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Mentor Sessions offer 15 minutes of one-on-one interaction with industry leaders and professionals from a variety of fields spanning interactive, film, and music.

Meeting with this Mentor is highly recommended if you’re interested in VR/AR and Innovation.

Ryan Andal is the president and co-founder of two-time Emmy® Award-winning Secret Location – an Entertainment One Company, a content and technology studio for emerging platforms.
Ryan leads Secret Location’s technical, strategic and sales activities while also focusing on innovating in the VR space through creating technology meant to aid VR’s problems with content deficits and platform distribution.
Through Ryan, Secret Location became the first to win a Primetime Emmy® for a VR project, secured a Peabody: Facebook Future of Media Award with Frontline on PBS and won over 100 other awards.

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