On 22nd February 2022 Future Tuesdays hosted Deepa Mann-Kler, CE Neon with animation content creators Aura Digital. The cohort shared personal experiences of adapting and developing new creative industry relationships during the pandemic and how to embrace changes and ‘plan-B’s’ as potential positive, if unexpected, opportunities.
In this session Deepa Mann-Kler shared how the company fulfilled funding requirements while achieving the original vision of the work and in doing so, created new opportunities to work with a young exciting creative technology company Aura Digital.
Deepa Mann-Kler is Chief Executive of Neon; Visiting Professor In Immersive Futures at Ulster University in Northern Ireland; an artist and an exceptionally experienced public, private and charity sector Chair and Non-Executive Director, having served on 10 Boards across the UK over the past fourteen years. Neon harnesses the power of immersive technologies to create authentic augmented and virtual reality narrative driven experiences. This year the company launched AR Peace Wall and AR Street Art apps freely available on iOS and Play Store. As a TEDx speaker and thought leader she regularly keynotes on the intersection of digital transformation, technical innovation, inclusion, ethics, bias, data, AI and creativity. Also an award winning, internationally acclaimed, multi-disciplinary artist with over fourteen years’ experience of international exhibitions and public art programmes.
Company awards include Royal Television Society Finalist “Interactive Entertainment” 2017. WinTech Series Finalist “Tech Start Up Of the Year” 2018. TEDx Speaker “Being Human” 2019. Digital DNA Finalist “Tech For Good” Talking Sense AR App 2020.
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Aura Digital was founded during the coronavirus outbreak by Eva Robinson, Josh McAvoy, and Dónal Rainey. From big organisations to small businesses, Aura Digital combine production experience with a unique creative flair in their approach to animation. The trio combine their experience in 2D, and 3D design with a fresh approach in pipeline and innovation. Passionate about Digital Transformation, Aura Digital is a young studio that believes animation and immersive technologies are amongst the future heavy industries of Northern Ireland. This year, the company worked with Neon on AR Peace Wall and AR Street Art, Ulster University, Evoke and many others. Aura Digital was a proud quarterfinalist of the Santander Universities UK Entrepreneurship Awards, and a Dingle Animation Sting Selection of 2021. Josh, Eva and Dónal are due to graduate Ulster University with a Bdes Honours in Animation in June 2022.