Speaker

Speaker

Kim-Leigh Pontin

Nexus Studios

Creative Director

Speaker Biography

As Creative Director at Nexus Interactive Arts, Kim-Leigh specialises in directing interactive volumetric capture experiences, as well as interactive narrative design for emerging tech.

Kim-Leigh’s background is in XR, interactive TV, emerging technology interaction design, and interactive storytelling. She brings ideas of embodied interaction and speculative design to the world of television production and product design.

Previously she has worked at Sky VR Studios, the BBC, Amazon and Apple and studied Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art. She has won a BAFTA, Emmy & D&AD for interactive TV work, and three VR pieces that Kim-Leigh directed were recently shown at the Venice Film Festival (2017, 18 & 19).