--- title: "About People Tech Revolution: people are the point" description: "About People Tech Revolution: founders Leonie Sanderson and Simon Lowe, the principles every build is held to, and how practitioners shape each scenario." canonical: https://peopletechrevolution.com/about --- About # Technology is the medium. People are the point. A nurse practises speaking up to a senior colleague before the shift where it counts. People Tech Revolution builds that rehearsal room in virtual reality and AI, co-designed with your own practitioners and backed by published research. Leonie Sanderson, PTR co-founder, fitting a headset for a participant. A home visit in the rain, rehearsed first. ## Practise the moment before it is real A worker waits on a rain-soaked verandah with one sentence to get right, and she has never said it to anyone before. That is the moment PTR builds for. Your people rehearse it in VR or with an AI partner, as often as they need, with nothing real at stake. You get the scene in their own words, the debrief built in, and published evidence to hand to a board. If this is the way you want to build, the next conversation starts here. Open the contact form Ask our CEO Simon Lowe’s Digital Twin a question - [Rehearse it in VR](https://peopletechrevolution.com/xr) - [Practise with AI](https://peopletechrevolution.com/ai) ## Where to go from here Who we are, how we work, and the news from the rooms we work in. [Our story. See where the method came from, from The Ageing Revolution to the PTR VR Library, told a year at a time.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/about/story) [Our approach. Find out what a build asks of you: the DICE test, five stages, and the workshop where your practitioners shape the scene.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/about/approach) [Our values. Judge us on them: community, excellence, trust and creativity, and how each one shows in the room.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/about/values) [Partners. Meet who else is in the room: the studios, universities and organisations PTR builds alongside.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/about/partners) [News. Launches, awards, talks and the articles that examine the work.](https://peopletechrevolution.com/news#in-the-news) Colleagues talk a scenario through with a clipboard. ### And the page your reviewers will ask for Who PTR is, where information is processed, what a participant consents to, how a session leaves a record an assessor can inspect, and the versioned documents behind each answer, gathered for procurement, clinical governance, security and legal. [Governance and enterprise delivery](https://peopletechrevolution.com/about/governance) Leonie Sanderson and Simon Lowe, PTR's co-founders. ## Leonie Sanderson and Simon Lowe They set off on a road trip, interviewing older people about ageing in Australia, and founded The Ageing Revolution. Carked It! is the card game they co-designed with the Good Death Impact Network. People Tech Revolution came next, and it builds in virtual reality and AI. Leonie Sanderson holds formal qualifications in psychology and communications. Across 30 years, she has worked in Queensland Government policy, health consumer engagement, social change, co-design and published VR research. She designs and leads the workshops. Simon Lowe came out of strategic partnerships, international business development and product, working with major brands and the NSW State Government. He leads the studio and the builds. > "Our ethos from the beginning has been about co-designing solutions alongside people with lived experiences." Simon Lowe CEO, People Tech Revolution. [SAE University College](https://sae.edu.au/insights/brisbane-studio-redefines-conversation-on-ageism/), 2018 ## The principles every build is held to They are the reason a client is sometimes told not to buy VR or AI from us at all. Psychological safety is designed in, not bolted on. A pre-brief, an opt-out and a structured debrief sit inside every scenario that touches something painful. Co-designed with the people who will use it. Your practitioners and people with lived experience shape the scene before anyone builds. Human judgement stays human. A person reviews and approves what any AI in a scenario says, and a facilitator runs the room. Choosing a scene's words, tile by tile. ## Your practitioners shape every scenario. Every scenario is shaped in co-design workshops with your practitioners, in your language, around the situations they face. The work runs through five stages: discovery and consultation, co-design workshops, prototyping and development, testing and deployment, then ongoing support for as long as the experience runs. - [See the five stages](https://peopletechrevolution.com/about/approach) - [See the work](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work) ## The table is the method Mater runs a training program that teaches its hospital staff to have respectful conversations, and it was taught by roleplay. Mater Education wanted to test virtual reality as a delivery model, so PTR scoped the project with them. A team leans over a lit table. ### Co-designed with Mater, modelled on its hospital environments PTR collaborated with Mater to co-design VR scenarios for the training program Mater already ran. Some of the scenes were modelled on parts of the hospital environments in the Mater network, for realism and familiarity. The table comes before the build, and the room comes before the scene. 10+ YEARS ## of immersive and game design work. From The Ageing Revolution and the Equal Reality partnership to PTR today: health, education, government, [resources](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/industries/mining-resources) and enterprise. Talking through a clinical scenario on site. ### The people behind the method Leonie Sanderson designs and leads the workshops. Simon Lowe leads the studio and the builds. Around them is a small team grown slowly from former interns and people whose values match the work, and a network of partners for the parts that are built better together. The work now spans artificial intelligence, augmented reality and virtual reality, custom-built for organisations across health, education, government, resources and enterprise. ## Rehearsed in rooms like yours Your people do this work in a workshop shed, a remote clinic, a hospital ward and a crib room at night. Each scenario is set in a room like theirs, so what they practise is what they meet on shift. A safety talk rehearsed in the workshop shed. A consult rehearsed in a remote clinic. A clinician rehearses a ward round. A crib room check-in with a workmate. A trainee traces the evacuation route. A discovery conversation with the client. ### The people who shape each scene Your practitioners and the people a scenario is about sit at the first workshop. They say what the moment contains, and the scene is finished only when they say it rings true. Designing with the people the training is for. ### Lived experience at the table The Central Coast Council program was co-designed with the Council's Access and Inclusion Reference Group, and members of that group appear in the VR itself. It is the pattern every project follows: the people a scenario is about help write it, then test it, then sign it off. - [Central Coast case study](https://peopletechrevolution.com/work/case-studies/central-coast-council-disability-awareness) - [Our approach](https://peopletechrevolution.com/about/approach)