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Sophia Parafina
Founder, LDS

@spara | Attendee Directory Profile

Sophia is freelance geographer. Previously, she was Director of Operations at OpenGeo and a Adjunct Professor at Hunter College. Sophia organized Augmented Reality DevCamp NYC and hosts AR New York Meetups. Before joining OpenGeo, she was a founder and CTO of IONIC Enterprise (acquired by Erdas) and Senior Program Manager for In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital fund.

Sessions

3:05pm Wednesday, 03/31/2010

Truly Open Augmented Reality

Mobile
Location: Ballroom IV

Mike Liebhold (Institute for the Future), Shailesh Nalawadi (Google), Carl Reed (OGC), Damon Hernandez (Web3D), Sophia Parafina (LDS)

Average rating:

(1.50, 4 ratings)

Convene and lead a panel on requirements and specifications for an open software stack for augmented reality, based on the assumption that AR is both a discrete medium, and it is the intersection of many media, including web, CAD, mapping, games, virtual worlds... Read more.

3:05pm Thursday, 04/01/2010

The Next Wave of AR: Exploring Social Augmented Experiences

Mobile
Location: Ballroom IV

Tish Shute (Ugotrade), Jeremy Hight (Mission College, CA), Joe Lamantia (Oracle Endeca), Sophia Parafina (LDS), anselm hook (Meedan)

Average rating:

(2.00, 3 ratings)

This panel will discuss shared augmented realities, considering some of the essential possibilities and challenges inherent in this new class of social augmented experiences. The format is presentation and discussion of a small set of scenarios (defined in advance, with audience input) describing likely future forms of shared augmented realities at differing scales of social engagement. Read more.

Making Money at a Non-Profit

Sophia Parafina (LDS)

Times are hard and your angel funder just told you that your non-profit open source org needs to feed itself. Great, but it also means change, in terms of process, organization, culture and people's expectations. The talk is about achieving a balance between profitability and the open source mission.