Augmented World Expo 2023 - USA | AWE | 31 May 2023 | Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, 5101 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA

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

2023 Speakers

Peggy Johnson
Ceo, Magic Leap

John Riccitiello
Ceo, Unity

Hugo Swart
Vp & Gm, Xr, Qualcomm

Shelley Peterson
Director - Principal Pm, Microsoft

Chi Xu
Ceo, Nreal

Nelly Mensah
Vp of Digital Innovation, Lvmh

Philip Rosedale
Founder, Linden Lab

Thaisa Yamamura
Head of Business Development, Sony

Jessica Lindl
Vp of Social Impact, Unity

Rony Abovitz
Founder & Ceo, Sun and Thunder

Kristin Glushon
Head of Business Development & Marketing, Trigger

Tom Furness
Founder & Chairman, Virtual World Society

Cathy Hackl
Chief Metaverse Officer, Journey

Tyler Bushnell
Ceo, Polycade

Cynthia Maller
Head of 3d Creative Technology, Walmart

Simon Taylor
Co-founder & Chief R&d Officer, Zappar

Steve Lukas
Director of Product Management, Qualcomm

Ashley Crowder
Ceo, Co-founder, Vntana

Josh Shabtai
Sr. Director, Innovation Labs Ecosystem, Lowe's Companies

Brent Bushnell
Chairman & Co-founder, Two Bit Circus

Phil Sage
Sr. Dir. Design & Innovation Hub, Pepsico

Carrie Shaw
Ceo & Founder, Embodied Labs

Ori Inbar
Co-founder, Awe and Super Ventures

Lisa Watts
Ceo | Founder & Managing Partner, One/twenty1

Jonathan Kyle
Global Business Dev. & Gtm Leader, Aws

Leslie Marshall
Chief Marketing Officer, Mesmerise

Neil Trevett
President, Khronos Group

Esther Jeong
Dir., Head of Dei for Reality Labs, Meta

Benny Lee
Global Manager of Experiential Design, Coca-cola

Sandra Voelker
3d in Retail Specialist, Consultant

David Bennett
Ceo, Mimic Productions

Avi Bar-zeev
President, Xr Guild

Celine Tricart
President, Co-founder, Coven

Ashlan Cousteau
Author, Explorer and Ocean Advocate, Journalist

Andrew Hawken
Ceo & Co-founder, Mesmerise

Leslie Shannon
Head of Ecosystem and Trend Scouting, Nokia

Alvin Graylin
China President, Htc

David Robustelli
Creative Technologist, Beyond

Daria Fedko
Ceo, Wear Studio

Charlie Fink
Tech Columnist, Author, Podcaster, Forbes

Jasson Crockett
Public Policy Manager, Snap Inc. / Snapchat

Ted Schilowitz
Futurist, Paramount

Naria Santa Lucia
Gm, Digital Inclusion & Community Engagement, Microsoft

Stan Larroque
Ceo, Lynx

Lisa Peyton
Immersive & Strategic Comm. Instructor, University of Oregon

Chris Mcnally
Co-founder, Imcnally

Heidi Buck
Senior Manager, Spatial Computing, Aws

Ian Dawson
Ceo, Augmentive Studio

Denise Zheng
Managing Director for Strategic Initiatives, Accenture

Paul Davies
Technical Fellow, the Boeing Company

Kathleen Cohen
Tech Humanist, Xr Strategist, the Collaboratorium

Ernest Chrappah
Acting Dir., Dept. Of Buildings, Dc Goverment

Billie Goldman
Partner Marketing Director, Intel

Shivam Kishore
Sr. Advisor Digital Transformation | Sustainability, Un Environment Programme

Rika Nakazawa
Group Vice President, New Ventures & Innovation, Ntt

Samantha Wolfe
Managing Partner, Pitchfwd Llc

Umesh Sachdev
Co-founder and Ceo, Uniphore

Elizabeth Hyman
Ceo, Xr Association

Steve Grubbs
Ceo, Victoryxr

Kavya Pearlman
Founder & Ceo, Xr Safety Initiative

Stephanie Riggs
Ceo, Odeon Theatrical

Luke Hurd
Director of Xd (Xr), Vmly&r

Eugy Han
Graduate Research Fellow, Stanford University

John Katzman
Ceo, Noodle

Didem Un Ates
Head of Applied Strategy, Data & Ai, Cdo Office, Microsoft

Joe Gabriel
Developer Relations Lead, Niantic

Tish Shute
Co-founder, Awe

Bobby Basham
Director, Baseball Innovation, Chicago Cubs

Tricia Blake
Social Media Lead, Xr Women

Finn Staber
Ceo, Chicken Waffle

Chary Keijzer
Co-founder, Cas and Chary Vr

Alex Goldberg
Administrator - Xr Systems, Blue Origin

Robin Raskin
Founder, Virtual Events Group

Piers Fawkes
Founder, President, Psfk

Brittan Heller
Counsel, Atlantic Council

Nicole Lazzaro
President, Xeodesign Inc

Christopher Lafayette
Founder, Gatherverse

Alon Grinshpoon
Ceo, Echo3d

Monica Ares
Founder, Th3 Third Door

Daniel Suarez
Author

Kent Bye
Producer, Voices of Vr Podcast

Kellie Bayer
Senior Event Program Manager, Intel

Patrick Johnson
Ceo, Rock Paper Reality

Louisa Spring
Founder, Sam Immersive

Leonard Daly
President, Daly Realism

Joanneke Weerdmeester
Behavioral Scientist, Deep Vr

Dean Abramson
Co-founder & Chief Architect, Metaversal

Sophia Moshasha
Metaverse Futurist, Vr/ar Association

Sean Mann
Ceo & Co-founder, Rp1

Wesley Della Volla
Founder and Executive Producer, Meridian Treehouse

Isabel De Peuter-rutten
Director, Gatherverse

Greg Meyers
Ceo and Co-founder, Forgefx Simulations

Rebecca Evans
Interactive Project Manager, Dimension Adventures

Arman Atoyan
Chief Wizard, Arloopa

Yunuene
Artist, Creator

Stefanie Hutka
Ar User Experience Research (Uxr) Leader, Meta

Anselm Hook
Cto, Morpheusxr

Amy Lameyer
Managing Partner, Wxr Fund

Mike Festa
Vice Chair of 3d Commerce, Khronos Group

Greg Lindsay
Urban Tech Fellow, Cornell Tech

Julia Uhr
Engineer, Electric Power Research Institute

Kirk Mckinzie
President, Mckinzie Smart Technologies

Amra Tareen
Ceo, All3d

Daniel Frith
Vp - 3d Platform, Avataar

Beth Culross
Director, Learning Resource Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center

David a. Smith
Cto, Founder, Croquet

Dan Munsey
Fire Chief, San Bernardino County Fire Department

Gigi Johnson
President, Rethink Next

Jamin Hu
Co-founder and Cto, Port 6

John Dorsch
Senior Military Advisor, Simx

Louis Rosenberg
Ceo and Chief Scientist, Unanimous Ai

Inga Petryaevskaya
Founder and Ceo, Shapesxr

David Cohn
Chief Strategy Officer & Co-founder, Subtext

Joanna Popper
Chief Metaverse Officer, Creative Artists Agency Inc

Radhakrishna Dasari
Technical Education Lead, Web3 Foundation

Seth P. Chouinard
Assistant Program Manager, Jpeo-cbrnd

Jeremy Babb
Program Instructor, Run Hope Work

Joe Michaels
Chief Revenue Officer, Haptx

Anneka Chand
Vdc Manager, Canadian Turner Construction Company

Lindsay Watson
Co-founder / Ceo, Augment Therapy

Adam Sidwell
Head of Studio, Future House Studios

Jason Steinberg
Managing Partner and Co-founder, Pretty Big Monster

Donna Davis
Dir., Oregon Reality (or) Lab, Univ. Of Oregon

Daniel Dyboski-bryant
Founder, Virtual World Society

Lianne Baron
Pgm, Ar Partnerships, Meta

Alan Smithson
Co-founder, Metavrse

Sarah Porter
Dir. Of Innovative Philanthropy, Hope for Haiti

Dana Chermesh-reshef
Founder & Ceo, Incitu

Nathan Patton
Product Manager, Trimble

Nico Fara
Founder & Leader, the Fashion Dao™

Anshel Sag
Principal Analyst, Moor Insights & Strategy

Daan Simonis
Global Media & Digital Marketing Dir., Perfetti Van Melle

Jonathan Klein
Managing Director, Proptech Consulting

Bobby Carlton
Vr/xr Content Manager & Business Development, Fs Studio

Dilmer Valecillos
Xr Developer / Creator, Fs Studio

Destery Hildenbrand
Xr Solution Architect, Intellezy

Betty Dannewitz
Learning Solutions Architect, the Ken Blanchard Companies

Laura Piza
Coo, Reboot Imagine Llc

Ben Erwin
Creator, the Polys - Webxr Awards

William Belk
Director of Medical Simulation and Innovative Education, Air Methods Corp

Steve Drake
President, Forklift University

Karthik Sarma
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Simx

Anwer Sadath K K
Vp - Engineering, Travancore Analytics

Brittany Mier Y Terán
Head of Business Development, Harpie

Adrian Rashad Driscoll
Head of Immersive, Collimation

Tess Mckinney
Ceo/owner, Xrenegades: a Firework Media Studio

Heidi Lehmann
Sustainable Capital & Innovation Advisor, Co-founder, Kenzen

Emmett Lalish
Senior Software Engineer, Google

Casandra Vuong
Co-founder, Cas and Chary Vr

Steve Mautone
Vp of Product, Creator

Natascha French
Ceo, Scale Strategies

William Tustin
Cfo, Chicken Waffle

Dulce Baerga
Advisor, Dulce Dotcom

James Giglio
Ceo and Founder, Mvp Interactive

John Gaeta
Cco, Inworld Ai

Valérie Allie
Video Solutions Group Director, Interdigital

Alex Silkin
Co-founder & Cto, Survios

Kylan Gibbs
Cpo, Inworld Ai

Lesley Klassen
Ceo and Co-founder, Flipside Xr

Kiira Benzing
Executive Creative Director, Double Eye Studios

Robert Malko
Vp of Innovation, Mgm Resorts International

Bob Cooney
Author, the Being Virtual Show With Bob Cooney

Lori H. Schwartz
Ceo and Founder, Storytech

Christiaan Varekamp
Senior Scientist, Philips Group Innovation, Research

Tony Bevilacqua
Founder & Ceo, Cognitive3d

Steve Feiner
Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University

Jonathan Nowak Delgado
Ceo and Co-founder, Spree Interactive

Amber Case
Director, Creator

Akbar Hamid
Founder & Ceo, 5th Column

Eric Masher
Content Creator/media Influencer, Q2c-vr Gamer

Sean White
Founder, Three Dog Labs

Ashley Blake
Coo, Andromeda Entertainment

Todd Jackson
Content Creator / Podcaster, Q2c-vr Gamer

Daniel Berrick
Policy Counsel, Future of Privacy Forum

Petri Rajahalme
Founding Partner, Fov Ventures

Jason Yim
Ceo, Trigger Xr

Rommel "Romedigs" Reyes
Producer, Director, Creator

Doug Smith
Director of Learning Success, Holopundits

Karl M Guttag
President, Kgontech

Govind Payyavula
Senior Managing Principal, Intuitive

Nima Zeighami
Director of Product, Leia Inc

Cerilenne Menendez Mendoza
Xr Lead, T-mobile

Barton Goldenberg
President, Ism Inc.

Navjeet Chhina
Ceo, Genius Ventures

Brandi Veil
Ceo & Cmo, Avisa Games Guild

Tim Bajarin
President, Creative Strategies

Max Limper
Ceo, Darmstadt Graphics Group

Dr. Rolf Illenberger
Ceo, Vrdirect

Paul Chapman
Head of School, Glasgow School of Art

Neil Redding
Founder & Ceo, Auki Labs

Tarren Corbett-drummond
Vp, Strategic Partners and Ecosystem, Ericsson

Julian Reyes
Chief Metaverse Officer, Founders Workshop

Tristan Cotter
Gm, North America, Varjo

Juan Cabrera
Technical Principal, Ustwo

Chris Marotta
Design Principal, Ustwo

Richard Vincent
Ceo, Co-founder, Fundamentalvr

Tim Van Der Wiel
Founder, Gospooky

Scott Allen
Cio, Oberon Technologies

Zuza Śliwińska
Co-founder & Partnerships Manager, Lenslist

Linda Ricci
Consultant

Whitton Frank
Producer and Performer, Ferryman Collective

Brendan Bradley
Scrappy Storyteller, the Jigsaw Ensemble

Lisi Linares
Publicist

Victoria Bousis
Founder, Creative Director, Ume Studios

Carolina Arguelles
Global Head of Augmented Reality, Product Marketing, Snap, Inc.

Jonathan Sims
Virtual Prod. Supervisor / Virtual Art Dir., Hyper Rpg

Chanel Summers
Vice President, Product Development, Vrstudios

Max Bickley
Sr Product Designer, Omniverse, Nvidia

Ann Marie Hoyt-brennan
Director, Helene Fuld Pavilion for Innovative Learning and Simulation, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Lauren Lemieux
Director of Marketing & Communication, Bundlar

Kunal Kashyap
Vp Display & Head of Taiwan, Porotech

Caroline Dennis
Disruptive Industry Agent, Two-degrees.io

Taylor Hurst
Principal, Konvoy

Christopher Bellaci
General Manager North America, Holoride

Maya Ackerman
Ceo / Co-founder, Waveai

Nate Moore
Dir. Of Sales & Marketing, the Westin Seattle

Deborah Perry Piscione
Co-founder & Chief Metaverse Officer, Work3 Institute

David Brebner
Ceo, Umajin

Cyril Tuschi
Founder / Ceo, Syncreality

Bronwen Zande
Director, Soul Solutions

Melissa Schmitz
User Experience (Ux) Research Engineer, the Raymond Corporation

Lee Kebler
Director, Journey

Louis Normandin
Chief Operations Officer, Wild Capture

Ofer Baharav
Ceo, Villa

Olga Resnik
Co-founder / Chief Architect & Integration, Joya Team

Bobak Tavangar
Ceo, Brilliant Labs

Ruben Cuadrat
Verizon

Veronica Yip
Product Manager & Product Marketing Manager, Nvidia

Elvis Chan
Assistant Special Agent in Charge (Asac), Fbi

Joel Scharlat
Director of Operations, Cyber Bytes Foundation

Laura Brown
Director of Training, State & Local Gov., Oracle

Devin Marble
Marketing Manager, Vrpatients

Nathalie Mathe
Xr Creative Director, Nativevr

Lucas Rizzotto
Creator, Lucas Builds the Future

Angelina Dayton
Interim Executive Director, Virtual World Society

Athena Demos
Ceo, Big Rock Creative

Daniel Sisson
Co-founder & Ceo, Spatial Ape

Evo Heyning
Ceo, Realitycraft

James Ashley
Senior Xr Consultant, Project Archer

Nanea Reeves
Ceo & Co-founder, Tripp

Harald Wuest
Ceo & Founder, Visometry

Elena Piech
Xr Producer, Zerospace

Mike Boland
Chief Analyst, Artillery Intelligence

Agustina Sartori
Sr Director Digital Innovation, Ulta Beauty

Stephen Curtis
Senior Spatial Prototyping Architect, Amazon Web Services

Zac Duff
Ceo, Jigspace

Chris Pfaff
Owner, Chris Pfaff Tech/media Llc

Blair Russell
Theater Producer, Blair Russell Productions

Emily Olman
Ceo, Hopscotch Interactive

Ashleigh Miller
3d Sme / Generalist, Amazon

Robin White Owen
President & Co-founder, Mediacombo

Luis Ramirez
Founder and Ceo, Mawari

Vishal Shah
General Manager, Xr & Metaverse, Lenovo

Jinhwan an
Sr Mgr of Business Development, Lg Nova

Andy Trainor
Ceo - North America, Skillsvr

Caitlin Krause
Chief Wellness Officer, Tripp

Robin Moulder
Ceo, 3lbxr & 3lb Games

Muhsinah Morris
Academic Program Dir., Morehouse College

Cerise Jacobs
Opera Maker & Founding Artistic Dir, White Snake Projects

James Tukpah
Phd Candidate Research Assistant, Northeastern University

Kevin Bullock
Director Business Development, Maxar

Chris Lane
Co-founder, Ceo, & Chief Technology Officer, 3dmd

Kelly Duncan
Co-founder & Chief Commercial Officer, 3dmd

Alex Howland
Co-founder and Ceo, Virbela

Nima Shams
Vp & Gm of Product Business Unit, Digilens

Vinay Malekal
Principal Software Engineer, Digilens

Russell Nickerson
Partnerships Engagement, Massrobotics

Craig Douglas
Client Solutions Manager, Meta, Meta

Santiago Anglés
Creative Technologist Officer, the Electric Factory | Creative Innovation Company

Kasimir Lehto
Founder, Game Developer, Reality Crisis

Rodney Mullen
Skater

Mikki Harris
Associate Professor, Morehouse College

Zheng Qin
Founder, Ant Reality

Giulio Corradi
Fellow, Amd

Hiroshi Sankoh
Assistant Manager of 5g Xr Services Planning & Development, Kddi Corporation

Jasmeet Sethi
Head of Global Insights, Ericsson

Matias Koski
Ceo, Immersal

Maeva Sponbergs
Cmo & Head of Publishing, Beyond Frames Entertainment Ab (Publ)

Dylan Fox
Coordination & Engagement Team Lead, Xr Access

Danielle Montour
Technical Support Specialist, American Printing House for the Blind

Peirce Clark
Program Development Manager, Xra

Stephanie Montgomery
Senior Vp of Research and Best Practices, Xr Association

Jazmin Cano
Accessibility Product Manager Ii, Owlchemy Labs Inc

Maxim Cooper
Team Lead and Pre Sales Application Engineer, Automata

Niko Chauls
Xr Partnerships, Product Innovation, Verizon

Veronica Orvalho
Ceo and Founder, Didimo

Josh Rush
Co-founder & Ceo, Surreal Events

Brian Mcclendon
Senior Vp of Engineering, Niantic

Justin Barnett
Cto, Cyberhub Syndicate

Christi Fenison
Co-creator, Cause + Christi: Immersive Xr Design

Nirav Desai
Ceo, Moonbeam

Renu Ramakrishnan
Lead, Client Services and Learning Experiences, Edstutia

Louise Edwards
Education Consultant & Vr Developer, Dredwardsvr Consulting

Kyle Jackson
Ceo, Talespin

Laura Kusumoto
Enterprise Xr Program Manager, Meta

Matt Hooper
Technical Program Developer, Meta

Paul Brady
Co-founder and President, Resolution Games

Jordan Topoleski
Co-founder, Arkive

Josh Goldblum
Ceo, Bluecadet

Austin "Cause" Caine
Co-creator, Cause + Christi: Immersive Xr Design

Paige Dansinger
Co-founder, Better World Museum

Manal Houri
Director, Global L&d Tech & Data, Meta

Tracy Bizelli
Global Learning Leader, Meta

David Randle
Global Head of Gtm, Aws

Daniel Decker
Director of Brand Partnerships, Immerse

Kathy Braegger
Director, Business Development, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Luisa Paes
Narrative Designer, Arvore Immersive Experiences

Joana Flor
Executive Producer, Inworld Ai

Mikayla Graham
Innovation Leader for Acceleration Centers, Pwc

Michael Ronen
Co-founder, Shaderverse

Mohammad Obeid
Associate Professor of Ar/vr, Shenandoah University

James George
Ceo & Co-founder, Scatter

Johan Hanegraaf
Co-founder & Head of Product, Arkio

Joshua Burns
Lead Strategic Spatial Computing Architect, Amazon Web Services

Lauren Marble
Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Kellan Cartledge
Spatial Computing Specialist Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Pip Brignall
Co-founder, the Round

Lucian Gheorghe
Ccs Ux Innovation Senior Manager, Nissan

Emmanuel De Maistre
Co-founder & Ceo, Scenario

Robert Nelson
Managing Director, Sia Partners

Mohammed Alsada
Director, Hatsumuv Corporation

Ben Feuerstein
Head of Business, Ops & Innovation, Arcadia Creative Studio, Snap Inc.

Resh Sidhu
Global Director, Arcadia Creative Studio, Snap, Inc.

Annie Eaton
Ceo, Futurus

Kevin Marcum
Program Manager, Delta Air Lines

Dejan Milojicic
Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard Labs

Jeewika Ranaweera
Vice Chair, Ieee Future Directions, Ieee

Kathy Grise
Future Directions Senior Program Director, Ieee

Nicholas Napp
Co-founder, Xmark Labs

Yewon Gim
Chief Scientist (Project Spectre), Ericsson

Lucas Thin
Associate, Scholar, Designsingapore Council

Soobin Ha
Audio Designer, Northeastern University

Andy Southern
Gaming Content Producer, Obscure Nerd Vr

Jj Ruscella
Evp & Chief Immersive Officer, Accessvr

Kevin Hardwick
Associate Professor of History, James Madison University

Allan Yde
Creator, Ar House

Pratik Suketu
Creator

Tahnee Gehm
Lead, Brighteye Studios

Warren Hofstra
Professor of History, Shenandoah University

Eugene Panich
Ceo, Almalence

Sydney Blount
Lead Experience Designer, Magic Leap

Jacqueline Zimmermann
Lead, Behavioral Scientist • Design Research, Magic Leap

Donghwa (Jerry) Jang
Corporate Development Manager, Seerslab

Michael Chong
Ceo, Seerslab

Fraser Bowie
Cpo, Nueyes Technology, Inc.

Kyle Morrand
Ceo, 302 Interactive

2023 Sponsors

TITANIUM SPONSORS:
• Magic Leap
• Niantic
• Nreal
• Snap Dragon
• Snap Ar

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Ant Reality
• Arbor Xr
• Holo Light
• Lenovo
• Sightful
• Zappar

SILVER SPONSOR:
• Aws
• Dispelix
• Dolby. io
• Haptx
• Immersal
• Leia Inc
• Lowes Innovation Labs
• Maxar
• Scope
• Squars
• ST Microelectronics
• Surreal
• Tilt Five
• Tobii

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• 3DMD
• Adeia
• Almalence
• Auki Labs
• Bhaptics
• Cognitive
• Contact Ci
• Digi Lens
• Echi 3D
• FFFACE Me
• Fundamental VR
• IEEE Future Directions
• Inter Digital
• Intuitive
• Inworld Al
• Mawari
• Maxst
• Metavu
• Microoled
• Oberon Technologies
• P&C Solution
• Philips
• Pixovr
• Porotech
• Port 6
• Seerslab
• Svarmony
• Sync Reality
• Teamwork
• Ustwo
• View Ar
• Vuzix Corporation
• Wonderland
• Xpanceo
• XR Association