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Diego BezaresVirtual Reality Developer, founder of Presence Camera.Videogame programmer with more 10+ years of experience, and teacher at UTAD.Freelance developer focused on VR video solutions.

www.presencecamera.com is a unique software to make high quality stereos 3D 360 video with 2 cameras. It is not a generic, all-purpose VR camera system. Instead, it focuses on a particular use case ( camera static on a tripod, and the action happens in 90º ), and it solves it better than other generic solutions.

Jorge Esteban BleinPhD in Audiovisual Communication.He studied cinematography at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the New York Film Academy (NYFA). He is Virtual Reality Creative Director at Hikaru, an advertising agency, and at Empatica VR, a company that spreads empathy through Storytelling in Virtual Reality. Dedicated to teaching with more than 24 years of experience in the fields of screenwriting and film direction in universities and postgraduate courses. Founder of the Youtube Channel “Narrativa VR”, where he reflects on narrative challenges taking place in Virtual Reality.

Verónica A. Rodríguez (I AM VR)Graduated in Media Communications and specialized in Branded Content & Transmedia Storytelling, Verónica grew passionate about stories. She wrote some when she was young, and did some performances as an amateur musical theater actress.

She discovered virtual reality in 2016, and decided to take the Certificate in Virtual and Augmented Reality Production at Utad, travel to Los Angeles and learn about Unity Development at Upload VR. She also helped to develop some vr experiences at Spain with Hikaru and New Horizons as well as a experience at LA for the Oculus Programm VR for Good. She has her own blog I-AMVR.

Currently she works as Events & Community Engagement at Oarsis.

Bernardo Faustino López

Recording Arts Degree in Middlesex University, London.

Music Producer, Video & Documentary.

Passionate about music and the arts he works especially in ambisonic sound recording, promoting projects like concertevolution.org

bernardofaustino.com

Carlos Bolívar (Jugón Virtual)CEO, Game Designer, passionate virtual reality producer.Most known as Jugón Virtual, leading spanish youtuber in the virtual reality field.Behind Virtual Game are Carlos Bolívar and Teresa «Caty» Cátedra, a couple that has achieved in just over a year to turn its platform into the largest Spanish-speaking community of virtual reality video games in the world, in which close to 100,000 people interact from around the globe.

Javier de Prado NavarreteMultidisciplinary artist, technical, creative, but above all explorer of art, technology and the multiverse.

Proud member and founder of Digital Muffin and dPAndromeda

José InfantesCTO & VR Tech Lead at Virtual VoyagersHe has surfed between technologies, platforms and betas of all colors. Unity, Android, iOS, ARKit, Oculus, Vive, Hololens, and everything else that comes in these years so moved.Before that,he has always focused on user orientation, UX and interfaces in various environments, from web to desktop applications, business applications, branding or multimedia tools.

Teresa Cátedra (Caty)

Better known as Caty Jugona. Together with Jugón Virtual, she has been testing virtual reality games and experiences from different platforms for two years.They lead the largest vr community of Spanish-speaking viewers.With more than 100k subscribers all around the world.

Tatiana DelgadoTatiana Delgado started as Level Designer at Rebel Act Studios in 2000, while finishing her Teleco Engineering studies. Since then She has worked as Game Designer and Level Designer in companies such as Rebel Act Studios, Enigma Software Productions, Zinkia, Tequila Works, Gameloft and King, developing games for PC, XBox, Wii, DS and mobile devices. She has also worked as a designer in the alternative reality game (ARG) The Lost Ring for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, under the direction of Jane McGonigal. She is currently co-founder, along with other veterans of the industry, of Vertical Robot, dedicated to the development of VR where she deals with design and narrative. They released in 2017 their first game for Gear VR, Daedalus, and are developing their next project for Oculus Rift: Red Matter

ALEJANDRO SACRISTÁNOutstanding pioneer in the first wave of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Stereoscopy since 1992. Business development and Empatica VR and operations. Journalist in emerging and future technologies (El País Retina, Tendencias21, Muy Interesante magazine)During the first wave of Virtual Reality Alejandro Sacristán was Co-Director of the Exhibition and Show "Vertigo Virtual", Director of the Virtual Exhibition "2! M" in Madrid 1993, focused on Virtual Reality and Electronic Arts, Co-director of the exhibition of techno art "Futura BOM" in Madrid 1994. Curator of ArtFutura since 1994.Director and coordinator of courses and conferences in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab, the VRAC of the State University of Iowa, the University of Valencia, the Complutense University of Madrid and the Institute of Engineering of Spain. Professor of the Master in the European University of Madrid (New Trends in Advertising Communication, Master in Videogames).

Teresa MadrugaVirtual reality developer. In 2012, after having obtained a diploma as an architect, she opted for a career change in the area of computer graphics. In the following year, she learned OpenGL, game programming and physical animation. Since then, she has worked in programming simulators and has also co-founded Kuaternio, to follow her passion for the virtual reality development.

In general,she is willing to face new challenges that teach her something new. Kuaternio is working on two projects now:• Lumen: an astronomical educational virtual reality experience• Risgo: a virtual reality tool for the prevention of occupational risks.

Pedro Fernando Gomez FernandezSoftware engineer with more than ten years of experience in the main VFX videogame and industry companies. He has studied in Madrid, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, focusing on advanced computing, but also on the artistic side of computer animation. With mixed technical and artistic training, he has helped artists to promote their works to be recognized worldwide. Some of his research includes high performance computing, simulation and artificial intelligence. He is also responsible for the introduction of computer-generated rendering techniques of immersive stereoscopy that are already used in several studios around the world to create virtual reality experiences. It strives to develop new innovations and ideas that will take virtual reality to new levels.Founder of Miragami a company dedicated to the research and development of content and technology of virtual reality and augmented reality.

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Encarna MoraFounder, Creative Manager & Storyhacker at Koolors a Mixed Reality Creative Studio. We experiment with the latest formats and techniques to create interfaces and narrative experiences in Virtual & Augmented Reality.Film and Audio visual studies. Degree in Digital Arts, Master in Interactivity in Audiovisual and Creative Direction

Focus on innovation, storytelling,Transmedia, multiplatform projects and Emerging Technologies.More than ten years in the audiovisual, production and digital sectors.Its main focus is the narrative exploration in Virtual and Mixed Reality and how the potential of these technologies can change the way we interact and consume the stories with the help of Artificial Intelligence.

Raquel PorcelShe is devoted to video editing and editorial design. In addition, the script is her tool because cinema is her passion, and with Virtual Reality she has found a new way of telling stories. She is currently studying at Utad the Certificate in Virtual and Augmented Reality Production.

Borja MoralesBorja Morales is a software engineer and artist, passionate on computer graphics. He recently worked as a technical product manager at Fabric Software where he helped to develop VR film pre production software for VFX studios. He previously lead the Arnold renderer integrations as an Engineering manager at Solid Angle and worked in animated feature film production as Lighting TD in films such as Planet 51.

https://www.borjamorales.com/

Pedro VazquezManaging director & Founder of Eureka VR.He develops virtual and augmented reality solutions.

His company is better known for having their own patented cardboard-type visors. They specialize in the complete package of viewers and application.

Lorena GonzálezHer relationship with Virtual Reality begins in 2016 with her Final Degree Project, upon finishing the Advertising and Public Relations career. Due to her passion for art, she applied VR to the dissemination of cultural and artistic heritage. Then, she spent a year working at The App Date and The Vrain, where she developed and presented creative proposals and gave support in their projects, updated social networks and web, organized events and was an assistant in Espacio Realidad Virtual of Fundación Telefónica. Currently, she has become part, as CMO, of the ARAN team (Augmented Reality Art Network), a startup of recent creation that seeks to generate a network of people who work in the art world and who take advantage of the potential of the AR and the VR for the creation and diffusion of the artworks.

DANIEL BERNÁEZ Photo and Video 360 Producer and Online Marketing Consultant.He is the founder of PuraVida VR, his brand of 360 degrees videos and photos content. His 360 productions are characterized by the highest quality, guaranteed by the certificates as a trusted photographer of Google and as a professional 360 video editor by Kolor GoPro, the leading video production company 360, he is one of the pioneers in Spain). In addition, as an online marketing consultant, he advises clients so that both photos and 360 video are integrated into a communication strategy that has maximum impact and achieves business results.

Hugo SánchezHe is writer and collaborator at Real o Virtual the leading spanish media specialed in virtual reality, where he writes as “Sellocpr”. He also has a youtube channel. He likes to analyse vr games and releases.

Alejandro Gonzalez Founder of PONTE GAFAS: VR for the entertainment industry. He has created a VR free-roaming platform for up to 4 players.Each player is equipped with HTC Vive and a Backpack PC and can walk freely in 25m2. Content for the platform ranges from Zombie survival experiences to team-building experiences for corporate events.

@PonteGafas

César A. Fernández Cano

Building Engineer, Technical Architect and Senior Technician in Occupational Risk Prevention.He is currently studying the Expert in VR, AR and XR grade at U-tad.

Luis MateraStatistical and passionate photographer, he is continuously training in workshops, schools and photography academies in digital.Some of the centers where I have studied are Sales de Plata, CFM, Fotografiarte, Fundación Telefónica, La Casa Encendida and currently, EFTI.

He is currently carrying out several personal projects (documentation, reporting, minimalist ...) that will be released in the coming months.

Damla Kopuz Film and television student in Istanbul University, passionate about performing arts and human stories, promotes concertevolution.org

damlakopuz.com

@sinemavr

Raúl boldú Toro He is a senior developer at Saisho which is an online art Marketplace where he is developing new ways of appreciating art using technologies such as augmented reality, machine learning, big data and computer graphics.*Electrical engineering at Clarkson University, New York*Master’s degree in computational graphics, VR and simulation.*Expert in strategic management.*Currently studying development expert for AR and VR.In 1993, he tried VR for the first time and he knew he wanted to make it his way of leaving. He joined Banco Popular as TI manager for Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla. He also worked at other financial institutions where he held Manager positions. In 2015, he decided to leave his company to work full time in VR projects, his real passion. Since then, he has worked in vr projects such as Ciceron, Neotechnium and now Saisho Art.

Raquel Rodríguez Galván

Producer currently specialising in virtual reality pipelines. She is student at U-tad Certificate in Virtual and Augmented Reality Production.

Alberto Hernandez PintoAlberto is neuroscientist with more than seven years of post-doc experience in characterising the pathological basis of neurological disorders in the retina. He has published thirteen papers and several book chapters and reviews in international scientific journals.

*Specially interested in the potential applications of AR and VR as aids for low vision patients.

*Co-founder of the nanotechnology startup company “Arrays-for-cell nanodevices S.L.” (a Spanish National Research Council spin-off)