We are excited to announce that two keynotes will take place during the Metaverse Symposium:
Dr. Dmitriy Babichenko, Clinical Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Lisa Sibilia, co-CEO, Youtopian, LLC
Bios:
Dr. Dmitriy Babichenko is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems (DINS) at the School of Computing and Information (SCI) at the University of Pittsburgh. He has extensive industry experience in educational software design and development, IT project management, and decision support systems. Since joining SCI in 2013, Dr. Babichenko has taught courses in programming, data analytics, games design, and immersive media/extended reality engineering. In 2015 he founded a SCI’s Learning Technologies Laboratory, a lab dedicated to research related to learning technologies, serious games, and immersive media.
Lisa Sibilia, co-CEO, Youtopian, jolts innovation impact across the global landscape of enterprise & education. Youtopian was named to ‘honor the person in front’ after one of her greatest mentors in life, Gene Columbus, former Disney Edutainment executive and legend. She is leading Artificial Intelligence and eXtended Reality (AI XR) custom innovation and digital engineering to enable organizations to simplify complexities to drive meaningful business outcomes. She is spearheading top universities shifting to hybrid course design & experiential innovation, such as, labs online, neuroscience XR, and cross-field applications. She is redefining industries leveraging how she reverse-engineered life itself to learn 10x faster and build innovation that matters, such as, custom, smart IoT. She integrates Total Physical Response and behavior analytics to impact the future state of the 3D Web. She is a former Disney Company cast member with family roots back to Original Imagineering. She measures life by the lives impacted along the way and is actively mentoring 700+ Stanford LEAD students & executives across 60+ countries.
(Unable to Attend) Dr. DP Prakash, co-CEO of Youtopian, accelerates nature-centered Metaverse Digital Transformation for Enterprises and Education. Addressing some of the most complex business problems facing corporations and academia through innovations in Artificial Intelligence and eXtended Reality, Dr. DP Prakash creates growth engines for leaders in the innovation economy. With three decades of semiconductor technology experiences at IBM and Global Foundries, Dr. DP Prakash led ten generations of Moore’s law scaling through leadership roles spanning Research, Development, and Manufacturing of nanotechnology products.