Bio

Damon works in many areas of the Web3D & XR industries as a designer, developer, advisor, speaker, entrepreneur and executive that has been active in virtual environments, the 3D web, and other Metaverse related technologies for over 20 years. He is passionate about the web’s convergence with other technologies including 3D, IoT, GIS, CAD/BIM/CAM, AR/VR, mobile and advises a variety of entities that use these technologies for enterprise focused applications. Since 2007, he has been working closely with various built environment professions on the adoption and use of innovative technologies. Previously he was at SIMLAB, where he was working to make property ownership & management more user friendly for owners via digital twins. At Samsung Research America he focused on making the web browser experience awesome and enhanced with immersive web technologies and new types of interfaces. He is a co-founder of IDEAbuilder, a high tech building company that uses immersive technologies and robotic manufacturing to build more efficiently. He has worked with 3D web and virtual world companies and was acting director of a student initiated organization with the Web3D Consortium, where he worked with the Consortium’s global outreach and education initiatives. He has built numerous mixed reality applications and has lead dozens of research projects in multiple domains. As founding team member of the Augmented Reality Developer Camps, VR Hackathon, & founder of the AEC Hackathon, he is actively working to help grow the use of innovative technologies. Invited speaker: *T-EDGE - Beijing, China *Developer Week - Austin *IoT World - San Francisco *Nvidia GPU Conference - San Jose, USA *IEEE Internet of Things Workshop - Silicon Valley *SimLibrary - Denmark *MORGO - New Zealand *Innovation Lab NEXT - Aarhus, Denmark *W3C Workshop: Augmented Reality on the Web - Barcelona,Spain *Virtual Worlds and User Driven Innovation - Copenhagen, Denmark *Augmented Reality Event - Santa Clara, USA *AR Dev Camp - Vancouver, Canada *Digital Kung Fu - Centre for Digital Media, Canada *Where2.0 - San Jose, USA *Media X Virtual Medical Environments Workshop - Stanford, USA *MetaverseU - Stanford, USA *Royal Academy of Cambodia - Phnom Pehn, Cambodia *Web3D Outreach Meeting - NASA Ames Mountain View,USA *ICCIE Summit - Beijing, China For a complete list of speaking engagements, visit www.damonhernandez.com