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Meet our 2023 Speakers

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Simon Benson - HOST
​​​​​Simon Benson is the Immersive Technology Director at HOST (the Home of Skills and Technology at Media City) and a leading technology consultant.  He is a rare find outside of Silicon Valley with close to 30 years of commercial immersive development experience, including military R&D, motorsports and consumer entertainment.  Career highlights include leading multi-million AAA game projects, pioneering stereoscopic 3D console gaming and founding the PlayStation VR project.  Previously, he held the role of Director of Immersive Technology at Sony and is cited as inventor on over 50 patents.

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  • Home
  • 2025 Programme
  • TT25 Award
  • 2025 Speakers
    • Andrew Aldridge
    • Dr. Ali Alameer
    • Tom Cheesewright
    • Glenn Wilkinson
    • Camilla Esmund
    • Dr Penny Traynor
    • John Toon
    • Padmasini Dayananda
    • Jayden Patel
    • Lauren Birch
    • Angie Lloyd-Jones
    • Julie Burnage
    • David Gardner
    • Rahul Verma
    • Sophie Zienkiewicz
    • Sohail Ashraf
    • Eleanor Harry
    • Sam Booth
    • Simon Groom
    • Sourav Dey
    • Thorrun Govind
    • Tom Sharpe
    • Toby Sinclair
    • Mabel Sanchez Barrioluengo
    • Martin Leigh
    • Michael Jakubiak
    • Nicola Jones
    • Nicola McCormick
    • Ben Davies
    • Amul Batra
    • Naomi Timperley
    • Rachel Kenyon
    • Fiaz Sadiq
    • Katherine Megson
    • Zahraa Murtaza
    • Sirka Moore
  • Agenda
  • Sponsors
    • Aventive Group
    • Beever and Struthers
    • Bruntwood SciTech
    • University of Salford
    • The University of Manchester
    • Innovate UK Business Growth
    • TLT LLP
    • Summit
    • KAO Data
    • interactive investor
  • Watch TT24!
  • Contact Us
  • BLOG