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@iamkhayyam

Making people smile in YVR / LAX / LIS

Looking for opportunities to apply big brain thinking to big hard challenges to solve the impossible problems and the never been done before's.

2 years ago

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

2022

20 public collections

Projects

2021
2020

✪ Artofficial / ✪ Eclipse / ★ Warner Bros

2020
⚑ Super Bowl LIV - Holograms at Hard Rock Stadium

✪ Artofficial

2015

✪ First Born

2015

✪ @radical Media

2015

✪ Digital Domain

2015

✪ Wieden+Kennedy

2015

✪ Team Coco

2015
2014

✪ @radical Media
1st Emmy for an immersive company or campaign

2014
⚑ Introducing New Ad Units at IAB

✪ Hulu
1st immersive and interactive video ad units w/Mercedes Benz and Travel Alberta

2014

✪ Forsman & Bodenfors

2013
⚑ Embedding Chipset 360 at Intel 🔐

✪ 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

2013
⚑ Super Bowl XLVII - Live Stream 360 at NFL

✪ Baltimore Ravens

2013
⚑ PET MRI at GE Healthcare 🔐

✪ GE Healthcare / Immersive Media

2013

✪ Roddenberry Entertainment / Immersive Media / Animal Farm

2013
Reunion Island 360 at Reunion Island

✪ Reunion Island / Immersive Media

2013
Disclosure - Live Stream at Central Park

✪ Universal Music

2013

✪ Goodby, Silverstein & Partners

2012

✪ Ustream / Georgia Aquarium / Immersive Media

2012
⚑ Republican National Convention at CBS

♞ Mitt Romney of Massachusetts ♞ Paul Ryan of Wisconsin
Tampa Bay Times Forum; Tampa, Florida

2012
⚑ Democratic National Convention at CBS

♞ Barack Obama of Illinois ♞ Joe Biden of Delaware
Time Warner Cable Arena, Charlotte

2012
⚑ London Olympics - Go4Gold at Coca-Cola

✪ ATG / nCite

2011
⚑ Unwrap the Night at Bacardi

✪ Blast Radius

2015

⚐ Best in Show / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2015

⚐ Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media / ✪ @radical Media

2015
🥉 Bronze Clio - VR Dew Snow from Clio Awards

⚐ Film, Athlete Branded Entertainment and Content / ✪ First Born

2014
🥇 Gold Lion - Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series from Cannes International Festival of Creativity

⚐ Integrated / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014
🥇 Gold Lion - Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series (Integrated Campaign) from Cannes International Festival of Creativity

⚐ Cyber / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014
🥈 Silver Lion - Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series from Cannes Festival of Creativity

⚐ Media / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014
🥈 Silver Lion - Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series from Cannes International Festival of Creativity

⚐ Film / Craft / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014
🥉 Bronze Lion - Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series from Cannes International Festival of Creativity

⚐ Web Platforms, Website / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014
🥉 Bronze Lion - Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series from Cannes International Festival of Creativity

⚐ Film / Craft, Use of Video / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014
🥉 Bronze Lion - Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series from Cannes International Festival of Creativity

⚐ Cyber / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014

⚐ Integrated & Earned Media/Integrated / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014

⚐ Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series (Epic Splits) / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014
🎖️ Next Viral / Web Film from AICP Awards

⚐ Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014
🎖️ Advertising Excellence from AICP Awards

⚐ Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series & Epic Splits / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014
🎖️ Visual Style from AICP Awards

⚐ Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series & Epic Splits / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014
🎖️ Direction from AICP Awards

⚐ Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series & Epic Splits / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014
🎖️ Next / Integrated Campaign from AICP Awards

⚐ Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series Integrated Campaign / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014
🎖️ Advertising Excellence from AICP Awards

⚐ Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series & Epic Splits / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014

⚐ Volvo Trucks / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014
🎉 Best in Show - Volvo Trucks: Live Test Series from One Show

✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014

⚐ Interactive, Short Form / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014

⚐ Branded Entertainment, Short-Form / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014

⚐ Branded Entertainment, Best Direction / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014

⚐ Advertising, Online / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014

⚐ Advertising, Direction / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014
2014

⚐ Branded Entertainment, Best Editing / ✪ Forsman & Bodensfor

2014
2014
2014

⚐ Mobile Sites & Apps, Events - Handheld Devices / ✪ Goodby, Silverstein & Partners

2013
🥈 Silver - Doritos #Boldstage from ADDY - American Advertising Awards

✪ Goodby, Silverstein & Partners

2012
🥇 Gold - Lloyds TSB / Torchview from WPP Awards

✪ MEC/WPP

Work Experience

2021 — 2022
2012 — 2014
2012 — 2013
2010 — 2012
Head of Strategy / Co-Founder at ATG: Against the Grain
Las Vegas, NV
2009 — 2012
2022
GM at System of a DAO ⚪

Volunteering

2022 — Now
2022 — Now
2022 — Now
2022 — Now
Advisory Board at █████
Los Angeles, CA
2021 — Now
2020 — Now
Internet, W3
2019 — Now
2022 — 2023
2015 — 2022
San Francisco, CA
2016 — 2021
2018 — 2019
Los Angeles, CA
2018 — 2019
2014 — 2015
Los Angeles, CA
2013 — 2014
Los Angeles, CA
2012 — 2013
New York, NY

Education

2018 — 2018
Artificial Intelligence at MIT Sloan School of Management
Boston, MA
2006 — 2010
Innovative Generalism at School of Hard Knocks

Generalists do it better.

1993 — 2006
Engineering & Computer Science at University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK

Dropped out my last year shy of an engineering and computer science degree with a minor in philosophy.

Speaking

2022
Toronto, ON

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.

2022

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.

2022
Austin, TX

Chair: Khayyam Wakil / Founding Member / Champagne DAO

Interviewee:
Gennaro D'Urso / Founder and CEO / Genetic Networks

2022
Austin, TX

Chair: Jeff Kauffman / Founder / Jump Community

Panelists:
Jess Sloss / Instigator / Seedclub
Jonathan Goodwin / Director of Community & Marketing / Fancurve
Khayyam Wakil / Founding Member / Champagne DAO

2022
Austin, TX

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

2021

Chair: Khayyam Wakil / General Partner / Knowware Venture Capital

Participants:
Nils Pihl / CEO / Matterless Studios, Auki Labs
Sofiane Delloue / CEO / Newlife.io

2018
Los Angeles, CA

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

2018
Las Vegas, NV

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

2018
Las Vegas, NV

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

2017
Santa Clara, CA

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.

2017
Seoul, KR

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.

2017
Amsterdam, NL

How do we think differently to monetise VR?

2017
Amsterdam, NL

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

2017
Amsterdam, NL

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

2017

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

2017
New York, NY

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.

2017
Las Vegas, NV

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

2017
Las Vegas, NV

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/

2017
Austin, TX

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

2017
Las Vegas, NV

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

2016
Los Angeles, CA

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

2016
Reykjavik, IS

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

2016
Amsterdam, NL

Introduction to Live Planet, the industry’s first end-to-end immersive video system.

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