Augmented World Expo 2024 - USA | AWE - Augmented World Expo | 18 June 2024 | Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E Ocean Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90802, USA

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:

1. A series of major conferences and exhibitions (USA, EU, Asia) featuring the leading XR companies and speakers and the best networking in XR
2. Year round online mini events and meetups in 25+ cities on awe.live - an always on platform for the XR community to keep the industry growing every day of the year
3. Academy classes and workshops with the best instructors from the XR community - to upskill the XR community
4. Resources for the XR industry: News digest, talks and demos, Jobs in XR, enterprise research, and events listings
5. 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).

2024 Speakers

Jamie Keane
Director, Product Management, Meta

Palmer Luckey
Founder, Anduril

Jacquelyn Morie
Founder, Chief Scientist, All These Worlds, LLC

Alex Katouzian
Group General Manager, Mobile, Compute, & XR (MCX), Qualcomm

Tom Furness
Founder & Chairman, Virtual World Society

Leila Amirsadeghi
Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Don Allen Stevenson III
Creator, Public Speaker

Ori Inbar
Co-Founder, AWE and Super Ventures

Angela Carnrite
Senior Manager, Sales Enablement, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Martin Enthed
Innovation Manager, IKEA

Chris Sloan
Head of Global Partnerships, SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park

Aniella Arantes
Global Technology | Immersive Tech Products | VP, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

Thomas Codrick
Senior Lead Engineer, Booz Allen Hamilton

Trista Pierce
Senior Digital Strategist, Booz Allen Hamilton

Richard Robinson
VP of Innovation / GM of the AgeTech Collaborative, AgeTech Collaborative from AARP

Young Guru

Jacqueline Zimmermann
Lead Behavioral Scientist, Magic Leap

Chi Xu
CEO, XREAL

Jasmine Roberts
Research Engineer, Microsoft Research

Jesse Schell
CEO, Schell Games

Chris Anderson
Sr. Product Manager - Technical, Amazon

Ashleigh Miller
Sr Program Manager & 3D SME, Amazon

Andrew Lowe
Chief Advanced Visualization Engineer, Rolls-Royce

April Boyd-Noronha
Interim CEO, XRSI - X Reality Safety Intelligence

Jeffrey Berthiaume
Sr. Innovator, Southwest Airlines

Bobby Basham
Director, Baseball Innovation, Chicago Cubs

Valérie Allié
Video Solutions Group Director, InterDigital

Tommy Palm
CEO, Resolution Games

Jenna Seiden
Senior VP Business Development, Skydance Interactive

Moritz Baier-Lentz
Partner, Lightspeed

Carolina Cruz-Neira
Agere Chair Professor in Computer Science, University of Central Florida

Paul Davies
Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company

Yu Cheng
User Experience Designer, Schlumberger

Andy Hunt
Manager, Digital Innovation Lab, The Hershey Company

Athicha Dhanormchitphong
Digital & Extended Realities Architect, ExxonMobil

Brandon Andrews
Co-Founder, Gauge

Leslie Forsberg
VR Development Lead, The Boeing Company

Alex Goldberg
XR Innovations, Blue Origin

Angelina Dayton
Executive Director, Virtual World Society

Ryan Wheeler
Senior Technical Fellow of Advanced Visualizations, Collins Aerospace

Benny Lee
Senior Manager of Experiential Design, Coca-Cola

Gene Feldman
Training Manager, Nestle Purina

Dulce Baerga
Mixed Reality Technologist, Dulce Dotcom

Jeremy Dalton
Head of XR, PwC

Mary Matheson
Immersive Director/Professor of Practice, Arizona State University

Valentin Heun
Vice President of Innovation Engineering, PTC

Martin Warters
Director, HCP Digital Product Lead, Pfizer

Lianne Baron
AR Partnerships, Meta

Dave Raasakka
Senior VP Global Customer Support, Somero

Jennica Bellanca
Biomechanical Engineer & Principal Investigator, CDC / NIOSH

Dawn Comer
Exec. Officer & Sr. Dir. of Digital Inclusion & Innovation, City of Los Angeles

Rachel Kornak
Strategic Partnerships + Tech Education Manager, City of Los Angeles

James Ashley
Apple Vision Pro Developer, Imaginative Universal, Inc

Jacqui Bransky
VP of Web3 & Innovation, Warner Records

Andrew Eiche
CEO, Owlchemy Labs Inc

Shane Rhodes
3D Generalist, Mighty Coconut

Gohree Kim
VP of Marketing, AmazeVR, Inc.

Athena Demos
CEO, Big Rock Creative

Arturo Perez
CEO, Kluge Interactive

Jeri Ellsworth
CEO, Tilt Five

Rita Turkowski
Developer Program Manager, Meta

Kerestell Smith
CCO, Another Axiom

David Neubelt
CTO, Another Axiom

Kelly Duncan
Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer, 3dMD

Nicola Sebastiani
CCO, The Sandbox

Cynthia Maller
Head of 3D Creative Technology, Walmart

Bert Nepveu
Co-Founding Partner, Triptyq Capital

James Cooper
Chief Technologist, Advanced Visualization, Raytheon

Kyle Daughtry
Digital & Extended Realities Product Manager, ExxonMobil

Dona Fraser
Senior V.P., Privacy Initiatives, BBB National Programs

Daniel Berrick
Policy Counsel, Future of Privacy Forum

Sarah Hill
CEO | Chief Storyteller, Healium

Elizabeth Hyman
CEO, XR Association

Richard Hess
Extended Reality (XR) Center of Excellence (CoE) Lead, Mondelēz International

Todd Sharp
Principal Developer Advocate, Twitch

Anna Nilsson
Head of Design and Research, Varjo

Said Bakadir
Sr. Director, Product Management, Qualcomm

Valerie Quezada
Learning & Development Manager, Takeda

Brian Nevinsky
Technical Fellow, Lockheed Martin

Sydney Blount
Lead Experience Designer, Magic Leap

Mike Boland
Chief Analyst, AR Insider

Alexander Berlin
Founder & CEO, Arvizio

Andrea Bravo
Founder & Editor, Metaverse Data & Ethics

Adam Draper
Managing Director, Boost VC

Jasper Brand
Partner, BITKRAFT Ventures

Marco DeMiroz
Co-founder & General Partner, The Venture Reality Fund

Maddie Callander
VP Accelerator & Portfolio, Boost VC

Ryan Wang
Partner, Outpost Capital

Gregory Panos
Founder - Creator, Persona Foundation

Eddy Adams
Augmented Reality Designer, Eddy Adams LLC

Jared Bienz
Founder and Principal Consultant, SolerSoft

Florian Haspinger
CEO and Co-founder, Holo-Light GmbH

Susanne Haspinger
Co-founder and COO, Hololight

Philipp Landgraf
Senior Director XR Streaming, Holo-Light GmbH

Daisy Berns
XR GTM Strategist

Victor Agulhon
CEO, TARGO

Sven Brunner
Founder & CEO, Sphere

Laura Brown
XR Learning Design Consultant, Public Safety, Mindset | Learning Design

Monica Arés
Founder, Th3 Third Door

Ryan Canuel
CEO, Petricore, Inc

Nisha Burton
CMO, Lucid Living Inc.

Major Bunton
Director of Programs, Creative Acts

Marty Banks
Professor of Vision Science, UC Berkeley

Oscar Cartagena
Founder & CEO, Augmented Experiences

Kathleen Cohen
Tech Humanist, XR Strategist, The Collaboratorium

Pablo Colapinto
Head of Immersive, Nexus Studios

Susan Cummings
Director, Fictioneers

Stephen Curtis
Principle Software Engineer - Accelerated Engineering, IQXR

Leonard Daly
President, Daly Realism

Casandra Vuong
Co-Founder, Cas and Chary XR

Chary Keijzer
Co-Founder, Cas and Chary XR

Zac Duff
CEO, JigSpace Inc.

Anand Dass
Director, VR/MR Apps, Meta

Bobby Carlton
VR/XR Content Manager & Business Development, FS Studio

Ruth Diaz
Co-founder and Core Vision Owner, VR Create|Connect

Helena Dong
Senior Art Director, BUCK

Sean Dougherty
Director, AUX Services, Lighthouse SF

Greg Downing
CEO, Hyperacuity

Adrian Rashad Driscoll
Head of Immersive, Collimation

Shika (JoyReignVR) Duncan
CEO, Onyx Leaf Media

Wade Lewis
Immersive Technology Applications Engineer, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Kelles Gordge
Mechanical Engineer & XR Dev, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Rolando Masís-Obando
Neuroscientist + YouTuber, Johns Hopkins University

Markus Eger
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Cal Poly Pomona

Naamah Argaman
AR Product Tech Lead, Meta

Dr. Joe Elliott
Owner/VR mental health practitioner, Joe Elliott Psychological Svcs.

Tom Emrich
Director, Product Management, Niantic, Inc.

Sadah Espii Proctor
Lecturer in Design, Yale University

Taylor Hurst
Principal, Konvoy

Tracy Evans
President, Exhibitry

Petri Rajahalme
Founding Partner, FOV Ventures

Charlie Fink
Columnist, Forbes

Dan Flanegan
Founder & CEO, That XR Company

Veronica Flint
Founder and Creative Director, Quixotical

Dylan Fox
Director of Operations, XR Access

Dr. John Francis
Planet Walker, Planetwalk

Natascha French
CMO, MVP Interactive

Daniel Frith
Chief Creative Officer (CCO), London Dynamics

Avi Bar-Zeev
Founder, President, XR Guild

Connell Gauld
Co-founder & CTO, Zappar

ChatGPT
James Giglio
CEO and Founder, MVP Interactive

Kristin Glushon
VP of Partnerships & Marketing, Trigger XR

Rajat Lokesh
Senior XR Developer, Schlumberger

Edward Tang
CEO, Avegant

Molly Bloom
Lead UX Researcher, Cisco

Barton Goldenberg
President, ISM Inc.

Sallia Goldstein
Project Director, Paper Triangles

Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Google

Alvin Graylin
Author, Our Next Reality | Global VP, HTC, HTC

Alon Grinshpoon
CEO, echo3D

Michelle Hascall
Manager of Learning & Development, Cortica

Dr. Neil Hattangadi
CEO, Cortica

Satoshi Hattori
XR Engineer, Cyber AI Productions, Inc.

Amy Hedrick
CEO, Cleanbox Technology

Roman Hasenbeck
CEO, Ramblr.ai

Brittan Heller
Counsel, Atlantic Council

Robert Hernandez
Professor of Professional Practice, USC Annenberg School of Journalism

Destery Hildenbrand
XR Solution Architect, Intellezy

Erin Hilliard
Cyber/Data/Privacy Associate, Cooley

Melanie Hogue
Content Designer, Microsoft

Sai Huda
Founder, Chairman & CEO, CyberCatch

Cindy Huggett
Principal, Cindy Huggett Consulting, LLC

Luke Hurd
Innovation, WPP / VML

Sean Hurwitz
CEO, Founder, PIXO VR

Stefanie Hutka
Founder & Head of Design Research, Sendfull

Bob Fine
Executive Director, IVRHA

Suzan Kardong-Edgren
Associate Professor, MGH Institute of Health Professions

Albert Kashchenevsky
CEO, Eyecuracy

Howard Gurr
Psychologist, Private Practice

Caitlin Krause
Founder, MindWise

Tristan Gribbin
Founder & CEO, Flow - Meditation for modern life

Cameron Kostopoulos
Immersive Director, Founder & CEO, Kost

Adam Lisagor
Founder, Sandwich

Jason Laan
Partner, Laan Labs

Ginna Lambert
Co-Founder, Lighthouse XR

Chris Lane
Co-Founder, CEO, & Chief Technology Officer, 3dMD

Yulia Lápicus
XR Designer

Nicole Lazzaro
President, Xeodesign Inc

Dustin Kochensparger
Co-Founder, DB Creations

Kevin Ang
XR Artist, Bingko

GingasVR
CEO/Digital Content Creator, GingasVR LLC

Young Lee
VP, Devices Partnerships for Meta Reality Labs, Meta

Nina Faye Lin
CEO / Co-Founder, XRIO

Stephanie Llamas
Founder, VoxPop Insights

Anne Lord Bailey
Executive Director, Strategic Initiatives Lab, Veterans Affairs

Nova Lorraine
Fashion Designer, House of Nova

Deirdre V. Lyons
Co-Founder, Ferryman Collective

Devin Marble
Owner, ImmersiveMedical

Joe Mares
Owner, Thousand Bit

Daniel Marquesee
Lead Spatial Designer, Bezi

Jasmine Lehman
Product Marketing, LIV

Jason Marsh
CEO, Flow Immersive, Inc

Peter Martin
Software Engineer, Adobe

Jack McCauley
Co-founder, Oculus

Elizabeth Childs
Graduate Student Researcher, Stanford

Jason McDowall
Creator, The AR Show

Jason McGuigan
Head of Virtual Reality, Lenovo

Alexey Medvedev
AR Tech lead, Meta

Greg Meyers
CEO and Co-Founder, ForgeFX Simulations

Matt Miesnieks
CEO, Dejavu

Stephanie Montgomery
Senior VP of Research and Best Practices, XR Association

David Morris
Experiential Consultant, NYCAP3D LLC

Lauren Morrison
Art Director, Google

Ray Mosco
Developer Relations, HTC Vive

Sophia Moshasha
Interactive Media Business, The World Bank

Robin Moulder
CEO, 3lbXR & 3lb Games

Andy Roth
Founder & visionOS Engineer, Deviant Labs

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

Toye Onikoyi
AR/VR/XR Creator, Creator

David Nedohin
President and Co-Founder, Scope AR

Cam Nili
Digital Assets, Accenture

Jay Wright
CEO, Campfire

Marcela Oliva
Board Member, USGBC - Los Angeles

Emily Olman
Chief Media Officer, Hopscotch Interactive

Diana Olynick
Author, Founder, Host XR Magazine Podcast, M4 Method

Tim Bajarin
President, Creative Strategies

Timothy Orr
Human Integration Team Leader, CDC / NIOSH

Dr. Linda Ciavarelli
Co-Founder and CEO, HouseCall VR

Gregg Katano
CEO | Founder, Cosmos Collab

Amy Peck
Founder/CEO, EndeavorXR

Shelley Peterson
Founder | XR Industry Pioneer, Wizard Wells

Tomás Pietravallo
AR Developer & CS Student, Creator

Nils Pihl
CEO, Auki Labs

Jeff Pohlman
EVP / Head of Global Communications/PR, HTC Vive

Joanna Popper
Senior Media, Ent & Emerging Tech Exec, Consultant

Kyr Poskonoff
Co-founder, LikeXR

Amanda Proscia
COO & Founder, Lightspeed PR

Ethan Rasiel
CEO & Founder, Lightspeed PR

Linda Jacobson
Director of Marketing, HaptX

Luis Oscar Ramirez
Founder and CEO, Mawari

Robin Raskin
Founder, Virtual Events Group

Vijay Ravindran
CEO, Floreo

Jane Rawnsley
SVP Creative AI, Avataar

Nanea Reeves
CEO & Co-Founder, TRIPP

Marty Resnick
Co-Lead Gartner Futures Lab, Gartner

Ana Ribeiro
Game Designer, ARVORE Immersive Experiences

Stephanie Riggs
Author, The End of Storytelling: The Future of Narrative in the Storyplex

Albert Rizzo
Director, Medical Virtual Reality, University of Southern California ICT

Matthew Tomlinson
Extended Reality & Metaverse Lead (R&D), Mondelēz International

Adi Robertson
Senior Reporter, The Verge

Max Almy
Chief Creative Officer, Magika VRx

David Robustelli
Creative Technologist, Beyond

David Rokhlin
Former Program Coordinator at Meta Reality Labs, Consultant

Bryan Rokoszak
XR Experience Design Leader, Deloitte

Adam Rose
COO, Starling Lab for Data Integrity

Elizabeth Rothman
Advisor | Senior Legal Affairs & Digital Trust Advisor, XRSI - X Reality Safety Intelligence

Dom Sagolla
Co-Founder, VisionDevCamp

Matthias Sala
CEO, Ambia

Ted Schilowitz
Futurist & Co-Founder, Red Camera

Harald Wuest
CEO, Visometry

Terry Schussler
Sr. Dir., XR & Metaverse, Deutsche Telekom AG

Lori H. Schwartz
CEO and Founder, StoryTech

Josette Seitz
XR Developer & Creator, Specular Theory

Brian Selzer
CEO, BlueSe7en Media

Rocío Sergio
Design Research Engineer, Magic Leap

Ash Shah
AR Prototype Engineer, Magic Leap

Karen Alexander
Executive Director, XR Women

Bernie Yee
CEO & Executive Producer, Windup Minds

Leslie Shannon
Head of Ecosystem and Trend Scouting, Nokia

Tricia Blake
Director of Communications, XR Women

Wendy Sherman
Curator, XR Women

Supreet Singh
Mobile & Spatial Consultant, Independent

Tomas Sluka
CEO & Founder, CREAL

Alan Smithson
Co-Founder, METAVRSE

Tony Bevilacqua
Founder & CEO, Cognitive3D

Dan Blair
CEO, BSD XR

Louisa Spring
Principal, Tech Development Strategy, T-Mobile

Finn Staber
CEO, Chicken Waffle

Greg Tarnacki
CEO / Founder, 18Loop

Ben Taylor
Technical Director, XR Initiatives, SQUARE ENIX

Marco Tempest
Creative Technologist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Olga Sheverieva
Ambassador, Women In Games

Nathan Thomas
Technical Training Instructor, CN Railway

Matt Thompson
Chapter President, VRARA-STL

Miao Tian
Senior Product Designer, Autodesk

Anne Toole
Writer

Celine Tricart
President, Co-Founder, Coven

Estella Tse
XR Creative Director and Artist, Estella Tse, LLC

Morgan Tucker
Head of Product, Creator, Rec Room

Nick Turner
Digital Strategy Coordinator, Barr Engineering

Erik Viirre
Director Arthur C Clarke Center for Human Imagination, UC San Diego

Richard Vincent
CEO, Co-Founder, FundamentalVR

Desirey Virgin
Global Account Executive, Sonder

Antony Vitillo
Owner, The Ghost Howls

Wadooah Wali
Co-Founder, CSO & Executive Producer, New Canvas

Lafiya Watson Ramirez
Multidisciplinary Artist & Creative Technologist, Bad Chick Studios

Nodo Ivanidze
Founder and CEO, MetaViu

Ted Werth
CFO & Head of Corporate Development, Mynd Immersive

Michael Whatley
Senior Director, Service Innovation & Performance, The Coca-Cola Company

Benjamin Reynolds
Senior Fellow, Innovation Engineering, PTC

Whitney A. White
CEO & Co-Founder, Equity Commons

Sabra Williams
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Creative Acts

Josh Bankston
Partner, MACE Virtual Labs

Samantha Wolfe
Managing Partner, PitchFWD LLC

Teri Yarbrow
President and CEO, Magika VRx

Eric Masher
COO, Impact Reality / Flat2VR Studios

Harry (Skeeva) Skigis
Founder, Impact Reality / Flat2VR Studios

Jasmine Uniza
CEO, Impact Reality / Flat2VR Studios

Elliott Tate
CMO, Impact Reality / Flat2VR Studios

Christi Fenison
Co-Founder, Cause + Christi: Immersive XR Design

Sasha Zabegalin
Self-Expression Technologist, Sasha Zabegalin

Raven Zachary
COO, ARound

Alexis Zerafa
AR Artist and Creative Technologist, The Mill

Michael Zurat
Solutions Director, 5G & Spatial Computing, General Dynamics Information Technology

Joshua Rubin
Chief Creative Officer, Subverse Narrative Consulting

Ashley Crowder
CEO, Co-Founder, VNTANA

Mary Lee Carter
Immersive Teaching and Learning Specialist, Parker University

Denise Coke
Owner & Creative Director, $NP Designs, LLC

Dominique Wu
Founder, XReality Pro

Eric Wagliardo
Founder / EP / ECD, &Pull

Enrique López Mañas
Android Chapter Lead, Code & Theory

Karl M Guttag
President, KGOnTech

Neil Trevett
President, Metaverse Standards Forum

David Yee
COO, Another Axiom

Kat Moynahan
Senior Design Strategist, Microsoft

Jonathan Hamel
Studio Design Director, Another Axiom

Jessy Escobedo
UX/Product Designer & AR/VR Prototyper, Magic Leap

Aili Niimura
Technical Audio Designer, Microsoft

Dave Zaboski
Co-Founder & CCO, Laetro

Hugh Hou
CEO, Metaverse Stage, INC

Keeley Turner
CEO, Metaverse Stage, INC

Austin Cause Caine
Co-Creator, Cause + Christi: Immersive XR Design

Jim Melzer
Technical Advisor, HMDmd

Craig Allen
NewCo

Ashley Stowe
Director, ORETTC

Mary Lin
Senior Manager, ORETTC

John R. Kennedy
Instructional Designer, ORETTC

Austin Arnwine
Instructional Technology Lead, ORETTC

Evo Heyning
CEO, Realitycraft

Julian Reyes
Director, Virtual Worlds Museum

Rachel Joy Victor
Co-founder, FBRC.ai

Ashley Coffey
Founder, Coffey & Code Podcast

Andrew Dunar
VR Developer, HaptX

Kaitlyn Franz
Senior Product Manager, HaptX - Redmond

Dr. Sanika Doolani
Head of Product, Edstutia

Aaron Luk
Core Spec WG Chairperson for AOUSD, NVIDIA

Caspar Thykier
Co-founder & CEO, Zappar

Henrik Edstrom
Distinguished Architect, Graphics, Autodesk

Joe Michaels
Chief Revenue Officer, HaptX

Olga Dogadkina
Founder & CEO, Emperia

Botond Bognar
CEO, Pillantas

Trish Gianakis
Artist, BronxNet TV

Sly Spencer-Lee
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Emerge

Terry Proto
CEO + Co-Founder, Virtual Reality Marketing

Jon Karafin
CEO and Founder, Light Field Lab

Whitton Frank
Co-Founder, Ferryman Collective

Ben Erwin
Creator, The Poly Awards

Helen Lundström Erwin
Novelist & VR World Creator, The Foremothers Café

Marc Fernandez
CEO, Ron Revog Inc

Sally Slade
Lead XR Technical Artist, Genies

Blake Gross
Co-Founder, DB Creations

Molli Aronce
Community Developer, VR Create|Connect

Monica Hsueh
Global Marketing Manager, Speed 3D Inc.

Julie Smithson
Co-Founder & COO, METAVRSE

Shahwali Shayan
Guest Lecturer, Royal College of Art

Ariel Giacobbe
Creator

Molly Lavik
CEO & Founder, Mentor InSight, Inc.

Louis Rosenberg
CEO and Chief Scientist, Unanimous AI

Kaitlyn O'Connor
Partner, Nixon Gwilt Law

Dan Krolczyk
Director, Client Solutions, ELB Learning

Kyle Render
CEO, Rendered Talent

Kirsten Hudson
Chief Metaverse Officer, Rendered Talent

Elizabeth Baron
Founder, Immersionary Enterprises

John Anderson
Professor, University of Idaho

Julia A Scott, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University

Paul Hillman
Affiliate Faculty of Practice, Grand Valley State University

Lucy Hayto
Lecturer in Immersive Media Technology, University for the Creative Arts

Amany Alkhayat
Adjunct Faculty, New York Institute of Technology

David Gainey
Project Director, Cañada College

Cinthya Jauregui
AR Researcher, Santa Clara University

Christa Laser
Professor of Innovation Law, Cleveland State University

Amir Ahmadi
XR Researcher, Designer & Developer, Educator

Ryat Yezbick
Arizona State University

Jenny Dinh-Tran
Student & Researcher, Santa Clara University

Erin Reilly
Professor/Founding Director, Texas Immersive Institute, University of Texas at Austin

Cristina Carl
Founder/CEO, Ediphi

Amelia Stys, Najda Musta, Tereze Bogdane, Marta Teivane, Natalia Stys
Innovation Girls

Richard Zreik
CIO, Innovation Girls

Michelle Weisblat-Dane
Project Manager, IAmCompuBear Consortium

Paula Monteiro
Director Marketing Communications, ANYLINE

Torsten Gross
Chief Marketing Officer, MateriaMX

Cagan Sean Yuksel
Executive Creative Director and Partner, Dreamspace

Troy Jones Jr.
Co-Founder and CEO, StatusPro

Darya Sesitskaya
CEO & Co-Founder, Shader

Tom Ditzler
Portfolio Director - Research & Development, J.J. Keller & Associates

Justin Malloy
Senior Product Manager, LION Protects

Stefy Bau
Founder & CEO, Init Esports

Kidus Solomon
Student, Santa Clara University

Isabella Gomez
Student and Researcher, Santa Clara University

Darren Cox
Creator, GT Academy

Frédéric Plourde
XR Lead, Collabora ltd.

Laura Kusumoto
Consultant, Umeactive

Amir Khorram
General Manager, ByteDance | PICO

Vickie Nauman
Founder, CrossBorderWorks

Adele Keane
COO & Creative Director, Imvizar

Yvo Klare
XR Business Consultant & Data Specialist, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

Matthew Byrd
Founder & CEO, Reality Capture Network

Dr. Aldis Sipolins
Senior Manager, Advanced Research & Development, Adeia

Kevin Park
Chair of Digital Art and Design Dept. - Assistant Professor, New York Institute of Technology

Jenni Ogden
President, Eye Q Productions

Scott Stachiw
VP of XR Design & Development, Roundtable Learning

Neville Spiteri
Co-founder / CEO, Wevr

Brian Hamilton
VP, Sales & Marketing, DigiLens Inc.

Nima Shams
VP & GM of Product, DigiLens

Steve Feiner
Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University

Kiuk Gwak
CEO, bHaptics

Evan Helda
Spatial Computing, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Kurt Scheuringer
Principal Spatial Computing Prototyping Architect, Amazon Web Services

Marina Halter
Senior Instructional Designer, Transfr

Stanton Nash
XR Designer, Transfr

Westley Wadsworth
Principal Experience Designer, Transfr

Bharath Rajagopalan
Director of Strategic Marketing, STMicroelectronics

Dan O'Brien
HTC Vive President | Americas, HTC Vive

Lauren Marble
Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Dan Cotting
Spatial Solutions Architect Manager, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Kimate Richards
Sr. Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Suzanne Borders
CEO, BadVR

Radhika Mukhija
Founder, Higher Prana VR

Ashley Neall
Co-President, Intercollegiate XR (ICXR)

Logan Smith
Chief Technology Officer, Argyle

Tony Liao
Associate Professor, University of Houston

Brian Wassom
Chair, Emerging Tech Group, Warner Norcross + Judd LLP

Byron Beasley
Research Engineer, Rady Children's Hospital

Ian MacKenzie
XR Developer & Creator, Pencil!

Meaghan Fitzpatrick
Product Marketing, NVIDIA

Richard Pieterse
Senior Game Developer, Netflix

Tahnee Gehm
Owner, BrightEye Studios

Scott Fisher
Director, USC Mobile & Environmental Media Lab, USC School of Cinematic Arts

Perrin Kaplan
Co-Founder, Zebra Partners

Darshan Shankar
CEO & Founder, Bigscreen VR

Olga Ivanova
Founder & CEO, VR Oxygen, Inc.

Scarlett Kim
Head of Innovation, Culture House Immersive

Chance Sterling
Senior Manager, Battery Analytics and Testing, Iontra

Billy Check
Director of Electrical Engineering, Iontra

Todd Boppell
COO, National Association of Manufacturers - NAM

Deborah Worrell
Chief Strategy Officer & Partner, Virtual Reality Marketing

Daniel Robinson
Founder and CEO, RED 6

Ian Dawson
CEO, Augmentive Studio for AR/VR/XR

Rebecca Evans
XR Director, Dimension Adventures

John Cunningham
President, Virtualware

Lisa Peyton
Emerging Technology & Strategic Communications Professor, Univ. of Oregon

Chris Pfaff
Owner, Chris Pfaff Tech Media LLC

Trent Goodin
Creative Director, Orlando Economic Partnership

Dr. Helen Papagiannis
Augmented Reality Pioneer

Sarah Barker
Adult Educator|Media Psychology PhD Candidate, Creative Media Hub | VR: A Path to Mental Wellness

Christine Hobbi
Chief Immersion Officer, ServiceAlliances International, Inc.

Michael Hotaling
Operations Excellence Digital Manager, ExxonMobil

Megha Sharma
Product Manager, Microsoft

JP Minetos
Research and Investments, Hartmann Capital

Almir Brljak
COO, Sinn Studio

Emily O'Neal
Creative Director, Lighthaus Inc

Jacqueline Cooper
Co-Founder CG Pro and CG Empowers, CG Pro and CG Empowers

Alex Porter
CEO, Mod Tech Labs Inc.

Kristin Carey
Head of Creative, Resident XR/VP Producer, 3500 Kelvin

Trent Hermen
Vice President of Business Development, Select Rehabilitation

George Rendell
VP, NX Design Product Management and Product Marketing, Siemens Digital Industries Software

Malia Probst
Founding Partner, Scout House

Jeremy Schreiber
Director, Ecosystem and Strategic Partnerships - Microsoft Mesh Product Team, Microsoft

Tipatat Chennavasin
Co-Founder & General Partner, The Venture Reality Fund

Erika Cion
Team Lead, Senior Powerplant Engineer, Lockheed Martin

Chris Chin
CEO, Spatialosity

Tim Ventura
Managing Director, VOR Advisory

Bridgette Sieffert
AR/VR Engineer, Terran Orbital Corporation

Alejandro Mendoza
Leading XR/VR - Engineer III, Sierra Space

Soobin Ha
Chief Audio Director, Benvision

Michael Freeman
CEO, Ocutrx Technologies

Amy Seidenwurm
Chief of Programs & Strategy, Agog

Andy Cochrane
Immersive Content Creator & Consultant, The AV Club

Juliana Loh
Immersive XR Creative Technologist, Juliana Loh Imagination Arts

Ronan Kelly
Global Director Product Management AI & Smart Factory, Pfizer

Nicholas Hockley
Product Manager, Smart Factory Technology, Pfizer

Georgios Chantziaras
Senior Manager, Smart Factor PM, Pfizer

Clare Tattersall
Founder, Digital Fashion Week

David Moreno
Chief Business Development & Marketing Officer, Virtuaware

Tony Parisi
Founder, Metatron Studio

Marcie Jastrow
Metaverse Advisor

Brad Scoggin
CEO & Co-Founder, ArborXR

Mohsen Khurasany
Sr. Manager, XR Content & Innovation, Walmart

Franky Summers
Senior Creative Designer & XR Content, Walmart

Danny Tomsett
CEO, UneeQ Inc

Jason Catchpole
Head of AI, UneeQ

Kathryn Drummonds
Systems Engineer, Anduril Industries

Christiaan Varekamp
Senior Scientist, Philips

Dr. Brenda Wiederhold
Co-Founder, Virtual Reality Medical Center

Eric Chadwick
Senior 3D Technical Artist, Darmstadt Graphics Group GmbH

Kevin Viggers
Director, R&D, PureWeb

David Dowdall
Director, Sales, PureWeb

Jason Yim
CEO & Founder, Trigger XR

Jessica Owens
Field Marketing Director, Pacific Region, Molson Coors

Amy Allison
XR Consultant, Fatdroid

Laura Thérèse Cummings
Manager, Partner Relations, Industry, Unity

Justin Barad, MD
Founder & CEO, Osso VR

James Roosevelt
Director of Technology, Trigger XR

Stefan Goeppel
CEO, govar GmbH

Leo Nguyen
Senior Solutions Architect, Unity

Dace Campbell
Chief Innovation Executive, Dace Campbell Consulting

Matthew Wren
Founder, VRAR Chicago, Inc.

Carsten Becker
Creative Director / Consultant, Motomo Studio

Erik Fuentes
VP: Learn Innovation Lead, Chase Bank

Tiago Valente
Founder & Creative Director, Tiago Valente

Nico Fara
CEO, Let's Goooo!

John Hanacek
XR Interaction Designer, Nanome

Gaurav Sharma
General Manager of Interactive Learning, Transfr

Nicole Schlegel
Vice President, Global Digital Marketing, Universal Pictures

Todd Lichten
Head of Entertainment Partnerships, Roblox

Chris Wren
Software Partnerships Director, Ultraleap

Patrick O'Shaughnessey
Founder and CEO, Patched Reality Inc.

Todd Jackson
Content Creator / Podcaster, Q2C VR Gamer

Paul Martin
CEO & Founder, tagSpace

Joshua Littlefield
Chief Revenue Officer and President, Dispelix

Cortney Harding
Founder & CEO, Friends with Holograms

Nic Hill
Co-Founder & Head of Interactive, Sawhorse Productions

Kaare Eriksen
Media Analyst, VIP+, Variety

Thomas Alt
Founder, Ramblr.ai

Dijam Panigrahi
Co-founder/COO, Grid Raster Inc.

Bhaskar Banerjee
Co-Founder/CTO, Grid Raster Inc.

Adam Dunsky
Business Development, Immersix

Dan McConnell
Chief Technologist, Booz Allen Hamilton

Matthew McDermott
Director, Access Partnership

Fox Bonilla
CEO and Co-Founder, Harbinger Creative

Era Sahni
Sr. Director, Global Channel Partnerships, Meta

Juyoung Lee
Ph.D. student, KEA (Korea Electronics Association)

Jusub Kim
Founder/CEO, MetaMemories

Nahyeon Kim
Co-Founder/CTO, UDN

Sieun Park
Founder/CEO, Canvas Tour

Semi Kwon
Project Partner, Recon Labs

Minchae Kim
Master's Student, Digital Experience Lab

Jungha Kim
Master's Student, Digital Experience Lab

Skip Kimpel
President, Magicgate

Omer Shamay
CEO & Co-founder, Treedis

Anne-Sophie Panzer
Co-Founder and COO, ZAUBAR

Jean-Daniel LeRoy
CEO + Co-Founder, Playbook XR

Skylar Thomas
CTO + Co-Founder, Playbook XR

Toly Sherbakov
CEO and Co-Founder, Magic Kids

Brandon Yowakim
CEO and Co-Founder, Remix

Iara Dias
CEO, ikkio

Jocelyn Tan
CEO, Sisu VR

Shahrouz Yousefi
CTO & Founder, ManoMotion AB

Johannes Peeters
CEO, VoxelSensors

Aiman Akhtar
CEO, Fungisaurs, Inc.

Edgar Auslander
Director, Market Intelligence, Meta

Eric Marcellin-Dibon
CEO, microoled

Frances Yu
Unlimited Reality GM / Business Lead, Deloitte

Jenny Kay Pollock
Founder, Woman and AI

Lana Dubinskiy
Founder, Women and AI

Elias "Eli" Jimenez
Founder, VentR-out

Irfan Khan
CEO and Founder, Supernova Academy Inc.

Mori Amitai
CEO, Oorym

Sharun Kanan
Founder's Office, Ctruh Technologies Private Limited

Nahiyan Ahmad
Chief Business Officer, Octonic

Ashley Foxcroft
Founder & CEO, Freeaim Technologies

Sonya Haskins
Head of Programming, AWE

2024 Sponsors

DIAMOND SPONSOR:
• Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

TITANIUM SPONSORS:
• Meta
• Niantic, Inc.
• Sightful
• Snap, Inc.

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Hololight
• Infinite Rabbit Holes
• Lenovo
• Magic Leap
• Microsoft Mesh
• NIPA
• PICO
• XREAL
• Zappar – Pioneering XR Since 2011

SILVER SPONSORS:
• ArborXR
• Deloitte
• DigiLens
• HaptX
• Immersal Oy
• KEA (Korea Electronics Association)
• SBA (Seoul Business Agency)
• The AR Alliance
• UneeQ
• Unity

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• 3dMD
• 3lbXR & 3lb Games
• Adeia
• Auki Labs
• bHaptics Inc.
• Campfire
• CG Pro
• Cognitive3D
• Dispelix
• echo3D
• frontline.io
• FundamentalVR
• Grid Raster Inc.
• Immersix
• Inhance
• InterDigital
• Iontra
• Lamina1
• Lucid Reality Labs
• Mawari
• Metaverse Acceleration and Sustainability Association (MASA)
• NVIDIA
• Philips
• PIXO VR
• PureWeb
• Sawhorse Interactive
• Sensoryx
• STMicroelectronics
• tagSpace
• Tap Systems, Inc.
• TransfrVR
• Virtualware
• Wevr
• XR Association

PARTNERS:
• AIXR
• Alexis Zerafa & Helena Dong
• AR insider
• AREYES
• Auganix
• Black Terminus
• Coffey & Consult
• DevITJobs
• Easy Engineering
• Euromersive: European Federation of XR Professionals
• FOV Ventures
• Games for Change
• Harvard XR
• Hope for Haiti
• ICOholder
• Immersive Wire/Virtual perceptions
• Impact Reality XR
• IMPACTFest
• IVRHA
• IVRPA
• Road to VR
• SIGGRAPH 2024
• STEREOPSIA
• The Area
• The Digital Entertainment Group
• The Polys
• The Virtual Events Group (VEG )
• Vestbee
• Virtual Dimension Center Fellbach w. V.
• Virtual Round Ballers
• Virtual World Society
• VRARA
• VRDAYS
• WIIT
• XR Bootcamp
• XR Creator Con
• XR Guild
• XR Women
• XRAI
• XRSI - X Reality Safety Intelligence
• XRVienna
• ZAUBAR