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Invite Only: Founders and investors are invited to a networking luncheon in a reserved area of the Expo Hall. Come raise a glass, celebrate your achievements and make new friends with others who are building the future of XR.

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The immersive quality of XR has potential for good as it's used to expose people to social situations they otherwise wouldn't experience, creating greater awareness and empathy.

When Joanne Popińska was producing The Choice, she had no idea that less than six months after it was released the United States Supreme Court would overturn Roe v Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion almost 50 years after it was established.

Enjoy this Fireside Discussion as Joanne discusses her original goals, her surprise at how the Supreme Court decision impacted reception of her work, and the overall impact of this XR experience.

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Sönke Kirchhof

CEO , INVR.SPACE

Joanne Popinska

Director & Producer , Infinite Frame Media

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Immersive games make it possible to combine technology and physicality to create an exhilarating experience in immersive reality unlike anything previously available. When you add multiplayer games to the mix and create opportunities for competitive gaming through esports, there's tremendous potential for growth.

Esports is a billion dollar industry and while VR & AR games make up only a small portion of that, this is an emerging field with ongoing potential for growth and many opportunities for start-ups and savvy investors. Join our panel to hear more about immersive gaming & esports, how to become involved, pitfalls to avoid, and more.

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Malte Barth

Founding General Partner , BITKRAFT Ventures

Christoph Ortlepp

Co-Founder & COO , Virtex

Benedikt Huebenthal

Investor , BITKRAFT Ventures

Kaspar Tiri

Co-Founder , Ready Player Me

Nuno Folhadela

CEO , ONTOP

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Brands started to jump on the "Metaverse" tech trend to not fall behind the competition, but how can they create immersive experiences for their customers? And more importantly, how can they scale this 3D content generation?
Discover different ways of creating AR & Metaverse-ready assets and digital twins at scale. Session will also address the future of digital ownership, how brands can proact, and make this a part of their business strategy.

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Feyza Pamukoglu Johnson

Data Analyst , Hepsiburada

Ugur Yekta Basak

CEO , Art Labs

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While learning styles differ for each individual, experts agree that practical experience and hands-on learning is most effective for engagement and retention. Getting practical experience, however, can be easier said than done and it's even more challenging when trying to find safe and suitable training opportunities as a scalable solution for a large number of users.

Immersive learning, a method by which learning experiences are facilitated through the usage of simulated or artificial environments, provides a safe space to learn, experiment and grow.

At Resourceful Humans, immersive learning is taken to the next level with cinematic learning. Rather than merely create artificial environments, we re-create real leadership stories in virtual reality so participants can learn from the experience through engagement.

As part of a group training experience, participants will need to complete challenges on the immersive journey that test decision making skills, collaboration and communication within their team. Observers on the outside have a ‘god’s view’ of participants' experience and can offer real-time feedback and insights into the performance of individuals and crew.

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Heiko Fischer

CEO & co-founder , Resourceful Humans

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This session continues a discussion that started on awe.live that features examples of incredible use-cases emerging for how “immersive and experiential” technologies are providing new capabilities to help build education, awareness, and empathy around the major challenges facing humanity.

Highlights will include three specific initiatives driving SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), positive impact and how XR will help create a “Metaverse for Good.” Marcus Shingles, CEO of Exponential Destiny (a 501c3 non-profit that is primarily led by youth from under-served communities) and Dace Campbell, XR thought leader, will also share two global prize competitions: AWE’s "XR Prize Challenge: Fight Climate Change Challenge" and ExpoD’s “Metaverse for SDG Global Prize & VR Competition,” recently launched with the support of the UN’s ITU agency. Both competitions will give the entire AWE community an opportunity to participate and get involved!

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Dace Campbell

Board Member , Virtual World Society

Michael Scherotter

Founder , Galeryst

Samantha Aguilar

Chief Design Officer , Exponential Destiny

Marcus Shingles

CEO , Exponential Destiny

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Augmented Reality Portals is a new way to fully surround users in a 360 and 3D digital world using their mobile phone. AR Portals combine the “immersiveness” of virtual reality and the ubiquity of the smartphone to create a tool for brands and creators alike to develop magical experiences for everyone.

Take your users on a journey of your factory, have them walk around a virtual store that throws the laws of gravity out the window, or have them go on an interactive adventure while fully immersed in a digital world. These are just a few ideas of what you can do with AR Portals.

AR Portals can be created for Social AR (Snap Lens Studio and Meta's Spark AR Studio) and for WebAR and we'll talk about the pros and cons of both options.

This talk will go over the most frequent use cases for AR Portals, a high-level technical overview, and best practices in creating your own. We will also showcase some of the best AR Portals out there. If you're interested in bringing magic to the world with AR, then I can't wait to share this talk with you.

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Yoni Binstock

CTO , Atomic Digital Design

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For adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients, support group sessions have been proven to increase survival chances and alleviate depression. But for a number of good reasons, very few patients are comfortable attending in-person therapy sessions. So the Yale School of Medicine teamed up with Foretell Reality (A Glimpse Group Company) to develop a VR application to solve this dilemma. Join us to find out how.

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James Watson

Chief Marketing Officer , The Glimpse Group

Asher Marks

Associate Professor of Pediatrics , Yale University School of Medicine

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Mapping and adapting immersive content to the real world for home use, gaming, education, or productivity can improve business performance in various industries. Cyril Tuschi and Sarah Vallon will walk the audience through potential use cases and solutions of creator tools. Discussion will include how to improve current workflows, how to save time and money, and how to create a variety of scalable business opportunities.

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Sarah Vallon

Head of Marketing , SyncReality

Cyril Tuschi

Founder / CEO , SyncReality

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Today's utility and energy sector is being pushed towards change due to the disruptive power of progressive IT technologies. The increasing demand for electricity in developed and, even more, in developing countries with growing cost pressure is making our industry reconsider its ever static business model. With augmented and virtual realities, we are on the way to innovate and reshape our sector.

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Maissaa Rharrab

Head of XR CoE , Elia

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Our model of the world doesn't match the reality of the world. This is why we often find the future mystifying, we struggle unnecessarily, and are continually surprised when disruption occurs.

And most importantly: No deep tech, Metaverse or other innovation will lead to a thriving future until we bring these two into alignment.

What if we learned to see the world differently?

In this inspiring and paradigm-shifting talk, Innovation Architect and Near Futurist Neil Redding shares how seeing the world through the lens of connected ecosystems is the critical unlock — for sustainable business growth into the emerging future, for solving Humanity's greatest challenges, and for building the new immersive worlds of our most visionary dreams.

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Neil Redding

Head of Product , Auki Labs

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Give me an A! Give me a W! Give me an E! Grab an icy cold one and take a seat in our VIP Box seats where your ticket includes exclusive access to recent industry home runs revealing how a fan’s experience is evolving for new XR-powered sports, via hyper-personalised, frictionless, data-driven engagement across activations, platforms and worlds, and what’s next for these expanding XR franchises.

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Muki Kulhan

CIO, Executive XR/MetaTech Producer & Creative Technologist , MUKI-INTERNATIONAL, LTD

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Learn how specialized Virtual Reality NeuroTherapy (VRNT) is used for in-patient, out-patient and telehealth care for Spinal Cord Injury, Brain Injury and Stroke recovery to enhance neurological engagement for improved range of motion, pain management and quality of life.

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Jessica Maslin

Co-Founder and President , Mieron, Inc.

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Pilot Results: What Happens when you give an under-resourced public school VR headsets and train them how to create their own customized “edu-tainment” based curriculum in VR

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Samantha Aguilar

Chief Design Officer , Exponential Destiny

Marcus Shingles

CEO , Exponential Destiny

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Flow Founder & CEO Tristan Elizabeth Gribbin reveals insights from the field with corporations like PwC long-term. How emerging AR/VR/XR companies thrive by converting enterprise customers into long-term subscribers. Tristan engages the audience in a discussion on ways to make a splash in the market, how to get leadership to sign on, and ultimately, the value of developing lifetime partnerships.

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Tristan Gribbin

Founder & CEO , Flow

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AR glasses continue to become more compelling on a larger scale as we see thinner lenses, more powerful processors, interactive software, and increasing interest. Experts in specialty fields like architecture and medicine have pushed forward the desire for AR technology while we're also seeing increased interest from average consumers who want to know more about this technology.

With that in mind, we're already heading in the right direction so how do we capture the momentum and help AR glasses go mainstream?

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Jay Latta

Fusionist , The Fusionists

Pia Harju

VP of Business Development , Dispelix

Edu Strul

CEO , Eyejets

Sebastian Anjou

Business Development Director EMEA , Vuzix Corporation

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At different times in our lives, we play games for different reasons: to escape, shop, socialize, work or find our significant other. In this panel, we will hear from experts in the gaming space, looking at what we’ve learned from gaming, and what it means for the future of commerce and culture in the metaverse.

We’ll explore questions around fandom, business models, the creator economy, data and design- all in the context of the transformative shift we are seeing in digital habits during this transformative era of the internet.

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Sandra Helou

CEO , MetaMinds Group

Elaine Wong

Games Business Development , PICO

Melodie Mousset

Co-founder & Creative director , Patch XR

Anne McKinnon

Cofounder & CEO , Ristband

Maud Clavier

COO , VRrOOm

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Join as leaders in extended reality (XR) for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs talk candidly about how immersive technology is transforming the way healthcare is delivered and experienced. This transformation has been enabled and amplified through collaboration – both within the organization and with the broader XR community.

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Anne Lord Bailey

Executive Director, Strategic Initiatives Lab , Veterans Affairs

Caitlin Rawlins

Deputy Director, Clinical Tech Innovation , Veterans Affairs

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Join Philippe Bornstein of The Lucid Dreams Company & Pauline Dumora of Les Beaux Arts as they discuss how to create an artistic journey using geolocated AR experiences based on Snapchat, Instagram and webAR. Featuring content from Digital Art Month Paris.

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Philippe BORNSTEIN

President , XR+ (by The Lucid Dreams Company)

Pauline Dumora

Cheffe de Projet , Les Beaux Arts

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Join Sarah Ticho and Sam Ingram as they explore the publication of ‘The Growing Value of XR in Healthcare in the UK, and the subsequent work with hospitals, government and beyond to begin developing a national strategy for XR in health and wellbeing. They'll report findings, share opportunities to collaborate with the UK and explore this approach as a blueprint for other Governments to strategically consider how XR Healthcare can scale for their citizens.

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Sam Ingram

Divisional Director of Innovation Operations , Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Sarah Ticho

Co-Founder , XR Health Alliance