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Jesse Damiani
Deputy Director of Emerging Technology Southern New Hampshire University

Jesse is a writer, curator, producer, entrepreneur, and public figure in emerging technology. He is Deputy Director of Emerging Technology at Southern New Hampshire University, a Forbes Contributor, and Editor-at-Large of VRScout. Other bylines appear in Adweek, Billboard, Entrepreneur, Quartz, and The Verge. He has served as a mentor in the YouTube VR Creator Lab and worked with Google in their initiative to develop educational content for the VR/AR industry as Curriculum Writer/Editor and on-camera instructor on their VR and AR courses. He hosts TECH TOCK, a talk show in Microsoft’s SocialVR platform, AltspaceVR. He was the Curator/Producer for the XR art exhibition, SPATIAL REALITY, at sp[a]ce gallery; Co-Curator of VIRTUAL FUTURES with LACMA for LA Art Show; and Co-Curator of SIM-CINEMA with FLOAT and Wevr. He curates The Tech Zone at DesignerCon and XR For Change, the XR summit at Games For Change.

TALKS

May 26

12:30 PM - 05:00 PM

VR Side Events
Side events in VR

Museum of Other Realities

Steve Teeple | Steve Teeps

John Orion Young | JOYWORLD

Mez Breeze | Mez Breeze Design

Jesse Damiani | Southern New Hampshire University

Jacquelyn Morie | All These Worlds, LLC

René Pinnell | Kaleidoscope

May 27

12:30 PM - 05:00 PM

VR Side Events
Side events in VR

Museum of Other Realities

Stuart Campbell | Sutu Eats Flies and EyeJack

Jesse Damiani | Southern New Hampshire University

Isaac Cohen | Prismatic Simulations

Marjan Moghaddam | Long Island University

Lara Lesmes | Space Popular

Rosie Summers | XR Games

Fredrik Hellberg | Space Popular

Sabby Lighf | Sabby Life

May 27

03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

VR Side Events
Side events in VR

Tech Tock with Jesse Damiani, and special guest Tom Emrich

Tom Emrich | Niantic, Inc.

Jesse Damiani | Southern New Hampshire University

May 28

12:30 PM - 05:00 PM

VR Side Events
Side events in VR

Museum of Other Realities

Jesse Damiani | Southern New Hampshire University

Vladimir Ilic | VRHuman

Nancy Baker Cahill | 4th Wall AR App

Myriam Achard | PHI

Alfredo Salazar-Caro | Digital Museum of Digital Art

Giorgio Vitale | Synthesis Gallery

May 29

01:40 PM - 02:00 PM

Livestream 1
Art

How Spatial Art will Define the 2020s

Jesse Damiani | Southern New Hampshire University