Kevin Chaja began his career in post production at Warner Bros Motion Picture Imaging starting in the data department. From there he moved on to Myspace, Filmlight, New Hat, Sony Colorworks utilizing his expertise in engineering, QA, and coding automation. Kevin served as Dolby's head of QA for Dolby Vision and recently served as Sony's Executive Director of Post Production.

Kevin has expanded his knowledge to VR/AR development, with his first project being Moment AR, the Augmented Reality tool for autism, mental health, language, and social skills. The app was co-created with his school psychologist wife and the app is evidence/research based, white papered, and patent pending.

Recently Kevin has had entrepreneur success by the successful acquisition of his Augmented Reality company, Color Black.  Kevin continues his career contracting, where he served as Senior Prototyper for Disney's StudioLab division and CTO for Gamestar+. Outside his Disney work, Kevin teaches Senior Software Design at CSUN at nights and completed Unreal's Winter 2021 Virtual Production Fellowship.

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Kevin Chaja: Kevin Chaja | LinkedIn

Allison has been spearheading the Arts, Media, and Entertainment (AME) Workforce Development Initiative at the California Department of Education. It's an amazing program that is creating learning opportunities for students in schools so that they can attain industry standard skills in high school and prepare to apply for paid apprenticeship opportunities in fields including games, TV, film, and animation.

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Allison Frenzel: Allison Frenzel | LinkedIn

Benjamin Kelly is an award winning educator from New Brunswick, Canada.

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Benjamin Kelly: Benjamin Kelly | LinkedIn

Melissa Wrenchey is an educator in the Lake Washington School District in Washington.

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Melissa Wrenchy: melissa wrenchey, Ed.D | LinkedIn

Mark Dubeau is an educator and recent award winner of the Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence in STEM from Metcalfe, Ontario.

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Mark Dubeau: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-dubeau-3a490116/

She is the founder of a school in Tunisia Africa teaching Video Games, Animation, and Modeling. They have trained more than 15,000 students and professionals from countries all over the continent. As an Epic Megagrant recipient, she’s helped launch to launch the Africa Metaverse Tribe; a community of Gaming developers from 10 African countries training in Unreal Engine for the production of video game prototypes around storytelling

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Samia Chelbi: Samia CHELBI | LinkedIn

The Catalyst Center magnet school in Davis Utah is part of the nationally recognized CAPS Network. At Catalyst, students from across Davis come together to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills by working in collaborative groups to complete real-world projects while being mentored by industry partners. Catalyst educators Derrick Bitner, Elizabeth Van Patten, Liz Mceuen and the recently retired former Career and Technical Education director for the district Jay Welk have joined me to talk about how they brought Unreal Engine into their school and the success they’ve been experiencing with it.

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Davis Catalyst Center: Davis Catalyst Center (@DavisCatalyst) / Twitter

He’s an educator and professional learning trainer from Ontario, Canada whose incredible interactive projects are a continuous inspiration to educators who are just starting to imagine what they may be able to do with interactive 3D in the classroom.

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Jim Pedrech: http://www.pedrech.ca/

Daniel Rolo is a NASEF Scholastic Fellow and co-founder of The Ontario Federation of School Esport Associations as well as an elementary school educator who is pushing the limits in terms of what we thought you could do with design and technology at that age.

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Daniel Rolo: Twitter: @danielrolo

When you get the chance to put a bunch of brilliant educators together in a room and talk to them and have them share their experiences, you do it. What you’re about to hear is not the first official episode of the podcast but a special episode, a panel presentation recorded live at ISTE 2022 in New Orleans with Jim Pedrech, Melissa Wrenchey and Ryan McGinnis. Throughout the panel you’ll hear them talk about the amazing work they have done in their classrooms, and their thoughts on the future of real time technology in education.

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Jim Pedrech: Twitter: @jpedrech

Melissa Wrenchey: Twitter: @wrenchy

Ryan McGinnis: Twitter: @RyanMcGTech