Looking for opportunities to apply big brain thinking to big hard challenges to solve the impossible problems and the never been done before's.
About
⚑ World's Firsts and being an Innovative Generalist.
Now begins a story.
This story begins with the one known as @iamkhayyam.
An award winning innovative generalist who dabbles in frontier technology and has invested years developing his skills through extravagant trial and error. As a result, the number of data points he has to cross-reference and correlate allows for much simpler solutions for problematic situations.
Being that he possesses a love for long-tailed tales as well as knowledge of how pattern recognition affects something, it's no wonder why he is an avid learner who is always open to making something better than before.
After 'paying his tuition' with a new understanding and recognition of how these patterns work along with different environments; he became skilled at immersing himself into situations or understanding something from a new perspective and showing people just how much complexity hides within one small world - through whichever type of storytelling worked best. The formula produces replicable results when all variables are presented.
With all his experience and accomplishments it only made sense for him to share his ideas with others out there who would benefit from them most - so if you're reading this then you might want to get your brain ready! If you're working on a World's First or require the full tool belt of a generalist, please get a hold of him. The time is now.
Exhibitions
20 public collections
Projects
✪ ███
✪ Artofficial
✪ Artofficial
✪ Artofficial
✪ Artofficial / ✪ Eclipse / ★ Warner Bros
✪ Artofficial
✪ Logan
✪ First Born
✪ @radical Media
✪ Digital Domain
✪ Wieden+Kennedy
✪ Team Coco
✪ The New York Times
✪ Anomoly
✪ @radical Media
1st Emmy for an immersive company or campaign
✪ Hulu
1st immersive and interactive video ad units w/Mercedes Benz and Travel Alberta
✪ nCite
✪ Forsman & Bodenfors
✪ The Vatican
✪ Intel / Immersive Media
1st embed of a 360 SDK in the chipset of all Intel processor based mobile phones allows for seamless 360 video playback
✪ Baltimore Ravens
✪ GE Healthcare / Immersive Media
✪ Roddenberry Entertainment / Immersive Media / Animal Farm
✪ Reunion Island / Immersive Media
✪ Y&R London
✪ Universal Music
✪ @radical Media
✪ Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
✪ Ustream / Georgia Aquarium / Immersive Media
♞ Mitt Romney of Massachusetts ♞ Paul Ryan of Wisconsin
Tampa Bay Times Forum; Tampa, Florida
♞ Barack Obama of Illinois ♞ Joe Biden of Delaware
Time Warner Cable Arena, Charlotte
✪ MEC / WPP
✪ ATG / nCite
✪ Blast Radius
⚐ Best in Show / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Creative Effectiveness / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media / ✪ @radical Media
⚐ Film, Athlete Branded Entertainment and Content / ✪ First Born
⚐ Film / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Cyber / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Integrated / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Integrated / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Promo & Activation / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ PR / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Cyber / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Cyber / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Direct / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Cyber / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Film/Craft / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Media / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Film / Craft / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Film/Craft / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Film/Craft / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Media / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Film/Craft / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Media / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Titanium / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ PR / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Web Platforms, Website / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Cyber / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Film / Craft, Use of Video / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Cyber / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Film Category / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Integrated & Earned Media/Integrated / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series (Epic Splits) / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series & Epic Splits / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series & Epic Splits / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series & Epic Splits / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series Integrated Campaign / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series & Epic Splits / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Volvo Trucks / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Interactive, Short Form / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Branded Entertainment, Short-Form / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Branded Entertainment, Best Direction / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Advertising, Online / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Advertising, Direction / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Advertising, Consumer Campaign / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Interactive / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Branded Entertainment, Best Editing / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Advertising, Online / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor
⚐ Experiential / Brand Collaborations / ✪ @radical Media
⚐ Mobile Sites & Apps, Events - Handheld Devices / ✪ Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
✪ Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
⚐ Media, Best Use of Social Media / ✪ MEC/WPP
✪ MEC/WPP
✪ NorthStudio 360
Work Experience
Side Projects
Volunteering
Education
Generalists do it better.
Dropped out my last year shy of an engineering and computer science degree with a minor in philosophy.
Speaking
In a whole new world, the Metaverse comes with different kinds of mental health required for participants. This talk will unveil the stress of being in a virtual world and how to cope, stories of personal involvement and parallels of each world, and how an intelligent and immersive social emotional learning platform is helping at-risk youth.
Web3 can be overwhelming at first for many organizations, specifically nonprofits. By creating a knowledge-share in the form of a playbook of how to create a DAO and playbook on how to create a fundraising mechanism we hope to alleviate the transition into this new world of engagement.
Chair: Khayyam Wakil / Founding Member / Champagne DAO
Interviewee:
Gennaro D'Urso / Founder and CEO / Genetic Networks
Chair: Jeff Kauffman / Founder / Jump Community
Panelists:
Jess Sloss / Instigator / Seedclub
Jonathan Goodwin / Director of Community & Marketing / Fancurve
Khayyam Wakil / Founding Member / Champagne DAO
Chair: Khayyam Wakil / Founding Member / Champagne DAO
Panelists:
Parker Jay-Pachirat / Founding Team / Boys Club
Laura Du / Founder / We3
Gary Sheng / Co-founder / Dream DAO
Chair: Khayyam Wakil / General Partner / Knowware Venture Capital
Participants:
Nils Pihl / CEO / Matterless Studios, Auki Labs
Sofiane Delloue / CEO / Newlife.io
Chair: Khayyam Wakil / General Partner / Knowware Venture Capital
Participants:
Nonny de la Pena / CEO & Founder / Emblematic Group
Christina Heller / CEO / Metastage)
John Canning / Executive Producer / Digital Domain
Rene Amador / CEO / ARwall
Chairperson: Khayyam Wakil / Chief Strategy Officer / Live Planet
Participants:
Tyler Gates / Director of Business Development / Brightline
Ryan Pulliam / CMO / Specular Theory
Derek Koenig / SVP / Discovery Agency
Chair: John Canning / VP New Media / PGA
Participants:
Seth Shapiro / Television Academy
Lewis Smithingham / President/Partner / 30 Ninjas
Nick Bicanic / Founder / RVRLR
Khayyam Wakil / Chief Strategy Officer / Live Planet
Chair: Khayyam Wakil / Chief Strategy Officer / Live Planet
Participants:
Paul T. Kim / Director, VR Content Partnership / Samsung Electronics
Ankur Prasad / Head of Marketing for Amazon Appstore / Amazon
James Hairston / Head of Public Policy / Facebook Oculus VR
Jihun Yu / Co-founder & CEO / Binary VR
John Haddick / CTO / Osterhout Design Group
Michael Ludden / Director of Product / IBM Watson
Hyouk Jang (Andrew) / Co-founder & CEO / POLARIANT, Inc.
The Korea Creative Content Agency is a South Korean government agency which is affiliated with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and is charged with governing cultural content.
How do we think differently to monetise VR?
Direct perspectives on everything from 360 Livestream Broadcast for primetime to narrative storytelling - the Producers view on content creation.
Chair: Khayyam Wakil / Chief Strategy Officer / Live Planet
Participants:
Christina Heller / VR Playhouse / Co-Founder & CEO
Christine Berg / Writer/Director / Wonder Buffalo
Lewis Smithingham / President & Partner / 30 Ninja's
Wouldn't it be nice if we could virtually go back to the past? Finding key techniques that could shape our future. The key to the future is in the past.
Chairperson:
Khayyam Wakil / Chief Strategy Officer / Live Planet
Participants:
Chris Bobotis / Director, Immersive Media / Adobe
Jamie Mossahebi / VR/360 Producer / Happy Finish
Jim Chabin / President /VR Society
John Canning / VP New Media & Chair New Media Council / Producers Guild of America
Frank discussion of AI and how it's currently perceived and what the future holds.
Participants:
Natasha French / CMO / VNTANA
Khayyam Wakil / CSO / Live Planet
Christina Meinders / AI Designer/Researcher
Sabri Sansoy / World Leading AI Expert
Ross Mead / CEO / Semio
Khayyam will be presenting the Live Planet™ system, including the 360/3d camera rig and cloud; the only end-to-end immersive system that makes creating and distributing live and recorded stereoscopic VR and 360° video content easy and affordable.
Although it’s become exceedingly simple to broadcast our lives from every angle, there’s still plenty to learn from the experts. At NAB 2017, we invited three 360 live streaming experts to talk about how to live stream 360 video, from big challenges to best practices.
Moderators:
Sarah Redohl and Robert Hernandez
Participants:
Alx Klive / 360 Designs
Lewis Smithingham / 30 Ninjas
Khayyam Wakil / Live Planet
Khayyam Wakil, Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Creative Partnerships, at Live Planet, will give a live-streaming demo of the company’s new tech, and talk about how media paradigms are shifting with the democratization of 360°/VR.
Live Planet™, is introducing the industry’s most advanced end-to-end immersive Stereoscopic 360°/VR video system. It is a complete platform for capture, editing and syndication to multiple platforms for viewing. www.liveplanet.net/
Virtual reality is often proclaimed to be the future of entertainment. But what if VR can make you a more self-actualized person as well?
VR experiences, which place you in the perspective of someone else and transport you to places you otherwise might never visit, may produce a similar phenomenon to psychedelics in the brain. For those of us who live our lives consumed with the dull everyday tasks of commuting, working and sleeping, VR can be an easy way to escape ourselves without the emotional or legal risks.
VR experts will discuss how specially designed immersive content allows viewers to have out-of-body experiences, expanding consciousness, tolerance and understanding in society.
Moderator:
Ian Forester, VR Playhouse
Participants:
Taryn Southern, Happy Cat Media & Tribe of Good
Sook-Lei Liew, University of Southern California
Khayyam Wakil, Live Planet
Get insight and hear successful case studies from award-winning VR companies who are creating highly engaging and impactful experiences in this new medium.
Moderator: Dr. Nitin Gupta, Google
Participants:
Ryan Pulliam, Specular Theory
Christina Heller, VR Playhouse
Jenn Duong, 1215creative
Evette Vargas, Digital Reign
Doug Magyri, IMMY
Khayyam Wakil, Live Planet
Moderator: David C. Traub, Co-Founder, Epiphany Film Fund
Participants:
Brett Leonard, Co-Founder, Virtuosity VR / Director
Khayyam Wakil, VR Strategy & Innovation / Creative Partnerships, Live Planet
Joseph A. Zaki, Founder and CEO, Vrtuality
Marshall Millett, CEO, Aemass
Richard Winn Taylor II, CEO, 3SpaceVR
Gregory Panos, Founder, Persona Foundation
Woody Schultz, President/Partner of Winning Swimmer Productions
Alexx Henry, CEO BlueVishnu
Slush PLAY, event in gaming and virtual reality was held on September 29-30th 2016 in Iceland.
Fireside Chat: VR and Movies
Moderator: Dennis Mitzner - Freelance Tech Journalist
Participants:
Ben Bohn - CEO & Managing Director at RVX,
Brett Leonard - CCO of Virtuosity
Khayyam Wakil - VR Strategy & Innovation / Creative Partnerships at Live Planet
Introduction to Live Planet, the industry’s first end-to-end immersive video system.