Agenda

Description

As business travel reduces in the pursuit of sustainability and talent shortages necessitate the widening of the recruitment process, how can VR and AR both give us back what we lose when working remotely and elevate the collaborative experience of employees in global firms?

Speakers

Duncan Roberts

Thought Leader , Cognizant Technology Solutions

Description

Trainers, L&D professionals, Architects, Product Developers and more can all benefit from immersive workflows with HP VR Solutions. Join Matt Gaiser, HP’s North America Head of VR Business Development to learn how to integrate VR into your enterprise

Speakers

Matt Gaiser

Head of VR Business Development , HP

Description

Ask any teaching or training professional, they would argue that the success of their students isn’t just about maximizing the speed at which they learn, but that they pay attention for enough time. Homework is designed for that purpose: to force you to spend enough time paying attention to the subject. For employee training programs it is a bit more complicated: while some are scored with tests, they have found that real world training success rates track closer on training “engagement” — a measure of how much attention was paid. Indicators of real world success rates include time to first satisfactory “production” execution, mean time between execution failure, and rework rate.When visually engaging training tools are used, net success rates go up, and training times to reach competency go down. And that is why augmented reality works so brilliantly for training. It is both engaging and visual, a stimulating graphical superposition of the computer world on top of the real one. When you add the standard internet advantages of anytime & anywhere, you open up order-of-magnitude gains to your organization.

Speakers

Michael Hinckley

Senior Systems Engineering Mgr (AMT) , Northrop Grumman

David Nedohin

President & Co-Founder , Scope AR

Michael Colasuono

Systems Engineer , Northrop Grumman

Description

Augmented Reality for enterprise applications has been advancing. Scores of pilot projects have proven the ROI of AR solutions and we’re beginning to see production systems in daily use. Still, enterprise use cases are particularly challenging. Advancements in augmented reality for the energy and utilities fields have, in some ways, lagged behind progress in other industries. In other ways, these markets are poised to leap ahead. Simultaneously, the convergence of spatial computing, AI and Digital Twins is providing fertile ground for “Intelligent AR” to become the essential user interface for field workers.

This panel of distinguished experts from the oil and gas, electric utilities, and geospatial data communities will discuss their perspectives on evolution of enterprise AR. They’ll offer use case examples and practical lessons-learned. They’ll also offer their visions for future development. The panel will conclude with a Q&A session and offer suggestions for how new participants in the AR ecosystem can get involved.

Speakers

George Percivall

Expert Advisor , Ethar, Inc

Ed Moore

Chevron Distinguished Engineer - OT , Chevron

Tony Hodgson

CEO , Ethar, Inc

Randy Rhodes

Technical Executive , Electric Power Research Institute

Description

Mobile augmented and virtual reality are undeniably shaping the future of how we consume and experience content. However, every player in the field faces major challenges that limit the growth and roll out of immersive technologies: Mobile devices come with their own limitations in computing and graphics power, the device market is fragmented, and the industry has concerns about data security. To address these challenges, allow the market to grow and introduce the next level of AR/VR applications we need platform based XR streaming. Join Holo-Light CEO Florian Haspinger and Evan Helda, SR. Specialist Spatial Computing at Amazon Web Services, as they introduce a new XR Streaming as a Service platform to the world – to provide the industry the potential to mass adoption of their XR use cases and mass rollouts in less time than ever before.

Speakers

Florian Haspinger

Co-founder and CEO , Holo-Light

Evan Helda

SR. Specialist Spatial Computing , Amazon Web Services

Description

The field and customer service operation has seen a dramatic shift in the past 15 months. Due to the pandemic, the ability to physically get access to equipment or a customer site has been limited or, in some cases, restricted completely. As regions of the world re-emerge into a next normal state at different rates, organizations will operate using a variety of service models that rely on remote resolution, collaboration, and engagement. Customer experience is becoming a critical differentiator, and the way organizations engage customers will become a higher priority. This session will focus on the changing landscape of service operating models and the technology to drive the next wave of service and customer experiences. In this session, experts from CareAR will discuss: a) Changing landscape and key drivers attributing to change b) Customer examples and use cases c) AR/AI technology and tools available to service employees and customers that optimize remote and self-solve support, moving from a reactive/break-fix service model to a proactive and predictive approach to service.

Speakers

Chetan Gandhi

Chief Product Officer , CareAR - A Xerox Company

Sajeel Hussain

Chief Revenue Officer , CareAR - A Xerox Company

Description

Automation is not the future, human augmentation is...

A simple strategist’s guide to successfully augmenting human capabilities to drive scalable value

•There can be no success without a vision.
•Evolution vs revolution.
•Rethinking how we work.
•Culture eats strategy for breakfast and technology for lunch.
•Continuous Innovation, the new continuous improvement?
•When you have the ideas but the plants have the money.
•Millennials, meet the Gen Z workforce.
•Upskilling for factory of the future
•Standards are meant to be modernized.
•Success is not final, failure is not fatal (Winston Churchill).

Speakers

Peggy Gulick

Director Smart Factory , Kohler

Description

The presentation will introduce the groundbreaking VR & AR training application and simulators that we have developed for the nuclear power plant in Toronto, Canada. We will cover the design process and rationale behind the XR training applications, the development process, limitations and their solutions, as well as lessons learned while working in this demanding and hazardous environment. We will also touch on the importance of muscle memory, of removing abstractions and on how these XR apps were received and subsequently adopted by the nuclear power industry.

Speakers

Shachar "Vice" Weis

Founder and CTO , Packet39

Description

As AI and machine learning advance, human augmentation becomes less dystopian and more utilitarian. There is definite trepidation about the increase of machines in the workforce, many fear for their livelihood, robotic overlords and other such visions of how a robot / AI future would look. Some roles may disappear, others will emerge bringing employment to more people. Recent global disruptions, shifting marketplaces, and other unexpected situations have magnified the need for flexibility and new ways of working. Technology will further revolutionize the relationship between people and technology, powering us towards greater productivity.
As organizations gradually transition out of ‘survival’ and review what lies ahead, the experience and lessons learned from 2020’s biggest remote working experiment show us the best world of work is ours to create, if we are willing to adapt. Leaders must address the significant upskilling and augmentation that will be required to elevate their workforces and communicate a compelling vision in which technology plays an additive, not subtractive role, in the lives of employees- empowering them, making work more interesting, productive and meaningful, so that people can think, learn, and create.
Talking points:
• How NEW is augmentation at work?
• Is it replacing or enhancing, or both?
• Greater digital divide, or new employment opportunities?
• Does EQ currency come into play?

Speakers

PJ Hough

Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer , Citrix

Description

Virtual reality (VR) implementations greatly matured over the past few years and it's been able to transform the way people learn. Enterprises are now forced to adopt VR to provide the best training for their employees. To take full advantage of VR training, it needs to be connected to the rest of the organization and included in the employee’s daily learning experience.
But taking VR from proof of concept to scale comes with challenges. Previously, enterprises only needed to focus on exploring the viability of VR. In order to deploy VR training at scale, they need to demonstrate its effect on the bottom line. You need a comprehensive method for tracking and measuring success within VR. The outcomes should be mapped against processes, objectives and compliance requirements. Then tied into existing legacy learning management systems. (LMS)
This presentation will walk through the three stages of scaling VR training: implementation, measurement and distribution. The successful deployment of VR training will depend on support from stakeholders and solving real business challenges. This presentation will also take an in-depth look at our case study with a medium-sized power utility company in the US where we increased knowledge retention by 59% and compliance by 40%.

Speakers

Tony Bevilacqua

Founder & CEO , Cognitive3D

Description

Digitizing SOPs, complex process portfolios, possibly with ever so slight variations for hundreds of SKUs and hundreds of tasks in thousands of square feet can eb a daunting task, but does not have to be. Let us show use some examples and how to boost your OEE by double digits while you get to zero mistakes and 100% quality.

Focusing on the complex requirements of regulated processes and integrating a large scale flexible AR process guidance system on pharma shop floors is where goodly innovations feels right at home.

Join us for the session to get energized and inspired to transform your workflows and create a bulletproof paperless to streamline complex regulated manual processes in GxP areas like pharmaceutical production, packaging, laboratory, cell & gene therapy how much more.

With a proven track record, as experts for this sectors, Goodly Innovations will show you what's possible today, and give you a peek in the exiting future.

Speakers

Robert Hoffmeister

CEO , Goodly Innovations

Description

If you are tasked with implementing AR and VR in your company then this session is for you. It can be difficult to separate the hype from reality when it comes to implementing emerging technologies. Everything works great in a pre-recorded demonstration online and it might even perform well in a training center or conference room. But we live in the trenches and it’s a different environment there. In this session we will hear from real industry experts that have forged the path by putting technology in the hands, and on the heads of factory workers, warehouse employees, engineers and technicians on the front lines. During our discussion we will discuss:

The toughest lessons we’ve had to learn in implementing XR
Where have we found allies in our journey
What obstacles stand in the way of adoption
The right way to look at vendor relationships
Why there isn’t one solution for everyone and how to deal with this reality
How to manage expectations with your leadership and customers
Is COVID helping our hurting the business of Extended Reality
Pro-Tips on how to simply get things done in XR

Speakers

Dane Laughlin

OPS Transformation Product Leader , Koch Industries

Scott Burkey

XR Product Manager , WestRock

Sasha Samochina

Director of Labs , Moving Brands Inc

Description

Digitizing large physical spaces in Augmented Reality holds tantalizing possibilities across industries. Join us for lessons learned from the digitization of Building Construction Projects. Learn about how to leverage your enterprises' existing building assets to make project management and inventory data spatial & how to use your physical space to design efficient AR workflows. Finally, we'll dive into tech challenges implementing AR in large areas and how to overcome them--including drift, repetitive elements, and vertical travel.

Speakers

Logan Smith

Chief Technology Officer , Argyle.build

Maret Thatcher

CEO , Argyle.build

Description

The rise of virtual care services is an emerging trend to provide medical services without the need of physical presence. However, there are barriers related to the physician’s ability to measure vital signs, emotional and physical conditions, which prevents virtual care to deliver the same level of experience, as is the case with face-to-face care.
We have come up with innovative solutions based on set of our technologies, related to Vital signs measurements, EmoGraphy stress management, 3D depth sensing, etc., to enable AR/VR Enhanced Virtual Care. The proposed solutions try to improve upon existing virtual care by combining remote physiological measurement with 3D computer vision models of human pose and new forms of rendering 3D health information in an immersive and interactive manner, allowing spatially aligned rendering of vital signs data with captured images.
The proposed solution, can be extended to remotely monitor multiple subjects, which is useful for providing elderly care in crowded places.

Speakers

Vibhu Sharma

AR/VR Program Lead , Philips

Description

Engineers seeking to implement AR in production environments and at scale need to integrate AR-enabling technologies with existing IT architectures. The developers of AR solutions also need to offer their partners, customers and employees a range of acceptable options from which they can choose when developing or preparing to use AR-enabling components in a wide range of use cases and under diverse constraints. Unfortunately, current AR systems are vertically integrated and tightly controlled by the vendor who is offering the component or solutions.

Recognizing the needs of the AR industry to increase interoperability, there are many ongoing and emerging initiatives in international Standards Development Organizations and industry groups to specify standards. In this session attendees will learn the current status of these initiatives. With this insight, customer and product teams will be able to prioritize where to invest their resources and achieve the impacts that AR can offer with the highest flexibility and lower costs.

Speakers

Christine Perey

Spime Wrangler , PEREY Research & Consulting

Description

XR and the industrial space seem to be the perfect fit. Let us show you how to leverage industrial XR in complex work environments that empowers workers to perform tasks more efficiently, quicker and safer. We want to share our insights on elevating the XR user experience based on multi-devise support, reality (from AR to MR to VR) mode variability and real-time interpretation. Lastly, how we aim to metaversify the way people collaborate at the enterprise level.

Speakers

Markus Meirhofer

Business Development Manager , SQUARS

Description

Construction is a wasteful industry ripe for improvement: half of the energy consumed by buildings is wasted, and half of construction costs are waste. This is exacerbated by a chronic shortage of skilled construction labor. Our attempts to mitigate these three crises in sustainability, affordability, and equity lead us to seek new solutions to enable more effective decision-making as we digitize our construction processes. Augmented Reality enables our construction installation crews to leverage spatially-contextual data just-in-time and just-in-place, at the point of action where and when it matters most.
We will discuss a recent joint pilot project by McKinstry and Spectar, in which we used immersive AR hardware and software to support several AR use cases and objectively measure their impact upon commercial construction. In addition to empowering our construction managers to increase engagement with the owner and other project stakeholders, we leveraged AR to improve installation and quality control. Our AR-based hanger installation effort is especially noteworthy, as it enabled us to address sustainability with paperless construction, affordability by significant reducing time to complete, and equity by empowering lower-skilled labor crews. Finally, we have identified other new use cases for AR, supporting prefabrication in the shop and facility operations and maintenance.

Speakers

Dace Campbell

XR for Good Program Director , AWE

Anca Stefanescu

Head of Growth/Sales Manager , Spectar

Description

An in-depth look at the challenges companies & ISVs are facing as they go from managing dozens of XR devices to thousands, and the three key ingredients required to make it happen.

Speakers

Jordan Williams

Co-Founder , ArborXR

Description

Retiring baby boomers, and the fall-out of the pandemic are leading to unprecedented shortages in the skilled workforce ecosystem. Learn how big the problem is, and how the new XR spectrum of solutions could be a key ingredient to saving the world from billions, and possibly trillions of dollars in potential lost economic output. This talk will feature how Lenovo’s ThinkReality AR/VR solutions are pushing the limits on flexibility and scalability, including a feature of the ThinkReality A3 smart viewer device that tethers to a PC for virtual monitors, and tethers to Motorola smartphones to deliver spatially aware enterprise Android applications.

Speakers

Nathan Pettyjohn

Commercial AR/VR Lead , Lenovo

Description

You’ve been told it works, you’ve seen it work, and maybe you’ve even made it work—but why does it work? Even enterprise developers and pilot champions do not always know the robust research that lives in the bones of their wonderful products, and to no fault of their own. The XR industry has somewhat overused valuable terms and frameworks (presence, immersion, transfer, embodiment, recall, DICE, etc.) for the worthy sake of speed of communication to the hoi polloi, but at the expense of breaking down the mechanics that would create a dialogue to push our products and pilots to the bleeding edge of efficacy. This I promise: the words you use will change your outcomes.

To that end, in this talk I’ll cover the aforementioned broad vocabulary, add some depth to each item with research and stories (near transfer, far transfer, embodiment congruency, contextual learning, Zone of Proximal Confusion, etc.), and end with a few practical examples of how these terms will very practically impact your simulation design and execution.

Speakers

Thomas Kauer

Innovation Digital Product Manager , Major Wealth Management Firm