Honoring Excellence in VR & AR Entertainment

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Fabian Mrongowius is a producer for VR and spatial installations.

From 2016 to 2019 he worked as a producer for VR and Branded Entertainment at UFA X within the Bertelsmann owned DIVIMOVE digital studio in Berlin. There he was responsible for the creation of innovative and new media formats, such as 360-video production, VR and volumetric video. He worked on the realisation of the first German walkable film "An entire Lifetime", which was internationally awarded. Also, together with UFA, ARTE and the Volucap studio, he was responsible for producing the VR interpretation of the silent film classic “The cabinet of Dr. Caligari” for the Goethe Institute, which is now touring through different European cultural institutions. As of 2020, Fabian Mrongowius, decided to leave UFA X and take on new challenges as an independent producer.

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Frédéric co-founded BackLight in 2008 as a CG animation studio, focusing on craft and high-level rendering while diversifying into new territories like AR back in 2010 or VR in 2014. For the last eleven years, Fred has developed BackLight into a pioneer in modern VR with with nearly 50 projects developed. Today, BackLight develops its own licenses for LBVR, from dynamic rides to high end hyper reality contents like Eclipse. Having developed BackLight into the most rewarded French studio in VR, Fred has a unique perspective on the market, both with regard to entertainment and brand content.

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Tom Orzikowski is co-founder of the innovative start-up eyecandylab and, as VP Marketing, is responsible for all strategic and operational marketing activities.

He founded and ran the digital communication agency open thedoor and cheesecake, where he was responsible for communication and customer acquisition campaigns for international customers. The media manager (B.A.) and communication expert also worked for UNITY Consulting and the BMW Group.

Tom has been working with his co-founders at eyecandylab since 2017 to revolutionize video and television with interaction. The platform augmen.tv developed by eyecandylab has already been used by well-known companies around the world - both at adidas and the largest TV home shopping channels in South Korea and at the German TV station ProSieben.

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Max is an experienced serial entrepreneur, founder and executive with a broad background in law and consultancy. He is founder and CEO of betahaus, one of Europe’s biggest and most path-breaking coworking brands. He is co-founder of Hardware.co Europe’s first hardware focused accelerator and a co-founder of One Coworking the leading global coworking community platform. Since 2017 Max harvested on his global innovation network to develop betahausX. betahausX leads corporate and public organisations on a journey to collaborate with global Innovators to transform successfully into the 21st century. Through betahausX Max works with C-level representatives from leading European Corporations like Siemens, BBraun, Deutsche Bahn, Volkswagen, Hermes, Otto Group and many more