June Events Roundup - VivaTech & Cannes Lions

Meet up with Blippar in April at Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara, Startup Grind Europe in London, VivaTech in Paris, and Cannes Lions in Cannes!

Augmented World Expo
Wednesday - Friday, May 31st - June 2nd
Santa Clara, California

AWE, the largest AR and VR event in the world, is centred on ‘Superpowers to Change the World’ in its eighth year. Satheesh Subramanian, Blippar’s VP of Engineering, Augmented Reality Platforms in San Francisco will speak on June 2nd at AWE. The session will address how development platforms and technologies will have to evolve to meet the demands of an augmented reality world. Read more

Startup Grind Europe
Wednesday, June 14th
London, UK

Ambarish Mitra, our CEO and co-founder of Blippar, will be talking at this year’s Startup Grind in London. Startup Grind gives visitors the opportunity to meet top investors, entrepreneurs, developers, and journalists from both Europe and Silicon Valley. The day will feature nonstop content, valuable networking, mentor sessions, and investor Q+A's. Read more

VivaTech
Thursday - Saturday, June 15th - 17th
Paris, France

Ambarish Mitra will be making a keynote speech at this year’s VivaTech in Paris. This summer VivaTech will cover up to 35 industries exposed to technological disruption. The conference will look at tech’s role in the future of society and industry, with experts coming from all over the world to share their thoughts on disruption, startup growth and technology’s social impact, among others. Read more

Cannes Lions
Saturday - Thursday, June 17th - 24th
Cannes, France

Blippar will once again be touching down in Cannes for this year’s Cannes Lions, the ‘International Festival of Creativity’, known by many as the Oscars of the advertising industry. Established in 1954, the 64th International Festival of Creativity will welcome 15,000 people from around 100 countries this year, including more brand leaders than ever before and the world’s most innovative tech companies and start-ups. Read more

Code First: Girls Hack Your Career in AR/VR
Tuesday, June 27th
London, United Kingdom

The main mission of Code First: Girls is to inspire more women to get into tech and entrepreneurship. Their ‘Hack Your Career’ event is targeted at women aged 18 and above, and is the perfect opportunity to network. Join to meet an exciting variety of speakers from different companies across the tech sector. One of our product manager, Tara Reddy, will be one of the few speakers demystifying what a career in technology, specifically AR & VR, could look like. More Info

AWS London Summit
Wednesday, June 28th
London, United Kingdom

This year’s AWS Summit in London will be themed around how the cloud is accelerating innovation in businesses of all sizes. Whether you’re just getting started, or a seasoned expert, join the free, one day event to learn more about the AWS platform through breakout sessions. We will be there with a booth, so do come by and say hello! More Info

If you would like to meet us while we are at any of these events, please don’t hesitate to email us in advance. If you aren’t able to make it but don’t want to miss out, be sure to follow us on Twitter for live updates!