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VR/AR Global Summit 2021 - North America

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Speakers

Carole Baskin

CEO at Big Cat Rescue

Sarah Hill

CEO at Healium

Todd Seath

Regional Manager at IO Industries Inc.

Michael Cohen

CEO at UgoVirtual

Jason Haider

Founder and CEO at Xenco Medical

Filippos Arvanitakis

Creative Director at OutHere

Marc Metis

Vice President at HTC VIVE

Allyson Cikor

Instructor, Virtual and Augmented Reality at Lethbridge College

John Kawola

CEO at Boston Micro Fabrication

Jon Wade

Senior Product Manager at Shopify

Mike McCready

President's Applied Research Chair in Virtual and Augmented Reality at Lethbridge College

Ipshita Biswas

Product Partnerships Lead, 3D/AR at Google

Ryan Wang

Founding Partner at Outpost Capital

Katie Hoolahan

Managing Director at Virtually Healthy

Paige Dansinger

Founding Director at Better World Museum and Horizon Art Museum

Kiira Benzing

Director at Double Eye Studios

Andreas Zeitler

CEO & Founder at Vuframe GmbH

Nidhi Yadav

Associate Director at Deloitte

Mario Valle-Reyes

Managing Partner at Altered Ventures

Nobel Vale

Principal Scientist at Bristol Myers Squibb

Lorne Svarc

Founder/CEO at Technodramatists

Michael Patrick Potts

Owner at M2 Studio

Shane Taber

VP, Development Director at Engineering & Computer Simulations, Inc. (ECS)

Dawsyn Borland

Vice President, AR Innovation Labs at Nextech AR Solutions Corp.

Danielle Burnstein

Vice President of Business Development at Sixense Enterprises Inc.

Ian Gilbert

Chief Revenue Officer at PureWeb

Andreas Forsland

CEO & Founder at Cognixion

Troy Segale

Director of Instructional Design at CraneMorley, Inc.

Nils Pihl

CEO at Auki Labs

Madison Quinn

Research Analyst at Engineering and Computer Simulations, Inc. (ECS)

James Watson

Founder at XRTech Marketing

Jos van der Westhuizen

Co-Founder & CEO at Remio

Kim Adams

Co-Founder / COO at Adventure Lab

Christopher Patnoe

Head of Accessibility Programs and Disability Inclusion at Google

Eric Vezzoli

CEO at Interhaptics

Nicolas S. Roy

CEO at Dpt.

Natascha French

Principal at Scale Strategies

Haroldo Sato

Chief Editor at Rhadar Digital

Angelo Del Priore

Partner at HP Tech Ventures

Amy LaMeyer

Managing Partner at WXR Fund

Terry Proto

CEO at Virtual Reality Marketing

Tipatat Chennavasin

General Partner at The Venture Reality Fund

Michael Mcnamara

Design Engineer

Daniel Meeks

Immersive Technology Professional at Dan Meeks Consulting

Dale L. Campbell Jr

CEO/Founder at Positive Productions Plus

Jim Poore

CEO & Co-Founder at Immersitech

Viveka Devadas

Design Technologist at Autodesk

Gregory Gettinger

CEO at VR Motion Learning

Fabio Hofnik

Business Developer at Hyper Canada & Bit Space Development

Crystal Maraj

Research Assistant Professor at UCF-IST

Matthew Freeman

Director at Immersive Promotion Design & Reader in Multiplatform Media at Bath Spa University

Niccole Minka

Managing Director at ggLocators

Fadi Chehimi

Europe Lead of XR Capability and Consumer Experience at Accenture

John Blackmon

CTO at eLearning Brothers

JB Farge

XR Solutions Manager at Subsea7

John Buzzell

Co-Author, The Augmented Workforce at TheAugmentedWorkforce.com

Pau Guardiola

UI/UX Multimedia Director at UCAM Universidad Católica de Murcia

Suzanne Borders

CEO & Co-Founder at BadVR

Thaisa Yamamura

Head of Business Development at Sony Electronics

Zvi Tubul-Lavy

VR product manager at The foundation Agenfor International (Non-profit)

Greg Demchak

Director, Digital Innovation Lab at Bentley Systems

Alyssa Landry

Narrative Director

Cortney Harding

Founder at Friends With Holograms

Laura Bohnert

Director, Public Relations & Marketing at Modest Tree

Celeste Lear

VR Artist & Immersive Concert Producer at Boutique Electronique Music

Albert Millis

Chief Operations Officer at Virtual Umbrella

Peter Wittig

Director of Customer Experience & Co-founder at Motive.io

Lily Snyder

Head Writer at Futures Intelligence Group

Stephen H. Haliczer

Distinguished Research Professor at Northern illinois University

Scott Vandonkelaar

CTO at Zero Latency

Gabriel Shalom

Executive Producer at Silver Sound

Richard Beare

Engineer / Developer at RB Design

Tony Bevilacqua

Founder & CEO at Cognitive3D

Tiziana Primavera

UER

Cathy Hackl

Futurist & Author of The Augmented Workforce at Futures Intelligence Group

João Pedro Domingues

XR & Digital Twins Lead at Axians Portugal

Varag Gharibjanian

Chief Revenue Officer at Clay AIR

Myriam Achard

Chief New Media Partnerships & PR at PHI

John Ilett

President, CTO at Emergent Vision Technologies Inc

Brandi Pickett

Director of Government Programs at Ingalls Information Security, LLC

Henry Keyser

Director of XR Editorial at Yahoo / Verizon Media

Kaur Kullman

Cognitive Data OÜ

Regine Gilbert

Industry Assistant Professor at New York University

Joel Scharlat

Director of Operations at Cyber Bytes Foundation

Nick Fellingham

CEO at Condense Reality

Will Humphrey

Creative Director at Sugar Creative

Anna Gedal

Senior Experience Strategist + Writer at Freelance

Ian Loomer

Vice President at AMP Creative

Jason Ingalls

Founder & CEO at Ingalls Information Security

Ellysse Dick

Policy Analyst at Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Terry Schussler

Senior Director, Spatial Computing at Deutsche Telekom

Sydney Phillips

Founder and CEO at Zukurri

Chaitanya Chinchlikar

Vice President at Whistling Woods International

Enara Nazarova

Founder at Armoar

Kent Bye

Producer at Voices of VR

Anne Ahola Ward

CEO at CircleClick

Amy Peck

CEO at EndeavorVR

Bobby Basham

Director of Player Development at Chicago Cubs

Lawrence Rosenthal

Partner - Design at CubeXR llc

Ollie Rankin

CEO/Creative Director at Pansensory Interactive Incorporated

Jamila Van Kooij

Head of Marketing at PhotonLens

Susana Grilo

Freelance Content Creator and Audiovisual & Event Producer

Brandon Powers

Creative Director at Brandon Powers Projects

Chris Pfaff

Chris Pfaff at Chris Pfaff Tech Media LLC

Blair Russell

XR Producer at Crux

John Cunningham

Head of Unity Government Solutions at Unity Technologies

Robert Kleinhample

Vice President at Immersive Technologies

Krissa Watry

Co-Founder and CEO at Dynepic

Antonia Forster

Senior XR Technical Specialist at Unity Technologies

Joshua Swanson

Head of Extended Reality at PACE

Saeed Eslami

Head of AEC Industry Sales at Unity Technologies

Eldon J Parry

Senior Project Manager at Apollo Mechanical

Sam Sannandeji

CEO, Modest Tree

Tony Parisi

Head of AR/VR Advertising Innovation, Unity

Vijayanandraj V.R

Head – New Tech. Solution Design at Sify

Robert Dough

Director of Strategic Partnerships Brightline Interactive

Alessio De Gaetano

Sales Director at Univet

Kai Liang

Business Development Director at MEL Science

Tyler Gates

CEO / Managing Partner at Brightline Interactive

Pradeep Khanna

CEO & Executive Director Asia Pacific at Global Mindset and VR AR Association

Felix LeBlanc

VP Strategic Partnerships and Client Solutions at OVA inc.

Cynthia Maller

Head of CGI at Walmart

Jimmy Vainstein

Sr. Program Manager at The World Bank

Joel Breton

President at Sixense Enterprises

Alan Smithson

Co-Founder at MetaVRse

Dr Behice Ece Ilhan

Senior Trend Strategist at Mintel Group Ltd

Michael Owen

Co-Founder at MediaCombo

Tupac Martir

Artist/Founder at Satore Studio

Voyelle Acker

Executive Producer at Small Creative

Chad Schron

Sr. Director at Tooling U - SME

Gulshan Purswani

Delivery Head at Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Anupama Mallik

Managing Director, CEO at Vizara Technologies Private Limited

Prof. (Dr) Ramesh C Gaur

Professor & Dean at Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi, India

Sophia Moshasha

VP, DC Chapter, VRARA at The VRARA

Arijit Dutta Choudhury

Director General at National Council of Science Museums

Christophe Mallet

CEO at Bodyswaps

Deborah Worrell

Chief Strategy Officer at Virtual Reality Marketing

Justin Mullin

VP Business Development at From The Future

Scott Owyen

Director of Training at Genie

Thomas Ffiske

Editor at Immersive Wire

Colleen Reilly

Senior Vice President, Business Development at ImmersiveWorlds

Chris Madsen

Business Development at Immersive VR Education

Paula Davidson

Chief Financial Officer at Living Popups, LLC

Adrian Rayner

VR Manager at Bentley Park College

Leila Amirsadeghi

Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Mixed Reality / Altspace at Microsoft

Henrik Eskilsson

Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder at Tobii

Scott Anderson

Chief Clinical Officer at SyncThink

Johan Bouvin

Director of XR Ecosystem software at Tobii

Nathan Ginos

VP, Huntsville Operations at Engineering & Computer Simulations, Inc. (ECS)

Matt Tullis

Director, Spatial Computing at Ultraleap

Vivian Chan

Global Head of Digital Sales at Nextech AR

Sune Sloth

Senior advisor/program manager at Rødovre Municipality

Madara Kalnina-Kalnmale

Managing Director at LightSpace Technologies

Denise Sirochman

Product Manager at The Lincoln Electric Company

Brian Meess

Engineering Group Leader at The Lincoln Electric Company

Will Winston

Western Sales & Partnerships Director at Pico Interactive

Jeff Spain

Director at Columbus State Community College

Sarah Garvis

Founder of the HIDDEN System at Northrop Grumman

Ben Erwin

Creator at The Poly - WebXR Awards and WebXR Developer Summit

Sara Boss

Head of Sales at VRdirect

Jon P Bowers

Director of Learning Technology at UPS

Albright Tejiri Onodje

Creative Director - Albright Tejiri Atelier

Carlos J. Ochoa Fernández

Founder & CEO ONE Digital Consulting / Co-Chair Education Committee at ONE Digital Consulting

Kaitlyn Stewart

Media & Marketing Student at NYU

David Weinstein

Director of XR at NVIDIA

Mattney Beck

Senior Manager - Product Marketing Commercial AR/VR, Lenovo

Jake Adam Greene

Technical Director at DreamTeamXR

Mike Boland

Chief Analyst - ARtillery Intelligence

Daryl Roy

CEO at 3D Media

Sarah Tan

Product Designer & AR Specialist

Colleen L. Bielitz, PhD

A VP Strategic Initiatives & Outreach at Southern Connecticut State University

Samantha Wolfe

Founder at PitchFWD

Susmit Banerjee

Sr. Director - Business Development at Sify Technologies North America Corp

Louisa Spring

Founder at Sam Immersive

Christopher Lafayette

Emergent Technologist at Black Technology Mentorship Program

Amal Jomaa

Head of Fashion at So Real Digital Twins

Angela Robert

CEO at Conquer Experience Inc.

Daniel Blair

CEO at Bit Space Development

Dana Ware

Creative Director at Dark Slope Studios

Jasmine Bulin

Evernever Games

Lesley Klassen

Flipside XR

Bobby Thandi

XR Games

Michaela Holland

Independent Filmmaker and Experiential Creative

Tom Emrich

VP of Product at 8th Wall

Caroline Teti

Marketing Manager at Cavrnus, Inc.

Jason Powers

Chief Creative Technologist at Brightline Interactive

Jan Amstutz

CEO at Beem

Mark Visconti

Senior Solutions Architect at Cavrnus, Inc.

Kathy Grise

Senior Program Director at IEEE

Paw Kappel

HOD ICT P - 12 at Bentley Park College

Jennifer Ponder

National Program Director, Emerging Technologies at STEM Atlanta Women

Mafalda Ricca

CEO at X-PLora

Charlie Neagoy

Sr. VP of Customer Success at Librestream

Ted Schilowitz

Futurist at ViacomCBS / Paramount Pictures

Joe Devon

Co-Founder at Diamond, Co-Founder at Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Agnes Braize

Director of Development of Future Programs - GEM Labs at GEM

Matthieu Lorrain

Head of Creative, Immersive Partnerships at Google

Jack Tufts

Student at NYU

William Bernstein

Project Lead at National Institute of Standards and Technology

Evelyn Mora

Founder at Digital Village

Tim Szeto

CEO at Nanoport Technology Inc.

David Moreno

CMO at Virtualware

Scott Burkey

XR Product Manager at WestRock

Cátia Sousa

Digital Learning Project Manager at Axians

Mathieu St-Arnaud

Executive Creative Director at Normal Studio

Jonathan Belisle

Design Director at Behaviour Interactive

Leslie Holden

The Digital Fashion group

Luke Wilson

CEO/Founder at ManageXR

Michael Running Wolf

Clinical Instructor, Computer Science at Northeastern University — Vancouver

Raghav Jairath

Filmmaker at Friday Filmworks

Dr. Shawna Pandya

VP of Immersive Medicine at Luxsonic Technologies

Ari Hollander

XR Development Engineering Chief at SAIC

Gregg Katano

SVP U.S. Operations at Hologate

Jordan Williams

Co-Founder/COO at ArborXR

Elijah Claude

UX/CX Architect

Joanna Popper

Global Head of Virtual Reality, Go-to-Market at HP

Marco DeMiroz

Co-founder & General Partner at The Venture Reality Fund

Sonya Haskins

VR Esports Editor at VR Fitness Insider

Sally Slade

Lead AR/VR Developer at Magnopus

Sebastien Grenier Cartier

Partner and CEO at Normal Studio

Han Ngi Juan

General Manager at Yokogawa Engineering Asia Pte Ltd

Cindy Mallory

Emerging Tech Strategist at Worldwide TechServices

Shaquan Ladson

Game Designer

Christopher Crescitelli

Founder at DreamlandXR

Tricia Costello

Founder at Fresh Wata/PrideXR

Damian Pelliccione

Founder at Revry.TV

Vanessa "V" Fuñe

Producer at PrideXR

Jonathan Chippindale

Holition

Muchaneta Kapfunde

Founding Editor in Chief at FashNerd.com

Julie Smithson

Co-Founder at MetaVRse Inc.

Lance Baily

Founder / CEO at HealthySimulation.com

Liz Rosenthal

Curator & Executive Producer & CEO at Biennale Venice International Film Festival

Robbert Morreale

Chair, Division of Experiential Learning at Mayo Clinic

Jonathan Morris

Neuroradiologist at Mayo Clinic

Robert Louis

Head of Neurosurgery at Hoag Hospital

Prof Santanu Chaudhury

Sam DelGreco

Senior XR Researcher at Irish Manufacturing Research

Amy Hedrick

Co-Founder & CEO at Cleanbox Technology

Nick Bicanic

Red6

Chris Verret

HTX Labs

Scott Schneider

HTX Labs

Thomas Fenger

Unity Studios

Rick Adams

CAT Magazine

Seb Loze

Simulations Manager for Unreal Engine at Epic Games

Lindsey Balderaz

Assistant Professor/Director at University of Texas Permian Basin/Transformative Leadership Academy

Lucas Rizzotto

Mad Scientist at Lucas Builds The Future

Danny Goel

CEO, Founder at PrecisionOS

Ana Rebeiro

CEO / Founder at Pixel Ripped

Adam Bém

Co-Founder & COO at Victoria VR

Sania Irfan

Program Manager at YEA! Impact

Jake Sally

COO at Jadu

Violeta Kellersohn

CMO at Oberon Technologies

Ray Deatherage

Senior Program Manager at Gas Technology Institute

Christina Heller

CEO at Metastage

Raul Carvajal

Director of Production & XR for Change at Games for Change

Kevin Vitale

CEO at VRstudios, Inc.

Ondřej Dobruský

Co-Founder & CEO at Victoria VR

Susan Spark

Learning Technology Manager at Schlumberger

Marco Maceri

Director of Marketing at PIXO

Raja Khanna

CEO at Lumeto

Anurupa Ganguly

CEO/Founder at Prisms

Tyler Wilson

Director, Strategic Partnerships & Innovation at Vancouver Whitecaps FC

Hilary McVicker

VP, Sales and Marketing at The Elumenati

Elias Stephan

Global Head of Virtual Reality ISV Partner Program at HP

Sean Hurwitz

Founder & CEO at PIXO

Richard Ward

Global Lead Enterprise VR at McKinsey & Company

Brendon McNaughton

CEO at Art Gate VR

Stewart Tucker Lundy

Council Member at XR Inclusion

Suhas P Bhagwat

Founder & CEO at Avroglide Consultants

Sharifa Johka

Executive Director at Black Realities

Charlie Fink

XR Consultant, Columnist and Author

Kris Kolo

Global Executive Director, VR/AR Association (VRARA)

Lauren Ruffin

Co-Founder at Crux

Ashley Crowder

Co-Founder/CEO at VNRANA

Meghan Hughes

Head of Platform Marketing at Niantic

Tracey Tague

Director of Business Development at UCLA/Rose Bowl Sports Properties

Eduardo Neeter

Founder / CEO at FactualVR

Rahel Demant

Co-Founder at XR Bootcamp

Armand Aguirre

Media Lead & Communications Manager at XR Inclusion

Greg Jones

Senior Manager, Global Business Development and Product Management for XR at NVIDIA

James Giglio

Founder / CEO at MVP Interactive, LLC

Paolo Portesi

CEO at Univet srl

Thomas Hutchinson

Hoag Hospital

Bob Cooney

Location-based Virtual Reality Guru

Stacey Gordon

Council Member - XR Inclusion

Matt King

Accessibility Specialist in UI Engineering at Facebook

Ali Daniali

T-Mobile

Jennifer Rogers

Solutions-Oriented Thought Leader and Innovator

Susanna Pollack

President - Games for Change

Ryan Burningham

CEO-Founder at Virtual Athletics League

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Specialty video cameras, designed for the VR/AR/XR market

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Boston Micro Fabrication

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Uvisan

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Pico Interactive

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PhotonLens

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Cognitive3D

We are a VR/AR analytics platform that captures spatial data and turns them into actionable insights

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Cavrnus, Inc.

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Dreamerz Lab Ltd

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Northeastern University — Vancouver

Global research university and the recognized leader in experience-powered lifelong learning

ArborXR

ArborXR is an Oculus for Business alternative for any Android-based AR/VR device

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Lethbridge College

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eLearning Brothers

The Easiest VR Authoring Tool Imaginable

VRARA Energy Committee

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Innovative XR Solutions and Products for Training and Education

VRARA Enterprise Committee

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The only bimonthly publication dedicated to VR and AR for enterprise

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