PANELISTS Kristina Podnar, Digital Policy Consultant Kristina Podnar is a digital policy innovator. For over two decades, she has worked with some of the most high-profile companies, governments, and non-governmental entities to see policies as opportunities to free the organization from uncertainty, risk, and internal chaos. More importantly though, she helps digital teams unlock opportunity, Read more about June 23, 2023 – Towards Responsible AI: Leveraging Multi-partner Engagement[…]

Thank you to everyone who joined us! If you could not attend, view the recorded Zoom session here. Panelists Included: Dr. Derek Jacoby, University of Victoria, Computer Science Dr. Benedict Carpenter van Barthold, Nottingham Trent University Orla McElroy, MSc Student, Lund University

Host: the Emerging Media Lab at UBCTheme: Reinventing XRDate: December 17, 2021 Registration is now closed EMCoP is evolving and increasing our focus on building a strong network & bringing opportunities to collaborate across different communities that care about the role of virtual/augmented reality in education and research. Join this month’s EMCoP meeting hosted by Read more about December 2021[…]

Co-Host: the University of Victoria and the Emerging Media Lab at UBCTheme: Limitless Possibilities: To Infinity and Beyond!Date: November 19, 2021 Registration is now closed Our reality is more interconnected with technology than it ever has. Join this month’s EMCoP conference co-hosted by the University of Victoria and the Emerging Media Lab at UBC to Read more about November 2021[…]

Host: University of OttawaTheme: Solving Problem with Emerging MediaDate: July 30, 2021 Whether it’s using virtual reality to treat mental disorders or to develop student engineering design projects, or whether it’s using Minecraft to create community during the pandemic, July’s EMCoP session hosted by the University of Ottawa explored problems and the solutions afforded by Read more about July 2021[…]

Host:University of Michigan Theme: XR for Teaching & Learning at Scale.Date: June 18, 2021 Jeremy Nelson is the director of the University of Michigan Extended Reality Initiative, where he works alongside a team of developers and student fellows to create XR content for faculty members to include in their courses. Projects funded by the XR Read more about June 2021[…]

Theme : Perception of Self in VRHost : Emerging Media Lab ,UBC The event featured three exceptional speakers who talked about their work in virtual reality! Speakers: Behrang Keshavarz, PhD | Scientist at the KITE-Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network and an Assistant Professor (adjunct) with the Department of Psychology at Ryerson University. Multisensory self-motion perception Read more about May 2021[…]