Join us on August 10th as we will have a panel of highly distinguished professionals in the AR space comment on the recent phenomenon that is Pokemon Go, and use that as a jumping off point to discuss definitions for what exactly counts as Augmented Reality and/or Mixed Reality.



Panel Members



• John Werner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnwerner1) (VP Strategic Partnerships, META)



• Mike Festa (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfesta)(Director, Wayfair NEXT)



• Shrenik Sadalgi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shreniksadalgi) (MR Applications Lead, Wayfair NEXT)



• George Thrush (https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgethrush) (Co-Founder of BuildingConversations.com, Professor of Architecture at Northeastern University)



• Michael Levine (https://www.linkedin.com/in/levinemike) (President and Founder, Pileated Pictures and HappyGiant)



Schedule



6:00 - Doors open, demos begin, pizza and soda is served thanks to Akamai



6:30 - 7:00 - Intro and AR overview by Neil Gupta



7:00 - 7:45 - Panel discussion on Pokemon Go and AR/MR definitions



7:45 - 9:00 - Bring your laptop and hack on the hololens and meet fellow AR enthusiasts/holographic developers



9:00pm - Come with us to the afterparty at State Park



Akamai Technology is generous enough to host the BostonAR meetup events, and is committed to diversity in everything they do. Learn more about the #3 top place to work in 2015 here: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/careers/workplace-diversity.jsp