Join the ARBcon LinkedIn group for networking after the event
Many experts, to little time to connect?

As a speaker or attendee you have found and discovered new contacts during sessions and breaks. Do not miss the opportunity to connect easily after the event! The use of Linkedin is prefered since the internationality of our conference.

(For the montage I did take the photo from digital_femme's event photo set thanks, Carmen!)

kooaba | Visual Search for Augmented Reality - Herbert Bay, kooaba - ARBcon.europe 2010

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AR Aura Recognition - Gabriel Shalom - ARBcon.europe 2010

AR Aura Recognition from KS12 on Vimeo.

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AR Business Conference was a great success

ARBcon.europe – the Augmented Reality Business Conference - the largest European event focussing on this emerging technology and the implications for business, brands and markets.

UPDATE: The conference was very succesful consodering the speaker and live presentations, reality check of venture capitalists, lively debate in the breaks, humor and improvisation, "volcanceled" speakers, which suddenly appear, great moderators, a listening audience, live streaming of aurea ... Thank you all for coming and making this possible!

ARBcon Video Streaming Page at aurea

Kwela, you have been incredible - thank you!

Kwela Sabine Hermanns was our surprise guest moderator, host and facilitator. She did an incredible job supporting us during the whole day. Kwela is essential part of the backstory of ARBcon.europe, since she made possible the first AR event in Netherlands at V2, Rotterdam. See our About page for more.

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Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality (AR) is the technology to mix reality perception with overlayed data. Now AR is beginning to enter the mass market. With the physical world as AR's platform there will be major new opportunities across all sectors and industries.

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Picture: Concept investigation by Matthew Buckland (matthewbuckland.com) and Philip Langley (@royalalien) of 20fourlabs.com

ARBcon – AR Business Conference

ARBcon will showcase the fantastic outlook of AR with the goal of transforming keen visions of the future into a concrete business strategy today. You will enjoy our great venue in the heart of Berlin, you can see above - the wellknown Ludwig Erhard Haus. See our speakers:

Herbert Bay, kooaba
David Blumberg, Blumberg Capital
Matthew Buckland, 20fourlabs, Creative Spark
Russell Buckley, AdMob, MMA
David Caabeiro, Sequence Point Software
Max Celko, Strange Matter, Peep Insights
Mihai Corlan, Adobe
Chetan Damani, acrossair
Martin Duval, bluenove
Dave Elchoness, Iryss
Eric Gehl, Total Immersion
Dr. Michael Klein, INM Institute for New Media
Johannes Koblenz, Fjord
Laurenz Lenkewitz, Hiwave
Alex Olwal, KTH Stockholm
Mark Miller, CatCap
Robert Rice, AR Consortium
Gabriel Shalom, KS12
Matthew Szymczyk, Zugara
Markus Tripp, Mobilizy
Prof. Frans Vogelaar, Hybrid Space Lab
Pia Vuohelainen, NAVTEQ
Prof. Roland M. Wagner, BHT Berlin
Michael Zoellner, Fraunhofer
Piotr Walczyszyn, Adobe
Michael Zoellner, Fraunhofer

Why is AR important?

AR is a dramatic jump in the evolution of media: AR is moving computing off desktops, liberating us from the so-called "computer situation".The world itself is becoming the universal and intuitive interface with mobile AR. Augmented Media, Augmented Entertainment, Augmented Marketing – we will see the gamechange of the "Augmented World" in every industry – and in our very way of life.

Brands and companies start having an AR strategy

More and more companies do have Augmented Reality on their agenda today. Since AR does not only mean attention, but sustainable and recurring engagement they start to evaluate new ways of interaction and entanglement. Chart shows the significant growth trend (marker-based AR, esp. marketing function; source: KZero Worldswide, the slides can be found here.

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Why attend?

The business conference is for OEMs, operators, application and service providers, brands and advertising/marketing agencies interested to learn everything about augmented reality. ARBcon is an opportunity to grasp the meaning, trends and outlooks of AR in a concentrated and enthusiastic context, to meet opinion- leaders firsthand and to come in contact with cutting-edge services and products.!

Meet the Experts

We invite you to meet the poeple thinking about the digital business models in this new decade. Founders and CEOs of AR companies, thoughtleaders and visionaries – and players in the emerging AR industry. Listen to the insights of Robert Rice (AR consortium), Russell Buckley (AdMob, MMA), Eric Gehl (Total Immersion) or Michael Zöllner (Fraunhofer – he created TwittARound) and much more speakers. Enjoy the atmosphere of a promising market, watch disruptive innovations, understand the trends and find opportunities for first class business networking.

Game-changing dimension of AR
Quote: "Trying to imagine how Augmented Reality will be used is like trying to forecast the future of the web in 1994."
The Economist Technology Quarterly, September 2009
Find more wisdom on page AR World.

Update: Air travel disruption due to vulcano ash trouble

In the moment the European air travel situation is relaxing. All speakers and we with them are trying the best to come to Berlin -in case of singular cancellations of one of our speakers we will provide means to have a perfect video online presentation for our attendees.
Find a list of the situation in different countries in Wikipedia.
E.g. Germany: Airspace staying shut to 0001 GMT Wednesday April 21, 2010, apart from 800 low-altitude flights
Monitoring the flight situation updates (Wikipedia)

Our great venue in Berlin

The professional place to meet in the heart of Berlin: Ludwig Erhard Haus near Zoologischer Garten. Architect: Nicholas Grimshaw!

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Event-PDF, Onepager