey's intuitive ability to connect with others, his passion for people and dialogue, and ability to get directly to the heart of the discussion have earned him a reputation of trust and respect with leaders around the world, and made him a central figure in today's most important conversations.

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