Paula Gould launches consulting company, Float and gather.
Paula Gould has launched a new consulting company, Float and gather. The company focuses on helpng brilliant companies and founders craft go-to-market and growth strategies for North America, the Nordics, UK and Europe. Float and gather is the agricultural process of harvesting cranberries. The brand name serves as a metaphor for successful marketing and growth strategies, and speaks to Paula’s roots growing up in cranberry country in Massachusetts.
We're Taking a Break! GreenQloud Hires New CMO Paula Gould
GreenQloud, the first TrulyGreen® public compute cloud and data storage service, today announced several organizational changes including the appointment of Bala Kamallakharan to Chief Executive Officer, replacing Founder and former CEO, Eirikur Hrafnsson, who will transition into the role of Chief Global Strategist. Gisli Kristjansson will assume the role of Chief Financial Operating Officer. GreenQloud also announced a new hire, Paula Gould, who will serve as Chief Marketing Officer.
GreenQloud is tackling the growing “dirty data” problem in IT and data storage globally by offering carbon neutral cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions powered exclusively by renewable energy sources. GreenQloud, with their primary data center facility at Verne Global, is capitalizing on Iceland’s key geographic position, unique infrastructure of abundant renewable power and naturally cool climate to provide clean cloud solutions with world class customer support at competitive price points. For example, GreenQloud is compatible with the Amazon EC2 and S3 Web Services.
“I chose Bala for the CEO position and Paula for the CMO position because I truly believe that their respective backgrounds in diverse markets worldwide and demonstrated success in guiding startups will be instrumental in GreenQloud’s ability to reach its potential on a global scale,” said GreenQloud Founder and CGS, Eirikur Hrafnsson.
The new executive hires and restructure position GreenQloud for greater growth within the Iceland IT industry as well as the global IT market. “Experienced in investments, global business and with a depth of history in technology and management consulting, Bala Kamallakharan brings to GreenQloud the leadership necessary to meet our objectives as we enter the next stage in the company’s development,” said Chairman of the Board, Gudmundur Ingi Jonsson.
“As more data is stored and processed online, the Information Technology industry is quickly contributing to global carbon emissions, which McKinsey & Company recently estimated will increase to 4% by 2020. GreenQloud is augmenting cloud-based service efficiency with sustainability. GreenQloud believes that world class cloud-based, easy-to-use services can be delivered at competitive prices while simultaneously reducing a company’s overall carbon footprint. I believe the solutions and team we have assembled for GreenQloud is well positioned to disrupt the cloud-based services business, and I am really excited to be part of this journey,” says GreenQloud CEO, Bala Kamallakharan.
In addition to providing energy and cost effective cloud solutions to SMBs, GreenQloud provides customers with live energy metrics and carbon savings reports to incorporate into their own sustainability programs.
By working with academic, scientific communities and university networks, GreenQloud is developing means to deliver less expensive and deeply integrated high performance computing (HPC) cloud services.
About GreenQloud
GreenQloud offers carbon neutral TrulyGreen® cloud computing virtual servers and data storage (IaaS) that companies or individuals can lease at highly competitive prices. GreenQloud services such as ComputeQloud™ and StorageQloud™ feature an easy-to-use, self-service web console and advanced API controls for full automation of IT services.
GreenQloud was founded in 2010 and is privately funded by Icelandic investors. The company has won several Icelandic government grants such as the technology grant from Rannis (The Icelandic Centre for Research). Verne Global is the primary data center facility for GreenQloud. In 2011, Gartner chose GreenQloud as a Cool Vendor in Green IT and Sustainability. For more information, please visit GreenQloud.com.
http://greenqloud.com/greenqloud-appoints-new-ceo-bala-kamallakharan-and-hires-new-chief-marketing-officer-paula-gould/
WITI Announces 2012 Hall of Fame Award Honorees: Dr. Genevieve Bell; Dr. Jane Lubchenco; Dr. Joanne Martin; Ms. Gwynne Shotwell
San Jose, CA, May 15, 2012 -- WITI (Women In Technology International) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 17th Annual WITI Hall of Fame Awards to be honored on the evening of Monday, June 4, 2012 during the three day Annual WITI Women Powering Technology Summit at the Marriott Hotel in Santa Clara, California, June 3-5, 2012. The Women in Science and Technology Hall of Fame Awards, sponsored by the Women In Technology Foundation, Avnet, IBM and Thomson Reuters, are considered among the most illustrious honors for women in science and technology.
The four distinguished recipients of this year's WITI Hall of Fame Awards are Genevieve Bell, Ph.D., Director, User Interaction & Experience, Intel Labs, Intel Corporation; Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., Administrator, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Joanne Martin, Ph.D., Distinguished Engineer and Vice President, Technology, IBM Corporation; and Gwynne Shotwell, President, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation. On-air host and journalist Veronica Belmont of Revision3 will serve as Master of Ceremonies, while many of the industry's top executives and professionals will introduce the honorees.
"The WITI Hall of Fame was established to recognize the notable contributions of women who are leading innovation in technology," says Carolyn Leighton, WITI Founder and Chairwoman. "These women represent the role models who will inspire current and future generations to reach higher and push new boundary lines to make a positive difference for all of us."
The 2012 WITI Hall of Fame Awards Banquet and Induction ceremony will mark WITI's 17th year of honoring women for their significant contributions to science and technology. The women chosen for induction have demonstrated notable contributions to society and business while also dedicating themselves to nurturing women and girls to seek great achievements in science and technology.
The 2012 WITI Hall of Fame Honorees include:
Genevieve Bell, Ph.D.
Director, User Interaction & Experience, Intel Labs, Intel Corporation
Dr. Genevieve Bell is an Australian-born anthropologist and researcher. As director of User Interaction and Experience in Intel Labs, she leads a research team of social scientists, interaction designers, human factors engineers, and computer scientists. This team shapes and helps create new Intel technologies and products that are increasingly designed around people's needs and desires. In this team and her prior roles, Dr. Bell has fundamentally altered the way Intel envisions and plans its future products so that they are centered on people's needs rather than simply silicon capabilities.
In addition to leading this increasingly important area of research at Intel, Dr. Bell is an accomplished industry pundit on the intersection of culture and technology. She is a regular public speaker and panelist at technology conferences worldwide, sharing insights gained from her extensive international field work and research. In 2011 she co-wrote "Divining the Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing" with Prof. Paul Dourish of UC Irvine. In 2010, Dr. Bell was named one of Fast Company's inaugural "100 Most Creative People in Business." She also is the recipient of several patents for consumer electronics innovations.
Moving to the United States for her undergraduate studies, she graduated from Bryn Mawr with a bachelor's degree in anthropology. She then attended Stanford University, earning her master's degree and a doctorate in cultural anthropology, as well as acting as a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology. With a father who was an engineer and a mother who was an anthropologist, perhaps Dr. Bell was fated to ultimately work for a technology company, joining Intel in 1998.
Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D.
Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere; and Administrator, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Dr. Jane Lubchenco has been the under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and administrator of NOAA since 2009. Nominated by President Obama in December 2008 as part of his "Science Team," she is a marine ecologist and environmental scientist by training, with expertise in oceans, climate change, and interactions between the environment and human well-being. She received her B.A. in biology from Colorado College, her M.S. in zoology from the University of Washington, and her Ph.D. in ecology from Harvard University. Her academic career as a professor began at Harvard University and continued at Oregon State University until her appointment as NOAA administrator.
Under Dr. Lubchenco's leadership, NOAA has focused on restoring fisheries to sustainability and profitability, restoring oceans and coasts to a healthy state, ensuring continuity of the nation's weather and other environmental satellites, developing a Weather-Ready Nation, promoting climate science and delivering quality climate products, strengthening science and ensuring scientific integrity at NOAA, and delivering the highest quality science, services, and stewardship possible.
Dr. Lubchenco has served on numerous commissions and studies; as president for the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), the International Council for Science, and the Ecological Society of America; and as a member of the National Science Board.
Before coming to NOAA, Dr. Lubchenco co-founded three organizations (The Leopold Leadership Program, the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea [COMPASS], and Climate Central) that aim to communicate scientific knowledge to the public, policy makers, media and industry; she also co-founded a research consortium, PISCO, which studies the near-shore ocean along the coasts of Oregon and California.
Joanne Martin, Ph.D.
Distinguished Engineer and Vice President, Technology, IBM Corporation
As a Distinguished Engineer and Vice President of Technology, reporting to Linda Sanford in IBM's Enterprise Transformation organization, Joanne Martin is responsible for supporting the development of IBM's technical strategy and for the global technical community. She is Past-President of the IBM Academy of Technology. Prior, she was VP of Infrastructure Management Services for Global Technology Services (GTS), responsible for providing a consistent and coherent architecture for the development and delivery of service products in the transformed GTS. Dr. Martin was the Business Line Manager for Scientific and Technical Computing for the RS6000 Division, responsible for IBM's high performance scientific computing systems. She served on the management team that developed and delivered IBM's first supercomputer, with specific responsibility for the performance measurement and analysis of the system.
Dr. Martin was founding Editor-in-Chief of the MIT Press Journal of Supercomputer Applications, and on the steering committee that created the successful ACM/IEEE conference series on High Performance Computing and Communications - chairing the conference in 1990 and chairing the technical program for 1998. She has served as an advisor to the Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and National Research Council. She was named by Working Mother magazine as one of the 25 most influential working mothers for 1998.
Dr. Martin earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Johns Hopkins University. She began her research career at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she conducted the first comprehensive analysis of the scientific workload and its relationship to the performance of supercomputers. In 1984, Dr. Martin joined IBM as a Research Staff Member at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center to continue her research into supercomputer performance evaluation and measurement. She was appointed a Senior Technical Staff Member in 1993, and elected to the IBM Academy in 1997. Dr. Martin is currently a member of the Academy's Technology Council.
Gwynne Shotwell
President, SpaceX Corporation
Gwynne Shotwell is President of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), responsible for day-to-day operations and for managing all customer and strategic relations to support company growth. She joined SpaceX in 2002 as Vice President of Business Development and built the Falcon vehicle family manifest to over 40 launches, representing over $3 billion in revenue. Ms. Shotwell is a member of the SpaceX Board of Directors.
Prior, Ms. Shotwell spent more than ten years at the Aerospace Corporation, where she held positions in Space Systems Engineering & Technology as well as Project Management. She was promoted to Chief Engineer of an MLV-class satellite program, managed a landmark study for the Federal Aviation Administration on commercial space transportation, and completed an extensive analysis of space policy for NASA's future investment in space transportation. Ms. Shotwell was subsequently recruited to be Director of Microcosm's Space Systems Division, where she served on the executive committee and directed corporate business development.
In 2004, she was elected statewide to the California Space Authority Board of Directors and served on its executive committee; she has also served as an officer of the AIAA Space Systems Technical Committee. Ms. Shotwell participates in a variety of STEM (Science, Engineering, Technology, and Mathematics)- related programs, including the Frank J. Redd Student Scholarship Competition; under her leadership the committee raised over $350,000 in scholarships in six years.
Ms. Shotwell received, with honors, her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees from Northwestern University in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics. She has authored dozens of papers on a variety of subjects including standardizing spacecraft/payload interfaces, conceptual small spacecraft design, infrared signature target modeling, shuttle integration, and reentry vehicle operational risks.
To register for the 2012 WITI Women Powering Technology Summit or purchase tickets for the WITI Hall of Fame Awards dinner, please visit: www.witi.com/summit
For group table reservations and sponsorship opportunities at the 2012 WITI Women Powering Technology Summit please contact: Michele Weisblatt, Executive Vice President, WITI at 323-522-3125 /michele@corp.witi.com
About WITI
WITI is the world's leading trade association for professional, tech-savvy women committed to using technology, resources and connections to advance women worldwide. With a global network of smart, talented leading women and a market reach exceeding 2 million, WITI has established powerful strategic alliances and programs to provide opportunities within a supportive environment of women committed to helping each other. WITI's mission is to empower women worldwide to achieve unimagined possibilities and transformations through technology, leadership and economic prosperity. For more information please visit www.witi.com.
About the WITI Hall of Fame Awards
The WITI Women in Science and Technology Hall of Fame began as a U.S. based outreach initiative supported by the Clinton Administration. While the majority of the inductees to the WITI Hall of Fame come from the United States, honorees now include noteworthy women from France, Spain, China, Japan, the UK, Canada, Australia, and Israel. Please take time to review the amazing stories of all WITI Hall of Fame Awards recipients by visiting www.witi.com/halloffame.
The Women in Technology Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization that endeavors to develop and support empowerment programs for women through technology in throughout the world. For more information about WITI and the Women in Technology Foundation, please visit www.witi.com
Global Startup Community Converges at First Ever Startup Iceland Conference
Startup Iceland Brings Together Entrepreneurs, Investors and Dignitaries
From Around the World To Foster Creation of Sustainable Startup Ecosystems
Reykjavik, Iceland (Monday, May 14, 2012)-- The first ever Startup Iceland Conference will launch May 30, 2012 at the Andrews Theater in the Ásbrú Enterprise Park (Keflavik), Iceland. The international event will bring together entrepreneurs, investors and dignitaries from some of the world’s hottest startup communities. Iceland has a vibrant startup culture positioned to become an influential contender in the global business market. The Startup Iceland conference endeavors to strengthen Iceland’s global influence and create a confluence of global entrepreneurship and business innovation to foster sustainable start-up ecosystems worldwide.
Participants in Startup Iceland will represent startup communities from Iceland, the US, Canada, Europe, the UK, Asia, Scandinavia, South Africa just to name a few. His Excellency, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, The President of Iceland, will open the conference with a keynote address. Topics to be discussed at the one-day event include Iceland’s entrepreneurial successes and challenges, how to create localized dealmakers to activate successful regional entrepreneurism, the significance of seed funding and determining the best financial opportunities, Boulder Colorado’s transition from college town to Startup Tech hub, New York’s claim on Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial reign, innovations in energy efficiency and utilizing renewable resources, the new ‘Entrepreneurial Renaissance’ and leveraging social entrepreneurs to propel brands.
“Iceland is a fantastic place to launch a startup let alone a conference to bring the global startup community together. It has excellent infrastructure, a history of innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as a young, well-educated workforce. Iceland is small, which allows for faster pivots and enables validation of Minimum Viable Products— unique traits that we intend to use as a case study for other communities during our first ever Startup Iceland Conference,” said Founder of Startup Iceland and Investor, Bala Kamallakharan.
In addition to the events on May 30th, Startup Iceland participants will have an opportunity to partake in a Hackathon competition on May 29th hosted at Reykjavik University, a caravan symposium with leading startup influencers, team-building adventure excursions and networking receptions.
Startup Iceland speakers include:
Brad Burnham, Founder, Union Square Ventures
Brad Feld, Managing Partner, Foundry Group
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, His Excellency, The President of Iceland
Gunnar Hólmsteinn, CEO, CLARA
Eirikur Hrafnsson, CEO, GreenQloud
Rebeca Hwang, CEO, younoodle.com
Hilmar B. Janusson, EVP of R&D, Ossur
Hilmir Ingi Jonsson, CEO, Remake Electric
Rebecca Kantar, Founder & CEO, BrightCo.
Isaac Kato, CFO, Verne Global
Alison MacNeil, CEO, GogoYoko
Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CEO, CCP
Sarah Prevette, Founder & CEO, Sprouter.com and BetaKit
Rakel Sölvadóttir, Founder, Skema
Helga Valfells, MD, NSA, the New Venture Fund of Iceland
Matt Wilson, Co-founder, Under30CEO
Ted Zoller, Kauffman Foundation Senior Fellow
Startup Iceland is made possible in part by our sponsors Arion Banki, Auromatrix, Auro Investment Partners, Ásbrú Enterprise Park, Icelandair, Innovit, Kosmos and Kaos, GRE, US Embassy in Reykjavik, NSA, Reykjavik University and more.
About Startup Iceland
The Startup Iceland conference is an annual conference in Iceland where leaders in the global startup community converge to foster solutions for sustainable start-up ecosystems worldwide. Investor Bala Kamallakharan founded Startup Iceland in 2012 to showcase the vibrant entrepreneurial community in Iceland and encourage the development of an influential global startup network. For more information, please visit StartupIceland.com.
WITI Announces Keynote Speakers From Comcast Cable, Intel, SpaceX and NewME Accelerator for Women Powering Technology Summit at the Marriott Santa Clara, June 3-5, 2012
Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) May 09, 2012-- WITI (Women in Technology International), the leading global trade association for professional, tech-savvy women announced today the keynote speakers and schedule of events for next month’s Annual Women Powering Technology Summit. The Summit takes place at the Marriott in Santa Clara, California, June 3-5, 2012, during National Women in Science and Technology Month.
The Summit will feature keynote presentations from WITI’s Founder and Chairwoman Carolyn Leighton, as well as Dr. Genevieve Bell, Intel Fellow, Intel Labs Director for Intel Corporation; Angela Benton, Founder of NewME Accelerator and Black Web 2.0; and Gwynne Shotwell, President of SpaceX. The Comcast Cable Keynote presentation will feature executives Lysa Dahlin, SVP of Human Resources, John Schanz, EVP and CNO, and Grace Killelea, SVP of Talent for Comcast Cable.
The 3-day Women Powering Technology Summit will present educational, technical and developmental workshops, informative panel discussions as well as thought-provoking speaking engagements with some of today’s most influential and revered leaders in technology and business. Amanda Coolong, host and COO of TechZulu, will return as Master of Ceremonies.
The WITI Summit will span topics such as Social Business, Global Strategy, Data Security, Emerging Markets, Venture Capital and Workforce Diversity. WITI workshops will provide valuable how-to’s and best practices for application and mobile development, social business strategy development, Cloud-focused IT transformation, strategic planning, leadership and career development, funding opportunities for entrepreneurs, self-publishing for authors and more.
“WITI members are key leaders and contributors to technology and business innovation. Every year, our global community of smart, professional, tech savvy women gather at our annual Summit to explore new possibilities, and develop strategies around advancing the business of technology through partnership and collaboration,” said WITI Founder and Chairwoman, Carolyn Leighton. “WITI’s membership, corporate partners, sponsors and Summit attendees represent a powerful network of business advocates and advisors dedicated to the development of women leaders worldwide.”
The Women Powering Technology Summit features revered VIP events such as the Executive Auction fundraising event, Taste of Technology Reception, Founder’s Reception and the prestigious Women in Technology Foundation Hall of Fame Awards, which honors women who have accomplished remarkable feats in their respective fields, in science and technology, while maintaining a dedication to encouraging the advancement of women. Educational and career development events will include the NextGen Micro-Conference on June 4, dedicated to inspiring girls to take an interest in STEM; and the WITI Career Fair presented by JobTarget on June 5, to help jobseekers meet companies dedicated to hiring top women talent.
Keynote Presentations:
Dr. Genevieve Bell, Intel Fellow; Director, User Interaction & Experience, Intel Labs, Intel
Angela Benton, Founder, NewME Accelerator, Founder/Publisher, Black Web 2.0
Gwynne Shotwell, President, SpaceX
Comcast Cable Keynote Presentation:
Lysa Dahlin, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Comcast Cable
Grace Killelea, Senior Vice President of Talent, Comcast Cable
John Schanz, Executive Vice President and Chief Network Officer, Comcast Cable
WITI Summit Workshop Leaders, Speakers, and Panelists:
Maya Baratz, Senior Product Manager, ABC News
Sloane Berrent, Vice President of Digital Marketing, Lippe Taylor
Tara Tiger Brown, Co-founder, Teach Me Stuff
Nancy Cam-Winget, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco
Sandy Carter, Vice President Social Business Evangelism and Sales, IBM
Sophia Chung, Software Engineer, Facebook
JJ DiGeronimo, Author, The Working Woman's GPS
Laura Anne Edwards, Founder, SheCanHackIT.org and Alura Entertainment, LLC
Nicole Enright, VP, Strategic Operations, Avnet
Patricia Florissi, Vice President, Americas & EMEA CTO, Distinguished Engineer, EMC
Jen Friel, Owner/Lifecaster, Talk Nerdy To Me Lover
Cindy Gallop, Founder & CEO, IfWeRanTheWorld
Heather Healy, Vice President and EMC Products Division CIO, EMC Corporation
Joan Hestenes, Platforms IT Leader, Life Technologies
Bess Ho, Founding Partner and Mobile Architect, Archimedes Labs
Jessica Hunt, Senior Vice President and General Manager, HighTable
Brigette Jackson, VP GM Michigan/Indiana, T-Mobile
Michelle Koblas, Director, Information Security, Guardian Analytics
Betty LaMarr, Executive Coach, Nadisa Associates
Cameron Lester, General Partner, Azure Capital Partners
Marina Levinson, Founder and CEO, CIO Advisory Group, LLC
Sonita Lontoh, Head of Corporate Marketing, Trilliant
Amanda McConnell, Head of Product, Rent.com
Kathryn Minshew, Founder & CEO, the Daily Muse
Joanne Moretti, Vice President Sales Excellence & Dean of HP Sales University, Global Sales, Hewlett-Packard
Patricia Nakache, General Partner, Trinity Ventures
Maria Ogneva, Head of Community, Yammer
Stephanie Palmeri, Senior Associate, SoftTech VC
Nicole Perlroth, Reporter, The New York Times
Melanie Polkosky, PhD, Human Factors Psychologist, IBM
Sue Robins, Owner, Ascend Training Solutions
Sheryl Root, President and CEO, Root Analysis; Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon - SV and Stanford University
Rinki Sethi, Security Engineer, eBay
Rachel Sheinbein, Partner, Energy and Materials, CMEA Capital
Lauren States, Vice President and CTO Cloud Computing and Growth Initiatives, IBM Corporate Strategy
Rakel Sölvadóttir, Founder and CEO, Skema
Candice Tal, CEO, Infortal
Pemo Theodore, Media Producer & Startup Coach, EZebis
Patty Toland, Partner, Filament Group, Inc.
Alexia Tsotsis, Senior Editor, TechCrunch
Vivek Wadhwa, Vice President of Academics and Innovation, Singularity University
Ekaterina Walter, Senior Social Media Strategist, Intel
Sharon Wienbar, Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners
WITI will make updates to the schedule of events leading up to the Summit. For the latest information, please visit: http://witi.com/summit.
Event hashtag is #WITISummit.
WITI Summit sponsors include: Amazon, Avnet, Caesars Entertainment, Comcast Cable, FedEX, FICO, GEICO, IBM, JobTarget, LinkedIn, Robert Half Technology, T-Mobile, Thomson Reuters and TiVO.
About WITI
WITI is the world's leading trade association for professional, tech-savvy women committed to using technology, resources and connections to advance women worldwide. With a global network of exceptionally successful women leaders, WITI has established powerful strategic alliances and programs to provide resources, and opportunities within a supportive environment of women committed to helping each other succeed. WITI's mission is to empower women worldwide to achieve unimagined possibilities and transformations through technology, leadership and economic prosperity. For more information, please visit http://witi.com. Follow @WITI on Twitter. Like WomenInTech on Facebook. Add WITI on G+. Active WITI members can also join the WITI LinkedIn Group.
Robbie Conal Moves from The Simpsons to Live Talks LA
Robbie Conal has been extremely busy this month, having just appeared on The Simpsons episode "Exit Through The Kwik-e-Mart" on the same day (Mar 4) he wrapped up a stint at NY's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he had works featured in "Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine."
But he's not done yet!!
Robbie will sit down with Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist David Horsey for a very special Live Talks LA at Track 16 Gallery (Bergamot Station Santa Monica)on March 29, 2012.
"An Evening with David Horsey in Conversation with Robbie Conal"
XTR3D Returns to GDC to Meet with Developers and Preview the New 3D Motion Capture Developers Kit Featuring a Remote Touch-Free Software Interface to Create Motion Games
XTR3D Software for Developers Enriches Games / Applications and Augments Smart Devices with Motion to Create a Next Generation Gesture Control User Experience
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 6, 2012-- XTR3D, an Israel-based 3D Motion Capture company, will meet with developers this week at GDC (Booth #308) to preview its 3D Motion Capture & Gesture Control Developers Kit. Developers will be given an opportunity to try XTR3D onsite and leave with a preview version of the Android and Windows Developers Kit to test with their own games and applications.
"XTR3D believes a software solution for motion capture and gesture control will replace today's hardware implementation, which is why we've begun working with game and application developers directly to provide our 3D Motion Capture & Gesture Control Developers tool kit," said XTR3D CEO, Elad Dubzinski.
XTR3D is a software-based interface which liaises between XTR3D-enabled games / applications and camera-equipped consumer electronic devices to enrich games and applications with motion for a robust, natural, next generation gesture control user experience.
XTR3D software is unique in its ability to render 3D skeleton motion capture, using high resolution 3D body movement analysis in real time, augmenting Android and Windows-powered Smart TVs, camera-enabled PCs and consumer electronics into touch-free gesture control devices with a control range of up to 17 feet.
“In addition to the XTR3D 3D Motion Capture & Gesture Control Developers Kit we will have available for developers who come to booth 308 for a demo at GDC, we will also be launching a developer community with XTR3D support to better enable the use of motion capture and gesture control in applications and games,” said XTR3D Founder & CTO, Dor Givon.
XTR3D’s ease of use and multi-platform implementation provides application and game developers SDKs to integrate gesture control directly into their applications and games, while also enabling the game and application creators to easily design a distinct set of gestures.
- XTR3D patented 3D Motion Capture software interacts with standard 2D cameras commonly found on today’s Android and Windows Smart TVs, PCs, Laptops and Tablets (no separate equipment purchases required).
- XTR3D provides application and game developers simple-to-use SDKs to enhance the user / gamer experience.
- XTR3D enables consumer electronics OEM and Chipset providers an optimized and integrated remote touch-free software interface to differentiate their offering.
XTR3D’s 3D Motion Capture & Gesture Control Developers Kit, complete with XTR3D support, provides developers with a software-based preview version of the XTR3D tool kit to create gesture control functionality in games and applications. Because XTR3D is a software interface, no additional equipment is required. XTR3D simply interacts with the built-in camera on Android and Windows Smart devices.
Visit us at the Game Developers Conference 2012, MOSCONE Center, North Hall booth # 308.
For Developer and Partner meetings:
Gil Davidman: Director Business Partners +972 54 6660999 gil[at]xtr3d[dot]com
For onsite media coordination:
Natalie Solon: Marketing coordinator, +972 54 5870850, natalie[dot]solon[at]xtr3d[dot]com
Statf.ly Launches Self-Serve Social Media Analytics and Management Platform
- Monitor keywords and conversations on Facebook and Twitter (Google analytics coming soon)
- Perform live searches across social media platforms
- Engage the audience by publishing posts and responses directly to each platform
- Measure the results of interactions through a filtered set of data points
- Create and monitor campaigns via Bitly
- Generate one-click analytics reporting
- Collaborate on data analysis with data point annotation, sharability and PDF export
Paula Gould talks Iceland in Autumn for The Daily
Our own Paula Gould took some time to showcase to The Daily all that Iceland has to offer this Fall. Download The Daily App or check it out here:
Iceland: The frozen flame
Land of dancing lights in the sky and boiling springs provides warm welcome
WITI Women Powering Technology Summit to Feature Keynote Presentations from Google’s Marissa Mayer, Applied Materials’ Mary Humiston and Xerox’s Sophie Vandebroek, Ph.D.
WITI Announces Annual Women Powering Technology Summit Schedule
October 2-4, 2011 at the DoubleTree by Hilton® Hotel in San Jose, California
WITI Summit to Feature Keynote Presentations from Google’s Marissa Mayer,
Applied Materials’ Mary Humiston and Xerox’s Sophie Vandebroek, Ph.D.
SAN JOSE, CA-- WITI (Women in Technology International), the leading global trade association for professional, tech-savvy women, returns to Silicon Valley October 2-4, 2011, for the Annual Women Powering Technology Summit at the DoubleTree by Hilton® Hotel in San Jose, California. The 3-day Summit will feature keynote presentations from Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Google; Mary Humiston, Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources, Applied Materials, Inc.; and Sophie Vandebroek, Ph.D., CTO and President, Xerox Innovation Group, Xerox Corporation.
The Women Powering Technology Summit will showcase some of the most influential and revered women leaders in technology, representing a cross section of industries, during the jam-packed schedule of events. In addition to the keynote presentations, WITI will host special speaking engagements, panel discussions and Executive Roundtables with leading executives from Adobe, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Applied Materials, BMC Software, Carnegie Mellon University- Silicon Valley, Cisco, The Coca-Cola Company, eBay, EMC, Gibney, Anthony & Flaherty, LLP; Hewlett- Packard, IBM, Intel, PayPal, Qualcomm, Thomson Reuters, and many others.
WITI is honored to present special engagements with Alicia Abella, Ph.D., Executive Director, Innovative Services Research, AT&T Labs; Sandy Carter, VP, Software Business Partners, IBM, and author of "Get Bold!;” LeAnn Erickson, Director, "Top Secret Rosies”; Cindy Gallop, CEO, IfWeRanTheWorld; Jocelyn Goldfein, Director of Engineering, Facebook; Sharon Kan Co-founder and General Manager,Tikatok.com, Barnes & Noble; Diane Pozefsky, Ph.D., Research Professor, Department of Computer Science, UNC; Julie Schoenfeld, CEO PerfectMarket; Lauren States, Vice President CTO Cloud Computing and Growth Initiatives, IBM Corporate Strategy; Lynda Weinman, co-founder and executive chair of lynda.com, Kathrin Winkler, Chief Sustainability Officer, EMC.
“WITI’s Annual Women Powering Technology Summit showcases leading women who are influencing the direction of technology and business. Attending companies, CIOs, executive women and other leaders in technology converge to collaborate on solutions to technology and business challenges and advance their understanding of emerging platforms and best business practices. WITI leaders are committed to transforming the way companies think about hiring and advancing women,” says Carolyn Leighton, Founder/Chairwoman of WITI.
WITI Women Powering Technology Summit Highlights:
o Keynote presentations, panel discussions and new WITIStyle Storytelling talks
Keynote presentations from Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Google; Mary Humiston, Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources, Applied Materials, and Sophie Vandebroek, Ph.D., CTO and President, Xerox Innovation Group, Xerox. Speaking engagements and panel discussions will feature executives from Adobe, AMD, Applied Materials, BMC Software, Carnegie Mellon University- SV, Cisco, The Coca-Cola Company, eBay, EMC, Gibney, Anthony & Flaherty, LLP; HP, IBM, Illuminate Ventures, Intel, Lynda.com, Meebo, PayPal, Pencil You In, Qualcomm, Thomson Reuters, and many others. Topics will include discussions on Social and Mobile enterprise, Location-based services and technologies, Cloud computing and Sustainability, Start-Up Success and Global Expansion, Career and Personal Development, Mutual Mentoring and the great need for inspiring interest in careers in science and technology among young women.
o Founder’s Reception
The first evening event on the Opening Night of the Women Powering Technology Summit, October 2, features welcoming words from WITI Founder Carolyn Leighton and offers an intimate, networking environment for attendees to meet Summit speakers, VIP guests and attendees.
o Top Secret Rosies
Documentary film screening and Interactive Discussion with Director LeAnn Erickson will launch the WITI Summit on Sunday October 2, 2011. Top Secret Rosies tells the story of a group of female mathematicians who, in 1942, helped win a war and usher in the modern computer age.
o The 16th Annual WITI Hall of Fame Awards
Honoring key women innovators from science and technology on Monday, October 3rd. This year’s honorees are: Alicia Abella, Ph.D.; Ms. Evelyn Berezin; Diane Pozefsky, Ph.D.; Sophie Vandebroek, Ph.D.; and Ms. Lynda Weinman.
o The World Cafe
Led by Anne Adams, Ph.D., the 2011 World Café will engage participants in roundtable Creative Exchange discussions, forming Mastermind teams to strategize best solutions for solving complex business challenges and hot button issues.
o WITI NextGen
This young women’s micro conference on Monday, October 3rd, is designed to encourage young women and girls to consider careers in Science and Technology. Leading women in Technology will teach, mentor and share with students through speaking engagements, mentoring panels, workshops and round table discussions highlighting how these women of note chose their path while reinforcing the importance of demonstrated leadership. The day will feature an opportunity to have lunch with distinguished members of the WITI Board of Advisors and Directors as well as WITI Hall of Fame Honorees.
o WITI Executive Roundtables
This event, on October 4, will launch a series of WITI-hosted Executive Roundtables designed to create dialog between industry executives to gain a better understanding of the steps required to facilitate more women accepting Board Room and Executive level leadership positions.
o The Women in Technology Foundation Executive Auction and VIP Reception
Provides an opportunity to network with top executives from a broad cross section of industries, who will be offering one to one meetings to the highest bidder. A fun event and exciting culmination of 3 days of life changing experiences at the WITI Women Powering Technology Summit! The Executive Auction is the WITI Foundation’s annual fundraiser and closes the Annual WITI Summit on the evening of October 4, 2011. Participating executives include: Alan Boehme, Director, Enterprise Architecture, The Coca-Cola Company; Tim Campos, CIO, Facebook; Laura Chambers, Senior Director, Paypal Mobile, PayPal; Elinor MacKinnon, SVP & CIO, Blue Shield; Brad Peterson, CIO, Charles Schwab; Tama Ruiz VP Information Systems, GEICO; Randall Spratt, EVP/CIO, McKesson Corp; Ed Steinike, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, The Coca-Cola Company; Hugh Westermeyer, SVP Technology, Charles Schwab.
WITI Women Powering Technology Summit Speakers and Panelists:
Alicia Abella, Ph.D., Executive Director, Innovative Services Research, AT&T Labs
Anne Adams, Ph.D., President, ACS
Tiffani Bell, Founder, Pencil You In
Dr. Cheemin Bo-Linn, Chief Executive Officer, Peritus Partners
Sandy Carter, VP, Software Business Partners, IBM and author of "Get Bold!"
Laura Chambers, Senior Director, PayPal Mobile, PayPal
Angie Chang, Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0
Amanda Coolong, Co-Founder TechZulu (WITI Summit MC)
Sheigh Crabtree, VP Audience Development, PerfectMarket
Kathy Curtis, Senior Manager of Global Relocation, Cisco
Deborah B. Davy, Senior Counsel, Gibney, Anthony & Flaherty, LLP
Mona DeFrawi, Founder & CEO, Equidity, Inc.
LeAnn Erickson, Director, "Top Secret Rosies”
Cindy Gallop, CEO, IfWeRanTheWorld
Karen Garcia, IS&T Chief of Staff, BMC Software, Inc.
Jocelyn Goldfein, Director of Engineering, Facebook
Nicole Graebner, Senior Account Manager, Key Information Systems
Sharon Kan Co-founder and General Manager, Tikatok.com, Barnes & Noble
Mary Humiston, Senior VP, Global Human Resources, Applied Materials, Inc.
Sandy Jen, Co-Founder, Meebo
Margie Jones, U.S. Immigration Manager, Intel Corporation
Martha Lyons, Strategist & Senior Program Manager, HP Enterprise Services
Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Google
Cheree McAlpine, General Counsel, Wyse Technology
Dina McKinney, Corporate Vice President, Bulldozer Cores Technology Group, AMD
Miriam McLemore, CIO, Market Facing Functions, The Coca-Cola Company
Joanne Moretti, VP Sales Excellence Global, Sales & Enterprise Marketing, HP
Donna Morris, SVP of Human Resources, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Jolie O'Dell, Tech journalist (WITI Hall of Fame MC)
Adrian Ott, Author, CEO & Founder, Exponential Edge, Inc.
Cindy Padnos, Founder & Managing Partner, Illuminate Ventures
Ana Gabriela Pinczuk, Vice President, Cisco Systems
Diane Pozefsky, Ph.D., Research Professor, Department of Computer Science, UNC
Sheryl Root, President, CEO RootAnalysis; Assoc. Professor CMU-SV, Stanford
Steven Rosenberg, Associate Director, Silicon Valley Campus
Scott Russell, Adjunct Professor; Managing Director, eCarnegie Tech
Julie Schoenfeld, CEO, PerfectMarket
Minal Shah, Senior Counsel, Immigration Practice, Gibney, Anthony & Flaherty, LLP
Lauren States, VP & CTO Cloud Computing and Growth Initiatives, IBM
Joey Tamer, Consultant, Expert, JoeyTamer.com
Sophie Vandebroek, Ph.D., CTO and President, Xerox Innovation Group, Xerox
Lynda Weinman, co-founder and executive chair of lynda.com
Kathrin Winkler, Chief Sustainability Officer, EMC
Special group and non-profit rates are available to interested organizations.
To learn more about WITI and the Women Powering Technology Summit, please visit WITI.com/Summit.
ABOUT WITI
WITI is the world's leading trade association for professional, tech-savvy women committed to using technology, resources and connections to advance women worldwide. With a global network of smart, talented women and a market reach exceeding 2 million, WITI has established powerful strategic alliances and programs to provide resources, and opportunities within a supportive environment of women committed to helping each other. WITI's mission is to empower women worldwide to achieve unimagined possibilities and transformations through technology, leadership and economic prosperity. For more information please visit WITI.com
Special Thanks to Sponsoring and Supporting Companies:
WITI Hall of Fame Platinum Sponsors
Avnet, IBM, Thomson Reuters
WITI Summit Sponsor - Elite
Applied Materials – 1st Day Lunch Keynote
WITI Taste of Technology Sponsor
IBM
WITI Executive Auction Sponsor
Technisource
Supporting Patron Sponsors
Adobe, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Electronic Arts (EA), FICO, eBay PayPal
Exhibitors
Applied Materials, Inc. BMC Software, CA Technologies, The Coca-Cola Company, CV Jewelry Designs, eBay/PayPal, EMC, Express Scripts, GEICO, Gibney, Anthony & Flaherty, LLP; IBM, IRS, Luna Bar, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Safeway, Technisource, Texas Instruments, USAA
VOTE NOW!! SXSW PANEL PICKER--Voices Carry: Why Authentic Brand Voices Matter
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Voices Carry: Why Authentic Brand Voices Matter
A well thought out, authentic, and strategic digital content program is more important than ever for driving social media strategy, increasing user engagement, and building syndication relationships. This panel will debate and discuss the business case for well crafted editorial and video content as well as the necessity for authenticity, properly marrying a brand's voice with SEO and the defining line between farmed, borrowed and genuine expert Branded Content. The panel will feature executives from Amos Content Group, CAA, Associated Press and will be moderated by What's Trending co-host Melissa Rowley.
- Shawn Amos – Amos Content Group
- Sarah Passe – CAA
- Melissa Rowley – What's Trending (CBS)
- Michael Dutton – Associated Press
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JOHN MACK - COB of MORGAN STANLEY
BRIAN MOYNIHAN - CEO of BANK OF AMERICA
Amos Content Group Partners with Saint Elmo’s Entertainment, Expands Content Offering and Brand Services Internationally
Amos Content Group, a full service editorial and video content company with a wide range of clients, including Fox, Loeb & Loeb, SodaHead, SPIKE and WEtv, is proud to announce a resource and creative exchange partnership with Berlin-based Saint Elmo's Entertainment, a subsidiary of the leading German advertising group Serviceplan, whose clients include BMW, GE, LG, Siemens, eBay and Swarovski. The cooperative partnership sees Amos Content Group and Saint Elmo’s Entertainment jointly developing and producing branded entertainment concepts for their respective clients.
In addition to its white label service business, Amos Content Group creates proprietary video and editorial content products, which have the ability to be localized across global territories. Saint Elmo’s has the ability and brand relationships to cultivate design, technology and development opportunities that will deliver Amos Content Group content to an international audience.
Through this partnership, Amos Content Group will be able to provide round-the-clock editorial services, content creation and syndication of Amos Content properties such as PopNewswire and short programming series such as Secret Weapon to service Saint Elmo’s Entertainment clients to the US Market.
"We are thrilled to partner with Saint Elmo’s Entertainment to help service their portfolio of clients in the U.S.,” said Amos Content Group Founder and Managing Partner, Shawn Amos. “Berlin, has unmatched talent and creativity, with a strong contingent sitting in Saint Elmo’s Entertainment offices. I can't wait see the fruits of our trans-Atlantic collaboration."
Tim Stickelbrucks, Managing Partner of Saint Elmo's Entertainment, points out: ”Our experience in creating editorial content and innovative user interfaces for our brand clients in Germany has a huge potential for international markets. We are excited that our partner Amos Content Group opens up new possibilities with its proven ability in developing fascinating editorial content products for the digital realm for both our companies.“
About Amos Content Group
Amos Content Group serves digital and traditional businesses in need of high quality video and editorial content for their websites and/or offline networks. ACG provides end-to-end services for firms and brands wishing to create, maintain, and/or augment an original content offering. ACG’s clients and partners represent a broad spectrum of large market cap companies, cutting-edge new brands, and established firms, including Fox, Fox News, Spike, Sodahead, PumpTop TV, Huffington Post, Indoor Direct, K-Swiss, Loeb & Loeb. For more information, please visit AmosContentGroup.com.
About Saint Elmo’s
Saint Elmo‘s Entertainment (SEE) develops communication solutions for brands, using editorial content for interactive dialogue with the desired target group. As a specialist for rich internet applications and branded entertainment SEE offers custom built online video solutions for IPTV and Web TV for all screens, social media solutions as well as the respective editorial content. The whole portfolio of services includes content strategy development, production to interface design. SEE is working for clients such BMW, Warsteiner and MSN. SEE with offices in Munich and Berln, Germany, is part of the Saint Elmo’s Group, which belongs to the Serviceplan Agency Group since beginning of 2009.
WITI Women Powering Technology Summit: The Most Important Event for Women In Technology Returns October 2-4, 2011
WITI (Women in Technology International), the leading global organization for professional, tech-savvy women, will deliver solid strategies and insights for business expansion, best practices and technology skills, during the Annual WITI Women Powering Technology Summit, which takes place October 2-4th, 2011 in the heart of the Silicon Valley, at the Doubletree by Hilton® Hotel in San Jose, California.
The Women Powering Technology Summit will feature keynote presentations and panel discussions with leading women executives from Adobe, Cisco, EMC, Facebook, HP, IBM, Intel, Meebo, Sprouter and many others. The 3-day Summit will also feature special networking and celebratory events such as the WITI Hall of Fame Awards, WITI Executive Roundtables, WITI Foundation Executive Auction and the WITI NextGen Program.
"Historically, every economic change brings new business opportunities for innovation and transformation. WITI is committed to highly interactive venues which showcase talented smart women providing first-hand knowledge and personal insights involving all aspects of business and technology,” said Carolyn Leighton, Founder/Chairwoman of WITI.
The WITI Women Powering Technology Summit represents the ideal environment for business networking, where individuals and companies alike gain a better understanding of the strategies required to attract professional, tech savvy women. CIOs, executive women and other leaders in technology from around the world converge to collaborate on solutions to technology and business challenges, advance their understanding of emerging platforms and best business practices, as well as how and why to more effectively recruit professional technology-focused women to the executive suite.
WITI Women Powering Technology Summit Highlights:
"Top Secret Rosies"
- Documentary film screening and Interactive Discussion with Director LeAnn Erickson will launch the WITI Summit on Sunday October 2, 2011. "Top Secret Rosies" tells the story of a group of female mathematicians who, in 1942, helped win a war and usher in the modern computer age.
The 16th Annual WITI Hall of Fame Awards
- Honoring key women innovators from science and technology on Monday, October 3rd. This year’s honorees will be announced later this summer.
The World Cafe
- The 2011 World Café will engage participants in roundtable Creative Exchange discussions, forming Mastermind teams to strategize best solutions for solving complex challenges and hot button issues.
Keynote presentations, panel discussions and new WITIStyle talks
- Speaking engagements with leading executives from companies such as Adobe, Cisco, EMC, Facebook, HP, IBM, Intel, Meebo, Sprouter and many others. Topics will include discussions on Social and Mobile enterprise, Sustainability, Start-Up Success and Global Expansion, Career and Personal Development, Mutual Mentoring and the great need for inspiring interest in careers in science and technology among young women.
WITI NextGen
- This young women’s micro conference on Monday, October 3rd, is designed to encourage young women and girls to consider careers in Science and Technology. Leading women in Technology will teach, mentor and share with students through speaking engagements, mentoring panels, workshops and round table discussions highlighting how these women of note chose their path while reinforcing the importance of demonstrated leadership. The day will feature an opportunity to have lunch with distinguished members of the WITI Board of Advisors and Directors as well as WITI Hall of Fame Honorees.
WITI Executive Roundtables
- This event, on October 4, will launch a series of WITI hosted Executive Roundtables designed to create dialog between industry executives to gain a better understanding of the steps required to facilitate more women accepting Board Room and C Level leadership positions.
The WITI Foundation Executive Auction and VIP Reception
- Provides an opportunity to network with top executives from a broad cross section of industries, who will be offering one-to-one meetings to the highest bidder. A fun event and exciting culmination of 3 days of life changing experiences at the WITI Women Powering Technology Summit! The Executive Auction is the WITI Foundation’s annual fundraiser and closes the Annual WITI Summit on the evening of October 4, 2011.
Special group and non-profit rates are available to interested organizations.
To learn more about WITI and the Women Powering Technology Summit, please visit WITI.com/Summit.
About WITI
WITI is the world's leading trade association for professional, tech-savvy women committed to using technology, resources and connections to advance women worldwide. With a global network of smart, talented women and a market reach exceeding 2 million, WITI has established powerful strategic alliances and programs to provide resources, and opportunities within a supportive environment of women committed to helping each other. WITI's mission is to empower women worldwide to achieve unimagined possibilities and transformations through technology, leadership and economic prosperity. For more information please visit http://witi.com.
Amos Content Group Receives Funding to Expand High Quality Editorial Content Services
Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) May 31, 2011-- Amos Content Group (ACG), a full service editorial and video content company with a wide range of clients, including Fox, Fox News, SPIKE, SodaHead, and Loeb & Loeb, has received a round of angel funding to expand its editorial content services for brands and entertainment properties.
Executive Michael Wolper, son of the late legendary television producer David L. Wolper, provided the latest funding, saying, “With venture capital and private-equity funding for the digital media and Internet space up sharply in 2010, ACG is a well-positioned for explosive growth as a niche provider in the industry. Under the leadership of Mr. Amos, the expansion of their content creation services has tremendous potential to establish the company as both a long-term investment vehicle and as a market leader. I am confident that ACG will continue to produce quality products while providing a great return on the funding.”
“In addition to an increased demand for our online video creation services, we're seeing a dramatic uptick in clients who need a high volume of editorial content due to industry changes in SEO standards,” says ACG’s Founder and Managing Partner, Shawn Amos. “ACG has quickly carved out a niche as a creative agency with a core competency in providing editorial products that are contextual, reinforce companies’ brands, and support their SEO strategies. This round of funding will allow us to service the rush of new business from clients who need to replace their non-performing, farmed content with writing that is entertaining, useful, and fresh.”
ACG’s integrated editorial strategies range from one-time online campaigns to ongoing content support and are simultaneously brand-, audience-, and advertiser-friendly. ACG creates opportunities for brands to exist on the cusp of both breaking news and well-considered reflective topics by providing eye-catching news stories, video segments, slide shows, photo galleries, and website copy while taking into consideration each client’s brand identity, company mission, content sustainability, SEO needs, reach, and audience.
ABOUT Amos Content Group
Amos Content Group serves digital and traditional businesses in need of high quality video and editorial content for their websites and/or offline networks. ACG provides end-to-end services for firms and brands wishing to create, maintain, and/or augment an original content offering. ACG’s clients and partners represent a broad spectrum of large market cap companies, cutting-edge new brands, and established firms, including Fox, Fox News, Spike, Sodahead, PumpTop TV, Huffington Post, Indoor Direct, KSwiss, Loeb & Loeb. For more information, please visit AmosContentGroup.com
Artist Joan Tucker Works Featured on Brothers & Sisters
22 Abstract Paintings by Joan Tucker Appeared in Luc’s Gallery
Los Angeles, CA— Artist Joan Tucker took over Luc’s sold out gallery event on last night’s episode of Brothers & Sisters. The episode featured 22 of Joan’s exceptionally detailed abstract paintings, one of which will take up permanent residence in Kitty’s apartment in future episodes.
“I’m pleased that Brothers & Sisters recognized my work by featuring so many of my paintings in this one episode and for purchasing one of those paintings for appearances in upcoming episodes,” says costume designer turned artist Joan Tucker. “Licensing and selling my paintings and mixed media collage to film and television properties in addition to traditional gallery exhibitions exposes my work to a larger art-buying audience.”
Since applying her creativity to the art of mixed media collage and abstract painting, Joan’s work, which is widely collected both nationally and internationally, has also appeared in a variety of places including film and TV sets such as Little Fockers and Brothers & Sisters, to several corporate collections including Wells Fargo, the private collection of a LACMA Board Member, to the Michael Jackson suite at the Borgata Hotel in Atlantic City to the Tower Suites at Mandalay Bay.
Joan approaches each new work of art with an invigorated spirit and draws on her everyday surroundings and adventures to source materials and ponder her next creative direction. Walking into Joan‘s West Adams studio amidst finished works you’ll find shredded billboards, old paintings and newspaper she’s picked up from her travels, torn photographs, and an array of remnants from in and around Los Angeles, which Joan seamlessly constructs into beautifully composed collages and paintings.
“I begin to dig and shape... to push and pull...to sometimes tearing the painting apart and reassembling it with other elements. I scribble imaginary shapes. I create a private alphabet. I apply paint and scratch it away with my fingernails or an old brush or alcohol. The whole process is very exciting - full of energy and emotion and yet the principals of design are there, fighting to be considered,” Joan says of her process. ”In the end I have a painting that was begun in an emotional and intuitive state, tamed and controlled by the basic elements of organization and composition that invokes a secret world...a provocative world...a rich and sensual world to get lost and found in.”
ABOUT JOAN TUCKER
Joan Tucker was born in Detroit Michigan and first began styling in Chicago, for print and TV, where she met and worked with Nicholas Ray while he was shooting his film on the Chicago 7 Trial in1969.
Joan moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970's where she continued her career in wardrobe design working on several Gene Corman produced "blaxploitation" movies and styling commercials for the likes of Andrew Davis, Joe Pytka, Barry Sonnenfeld, Steve Horn, Norman Griner, Henry Sandbank, David Cornell, Kinka Usher, Caleb Deschanel, David Steinberg and others including photographer Reid Miles.
In LA, Joan developed a long and successful career in costume design for film, and TV. Just as Joan pieced together fabrics of every texture and color to create costumes for award-winning advertisements, her paintings reflect great variety in form, palette and message from series to series, while definitively incorporating her curiosity, whimsy, liveliness and unabashed emotion.
" I love color, texture, archeology, buried secrets, surprise discoveries, layers and emotion,” says Joan of the inspiration for her works. Joan's sophisticated use of layering with paint and collage allows her to create a world where what is hidden is slowly revealed as the viewer spends time exploring the canvases.
Though Joan continues styling for commercials and works on various interior design projects, she can be most often found in her studio "fighting it out with her paintings" and creating remarkable works of art. For more information about Joan Tucker and to view galleries of her works, please visit JoanTucker.com
Zazum™ Raises Funds to Enable 2-Screen Shoppable TV
New York NY, April 5, 2011--Zazum Inc., an advertising-technology startup, has received an undisclosed amount of Series A funding to produce its SeeLoveBuy™ mobile app. The app syncs TV and smartphones so audiences can purchase products as they appear on the television screen. Using Zazum’s patent-pending mKues, invisible tags are attached to each product in a broadcast, which cue nearby mobile devices to display product information when the app is turned on.
“We expect the potential of this technology to be quickly realized,” Susan Rits, founder and CEO of Zazum said, “as a growing number of TV executives and brand managers seek platforms to leverage 2-Screen fan engagement, gather data about their viewers, and increase the value of product placements through direct sales to television audiences.”
SeeLoveBuy is a branding and m-commerce platform that recognizes products in a partnered TV show as they appear onscreen. It displays product information and a one-click buying option on an iPad or iPhone so that fans who see the products in their favorite shows and fall instantly in love with them will be able to buy them, on-the-spot and without leaving the couch.
SeeLoveBuy combines fan enthusiasm, impulse shopping, and a deeper connection with favorite shows and brands. SeeLoveBuy works no matter when or where the show is watched—whether live, on a DVR, streamed online, or from a DVD.
Zazum’s executive team is lead by Susan Katherine Rits, previously user experience designer for Google, FOX, TimeWarner and CNNfn, Lise Yellen, and Ingrid Ducmanis, award-winning creative team from McCann Worldgroup’s MRM Worldwide, and Nadine Zukoski, previously SVP of digital marketing at Citibank.
SeeLoveBuy will be available through the Apple App Store this May, and in the Android Market later this year. Partner announcements forthcoming.
About Zazum
Zazum, Inc. is the pioneering provider of a revolutionary branding and m-commerce platform. SeeLoveBuy, Zazum’s free mobile app, enables consumers to learn more about and instantly purchase the products they see and love on television. Our groundbreaking mKues cue mobile devices from television broadcasts to deliver product information to the viewing audience. We provide our partner networks with a new revenue stream while advertisers get brand exposure, sales, and user metrics.
Zazum, the sound of the world changing. For more information please visit http://zazuminc.com
XTR3D To Unveil "iZi"-- Touch Free Gesture Control for PC Laptops at GDC
XTR3D To Demo Touch-Free Gesture Control App "iZi" for Laptops at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) March 2-4, 2011
San Francisco, CA — Extreme Reality (‘XTR3D’) Ltd., provider of touch-free Gesture Control and Motion Capture Interfaces, will demonstrate at GDC, its new touch-free gesture control interface for laptops, “iZi” (pronounced ‘easy’). XTR3D’s iZi allows gamers to easily control PC games and applications using body gestures and/or movement.
iZi utilizes a laptop's built-in camera to capture the body movement of a single and or multiple users. Gestures are then associated with system events to control a game or other application. The iZi demo at GDC will feature pre-installed games from XTR3D’s growing number of game partners and will also be customizable for additional games and software applications.
“XTR3D's application development tools, such as iZi, satisfy three different types of audiences," says XTR3D CEO Dor Givon; “the laptop vendors transform their machines into gesture-controlled computers using iZi Pro for laptops, while the application developers utilize iZi Pro’s technology to implement gesture control to any application or game command they offer. Inevitably, the End users benefit the most, enjoying a compelling gesture-controlled experience on their laptop. XTR3D's suite of motion-capture gesture-control software reinvents the way users interact with CE devices and in-home entertainment."
The introduction of XTR3D's iZi app serves as a steppingstone to execute the company’s strategic penetration into the laptop market with an emphasis on touch-free device control. XTR3D will be meeting with game and application developers interested in implementing gesture control capabilities to their offering.
iZi will be demonstrated at GDC in meeting room BMR 346. For more information on iZi, please visit: www.izipc.com.
ABOUT Extreme Reality (XTR3D) Ltd.
Extreme Reality Ltd ("XTR3D") is a privately held company established in 2005. The company develops motion-capture gesture-control software that enables developers and mobile, TV and laptop vendors to add gesture control to an application, game and/or a device command. XTR3D enables simple touch-free gesture control of consumer electronic devices. iZi software runs on any laptop given a regular 2D camera is connected to the device. For more information, regarding iZi and other XTR3D products and services, please visit http://xtr3d.com.
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WITI Founder Carolyn Leighton Named Among 2011 Most Influential Women In Tech By Fast Company
Congratulations to WITI Founder Carolyn Leighton and the entire WITI Community!!