Augement World Expo EU 2023 - Austria | AWE - Augmented World Expo | 23 October 2023 | Meliá Vienna, Donau-City-Straße 7, 1220 Wien, Austria

Since 2010 over 5000 companies and 60,000 professionals have trusted AWE to connect, learn and grow their business in the XR ecosystem. Join this inspiring community of XR professionals that brings together:

• End-users and solution providers,
• Investors and startups,
• Brands and creators and developers,
• Job seekers and recruiters
The AWE community now operates online and offline around the world 365 days a year:

• A series of major conferences and exhibitions (USA, EU, Asia) featuring the leading XR companies and speakers and the best networking in XR
• Year round online mini events and meetups in 30 cities on awe.live - an always on platform for the XR community to keep the industry growing every day of the year
• Academy classes and workshops with the best instructors from the XR community - to upskill the XR community
• Resources for the XR industry: News digest, talks and demos, Jobs in XR, enterprise research, and events listings
• XR industry’s most prestigious and long standing awards competition - The Auggie Awards

The HQ for everything Spatial Computing including: Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR) and enabling technologies such as Artificial Intelligence-AI, bio-interfaces, haptics, 5G, streaming and more).

2023 Speakers

Daniel Wagner
Director, Spectacles, Snap

Christine Perey
Spime Wrangler, Perey Research & Consulting

Jan Pflüger
Founder, Advisxr

Tamiko Thiel
Artist, Freelance

Sahar Fikouhi
Founder, Arki App

Ricard Gras
CEO & Co-Founder, Captic.io

Alina Kadlubsky
Managing Director, Open AR Cloud Europe

Ori Inbar
Co-Founder, AWE and Super Ventures

Liz Rosenthal
Curator & Executive Producer, Venice International Film Festival

Jens Bäckvall
Project Manager & Creative Force, Hololink

Olivier Pierre
CEO, Immersive Factory

Jake Skoric
COO, Delta Reality

David Bennett
CEO, Mimic Productions

Sophie Thompson
CEO & Co-Founder, VirtualSpeech

Lee Vermeulen
CEO, Alientrap Games

Višnja Cicvarić Šonje
Training & Development Specialist, Magenta Telekom

Marina Poliak
VP of R&D, Physicist, Eyejets

Sascha Kiener
Founder & Owner, Svarmony Technologies Inc.

PD Dr. Dorothea Kaufmann
Armed, Heidelberg University Hospital

Mads Troelsgaard
CEO and Co-Founder, SynergyXR

Wendelin Reich
CEO-CTO, Virtual Beings

Mia Hanström
Operations Manager, Skunk - Youth Voices in the Archipelago

Hrafn Thorisson
CEO & Creative Director, Aldin Dynamics

Katrine Konyher
Senior Business Developer & Marketing Specialist, Khora

Patrick Grady
Editor, Metaverse EU

Angel Brown
Group Director Experience Strategy, Digitas Health

Yoni Binstock
CTO, Atomic Digital Design

Arome Ibrahim
Executive Director, Immersive Tech Africa

Luis Martins
VP, XRSI

Elisabetta Rotolo
CEO & Founder, Miat

Stefanie De Regel
Founder and Project Lead, Walking Museum

Vitaly Ponomarev
CEO and Founder, WayRay

Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör
Director of Creativity & Business, Vienna Business Agency

Georg Hobmeier
Creative Director, Causa Creations

Hilary Mine
President, Digital Europe, Nokia CX

Michael Barngrover
Managing Director, XR4Europe

Isabella Williamson
Associate Director, Consulum

António Baía Reis
XR Researcher & Artist, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Lili Eva Bartha
Founder and CEO, GN3RA

Cai Felip
CEO, Union Avatars

Monica Arés
Founder, Th3 Third Door

Muki Kulhan
CIO, Executive XR/Metatech Producer & Creative Technologist, Muki-International, Ltd

Carlos Ebrahim Vendrell
Senior XR Engineer, Grundfos

Andrey Ivashentsev
Founder & CEO, Metaplan

Amy Peck
Founder/CEO, EndeavorXR

Sam Dale
Technology Analyst, IDTechEx

Elizabeth Baron
Founder, Immersionary Enterprises

Wolfgang Bergmann
CFO, Belvedere Museum Vienna

Katalin Vikuk
Project Manager - Regulatory Compliance, Heka VR

David Castaneda
Co-Founder, Visionaries 777

Ebona Eastmond-Henry
Brand Partner Lead, EMEA, Niantic, Inc.

Yacine Achiakh
CEO, WiseAR

Adele Keane
COO & Creative Director, Imvizar

Michael Guerin
Founder & CEO, Imvizar

Tristan Gribbin
Founder & CEO, Flow

Barry Haughey
Artist/Educator/Founder, Holo/Gen

Simon Stör
Group Lead Product Management, Linde Engineering

Pedro Marín
Head of Innovation, Accenture

Maria Nova
XR Designer, Creator

Paige Piskin
Social AR Developer, Influencer and Designer, White Glove Media

Mario Roither
Technology Expert, Palfinger AG

Juliana Koza
Senior Manager Government Affairs, Qualcomm

Ari Billig
Business Developer UK, SyncVR

Lisa Maria Wurzinger
Co-Founder & COO, Arrival.Space

Christoph Runde
General Manager, Virtual Dimension Center Fellbach W.V.

Flavia Mazzanti
Co-Founder and CCO, ImmerEA

Manuel Bonell
Co-Founder and CEO, ImmerEA

Axel Dietrich
Co-Founder and CEO, VRisch

Gabriella Chihan Stanley
Co-Founder & CCO, VRisch / XRVienna

Joseph Bell
Senior Producer, Aardman Animations

Stephanie Meisl
CAIO, Full Future Consulting

Luke Gibbard
Co-Founder & CEO, No Ghost

Gerda Leopold
Creator and Producer of Cinematic

Christopher Widauer
Artistic Director, The Mozart Experience Vienna

Victoria Bousis
Founder, Creative Director, UME Studios

Alexandre Piedade
XR Solutions Expert, Siemens

Sonya Seddarasan
Founder, UpWorlds

Ruby Woodward
Doctoral Researcher, University of Cambridge

Andy O'Sullivan
Senior Innovation Consultant, Liberty Mutual

Patricia Paulina Karrer
XKIC SRI Manager, EIT Manufacturing

Andreas Fraunberger
Director, Junge Römer GmbH

Leen Segers
Venture Scout & Co-Founder, Women in Immersive Technologies (WIIT) Europe

Sergiu Ardelean
Founder, Artivive

Désiré Nzengou
Space & Deep Tech Consultant, EUSPA

Ben Livne Weitzman
CEO, WAVA AR

Elena Bascone
Ambassador for Italy, Women in Immersive Technologies (WIIT) Europe

Gianluigi Vona
Web3 Advisor, Acumen Public Affairs

Markus Murtinger
Head of Competence Unit, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH

Jennifer Bettinger
Responsible Tech Innovation Strategy, Accenture

Daniel Winters
Senior Technical Expert Optical Testing, TRIOPTICS GmbH

Radhakrishna Dasari
Technical Education Lead, Web3 Foundation

Sebastian Egger-Lampl
Head of Research, MindConsole

Benjamin Roszipal
Ing. Benjamin Roszipal, BSc, MMS, RN, MindConsole

Kerstin Repolusk
Secretary, PRO-GE

Robert Fine
Executive Director, IVRHA

Anne Bajart
Deputy Head of Unit, European Commission

Doruk Eker
Partner, Orb Amsterdam

Rachel Bracker
Co-Founder, 360 Video Director & Editor, Hungry Mantis

Audrey Niochau
Managing Partner, Busterwood

Donatien Bozon
Director, Augmented Reality Studio, Snap, Inc.

Oscar Falmer
AR Developer Relations Lead, Europe, Snap, Inc.

Marcin JP
Creative Director, Flat Pixel

Matthias Lechner
CEO/Founder, NFBRANDS.X

Lukas Stranger
CEO, NXRT

Andreas Winkler
Product Manager 3D/XR, Palfinger AG

Christopher Obereder
CEO, Start-Up-Chris Ventures

Michaela Konrad
Director Strategic Partnerships & Future Labs, Creator

Thijs de Vries
Chief Executive Officer, Warp VR

Dmitry Kornilov
Co-Founder/CEO, FFFACE.ME

Pablo Olmos
CEO, Anima Res

Reza Razavi
National & International Speaker

Richard Guga
Co-Founder, Executive Director, Nettle

Dave Haynes
Partner, FOV Ventures

Arthur Bouffard
Creative Technologist, Creator

Max Van Leeuwen
Creative Technologist, Creator

Adam Wilson
CEO, Polyform Studio

AJ "Dr. Doom" Shewki
CEO, LIV

Joan V. O'Hara
Vice President of Public Policy, XR Association

Simeone Scaramozzino
Immersive Artist, Director, Producer, Facilitator, Transformative Tech Lab

Alexandra Gerard
Managing Director, Stereopsia Europe

Frank Marsman
Business Developer, ADDOPTICS

Petri Rajahalme
Founding Partner, FOV Ventures

Michael Geidel
Producer, Actrio Studio

Sally Ward
Digital Partnerships Manager, Whale and Dolphin Conservation

Fabien Barati
CEO, Emissive / Excurio

Alexandra Weiss
Expert Fullstack Developer AR/XR, Vodafone Group Services GmbH

Alexander Nick
Director Strategic Partnerships & Future Labs, GoStudent GmbH

Andrey Lunev
Venture Partner XR, Startup Wise Guys

Gang Li
Postdoc Researcher, University of Glasgow

Zuza Sliwinska
Co-Founder & Partnerships Manager, Lenslist

Silvia Mogas
CEO & Founder, Blockchain Marketing Boutique

András Velvárt
CEO, Response Kft

Mattia Salvi
CEO, Aryel

Alina Nikolaou
Media Scholar, University of Vienna

Johannes Stettmeier
Business Development Manager EMEA AR/VR, Lenovo

Margit Bittner
Head of Retail & Online Marketing, Bank Austria

Reedah El-Saie
Founder, BrainSparkGames

Matthias Sala
Co-Founder & CEO, Ambia

Pico Velásquez
CEO, Viira

Jonathan Hale
CEO & Founder, Wonderland Engine

Cecilia Lascialfari
Creative Technologist, Area6Dof - https://area6dof.com

Valentyn Volkov
Co-Founder, Xpanceo

2023 Sponsors and Partners

TITANIUM SPONSORS:
• CreateHK
• Hong Kong Digital Entertainment Association

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Meta
• Niantic, Inc.

SILVER SPONSORS:
• IEEE
• Lenovo
• SQUARS
• XPANCEO

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Dispelix
• IMVERSE
• Itseez3D
• Lucid Reality Labs
• Svarmony Technologies GmbH
• TRIOPTICS
• ViewAR
• Wonderland

Partners:
• AIXR
• Allconfs
• AR Insider
• Auganix
• Austria Business Agency
• Avaturn
• Belvedere Museum
• Design Buddies
• Destination Meeting Vienna
• DevITjobs
• Euromersive: European Federation of XR Professionals
• Future+
• Fyware
• Halledale Group
• Immersive Wire/Virtual Perceptions
• In3d.Io
• IVRHA
• MakeIT
• Mixed Reality TV
• Pixel Adgency
• SIGGRAPH
• Spatial Realities
• Stereopsia
• Vestbee
• Vienna Business Agency
• Virtual Reality Marketing
• VR Business Club
• Vrdays.CO
• WIIT (Women in Immersive Technologies)
• XR Bootcamp
• XR EXPO
• XR Hub Bavaria
• XR Must
• XR Valley
• XR Women
• XR4Europe
• XRSI
• XRVienna