SPEAKERS

AWE USA 2025

Dr. Helen Papagiannis
Augmented Reality Pioneer
Jason Rubin
VP, Metaverse Experiences
Meta
Vicki Dobbs Beck
VP, Immersive Content Innovation
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 L. Bailey
Executive Director, Strategic Initiatives Lab
Veterans Affairs
Tom Furness
Founder
Virtual World Society
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
Rachel Yeagyeong Cho
Senior UX Designer
Pfizer
James Cooper
Chief Technologist
Raytheon | An RTX Business
Louisa Spring
Principal Strategy & Innovation
T-Mobile
AJ Sciutto
Director of Virtual Production
Magnopus
Jordana Leigh
Vice President, Artistic Programming
The Lincoln Center
Dustin Sleight
Systems Engineering Manager
IDEXX
Courtney Tononi
Sr. Project Manager
T-Mobile
Jenny Jiang
AI Product Manager
CVS Health
Jimmy Vainstein
Sr. Program Manager
The World Bank
Erik Fuentes
VP: Learn Innovation Lead
Chase Bank
Rajat Lokesh
Senior XR Developer
Schlumberger
Sutu
Artist | Co-Founder
EyeJack | Sutu Eats Flies
Ian Dawson
CEO
Augmentive Studio for AR/VR/XR
Suzanne Borders
CEO
BadVR
Johannes Peeters
CEO
VoxelSensors
Marco DeMiroz
Co-founder & General Partner
The Venture Reality Fund
Malia Probst
Founding Partner
Scout House
Amy LaMeyer
Managing Partner
WXR Fund
Ori Inbar
Co-Founder
AWE & Super Ventures
Max Bickley
Sr. Product Manager, Omniverse
NVIDIA
Trista Pierce
Spatial Platform Business Development Lead
Niantic
Jesse Schell
CEO
Schell Games
Brent Bushnell
Co-founder, CEO
Future Circus
Antonia Forster
Senior XR Engineer
Avantis Education
Jenna Seiden
Founder
Vertically Coastal Consulting, Inc.
Arturo Perez
CEO
Kluge Interactive
Shane Rhodes
3D Generalist
Mighty Coconut
Dwayne Waite Jr
Associate Marketing Director
Schell Games
Jaime Pichardo García
Chief Strategy Officer
Odders Lab
Scott Stein
Editor At Large
CNET
Ben Lang
Executive Editor
Road to VR
Matt Coleman
CEO & Founder
FansXR, INC
Kaz Maurice-O'Leary
Innovation Director
Verses and Valleys
Lori-Lee Elliott
CEO
Dauntless XR
Gregory Panos
Founder - Creator
Persona Foundation
Amber Moak
Marketing Director
Resolution Games
Larry Chang
Audio Director
Larrisim Studio
Pratik Suketu
Creative Technologist and Filmmaker
tikiLabs
Ted Schilowitz
Futurist & Co-Founder
Red Camera
Charlie Fink
Contributing Columnist, Host
Forbes, This Week in XR Podcast
Cathy Hackl
CEO & Founder
Future Dynamics
Alvin Graylin
Author | Chairman
Our Next Reality | Virtual World Society
AJ Shewki
Co-Founder, CEO
LIV
Casandra Vuong
Creator
Youtube
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
Jean-Baptiste (JB) Farge
Senior Customer Strategy Partner
Squint.ai
Shelley Peterson
Founder | XR Industry Pioneer
Wizard Wells
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
Neil Barbour
Industry analyst
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Collin Hadley
Co-Organizer
MIT Reality Hack
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
Rylan Pozniak Daniels
XR Developer & Futurist
iRylan.com
Malcolm Williams
Founder
Technorganic
Kent Bye
Producer
Voices of VR Podcast
Danny Marree
AR Director
Verticar
Antony Vitillo
Owner
The Ghost Howls
Ben Erwin
Creator
The Poly Awards
Thomas Desmeules
Director of Innovation & Technology
GIRRAPHIC
Nicole Lazzaro
President and Founder
XEODesign and XEOPlay
Jacquelyn Morie
Founder, Chief Scientist
All These Worlds, LLC
Brittan Heller
Lecturer
Stanford University
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
Sarah Gordon
Industrial Design Student
University of Cincinnati
Aundrea Frahm
Director of Immersive Learning
University of Nevada Las Vegas
Dan Munnerley
Executive Director of Next Lab | SeniorGlobal Futures Scholar
Arizona State University
Steve Lukas
Founder
ContractXR
Bobby Carlton
VR/XR Content Manager & Business Development
FS Studio
Wadooah Wali
Co-Founder, CSO & Executive Producer
New Canvas
Ashley Coffey
Founder
Coffey & Code Podcast
Harry (Skeeva) Skigis
Founder
Impact Reality / XR Update / Between Realities
Jasmine Uniza
CEO
Impact Reality / Flat2VR Studios
Eric Masher
COO
Impact Reality / Flat2VR Studios
Alex Meland
Creator
Between RealitiesVR Podcast
Sophia Moshasha
Interactive Media
The World Bank
Julie Smithson
CEO
METAVRSE
Karen Alexander
Executive Director
XR Women
Henry Keyser
XR Director
Kelly Guillory
Artist
Jim Squires
Communications, Marketing & Design Consultant (Games)
Maxine Lea Nel
Co-founder and Creative Director
Eric Oldrin
Director of Creative Innovation
Jonathan Foremny
Test Pilot
TCOM
Elliott Tate
CMO
Impact Reality / Flat2VR Studios
ARman Atoyan
Chief Wizard
ARLOOPA
Yohan Baillot
CEO
ARCortex Inc.
Stefanie Hutka
Founder & Head of Design Research
Sendfull
Leslie Shannon
Head of Trend and Innovation Scouting
Nokia
Lucy Trang Nguyen
Business Development Director, Emerging Technologies
Accedo
Aysu Unal
Founder, Experiential Producer
AiSU
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
Terri MechKenna
Humanoid Resources Intern
Auki Labs
Kate Bielotserkovksa
XR Prototyper, UX & Game Designer
Lemon Sharks
Amra Tareen
CEO
ALL3D
Paul Connelly
Software Engineer
Bentley Systems
Daniel Iborra
Principal Software Engineer
Bentley Systems
Guy Martin
Director of Open Source & Standards
NVIDIA
Destery Hildenbrand
Founder
destery1kenobi LLC
Aung Nyein Chan
Founder
Enchax Creative
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
Tim Ventura
Managing Director
VOR Advisory
JP Minetos
Investor
Hartmann Capital
Callum Hurley
Producer & Creator
VR Game Spotlight
Natasha Trindall
General Manager
Alo Moves
Maria Gorlatova
Nortel Networks Assistant Professor
Duke University
Neil Singh
Senior Business Development Executive
ISSQUARED Inc.
Nia-Simone Egerton
Assistant Project Manager
Dream Machine Experience
Robin Moulder
CEO
3lbXR & 3lb Games
Ryan Canuel
CEO
Petricore, Inc
Eric Shamlin
CEO
Secret Level
Bob Bjarke
Creative Director
The Electric Factory
Joe Gabriel
Developer Relations Lead
Niantic, Inc.
Joan O'Hara
Senior Vice President, Public Policy
XR Association
Dylan Fox
Director of Operations
XR Access
Stephanie Montgomery
Senior VP of Research and Best Practices
XR Association
Paige Dansinger
Founder
Better World Museum
Robin White Owen
President & Co-Founder
MediaCombo
Eugy Han
Graduate Research Fellow
Stanford University
Pavel Koutcherina
Senior Unity Developer
Fantastic Voyage Labs
Christopher Bennison
Founder and CEO
DualNorth
Sergey Kirshner
CTO
Fantastic Voyage Labs
Julia A Scott, PhD
Medical Council Lead
XRSI
Celine Tricart
President, Co-Founder
Coven
Haipeng (Mark) Zhang
President
American Medical Extended Reality Association
Brennan Spiegel
Professor of Medicine and Public Health Editor
Cedars-Sinai Hospital Journal of Medical Extended Reality
Bob Fine
Executive Director
IVRHA
Monica Arés
Executive Director
Imperial IDEA Lab
Steve Feiner
Professor of Computer Science
Columbia University
Johan Cruse
Learning Tools Manager
Volvo Trucks
Laurent Da Dalto
CEO
MIMBUS
Mauricio Kovacevic
Standardization Manager
Ericsson
Frédéric Plourde
Head of XR Division
Collabora ltd.
Ariane Fikki
Director of Global Ambassadors
VRARA
David Lobser
Founder
light.clinic
Will Cherry
Technical Artist
Meta
Carol Silverman
Artist and Creator
Leland Hedges
General Manager
PICO XR US/EMEA (ByteDance)
Matthew Wren
Founder
VRAR Chicago
Patrick Johnson
CEO
Rock Paper Reality
Eve Weston
Experience Design, Strategy & Storytelling Consultant
Exelauno
Woody Davis
Developer and Filmmaker
WoodyDevs
Katy Yudin
Senior Director of Studio Development
COSM
Ed Lantz
CEO
Vortex Immersion
Jenni Ogden
CEO
Eye Q Productions
Yiqi Zhao
Product Design Lead
Meta
Tanvi Agrawal
MBA Student and Founder
UCLA and RealityCheck
Miro Lima
Head of Mawari Network
Mawari
Will Humphrey
Creative Director
Sugar Creative
Dan Ferguson
Co-Founder
Groove Jones
Dale Carman
Co-Founder
Groove Jones
Doug Hogan
Senior Creative Technologist
Groove Jones
Kathleen Cohen
Tech Humanist, XR Strategist
The Collaboratorium
Nona Hendryx
Creator
Dream Machine
Nir Daube
CEO
LIBBA
Lee Kebler
Co-Host
TechMagic Podcast
Lewis Ward
Research Director - XR, gaming, and interactive 3D software
IDC
Flora McCrone
Lead, Immersive Interactions - Centre for Nature and Climate
World Economic Forum
Kimberly Unger
Senior MR Content Sourcing and Strategy - Oculus Publishing
Meta
Federico Heller
Co-Founder
Eggscape
Lori H. Schwartz
CEO and Founder
StoryTech
Ajit Ninan
Sr Director Display & Imaging
Meta
Jake Zim
Chief Marketing Officer
Another Axiom
David Neubelt
CTO
Another Axiom
Elizabeth Rothman
Advisor | Senior Legal Affairs & Digital Trust Advisor
XRSI - X Reality Safety Intelligence
Kavya Pearlman
Founder
XRSI - X Reality Safety Intelligence
Benny Lee
Global Manager of Experiential Design
The Coca-Cola Company
Austin Baker
Product Marketing Manager
Autodesk
Alexey Medvedev
AR Tech lead
Meta
Laura Reznikov
Engineering Manager
Meta
Kaiser Pister
CTO
ALL3D
Deia Green
Sr. UX Designer
Verizon
Mike Festa
Vice Chair of 3D Commerce
Khronos Group
Devin Baldwin
WebXR Developer | Educator
The Devinci Code
Preston Platt
CTO & Co-Founder
Rock Paper Reality
Omead Sinai
Consulting Manager
Rock Paper Reality
Elizabeth Hyman
CEO
XR Association
Ricky Holm
Founder & CEO
Chocolate Milk & Donuts
Meghan Kelly
Associate Dean, Library and Learning Commons
Laramie County Community College
Suzan Kardong-Edgren
Associate Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Cathy Rodriguez
Instructional Technologist
María Martínez
CEO & FOUNDER
STUDYXR
Katherine Davenport
Marketing Manager
Another Axiom
Andrew Lowe
Chief Advanced Visualization Engineer
Rolls-Royce
Stephanie Riggs
Co-Founder / CXO
Nia Holdings, Inc
Ruth Diaz
Community Designer
VR Create|Connect
Jay Wright
CEO
Campfire
Athena Demos
CEO
Big Rock Creative
Greg Meyers
CEO and Co-Founder
ForgeFX Simulations
Dave Raasakka
Senior VP Global Customer Support
Somero
Mary Pierce
Executive Director of Enterprise Partnerships
ForgeFX Simulations