Conferences & Workshops

As part of both my academic and professional work, I often speak at conferences and organize workshops, trainings, and hackathons. These talks typical focus on my work with multiuser VR applications, but also include topics broader and more specific.

In addition to participating and organizing programs within conferences, I have also taken the responsibility in recent years to host physical satellite for international XR cultural events as well as to work in the production of such events, such as VRDays Europe, SXSW, and the Venice International Film Festival. My production roles include work as a member of event production teams, such as VRDays and Venice, as well as work undertaken on behalf of my company Raptor Dance Studios or my university’s lab.

XR Festival and Exhibition Production



XR Conference Presentations

Presentation, entitled “Collaborative VR: How Far We’ve Come”, for Helsinki XR Center’s MatchXR event
Short presentation, entitled “A Year of Virtual Events; or There and Back Again”, and subsequent panel moderation on the topic of virtual worlds and events, for Laval Virtual Europe 2021
Presentation about the importance of serendipty in virtual events for the Stereopsia 2020 Conference in December.
A keynote highlighting VR platform developments that are making working and designing together in VR possible.
A presentation about the elements of physical events and meetings that are most worth digitizing in virtual equivalents.
XR in Education Webinar given as part of the Educathon’20 hackathon, August 2020
Presenting at the ISAF Exclusive 2019 Conference in Ankara, March 2019
Educathon19, weekend hackathon for educational AR projects, February 2019
Music Videos in VR: A Selection of Case Studies by Michael Barngrover for the Sonar+D 2018
Presenting to Unilever Turkey as part of the Logital Event in 2018.
Creating Placement in Virtual Spaces workshop for the AMPS conference, sponsored by Altınbaş University and held at the Studio X gallery on April 10 and 11, 2018.