Agenda

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Join us for the event wrapup where the winners of the Auggie Awards for "Best in Show" will be announced including the "Startup to Watch".

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Ori Inbar

Co-Founder , AWE and Super Ventures

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Will be published soon.

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Shaul Gelman

CEO , Realview Imaging Ltd.

Rahav Boussi-Gross

Rehabilitation neuropsychologist , Shamir Medical Center

Ravid Segal

Chief Technology Officer , MSR the Israel Center for Medical Simulation

Miki Levy

CEO , XRHealth

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8 hand picked startups pitch in front of investor judges to compete for the Auggie Award for best startup in Israel

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Daiki Nishiyama

Investment Director , ColoplNext

Irit Hillel

Partner , HP Tech Ventures

Yuval Baharav

General Partner , State of Mind Ventures

Ayelet Ben Arav

VP Business Development , Incubit Technology Ventures Ltd

Ori Inbar

Co-Founder , AWE and Super Ventures

Description

OpenMind360 use interactive VR videos in workshops at schools, discussing mental distress among adolescents and how groups and individuals can handle them

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Iftach weiser

CEO , OpenMind360

Description

In this tutorial participants will learn how to create an AR app with a fully-functioning cloud-backend in less than 15 minutes. Participants will see how to generate native apps for Android with ARCore, iOs with ARKit, HoloLens & MagicLeap with Unity, and web browsers with WebXR and AR.js, all connected to the same cloud.

Participants will learn how to change AR content across all platforms simultaneously through the cloud, with no coding, and no rebuilding the apps. Participants will show how a small change in one cloud-connected app, can send updates to all other apps across the different AR SDKs & platforms.

Participants are encouraged to either bring their laptops with Unity installed, bring an AR-enabled mobile device, or can follow along the live demonstration.

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Alon Grinshpoon

CEO , EchoAR

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Paving the way of XR, presentation fo the Volvo - Varjo collaboration, bending the use cases of XR in Automotive Industry. Democratising Virtual experiences such as VR/AR and simulations, by building a fluid toolchain around emerging technologies such as XR, AI, and game engines.

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Timmy Ghiurau

Senior Lead XR and Virtual Experiences , Volvo Cars

Description

Will look at the process involved in identifying the pain points, finding the solutions and supporting the development of solutions that do not yet exist.

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Itzhak Pichadze

CEO , LLS-Ltd

Evyatar Meiron

CEO, Founder , Fieldbit Ltd.

Nathanael Reicher

CEO , in3D Tech

Devora Mason

Lead XR Consultant, Israel , Consultant

Description

Scalability is everything in business. If you can only target a small audience, then your idea may not succeed. But if your idea is applicable, accessible and intriguing to everyone it can flourish beautifully.  The problem is that scaling technology can be complex, and it’s even harder when it comes to AR.

Many developers struggle to create scalable and dynamic apps. It seems that most of today’s AR apps are single-user experiences with static and hard-to-update content. Any change in the app results in endless development cycles while costing money and time building and maintaining their app.

The goal of this talk is the show how anyone can easily have a strong scalable cross-platform backend for their AR/VR apps without compromising on quality or speed. Participants will learn how to create real-time apps for ARCore, ARKit, WebXR, Vuforia, Unity, and more, all connected to the same cloud.

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Alon Grinshpoon

CEO , EchoAR

Ben Pedazur

CTO , echoAR

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AR is rapidly changing the way people communicate and express themselves on digital platforms. In fact, 70% of Snapchat’s 203 million daily active users interact with AR every day. In this session, Anrick Bregman, a member of Snapchat’s Official Lens Creator program, will show designers and marketers how to connect with their audiences by building compelling AR experiences in Lens Studio.

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Anrick Bregman

Founder, Official Lens Creator, Snap , AN/RK

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Startups have ambition but lack scale (people and money). Big companies have scale, but grow too conservative after early successes.

Working together, even getting acquired, can often change the game. But it comes with many pitfalls, and usually not the ones you tend to worry about.

I'll share my experience working in big and small companies and give some insights into how to make it work out for everyone involved.

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Avi Bar-Zeev

Founder, President , XR Guild

Description

In this session I will present Arti in a live demo - a new tool that allows you to magically embed virtual objects into professional live video productions anywhere using a software-only, cloud-based platform.

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Avner Vilan

CEO , Arti.tv

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An in depth look at how three organisations are using VR and AR in different ways to build empathy or as an educational tool.
Christopher will talk about how the ICRC have used AR and VR to communicate about urban warfare with the aim of building empathy. He can talk about two projects i. Enter the Room, an AR project: https://vrscout.com/news/red-cross-ar-app-war/
ii. Google Daydream Impact funded VR film the Right Choice: https://vrscout.com/news/the-right-choice-daydream-impact
Sandra will share insights from their VR project about the threat of improvised explosive devices in Fallujah, Iraq.
 https://www.homeafterwar.net
Charlotte will talk about how VR can be used for health promotion and education in their film that aims to remove stigma, and motivate young people to get tested for HIV.
https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2018/november/20181120_360HIV_PR

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Sandra Bialystok

Digital Media Coordinator , Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD)

Tamar Hay

Education Director , Peres Center for Peace and Innovation

Amir Rubin

Co-Founder / CEO , Sixense Enterprises Inc

Charlotte Sector

Communications Manager , UNAIDS

Christopher Nicholas

Audiovisual Producer , International Committee of the Red Cross

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In the five years since HTC brought SteamVR tracking to the world, many other optical tracking solutions have been offered, all variations of computer vision and structured light techniques.

Looking at each of the pain points in turn, bringing in the optical, mathematical, and computational issues along the way, we show how multiple tracking systems are combined and trade-offs made to create acceptable consumer products, and show what industrial and professional users should be asking for when considering AR technology.

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Daniel Greenspan

CTO , Six Degrees Space LTD ("Sixdof Space")

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Why retailers can't scale 3D content creation no matter how large they are and why economy of scale concepts does not apply to the 3D industry.
Insights from the world's leading and most innovative AR/3D retail teams and how they plan on solving the content creation roadblock.

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Yehiel Atias

CEO & Co-Founder , Hexa3D

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AR researchers and industry insiders have long envisioned that at some point in the future, a cloud AR platform that contains the Realtime 3D (or spatial) map of the world, will be the single most important software infrastructure in computing, far more valuable than Facebook’s Social graph or Google’s page rank index.

Azure Spatial Anchor is a cloud AR platform that supports ARKit and ARCore .
Azure mixed reality services offers SDKs and services that make it easier to build spatially aware, enterprise ready, cross-platform applications for AR across HoloLens, iOS and Android.

In this session I will talk about the different verticals (Industry 4.0 , Retail ,IOT, Gaming, …) and the benefits of developing a cross-platform mobile AR application with Azure mixed reality services:
• Create multi-user, spatially aware mixed reality experiences, add context to the real world using
• Provide your users a better understanding of their data, where they need it and when they need it, by placing and connecting your digital content to physical points of interest.
• Share holograms across devices, accelerate decisions and results by bringing 3D to your team and customers on the device of their choice.
• Infuse AI and protect your apps, do more with your solution by integrating IoT services and artificial intelligence, and protect sensitive data with enterprise-grade security from Azure.

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Amit Svarzenberg

Cloud and AI, Microsoft for startups , Microsoft

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Now is the time to create killer apps in XR for training, healthcare, and entertainment. Over the past three years the foundation for immersive computing has been well established for businesses that are keen to find advances in technology that will benefit them.  The XR hardware ecosystem is very strong with many excellent options to choose from. Now we are faced with the challenge to create the killer apps across 10 key industries. This talk will explore where we see clear blue ocean for companies to explore with immersive computing solutions.

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Joel Breton

EVP of Product Development, Sixense, and President of Sixense Studios , Sixense Studios

Description

Ori Inbar, Co-founder and Executive Director of AWE and Super Ventures will kick off AWE Tel Aviv with a special welcome address and his annual state of the industry.



For 50 years, computing has been a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional world.



Now, tech giants and thousands of startups who are seeking growth opportunities beyond mobile have set spatial computing on a trajectory for exponential growth. Most large corporations are adopting spatial computing to improve their businesses driven by strong evidence it delivers measurable ROI, and consumers begin to appreciate the radical benefits of this technology which could signal the next dimension of humanity. In 2019, everyone must enter the next dimension to understand the impact it’s bound to have on their lives and businesses.

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Ori Inbar

Co-Founder , AWE and Super Ventures

Description

In this session we will review the fruits of Microsoft’s collaboration with different entities in the Israeli eco-system, to create a pragmatic, tangible and innovative AR solutions. Reviewing the work we did with our partners in the Israeli eco-system, we will tell the story of AR and the Israeli secret-sauce:
Health (Rabin Medical Center) - the first HoloLens driven tumour removal operation in the world
Architecture(AN+, The City of Tel-Aviv) - Tel Aviv authority for urban planning approving the building of Canada Embassy in Israel
Airline (El Al) - HoloLens as a tool for real-time evaluation of hand luggage
…and Art (Bezalel) - “By leaves we live” changing the face of urban planning forever, presented at the La Biennale di Venezia

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Guy Shalev

Leader of Microsoft innovation lab - The Garage , Microsoft

Description

This session will focus on the hard data about what's working (and what isn't) in today's AR/VR market, and where we go from here. It will also provide real world examples of companies delivering serious ROI already.

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