Seminar on media trends (SEMPL) will host roundtable about new digital media opportunities titled “Internet (still) offers many opportunities. Can you find them?” on November 30th at 4 pm with guest from new digital and mobile media Slovenian start-up scene.

Seminar on media trends (SEMPL) is an internationally recognized event, which is intended for the presentation of current media trends in the Adriatic region and the analysis of foreign and domestic good praxis. It is intended for all those who work in media, with media or for media, and all those who shape media trends and act according to them.

Roundtable will be exploring the topic “Internet (still) offers many opportunities. Can you find them?” Media are looking for new business models, which would have represented an additional (or even dominant) source of income. Most of them use the internet and looking for new digital technologies. Some Slovenian start-up companies have also found a niche on the internet as developing new advertising tools, different ways of interaction between consumers and the ad message, new digital and mobile platforms. Panelists: Robert Farazin, co-founder and director, DoubleRecall new brand advertising platform for mobile and web, Mitja Jereb, marketing director, TSmedia, Matevž Klanjšek, co-founder and chief product officer, Celtra rich media mobile advertising platform, and Mija Lorbek, co-founder and managing director, UNIKI gesture interactive screens.

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Monthly meeting of Slovenian Marketing Association DMS, held at Slovenian Chamber of Commerce on 28th of November at 6 pm, will be focused on crucial triangle of success marketing-development-innovation.

Interesting guests from entrepreneurial environment will present their own views on collaboration between marketing and development in relation to progress. Distinctive innovation paths will be reavealed by Toni Balažič from Žito, Davorin Šimunić from Ledo, Mija Lorbek, MSc from UNIKI Intelligent media, Klemen Španinger PhD from DiaGenomi and Hine Alex Vrtačnik from Svetloba.

Read more: DMS

In media: Dnevnik

RSVP here: Monthly meeting

Join our CTO Borut Kumperščak tomorrow at 1500 for an engaging talk about natural interfaces and behind-the-scenes that make them possible. Talk will be about computer vision, machine learning, depth sensing, algorithms, frameworks, Kinect hacks and more.

RSVP here http://www.meetup.com/vblatu/events/41085492/, see you there!

You can join today’s startup meeting where UNIKI’s CIO Primoz Rome will share some thoughts of UNIKI’s success story and experiences. Meetup is held at youth center in Zagorje ob Savi and will start at 7:00 PM. More information about the event:

- http://www.mczos.si/2011/11/podjetniski-vecer-s-primozem-rometom-uniki and
- http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=287625047927724

Come and see us.

On 28th of September the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia will host Forum SFPO. We are honored that we were invited to lecture at this year forum.

At 11am UNIKI‘s CEO, Mija Lorbek will discusses How innovation and flexibility can help create future marketing trends

The main topic of SFPO FORUM 2011 is the story of knowledge, its foundations, ways of working theory into practice, and the systematic conversion of know-how into globally competitive products with high added value.

SFPO forum 2011 offers a unique opportunity to learn from the top Slovenian experts and managers, to draw inspiration for future projects and to find out how to:

- maintain an effective balance between economic and engineering expertise to achieve a high level of stable competitiveness at the international level;

- focus on the solid foundations upon which competitiveness and business excellence can flourish also in the future, despite the economically challenging conditions.

Invited speakers and lecturers featured at the forum include:

1. Radovan Stanislav Pejovnik, PhD, Rector of the University of Ljubljana.

2. Jadran Lenarčič, PhD, Director of the Jožef Stefan Institute.

3. Janko Jamnik, PhD, Director of the National Institute of Chemistry.

4. Jožica Rejec, PhD, Management Board President of Domel d.o.o., with colleagues.

5. Radovan Bolko, Chief Executive Officer of Kolektor Group d.o.o., with colleagues.

6. Jože Dedič, PhD, Chief Developer at Cosylab,d.d.

7. Mija Lorbek, Executive Director of UNIKI d.o.o.

8. Peter Florjančič, an internationally recognized inventor.

9. 2ndSight, a group of students from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of Maribor.

10. A multi-disciplinary student group working under the umbrella of the National Institute of Chemistry.

More at: www.forumsfpo.si

What do KAWS, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Hennessy and UNIKI Interactive have in common?

The love for Very Special things.

And it all came together in a beautiful VIP evening at the eclectic New York must experience institution, the New Museum, under the watchful eye of our fav nyc based event agency Team Epiphany (respect!), an evening of expectations and awe on Thursday July 21st.

We were honored and proud to be chosen for the delicate task of providing some of the most visible wow-moments for the VS(OP) night. The UNIKI mega digital shadow interactive reveal wall, which we set up in one hour sharp, was 36ft (12m) long and 10 ft (3m) high and breathtaking for most visitors. To quote just one: “OMG, this is soooo awesome…and I’m not even good at using computers!!”

The exclusive bottles will hit the store shelves in September ’11, that is if there will be any left..it is a limited edition numbered series after all.
So, a-a really…can’t touch this

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Read an interesting interview with UNIKI chief executive officer Mija Lorbek in today’s edition Dnevnik, one of the largest daily newspaper in Slovenia. The main focus is on the unique story how to enter the foreign markets and how to tackle the obstacles.

Preberi več (SI): http://www.dnevnik.si
Read more (ENG): http://translate.google.com/translate

Legendary Bruce Sterling has published has published a video from UNIKI augmented reality and gesture interactive application on his famous Beyond the Beyond, hosted on Wired. In advanced UNIKI application 3D avatars are animated in real-time according to peoples movements in front of the screen. Check the post from Wired’s AR guru Bruce Sterling himself: http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/07/augmented-reality-uniki/

On Monday 27th of June you are kindly invited to exhibition opening “…Seite XX” at the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin. The exhibition is devoted to 20th anniversary of the birth of Slovenian state. Among other historical and artistic subjects the exhibition will feature UNIKI interactive uni.flip system with interactive brochure about the development of Slovenian statehood from pre-WWI until present. Project development by Katja Sudec in partnership with National Museum of Contemporary History.

More info : http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de

Over two days, 7^th-8^th June 2011, The Inspire Conference is bringing together some of the most brilliant minds in Technology, Creativity and Entrepreneurship from across the world to the heart of Europe’s exploding tech and creative scene in London.

The Inspire Conference speakers will present their take on topics ranging from crowd sourcing to open data, from the future of Internet typography to future of search. The 2 days of sessions, panel discussions and networking will feature 30+ inspirational speakers including representatives from organisations like The Times, Mozilla Labs, Spotify, MediaSift, Ogilvy, YouGov, Mendeley, Ushahidi, Soundcloud, Angry Birds, Wolfram Research, WIRED, TechCrunch Europe.and many more… Conference program will be presented in a new gesture interactive augmented way trough UNIKI intelligent media screen.

Ian Broom, co-founder of The Inspire Conference and Launch48, says: “This is a must-attend conference for startups, entrepreneurs, VCs, Angels, investors and business leaders in addition to media influencers, bloggers, writers, community leaders, developers, designers and marketers. The Inspire Conference will provide participants with the opportunity to hear from some of the best speakers in the world.”

Click here to learn more about The Inspire Conference

Click here to book tickets

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Primož Rome, UNIKI CIO will attend and lecture at a regional business school program aimed at entrepreneurship encouragement in central Slovenian region of Zasavje. Primož will talk about company and business development and present UNIKI story to the future entrepreneurs. Program is funded by European regional development fund (ERDF) and executed by Regional Center for Development, Zasavje.

UNIKI showed off first ever interactive Kite projection screen at KiteLife’s season opening event in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Real-sized kite was mounted under the roof of the Cvetličarna night club. The rear projector screen was set up to project an interactive projection on the kite surface. 3D sensor tracked the movement of the visitors. The movement was transferred in real time onto the kite’s projection which was transformed in the coolest projection effect ever. More interactive projection screens at events on http://www.uniki.eu/events.

Interactive projection screen on kite's surface

We are happy to invite all UNIKI and kitesurfing fans to great Season Opening Party, Friday the 6th of May in Cvetličarna, Ljubljana. Good music, great company and the best interactive surprise by UNIKI!

We are proud to be one of the sponsor’s and co-creating the best atmosphere in town.

Hope to see you there

Howdy from Texas, Ya’all!

Austin, TX, to be precise, the live music capital of the world, known and loved for it’s music/film/interactive South by Southwest festival bringing together the geekiest with the hippest in a creative exchange and business handshakes that kick off springtime energy boosts for everyone.

SxSW attracts thousands, not to say tens of thousands of people every year and produces an apropriately exponential stirr in the online social space, so we were honored when the top New York Startups decided Uniki is going to provide gesture interaction at their all day event.

So there we were this Sunday March 13th, at the legendary The Parish, interacting with 10gen, Aviary, Blip.tv, Buddy Media, Buzz Feed, Daylife, Foursquare, Etsy, Harvest, Hashable, HowAboutWe, Kaltura, Knewton, Lot18, Meetup, Pixable, Second Market,Shapeways, Solvate, SquareSpace,Yipit, Zemanta…

Visitors used our Uni.Gallery interactive picture caroussell to help visually identify representatives of presenting companies, familiarize themselves with their names, titles and twitter handles. Newcomers waved their way through a showreel of the startups and then continued to network with new confidence.

For the more relaxed crowd we pulled live twitter feeds under the event hashtag into Uni.Bubbles so they moved around with the attendants image on the screen.

About 700 attendants later we can say with confidence that:

one screen + two Uniki applications = a ton of different natural user interface approaches

We have wittnessed marketingers squat and jump, sales people scratch the air, CEO’s pull imaginary loads with two hands, ingeeners move their hips, and our favourite, the legendary-karate-kid “wax on, wax off” full arm circular waves. All of them came with a smile. And that made all of  us happy!

So watch out America, here we come

(can’t touch this)

After five successful conferences ROSUS 2006-2010 ROSUS  again in 2011 want  to    promote the importance of the economic benefits of computer imaging in the fields of industry, biomedicine and other business processes.

ROSUS provides opportunities for researchers, developers, solution providers and users of computer imaging in the Slovenian territory for entering into new collaborations, and advice to solve concrete business and research problems.

On this year conference CTO of UNIKI  Borut Kumperščak was invited to give a lecture about Natural  User Interfaces in  Creative Industries.

The conference will be held on 17th March 2011 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Maribor. We will be happy to see you there.

More about ROSUS in slovene here

New augmented vision project with Danza Macabra Records will be launched on Friday, the 29th of October 2010, at Ljubljana’s popular club Cvetlicarna. Launch of new highly branded record label will be accompanied by rich music program, EP releases, fashion show, video launch, all supported conceptual search for imaginary character of Exotic Stranger.

UNIKI is collaborating with Danza Macabra Record on project of augmented vision deriving brand identity imagery and concept. Record’s icon signature figure, the mysterious Exotic Stranger, is namely always covered with mask, as well as musicians playing on stage. Identity is hidden and augmented by coverage, thereby UNIKI is using the same principle to virtualy immerse visitors of the event into experience. Visit the event for more…

More at: http://www.danzamacabra-records.com/

mediaPro, the largest event focused on the future of marketing and communications in UK, will take place from 2nd to 3rd of November at London’s busiest venue Olympia. UNIKI was invited to give lecture among world leading innovators of integrated communication.

mediaPro Event will provide ideal environment for for marketers, brand managers, agencies  and the media to develop strategies and learn new tactics for the future. Seminar and exhibition space is divided into four sections: Digital mediaPro, Social mediaPro, Print mediaPro, Publishing mediaPro.

UNIKI was invited to give lecture among professionals pushing future of marketing forward. Among greatest names are listed: major investor and board member of Twitter Peter Fenton, Marketing Director of Universal Pictures Karen Charalambous, Sr VP Digital Business of L’Oréal Georges-Edouard Dias, Managing Director of Guardian Tim Brooks, Deputy Chairman of Ogilvy Rory Sutherland, Head of B2B Marketing Communications, Events and Experience, O2, Art Director of Wallpaper* Stephen M. M. Pritchard and others…

UNIKI will present latest trends in field of interactive gesture and augmented reality marketing as well as present live business case with its measurements. One of the most successful business collaboration with company Bisnode will be present in live dialogue with the customer. Results, such as ROI and leads collected, with all the relevant marketing statistics will add some additional info to interesting technology demonstration. UNIKI, that has been specializing in interactive gesture solutions for event, in-store and digital signage, will take that this important opportunity to launch brand new products in field of gesture banners and augmented print. You are kindly invited to join us at the event! Register for your FREE entry to mediaPro 2010 here.

More about lecture www.mediaproexpo.co.uk/speakers/mija-lorbeck/

More about mediaPro at www.mediaproexpo.co.uk

Media coverage:
Dnevnik

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Primož Rome, CIO of UNIKI will share his story as young successful entrepreneur at Work For Youth on 22nd of October at Student club ŠKLAB, Zagorje.

Event start at 5 p.m. with live talk with Primož about challenges in local community.

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