Mk Haley

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  • ACM SIGGRAPH - Pioneer Member Graphic

    Various Conference and Executive Committe Roles since 1989

    ACM SIGGRAPH - Pioneer Member

    Education

    SIGGRAPH - Special Interest Group in Computer Graphics and Interactive Technologies.http://www.siggraph.org/

    Positions Include:
    - Emerging Technologies Chair 2022 & 2001
    - SIGGRAPH Frontiers Program Chair 2017-2020
    - Conference Chair 2013
    - Student Volunteer Chair 1997
    - Conference Juror - Routinely
    - Education Committee
    - Conference Advisory Group

  • International Board, SATE Conference Planning Committee, Next Gen Advisory Board

    TEA- Themed Entertainment Association

    - Present 13 years 7 months

    Education

    - SATE Annual Conference Technology Track Conference Chair 2013 & 2014
    - Next-Gen Advisory Board - Mentorship of students and entry level talent to our industry ongoing
    - iBoard - TEA International Board - elected to office Jan 2020
    - TEAAS - Themed Entertainment Association Academic Symposium Founding Team and ongoing Conference Support http://teaacademicsociety.org

    http://teaconnect.org/

  • Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Graphic

    Interactive Media Member

    Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

    Education

    http://www.emmys.com/

  • ACM SIGGRAPH Graphic

    SIGGRAPH 2020 Emerging Technologies Venue Chair

    ACM SIGGRAPH

    - Present 3 years 9 months

  • International Board of Directors

    TEA - Themed Entertainment Association

    - Present 3 years 9 months

  • Worldwide Santa Claus Network, LLC Graphic

    Independent Consultant

    Worldwide Santa Claus Network, LLC

    - Present 2 years 4 months

    Serve as an advisor to the Worldwide Santa Clause Network and their Summit on the topics of Guest Experience, Experience Design, Storytelling and Ritual as it relates to the Santa Claus experience in the US

Publications

  • THE POWER OF DISNEY RESEARCH AND EDUCATING THE NEXT GENERATION

    The Tomorrow Society Podcast

    The Tomorrow Society Episode 206: IMAGINEER MK HALEY ON THE POWER OF DISNEY RESEARCH AND EDUCATING THE NEXT GENERATION

    See publication
  • How the Santas Saved Christmas - Innovation in Character Meet & Greet Experiences

    Themed Entertainment Association - SATE Conference - Storytelling, Architecture, Technology & Experience

    An overview of some of the innovative best practices developed to continue to share and expand the Santa character meet and greet experience during the pandemic. And how those tools and practices were shared amongst a global audience of Santas.

    Other authors
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  • Creating Happiness Lecture Series - New Zealand

    US Embassy and Consulate in New Zealand

    A lecture series across Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin that consisted of four talks and four workshops that explored the future of “the experience” within the culture and heritage sector and beyond. the popular talks attracted over 800 entrepreneurs, industry experts, creative business owners, and students attending the lectures and workshops across the country

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  • ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES Utilization of Themed Experience in Cultural and Creative Venues

    AIMAC & Dijon Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences

    ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
    The research center in business and management sciences in Burgundy, Franche-Comté and Haute Alsace, together with the AIMAC (International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management) and the Dijon Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Burgundy in Dijon, France), will organize on 21st September 2018 In co-operation with Dr. Susan Fiorito and Peter Weishar

    Other authors
  • Disney Imagineer Teaches FSU Students The Magic of Storytelling

    Tallahassee Magazine

    Feature Article in Tallahassee Magazine that gives an overview of relationship between Walt Disney Imagineer Mk Haley and Florida State University where she also serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence.

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  • Speaking Engagement - Play: A World-Building Workshop

    Sundance Film Festival

    If you could design a city from scratch, what would you include? Writer/director Lance Weiler (Frankenstein AI: A Monster Made by Many), director John Hsu (Your Spiritual Temple Sucks), and experience designer Mk Haley (of Florida State University and Walt Disney Imagineering), and illustrator Wesley Allsbrook (The Sun Ladies VR, Dear Angelica) will collaborate with the audience to create a city. Afterward, panelists will discuss this feat of group stagecraft, plus share their own methods for…

    If you could design a city from scratch, what would you include? Writer/director Lance Weiler (Frankenstein AI: A Monster Made by Many), director John Hsu (Your Spiritual Temple Sucks), and experience designer Mk Haley (of Florida State University and Walt Disney Imagineering), and illustrator Wesley Allsbrook (The Sun Ladies VR, Dear Angelica) will collaborate with the audience to create a city. Afterward, panelists will discuss this feat of group stagecraft, plus share their own methods for inventing believable storyworlds.

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  • Speaking Engagement - Thriving in an Experience Economy or Why Humans Matter

    What's Next for Pittsburgh

    An interview to promote a speaker series on Experience Economy Design, best practices and implementation. In particular for the medical community.

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  • Speaking Engagement - The Transformative Experience Economy

    Tallahassee Moonshot

    Re-Imagining what "value" really is.

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  • Keynote Speaker - Risk Taking and Revolution

    University of Texas at Arlington Libraries

    Customer service and the experience economy, explores how themed entertainment creates experiences for audiences and how these experiences can benefit both customers and employees when this type of customer service model is employed by organizations such as libraries and archives.

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  • Keynote Speaker - Leading Edge

    Southern Florida and Caribbean Libraries Association

    A discussion on how libraries and archives are evolving to integrate new technologies and with a focus on building communities.

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  • Speaking Engagement - The Experience Economy

    TePapa Museum Wellington New Zealand

    Why wrapping a meaningful and memorable experience around a product has more value to the consumer and the human than just a thing.

    Write-Up on the lecture series in New Zealand https://idealog.co.nz/etc/2017/05/imagining-experiences-mk-haley-experience-economy-and-value-diversity

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  • Speaking Engagement - The Importance of Story in GLAM: Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums

    TePapa Museum Wellington New Zealand

    Stories are integral to the human experience. How can you tell stories in your spaces to better engage and educate the audiences and to create a sense of communities.

    Write-Up on the lecture series in New Zealand https://idealog.co.nz/etc/2017/05/imagining-experiences-mk-haley-experience-economy-and-value-diversity

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  • Speaking Engagement - Destination Imaginations Global Finals

    The Walt Disney Company Communications

    Imagineer Mk Haley hosted workshops that brought participants together to solve a design and construction challenge. Students gained insights into the importance of collaboration in creative teams and heard examples of how Disney Imagineers use this thought process to develop the world-class attractions and experiences at Disney parks and resorts around the world.

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  • Speaking Engagement - Incenting Innovation and Collaboration Across Teams

    University of Delaware Summer Faculty Institute

    A faculty focused workshop to engage "today's tech-forward students" in meaningful ways in their teaching practices. Included an overview of emerging technologies and tools, key features of millennial students, and how to integrate collaborative practices into the classroom.

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  • Speaking Engagement - TEDxPittsburgh The Power of Belief / Santa

    TEDXTalks

    Power vs Influence and Why Santa matters as an influencer.

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  • Keynote Panel Session: “PUSH/PULL: The Artistic Engine of Innovation”

    National Council of Arts Administrators Conference - SCAD

    A unique collaborative presentation with author and Washington University Professor Keith Sawyer on the importance of collaboration, presented in a highly collaborative manner. The conference was held at the Savannah College of Art and Design

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  • Speaking Engagement - Innovation is Fearless: Mk Haley at TEDxCMU 2010

    Tedx Talks

    Innovation is Fearless: Mk Haley at TEDxCMU 2010

    An overview of why change is scary, and what the best practices are to overcome that fear to allow your teams to be innovative.

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Patents

  • Method and system enabling identification of information content having enhanced desirability to a user

    Issued US 8108341

    A method of enabling identification of information content having enhanced desirability to a user comprises collecting content into an information database, updating the collected content according to one or more updating schedules, filtering the updated content by reference to at least one theme, associating each of the filtered content items with a respective visual representation, and labeling the respective visual representations with one or more visual cues corresponding to one or more…

    A method of enabling identification of information content having enhanced desirability to a user comprises collecting content into an information database, updating the collected content according to one or more updating schedules, filtering the updated content by reference to at least one theme, associating each of the filtered content items with a respective visual representation, and labeling the respective visual representations with one or more visual cues corresponding to one or more discrimination criteria. A system for enabling same comprises an information database configured to store collected content and accessible via a content server, an aggregator configured to update the collected content, an interactive content selection application configured to provide a user interface enabling filtering of the updated collected content, and a visualization module configured to associate the filtered content items with a visual representation and label each with one or more visual cues.

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Honors & Awards

  • SDCT Departmental Teaching Excellence Award

    UT Austin School of Design and Creative Technologies

    https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6987847460714938369/

  • FSU Seminole Leadership Award - Nominee

    Florida State University

    Leadership Awards Night is an annual recognition of students, faculty, staff, and organizations that have epitomized the definition of leadership by their exemplary contributions to the Florida State University community through achievement, service, or organizational leadership involvement.

    The Faculty/Staff Seminole Award recognizes faculty and staff for service to students

  • Transformation Through Teaching

    Florida State University

    The Transformation Through Teaching is a program established to honor full-time faculty that have had an intellectual, inspirational, and integrative impact on the lives of their students.

    Two nominations for the year, one award.

  • Kjell Meling Award for Distinction in the Arts and Humanities

    Penn State Altoona

    Penn State Altoona initiated the Meling Award in 2006 to honor the memory of its longtime associate dean for Academic Affairs, who passed away in 2005. The award is intended to memorialize Kjell Meling’s love of literature and language and his unwavering support as an administrator for the development of Penn State Altoona’s faculty as scholars and artists.

    https://resources.altoona.psu.edu/ivyleaf/t.php?v=048020006

  • THEA Award - Stitch’s Photo Phone, Walt Disney Imagineering (Technology)

    TEA - Themed Entertainment Association

    The project was recognized for Excellence in Technology in the development of the attraction Stitch's Photo Phone booth. It was a real-time interactive virtual character meet and greet experience. I served as producer on the project, which was installed as a beta test of the technology at Disneyland. https://www.teaconnect.org/Blog/Thea-Blog/index.cfm?id=2261

  • 2003 THEA Award

    Themed Entertainment Association

    Producer for Stitch’s Photo Phone, Walt Disney Imagineering (Technology Achievement)

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