SPEAKERS

AWE USA 2025

Dr. Helen Papagiannis
Augmented Reality Pioneer
Jason Rubin
VP, Metaverse Experiences
Meta
Vicki Dobbs Beck
VP, Immersive Content
Lucasfilm & ILM Immersive
Palmer Luckey
Founder
Anduril
Poppy Crum
Neuroscientist - Technologist
Nils Pihl
CEO & Founder
Auki Labs
Paul Davies
Technical Fellow
The Boeing Company
Dr. Sandhya Santhosh
Senior Engineer - Virtualization Demonstration
Collins Aerospace - Applied Research and Technology
Jeffrey Berthiaume
Sr. Innovator
Southwest Airlines
Anne Lord Bailey
Executive Director, Strategic Initiatives Lab
Veterans Affairs
Ryan Johnston
Principal Engineer
Delta Air Lines
Jacqui Bransky
VP of Web3 & Innovation
Warner Records
Alex Goldberg
XR Innovations
Blue Origin
Andy Hunt
Manager, Digital Innovation Lab
The Hershey Company
Drew Weigel
Senior Director, 3D & Immersive
Shutterstock
Natasha Trindall
General Manager
Alo Moves
Louisa Spring
Principal Strategy & Innovation
T-Mobile
AJ Sciutto
Director of Virtual Production
Magnopus
Dustin Sleight
Systems Engineering Manager
IDEXX
Courtney Tononi
Sr. Project Manager
T-Mobile
Jenny (Shangjun) Jiang
AI Product Manager
CVS Health
Jimmy Vainstein
Sr. Program Manager
The World Bank
Rajat Lokesh
Senior XR Developer
Schlumberger
Ian Dawson
CEO
Augmentive Studio for AR/VR/XR
Suzanne Borders
CEO
BadVR
Johannes Peeters
CEO
VoxelSensors
Malia Probst
Founding Partner
Scout House
Marco DeMiroz
Co-founder & General Partner
The Venture Reality Fund
Scott Stein
Editor At Large
CNET
Ori Inbar
Co-Founder
AWE & Super Ventures
Max Bickley
Sr. Product Manager, Omniverse
NVIDIA
Jenna Seiden
Founder
Vertically Coastal Consulting, Inc.
Arturo Perez
CEO
Kluge Interactive
Matt Coleman
CEO & Founder
FansXR, INC
Lori-Lee Elliott
CEO
Dauntless XR
Larry Chang
Audio Director
Larrisim Studio
Pratik Suketu
Creative Technologist
tikiLabs
AJ Shewki
Co-Founder, CEO
LIV
Casandra Vuong
Co-Founder
Cas and Chary XR
Chary Keijzer
Co-Founder
Cas and Chary XR
Bridger Smith
Founder
Noetic Talent Agency
Sonya Haskins
Head of Programming
AWE
Perrin Kaplan
Co-Founder
Zebra Partners
Louis Rosenberg
CEO and Chief Scientist
Unanimous AI
Alvin Graylin
Author, Our Next Reality | Chairman, VWS
Jean-Baptiste (JB) Farge
Senior Customer Strategy Partner
Squint.ai
Kyle Render
CEO
Rendered Talent
Kirsten Hudson
Chief Metaverse Officer
Social Concept Group
Albert "Skip" Rizzo
Director, Medical Virtual Reality
University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies
Philippe Lewicki
Co-Founder & CEO
AfterNow
Daniel Kelly
Managing Director
W-RLDS
Reed Matthews
Founder
W-RLDS
Dinesh Punni
Founder and CEO
Immersive Insiders
Habib Noorbhai
Professor
University of Johannesburg
Devin Marble
Director of Marketing
VRpatients
Dr. Linda Ciavarelli
Co-Founder and CEO
HouseCall VR
Sabra Williams
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Creative Acts
Colleen Tully
Senior Program Manager, Innovation
Medtronic
Christine Hobbi
Chief Immersion Officer
ServiceAlliances International, Inc.
Sarah Barker
PhD Candidate | Independent Researcher & Designer
Steve Lukas
Founder
ContractXR
Collin Hadley
Co-Organizer
MIT Reality Hack
Danny Marree
AR Director
Verticar
Antony Vitillo
Owner
The Ghost Howls
Ben Erwin
Creator
The Poly Awards
Thomas Desmeules
Director of Innovation & Technology
GIRRAPHIC
Woody Davis
Developer and Filmmaker
WoodyDevs
Dr. Csaba Osvath
Assistant Professor of Instruction
University of South Florida
Dr. Lindsay Persohn
Assistant Professor
University of South Florida
Dr. Howard Kaplan
Director, Advanced Visualization Center
University of South Florida
Aleshia Hayes
Director of SURGE XR Lab
University of North Texas
Bobby Carlton
VR/XR Content Manager & Business Development
FS Studio
Wadooah Wali
Co-Founder, CSO & Executive Producer
New Canvas
Henry Keyser
XR Director
Kelly Guillory
Artist
Jim Squires
Communications, Marketing & Design Consultant (Games)
Maxine Lea Nel
Co-founder and Creative Director
Eric Oldrin
Creative Innovation
Ashley Coffey
Founder
Coffey & Code Podcast
Destery Hildenbrand
Founder
destery1kenobi LLC
Aung Nyein Chan
Founder
Enchax Creative
Harry (Skeeva) Skigis
Founder
Impact Reality / XR Update / Between Realities
Eric Masher
COO
Impact Reality / Flat2VR Studios
Alex Meland
Creator
Between Realities / UploadVR
Sophia Moshasha
Interactive Media
The World Bank
Julie Smithson
CEO
METAVRSE
Karen Alexander
Executive Director
XR Women
Jasmine Uniza
CEO
Impact Reality / Flat2VR Studios
Jonathan Foremny
Test Pilot
TCOM
Elliott Tate
CMO
Impact Reality / Flat2VR Studios
Gregory Panos
Founder - Creator
Persona Foundation
ARman Atoyan
Chief Wizard
ARLOOPA
Tom Furness
Founder & Chairman
Virtual World Society
Yohan Baillot
CEO
ARCortex INC
Dan Munnerley
Executive Director of Next Lab | SeniorGlobal Futures Scholar
Arizona State University
Amy LaMeyer
Managing Partner
WXR Fund
Stefanie Hutka
Founder & Head of Design Research
Sendfull
Leslie Shannon
Head of Trend and Innovation Scouting
Nokia
Kent Bye
Producer
Voices of VR Podcast
Erik Fuentes
VP: Learn Innovation Lead
Chase Bank
Brittan Heller
Lecturer
Stanford University
Lucy Trang Nguyen
Business Development Director, Emerging Technologies
Accedo
Jaime Pichardo García
Chief Strategy Officer
Odders Lab
Brent Bushnell
Co-founder, CEO
Future Circus
Shane Rhodes
3D Generalist
Mighty Coconut
Aysu Unal
Experiential Producer
IceYes
Avi Bar-Zeev
Founder, President
XR Guild
Purnendu Mukherjee
Founder & CEO
Convai Technologies Inc.
Tom Emrich
Author
The Next Dimension
Joshua Rubin
Chief Creative Officer
Subverse Narrative Consulting
Antonia Forster
Senior XR Engineer
Avantis Education
Nicole Lazzaro
President and Founder
XEODesign and XEOPlay
Neil Barbour
Industry analyst
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Aundrea Frahm
Director of Immersive Learning
University of Nevada Las Vegas
Terri MechKenna
Humanoid Resources Intern
Auki Labs
Sarah Gordon
Industrial Design Student
University of Cincinnati
Kateryna Bielotserkovksa
XR Prototyper, UX & Game Designer
Amra Tareen
CEO
ALL3D
Daniel Iborra
Principal Software Engineer
Bentley Systems
Guy Martin
Director of Open Source & Standards
NVIDIA
Paul Connelly
Software Engineer
Bentley Systems
Daniel Frith
Chief Creative Officer (CCO)
London Dynamics
Eric Chadwick
Senior 3D Technical Artist
DGG
Ashley Crowder
CEO, Co-Founder
VNTANA
Henrik Edstrom
Distinguished Architect, Graphics
Autodesk
Leonard Daly
President
Daly Realism
James Cooper
Chief Technologist
Raytheon Technologies
Jesse Schell
CEO
Schell Games