Czech VR Fest 2018

Product design, virtual training, virtual twin, tests, simulations and another key uses of VR and AR in industry.

Referee for Industry

Milan Mitošinka

Cleverlance

Expert na oblasť sveta mobilných technológii, nositeľnej elektroniky, IoT a VR/AR, ktorého motiváciou je využívať práve tieto technológie na stálu inováciu softwarových riešení a produktov. Snaha obohatiť konvenčné produkty o časť software a hardware, ktoré by mohli zefektívniť jeho predaj a fungovanie ako také je cesta do budúcnosti, v ktorej vidí veľký potenciál. Ako vedúci jednotky mobilného vývoja – Mobile IT a inovačného labu pre IoT a VR & AR v Cleverlance Group pracuje na neustálej inovácii časti portfólia produktov u spoločností ako Deutsche Telekom, Dôvera ZP, Komerčná Banka, Škoda auto a iné a preto garantuje sekciu priemyslu.

Speakers for Industry

Christian Glessner

Hololux

Christian Glessner is co-founder and CEO of hololux, a leading agency for virtual and mixed reality. He accompanies and leads customers on their journey into new and emerging virtual realities. Christian’s parents were entrepreneurs, and he grew up between computer technology and economics. As a kid, he was deeply inspired by an amber, sparkling screen and it's blinking and promising cursor of an AS/400 in his parent’s office. The “Tabula Rasa” or in other words the chance of creating something entirely new from scratch is still driving his passion for information technologies, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. Recently he was honored again (8th time in a row) for receiving the 'Microsoft MVP Award for Technology' leaders, an Oscar-like accolade conferred by Microsoft. hololux.de

Jakub Korczynski

Giant Lazer

At present, Jakub leads Giant Lazer - a software studio focused on VR / AR / MR and 360 videos. In the early days of the studio he worked as a producer and director of 360 videos. Later, along with his team he developed “Pack Rage VR” - an educational logistics game. It is the first educational VR game in Poland. He also led Giant Lazer to produce several VR experiences for industry: Jet Engine Assembly VR, Jumbo-Trailer Inspection VR, Build & Fly VR, Shelf VR Trainer. These business applications were shown at: LogiMAT 2018 Stuttgart, Logistyka 2018 and Logistics Conference Bratislava with great success. Currently Jakub and his team are working on various Mobile VR and AR projects for industry especially the logistics sector. Last year Jakub co-started an initiative called VR/AR Hero. The core of the project is to help people learn to program VR/AR applications. The first workshops took place in December 2017. Afro-Cuban dancer and dance instructor. giantlazer.com

Vladimír Mařík

CIIRC

Vladimír Mařík born in June 1952 deals with science and is a director of Czech institute for informatics, robotics and cybernetics (CIIRC) Czech higher technician education in Prague. In 2017 he earned medals for merits from the president of Czech republic. ciirc.cvut.cz/cs

CZ/CH

Marta Anna Ledgard

NXTR

Marta Anna Ledgard, MBA, is CEO and co-partner of NXTR. Marta is also a consultant, mentor and business developer for virtual and augmented reality projects. With her background in TV broadcasting as well as setting up a successful digital media company in East Africa she has a unique network and overview of the VR and film sector, companies and production houses throughout Europe, Americas and Asia. A Czech national, she currently lives with her family between Prague and Lausanne (Switzerland) and works on projects in different European countries.

Jiri Kaufhold

NXTR

Jiri brings three decades of experience from senior management selling new complex electronic design into European markets. As regional sales lead for Hewlett-Packard out of Munich he won large scale industrial business from Bosch, Phillips, and Motorola. Jiri has led similar successful sales for Matsushita and Cadence. His multifaceted knowledge spans electronics, semiconductor design, communication systems and digital platforms. He is particularly excited about AR solutions for complex machinery – an untouched and multibillion business. Jiri has strong ties to European technical universities including in Russia and is able to scout talent as Augmented grows. He is fluent in Czech, German, English, Russian, French, and Slovak and holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Czech Technical University.

Leoš Dvořák

SIEMENS

Leoš Dvořák is historically the first director for digitization in Siemens Czech Republic. His goal is to create an executive plan for a digital preparedness, training materials, creating partnership ecosystem a mainly to help Siemens Czech Republic with converting to industry 4.0. siemens.com/cz/cz/home.html

Milan Dědek

Škoda Auto

Cycling, motorsport and ice hockey are the sponsorship regions in Škoda. We create active communication around them, we support interesting events, we use innovative technologies and sometimes we cut open very special project. skoda-auto.cz

Perception, vision, psychology, education of physicians and many other uses of VR and AR in medicine.

Referee for Medicine

Tomáš Brngál

Virtual Medicine

26 years old Doctor of Medicine and entrepreneur focused to help people through innovations and new technologies (VR/AR). Very proud to our team VIRTUAL MEDICINE. We are innovating the education for future doctors.

Speakers for Medicine

Piotr Lój

Virtual Dream Foundation

I’m Virtual Reality Specialist in the social, medical and humanitarian field and 360 Video producer with over 3 years of experience in VR production and over 10 years of experience in graphic design/ creative sector. I'm a one-man operation; founder of Virtual Dream Foundation. I’m providing VR experiences to hospitals, children oncology clinics, hospices, child care homes, senior centers and many other social and medical facilities & wards. So far I am working in 3 hospitals in Poland and the biggest clinic in middle-east "Sheba Medical Center" in Tel Aviv, Israel. My last project was VR Santa experience. We took children from hospital beds into Santa's sleigh and let them fly all around the world! I am cooperating with United Nations, giving lectures for International Committee of Red Cross in Geneva, working with International High Schools in Switzerland and many other schools to teach young people about VR development with all its' dark and bright features. Recently I've been giving lectures in Hong Kong and Washington DC; my next stop is University in Shanghai –China. My goal is to equip hospitals with VR hardware, proper VR content, 360 videos, and know-how. To train medical staff, volunteers and coordinate potential cooperation with local sponsors/partners. To create Research and Development center with stable funding, adapt the newest technology, cooperate with scientific facilities and research of best potential usage in the social, medical and humanitarian field. I am also developing a VR Chemotherapy game - visualization of destroying cancer cells with chemotherapy “superpowers” It’s called HeroTherapy Main goal is to let children with cancer become their favorite superhero of choice and thanks to chemotherapy(superpower) destroy cancer cells in a specific part of the body. Despite the potential of VR I am also do research on mental risks and I educate young people about them. VR impact and risks of addiction, porn, gambling and other behavioral habits. Destructive impact of VR on escapism, alter-ego, anti-social behavior, relationship crisis, sexual crisis and social crisis. Also – how to use VR for suicide prevention. lojke.pl/portfolio/virtual-dream

Tomáš Brngál

Virtual medicine

Member of this year's Forbes 30pod30 ranking Tomáš Brngál is a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University. Together with Miloš Svrček from the Slovak Technical University, they started almost four years ago VIRTUAL MEDICINE, which created Human Anatomy VR. Through it, tens of thousands of people from 149 countries of the world have already been able to look at the most hiden parts of the human body through virtual reality. Human Anatomy VR makes learning more effective, more interactive and fun. It is the first and currently the only mobile anatomical VR application on the Samsung GearVR and Daydream platform. Google has even selected the app among the top three apps across the store on its Google DayDream virtual reality platform. Thanks to its ability to develop any type of VR / AR software solution, VIRTUAL MEDICINE has been addressed by companies from various industries (automotive, telecommunications, etc.). Based on this fact, the founders created another team of developers and established spin-off (VIRTUAL EVERYTHING) for enterpise solution projects. medicinevirtual.com

Alois Polák

FTVS

Physiotherapist who works in private healthcare facility Centrum of complex care Sámova in Prague. Within his doctor study of kinanthropology on FTVS UK he deals with using virtual reality on rehabilitation patiens with uncomplete spinal cord, eventually with synchronization virtual reality and movement with exoskeleton for lower limbs. ftvs.cuni.cz/FTVS-1.html

Tereza Zikánová

NUDZ

Doctoral student from field of human etology, human integral study - general antropology on Faculty of humanitarian studies, Charles university. Simultaneously research worker in Laboratory of evolutionary sexology and psychopathology on a National institute for mental health. Deals with study and research of non-verbal communication, with focus on proceptive utterances while courtshiping. To their research they use besides eye track method (Eyelink 1000plus). Currently deals with creating incentives for research purposes in form of avatars. nudz.cz

Jan Hrdlička

3dsense

He graduated from Biomedical Engineering at FEE CTU. In 2012, he founded the 3dsense studio with his colleague Jiří Wild – a PhD student in Artificial Intelligence and Biocybernetics. 3dsense is a group of artists and programmers who use the combination of modern technologies and artistic elements. Their work includes lighting installations, museum exhibits, VR/AR applications and stage scenography. 3dsense.cz

Jiří Podlipný

Fakultní nemocnice Plzeň - Psychiatrická klinika

Jiří Podlipný graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in 1993, and since 1998 he has been working at the Psychiatric Clinic of the Pilsen Medical Faculty of Charles University. His dissertation work focused on the metabolic aspects of the use of antidepressant drug therapy. He is working on options of use VR in medicine since the beginning of the millennium, and its main projects include the use of VR in exposure therapy for alcohol adiction. fnplzen.cz/node/121

Barbora Šouláková

NUDZ

I work as an research worker in National institute of mental health and in the same time as a therapist in Adicare center. Main topic of mine work is identification and then practical usage of technologies that help with human mental health. In my work i primarily deal with meditating, breathing and imaginative techniques and techniques that are working with thoughts. nudz.cz

Nestor Caro

XLAB

Electronic engineer and Master in Cybernetics and Robotics. Graduated with honors from both degrees due outstanding Thesis. His work has always been focused in enhancing man-machine interfaces from different approaches. Currently he develops Mixed Reality experiences using Unity and UE4, integrating Biosignals and interactive media for entertainment and medical purposes. He is also pursuing a Doctoral degree, researching in the field of Narrative Intelligence and AI emotional models. xlab.cz/en/home-1

Michal Tkáč

Virtual Medicine

Michal Tkáč is Chief Designer in Virtual Medicine, dealing with UI / UX solutions and 3D content modeling for VR applications. As a VFX artist, he accesses the VR content in ways known in this field and tries to create a unique atmosphere in applications. Together with an interdisciplinary team, he is working on Human Anatomy VR, a training application that has been downloaded by thousands of people in 122 countries all around the world in just about a month and a half since launching in the Oculus Store for Samsung GearVR. cleverlance.com/en

Kateřina Klapilová

NUDZ

I am Head of Research Laboratory of Evolutionary Sexology and Psychopathology at the National Institute of Mental Health and Teacher at the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University. For more than 10 years, I've been doing basic research on human sexuality. I deal, for example, with measuring female (and male) sexual responses to video materials, erotic lyrics, and imagination; research into sexual fantasies; research into the effect of contraception on female sexuality and the functioning of partnerships; research into disorders of sexual preference (= paraphilia or deviant preferences); sexuality of persons with psychiatric illness. Ph.D. from medical psychology and psychopathology and I am the owner of an international certificate of European Certified Psychosexuologist. nudz.cz

David Pánek

FTVS

Neurologist and head of Kinesiological lab katedra of physiotherapy FTVS UK. I deal with neurophysiological aspects control of movement with focus on clinical aplication in neurorehabilitation and using of virtual reality in treatment disturbances in somatomotoric system. ftvs.cuni.cz/FTVS-1171.html

Jakub Stejskal

Asociace virtuální a rozšířené reality

Zakladatel Asociace virtuální a rozšířené reality a festivalu Czech VR Fest. Jakub je nadšeným propagátorem VR/AR technologií ve veřejném prostoru. Věnuje se využití virtuální reality v medicíně, zejména při rehabilitaci míšních lézí a také projektu využití VR pro aktivizaci seniorů. avrar.cz

Milan Beniš

Fakultní nemocnice Plzeň - Psychiatrická klinika

Psychiatrist and researcher at Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital in Pilsen (Plzeň) fnplzen.cz/node/121

Jiří Polcar

Strojní fakulta ZČU

From 2014 onwards, in the Doctoral studies at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, UWB is devoted to the use of virtual reality for industrial purposes and creates various trainers, simulators and games in Unity3D.

Jan Forejt

MSD IT

Honza is a member of a small multidisciplinary team working as a catalyst for innovation in the Prague IT Hub of pharmaceutical companies MSD. Honza's main focus is on the VR / AR / MR area, but he also occasionally processes projects from another area, such as VUI with Amazon Alex etc. msdit.cz

A good story sells the product, they say. But what happens when you can suddenly experience the story? How VR & AR build their positions in marketing and their usage.

Referee for Marketing

Robin Pultera

BrainzVR

Od začátku mě baví když někdo dělá něco pro rozšíření technologie, která prokopává cestu k dalšímu sblížení reálného světa s tím digitálním. Roky se pohybuji v digitálním marketingu díky BRAINZ a teď jsem nadšenec do imerzivních technologií díky BRAINZ VR.

Speakers for Marketing

Jan Horský

Infinite Productions

Developing for since 2013, under my leadship iNFINITE has completed dozens of VR projects for clients around the globe as well as several releases on platforms like Steam, Oculus or Viveport. Actually exploring the use of VR as a psychological tool to shape and enhance human being. facebook.com/INFINITE.cz

Julie Šislerová

Avatar Media, s.r.o.

I fell in love with marketing few years ago and that feeling still hasn't left me. I enjoy managing projects from idea to promotion towards customers. From telco projects to mobile apps on the corporate side and in marketing agencies, it has led my way to a virtual reality which I was dedicated to in recent years. avatarmedia.cz

Gabriela Teissing

Rebel & Glory

I do not separate work and privacy. I have only one, which is just me. I do everything to have fun. Its components is family, sport and two fantastic companies, Rebel & Glory and Dazzle Pictures. We managed to connect the world of digital technologies with amazing content full of film tricks. We are still on the move. And on top of that i surround myself with people, who know, that elephant can fly. rebelandglory.com

Jan Tkáč

PRESENTIGO s.r.o.

Jan Tkáč is a visionary and co-founder of innovative technological startup PRESENTIGO, which deals with developing own presentation platform fro B2B presentation with current overlap to VR. Honza stojí za zrodem a přípravou několika inovativních VR projektů pro zákazníky z řad výrobních firem, kde přináší know-how z businessově orientovaných prezentací.Jan started and prepared several innovative VR projects for customers from numbers of companies, where he brings know-how from business oriented presentations. presentigo.cz

Otakar Mráz

T-Mobile Czech republic, a.s.

Working in telco industry about 15 years. Went through all main departments from customer care, sales to marketing where I was formerly leading product marketing. Currently leading international department in Deutsche Telekom Group (T-Mobile) which is focusing on Connected Car. t-mobile.cz

Radek Hudák

Shoptet

Radek Hudák is CMO in company called Shoptet, where he has responsibility for ROI campaign with monthly budgets covered by millions. He leads team of marketing specialists, looks after offline marketing activities, tests and finds new functions and paths in online marketing. shoptet.cz

Do you have an interesting VR project? Address the investors with it at the Czech VR fest!

Referee for Finance

Filip Major

Busyman

Investor, vizionář a founder internetové platformy Busyman.cz. Již 8 let se aktivně stará o klub soukromých investorů a společně s nimi podporuje projekty, které hledí do budoucnosti. Zajistil již více než 200 milionů Kč, jako privátní podp oru českých startupů. Mezi jeho nejoblíbenější a nejočekávanější odvětví patří právě aplikace virtuální a rozšířené reality, blockchain a finanční technologie. Co čekám od VR? “Ve VR a AR vidím jeden z hlavních pilířů blížící se budoucnosti. Bude to jeden ze zásadních segmentů, na kterém bude v následujících letech moderní společnost a vše, co nás obklopuje, stát. Právě proto chci již dnes být u zdroje a sledovat dynamický vývoj tohoto odvětví. Rovněž vidím mnoho důkazů, které indikují, že právě mozky naší země budou jedni z těch, kteří na globální pokrok této technologie budou mít zásadní vliv.” Jak řekl Wayne Gretzky: “Je třeba bruslit tam, kde bude puk”.

Speakers for Finance

Karel Hulec

SOLIRAX

Karel has been active in the VR sector since 2011, gradually moving from the VR goggles development to the software development. Together with Tomas Mariancik, he founded a company developing the Neos metaverse and got an investment for it in Silicon Valley. He is interested in exponential and sustainable technologies of all kinds. He is one of the three Czechs who will be frozen, or, more correctly, vitrified, after their eventual death. He is fascinated by the possibilities that open to humanity in the near future and wants to be part of it as much as possible. solirax.com

Filip Košťál

Keiretsu Forum

Filip has significant experience from both the start-up and the corporate sector. At Keiretsu Forum, he is responsible for deal flow and deal sourcing, as well as the transactional aspects during the investment phase, where he leans on his extensive experience from a renowned law firm. Having worked for a renowned regional VC, he knows the trends and market tendencies in the CEE region. His background lies mainly in fintech, medtech and energy projects. Keiretsu Forum is the world’s largest network of angel investors, i.e. capital and financial resources, with 52 chapters on 3 continents. The Keiretsu Forum investment community includes private investors providing start-up and venture capital. Keiretsu Forum CEE covers Central and Eastern Europe and is the only company of its kind in the Czech market. Keiretsu Forum aims to serve as an ideal platform that brings together a syndicate of angel investors and the best investment opportunities, giving consideration to the individual needs of each member. keiretsuforum.eu/en

Filip Major

Busyman

Investor, visionary and founder of the internet platform Busyman.cz. For over eight years, he has been actively pursuing a private investor club and has been supporting projects that look forward to it in the future. He has secured more than 200 million Czech crowns as a private support for Czech startups. Among its most popular and most anticipated industries are the application of virtual and augmented reality, blockchain and financial technology. What do I expect from the VR? "In VR and AR I see one of the main pillars of the coming future. It will be one of the major segments in which modern society and everything that surrounds us will become in the years to come. That is why I want to be at the source today and watch the dynamic development of this sector. I also see a lot of evidence indicating that the brains of our country will be one of those who will have a major impact on the global advancement of this technology. Wayne Gretzky said:"It is necessary to skate where the puck will be." busyman.cz

Pavel Kysilka

6D Advisory

V letech 1990 – 1991 působil jako hlavní ekonomický poradce ministra pro ekonomickou politiku. V 90. letech zastával pozici viceguvernéra a výkonného guvernéra České národní banky. Byl odpovědný za přípravu a realizaci rozdělení československé měny a zavedení české koruny. V letech 1994-1997 působil i jako expert Mezinárodního měnového fondu a podílel se na zavedení národních měn v řadě východoevropských zemí. V 90. letech působil také jako prezident České společnosti ekonomické, prezident Klubu F1 a člen Prezidia Fondu národního majetku. Od roku 2000 pracoval pro Českou spořitelnu, kterou od roku 2011 pět roků vedl jako generální ředitel a předseda představenstva. Třikrát - v r. 2011, 2012 a 2013 - byl zvolen Bankéřem roku. Pod jeho vedenim získala Česká spořitelna titul Banka roku, každoročně vítězila v hlasování klientů a veřejnosti jako Nejdůvěryhodnější banka roku a opakovaně získala ocenění Nejlepší banka střední a vychodní Evropy v prestižnim ocenění The Banker. V roce 2016 Pavel založil a stal se předsedou správní rady 6DAcademy, která poskytuje firmám strategické a transformační poradenství pro digitální věk, trénink, koučink a mentorink. Ve volném čase se věnuje cyklistice, je prezidentem národního festivalu Smetanova Litomyšl, členem správních rad Česko izraelské obchodní komory, Bohemian Heritage Fund, VŠE, Masarykovy a Palackého univerzity. 6dacademy.com

Jan Brody

Busyman

He has ten years of experience in investment banking, where he has been able to manage significant mergers and acquisitions in Central Europe. This was followed by the three-year engagement of the private equity manager, responsible for the management of major companies in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria. At present, the Busyman.cz project partner and the startup investor on their own. busyman.cz

Matěj Zahradník

CzechInvest

czechinvest.org/cz

How complicated is it to create your own VR headset content? It's a lot easier with 360-degree cameras than you would think.

Referee for 360°

Jan Buriánek

AV Media

Jan Buriánek is a consultant and project specialist in computer technology for image processing. He is also the author of a number of scientific publications focusing on advanced image processing, who has written more than 200 articles for popular science technology magazines. He currently works at AV MEDIA, a.s. as a specialist in 3D projects, content and interactive multiprojection technologies.

Speakers for 360°

George Pinkava

More.Is.More

George studied computer graphics in Hradec Králové and for eight years he has been working in film and advertising post-production. Now, he is working with AR and he is looking to find ways to revive historical monuments with his experiences in VFX industry and 3D scanning. moreismore.cz

Jan Buriánek

AV Media

Ing. Jan Buriánek (*1974) is consultant and computer vision project specialist. He is also author of several scientific publications focusing on advanced image processing and he wrote more than 200 articles for popular science magazines (PiXEL, CHIP, Computer World, PC Tunning...). He is an IEEE and ACM member and he is teaching computer graphics and interactive media on CTU FIT and CTU FEL. avmedia.cz

Jiří Forejt

More.Is.More

K AR/VR mne přivedly 18-leté zkušenosti z motion grafikou a filmovou a reklamní post produkcí. imdb.com/name/nm2834353

Miroslav Slugeň

SledovaniTV

Mirek studoval na ČVUT FEL, od roku 1998 se věnuje problematice HW a SW (převážně Linux). V letech 2002-2006 pomáhal budovat komunitní síť czela.net, pro kterou vyvíjel vlastní systém na routery. Od roku 2005 se zabývá problematikou transkodingu, streamováním, monitoringem, programováním v C s využitím SSE a AVX instrukcí, PHP, Javascriptem, CUDA, pokročilými technologiemi pro audio-matching a SDR de/modulátory. sledovanitv.cz/welcome/ott

Art and technology. Are VR and AR just a tool or a fully-fledged artistic discipline?

Referee for Art

Jindřich Skeldal

Misterine

Jindřich Skeldal má více než 20 let zkušeností s vývojem počítačových her. Momentálně pracuje na projektu TheatreVR, který umožní každému stát se ve virtuální realitě alespoň na okamžik hercem.

Vít Haratek

Smart creative, vývojář, designer. V průběhu let se přesouval od vývoje her a herních enginu, mobilních aplikací přes produkci a režii klipů, reklam, 3D grafiky, motion designu až po tvorbu obsahu pro virtuální realitu. Tvořil animace a kon cepty pro Kanye Westa, získal cenu Anděl za videoklip roku, je spoludržitelem ceny MTV za klip roku a byl také vybrán do prestižního žebříčku 30 pod 30 časopisu Forbes. VR/AR je splněný dětský sen kterému věřím a těším se, až začne odemykat svůj potenciál. Klíčová pro budoucí rozvoj bude nejen samotná technologie, ale hlavně produkce kvalitního obsahu. Mezi to vše mi Czech VR fest krásně zapadá. Aby široké veřejnosti přiblížil rozvoj těchto technologií, a aby inspiroval generaci nových tvůrců a lidí se zápalem odvětví posouvat.

Speakers for Art

Tupac Martir

SATORE STUDIO

Born 1977 in the UK, of Mexican heri- tage, it was in Nebraska USA that Tupac obtained his BFA, from Creighton University under the guidance of John Thein and National Geographic Photographer Fr. Don Doll, SJ. Tupac Martir is an artist, visual designer and creative director with a varied portfolio of projects in the arts and entertainment scene. He has provided production design, visuals and lighting direction for Elton John, Sting, Coachella, New York Festival of Light, Nederland Dans Theater, Xu Bing at the V&A Museum, the Serpentine Gallery and the Old Vic Tunnels to name a few. Over the years, Tupac has become synonymous amongst the Lon-don, Paris, Milan and NewYork fashion scene. His work has been delivered for shows during fashion week for major designer houses Alexander McQueen, Stella McCart- ney, Vivienne Westwood, Moschino and Thomas Tait, among others. As an artist, he has exhibited in Mexico, USA, Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, UK, as well as being an official entry for the Morelia Film Festival with his multidisciplinary piece ‘The Gentleman, The Merrmaid, Mexican Cinema, Loteria’ originally created for the British Council as part of the Cultural Olimpyad during London 2012. Tupac’s work has been published in major publications, such as Wallpaper* Magazine, Vogue, Rolling Stone, NME, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Live Design and LSI, and he has developed a reputation for creating unique mulitidiscipianry productions from several art forms including two of his own, ‘Nierka’ and ‘Looking Outside My Window’. Both funded in house. “A LIGHT MAGICIAN” Wallpaper* Magazine “A MULTIMEDIA RENAISSANCE MAN” Time Out Magazine. satorestudio.com

Oliver Kadel

1618 Digital

Oliver Kadel is an award-winning audio engineer and sound designer based in London. In 2014, Oliver founded the immersive audio production collective 1.618 Digital, where he is now Head of Audio. Combining the art and science of sound with the latest technology to provide their clients with innovative and creative ideas, 1.618 Digital specialise in audio production and post-production, offering immersive & spatial audio solutions for 360 video content, interactive VR/AR media, mobile applications and intelligent audio branding. Oliver and his team of talented audio architects have produced over 50 immersive projects including branded content, films, music projects, games, immersive installations and experiences and charity work stretching across the globe, in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. As a lead sound designer Oliver has worked on projects for global brands such as Ford, Ted Baker, O2, John Lewis, Laphroaig and many more, the latter being nominated as Best Branded VR content at the Raindance Film Festival 2017. He has also been invited to speak on industry panels such as BVE (Next-generation audio) and Immerse UK (Future immersive audio developments). In 2018, Oliver and his team are working towards the launch of a new Immersive Audio Podcast in conversation with industry thought leaders, practitioners, artists, academics and entrepreneurs, discussing all aspects of this rapidly evolving industry from art, science and business to practical insights and project case studies. 1618digital.com

Jindřich Skeldal

Misterine

Jindřch Skeldal works as PC games developer over twenty years. His portfolio contains games about heroes, shooter and story games. Last 2 year he deals with project named Theatre VR, where he allows the user to know how is it like to be an actor, stand on a theatre stage and play for audience. misterine.cz

Jaroslav Beck

Epic Music Production, Beat Games

Music composer of Beat Saber / Composer for Blizzard Ent. Cinematic's: Overwatch, StarCraft, HotS, WoW and other movie trailers. jaroslavbeck.com

Carlos Franklin

freelancer

Colombian born, Carlos Franklin is a visual artist. He completed Fine Arts at the Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia and the master in audio-visual Arts at Le Fresnoy – National studio of contemporary arts, in France. Carlos Franklin uses recurrently new media, installation and drawing in his projects. He also has collaborated with musicians in operas and audio-visual performances. Carlos Franklin works from the archive and from a perspective of language: what establishes and legitimates the limits of the artistic practice. He has participated in multiple international art events like and also directs a series of animated documentaries in video and virtual reality for a European TV channel. Prices: 2016 Price Lumière to the best VR documentary, international festival 3D Stereo Media. Liège, Belgium. 2016 Premio Hyun Cube International to the best VR experience. Nab Show Shanghai, China. 2015 Premio de plata AVICOM (Audio-visual and new technologies committee of l ICOM) to the documentary “Wedding at Cana by Paul Véronèse”. mistercarrot.org/bio

Benjamin Gallagher

Dialoghaus Hamburg

Ben Gallagher is a sound designer, producer, composer, and guitarist originally from Virginia, USA. With a Bachelor of Music from the world-renowned Berklee College of Music and a Master of Arts with a focus on sound design for VR/AR and 360° films, Ben brings a breadth of experience and know-how to the table. His diverse technical and creative background not only enables him to work efficiently on all audio-related aspects of a project, but also makes him valuable as a team leader. Besides producing high-quality work in his field, he also enthusiastically shares his knowledge through talks and demonstrations at conferences and meet-ups. dialog-in-hamburg.de

Andrej Boleslavský

freelance, ex. Bohemia Interactive

Andrej Boleslavsky (SK/CZ) is an independent digital artist looking for the meaning of the technology through new media, virtual reality, light installations and electronics. In his work, there is visible the fascination with the interconnection of nature and technology. He has created many interactive works. He gives lectures on open-source tools and creative programming platforms. Apart from his own work, he often works with other artists and interactive designers as a technologist. He explores the relations between physics and digital media in common works with the digital artist Mária Júdová. Their joint work for VR Dust has been exhibited at many international festivals and was also awarded by the prestigious Japan Media Art Festival. id144.org

USA

Mika Johnson

freelancer

Mika Johnson is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer and writer. His films have been distributed worldwide, ranging from avant-garde shorts to innovative virtual reality, narrative and documentary films. Recent works include a virtual reality adaptation of Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis," "Confessions of a Box Man," a surrealist feature inspired by Kobo Abe's "The Box Man," and "Forever Professor": an award-winning film on Mark McKinley, a psychologist obsessed with time who has the largest collection of talking clocks in the world. From 2011 - 13, Johnson directed 15 episodes of "The Amerikans": a web series presently being made into a feature film. Johnson is also a member of MomenTech: the New York City-based multi-platform experimental production studio. mikajohnson.com

David Toušek

3BOHEMIANS

David gained his animation skills in 3D at school and in other animation courses in the United States. He then participated in a training course for professionals at The Animation Workshop in Denmark under the supervision of animators from the PIXAR studio. In Viborg, he also gained the status of "artist in residence" to begin work on his first short film TELE-VISION. He has been invited to Viborg several times to teach the basics of 3D in the Maya program, and for The Animation Workshop he taught the basics of 3D character animation at the Institut de l'image de l'Ocean Indian on the island of Reunion. The experience with lecturing and the first production of animated films led David to launch the ANOMALIA program already in 2008. David is active in the character animation via producing short animated films and commercials (Kofola, Jupik, Sazka and others). The Rolling Pictures production hired David to animate an advertising campaign of 13 animated spots for Hurvinek and the Magic Museum. He is the only Czech animator who had the opportunity to animate the legendary figures of Spejbl and Hurvínek in 3D. 3bohemians.eu

Jakub Pinkava

Freelancer

During his studies at FAMU production department he worked as line producer on multiple feature films mainly with the production company Bionaut films. In 2012, he co-founded Free Cinema - POFIV, a non-profit film education organisation. In 2015 he graduated from FAMU and he co-produced a feature documentary by Martin Kohout The Czech Way. As a line producer, he worked on the last film of Jan Němec Wolf from Royal Vineyard street. In 2016 he attended EX ORIENTE with Testosterone Story. In 2017 he was in charge of the Czech co-pruduction part of Touch me Not, a film by Adina Pintilie for production company PINK (Golden Bear - Berlinale 2018). Currently he produces the first interactive experience supported by the Czech Film fund, a web-doc called Forgotten War. Apart from producing Jakub is promoting new possibilities of story-telling by creating lectures and events for major Czech festivals and universities.

Marta Švecová Lamperová

Fond kinematografie

fondkinematografie.cz

Zdeněk Chaloupka

FAMU

famu.cz

You can´t stop the progress. There will be a talk about the development platforms, hardware and their heading.

Referee for Development

Jan Hovora

Pocket Virtuality

Czech VR Fest je výborná příležitost pro lidi z oboru potkat ostatní. Pro ty, kteří ještě o VR/AR moc neví, se něco dozvědět a pro firmy získat nové zakazníky a zjistit, kde je konkurence. Proto, aby se u nás uchytila VR i AR je nesmírně dů ležité, aby zdejší firmy nebyly jen uživatelé nástrojů třetích stran, ale prováděly i vlastní vývoj. Proto jsem se rozhodl tuto sekci zaštítit.

Speakers for Development

Jan Horský

Infinite Productions

Jan Hovora

Pocket Virtuality

Czech VR Fest is awesome opportunity for people from the field to meet each other. For those, who don't know about VR/AR too much, to learn more and for the companies to earn new customers and to know, where is the competition. Therefore, to make VR and AR grip is very important, to all local companies to not be just users of third party tools but to make their own progress. That's why i managed to cover this section. pocketvirtuality.cz

Tomáš Mariančík

SOLIRAX

I began my VR career with the Oculus DK1 KickStarter and developing some early experiences such as SightLine. Later on I have started focusing on educational experiences such as World of Comenius, Neos: The Universe and somehow ended up developing a metaverse engine. solirax.com

Štěpán Kment

Bohemia Interactive

Štěpán is over 12 years a head of Motion Capture studio Bohemia Interactive and cooperates with apparently the most advanced MC team on the world in present - Weta Digital. During years he recorded many moves for PC games, ads and companies (for example Valerian, Alita battle angel, Wanted) recently he's dedicated on design and implementation tools for advanced processing MC datas including mimic animations and virtual production. bohemia.net

Marek Polčák

Etnetera / VRgineers

Marek Polčák completed his cybernetic engineering master’s degree at Czech Technical University’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering in 2011 with a focus on biomedical engineering. At the same time, he received a degree from the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies School of Business in industrial management. During his final years at the university, Marek founded a team that developed its own robotic platform. Over several years, the team designed and produced robot prototypes using the ROS operating system and a chassis of their own design. In 2013, Marek took an interest in virtual reality in connection with the FlyPrague project designed to offer tourists a unique virtual flight over Prague’s historic city center. FlyPrague gradually tried all the VR googles available on the market and decided to use feedback from 35,998 people to begin developing its own equipment. That work came to a culmination in 2017 with the founding of VRgineers, virtual reality engineering company developing and manufacturing cutting-edge enterprise-grade VR gear for professionals. Their new generation high-resolution VR headset platform, the VRHero 5K Plus, is used by clients in the automotive, architecture, industrial design, and training sectors, enabling them to transform their work using VR technology. The company is headquartered in Prague with a U.S. office in Los Angeles. vrgineers.com

Jan Hrdlička

3dsense

Jiří Bittner

ČVUT - DCGI

Traditional VR applications and games use rasterization as the basic rendering technology. An alternative to rasterization are ray tracing based rendering methods which have a number of advantages. The advantages of ray tracing based methods already made them a dominating technology for offline rendering. The recent advancements in GPU technology coupled with new computer graphics techniques bring ray tracing closer to practical usage in real-time applications such as VR and games. I will present a brief sample of such methods and discuss the pros and cons of ray tracing based real-time rendering pipeline. dcgi.felk.cvut.cz/people/bittner

Jan Sirotek

Melown Technologies

18 years I'm moving in the world of mapping, photogrammetry, geoinformatics and location intelligence. I worked for big companies, founded and sold a startup, worked as a consultant. I have met with various technologies for acquiring and processing spatial data. I'm currently working for Melown Technologies, which develops unique technology for processing 3D models from aerial photography. I am an enthusiastic innovator and connector of people, businesses, and technology. melown.com

Woody Borraccino

Amazon Web Services

Solutions Architect focused on Media & Entertainment and AI/ML technologies, Software Engineer and Technical Leader in a wide variety of business applications. Particularly interested in cloud solutions, serverless technologies, DevOps and Microservices approaches to architectures. Specialties: Design and leading cloud solutions. aws.amazon.com/sumerian

Karel Jakubec

Revology

Cloud jako efektivní nástroj pro vývoj. Dnešní cloudová řešení nabízejí nespočet možností jak zefektivnit nejen provoz aplikací, ale i jejich samotný vývoj a testování. Podíváme se na základní možnosti jak separovat jednotlivá vývojářská prostředí, jak zautomatizovat testování a jak bezpečně a rychle nasazovat nové verze aplikací. revolgy.com

Would you like to walk in your house before being built or try out new furniture in the living room? Now you can do it. The use of VR & AR in architecture.

Referee for Architecture

Josef Večerník

Pixelboss

Josef Večerník is an entrepreneur, IT developer and transhumanist. He has been exploring virtual and augmented reality for almost three years now and his older work has been mainly focused on education. In 2016 he co-founded Virarch, where he is helping property developers, architects and real-estate companies to visualize their projects. In spare time he is building technology foundation for his ultimate VR project that will try to save historical monuments for future generations. If you are concerned about the fact that humankind is losing its cultural property each year or simply want something built in VR, let him know.

Speakers for Architecture

Josef Večerník

Pixelboss

pixelboss.eu

Jan Petrmichl

GreyDot / Creative Guerilla

Jan Petrmichl is lead UX/GUI interaction designer for AR/VR app and creative director. He is VR/AR enthusiast interested in interaction design (UX/UI) and graphic and product design. creativeguerilla.cz

Roman Werner

DEV:_GUERILLA

Practical usage of augmented reality and case study "virtualization of Prague" within the SmartPrague platform. Detail inside into development and introduction of city data platform context. devguerilla.cz

Tomáš Kasalický

DEV:_GUERILLA

Michal Kraus

Operátor ICT

Anton Semchenko

DEV:_GUERILLA

devguerilla.cz

Leonid Lazaryev

DEV:_GUERILLA

devguerilla.cz

Can VR & AR bring revolution to education? Possibilities of use in teaching at high schools, universities, research institutes etc.

Referee for Education

David Sedláček

ČVUT DCGI

Czech VR fest is a great event for knowledge sharing and to catch new ideas in Virtual and Augmented reality. I am especially happy that organizers decided to create specialized tracks, like the educational track which content I have the op portunity to influence by my guarantee.

Speakers for Education

Radko Sáblík

SSPS

Ing. Radko Sáblík is the director of Smíchovská střední průmyslová škola, which magazine Forbes chose among the eight most interesting secondary schools in the Czech Republic. This is due to the large number of activities that students can join in from the first year, many different and international projects, the creation of a student and graduation project in the third and fourth year. The school cooperates significantly with its graduates, and in the school year 2017/2018, they have thirty-five graduates in different positions. Radko Sáblík graduated from Grammar School Botičská, then graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. This was followed by a bachelor study for teachers of vocational subjects at the Masaryk Institute and managerial studies at the Faculty of Education of the Charles University. Radko Sáblík worked actively in the basketball movement, he was a player, a referee, a coach of the first league, the head of Sparta Prague sports center and the president of the Prague Basketball Union for four ballots. For twenty years he served as chairman of the Sokol Motol sports club. Currently, he is involved in the National Coalition for Digital Jobs at the Ministry of Education, a member of the Working Committee on Content of Digital Education at the Ministry of Education, a member of the working teams for the revision of the Framework Educational Programs at the National Institute for Education. sablik.eu

Igor Žmajlo

SSPS

After graduating from the Smíchov Industrial High School (SIHS), I suggested to the director Mr. Sáblík the introduction of computer-games development lessons. As it happened, the interest from students made it from a voluntary seminar to the optional subject for the 3rd and 4th classes. Therefore, I teach the development of games and everything that relates to it during my studies at the Faculty of Information Technologies at CTU. As the Association for Virtual and Augmented Reality came into being, the interest of the school moved to the production and use of virtual and augmented reality applications in students’ education. A mere testing of the development of a larger VR project with more than 50 students brought us plenty of new opportunities to modernize our lessons and make them more interesting. Apart from teaching, I also consult our graduate-students´ projects and I also create interesting content and tools for our new AR/VR laboratory that I also helped to build. At SIHS, we push the boundaries of what is expected from secondary school students. ssps.cz

Jan Buriánek

AV Media

David Sedláček

ČVUT, FEL, DCGI

Dr David Sedláček, Assistant Professor and researcher, Czech Technical University In Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction. In his academic career, David contributed to the field of 3D reconstruction from photographs, he wrote a disertation theses on the topic of user driven 3D reconstruction, and to the field of Augmented Reality. David was lead programmer and workflow designer in the project of Langweil model reconstruction, what was a comprehensive 3D reconstruction project. Currently, David is focused on pushing forward the field of AR/VR applications. David teaches several 3D graphics related courses at CTU, like Virtual and Augmented reality course, Games course and 3D modeling in Maya course. He is a head of Virtual Reality lab on CTU where he realize with his students various topics from Augmented and Virtual reality. David also closely collaborate with ESERO-Czech where he is responsible for applications development. dcgi.felk.cvut.cz

"When the game absorbs you." Thanks to VR and AR, this concept gradually gets new dimensions. Game creation techniques and much more.

Referee for Gaming

Jaroslav Stehlík

Dream Digital

Czech VR fest shromažďuje všechny nadšence virtuální a rozšířené reality. Dává prostor začínajícím firmám se setkat s veterány a s širokou veřejností. Pro společnosti je užitečný jak pro potencionální klienty tak dodavatele těchto aplikací, pro hráče je zde zase možnost okusit nejnovější hardware, zahrát si dosud nevydané hry a setkat se přímo s vývojáři.

Ján Iľavsky

Hyperbolic Magnetism

Organizátori Czech VR festu sú určite najviac zapálení ľudia pre XR akých poznám. Ich nadšenie a profesionalitu je cítit z každej akcie, ktorú organizujú. Czech VR fest je určitým vyvrcholením ich celoročnej práce, a preto sa na neho veľmi teším.

Speakers for Gaming

Jaroslav Stehlík

LIV

He co-Founded a company DIVR Labs, where he developed the czech horor sci-fi shooter game called Blue Effect VR, which came out on Steam VR, Oculus Rift, Windows Mixed Reality and he now works on a Playstation VR version. He founded a studio Dream Digital, which focuses just on testing new technologies, digitization a strengthening the VR community in Czech Republic. He independently develops a project Bohemia VR in his free time. It's a Sci-fi detective game that happens in Czech Republic in many different periods of time. He's a consultant for a czech producer of VR headset VR Hero and Etnetera Group, where he assisted start of VR atelier. He's a co-Founder of a californian corporation LIV Inc., which specializes on streaming in virtual reality and on VR e-Sports. linkedin.com/in/jaroslavstehlik

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10. 5.	9:45-20:00
11. 5.	10:00-20:00
12. 5.	10:00-20:00

10. 5.	10:00-20:00
11. 5.	9:00-20:00
12. 5.	9:00-18:00

Referee for Industry

Milan Mitošinka

Speakers for Industry

Christian Glessner

Jakub Korczynski

Vladimír Mařík

Marta Anna Ledgard

Jiri Kaufhold

Leoš Dvořák

Milan Dědek

Referee for Medicine

Tomáš Brngál

Speakers for Medicine

Piotr Lój

Tomáš Brngál

Alois Polák

Tereza Zikánová

Jan Hrdlička

Jiří Podlipný

Barbora Šouláková

Nestor Caro

Michal Tkáč

Kateřina Klapilová

David Pánek

Jakub Stejskal

Milan Beniš

Jiří Polcar

Jan Forejt

Referee for Marketing

Robin Pultera

Speakers for Marketing

Jan Horský

Julie Šislerová

Gabriela Teissing

Jan Tkáč

Otakar Mráz

Radek Hudák

Referee for Finance

Filip Major

Speakers for Finance

Karel Hulec

Filip Košťál

Filip Major

Pavel Kysilka

Jan Brody

Matěj Zahradník

Referee for 360°

Jan Buriánek

Speakers for 360°

George Pinkava

Jan Buriánek

Jiří Forejt

Miroslav Slugeň

Referee for Art

Jindřich Skeldal

Vít Haratek

Speakers for Art

Tupac Martir

Oliver Kadel

Jindřich Skeldal

Jaroslav Beck

Carlos Franklin

Benjamin Gallagher

Andrej Boleslavský

Mika Johnson

David Toušek

Jakub Pinkava

Marta Švecová Lamperová

​Zdeněk Chaloupka

Referee for Development

Jan Hovora

Speakers for Development

Jan Horský

Jan Hovora

Tomáš Mariančík

Štěpán Kment

Marek Polčák

Jan Hrdlička

Jiří Bittner

Jan Sirotek

Zdeněk Chaloupka