AGENDA

AWE USA 2026

Jun 15 Jun 16 Jun 17 Jun 18
03:45 PM - 04:10 PM
Builders Stage | Expo Hall
XR Enablement
Jun 16
Builders Stage | Expo Hall

From Eye Movements to User Context: Building More Personal AI Glasses with Inseye Tiny

Piotr Krukowski - Inseye Technologies Inc.
04:15 PM - 04:40 PM
Builders Stage | Expo Hall
XR Enablement
Jun 16
Builders Stage | Expo Hall

The Hard Part of XR Adoption: Evidence, Workflow, and Trust

Lisa Ann Pinkerton - Technica Communications
Anne L. Bailey - Veterans Affairs
04:45 PM - 05:10 PM
Builders Stage | Expo Hall
XR Enablement
Jun 16
Builders Stage | Expo Hall

Meet the Sparse Processing Unit (SPU) chip and AI developer platform: Unlocking the Next Generation of Smart Glasses

Bill Hoppin - femtoAI
01:00 PM - 01:25 PM
Promenade Room 104B
XR Enablement
Jun 17
Promenade Room 104B

Engineering the Impossible: Photonics Platforms for High-Volume Manufacturing of Invisible AI Eyewear

Ludovic Godet - Applied Materials
01:40 PM - 02:05 PM
Promenade Room 104B
XR Enablement
Jun 17
Promenade Room 104B

Prescription on Demand

Prash Ganeswaran - Oxford Optical Laboratories
02:20 PM - 02:45 PM
Promenade Room 104B
XR Enablement
Jun 17
Promenade Room 104B

The XR-Robotics Venn Diagram

Joe Michaels - 1HMX
03:40 PM - 04:05 PM
Promenade Room 104B
XR Enablement
Jun 17
Promenade Room 104B

Spatial AI: Transforming the Workspace

Matt Fedorovich - Insight Enterprises
04:10 PM - 04:35 PM
Promenade Room 104B
XR Enablement
Jun 17
Promenade Room 104B

Beyond XR: The Shift Toward Spatial, Immersive Digital Experiences

Jochem Taminiau - Leia Inc.
04:45 PM - 05:10 PM
Promenade Room 104B
XR Enablement
Jun 17
Promenade Room 104B

Where XR Meets Real Science: Unlocking Insights in Disaster, Space Weather & Earth Observation

Disha Sardana - NASA
10:00 AM - 10:25 AM
Promenade Room 104B
XR Enablement
Jun 18
Promenade Room 104B

Introducing the New TactGlove DK3: How We Engineered Whole-Hand Haptics

Kiuk Gwak - bHaptics
10:40 AM - 11:05 AM
Promenade Room 104B
XR Enablement
Jun 18
Promenade Room 104B

Building Smart Glasses People Actually Wear: A Validation Framework for Product Leaders

Tinku Malayil Jose - Quest Global
Thomas Winkler - Quest Global
11:20 AM - 12:00 PM
Promenade Room 104B
XR Enablement
Jun 18
Promenade Room 104B

Debating the Hardware, Software and Social Implications Driving AR with the Display Skeptics

Karl Guttag - KGOnTech LLC (kguttag.com)
Radu Reit - Display Training Center
01:00 PM - 01:25 PM
Promenade Room 104B
XR Enablement
Jun 18
Promenade Room 104B

AI Integrated XR/Smart Glasses and the Next Human-Machine Interface

Omar Abed - InvenSense, a TDK Group Company
01:40 PM - 02:05 PM
Promenade Room 104B
XR Enablement
Jun 18
Promenade Room 104B

How BCI is Removing the Friction from AR and AI Interaction

Guy Wagner - Wearable Devices LTD
02:20 PM - 02:45 PM
Promenade Room 104B
XR Enablement
Jun 18
Promenade Room 104B

Optics Technologies Trends for the Next Generation of Smart Glasses

Thomas Bithell - IDTechEx
03:00 PM - 03:25 PM
Promenade Room 104B
XR Enablement
Jun 18
Promenade Room 104B

OpenXR Deep Dive: From Runtime Architecture to Spatial Computing

Frédéric Plourde - Collabora and Khronos Group