Sylvio Drouin

As Vice President of Unity Labs, Sylvio Drouin leads Unity Technologies’ advanced research efforts, looking 3-10 years ahead. Unity Labs creates prototypes, releases new technologies, publishes scientific papers, shares best practices, as well as works with academia and partners on advanced research related to the future of content authoring, content consumption as well as novel forms of applications for the Unity engine. Unity has 2 billions monthly active players as well as 12 millions developers using their technology. Unity Labs's work has already resulted in cutting-edge graphics, AI, AR and VR technologies that demonstrate what developers and consumers will be doing in the near future. 

Prior to Unity, Sylvio served as the CTO of Xtranormal, a 3D storytelling company and before that, CTO of Tiny Pictures, which was acquired by Shutterfly. Before moving to Silicon Vallet, Sylvio was CTO for multiple companies around the world; architected an interactive TV infrastructure in South East Asia as well as creating on of the first Machine Learning startup in Canada. Sylvio has been working in the fields of AI and computer graphic for over 30 years, from large-scale companies to startups and continues to serve as a strategic advisor, with a focus on innovation, core technology, and product vision.