In November 2021, a few months before the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Embassy of France in Belgium and the Directorate-General for Digital Transformation of the Belgian SPF BOSA organised the Homo Numericus conference cycle.
The first conference, on 8 November, was devoted to Immersive age: new narratives and new imaginations. Conference visual ease.
Recent technological developments make it possible to design immersive worlds that are invested by actors in the animation, image and production sectors. The AR/VR immersion and the new UX/UI forms upset the economic models of the cultural and creative industries. They generate new income and new logics for product development and public financing. These same parameters also change the narrative rules. They have an impact on their creative rules (interactive and immersive storytelling, new ways of digital distribution of knowledge or cultural experiences). At the heart of this new economic environment is the question of forms of public access to innovative narrative regimes. But also the support needed to ensure a future for this expanding sector.
Mathieu Michel, Belgian State Secretary for Digitalisation, opened the conference cycle.
Fabien Benetou is an expert in WebXR for the European Parliament and UNICEF. In this context, he is experimenting and implementing virtual reality solutions to facilitate innovation and collaboration.
Kati Bremme works as Deputy Director of Innovation of France Télévisions, the French public broadcaster. She is also editor-in-chief of Meta-Media, the blog that explores journalism of the future, and gives trainings and lectures on editorial innovation and media trends.
Julie Foulon founded Girleek In 2011, a community of more than 25,000 people, including 70% women, passionate about new technologies. Girleek's mission is to make new technologies accessible to women through the acquisition of digital skills.
Maud Keyboard has been working in the area of 360° video & VR since 2015. She now works for VRROOM, managing projects such as Venice VR Expanded, GoEast, the American festival SXSW and finally the concert of Jean Michel Jarre Welcome to the Other Side on which she was also the director of the video in live multicamera inside the VR world for television.
Kamal Messaoudi is co-creator of a web show on geek culture (www.ZoneGeek.be) and passionate about cinema and fantastic universes, he participated in the development and creation of audiovisual, digital and transmedia content, notably at the R/O Institute (www.ro.institute) and promoted the good speech of geek culture.
Frédéric Joshua is the president of 18M. He advises companies on their marketing and influence strategies. He teaches at Sciences Po Paris a course on the strategies of the actors of Entertainment and platforms.
By joining Novelab, Constance Castaing d'Illiers has succeeded in promoting innovation in cultural institutions and heritage places. Novelab is the creative studio created in 2013 by AudioGaming, which specializes in creating interactive tools for cinema, television, animation and video games.
Dimitri Pirnay co-founded OneBonsai: a major player in Virtual Reality solutions for industry and the business world.
Juan Bossicard is a specialist in Corporate Citizenship, a start-up coach, an independent investor and the founder of EUVR. ORG, the Virtual Reality Association of Europe, Brussels.
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