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AWE USA 2023
May 31-June 2, 2023
AWE USA 2023
August 30-31
AWE Asia 2023
24-25 Oct, 2023
AWE EU 2023
All year, Globally
AWE Nites
Online Classes
AWE Academy
ALWAYS ON COMMUNITY
AWE.LIVE
Conference
Agenda
SPEAKERS
Become a Volunteer
Apply for Press Pass
HOTELS & VENUE
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Agenda Tracks
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Expo
Sponsors
Exhibitors
Become a sponsor or exhibitor
Apply for Playground
Expo Floor Plan
Awards
Auggie Awards 2023
View 2022 Winners
XR Prize
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XR Events
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About
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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
CRO & Co-Founder, 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
Amy Peck
Founder/CEO, EndeavorXR
Paul Brady
Co-Founder and President, Resolution Games
Celine Tricart
Creator, Lucid Dreams Productions
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, AWS
Ian Dawson
CEO, Augmentive Studio
Denise Zheng
Managing Director for Strategic Initiatives, Accenture
Paul Davies
Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company
Quinn Taber
CEO, Immerse
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
President and 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, Director, Virtual World Society
Lianne Baron
PgM, AR Partnerships at Meta, 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
Julie Smithson
Co-Founder, MetaVRse
William Belk
Director of Medical Simulation and Innovative Education, Air Methods Corp
Karen Alexander
Immersive Learning Consultant, MetaVRse
Steve Drake
President, Forklift University
Karthik Sarma
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, SimX
Anwer Sadath
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/Media Influencer, Q2C-VR Gamer
Daniel Berrick
Policy Counsel, Future of Privacy Forum
Petri Rajahalme
Founding Partner, FOV Ventures
Jason Yim
CEO, Trigger Global
Rommel "RomeDigs" Reyes
Producer, Director, Creator
Doug Smith
Director of Learning Success, HoloPundits
Karl Guttag
President, KGonTech
Govind Payyavula
Senior Managing Principal, Intuitive
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, Glasgaw 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, Creative 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 of Displays, 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
Optical Designer, Joya Team
Bobak Tavangar
CEO, Brilliant Labs
Niko Chauls
XR Partnerships, Product Innovation, Verizon
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
Senior VR Research Scientist, Virtual World Society
Athena Demos
CEO, Big Rock Creative
Daniel Sisson
Co-Founder & CEO, Spatial Ape
Justin Barnett
CTO, CyberHub Syndicate
Robert Nelson
Managing Director, Sia Partners
Evo Heyning
CEO, Realitycraft
Michael Ronen
Co-Founder, Shaderverse
James Ashley
Senior XR Consultant, Project Archer
Joshua Burns
Lead Strategic Spatial Computing Architect, Amazon Web Services
Kellan Cartledge
Spatial Computing Specialist Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Nanea Reeves
CEO & Co-Founder, Tripp
Harald Wuest
CEO & Founder, Visometry
Elena Piech
XR Producer, ZeroSpace
Mike Boland
Chief Analyst, ARtillery Intelligence
Stephen Curtis
Senior Spatial Prototyping Architect, Amazon Web Services
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
Deshjuana Bagley
Founder / CEO, TechPlayzone
Lauren Marble
Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Pip Brignall
Co-Founder, The Round
Antonia Forster
Senior XR Technical Specialist, Unity
Jinhwan An
Sr Mgr of Business Development, LG Nova