Tish Shute's influence in XR spans over a decade, merging design, research, and technology with market strategies to pioneer AI and augmented ecosystems. Her extensive work encompasses everything from AI and deep learning to spatial computing, AR/VR, and beyond.

As a co-founder of Augmented World Expo (AWE) and AugmentedReality.ORG, she has played a pivotal role in bringing AR/VR into the consumer market. Shute's leadership role at Futurewei and her foundational work in photonics, computer vision and AI firmly placed her at the intersection of research, technology and design, shaping computing and communications with some of the most powerful computing tools of our time.