AWE Nite Northern XR: Live from Turku

AWEvengers Assemble!

Welcome to AWE Nite Northern XR: Live from Turku! This event will be a hybrid event. The live portion will be co-hosted by Jami Aho, Project Specialist of Turku University of Applied Sciences, at SparkUp (Tykistökatu 4, 20520 Turku, the door on street level) in the Turku Science Park and will focus on XR projects from higher education and startups in the Turku (Southwest Finland) region as well as collaborative learning and training in VR.

Huge thanks to our sponsors SparkUp, Turku UAS, and Spatial8!

AWE Nite Northern XR thanks photographer Teemu Rönkkö for capturing the image above (Feb. 2021).

IMPORTANT:
To take part in the meet up please use this link https://awe.live/register to register. Find this session and join. The registration only needs to be done once, and it's completely free.

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AGENDA

17:30-18:00 SparkUp doors open, drinks and some snacks

18:00-18:05 Welcome & Intro with Joh Orengo, President of XR Nation

18:05-18:15 XR Nation Presents :Spatial News™ with Teemu Ollilainen, Prime Minister of XR Nation

18:15-18:45 XR projects from Turku

• Turku UAS with Juha Saarinen (Senior Lecturer) & video greetings from Mika Luimula (Research group lead)
• Novia with Dimitrios Bouzoulas (Project researcher)
• MiTale with Natasha Skult (CEO/Founder)
• CTRL Reality with Frans Enala (Sales and Marketing Manager)
• ADE with Sami Laukkanen (VR developer)

18:45-19:30 Panel discussion: Collaborative learning and training in VR

Participants:

• David Oliva, Senior Specialist at TUAS & CEO at myTrueSound Oy (Moderator)
• Juha Saarinen, Senior Lecturer at Turku UAS, Project Manager for marISOT project
• Natasha Skult, Lecturer at University of Turku & CEO/Founder at MiTale
• Sami Laukkanen, VR developer at ADE

19:30-19:35 Announcements & Closing

19:35-21:30 Mingle! Drinks and more snacks

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Meet the Sponsors:

Spatial8 is a modern business hub designed to bring emerging technology companies and ecosystems in Europe closer together in order to better educate the market, improve business, and facilitate innovation. Spatial8

SparkUp gathers start-up companies, networks and events, like Boost, in the Turku region under the same roof and provides Turku Science Park Ltd’s services for new enterprises.

Turku UAS is one of the most attractive universities of applied sciences in Finland and home of the
Futuristic Interactive Technologies research group. Turku University of Applied Sciences

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Meet the Companies and Organizations:

ADE offers virtual trainings, animations, web-to-print and sales configuration systems to make our customers' operations more efficient. ADE

CTRL Reality is a proud university spin-off using research-proven methods and the latest virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies to best support your business in training, marketing or engineering. CTRL Reality - World-Class AR & VR Solutions

MiTale is a game development company from Finland, passionate about interactive storytelling and the latest gaming tech! Mitale - Games Where Stories Come First

Novia University of Applied Sciences is the largest Swedish-speaking university of applied sciences in Finland. novia.fi

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See you at the show!