Pascal Maeder

{{short description|Canadian film producer}}

Pascal Maeder is a Swiss-Canadian film producer and cyberneticist.{{cite news|title=International Conference on Gamification & Serious Game|url=https://gsgs.ch/past-editions/gsgs22/|accessdate=6 December 2022|work=GSGS22|date=1 July 2022}}

In 2020, he launched x-ode, an XR messaging app enabling its users to connect with one another based on shared experiences in the real world. The app was developed by Urbanoid, a technology company founded by Maeder with hubs in Switzerland and Canada.{{cite news|title=International Conference on Gamification & Serious Game|url=https://gsgs.ch/past-editions/gsgs22/|accessdate=6 December 2022|work=GSGS22|date=1 July 2022}}{{cite news|title=Advertising Cookies Ban: Montreal Startup Files Patent for AI Solution Based on Location Intelligence|url=https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/advertising-cookies-ban-montreal-startup-190200734.html|accessdate=16 September 2023|work=Yahoo Finance|date=14 September 2023}}

Maeder had previously founded Atopia, a film production company through which he produced and released several feature films including S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks In Traffic (2001), A Silent Love (2004) and Je me souviens (2009).{{cite news|title=Un Montréalais à la grand-messe de Robert Redford|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/cinema/45563/un-montrealais-a-la-grand-messe-de-robert-redford|accessdate=11 May 2017|work=Le Devoir|date=24 January 2004}}{{cite news|title=Grads get great reviews at Montreal World film Festival|url=http://ctr.concordia.ca/2004-05/sept_9/14/index.shtml|accessdate=11 May 2017|work=Concordia's Thursday Report|date=9 September 2004}}

Maeder studied film production at Concordia University in the late 1980s before co-founding Dummies Theatre, an experimental and interdisciplinary theatre company known for creating free site-specific works in vacant stores in Montreal during the 1990s.{{cite news|title=Spectra, Dupuis start production on Kid Paddle|url=http://playbackonline.ca/2002/11/25/qsc-20021125/|accessdate=11 May 2017|work=Playback|date=25 November 2002}}