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Revolutionising Your Transportation at the Speed of Sound

Let’s bring you back to the mid-seventies. Steve Jobs has just released his first commercial computer, with a microprocessor counting 3500 transistors. At that same time, humanity was already flying in Boeing 747’s at 900 km/hr. Today, even the smartphone you’re holding in your hand has more than 8 billion transistors, but still we’re flying basically the same airplanes with the same speed we did back in the seventies. What’s happening?
Hardt Global Mobility has emerged from the winning team of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop competition. Curious about the story of winning the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition? Curious about the next steps in realizing this new mode of transportation? Curious about how a trip in the future will look like? Indulge yourself in this inspiring story of a dedicated team committed to their dream of realizing the future of transportation.

Tim Houter
CO-FOUNDER & CEO HARDT GLOBAL MOBILITY
Tim Houter is the Chief Executive Officer of HARDT, the first European company developing and realizing the hyperloop. Previously he was the team captain of the Delft Hyperloop team which won the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition. His company recently closed its seed investment with the Dutch Railways and the Innovation Fund UNIIQ to further pursue his dream: Creating a global village.
Tim is an Engineer by heart, having a background in Mechanical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology he also build record-breaking electric race cars, submarine swarms, and a hyperloop prototype. His passion is combining his Engineering skills with a great team and loads of ambition to do the extraordinary.

Lately I’ve been super lucky to visit some visual effects and animation events around the world. But one of the first events I ever went to – before I even worked in VFX – was the Australian Effects and Animation Festival.

It’s still going, and it’s run by Digital Media World magazine, although now it has the slightly different name of the Animation Effects Awards Festival (AEAF). The event is over two days on 15 and 16 August at the Chauvel Cinema in Sydney – a very cool place to hold an event like this, I might add.

The speakers already announced are pretty incredible, and the two days conclude with an awards ceremony. So if you’re in Sydney on those days, I’d highly recommend attending.

Just check out some of these speakers:

• Sheldon Stopsack, Visual Effects Supervisor at MPC on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
• Rob Coleman, Head of Animation at Animal Logic
• Jeff Capogreco, Visual Effects Supervisor at ILM
• Lindsay Adams, Visual Effects Supervisor at Iloura
• Ian Kirby and Luke Bicevskis from The Sequence Group
• A representative from Weta Digital will also be one of the speakers

There’s more information at the AEAF website: http://aeaf.tv. I’ll be there too, so please come say hi. 

https://www.patreon.com/davidfirth thanks for making this possible. this is Cream. Please enjoy it. I won’t bother describing it. It is quite self explanatory really. A bit different from my usual method of storytelling. Those who pledged $50+ will see their names in the credits (I think I got all of you as of 27th May) – anyone who pledged after that will get their name in the next one. Please let me know if I missed you. I really hope I didn’t but I’m pretty sloppy and disorganized.