The next wave of digital disruption is Spatial Computing, an emerging technology that will change how we interact with computers and the physical world, using intelligent edge devices like a HoloLens and other mobile devices. Mainly driven by AI computer vision and advanced sensors, those devices can spatially sense the world around us and make the spatially aware context part of the experience. With technologies like the AR Cloud, a common spatial map can be shared between heterogeneous devices to build connected, collaborative, and cross-platform Metaverse apps where virtual objects anchored in the physical world can be shared across devices and over time with persistence.
During the Spatial Computing era we will also enter the Quantum Computing age. Quantum Computers are still in its infancy with limited Qubits, but Q-Day is coming, the day when Quantum Advantage will be readily available and deprecating today’s cryptography. Even with the hardware infancy, Quantum-inspired computing (QIC) already provides significant advantages for things like Quantum Machine Learning (QML) and Quantum-Inspired Optimization (QIO).
In this session Rene will explain the concepts and technologies supporting these transformative computing paradigm changes and will show applied and practical use cases to make these abstracts concepts more feasible.

Who is it aimed at? Developers, Solution architects and Technology managers.
Software developers looking to learn more about Spatial and Quantum Computing.

Why should I attend?
• Learn what Spatial Computing is and why it's so transformational
• Understand the technology with practical use cases and examples
• Get to know the Metaverse, what it is and why to use it
• Learn about Quantum Computing and why it will change how we live and work
• Understand how Quantum Computing can help with optimization, Machine Learning and why it is a threat but also an opportunity for cyber security

Speaker Bio: René Schulte is Director of Global Innovation at Valorem Reply and leader of the Spatial Computing practice at Reply working with teams across the globe on emerging technologies like 3D volumetric video streaming, Remote Rendering, the AR Cloud Real-World Metaverse enabling large, cross-platform user experiences with real-world persistence. Being a trusted advisor for our clients and providing business value by supporting project execution ranging from discovery, envisioning and strategic consulting to technical implementation.

He is a creative developer, thought leader and digital content creator with a passion for UX, (Edge) Cloud computing and deep technical knowledge from more than 15 years in VR/AR/MR/XR/Spatial Computing technology and 3D programming, developing for the Microsoft HoloLens since 2015 pioneering many Mixed Reality innovations being a recognized leader in the Mixed Reality field. He was featured on Forbes, is listed as dev influencer. He coded AI deep learning neural networks before it was cool and is leveraging modern AI to empower humans and applied Quantum Computing for today's impact.

He is invited as expert to global TV stations and a frequent keynote and session speaker and panelist at conferences like //build, Ignite, Global XR, Univ. Heidelberg, Unite, Vision VR/AR Summit, VRDC (GDC), AWE, ESA, RTC, VRARA, MR Dev Days and more. Blogs about many topics. He also created popular open source libraries like WriteableBitmapEx and the AR library SLARToolKit.

He was honored several times for his dev community work with the Microsoft MVP award, recognized as Microsoft Regional Director and Advisory Board member for the VR/AR Association and XR Bootcamp.
He lives in Germany with his wife and their 5 children.

Here is some useful content for this session:
https://aka.ms/mixedreality3
https://aka.ms/AzureQuantum3