Debbie Deer

Hailing from Kingston, Jamaica, Debbie is an award winning creative technologist, digital content creator, performer, educator and speaker. As the CEO of her multi-media companies Debbie Deer Productions and Orion Digital Innovations and Creations Inc., Deer has been a featured speaker at XR Women, Cosmic Northside Afro-Futurist Conference, The Gatherverse She and AI Summits, Next Stage (Los Angeles), VRTO and the DR. VR Show. She is a published playwright and journalist. Deer has been featured by The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and Global TV. Debbies Journal, 'Utilizing XR as a Pedagogical and Continuous Learning Tool for the Performing Arts' will be featured in the University of Guelphs Canadian Theatre Review in 2025. In her teenage years, was a beauty queen with the title of 1st Runner Up Ms. Jamaica Universe.

This year Debbie is excited and honoured to be the keynote speaker at the Gratitude in Motion Visionary Gathering, advocating for digital wellness and awareness. In 2024, Deer received the Collimation Creators Award and Grant for excellence in Virtual Reality Production. Deer's work has been featured in and selected for the Toronto International Film Festival's 'Deep Focus', Center For Social Innovation, Toronto Fringe Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In June 2024, Deer's VR production 'Stories from the Desert Sky' was featured at the Lightrail Festival in Washington DC. She will also be the Production Lead for the Everything Makes Me Laugh Immersive at InterAccess Gallery with Governor General Award Winning Artists Bruce Eves.