“One day, we believe this kind of immersive, augmented reality will become a part of daily life for billions of people.” Mark Zuckerberg CEO, Facebook. Line up of Speakers, Partners & Sponsors for UKVR & Macunx VR Launch. London Tech Week, 20 June 2016.

1. W E L C O M E MondayJune20,2016
POWERED BY LINGUISTICATOR©
macunx.com @MacunxVR & @Linguisticator #VRLaunch16
LONDON TECH WEEK 2016
TO MACUNX & UKVR LAUNCH

2. VR FOR GOOD.
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THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US
THIS EVENING AT BARCLAYS RISE.
Tonight’s event, hosted by Linguisticator and Macunx
VR, will be focused on the potential of VR, AR and mixed
reality in education, life sciences and other non-gaming
spaces. We’ll be celebrating some of the most exciting
real world applications of VR being developed here in
the UK at the moment.
Held in support of the British Dyslexia Association, the
event coincides with the launch of Macunx VR on
Kickstarter. Macunx will allow you to build your own
memory palaces in VR, making learning and
remembering things easier than ever before.
Tonight’s event wouldn’t have been possible without the support
of our wonderful sponsors and partners so a huge thank you to:
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app if you haven’t
already & search for
‘UKVR launch’

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17:30 Welcome & Registration
17:35 - 17:45 Opening Remarks
Introduction by Eleanor Harding, Dr Aaron Ralby
(CEO, Linguisticator) & brief words from partners and
sponsors
17:45 - 18:30 Industry Insights (1)
• Duncan Fitzsimons & Dan Jones 7th, Design &
Invention
• Luke Parkes-Haskell, Desk Dragons
• Dr MariCarmen Gil Ortega, Senior Lecturer in Virtual
Worlds
• Joe Nash, Improbable.io
18:30 - 18:50 Panel Discussion
Fireside Chat feat. Alexander Cohen, Sanford Dickert,
Phil Laszcowicz, & Chimeren Peerbhai MBA
Moderator: Chloe Nicholls, EditorEye
18:50 - 19:00 Break for Food, Drinks & Networking
19:00 - 19:25 Industry Insights (2)
“The Transformative Power of VR” (max. 10mins each)
• Martin Lucas, 2020 Thinkology
• Jimmy Kyriacou, Unbox London
• Theo Priestley, Tech & Digital Evangelist
• Anthony Karydis, Mativsion
19:25 - 19:45 Keynote Speaker
“VR, New Tech, Learning & Dyslexia”, Dr Kate
Saunders, CEO British Dyslexia Association
19:45 - 20:05 Closing Keynote
“Memory Palaces in VR”, Dr Aaron Ralby
20:05 - 20:15 Evening Wrap Up
• Final remarks & announcements
• Special demo by DoubleMe Hololens
20:15 - 21:30 Drinks & Networking
TWEET US AT #VRLAUNCH16
PROGRAMME
macunx.com @MacunxVR & @Linguisticator #VRLaunch16

4. thank you to our
ORGANISERS
DR AARON RALBY, CEO & FOUUNDER
LUCIANA CARVALHO SE, CHIEF EVANGELIST
HARRIET COOK, EXEC. ASSISTANT
JANINA SASIN, EVENT ORGANISER
NINA SALOMONS, JELLY BEE FILMS
STEPHEN CHAN, 3VIL GENIUS TLD
CINTHIA LONG, HULT BUSINESS SCHOOL
BRUNA RIETJENS, HULT BUSINESS SCHOOL
SUPPORT US ON
KICKSTARTER & HELP US
REVOLUTIONISE LEARNING.
A huge thank you to Barclay’s Rise!

5. 5
SPEAKERS
Eleanor Harding, Product Designer at Twitter
@tweetanor
Eleanor is a Swiss-army-knife of a product developer
with a history of winning hackathons. She’s the
founder of a Product Development Consultancy called
Rigby/Rose, where she’s worked with startups and
space agencies on impactful emerging technologies.
Currently, she’s consulting as an in-house Product
Designer at Twitter, turning big ideas into elegant
products.
Joe Nash, Developer Relations at Improbable.io
@jna_sh
Joe is a developer advocate at Improbable, helping
developers build massive worlds with SpatialOS and
large multiplayer experiences. An unrepentant Haskell
addict, Joe speaks on topics of FP, distributed
systems, and programming language theory. A strong
believer in the benefits of hackathons, Joe is resident
community lead of Hackathon Hackers EU.
Duncan Fitzsimons, Founder at 7th Design &
Innovation
@duncfitz
Duncan is an industrial designer and is the director
and founder of 7TH London, a Design and Invention
studio. Previously, he also co-founded and ran the
design consultancy Vitamins. Duncan’s work covers all
industry sectors where people have to interact with
technology, and focuses on creating new innovations
and new experiences that go beyond the norm of new
product development.
Dan Jones, Product Designer & 7th Design &
Invention
@7thDesignInvent
An award winning Product Designer with a background
in Engineering Design, Dan’s career began as an
apprentice draughtsman He then made the leap to
Product Design and career highlights have included a
Student Starpack Award, showcasing his 3D printed
work in the Science Museum and a 6 month internship
with the Packaging Design Team at Marks and
Spencer. Dan hosted the TeenTech Awards in 2014
and spoke about 3D printing at the Ipex digital printing
convention in 2014 in London.
Luke Parkes-Haskell, Technical Director at Desk
Dragons
@ambershee
Luke works at Desk Dragons, a game development
studio with an emphasis on AR/VR and emerging tech.
Dr M. Gil Ortega, Senior Lecturer in Virtual Worlds
at the University of the West of England
@remaika
MariCarmen Gil Ortega aka Maika is a Senior Lecturer
at the Education Innovation Centre of the University of
the West of England and Programme Leader for the
Masters in Education in Virtual Worlds. Her
background is in Languages and Linguistics with a
strong emphasis in technology enhanced teaching and
learning approaches. Fascinated by the opportunities
that VR offers to enhance the learning experiences of
students and to provide valid and innovative
alternative solutions to some of the challenges
encountered in traditional educational practices, for the
last eight years MariCarmen has been exploring the
use of virtual worlds for education and designing
learning experiences in these environments that would
be difficult, dangerous, costly and/or unethical to
reproduce in the physical world.
Chloe Nicholls, Marketing at EditorEye
@ThatGirl_Chloe
Chloe works with startups and entrepreneurs on
marketing, PR and growth strategies. She is currently
working with EditorEye Catalyst, a new platform which
tracks innovation, disruption and new technologies
across global and premium business information
providers. Chloe is passionate about the intersection
of business, technology and entrepreneurship. She
has moderated panels on maintain work/life balance,
the future of smart spaces and entrepreneurship for
General Assembly, Digital DUMBO and Geek Girls
Meetup.
Alexander Cohen, Founder at Virtually Reality
@AlexanderSashaC
Alexander founded the boutique Virtual Reality retail
start up, Virtually Reality. Launching in early 2016,
Virtually Reality provides a unique and engaging
space for customers to engage with VR in a safe and
friendly environment. Virtually Reality sells selected
VR Hardware and Software along with in-store
experiences in a pay-to-play model.
Sanford Dickert, Cofounder at Owler
@Sanford
Based in London, always pursuing “moonshot”
opportunities — whether technology or market-driven
and regardless of the geography, Sanford’s current
interests include the intersection of hardware, software
and user interfaces; the next steps for bringing
distance to zero – whether in robotic telepresence,
mobile devices, VR, AR, wearables, Internet-of-
Things,or other technology driven product innovation.
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meet the

6. Phil Laszkowicz, CTO and Cofounder at Aurio
@siilime
A consultant in software/system architecture,
development and project delivery, Phil is cofounder of
Aurio. Aurio uses augmented audio technology, wireless
speaker technology and unique audio software
engineering, and aims to build software to reduce the
impact of aural and visual health conditions.
JimmyKyriacou, Creator of Unbox
@JimmyKyriacou
Jimmy created UNBOX which unites creative,
entrepreneurs and influencers passionate about the
convergence of emerging technology, music and the
arts.
Chimeren Peerbhai, VersaStyle
@VersaStyle_com
Chimeren is a product director and thought leader
specialising in the wearable technology, augmented and
virtual reality sectors. With over 19 years’ experience in
product strategy and application development; she
initially trained as a multimedia developer, before
founding a creative agency and working for Fortune
500’s providing creative and technical services to B2B
and B2C firms. She recently launched VersaStyle, a
consultancy for the world’s most forward-thinking
companies. VersaStyle has produced the world’s 1st
online learning course on how to integreate wearable
tech into product and marketing strategies, available on
Udemy.
Martin Lucas, Chief Thinkologist at 2020 Thinkology
@2020Thinkology
Martin leads the mastermind team at Thinkology where
together they use their skills to help clients with growth
strategies using creative sciences. He is also Brand
Strategy Advisor at getum.com, non-exec board
member for Thriving Survivors, a 14 times Sales,
Leadership and Inspiration Award winner and a
published author and writer.
Theo Priestley, Technologist & Digital Evangelist
@ITredux
Theo is an independent technology evangelist and
strategist, helping vendors and clients to understand
and realise the value from the major digital and
emerging technology trends impacting industries today
and tomorrow, translating how these will disrupt
business operating models and customer service
propositions into executable strategies, and change the
way they engage with consumers and clients through
technology innovation.
Anthony Karydis, Founder & CEO at Mativision
@akarydis
Anthony is an entrepreneur with a track record of
building digital-media technology companies with global
perspective. He started his career in Flight Simulators
with Thomson-CSF (France), worked in multi-national
European R&D projects, taught Digital Media related
subjects for three years in a University, founded and
managed two private companies in Greece, both
leading suppliers of highend Visual Effects systems for
Broadcasting and Advertising. In the early 2000s he
became active in interactive media and applications and
developed “Mativision”, an end-to-end technology for
interactive spherical video applications. Mativision,
based in London since 2012, became an established,
fully commercial 360-video and VR Service, with global
clients including Fox, American Idol, Coach, Samsung,
MTV, Universal, Vodafone and others.
Dr Kate Saunders, CEO at British Dyslexia
Association
@DrKateSaunders, @BDAdyslexia
The BDA is the voice of dyslexic people. Their aim is to
influence government and other institutions to promote
a dyslexia friendly society, that enables dyslexic people
of all ages to reach their full potential. In the 40 years
that the BDA has been campaigning there has been
many changes in the world of dyslexia, some of them
good. In light of this milestone, the BDA produced a
report in 2012 looking back at the last 40 years and has
made recommendations for the future. In partnership
with The Dyslexia Foundation and after consulting 100
organisations, this report is a wide-ranging and
comprehensive assessment of the current provision for
adults with dyslexia.
Dr Aaron Ralby, CEO at Linguisticator and Founder
of Macunx
@Linguisticator
Aaron is the founder and CEO of Linguisticator and the
inventor of Macunx. He first started exploring the art of
memory during his PhD in medieval studies when he
learned about techniques monks and scholars used in
the Middle Ages to remember and compose literature.
He subsequently spent several years of research
figuring out how to apply the same techniques to large
and complex systems – like languages.
Albert Kim, DoubleMe
@DoubleMeVR
Albert is the CEO and founder of DoubleMe, a 3D
scanning studio that converts multiple angle videos of
live subjects into one dynamic 3D character in real time.
Based in San José, California, DoubleMe are currently
installing their studio at Ravensbourne University thanks
to VRUK.
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