Vancouver VR Community & Women Who Code PRESENTS #VRDiversity Dinner and Panel
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The Vancouver VR Community is partnering up with Women Who Code Vancouver for the first time to hold a panel discussion on #VRDiversity, an initiative started by Catherine Allen in the UK to spotlight women, LGBTQ, and underrepresented minority groups in efforts to sustain VR in the long term. The panel is followed by exciting demos from Archiact and Virtro teams! You know what the most amazing part of the event is? YOU will bring the questions for the panel! So, please join us for an evening with VR games, demos, and discussions about diversity in VR.
Mobify is hosting us for this event and food will be provided by our generous sponsors, Archiact, Microsoft, and Radical I/O. We are also supported by Bomber Brewing, Blackbird Interactive, YVRFF, East Van Roasters, and Adrian Talens. A big thank you to all of our sponsors!
Please show your support for our panelists by arriving before 7PM. Also, please inform our team if you will be running late ahead of time as the doors are LOCKED at 7PM.
Schedule:
• 6:00 PM - Doors open
• 6:15 PM - Demos and mingling
• 7:00 PM - Panelists introduction
• 7:05 PM - Group activity - Question composition icebreaker
• 7:20 PM - Panel
• 8:00 PM - Demos and mingling
• 9:00 PM - Curfew
Panelists:
• Briana Sim, Co-Founder & COO at Radical I/O
• Janet Chen, Lead Instructor at Immersive Tech Labs
• Jennifer Dowding, Senior Producer at Archiact VR Games
• Liz Jaluague, Web Coordinator at Academy of VR
• Sarah Roland, 3D Generalist at Archiact VR Games
Our panel will be moderated by Rhys Patterson. The panel will also be available to live stream, thanks to our friends at Stream of Consciousness.
Briana Sim, Co-Founder & COO at Radical I/O
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Briana Sim is the co-founder and COO of Radical I/O ( https://radical.io/ ), a mobile & web app studio and consultancy in Vancouver, BC, that develops technology with purpose. Briana’s background is rooted in higher education administration, and brings her wealth of knowledge to the scaling and fostering of the people behind the projects at Radical I/O. She's particularly passionate about ensuring inclusiveness in every area of the company and in championing women in the community to pursue careers in technology.
Janet Chen, Lead Instructor at Immersive Tech Labs
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Janet Chen is the Co-founder of AGDA VR, the largest student group for VR and MR development at UBC. She works closely with students, faculty, and industry professionals to create immersive education and research tools. In the past, Janet has contributed to UBC's Emerging Media Lab as a Developer and taught at the Immersive Tech Lab as the Lead Instructor. Currently, she is the Director of a VR studio specializing in education and animal ethics. Learn more on Janet’s website: http://janetchen.ca/
Jennifer Dowding, Senior Producer at Archiact VR Games
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Jennifer Dowding (“VR Jen” on Twitter) is a Senior Producer at Archiact and has been releasing products exclusively for VR for the past two years. Jennifer & her team have been hard at work on the recently announced VR multiplayer title ‘Evasion’ which is launching in the spring of 2018. ‘Evasion’ is a co-op multiplayer bullet hell shooter designed exclusively for VR, that has been called the “Destiny of VR.” While that is a lot to live up to, Jennifer is proud to be working with a team of hard working UE4 developers who are passionately working to create the next generation of VR games.
Jennifer began her career in social/mobile games with Disney on “Gardens of Time” which won “Social Game of the Year” at the Game Developers Conference and was named the top game on Facebook in 2011. She has since worked on global IPs with Disney & DeNA and after developing VR products with multiple teams at Archiact for mobile, PC & console platforms she is now very excited for what the next year will bring for ‘Evasion.’
Liz Jaluague, Web Coordinator at Academy of VR
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Liz Jaluague is the co-founder of SpyderMix (http://spydermix.org/) and a freelance sales and digital marketing consultant. She has an eclectic background that includes a BSc in biochemistry, running for office in Canada, and holding executive positions in several North American non-profits.
Sarah Roland, 3D Generalist at Archiact VR Games
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Sarah Roland is currently a 3D Generalist at Archiact in Vancouver, BC. She enjoys getting involved with many aspects of game development which not only includes regular artist things like texturing and modeling, but also things like writing shaders and lighting! One of her best kept secrets is that she tries to get as much purple as possible into every game she works on. Don't tell anyone.
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See you there! Don't forget to bring you #VRDiversity questions!