Marco Tempest

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Marco Tempest is a cyber-illusionist, tech innovator, magician, and corporate entertainer that combines magic and tech to produce amazing illusions that have dazzled and surprised audiences all over the world. Tempest is also a Directors Fellow at the prestigious MIT Media Lab.

Marco Tempest is a cyber-illusionist, tech innovator, magician, and corporate entertainer. In the business world, many of the world’s leaders in the high-tech industries have found Tempest’s work to be the perfect way to present their newest products and innovations – to their own staff members and to the public at large. Such giants as Panasonic, Sony, Apple, and Lucent Technologies have used his services time and time again.

Illusion, technology and a creative approach to storytelling made Marco Tempest one of the most popular speakers at technology conferences all over the world, including the annual TED get together. A keen advocate of the open source community, Tempest shares his ideas with artists, writers and technologists pushing them to explore and test the boundaries of the digital world. As a Directors Fellow at the prestigious MIT Media Lab, he collaborates with researchers and scientists fascinated with the role that illusion plays in everyday life.

Marco Tempest is also a frequent keynote speaker at tech conferences around the world, a creative consultant at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, an Accenture Luminary and the Accenture Lead Consultant for Extended Reality. Tempest is executive director of the NYC MagicLab, a science consortium exploring illusion and digital technology. Applications include media, marketing, entertainment and the prototyping of future technologies via immersive experiences.

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