The event featured:
XR Bootcamp Co-Founder Ferhan Özkan and Emilios Eracleous, Co-Founder and Specialist Recruiter from Immersive Search presented their respective companies mission statements, offerings and provided a survey of the current state of XR employment, recruitment and training in the global market.
XR Bootcamp is the world’s first bootcamp for professional upskilling within VR/AR. XR Bootcamp provides cutting edge education experiences that provide participants with the skills, knowledge and ability to create VR/AR applications and assist companies to bridge their skills gap in XR development. Through intensive on-site and online educational programs, cutting-edge curricula, industry-wide known mentors and lecturers, and a focus on industry portfolio projects, participants get the hands-on experience they need to kick off their XR career or get promoted. As a major global provider of emerging technology software upskilling training, XR Bootcamp's vision is to improve the diversity of programmers and technologists, to ensure computing technology is inclusive field and to increase upward social mobility across heterogeneous backgrounds.
XR Bootcamp consists of an amazing network of leaders in emerging and immersive technologies extending across innovation, research, development, design, world building and transformation.
Immersive Search is a recruiting company facilitating businesses across the globe with specialists in XR. Immersive Search’s mission is to provide a support network for professionals seeking to upskill via their training partners, create clear pathways for students entering the XR industry and contribute to the process of making XR technologies safe, inclusive and accessible for the global community.
Ferhan Özkan is leading the mission to create a global ecosystem of XR innovators to be utilised to solve the challenges of industry. His influential journey started when he founded a pre-incubation centre funded by World Bank, guiding 8 start-ups to successful industry exits. Soon afterwards, Özkan established the digital platform Playstore.com for a telco operator distributing games of the top AAA publishers worldwide. The platform continues to become one of the most profitable Value-Added Services overall. As elected Vice-Chair of the IEEE VR/AR Standards Group, Özkan works on bringing the industry closer, while focusing on empowering the major stakeholders with his expertise and global network. He founded XR First, a global organization that has already attracted over 410 startup clusters and 800 universities from all around the world to join on its mission of the democratization of innovation.
Prior to Emilios Eracleaous’ role as Co-Founder and Specialist Recruiter for Immersive Search, he was New Business Executive and Regional Accounts Director for the international technical support company RIZE Worldwide Limited, focusing on Europe and Africa respectively. Prior to his posts at RIZE, Eracleouswas Networks Delivery Consultant with Nokia Siemens.
For more information on XR Bootcamp and Immersive Search please follow the links below.