Daniel Deboy is a partner and co-founder of DELTA Soundworks in Heidelberg, Germany. As technical planner and mixing engineer for immersive audio experiences, he has worked on award-winning projects recognised for innovation and best sound in Virtual Reality, Fulldome, and Location-Based Entertainment (LBE). Daniel is regularly engaged in teaching seminars and workshops, among others at the Popakademie and Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, where he challenges students to think beyond traditional audio and embrace the creative potential of spatial audio. He sees space as a powerful storytelling tool to shape narratives and evoke a sense of presence.
Karolina Jaruszewska is a Project Manager specializing in acoustics at KFB Technologies. A graduate of the Faculty of Electronics at Wrocław University of Technology, and of the postgraduate Master Class of Management program at SWPS University. Former Chair of the Technical Committee for Education at the EAA. Since 2014, she has overseen international educational projects at KFB Technologies and serves as the coordinator of the acoucou.org educational platform. She is a co-author of the illustrated book “Halo! Tu dźwięk!”. Her work focuses primarily on interdisciplinary areas bridging science, engineering, and art.
Jens Ahrens is a Professor and head of the Audio Technology Group at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. His former affiliations include Microsoft Research, Reality Labs, and Stanford University in the USA. Jens conducts and leads research on a variety of topics in the fields of spatial audio capture and reproduction and the underlying psychoacoustics. He is a member of the editorial boards of several international scientific journals on audio signal processing.