Ivan Poupyrev is an award-winning inventor, scientist and designer. Working at the forefront of interaction design, he blends digital and physical realities in everyday objects, devices and the living environment.

Ivan is currently heading up a team at the Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP), where he is focussed on designing for our future digital lifestyle. Previously at Walt Disney Imagineering Research Division and Sony Corporate Research Labs in Tokyo, his work has garnered attention at international science conferences such as ACM SIGGRAPH, CHI and has received critical acclaim in the worldwide press including New York Times, Wired magazine, Time, MIT Technology Review and, notably, Fast Company magazine which described his as “one of the best interaction designers in the world”.