Mentor Session: Sean Evans (EVOQ)

{
  "id": "PP1150208",
  "track": "Tech & AI",
  "focus_area": null,
  "category": "Mentor Session",
  "event_id": "PP1150208",
  "event_type": "panel",
  "format": "Mentor Session",
  "genre": null,
  "subgenre": null,
  "name": "Mentor Session: Sean Evans (EVOQ)",
  "presented_by": null,
  "publish_at": "2026-01-16T10:00:00.000-06:00",
  "reservable": true,
  "reservable_id": "PP1150208",
  "reserved": false,
  "date": "2026-03-13",
  "end_time": "2026-03-13T12:45:00.000-05:00",
  "start_time": "2026-03-13T11:30:00.000-05:00",
  "message": null,
  "image": null,
  "credentials": [
    {
      "name": "Platinum Badge",
      "type": "platinum"
    },
    {
      "name": "Innovation Badge",
      "type": "innovation"
    }
  ],
  "contributors": [
    {
      "id": 49664,
      "company": "EVOQ",
      "credential_types": [
        "innovation"
      ],
      "entity_id": 2205802,
      "name": "Sean Thomas Evans",
      "speaker_types": [],
      "title": "CTO & Executive Producer",
      "image": {
        "alt_text": "Sean Evans",
        "credit": "",
        "url": "https://images.sxsw.com/CbaRv3a9Ur0CEfpBVm65HqvRfYU=/81x47:1705x1671/600x600/images.sxsw.com/48/f0346104-1b24-4f27-94fe-14be91bc9285/pcid-1568555"
      },
      "speaker_type": "Speaker",
      "details": "Sean Thomas Evans is a renowned XR producer, filmmaker, and creative technologist with over 25 years of experience. Since 2015, Sean has led the creation of dozens of immersive and transmedia productions, including Sharkwater VR, Living with Jaguars, and the award-winning VR experience The Holy City. His works have been showcased at prestigious festivals such as TIFF, Cannes, Venice, FIPADOC, Annecy, SIGGRAPH, and many others internationally.\r\rHis credits include the award-winning documentary \"\"Spots of Light,\"\" which chronicles an emotional journey into blindness and back again, and was screened at SIGGRAPH's VR Theatre 2024.\rSean's expertise spans a range of cutting-edge XR technologies, contributing to advancements in photogrammetry-driven environments, NLP-based narratives, and frameworks for real-time visualization and interactions with biometric data in virtual spaces. He continues pushing XR's boundaries, blending technology and storytelling to create powerful and transformative experiences.",
      "links": {},
      "type": "person"
    }
  ],
  "venue": {
    "accessible": false,
    "age_policy": null,
    "floor": "4",
    "id": "V0367",
    "indoor_outdoor": "INDOOR",
    "name": "Room 400-402",
    "parent_id": "V0365",
    "parent_venue_name": "Hilton Austin Downtown",
    "venue_entry_info": null,
    "formats": null,
    "location": {
      "address": "500 E 4th St.",
      "lat_lon": [
        30.2651364,
        -97.7381904
      ],
      "city": "Austin",
      "postal_code": "78701",
      "state": "TX",
      "name": "Hilton Austin Downtown"
    },
    "root": {
      "accessible": null,
      "age_policy": null,
      "floor": null,
      "id": "V0365",
      "indoor_outdoor": null,
      "name": "Hilton Austin Downtown",
      "parent_id": null,
      "parent_venue_name": null,
      "venue_entry_info": null,
      "formats": null
    },
    "events": "[omitted 5 venue events]"
  },
  "description": "Meeting with this mentor is highly recommended if you're interested in Immersive Technology, XR, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning.",
  "experience_level": "Beginner",
  "accessibility": [],
  "accessible_venue": false,
  "add_bcl_url": false,
  "add_slido": false,
  "age_policy": null,
  "american_sign_language": false,
  "apple_url": null,
  "audio_description": false,
  "caption_url": null,
  "closed_captioned": false,
  "cpe_credit": false,
  "has_subtitles": false,
  "hash_tags": [],
  "high_sensory_experience": false,
  "live": false,
  "long_description": "Meeting with this mentor is highly recommended if you're interested in Immersive Technology, XR, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning.",
  "meeting_url": null,
  "meeting_url_live": false,
  "mentorly_url": null,
  "mobile_audio_url": null,
  "open_captioned": false,
  "playlist_tag": null,
  "rebroadcast": false,
  "recommended_ids": [],
  "search_conversions": null,
  "short_program": false,
  "slido_url": null,
  "sort": "MENTOR SESSION: SEAN EVANS (EVOQ)",
  "source": "Official",
  "squad_up_url": null,
  "stream_embed": null,
  "stream_id": null,
  "stream_url": null,
  "strobe_warning": false,
  "subdiscipline": null,
  "summit": null,
  "summit_display_name": null,
  "tags": [],
  "talent_attending": null,
  "title_only": false,
  "track_display_name": "Tech & AI track sponsored by IBM",
  "trailer_id": null,
  "trailer_url": null,
  "video_on_demand": null,
  "vimeo_id": null,
  "vod": false,
  "xr_project_type": null,
  "youtube_id": null,
  "related_sales_client": null
}