2018 was a big learning year for businesses in ANZ and the Asia Pacific region, as they work out how to adopt new and emerging technology into their strategies and budgets. AR is on the precipice of mass adoption , including within key industries such as the retailing, property & auto marketing, food & beverages, sports, agriculture & livestock, insurance & banking and the tourism sectors.
The following interviews were recorded in Sydney on 13 November 2018 at the 2nd Augmented and Virtual Reality for Safety, Training, Maintenance and Manufacturing Forum 2018. The event was held in conjunction with the 2nd Immersive Augmented and Virtual Reality Customer Experience, Marketing and Product Development Forum.
David Francis, Chris Cubbage & Annemarie Diepenbroek
Interview with Annemarie Diepenbroek, Product Manager, Honeywell and David Francis, Managing Director, Head of APAC, Head of ANZ, Virtual Method, Zappar, Realwear.
Annemarie Diepenbroek is the Global Product Manager for the Honeywell Connected Plant – Skills & Safety Portfolio. This portfolio increases staff performance and improves plant profitability using Augmented Reality, Analytics, Intelligent Wearables and a suite of Productivity Applications. It directly addresses the looming skills gap in our industry, the need for faster competency and improved field productivity.
David is involved in various wearables, visual and NLP artificial intelligence, mobile interest-sensing and IoT strategy, advising companies when, where and how they need to take strategic initiatives to head-off Digital Darwinism.
Chris Cubbage with Laurence Beraldo
Interview with Laurence Beraldo, General Manager, Fountx. Laurence joined TAE Aerospace in June 2016 to head up the development and delivery of TAE Aerospace’s advanced technical product lines as well as enhance TAE Aerospace’s senior leadership team. In July 2017 TAE Aerospace established Fountx Pty Ltd a subsidiary company and Laurence is leading that company to commercialise a world changing product using assisted reality to enhance human capability.
Laurence was the CEO and Company Secretary for the Royal Queensland Aero Club (RQAC) group of companies where he was the CASA approved Air Operator Certificate appointee and accountable manager for the Airline Academy of Australia. Prior to taking on the role as CEO he headed up aircraft maintenance engineering operations and training. He was formerly an executive manager with Aviation Australia where he worked for 10 years and held a number of senior roles including responsibility for flight safety training, Group Training compliance and operations, business development, international client management and the employment outcomes of more than 1,200 aircraft maintenance engineering graduates. Laurence is trained and qualified in aviation maintenance engineering and management, holds a pilot’s licence, had a 14 year maintenance and training career with the RAAF and managed several successful businesses.
