Dan Blair
Business Development Consultant at CURA
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Blair is a founder and seasoned XR/AI entrepreneur with 13 years building immersive training systems, digital twins, and AI-driven tools as CEO of Bit Space Development (BSD XR). He combines hands-on technical leadership (former CTO) with strategic partnerships across construction, defense, aerospace, mining and utilities to deliver research-driven solutions and secure innovation funding. A community-minded leader, Dan chairs New Media Manitoba and has served on boards including the Virtual World Society and BizforClimate, mentoring talent and advocating for IDM growth. He also co-founded AeroSPX and earlier ventures like PanoPla, blending product engineering with practical deployment for enterprise upskilling. Based in Winnipeg, he teaches at RRC Polytech and runs projects that bridge academia, industry and government—often applying unusual data sources (e.g., Kinect RGBD segmentation) to real-world training problems. Colleagues describe him as an ENFJ connector who prioritizes people as much as pixels when scaling immersive technology.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Business Information Technology Computer Science, Business Information Technology Computer Science at RRC PolytechHigh School Computer Hardware Technology/Technician, High School Computer Hardware Technology/Technician at Sturgeon Creek Collegiate
English
Github Skills (54)
openvr9
octoprint9
osvr9
angularjs9
interactive9
angular8
python8
appengine8
dotenv8
php8
hololens8
typescript8
laravel8
javascript8
oculus8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CMDann/rails-ecomm-project
Nov 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:137 commits in 7 months
CMDann/root-checker
May 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 1 year 1 month
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