Maker Episodes
The EU AI Act: What it Means for Deep Tech Founders
Alexandra Magaard is a storyteller, strategist, policy wonk and the former Head of Tech Policy at iconomy in Berlin, a capacity builder organization for the European tech ecosystem. She advised multiple startups and scaleups ...
The Truth of Using Gen AI for Game Development
Jussi Kemppainen, has over 24 years of experience as game designer, director, 3D and VFX artist and has embarked on a journey to create a full game with the help of AI: Echos of Somewhere, now available as a demo …
Digital Fashion: from Sustainability to Digital identities
Suza Vos is a digital fashion pioneer. During the beginning of her career at the Fabricant she had the chance to work with renowned brands like Off White, Adidas, Puma, Star Atlas and Ubisoft. She has now become an independe...
Tools and Resources to learn and master NeRFs and Gaussian splatting
Michael Rubloff is a leader in neural radiance fields (also known as. NeRF), a technology that turns 2D images into photorealistic three-dimensional scenes. He established the largest independent Discord server for radiance f...
The Power of AI for Brands: Strategies, Engagement, and Growth
As Sr. director of innovation at Media Monks Funs Jacobs focuses on helping companies navigate this shift in brand building. Media Monk has been named the AI Agency of the Year by Adweek, for demonstrating “exceptional talen...
Using AI as a Designer: Challenges and Best Practices for Teams
Markus Edgar Hormes is the Co-Founder of WorkPlayExperience, a German service innovation consultancy helping organizations of all sizes to tackle complex business problems. He is a co-author of the top-selling book, “This is ...
A Future with XR and AI: from Dystopia to Reality
Keiichi Matsuda is Director of Liquid City a design practice on the bleeding edge of XR, working with the world's top technology companies to define concepts of the future. He is a designer and film-maker exploring the collis...
Equity, Trust and Magic: Navigating Tradeoffs in GenAI
Daniel C. Robbins is a Principal Designer at Adobe, working on both strategy and production across 3D/AR/VR projects with a focus on generative AI. He's also helped craft integrity aspects of Horizon Worlds at Meta, advanced ...
Turning Point Clouds, Nerfs and Gsplats into Art
Ruben Frosali aka Rubenfro is a visual effect artist and director with over 16 years of experience, specializing in volumetric captures, point clouds, and large particle-based dynamic environments. In 2018 he started focusing...
SuperNfty: the massive NFT project that keeps giving
Known for his popular collections Floating Heads, Imps and Spirits, Sander a.k.a. SuperNfty has created more than 10K unique NFTs with a trading volume of over 1800 ETH and was the first project to grant holders 3D files. His...
Building Virtual Worlds with Unreal Engine
Alex Coulombe is an authorized Epic Games instructor, Unreal Engine expert and founder of Agile Lens, a NYC based XR creative studio. Projects and clients include Epic Games, Intel, Dell, HTC, Magic Leap among many others. As...