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José Virgilio Braghetto Neto
A founding partner and CEO of Omni Films Productions, José also acts as CTO and executive producer, serving the second largest retail chain in Brazil, in television commercial production and multimedia content for the internet, and also producing audiovisual content for communication companies such as Sony Television and ABC.

With degrees in Publicity and Advertising, he's also a certified journalist and movie director. Since 1996 he's taken part every year in the Siggraph (the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques) convention in the USA, keeping up-to-date professionally and forming tendencies in technology and interactive medias. On top of his activities as an executive producer, he's also given talks on multimedia, virtual reality and new technologies in academic institutions such as UNICAMP, UNIP and SEBRAE. With an IT background, especially in multimedia content production, he has a personal interest in space exploration and, in 2007, had the opportunity to briefly train as a cosmonaut in Russia, including a high altitude flight in a MIG-31, nicknamed “Edge of Space” flight. He is an active member and local representative of Mensa (mensa.org), a mountaineer and amateur beer brewer whenever possible.

Innovation is one of his main values and this is reflected in his restless and enterprising profile. In 2010, after attending a Singularity University program, he created Omni Labs, aiming to research and transfer knowledge in technology, communication and e-commerce and thus, make a difference in the community, in a country marked by enormous social and educational differences such as Brazil.