Thursday, November 14th, 2019

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM - The VR-AR Immersive Track

Session I: Herscher Hall, 3rd Floor, Room 303-304

The Power of VR-AR: A New Language of Artistry - A Unique Moment of Commercial Possibility and Marketplace

Keram Malicki-Sanchez, Executive Director/Founder, VRTO

Eduardo Yeh, Co-Founder, CEO, Selvz

Brian Weiner, Founder and CEO, The Illusion Factory

Travis Cloyd, CEO-Founder, Observe Media Inc.(Speed Kills VR), CEO Observe Media (VR, The Humanity Bureau, starring Nicolas Cage)

Ilya Rozhkov, Award Winning VR Director, “Agent Emerson”

Robert Watts, Managing Partner, Light Sail VR

Danilo Moura Silva, CEO, SIMULATED REALITY LLC, Moderator

Produced and launched more than thirty top-selling interactive projects across fifteen commercial platforms. Passionate for efficiency and perfection while creating photo-realist humans and environments. Experienced photogrammetrist, 3D modeler, VFX and post-production supervisor that evolved to become executive producer for games and movies. Danilo’s contributions have led to the development of countless successful interactive products in Hollywood for the past ten years. Some of the latest immersive

projects using volumetric video and photogrammetry include the "7 Miracles", a VR movie, shot in Italy and France for HTC VIVE STUDIOS & Panogramma. 7 Miracles was awarded the "Best VR Film Of The Festival" at the latest Raindance Film Festival in London, UK. Danilo also contributed as Executive Producer for Buzz Aldrin: Cycling Pathways to Mars - developed for 8i and Time Inc. This project was featured at SXSW, nominated for an Emmy and is the Winner of "Best in VR" Webby Awards.

Eduardo Yeh, Co-Founder, CEO, Selvz; Eduardo Yeh was co-founder/President of iPing, Inc., and co- inventor of Integrated, interactive telephone and computer network communications system, which served as the basis for iPing's time sensitive notification platform. iPing pioneered the ubiquitous notification/messaging services by marrying the Internet with PSTN. Its highly publicized product that aimed to "humanize" notification, Mr.Wakeup drove the success of iPing, culminating with its acquisition by eCal Corporation in early 2000. After the acquisition, Mr. Yeh assisted Uproar CEO, Mr. Kenneth Cron, in the incubation of a wireless gaming joint-venture in Japan. In mid 2000, Eduardo joined the team at Innotive Inc., a South Korean company, pioneer in touch based interface authoring and development solutions. Eduardo helped establish the US subsidiary of Madhouse Inc, world's renown anime studio (Vampire Hunter D, Animatrix), and adapted Maple Story, one of the most popular free-to-play online game property by Nexon into a 25 episodic anime series. From 07~09, Eduardo made a seed investment in Conatus Energia Ltda., a clean and renewable energy (wind and small hydro) development startup, worked with the founders to help them raise strategic angel financing. In 2011, Eduardo co-founded his current startup, Selvz.

Brian Weiner, Founder and CEO, The Illusion Factory" Over 34 years experience in producing, packaging, and marketing high quality, franchise-oriented, entertainment properties. Proven track record of successful creative production, forecasting paradigm shifts and business leadership. Unusual blend of critically-acclaimed, award-winning creative expertise, innate ability to identify and promote winning properties, massive multitasking capabilities, core focus, dedication, ingenuity and strong team-building skills. International network of A-list studio executives, creative teams, code engineers and programmers. Successes include substantial contribution to the marketing and promotion of many Emmy Award-winning series including: The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Southland, Friends, ER, The West Wing, The Sopranos, Nip Tuck, Smallville; and other highly successful series including: Arrow, The Vampire Diaries, Fringe, The Closer, The Mentalist, Rizzoli & Isles, Person of Interest, Dark Blue, Without a Trace, Cold Case, The OC, The Drew Carey Show, George Lopez, Everwood, Gilmore Girls;  as well as four Emmy Award-winners for Outstanding Movie or MiniSeries including: Day One, Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, A Woman Named Jackie, and Oprah Winfrey Presents Tuesdays With Morrie along with The Hunger Games on Blu-Ray and many IMAX films.

Keram Malicki-Sanchez, Executive Director/Founder, VRTP: Keram founded VRTO in spring 2015. He is also the editor-in-chief of IndieGameReviewer.com since 2008 and founder of FIVARS – the Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories and executive director of the VRTO Virtual & Augmented Reality World Conference. A graduate of UCLA’s certification programs in Cinematography, Producing and Digital Media, respectively, Malicki-Sanchez is also an alumnus of Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School – Los Angeles chapter – and has 30 years of experience as an actor in over 65 films and television shows including American History X, John Q, True Blood and 24. He was also the frontman of seminal Toronto avant-garde rock band Blue Dog Pict and ambient electronic band Automated Gardens and runs Constant Change Music Publishing. His music has appeared in films for MGM, EPCOT Center, New Line Cinema, Lifetime Networks, Hallmark, CBC and many others. He has been asked to speak about the intersection of technology and the arts at NXNE, Cinegear Expo (Los Angeles), the Toronto Star, Toronto Tech Week, CNE Innovation Garage, Digital Hollywood, NAB (Las Vegas), ideacity, TieCon and many more. In 2019 recently he was featured on the Team Human show with Douglas Rushkoff and interviewed for Kent Bye’s Voices of VR podcast. He is also the founder of Transportive Technology – a virtual reality production company and Constant Change Media Group – a 360 media company and disruptive media consultation firm.

Travis Cloyd is an established cinematic VR/360 video producer, director, and marketing consultant, whose work and expertise is reflected throughout the film and entertainment worlds.  Most recently, Cloyd served as the virtual reality producer and director for Speed Kills, starring John Travolta. He also produced VR content for Distorted, starring John Cusack and Christina Ricci. A specialist at introducing celebrities into virtual reality, Cloyd has also produced VR content featuring Nicolas Cage, to accompany the recent film The Humanity Bureau, as well as with Wesley Snipes for his recently released action film, The Recall. Travis' pieces extend the cinematic universes, by providing engaging standalone experiences, as well as added dynamic marketing materials to entice larger audiences. A favorite partner of many high profile production companies Cloyd always strives to push the boundaries of what is possible with VR. Travis believes developing film VR apps and improving distribution will pave the way for film producers to monetize their multi-format content. For The Recall, Travis developed the first ever mobile app through his company OneTouch that can showcase both the VR and standard film for audiences. The app also supports live and on-demand video in 2D, 3D, 180/360-degree, and Barco Escape formats, and is compatible with spatial audio. Cloyd is committed to making his content accessible to audiences in an easy to use format.

Ilya Rozhkov is an award-winning director, born and raised in Moscow and one of the youngest members of the Director's Guild of Russia.  Moved to California in 2013 and attended New York Film Academy, Ilya's Wes-Andersoneque short film Sabre Dance (2015) starring Greg Louganis as Salvador Dali has won numerous awards, including "Best Picture" and "Best Director.” He partnered with the leading VR Studio Rogue Initiative on his debut VR Film, Agent Emerson- an immersive 360 degree first-person POV as the viewing audience is dropped into a visceral, action-packed cinematic experience that will allow them to live out a James Bond-esque storyline. He is currently developing a TV series as well as other feature films under his banner Serein.