The Speakers
This list is update on a regular basis.
Aaron D. Priest Aaron Priest Photography
http://www.aaronpriestphoto.com
Aaron D. Priest is a Master Photographer with twenty years of experience in professional photography. He specializes in high-resolution HDR 360° panoramas, gigapans, and 4K timelapses of Maine. He also creates virtual tours and teaches photography workshops on a variety of topics, from landscape astrophotography to panoramas and timelapses. His work has been featured by…
Alexandre Jenny Kolor - Gopro
http://www.kolor.com
Kolor Founder, Senior Director Immersive Media Solutions at GoPro Mining engineer, DEA graduate in Material Physics, with 5 years of expertise in the development of video games and member of the Georges Mélies Photo Club, Alexandre Jenny is passionate about photography. It is this passion that led him to develop the Autopano software.
Andrey Sudarchikov Airpano
http://airpano.ru
Andrey live in Kaliningrad city, Russia. In 2008, Andrey saw his first 360° panorama VR. He was I was impressed and he decide to work in this area. He currently have a huge VR experience. Shooting panoramas, making virtual tours, krpano coding, web technologies and build desktop applications. He is actually working at Airpano.
Andrew Balfour Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.com
Andrew spent 10 years in the music industry as a writer, performer and producer. During that time his band’s music reached over 100 countries garnering over 50,000 downloads. Through this experience he realized the powerful impact the intersection of digital media, technology and data could have on storytelling. Transitioning into the advertising industry, he then…
Antonio Victor Garcia-Serrano Zakato Interactive Imaging
http://www.zakato.com
I come from a background of research in 3D computer graphics. One quiet and clear day, while surfing the net, I got hooked with the fisheye magic of panoramic interactive images. That happened by the end of the 2nd millennium, and since then I have been fishing 360º images.
Ben Kreunen
http://digitisation.unimelb.edu.au/
Ben Kreunen is a scientific photographer currently working as the Technical Support Officer for the University Digitisation Centre at The University of Melbourne. He has been tinkering with panoramic photography since the late 1990s and also has interests in GIS data and 3D rendering of landscapes. In recent years he has become involved with 3D…
Boštjan Burger BURGER k.d.
http://www.burger.si
Boštjan Burger (born 1966) is a Slovenian informatician, geographer, a panoramic and VR panoramic photographer and a speleologist. He was founder of the Burger.si website and had retired as computer programmer in the 1990s to become a geographic researcher on the hydrology of waterfalls. He used 360° Surround Photography as a tool in the research…
Charles Armstrong Google
http://google.com/streetview
Charles is Product Manager for Google Street View's publishing products and services, including the Street View app, Trusted program, and camera partnerships. Since 2010, Charles has been an active supporter of IVRPA and the broader professional panoramic photographer community. Prior to joining Google, he previously launched Sphere and TourWrist as companies in the space.
Chris Bobotis Adobe
http://www.adobe.com
Chris is Director of Immersive at Adobe, overseeing the company’s Immersive Media efforts. Chris is the software architect for the SkyBox suite of 360˚ video and cinematic VR tools, which Adobe recently acquired from Chris’ previous company Mettle. Chris co-founded Mettle in 1992 and was Partner & Creative Director. Mettle transformed the nascent 360˚ VR…
Clifford Dive Argon Design Ltd
http://www.argondesign.com
VP Business Development at Argon Design, responsible for growing Argon Design’s consultancy business, with a special interest in Argon360, high quality real-time video stitching on a hardware platform. Since graduating from Oxford with an engineering degree, Cliff has enjoyed working on a broad range of leading edge software and electronic product developments working in organisations…
Gavin Farrell PANOGS
http://www.panogs.com
AKA “The Panographer” Gavin is a Visual FX producer of spherical panoramic experiences. His 21 year career includes 10 years as the head of Yahoo’s digital ad innovation team. In 2018 he received an Emmy for “Outstanding Digital Innovation” for the Sports Illustrated virtual reality film Capturing Everest. In 2014 his panoramic stitching skills landed…
Irene Vandertop Deep Inc.
http://deep-inc.com
Irene Vandertop is an Interactive Producer with more than ten years of experience producing, designing, and project managing in new media, TV broadcasting, and documentary production. At DEEP Inc Irene is heading the production of multiple high profile VR and 360 video projects. In 2014 she produced the Grimme Online awarded Polar Sea 360, a…
Ignacio Ferrando Abaco Digital
http://www.abaco-digital.es
I'm a Spanish profesional photographer, I do 360 images since 1995... On the last years I have done many interesting projects in this area, especially on action panoramas of outdoor activities... Actually I'm working more with 360 Video.
Jeremy Doig
http://www.google.com
Jeremy is the Engineering Vice President responsible for Google's efforts around Virtual Reality. Before VR, Jeremy was responsible for Chrome's Media technologies and Youtube Engineering. Prior to Google, Jeremy worked at Microsoft on Hotmail, Search and Messenger, several startups and the BBC.
Joergen Geerds Koncept VR
https://konceptvr.com
CEO, Koncept VR / Freedom360 With a background in art, film-making, photography and art direction, and as the original inventor of the modern fully spherical video as a medium, Joergen has been evangelizing cinematic VR for the past 5 years. His deep understanding of the technology allows him to push the language of VR filmmaking…
KC Lai iZugar Studio
http://www.izugar.com
KC Lai, Founder of iZugar Studio. We created many super fisheye lenses for 360 video, and keep shooting seamless 4K video with just two gopro camera. Our 3D360 system is the most affordable solution that welcomed by the community.
Kirill Pokutniy
Krill Pokutnyy, Chornobyl360, co-founder WIT. WIT company specializes in software development and integration of interactive technologies (multi-touch surfaces, Kinect, projection mapping, augmented reality, etc.). Kirill is also the co-founder of Verum Visum, which specializes in virtual reality solutions development and 360 video production. Chornobyl360 is a new immersive VR documentary about the famous meltdown and…
Luc Villeneuve 360° Image
http://360-image.com
Luc has more than 30 years of experience in the field of technologies applied to the communication industry. Luc left the printing industry in 2010 and he is actually 100% dedicated to 360° media and virtual reality projects. Luc is the IVRPA organizer of Prague 2015 and Québec 2016
Richard Broo Wemersive
http://wemersive.com
Richard started his career in the music industry at age seventeen, working for a music production company in Europe. After a decade working alongside major recording companies and artists, Richard jumped into the technology sector. Richard began working for an app development firm where they created one of the first VR mobile players. After successfully…
Thomas Rauscher Garden Gnome Software
https://ggnome.com
After starting with computer graphics at age 13, I took a detour into electronics and databases. But, my first digital camera, The World Wide Panorama project, and PanoTools reignited my interest in computer graphics which spurred me to create my first panorama software Pano2QTVR. 17 years later and my team and I continue to provide…
Thomas Sharpless tksharpless.net
http://tksharpless.net
Biochemist/Engineer/Panographer in Philadelphia, PA. Like to write software, hack with cameras, walk dogs. Contributor to Hugin, developer of Panini and PT3D s/w. IVRPA member since 2011; past director. Ambition: to create an automatic 6-dof 3D stitching system.
Uli Futschik Koncept VR
http://freedom360.us
As the Chief Operating Officer of Freedom 360 and Koncept VR, Uli manages day-to-day logistics as well as long term strategies for two successful businesses at the forefront of the cinematic VR movement. From hardware manufacturing to on-set directing she is in charge of all facets of the operations. Overseeing pre-production, location scouting, and crew…
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Workshops
All workshops are on Wednesday at the Château Laurier




Québec City 2016 Schedule
IMPORTANT NOTE: The excursion is on the May 23rd. Workshops are on Wednesday May 24 and the last talk is on Friday the 27th at 17:00.
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Call for Speakers
At IVRPA, we are always looking for speakers for our annual Panoramic Photography & Video Conference.
Qualified all panoramic photographers, related businesses, products and services are encouraged to participate by submitting a proposal to speak at our annual conference.
Québec City 2016 - IVRPA 360° Virtual Reality Panoramic Photography & Video Conference, May 23-27 2016
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- 360° Surround Photography applied to Geography – Quebec 2016
- 360º Cinematography: Using Panoramic Photography Techniques – Québec 2016
- Astro-Panoramas: Capture Amazing light from the Night Sky – Québec 2016
- Bridging the VR Advertising Gap – Quebec City 2016
- Chornobyl360: Creating a VR Documentary – Québec 2016
- Embracing Motion in VR – Québec 2016
- Future Vision of VR – Québec 2016
- Google Street View: Latest News – Québec 2016
- GoPro’s latest and upcoming developments in VR – Québec 2016
- License your 360° Panoramas with 360Cities and Getty Images – Québec 2016
- Live Video Stitching – Québec 2016
- New Roundshot VR Drive Metric – Québec City 2016
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