Name: Accelerating AR and IT Integration and Innovation through Interoperability
Start: 2023-10-12T16:00:00Z
End: 2023-10-12T16:00:52.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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The Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) is the only global non-profit, member-based organization dedicated to widespread adoption of interoperable AR-enabled enterprise systems.  The AREA provides a deep and open exchange of good practices, lessons learned, and technological insights which can help enterprises effectively implement AR technology, boost operational efficiency and create long-term benefits. We currently support members from: 
•	Enterprises (buyers of AR solutions) 
•	Providers (of AR solutions) 
•	Non-commercial entities (Universities, public research institutes and agencies)


In this webinar, you will hear from Ognjen Todic the CEO at Keen Research and Jeff Bonasso the CEO at AmbiFi and MiraCheck. Keen Research develops SDKs for on-device speech recognition on mobile/AR/VR devices, web, and custom hardware platforms. Their flagship product, KeenASR SDK, currently powers a number of applications in enterprise software (frontline workers), educational technology, and VR training verticals.

This event is a “must attend” for anyone interested in learning more about how speech recognition technology can be leveraged in the Enterprise AR industry to increase productivity and safety.

During this webinar, attendees will learn:
• About KeenASR SDK for on-device speech recognition
• The role of voice in Enterprise AR applications and how it can help increase safety and productivity
• How Jeff created MiraCheck, a virtual assistant for sports pilots and the importance of (on-device) voice interface in MiraCheck app
• From MiraCheck to AmbiFi, a SaaS platform for digital workflows, procedure, checklists

The AR for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) is the only global, membership-funded non-profit alliance dedicated to helping accelerate the adoption of Enterprise Augmented Reality (AR) by supporting the growth of a comprehensive ecosystem. We support innovative companies aspiring to invest in AR technology who need a better understanding of the tools available, application possibilities, methods of implementation and return on investment.

Speakers
• Ognjen Todic – Chief Executive Officer at Keen Research and AREA member
• Jeff Bonasso – Chief Executive Officer at AmbiFi and MiraCheck

Host 
Mark Sage – Executive Director of the AREA (Augmented Reality Enterprise Alliance)

Voice-Activated Apps: The Key to Productivity and Safety for Frontline Workers

In this webinar, you will hear from Brian Hamilton, VP of Sales and Marketing, and Vinay Malekal, Principal Software Engineer at DigiLens. They will provide insight and share their experiences around the challenges of implementing enterprise AR solutions.

It’s a “must-attend” for anyone interested in learning more about the Enterprise AR industry.
During this webinar, attendees will:

• See the value AR can deliver to enterprise and industrial organizations
• Understand the difference between pass-through AR and true AR
• Learn how to solve the challenges organizations are facing with implementing AR solutions
• Discover why building an ecosystem of global solutions is the key to scaling

The AR for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) is the only global, membership-funded non-profit alliance dedicated to helping accelerate the adoption of Enterprise Augmented Reality (AR) by supporting the growth of a comprehensive ecosystem. We support innovative companies aspiring to invest in AR technology who need a better understanding of the tools available, application possibilities, methods of implementation, and return on investment.

True AR Devices: The Next Wave of Enterprise Productivity and Ecosystem Growth

In this webinar, you will hear from Tangi Meyer from 3DS and Craig Gamblen from Fairfield Control Systems Ltd. They will provide insights, experience, and challenges of implementing enterprise AR. 

Demand for streamlined and effective shop floor operations has become increasingly important as the manufacturing industry evolves. Dassault Systèmes Augmented Reality technology offers a promising solution to address these challenges by enhancing the way operators are guided to build right the first time and continuously control the conformity of their products, sharing continuity with the golden source of digital mock-ups.

With concrete examples, we will introduce how DELMIA Augmented Experience solutions have been successfully implemented for key customers in various industries. The pain points we solved, the challenges of such implementations, and the benefits and ROI experienced by our customers.
It’s a “must-attend” for anyone interested in learning more about the Enterprise AR industry.
During this webinar, attendees will learn:

• What are the critical business problems/challenges that can be solved by implementing AR on the shop floor?
• What key challenges do our customers face when implementing AR solutions?
• What are the main success factors for successfully implementing AR on the shop floor?
• What are these implementation's main benefits and ROI, and how to measure it?

The AR for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) is the only global, membership-funded non-profit alliance dedicated to helping accelerate the adoption of Enterprise Augmented Reality (AR) by supporting the growth of a comprehensive ecosystem. We support innovative companies aspiring to invest in AR technology who need a better understanding of the tools available, application possibilities, methods of implementation, and return on investment.

Speakers
• Tangi MEYER – Strategic Planning at 3DS DELMIA
• Craig Gamblen – IIoT Business Unit Lead at Fairfield Control Systems Ltd

Augmented Reality for Manufacturing, How to?

In this webinar, you will hear from Cerys Middle, Works Operating Manual Manager, and Ben Cale, the Data Migration Analyst & Innovation Technical Advisor at Welsh Water. Responsible for providing over three million people with a continuous, high-quality supply of drinking water and for taking away, treating, and properly disposing of the wastewater that is produced, they are fully committed to delivering the best quality service at the least possible cost. 

The Welsh Water team has been using Assisted and Augmented Reality to improve work performance, reduce costs, increase efficiencies, and overcome several real business challenges.

It’s a “must-attend” for anyone interested in learning more real-life case studies from the Enterprise AR industry.

During this webinar, attendees will learn:

• What business problems/use cases are Welsh Water solving using AR?
• Learn from their journey from idea conception to successful delivery.
• Understand the business benefits the team has delivered and how this supports the Welsh Water goals.
• What challenges did they encounter, and how did they overcome them?
• The plans for the future and how the team continues to push the boundaries of AR implementation.

Speakers
• Cerys Middle – Works Operating Manual Manager at Welsh Water and AREA member
• Ben Cale - Data Migration Analyst & Innovation Technical Advisor at Welsh Water

Host 
• Mark Sage – Executive Director of the AREA (Augmented Reality Enterprise Alliance)

The AR for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) is the only global, membership-funded non-profit alliance dedicated to helping accelerate the adoption of Enterprise Augmented Reality (AR) by supporting the growth of a comprehensive ecosystem. We support innovative companies aspiring to invest in AR technology who need a better understanding of the tools available, application possibilities, methods of implementation and return on investment.

Driving Quality and Efficiencies at Welsh Water Using AR

In this webinar, you will hear from Hexagon and gain insights into how it is demoing and prototyping XR to support its mission “putting data to work to enable autonomous, connected ecosystems that boost efficiency, productivity, and quality for our customers.” Hexagon are leaders in innovative technology, focusing on creating clear ROI for its customers. Register if you are interested in understanding how XR can help your organization and how to identify XR use cases.

In this webinar, you will learn:

1.           How Hexagon has developed and iterated its XR strategy
2.           Overview of XR solutions and their maturity
3.           What challenges the Hexagon XR team encountered, and how they overcome them
4.           Future plans and enabling the next set of use cases

Valuable XR Workflows: Do They Exist?

Join us for a brief fireside chat with the AREA Research Committee co-chairs. Chairs Christine Perey, PEREY Research & Consulting, and Sam Neblett, Boeing, give an overview of the committee’s history and current focus. The research committee commissions two be-spoke applied research projects per year to answer important questions and address obstacles to adoption that AREA members are facing. Whether it’s business or technology, hardware or software, the committee is helping members keep on top of the latest research developments in the industry. To learn more about the research committee or get involved, visit the committee's webpage: https://thearea.org/research-committee/

Fireside Chat: AREA Research Committee Overview

When creating and designing AR applications, game engines are often used. AR development with game engines offers flexibility and freedom to develop whatever you want, given that you have the know-how and resources. However, this also comes with a specific price, namely a high total cost of ownership, lack of scalability, and might require a lot of development time.

In this webinar, you will hear from Adnan Cosic from VIEWAR & Kris Atkinson from Matterport, and they will provide insights, experience, and challenges of implementing enterprise AR.

It’s a “must-attend” for anyone interested in learning more about the enterprise AR industry.
During this webinar, attendees will learn the following:

• The difference between using game engines for AR vs. AR as a Service

• How AR as a Service changes the way AR experiences are created

• What a digital twin is and how to leverage that for creating AR applications

• About use cases that can be implemented when combining AR as a Service with digital twins

• Benefits of using AR as a Service

Host 
Mark Sage – Executive Director of the AREA (Augmented Reality Enterprise Alliance)

The AR for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) is the only global, membership-funded non-profit alliance dedicated to helping accelerate the adoption of Enterprise Augmented Reality (AR) by supporting the growth of a comprehensive ecosystem. We support innovative companies aspiring to invest in AR technology who need a better understanding of the tools available, application possibilities, methods of implementation, and return on investment.

Disruptive Changes in the Way We Create AR Applications

Announcing the release of the RealWear Thermal Camera Module! Learn more about how RealWear is enabling the world to push the boundaries of AR: https://www.realwear.com/

Fireside Chat: RealWear Thermal Camera Module

Unity's real-time 3D development platform and solutions for industries can help teams streamline workflows, improve productivity, and create world-class experiences.

Would you like to hear what Unity is working on and its strategy for Digital Twins and Enterprise AR? Do you want to hear how Unity is overcoming some of the most challenging and common problems enterprises looking to deploy Augmented Reality have to face? Are you interested in learning more about the support, training courses, and insights from one of the leading AR development platforms?

In this webinar, you will hear from David Varela, Sr. Business Strategy Manager - Digital Twins, Unity, Skip Esch, a Creative Technology Business Development Executive at Unity, and Sam Neblett, an XR Architect and 3D Modeler at Boeing Research and Technology. They will provide insights, experience, and challenges of using Unity when implementing enterprise AR. 

It’s a “must-attend” for anyone interested in learning more about the Enterprise AR industry.

During this webinar, attendees will learn:
- Unity’s key focus and strategy to enable Digital Twins and Enterprise AR
- What are the common problems AR and Unity developers are experiencing, and how do you overcome them?
- Where do you go to find the latest Unity information, how to learn from experience developers and gain access to training courses etc.

The AR for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) is the only global, membership-funded non-profit alliance dedicated to helping accelerate the adoption of Enterprise Augmented Reality (AR) by supporting the growth of a comprehensive ecosystem. We support innovative companies aspiring to invest in AR technology who need a better understanding of the tools available, application possibilities, methods of implementation, and return on investment.

How Unity Is Enabling the Enterprise AR Ecosystem

Industrial Talk is about the future and why we do what we do. In this episode, AREA Executive Director Mark Sage chats about the future direction of Augmented Reality with Scott MacKenzie. Recorded at IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona, May 2022.

The AREA's Mark Sage on the "Industrial Talk" Podcast

AREA Executive Director Mark Sage discusses Mixed Reality trends in pharmaceutical manufacturing with AREA member Linas Ozeraitis, Hololens Engineer with Apprentice. Linas describes benefits of MR, common use cases he's seeing across the life sciences industry, and how to overcome market barriers.

Fireside Chat: Apprentice

Through research, discussion and actual AR deployment, the AREA members organizations have agreed that one of the key barriers to moving from pilot studies to full deployment of Enterprise AR is understanding and overcoming issues and concerns around Safety. The AREA Safety Committee has been created to identify, classify and prioritize AR safety risks and develop risk reduction recommendations.

In this webinar, some of the AREA Safety Committee members will provide insight and perspective on how they have deployed AR in a safe and controlled way, but also examples of how they are using AR to support workers in doing their job in a safe way.   

We will also be joined by the National Safety Council (NSC) to discuss their work in informing their members about the benefits of AR and how to safely implement the technology.

During this webinar, attendees will learn:
• What business problems (use cases) AREA enterprise members are solving using AR
• How is AR helping to support the safety of workers
• What safety challenges they have/are facing 
• How they were able to overcome these challenges 
• The work of the AREA Safety Committee and National Safety Council including the AREA Safety Infographic, Safety playbook, and an introduction to the Human Factors and Safety AR framework.

It’s a “must attend” for anyone interested in deploying Enterprise AR Safely and understanding how to overcome this barrier to adoption.

AREA Safety Webinar | Using AR safely and using AR to be safe at work

What is XR: Towards a Framework for Augmented and Virtual Reality.
Download Prof. Rauschnabel's paper (free): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074756322200111X
Read Prof. Rauschnabel's blog: www.philipprauschnabel.com

Fireside Chat: Universitat der Bundeswehr Munich

How to Guide Your Business When Working With Immersive Technology

Fireside Chat: BMI Expert

Augmented Reality For Business Continuity

Fireside Chat: PTC

Advancements in AR in Industrial Automation

Fireside Chat: Rockwell Automation

Overview
The AREA Interoperability and Standards program produces thought leadership content to increase awareness and provide concrete ways that all members of the AR ecosystem can use standards to integrate AR solutions in scalable ways.

The Khronos Group is an open industry consortium of close to 200 leading hardware and software companies creating advanced, royalty-free, acceleration standards for 3D graphics, Augmented and Virtual Reality, and parallel computation.

This session will provide the latest updates on Khronos interoperability standards relating to AR, VR and the metaverse, including OpenXR, glTF and the new Camera Working Group.

After a presentation there will be a Q&A session in which the audience can ask questions about any aspect of Khronos standardization activities.

Topics
Topics to be covered will include:
- An overview of Khronos activities for AR
- Key features and adoption of OpenXR
- glTF asset format ecosystem and roadmap 
- Evolving glTF into a portable metaverse format
- The goals and direction of the new Khronos Camera working group
- How to get involved!

AREA Research Committee Webinar: Introduction to Khronos Group Camera API

In today's ever-evolving landscape, interoperability and standards are critical to successful Enterprise Augmented Reality (AR) deployments and adoption. This webinar is an essential resource for:

• Industry professionals eager to understand the interoperability benefits and stay at the forefront of AR technology standards.
• Businesses looking to optimize their operations and unlock the full potential of AR.
• Visionaries seeking to harness the power of AR for future growth.

The AREA Interoperability and Standards program seeks to increase knowledge about the benefits and approaches to achieving interoperability and to advance the development of standards or other approaches to interoperability.

During this public webinar, AREA thought-leaders will:

• Define interoperability in the context of Enterprise AR,
• Provide real-world examples showcasing how interoperability can significantly reduce costs and mitigate risks,
• Discuss other benefits of embracing AR interoperability and standards, and
• Present the AREA's Interoperability and Standards program goals and initiatives to meet enterprise AR requirements.

AREA Member Speakers: 
• Blake Schreurs – Virtual and Augmented Reality Expert at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory 
• Gabriel Saad – DELMIA NAM BT Senior Solution Consultant at Dassault Systèmes 

Host: Christine Perey, Independent Analyst and Spime Wrangler, PEREY Research & Consulting

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