Atlas9: The Director's Cut

Kansas City stands at the forefront of immersive storytelling and reality-bending experiential design. For KC Design Week, Atlas9 and Dimensional Innovations are cracking open the vault for a one-night-only look inside the controlled chaos of designing large scale immersive environments.

Join the creative minds and mad scientists behind Atlas9 for an unfiltered conversation about how this unforgettable spectacle is engineered. From napkin sketches and strange early prototypes to full scale installations that warp perception and spark emotion, this panel retraces the collision course of narrative, technology, fabrication, and fearless experimentation. Hear how immersive environments like Atlas9 are reshaping culture, brand, and public life, and how Dimensional Innovations is driving that momentum from right here in Kansas City.

This is your invitation behind the curtain. Step into the screen. See what happens before the spotlights come on.

Ticket Options:

Option 1: $35 online, $45 at door for KCDW private event; concludes at 2:00 p.m. Includes partial access to Atlas9 experience.

Option 2: $40 for the KCDW private event plus full access to Atlas9 after 2:00pm to enjoy the entire venue. Advance purchase only, not available at door.

Additional ticket option: guests who do not attend this KCDW event can visit Atlas9 for $32 per person (20% off regular price) for April 22 only, starting at regular opening time of 2:00 p.m. An advance purchase link will be available soon.

Day One - April 22

Apr 22, 2026 | 11:30am-2:00pm

11:30am | Check-in
12:00pm | Program
Lunch Provided

Atlas9
1100 N 98th Street
Kansas City, KS 66111
United States

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ABOUT

Damon Bradshaw

General Manager
Atlas9

Damon Bradshaw is a multimedia producer and professional audio editor whose work spans sound design, music composition, video production, and interactive media. As General Manager of Atlas9, he oversees daily operations while balancing creative vision with practical execution, including scheduling, budgeting, technology integration, and vendor coordination. His background includes projects for large movie exhibition companies, science centers, planetariums, museums, zoos, and universities. Damon brings both creative insight and operational discipline to ensure Atlas9 delivers seamless and memorable guest experiences.

Gabrielle Klockau

Senior Project Manager
Dimensional Innovations, Atlas9

Gabrielle Klockau is a Senior Project Manager at Dimensional Innovations, where she leads large-scale immersive and experiential projects from concept through completion. With a background as both a fabricator and project engineer, she brings a rare maker’s perspective to complex builds, balancing creative ambition with a deep understanding of how things actually get made. For Atlas9, Gabrielle worked closely with a diverse roster of artists, designers, and fabricators to translate bold creative visions into a fully realized immersive destination. Balancing ambitious ideas with budget realities and an accelerated timeline, she helped shape big ideas into solutions that could actually be built. She partnered with code-compliance experts and city officials to ensure the immersive environment was as safe and compliant as it was unforgettable.

Ryan McDonald

Architect, Executive Creative Director
Dimensional Innovations, Atlas9

Ryan McDonald approaches design as both an architect and creative leader, grounding each project in careful listening and clear intent. He works closely with clients to define the core ambition of a space, then brings together multidisciplinary teams to shape that vision through architecture, interiors, and experiential design, guiding ideas from early strategy through fabrication and installation. With a degree in Interior Architecture and Product Design and more than a decade of architectural practice, Ryan brings a strong understanding of spatial planning, material expression, and visual communication. He is a Registered Architect through the Arizona State Board of Technical Registration and defines success as delivering environments that fulfill their purpose and leave a lasting impact on those who experience them.

Randall Statler

Executive Creative Director
Dimensional Innovations, Atlas9

Randall Statler is an Executive Creative Director at DI, where he guides teams in creating immersive environments that blend design, technology, and interactivity. With more than two decades in the creative industry, including 17 years collaborating with tech companies, startups, and non profits in Seattle, Randall brings a strong background in interactive media, spatial storytelling, and creative direction. His DI portfolio includes Atlas9, the YouTube Theater and Google Cloud experiences at SoFi Stadium, the Intuit Dome Experience Center for the LA Clippers, and work for clients such as Microsoft, Amazon, T Mobile, and the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.

Brandon Wood

Vice President, Director of Engineering + R&D
Dimensional Innovations, Atlas9

As Director of Engineering + R&D, Brandon Wood helps position DI at the forefront of design and manufacturing innovation. He oversees the Lab, where new software, materials, fabrication tools, and production methods are explored and tested, with a strong focus on digital fabrication and advanced manufacturing. With a background in Architecture and Industrial Design and a self-taught technologist’s mindset, Brandon connects ambitious creative concepts to practical execution through research, experimentation, and prototyping. His work ensures that bold ideas move confidently from vision to reality.