Samsung Developer Conference 2017 Session
Speakers: Jamie Leece – Major League Baseball, Michael Schmier – Samsung, Veda Shastri – The New York Times, Christian Tom – NowThis, Mia Tramz – Time inc

We host a panel of some of the world’s leading creators of 360 and immersive video content. Together we explore how companies are approaching creating new consumer behaviors for watching video in virtual reality. We will plan to pick one lucky member from the audience to also receive a free Gear 360 camera.

Samsung Developer Conference 2017 Session
Speakers: Patrick Beaulieu – NVIDIA, Rich Brown – CNET, Brad Park – Samsung, Mark Spates – Google, Karthik Thirumalai – Microsoft, Brett Worthington – Samsung

Voice control has quickly become the dominating subject in the world of consumer IoT with unprecedented device sales, user adoption, increased functionality, and major implications for how people live and interact in their homes. Join us alongside industry leaders for a panel about the future of voice technology hosted by Samsung SmartThings and moderated by CNET executive editor Rich Brown.

Samsung Developer Conference 2017 Session
Speakers: Amy Jo Kim – ShuffleBrain, Dean Takahashi – Gamesbeat

I am a neuroscientist and bass player who designed classic games including Rock Band and The Sims. I am a technology journalist at VentureBeat who has been covering games for almost 20 years and recently caught some flak because of struggles conquering the game Cuphead… Ask Us Anything!

Samsung Developer Conference 2017 Session
Speakers: Eric Darnell – Baobab Studios, Ryan Horrigan – Felix & Paul Studios, Yelena Rachitsky – Oculus, Colum Slevin – Oculus, Claudia Southmartin – Baobab, Daniel Terdiman – Fastcompany

VR is an emotionally compelling and effective storytelling medium with a new technical language. This panel will expand on some of the challenges in VR storytelling, such as transitioning from the novelty of VR to developing richer experiences for mobile users with high-quality characters and visuals. Eric Darnell, writer and director of the Madagascar films, is the Chief Creative Officer at Baobab Studios, creators of the Emmy-award winning Invasion!, follow-up Asteroids! and newest piece Rainbow Crow starring John Legend. Colum Slevin was formerly VP, Head of Studio Operations at Lucasfilm and is now the Head of Experiences at Oculus VR from Facebook. Ryan Horrigan is the Chief Content Officer at Felix & Paul Studios, makers of cinematic virtual reality experiences like Miyubi.

Samsung Developer Conference 2017 Session
Speaker: Jason Krebs – Tenor

Taking a deeper dive into brand advertisers, the revenue landscape as it relates to Emotions/GIFs and Tenor’s monetization SDK for developers!

Samsung Developer Conference 2017 Session
Speakers: Mark Hammond – Bon.sai, Sindhu Joseph – Cognicor, Sai Soundararaj – FloydHub, Ji Soo Yi – Samsung

AI is the key theme of many business areas. Unprecedented resources are being invested on AI research and business. There are also many AI startups. They are relatively small, but nimble. They search for their own problems. Thus, we invite a few promising startups to hear their unique challenges and opportunities in turning their AI technologies into a sustainable business, and their strategies to commercialize their solutions. We will also discuss what we can do together to build a healthy ecosystem of AI companies.

Samsung Developer Conference 2017 Session
Speakers: Youngjoo Park, Sukwon Danny Choi

It is no doubt that the kitchen is one of the most integral spaces in the household when it comes to sharing everyday life with family. We showed our passion for this space when we introduced the Smart Home Cloud API at last year’s SDC. This year, we will be introducing a new API that can connect your devices and applications to our Family Hub refrigerators, powering your house to become a kitchen-centric smart home.

Samsung Developer Conference 2017 Session
Speakers: John Jefferies, Jaeyeon Jung – Samsung, Emily McReynolds – University of Washington, Maurice Stebila – HARMAN by Samsung

This session explores frameworks for building trustworthy and resilient IoT systems that respect the privacy of users. We will delve into best security practices from industry and discuss challenges to meet them when designing and creating IoT devices. We also talk about many potential privacy threats posed by always connected devices and the various data collected about our life.

Samsung Developer Conference 2017 Session
Speaker: Kyoung-Gu Woo

We started Bixby as a multi-modal voice interface, specialized in device control. You can tell Bixby whatever you want on your device and Bixby does it for you, based on the NLU technology behind the scene. To make Bixby respond to both touch and voice, we had to deal with two tricky problems of version-aware classification and utterance conflict resolution. In this talk we’d like to share our experiences on how we tackled the problems and evolved over the time. We hope you will enjoy this talk by becoming a NLU problem solver for a while.