About

Denise Mendez is currently a Principal Software Engineer in Microsoft’s Mixed Reality group making science fiction real building ground truth systems for data science and telemetry for the Environmental Understanding runtimes for the Hololens. From her years with Motorola she built manufacturing systems to ship millions of smartphones.  She worked at Magic Leap, the largest privately funded startup in history, and helped launch their first Spatial Computer headset.  She owns a small business teaching the art of ceramics and has ambitions to create a revolution in education by bringing mixed reality holograms into schools.