Khal Shariff
Khal Shariff, Founder and CEO of Project Whitecard Inc., is an award winning creative & technical talent.A much sought after speaker at industry and forward-looking events, such as the NASA Virtual Worlds Workshop, Khal maintains a very high profile in the industry, leads Serious Games Canada, and consults to a number of industry conferences. Khal is a technical specialist and creator of web-related technologies and national streaming media, with an extensive background in the software life cycle and broadcast-industry. Bringing over 10 years experience in implementing national online web applications, Khal currently specializes as a producer of Serious Games, Web 2.0 applications CMS, Flash / Database integration, and immersive learning systems. From 2000-2005, Khal was a Senior Developer at CBC.ca in Toronto, and has won numerous awards for new media and interactive development.
Companies
Project Whitecard is a global leader in the development of simulation, training, and educational software. Employing ground-breaking technology and proprietary methods, Project Whitecard has established itself as a world class provider of compelling immersive training systems, using advanced interactive techniques to deliver highly complex learning materials in a new, simplified way. In its three year history, Project Whitecard has established itself as an international leader in the field of immersive learning, virtual training environments and interactive simulations. Project Whitecard's technical capabilities, experience in design, and dedication to a superior quality product has established the company as a leader in this rapidly growing field. The company's unique ability to bring forward-looking innovation and creativity to each project has set Project Whitecard ahead of the competition. Project Whitecard's most recent project, RoboMath, a mathematics instruction game developed for the Canadian Space Agency, has been requested by over 40,000 teachers in Canada, and will reach over 1.25 million students this year, placing it as the second largest distribution of a single learning software title in the world.
Industry Experience
Khal and Project Whitecard are currently focused on developing the NASA Massively Multiplayer Online Game, Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond. The NASA MMO is unprecedented in scale and vision, delivering much needed Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics learning, inspiring and educating the next generation of scientists (and astronauts!). Project Whitecard competed with over 170 companies from around the world through four rounds to win the rights to develop the official NASA game with two U.S. partner companies. Other current projects include development of a proprietary Learning Management System, a large scale virtual workplace training environment, a smaller space-based educational game, and several confidential developments.
