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Having held multiple responsibilities as project manager for ESI’s vrify cloud initiative and Team Leader for ESI’s Immersive Experience and Simulation development team, Jan has recently migrated into a new role as Solution & Technology Expert for ESI's Virtual Reality development team. As a cross-domain technical lead, he applies and consults on the team's strategy, research and technology in the context of VR / AR software development. Jan studied Computer Science in Media at University of Applied Sciences in Furtwangen. He has 15 years of software development experience in numerous aspects of Virtual Reality software and has been leading various development teams.

Usman Ghias was formally educated in in Arts and CGI and has been working in the computer graphics industry for last ten years. Currently, he is responsible for EVE (Engaging Virtual Education) – a virtual reality solution for training, maintenance, and planning. For the last four years, he has been working for DB Systel GmbH (a wholly owned DB AG subsidiary and the partner all group companies on for their digitalisation needs) on projects using game development technology.

David Weinstein is NVIDIA's Director of Enterprise VR.

Morgan McGuire is the author of "The Graphics Codex" and co-author of "Computer Graphics: Principles & Practice and Creating Games." He cochaired the I3D'08, I3D'09, NPAR'10, and HPG'17 conferences, and was the founding editor and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques. Morgan has contributed to many commercial products, including NVIDIA GPUs, the Unity game engine, and the game series "Titan Quest," "Marvel Ultimate Alliance," and "Skylanders." He is a former Professor of Computer Science at Williams College and now works at NVIDIA as a Distinguished Research Scientist. He holds a B.S. and M.Eng. from MIT and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Brown University.

Dominic is a huge Virtual Reality advocate and enthusiast and has been called “the single most influential European Virtual Reality specialist”. As one of the early pioneers of the modern VR movement, Dominic has been involved in the industry ever since Oculus founder Palmer Luckey showed him the original duct-taped prototype of the Oculus Rift back in 2012, when it was still a garage-made kickstarter project. After this, he became a huge Virtual Reality ambassador: He co-founded and still moderates the largest community for Virtual Reality on the internet, he started the Virtual Reality Germany meetup group and is a co-founder of EUVR – a European non-profit organization that helps push the envelope for European VR devs, manufacturers and consumers. Furthermore, he co-founded his own Virtual Reality company - realities.io - together with two VR experts which they successfully brought through an accelerator program in Silicon Valley at Boost VC, the premier fund and accelerator for Virtual Reality. During this time, he not only learned how VR is driving a ton of innovation in the world's tech hub, but was also able to expand his VR network with personal contacts to the largest internet sites for VR, to developers, to investors and many more. Seeing how rapidly the tech is evolving, he became even more convinced that Virtual Reality will fundamentally change the way humans interact with computers. He is now working for Nvidia where he is heading up their VR business in the EMEAI region – so he's now the central spokesperson for all things VR in Europe & beyond and is striving to grow the European and global ecosystem.