Zillah Watson
CEO/Co-founder
Phase Space Ltd
London, United Kingdom
I'm co-founder of Phase Space, delivering a cutting edge solution to the teenage mental health crisis using virtual reality.
My organisation
About me
Zillah is co-founder and CEO of Phase Space VR. The former head of BBC VR (national UK broadcaster), Zillah is an industry leader in scalable mass-market VR production and has won numerous awards for her work. She developed the world’s first large scale shared headset VR distribution model, pioneered in public libraries across the UK. Her proven innovation and digital transformation expertise ranges from leading content curation for the launch of BBC iPlayer Radio to using AI to search the BBC's extensive programme archives. Zillah is an Honorary professor of VR at UCL and a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths and the London Interdisciplinary School. She studied Law at the University of Oxford and qualified as a barrister.
Skills
- digital innovation
- virtual reality
- Research partnerships
- R&D
- User Experience Design
- Storytelling
- Augmented Reality
- Mixed reality
- user centred design
- interdisciplinary working
- Change Management
- Comms
- Strategy
- Delivery
Interests
- Mental Health
- Education
- interdisciplinary thinking
- tech for good