Creative ENGineer / Technologist
VIRTUAL & Realtime PRODUCTION, Creative AI, Immersive TechnolOgy

DreamLab and MITIH Showcase Speaker at Beyond Conference (2024)

Panel Member at Animation Connections Conference, part of Manchester Animation Festival (2024)

Digital Puppetry Workshop and Showcase at Manchester Animation Festival (2024)

Immersive Tech Panel at 'Digital Television Group FutureTech Event' (2024)

AI and Future Media Panel at KITPLUS Manchester (2024)

'Copyright and AI', Panel Member at Innovate UK BridgeAI Annual Showcase, (2024)

'When Spatial Meets AI' at ARVR Innovate 2024, Dublin (2024)

Panel Member at Digital Cities Festival, talking about Innovation and Immersive technology in the Media Industries (2024)

Panel Member at Modern Audiences Conference, Discussing AI and Realtime Convergence at Leeds Beckett University (2024)

Various talks and workshops at MediaCity Innovation events I helped to organise, including AI Jam, XR Jam, Virtual Production Lab, Animating Tomorrow Lab, ComfyUI Hack and more (2024)

Talk with Andy Miah on 'Immersive Intelligence' at Salford University DIT (2024)

Speaker at "Modern Music Cities" Conference in Liverpool (2023) on a panel about Technology, AI and Music

Organiser and Panel Chair at 'Virtual Production: State of the Art' (2022) in Liverpool, with guests from Epic Games, Studio Ulster and Production Park. Organised in Collaboration with LJMU.

Organiser and Panel Chair at 'Write the Future: Music and Technology Conference' (2022) in Liverpool, organised in collaboration with META & the Liverpool Music Board.

'Working in Immersive Tech' (2022), Event at Birmingham City University/Worcester University.

'Beyond the Metaverse and the Future of Experience, ARVR Innovate 2022

Panel Chair at AVVR Innovate 2020 in Dublin, For a session on 'Immersive Tech and Creative Industries

Woodbridge, P, Liu, J, Moreno de Palma, N, Roughley, M (2020) 'Digital Humans' event at Avenue HQ Liverpool

Woodbridge, P, McCartan, S Eilbeck, A (2020) 'Maritime augmented reality, as a tool for immersive experiences for ferry and cruise operators between the UK and Ireland, creating new commercial opportunities for the marketing, advertising and tourism sectors'. Marine Design International Conference, RINA, Cadiz, Spain

Woodbridge, P (2019) Immersive Storytelling in Tourism Talk at Advantage Austria Event in Dublin

Woodbridge, P (2019) Immersive Storytelling Panel Member at ARVR Innovate Dublin

Woodbridge, P. Kay, R. Eilbeck, A (2018) Augmenting Place: Story R&D with the Invisible Landscape. Immersive Storytelling Experiences Research Symposium

Woodbridge, P (2018) Spaceships, Monsters, Time Travel & Digital Ghosts. Volumetric Placemaking Adventures with Augmented Reality and Spatial Computing. Arts in Science Talk, Liverpool

Woodbridge, P (and others) (2018) Immersive Storytelling Panel - Augmented Reality Storytelling at ARVR Manchester International Conference. ARVR-Conference-Programme-2018

Woodbridge, P (2018) Immersive Storylab Presentation on Augmented Reality Storytelling, Northern Media Summit, Manchester

Woodbridge, P (2018) Secret Coast, ARVR Marketplace Pitch, Digital Catapult Centre, London

Woodbridge, P (2018) Augmented Reality Storytelling, Laval Virtual, France

Woodbridge, P (2017) 'On The Mediality of Place: Digital Placemaking and the future of Mixed Urban Reality' at ESRC Ways of Being in a Digital Age Conference, Liverpool

Black, R & Woodbridge, P (2017) 'The essence of VR and AR" at Liverpool Knowledge Quarter, VR Event

Woodbridge, P (2017) 'How can business harness the power of VR and AR' BusinessCloud Event, Manchester

Verity, M & Woodbridge, P (2017) 'Imagining Future Cities: Mixed Reality and the Transformation of Urban Experiential Space'. International AR and VR Conference, Manchester

Woodbridge, P (2016) 'Pokemon Go Away: Digital Urbanism and Mediated Architectures'. Coventry University Media Research Seminars invited Speaker.

Woodbridge, P (2016) ‘The Immersive Storylab. Speculative Mediations on the Future of Media Practice'. Part of the Plenary panel discussing Future Screens at the Journal of Media Practice / MeCCSA Practice Network Annual Symposium. London South Bank University

Woodbridge, P et al (2016) ‘Control Societies’ Essay Featured in an Augmented HyperVideo Book developed by Mute Publishing and Open Humanities Press.

Woodbridge, P (2015) 'Art, Technology and Activism: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Crime in Sicily and Irregular Migration in sub-Saharan Africa' at Enhancing Interdisciplinarity, University of Liverpool

Woodbridge, P (2015) ‘Performing the Secret’ Experimental Publishing Workshop at Politics and Practices of Secrecy, Kings College London

Woodbridge, P (2013) ‘Liquid Cinema Project’ Talk at Raindance Film Centre on the Postgraduate Degree in Film, London

Woodbridge, P (2012) ‘Open Source Media Practice: The Creative Activism Open Education Project’ at Beyond Content, Open Education Conference, Vancouver

Birchall, C , Hall, G and Woodbridge, P (2012) ‘The Post-Secret State: Openness and Transparency in the Era of Government 2.0’ in Ctrl-Z - New Media Philosophy alongside a short essay 'How to Do Justice to Media Specificity—Or, Should This Video Be Left to Speak for Itself?'

Woodbridge, P (2012) ‘Open Creativity and Transformation in Independent Film’ Warwick University Cultural Policy Studies Visiting talk

Adema, J and Woodbridge, P (2011) ‘Symbiosis: Ecologies, Assemblages and Evolution’ Edited Digital Book as Part of the ‘Living Books About Life’ Series, Open Humanities Press

Mair, J and Woodbridge P  (2011) 'Facing the Future in Higher Education' Chapter in Book 'Face the Future: Tools for the Modern Media Age', Abramis Press

Woodbridge, P (2011). 'Open Pedagogies in Creative Media: Moving from knowledge consumption to exchange' June 2011, at Post-digital Encounters, Journal of Media Practice Annual Conference at the Digital Culture Research Centre, Bristol

Hides, S and Woodbridge, P (2010) 'Open Source Education: A radical case for the Arts and Humanities', Coventry School of Art and Design Open Media Seminar Series, Coventry University

Woodbridge, P. (2010) 'Integrated uses of media platforms in HE in University Teaching Resources', Association for Commonwealth Universities Annual Conference, Melbourne Australia

Woodbridge, P (2010) ‘Integrated Use of Emerging Media Platforms', Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), London

Woodbridge, P. (2010) ‘Opening Up Educational Resources at Coventry University’ Elate Conference, Coventry University,

Birchall, C , Hall, G and Woodbridge, P (2010) 'Deleuze's Postscript on Societies of Control' in Culture Machine, Open Humanities Press

Woodbridge, P. (2009) ‘CUTV: Academic Dissemination through Multimedia’  Elate Conference, Coventry University,

Woodbridge, P. (2007) ‘Personal Media in the West Midlands Film Archive: a project idea’. At ‘Private materials in the Public Realm’ AHRC funded Seminar Series, Coventry University

Woodbridge, P. (2006) ‘Same But Different’. At NUI, Galway conference: 'The Challenge of Diversity: Teaching, Support and Student Learning’ Conference.

Woodbridge, P. (2006) ‘Equality and Diversity in Education: A Training Resource’. At HEA (Higher Education Academy) conference: Curriculum Innovation For Diversity, York University.