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BrianAfande is the co-founder and CEO of BlackRhino VR and board Member at the Global Future Council on the Future of the Metaverse at the World Economic Forum.
He believes that future innovation ecosystems need to put the emphasis on the individual ; the human and the youth need to be the center piece. The youth in Africa need to be empowered by ensuring youth agency – the active participation of young people in shaping their own destiny. He sees himself as an agent of change accelerating the adoption of immersive technology tools in Africa by empowering young people to be the XR innovators and inventors of the future.
As a creative technologist, he leverages XR knowledge to expand opportunities for significant economic growth among the youth that will help them develop new ideas, technical skillsets, new business models and jobs that will contribute positively to overcoming his continent’s development challenges. As an early XR adopter, he holds a peculiar mission and vision of Designing, Democratizing, Demystifying and Deploying XR technologies in Africa.

Brian Afande (BlackRhino VR)

As the African continent continues to evolve, Extended Reality (XR) technologies have become a driving force for innovation that has continued to connect creatives, entrepreneurs, investors, governments, and industries to achieve rapid digital growth in transformative ways by bringing physical and virtual worlds together. XR technologies are empowering an entire generation by offering new growth opportunities and pathways that has generated socio-economic development driven by African creativity. This talk will be a journey through the African XR ecosystems, its use cases, challenges, successes, future plans and opportunities.

Demystification of the African XR landscape

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Brian Afande

Vera-Maria Glahn is a creative facilitator, strategist and business leader with nearly 20 years of experience in digital art and brand experience.
In a time that faces more radical, fast-paced and intersecting socio-economic, technological and environmental challenges than any before it, Vera believes in the power that designers and artists can exert in processes of change and innovation – and in creatives’ responsibility to use it well.
After formative years in media arts and experimental design, Vera co-founded FIELD.IO, an independent creative studio exploring digital art, generative design, and new formats of brand experience.
Vera is a seasoned speaker and panelist at design conferences worldwide, mentor and advocate of female leadership and diverse voices in the creative industries.

Vera-Maria Glahn

In an industry that favours excellent output and creative genius over almost anything, are we talking enough about HOW we do things? Vera-Maria Glahn, creative operations lead and strategist, and former director of an independent creative studio, thinks we don’t.
Her project The Handbook of Non-Toxic Leadership in the Creative Industries is a collaborative compendium of methods and mechanisms for founders, creative leaders and artists in the form of an online glossary, growing in real-time.
By curating learnings and strategies from a network of contributors from many corners of the creative industries, as well as applying notes from publications and interviews to the practice of design, digital, media and arts, the Handbook strives to provide inspiration, awareness and tangible advice for how to “create in collaboration” in a positive and supportive way, for a more equal and diverse work culture.

The Handbook of Non-Toxic Leadership in the Creative Industries

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Navid Navab, born and raised in Tehran (IR), is a Montreal-based media alchemist, tabletop cosmologist, and antidisciplinary composer, who investigates the forming-giving potential of material processes. Interested in the poetics of schizo-phonia, gesture, and materiality for over a decade, Navab has been composing multi-sensory experiences, entangling bodies, machines, and materialities both in-situ and in concert, in ways that enable critical attunement to excitable matters-of-process.
Navab’s artworks, which take on the form of gestural sound compositions, living architectures, participatory investigative environments, and kinetic sculptures, circulate internationally at festivals such as Ars Electronica (AT), NEMO Biennale (FR), Kapelica Gallery (SL), device_art triennial (HR), Sonica Biennale (BG), Japan Society (US), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (US), ISEA (SP, CA), milanOltre (IT), HKW (DE), Canadian Center for Architecture (CA), eArts (CH), and Mios Multi (CA).
As an artscience researcher and co-director of the Topological Media Lab, Navab leverages phenomenological studies to inform the creation of computationally-augmented performance environments. These platforms serve as investigations in the construction of fresh modes of cultural knowledge and the critical study of media arts and techno-science. Navab&#8217;s research fosters a new collaborative ethos that centers playful sense-making with excitable indeterminacies.

Navid Navab

In this talk, Navid shares their post-Schizophonic adventures of co-creating with computational dynamics of matter. In the process, Navid will media-archeologically move past the military-cybernetic complex to revisit some notions such as computation, information, and liveliness. From cutting-edge applications in non-invasive surgical interventions to living architectures and the movement arts, Navid will demonstrate how this open design ethos has expansively lent itself to surprising advancements in both the arts and sciences.