Kelly Peng, CEO of Kura Technologies [slide deck]
DP Prakash, co-CEO of Youtopian [slide deck]
Neil Trevett, VP, developer ecosystems at Nvidia [slide deck]
“From AR/VR to Metaverse”
The latest McKinsey research shows that the metaverse has the potential to generate up to $5 trillion in value by 2030. It's an opportunity too big to ignore. [source]
The Metaverse may be the next “Big Thing” of the information age. It has sparked controversies and a bucketload of questions, amongst them: what exactly is the Metaverse; what are its components; how do Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality play into it; what are the potential applications; who will drive its adoption and how will it impact business and social lives?
Silicon Catalyst in conjunction with the Ojo-Yoshida Report assembled a panel of experts to offer insights into the Metaverse and help answer questions on the minds of observers and the potential early adopters. Join our next Thought Leadership Webinar on Wednesday, October 5, 2022, for an engaging focus on the Metaverse and AR/VR.
Join illustrious panelists:
Moderators:
Junko Yoshida, Editor-in-Chief of The Ojo-Yoshida Report
Bolaji Ojo, Publisher & Managing Editor of The Ojo-Yoshida Report
Panelists:
Kelly Peng, CEO of Kura Technologies - Developer of an augmented reality system designed to build the next generation AR optics and display modules
DP Prakash, an IBM and GlobalFoundries veteran and co-CEO of the innovation startup Youtopian
Neil Trevett, vice president, developer ecosystems at Nvidia, and chair of Metaverse Standards Forum
Kelly Peng
CEO, Kura Technologies
Forbes 30 under 30 - Manufacturing & Industry
Kura Technologies awarded Best of CES 2022
Worked on custom frequency-modulated LIDAR with customized mixed-signal ASIC for autonomous vehicles @ UC Berkeley
Lead algorithm developer and organizer of San Francisco Science Exploratorium exhibit on brain-computer interfaces on like-dislike emotion classifier
DP Prakash
co-CEO of the innovation startup Youtopian
Dr. DP Prakash, Co-CEO of Youtopian, is passionate about creating growth engines for leaders in enterprises and education and accelerating the innovation economy. Addressing some of the most complex business problems facing corporations and academia through innovations in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and eXtended Reality (XR), DP leads diverse projects in Metaverse Digital Transformation.
With three decades of Technology experience in the semiconductor industry, DP has led 10 generations of Moore’s law scaling. As a Technologist at IBM and as a former Global Head of Innovation at GlobalFoundries, DP has previously held numerous leadership roles spanning Research, Development and Manufacturing of nanotechnology products.
As a Digital Orchestrator (DOer) of innovation technologies, DP helps leaders in Enterprise and Education stay focused on business outcomes that matter. With deep first-hand experiences and understanding of pain points and a worldwide ecosystem of innovation solution providers, DP provides unbiased guidance for clients to find best fit solutions.
As a recipient of two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards at IBM in Research and Manufacturing, DP Prakash holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles, an MBA with honors from Jack Welch Management Institute, a certificate in Film Producing from UCLA School of Film & Television, a B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a certificate on leading Innovation at scale from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
DP likes to do Ashtanga Yoga and practices Hwa Rang Do under the guidance of a living legend, Grandmaster Taejoon Lee. DP lives in New York with his spouse and two children.
Neil Trevett
vice president, developer ecosystems at Nvidia, and chair of Metaverse Standards Forum
Neil Trevett is Vice President of Developer Ecosystems at NVIDIA, where he is responsible for enabling and encouraging advanced applications to use GPU acceleration. Neil is also serving as the elected President of the Khronos Group where he created and chaired the OpenGL ES working group that defined the industry standard for 3D graphics on mobile devices. At Khronos he also chairs the OpenCL working group for portable, parallel heterogeneous computing, helped initiate the WebGL standard that is bringing interactive 3D graphics to the Web and is now working to help formulate standards for vision and neural network inferencing. Previously, as Vice President of 3Dlabs, Neil was at the forefront of the silicon revolution bringing interactive 3D to the PC, and he established the embedded graphics division of 3Dlabs to bring advanced visual processing to a wide-range of non-PC platforms. Neil was elected President for eight consecutive years of the Web3D Consortium dedicated to creating open standards for communicating real-time 3D on the Internet. Neil graduated from Birmingham University in the UK with a First Class Joint Honors B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science and holds several patents in the area of graphics technology.
Moderator: Junko Yoshida
editor-in-chief of the Ojo-Yoshida Report
Junko Yoshida has always been a “roving reporter” in the most literal sense. After logging 11 years of international experience at a Japanese consumer electronics company, Junko pursued a peripatetic journalism career, breaking stories, securing exclusives, and filing incisive analyses from Tokyo, Silicon Valley, Paris, New York, and China. Junko’s contacts and professional experience are global, multicultural, and multilingual. She writes and speaks authoritatively on consumer electronics, automotive, semiconductors, emerging technologies, and intellectual property, with a deep understanding of the business strategies that companies are pursuing to compete on a global scale. During her three decades at EE Times, Junko rose up the ranks from Tokyo correspondent to West Coast bureau chief, European bureau chief, news editor, and editor-in-chief. She earned a reputation as an innovator, shepherding EE Times’ expansion into e-books.
Moderator: Bolaji Ojo
Publisher & Managing Editor the Ojo-Yoshida Report
Veteran business, finance, and technology journalist Bolaji Ojo is a jack-of-all-media but an entrepreneur at heart. “Bola,” a former Bloomberg News reporter and lifelong media innovator, has been a publisher, media executive, business owner, and media market analyst and consultant, working at the nexus of politics, focusing on technology's impact on people & society, and the global supply chain. Over the course of his career, Bolaji has written revealingly - sometimes at his own peril - on topics ranging from the energy market to financial derivatives, the “Nigerian letter scam” and other international fraud cases, politics, policing, and small business. In the late 1980s, he took up the technology beat, covering the electronics supply chain and the interplay among its many players - contract manufacturers, OEMs, design houses, and their network of semiconductor and component sources.
Silicon Catalyst, the world's only incubator focused exclusively on semiconductor solutions, announces the second of a four part thought leadership series in 2022. Silicon Catalyst is pleased to present this series in collaboration with Junko Yoshida and Bolaji Ojo, founders of The Ojo-Yoshida Report. The two world class journalists, who have insightfully reported on technology trends for more than three decades, will moderate an honest and lively dialogue at each webinar.
Each webinar will showcase a Silicon Catalyst portfolio company alongside established leaders in the sectors in which the startups are developing technology solutions.
Now in its eighth year, the Silicon Catalyst incubator has evaluated over 700 startups worldwide and has admitted 85 exciting companies.