AWE USA 2025 | 300 E Ocean Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90802, USA

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Augmented World Expo (AWE) USA 2025 is the premier event in the realm of spatial computing, covering augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and extended reality (XR). Taking place from June 10–12, 2025, at the Long Beach Convention Center in California, this groundbreaking conference will host over 6,000 attendees, 300+ exhibitors, and 400+ speakers across more than 150,000 square feet of expo space. Since its inception in 2010, AWE has been the key platform for industry professionals to explore the latest advancements in XR technology, network with peers, and gain valuable insights from leading experts.

AWE USA 2025 is where XR meets the future, as the event brings together augmented, virtual, and mixed reality with the frontier technologies of Web3, blockchain, and AI. This is the place where the decentralized world and immersive technologies converge. Explore the exciting potential of NFTs, decentralized identity, and blockchain-powered metaverses — all in one immersive space.

Join over 6,000 professionals, developers, creators, and investors at AWE USA 2025 in Long Beach, California, to shape the future of spatial computing, immersive content, and digital ownership. Whether you're seeking inspiration from keynotes, engaging in hands-on workshops, or discovering the latest innovations from global tech leaders, AWE USA 2025 is your gateway to building the next generation of immersive, decentralized experiences.

Haut-parleurs

Christine Schwarz

Co-Founder at Virtual Round Ballers Virtual Round Ballers

Nicole Day

President at ClimbRx ClimbRx

Michael Agustin

CEO & Co-Founder at Curie Curie

Jennifer Anne Ipsen

COO at Marionette Marionette

Mike Nichols

CEO at reTHINK: by contXtual reTHINK

Vasilapostolos Ouranis

CTO & CMO at Haptikos Haptikos

Afficher plus (279)

Eduardo Neeter

CEO at HyperTunnel HyperTunnel

Haven Vu

Co-Founder & CTO at Relic Relic

Malcolm Lee

Founder & CEO at GabbVR Gabb Global

Raymond Kallmeyer

CEO at Verse Immersive / Enklu Enklu

Dennis Campbell

CEO at On Another World Experiences On Another World Experiences

Nathan Pettyjohn

CEO at The Immerse Group | President VRARA, Applied AI Association, StackX Days The Immerse Group

Brian Takemasa

Associate at GFR Fund GFR Fund

Ruoya Sheng

Product Manager Lead at PICO-OS Product-Developer Platform Product at Bytedance PICO ByteDance

Charles Tang

Founder & CEO at Youniverse Games Youniverse Games

Cameron Ayres

Staff Solutions Architect at Unity Unity

Fariz Hanapiah

Chief Technology Officer at Experiential Design Team (EDT) Experiential Design Team

Ivan Gerard Khoo

Founder / Chief Product Officer at Dreamscapes Edtech Dreamscapes Edtech

Natalie Yoke Kei Loi

Head of Technology at UnBound Malaysia & Australia UnBound Malaysia & Australia

Suex Ching

Country Manager at Silversea Media Malaysia Silversea Media Malaysia

Dr. Andrew Yew

Founder at Ministry XR Ministry XR

Faizul Lim

Founder at Revenant Reverie Revenant Reverie

Afiq Fadhli Bin Narawi

Director at METADISE SDN BHD METADISE

Ben Widdowson

Head of Marketing for Immersive Engineering at Siemens Siemens

Cayden Pierce

CEO/CTO/Founder at Mentra Mentra

Andrew Kurano

Software Engineer at Trigger Trigger

Emma Valdés

Associate Counsel at Knollwood Investment Advisory LLC Knollwood Investment Advisory

Bill Lakeland

CEO at Spexi Spexi

Khuzema Wala

Co-Founder & CEO at Relic Relic

José Outón

Co-Founder & CEO at Rewoox Rewoox

Antony Vitillo

Owner at The Ghost Howls The Ghost Howls

Eun Ho (Jesse) Lee

CEO / Founder at Curi AI Curi AI

Ben Erwin

Creator at The Poly Awards The Polys

Glen Shim

Team Lead at ROBOS ROBOS

Alissa Bushnell

Partner at 104 West Partners 104 West Partners

Jinu Kim

Director of Research Institute at Westmoon

Nicole Lazzaro

President and Founder at XEODesign and XEOPlay Xeodesign Inc

Dawn Yun

CBO at SOULX SOULX

Jacquelyn Morie

Founder, Chief Scientist at All These Worlds, LLC All These Worlds

So Jung (Sophie) Choi

CEO / Founder at Onecup Onecup

Ashley Coffey

Founder at Coffey & Code Podcast Coffey & Code

Karl M Guttag

President at KGOnTech LLC KGOnTech

Jasmine Uniza

CEO at Impact Reality / Flat2VR Studios Impact Reality XR

Bob Cooney

Founder at The VR Collective/LEXRA LEXRA

Eric Masher

COO at Impact Reality / Flat2VR Studios Impact Reality XR

Tricia Becker

Senior Technical Product Manager at Unity Unity

Dr. Lindsay Persohn

Assistant Professor at University of South Florida University of South Florida

Jeffrey Travis

CEO at Positron Positron

Dr. Csaba Osvath

Assistant Professor of Instruction at University of South Florida University of South Florida

Jake Steinerman

Developer Advocate at Meta Meta

Dr. Howard Kaplan

Director, Advanced Visualization Center at University of South Florida University of South Florida

Dilmer Valecillos

MR Developer Advocate at Meta Meta

Sarah Gordon

Industrial Design Student at University of Cincinnati University of Cincinnati

Jill Campbell

Director of Product Management, Avatars and Identity at Meta Meta

Aundrea Frahm

Director of Immersive Learning at University of Nevada Las Vegas University of Nevada Las Vegas

Luis Oscar Ramirez

Founder and CEO at Mawari Mawari

Trish Gianakis

Professor of Immersive Art & Design at Saint Peter's University Saint Peter's University

Toshi Suzuki

Senior General Manager XR Business Division - New Contents Creation Business Unit at Sony Corporation Sony

Steve Lukas

Director of XR Developer Ecosystem at Snapdragon Snapdragon

Cansu Cinar

Angel Investor / Start-up Advisor. Investor Relations Consultant at Beta Enerji Beta Enerji

Aleshia Hayes

Director of SURGE XR Lab at University of North Texas University of North Texas

Ihor Kuzin

Senior AR Designer, R&D at Snap Snap Inc.

Bobby Carlton

Head of Global Business Development for Digital Solutions at FS Studio FS Studio

Ralph Jodice

Head of Global PR at XREAL XREAL

Wadooah Wali

Co-Founder, CSO & Executive Producer at New Canvas New Canvas

MeeRa Kim

Executive Producer at Butcher Bird Studios Butcher Bird Studios

Alex Meland

Works at Impact Reality / Flat2VR Studios, Co-host of Between Realities Podcast Impact Reality XR

Gabriel Cerra

Co-Founder & CEO at Immersive Oasis Immersive Oasis

Sophia Moshasha

Interactive Media at The World Bank The World Bank

Javier Ortizá

CEO at Quasar Dynamics Quasar Dynamics

Julie Smithson

CEO at METAVRSE MetaVRse

Rahel Demant

Co-Founder at XR Bootcamp XR Bootcamp

Karen Alexander

Executive Director at XR Women / XRconnectED XR Women

Cory Lanham

Senior Narrative Writer at Lone Echo franchise

Henry Keyser

Director of Operations at Agile Lens Agile Lens

David Bardos

Co-Founder and CEO at UNIVRSE UNIVRSE

Kelly Guillory

AR/VR, fine art, comics, and writing

Christopher Sinnott

Business Development - Spatial Computing at AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Jim Squires

Head of Growth + Partnerships at DualNorth, President & CEO at Rocketship Park Rocketship Park

Sascha Kiener

Founder and CEO at svarmony Technologies svarmony Technologies

Evan Spiegel

Co-Founder and CEO at Snap Snap Inc.

Maxine Lea Nel

Co-founder and Creative Director at GET WELL PALS - VR MRI Sim Get Well Pals

Matthew Contino

Content Creator at Matteo311

Dr. Helen Papagiannis

Immersive & Emerging Tech Pioneer, AI & Innovation Keynote Speaker, Advisor at JLR JLR Brasil

Eric Oldrin

Director of Creative Innovation at Nirdlo Nirdlo

David Moreno

Chief BD & Marketing Officer at Virtualware Virtualware

Nolan Bushnell

Founder at Atari and Chuck E. Cheese Atari

Jonathan Foremny

Test Pilot at TCOM TCOM

Edgar Auslander

Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships at Meta Meta

Vicki Dobbs Beck

VP, Immersive Content Innovation at Lucasfilm & ILM Immersive Lucasfilm

Inga Petryaevskaya

Founder, CEO at ShapesXR ShapesXR

Bernard Kress

Director, Google AR at Google Google

Brian McClendon

Chief Technology Officer at Niantic Spatial, Inc. Niantic Spatial, Inc.

Arman Atoyan

Chief Wizard at ARLOOPA ARLOOPA

Amanda Blair

Customer Success Lead at 8th Wall 8th Wall

Jason Rubin

VP, Metaverse Experiences at Meta Meta

Yohan Baillot

CEO at ARCortex Inc. ARCortex Inc.

Martin Sebban

Country Manager - US at Uptale Uptale

Ziad Asghar

SVP & GM of XR at Qualcomm Qualcomm

Stefanie Hutka

Founder & Head of Design Research at Sendfull Sendfull

Jasmine Lehman

Product Marketing Manager at LIV LIV

Palmer Luckey

Founder at Anduril Anduril

Dan Kuykendall

Senior Director, Head of AI and Data Analytics at ArborXR ArborXR

Conway Anderson

Founder and CEO at Sidequest Inc. Sidequest

Jacqui Bransky

VP of Web3 & Innovation at Warner Records Warner Records

Jason McGuigan

Head of Commercial Virtual Reality at Lenovo Lenovo

Kyungmun Jung

Manager at Twohands Interactive Inc. Twohands Interactive

Hugo Swart

Sr. Dir. of XR Ecosystem Strategy and Technology at Google Google

Leslie Shannon

Head of Trend and Innovation Scouting at Nokia Nokia

Urho Konttori

CEO & Co-founder at Distance Technologies Distance Technologies

Tom Furness

Founder at Virtual World Society Virtual World Society

Lucy Trang Nguyen

Business Development Director, Emerging Technologies at Accedo Accedo

Bruno Cendon

Senior Director, Head of AR Architecture at Meta Meta

Anne Lord Bailey

Executive Director, Strategic Initiatives Lab at Veterans Affairs U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Aysu Unal

Founder, Experiential Producer at AiSU AiSU

Luis Bollinger

CMO and Co-founder at Hololight GmbH Hololight

Nils Pihl

CEO at Auki Labs Auki Labs

Avi Bar-Zeev

Founder, President at XR Guild XR Guild

Noah Mifsud

Solutions Engineer at Scope AR Scope AR

Ryan Johnston

Principal Engineer at Delta Air Lines Delta Air Lines

Purnendu Mukherjee

CEO at Convai Technologies Convai Technologies

Vicki Lynn

CEO and Founder at REIT Innovations REIT Innovations

Dr. Sandhya Santhosh

Senior Engineer - Virtualization Demonstration at Collins Aerospace - Applied Research and Technology Collins Aerospace

Tom Emrich

Author at The Next Dimension The Next Dimension

Rigel Benton

Staff Designer at Niantic Spatial, Inc. Niantic Spatial, Inc.

Chi Xu

CEO and Founder at XREAL XREAL

Joshua Rubin

Chief Creative Officer at Subverse Narrative Consulting Subverse Narrative Consulting

Kaci Lambeth

Sr. Technical Program Manager at Niantic Spatial, Inc Niantic Spatial, Inc.

Said Bakadir

VP, Product Management XR at Qualcomm Qualcomm

Kate Bielotserkovksa

XR Prototyper, UX & Game Designer at Kore Meta Inc. Kore Meta Inc.

Will Eastcott

CEO & Co-Founder at PlayCanvas (acquired by Snap) Snap Inc.

Kimberly Unger

Senior MR Content Sourcing and Strategy - Oculus Publishing at Meta Meta

Amra Tareen

CEO at ALL3D ALL3D

Dario Laverde

Senior Creative Technologist at stay warm studio stay warm studio

Irena Cronin

CEO at Infinite Retina Infinite Retina

Alex Goldberg

XR Innovations at Blue Origin Blue Origin

Paul Connelly

Software Engineer at Bentley Systems Bentley Systems

Josette Seitz

XR Developer & Creator at Specular Theory Specular Theory

Raag Harshavat

Senior Developer Relations Specialist at Snap Snap Inc.

Paul Davies

Technical Fellow at The Boeing Company The Boeing Company

Daniel Iborra

Principal Software Engineer at Bentley Systems Bentley Systems

Navjeet Chhina

CEO at Nucleus4D Nucleus4D

Yu Yuan

President at MASA MASA

Jeffrey Berthiaume

Sr. Innovator at Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines

Chinami Michaels

Project Manager Spine VR Lab at Barrow Neurological Institute Barrow Neurological Institute

Kevin Ang

Owner and Founder at Bingko

Michael Guerin

CEO & Founder at Lureo and Imvizar Lureo and Imvizar

Andy Hunt

Manager, Digital Innovation Lab at The Hershey Company The Hershey Company

Destery Hildenbrand

Founder at destery1kenobi LLC destery1kenobi LLC

Mary Matheson

Head of Production at Agog: The Immersive Media Institute Agog

Ryan Bartley

Product Manager at Google Google

James Cooper

Chief Technologist at Raytheon | An RTX Business Raytheon

Daniel Frith

Chief Creative Officer (CCO) at London Dynamics London Dynamics

Rachel Joy Victor

Co-founder at FBRC.ai FBRC.ai

Amanda Whitt

Group Product Manager at 8th Wall 8th Wall

Louisa Spring

Principal Strategy & Innovation at T-Mobile T Mobile

Nia-Simone Egerton

Assistant Project Manager at Dream Machine Experience Dream Machine Experience

Brian Selzer

CEO at BlueSe7en Media BlueSe7en

AJ Sciutto

Director of Virtual Production at Magnopus Magnopus

Eric Chadwick

Senior 3D Technical Artist at DGG DGG

David Glicksman

Director of Creative Technology at Gensler Gensler

Dustin Sleight

Systems Engineering Manager at IDEXX IDEXX

Ashley Crowder

CEO, Co-Founder at VNTANA VNTANA

Fred Grinstein

Co-founder at Machine Cinema Machine Cinema

Courtney Tononi

Sr. Project Manager at T-Mobile T Mobile

Henrik Edstrom

Distinguished Architect, Graphics at Autodesk Autodesk

Kristi Woolsey

Global Lead XR at BCG BCG X

Benny Lee

Global Manager of Experiential Design at The Coca-Cola Company The Coca-Cola Company

Leonard Daly

President at Daly Realism Daly Realism

Kelly Ingham

VP, AR Devices Partnerships at Meta Meta

Johan Cruse

XR Business Development Manager at Volvo Trucks Volvo Trucks

Tim Ventura

Managing Director at VOR Advisory VOR Advisory

Neville Spiteri

Co-founder / CEO at Wevr Wevr

Andrew Lowe

Chief Advanced Visualization Engineer at Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce

JP Minetos

Investor at Hartmann Capital Hartmann Capital

Amy Jupiter

Founder / Chief Experience Officer at ByJove, LLC ByJove

Jenny Jiang

Co-founder at HarvardXR HarvardXR

Callum Hurley

Producer & Creator at VR Game Spotlight VR Game Spotlight

Dana Ware

Chief Creative Officer at ARound ARound

Jimmy Vainstein

Sr. Program Manager at The World Bank The World Bank

Maria Gorlatova

Nortel Networks Assistant Professor at Duke University Duke University

Tipatat Chennavasin

Co-Founder & General Partner at The Venture Reality Fund The Venture Reality Fund

Erik Fuentes

VP: Learn Innovation Lead at Chase Bank Chase Bank

Flora McCrone

Lead, Immersive Interactions - Centre for Nature and Climate at World Economic Forum World Economic Forum

Arthur Modine

Founder at AURA AURA

Susan Persky

Associate Investigator at National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Health

Robin Moulder

CEO at 3lbXR & 3lb Games 3lbXR & 3lb Games

Ellysse Dick

Reality Labs Policy Manager at Meta Meta

Rajat Lokesh

Senior XR Developer at Schlumberger Schlumberger

Ryan Canuel

CEO at Petricore, Inc Petricore

Christopher Colaw

Fellow, Quality & Mission Success at Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin

Eric Shamlin

CEO at Secret Level Secret Level

Mengtong Guan

Associate Director, Artistic Programming at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Lincoln Center

Bob Bjarke

Creative Director at The Electric Factory The Electric Factory

Alejandro Mendoza

Leading XR/VR - Engineer III at Sierra Space Sierra Space

Joe Gabriel

Head of Customer & Developer Success at Niantic Spatial, Inc. Niantic Spatial, Inc.

Ian Dawson

CEO at Augmentive Studio for AR/VR/XR Augmentive Studio

Dylan Fox

Director of Operations at XR Access XR Access

Suzanne Borders

CEO at BadVR BadVR

Stephanie Montgomery

Senior VP of Research and Best Practices at XR Association XR Association

Christian Lau

Chief Technology Officer at Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC)

Brennan Spiegel

Professor of Medicine and Public Health Editor at Cedars-Sinai Hospital Journal of Medical Extended Reality Cedars-Sinai

Johannes Peeters

CEO at VoxelSensors VoxelSensors

Paige Dansinger

Founder at Better World Museum, Senior Director for Global Community and Metaverse Development at BSDXR BSD XR

Malia Probst

Founding Partner at Scout House Scout House

Hugh Hayden

Sr. Director Platform GTM at Niantic Spatial, Inc. Niantic Spatial, Inc.

Marco DeMiroz

Co-founder & General Partner at The Venture Reality Fund The Venture Reality Fund

Robin White Owen

President & Co-Founder at MediaCombo MediaCombo

Amy LaMeyer

Managing Partner at WXR Fund WXR Fund

Eugy Han

Graduate Research Fellow at Stanford University Stanford University

Max Bickley

Sr. Product Manager, Omniverse at NVIDIA NVIDIA

Christopher Bennison

Founder and CEO at DualNorth DualNorth

Trista Pierce

Spatial Platform Business Development Lead at Niantic Spatial, Inc. Niantic Spatial, Inc.

Ashley Blake

Founder & CEO at elsewhere Not-For-Profit elsewhere Not-For-Profit

Jesse Schell

CEO at Schell Games Schell Games

Sergey Kirshner

CTO at Fantastic Voyage Labs Fantastic Voyage Labs

Brent Bushnell

Co-founder at Dream Park Dream Park

Julia A Scott

Medical Council Lead at XRSI X Reality Safety Intelligence (XRSI)

Antonia Forster

Senior XR Engineer at Avantis Education, Fouder at LGBTQ+ VR Museum LGBTQ+ VR Museum

Celine Tricart

President, Co-Founder at Coven Coven

Jenna Seiden

Founder at Vertically Coastal Consulting, Inc. Vertically Coastal

Haipeng (Mark) Zhang

President at American Medical Extended Reality Association American Medical Extended Reality Association

David Neubelt

CTO at Another Axiom Another Axiom

Neil Singh

Senior Business Development Executive at ISSQUARED Inc. ISSQUARED

Arturo Perez

CEO at Kluge Interactive Kluge Interactive

Bob Fine

Executive Director at IVRHA IVRHA

Shane Rhodes

3D Generalist at Mighty Coconut Mighty Coconut

Monica Arés

Director Content Transformation at Microsoft Microsoft

Steve Feiner

Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University Science Columbia University

Dwayne Waite Jr

Associate Marketing Director at Schell Games Schell Games

Laurent Da Dalto

CEO at MIMBUS Mimbus

Jaime Pichardo Garcia

Chief Strategy Officer at Odders Lab Odders Lab

Mauricio Kovacevic

Standardization Manager at Ericsson Ericsson

Ori Inbar

Co-Founder at AWE & Super Ventures AWE

Frédéric Plourde

Head of XR Division at Collabora ltd. Collabora

Katherine Davenport

Marketing Manager at Another Axiom Another Axiom

Ariane Fikki

Director of Global Ambassadors at VRARA VR/AR Association Blockchain Committee

Jake Zim

Chief Marketing Officer at Another Axiom Another Axiom

David Lobser

Founder at light.clinic light.clinic

Nanea Reeves

CEO & Co-Founder at TRIPP TRIPP

Will Cherry

Technical Artist at Meta Meta

Scott Stein

Editor At Large at CNET CNET

Yelena Rachitsky

Head of Emerging Formats at Meta Meta

Ben Lang

Executive Editor at Road to VR Road to VR

Andrew Merkin

Director, Creative Productions at Cosm Cosm

Matt Coleman

CEO & Founder at FansXR, INC FansXR

Ed Lantz

CEO at Vortex Immersion Vortex Immersion

Kaz Maurice-O'Leary

Innovation Director at Verses and Valleys Verses and Valleys

Yiqi Zhao

Product Design Lead at Meta Meta

Lori-Lee Elliott

CEO at Dauntless XR Dauntless XR

Gregory Panos

Founder - Creator at Persona Foundation Persona Foundation

Amber Moak

Marketing Director at Resolution Games Resolution Games

Larry Chang

Audio Director at Larrisim Studio Larrisim Studio

Celine Tien

Founder at Flowly Flowly

Pratik Suketu

Creative Technologist and Filmmaker at tikiLabs TikiLabs

Ted Schilowitz

Futurist & Co-Founder at Red Camera Red Camera

Charlie Fink

Columnist, Producer, Podcaster, Author and Adjunct at AI/XR Pod AI/XR Pod

Cathy Hackl

CEO & Founder at Future Dynamics Spatial Dynamics

Alvin Graylin

Author at Our Next Reality, Chairman at Virtual World Society Virtual World Society

AJ Shewki

Co-Founder, CEO at LIV LIV

Casandra Vuong

Co-Founder at Cas and Chary XR Cas and Chary XR

Chary Keijzer

Co-Founder at Cas and Chary XR Cas and Chary XR

Bridger Smith

Founder at Noetic Talent Agency Noetic Talent Agency

Sonya Haskins

Head of Programming at AWE AWE

Perrin Kaplan

Co-Founder at Zebra Partners Zebra Partners

Louis Rosenberg

CEO and Chief Scientist at Unanimous AI Unanimous AI

Shelley Peterson

Board of Advisors at HarvardXR HarvardXR

Kyle Render

CEO at Rendered Talent Rendered Talent

Kirsten Hudson

Chief Metaverse Officer at Rendered Talent Rendered Talent

Albert Rizzo

Director, Medical Virtual Reality at USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Chief Scientist at UbiquityVX, Inc. UbiquityVX

Jasmine Roberts

Research Engineer at Microsoft Research Microsoft

Philippe Lewicki

Co-Founder & CEO at AfterNow AfterNow

Dena Feldman

Director of Policy for Reality Labs at Meta Meta

Daniel Kelly

Managing Director at W-RLDS W-RLDS

Reed Matthews

Founder at W-RLDS W-RLDS

Neil Barbour

Industry analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence S&P Global Market Intelligence

Collin Hadley

Co-Organizer at MIT Reality Hack, T-Mobile • Mobile Product Designer - Billing and Payments at Blink UX Blink UX

Dinesh Punni

Founder and CEO at Immersive Insiders Immersive Insiders

Habib Noorbhai

Professor at University of Johannesburg University of Johannesburg

Devin Marble

Director of Marketing at VRpatients VRpatients

Dr. Linda Ciavarelli

Co-Founder and CEO at HouseCall VR HouseCall VR

Colleen Tully

Senior Program Manager, Innovation at Medtronic Medtronic

Rylan Pozniak Daniels

XR Developer & Futurist at iRylan.com, NASA VR Developer at Cislune Cislune

Malcolm Williams

Founder at Technorganic Technorganic

Leona Edegbe

XR Enthusiast, Product Manager at Microsoft Microsoft

Ordre du jour

08:00 AM - 05:00 PM – Builders Nexus – Promenade Room 104C – Brian Hui, Jesse McCulloch

10:30 AM - 04:30 PM – Networking – Room 204

03:00 PM - 06:00 PM – Networking – LBCC Main Entrance / Promenade Lobby

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM – Welcome Party Sponsored by Google – LBCC Main Entrance / Promenade Lobby

09:00 AM - 09:25 AM – AWE USA 2025 Welcome Keynote - XR Is Going Mainstream! – Ori Inbar

09:30 AM - 09:55 AM – Accelerating the Spatial Computing Revolution for Developers and Enterprise – Ziad Asghar

10:00 AM - 10:25 AM – Snap Keynote – Evan Spiegel

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM – Expo Tour - Manufacturing & Industrial – Marc Bringuier, Matthew Wren

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM – Expo Tour - Retail, Advertising, & Marketing – Patrick Johnson

10:30 AM - 10:55 AM – XREAL Keynote – Chi Xu

11:00 AM - 01:00 PM – LUNCH

11:00 AM - 05:30 PM – Expo, Playground, Gaming Hub and Builders Nexus

11:10 AM - 12:10 PM – Hackathon Winners: MIT Reality Hack Winners Lightning Round – Maria Rice, Luke Porwol, PhD.

11:10 AM - 12:30 PM – Game Developer Showcase Highlighting 2025 AWE Gaming Hub Exhibitors

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM – Roundtable: Crafting Effective Stories and Experiences for AR in Marketing – Patrick Johnson

12:40 PM - 01:40 PM – The Art and Craft of Making Mixed Reality Games – Kimberly Unger, Robin Moulder, Jaime Pichardo García, Federico Heller, Oded Sharon

12:45 PM - 01:10 PM – GenAI & Spatial Computing Investments – Marco DeMiroz

01:00 PM - 01:25 PM – Evolution of RF Signal Visualization From Spectrum Analyzers To Augmented Reality – Suzanne Borders

01:00 PM - 01:25 PM – The Art of Story Living: Building Worlds Worth Playing In – Joshua Rubin

01:00 PM - 01:25 PM – 3D Anywhere: Optimizing CAD and BIM Data for Anyone, on Any Device – Cameron Ayres

01:00 PM - 01:25 PM – How Sony is Leveraging Immersive Engineering to Design Future Consumer Products – Ben Widdowson

01:00 PM - 01:55 PM – Policy Priorities for the U.S. XR Industry – Jeremy Luby, Joan O'Hara

01:00 PM - 01:55 PM – You've Made a Great Game, Let's Tell the World About it: XR Games Marketing 101 – Dwayne Waite Jr, Jim Squires, Ben Lang, Christopher Bennison, Amber Moak

01:00 PM - 02:00 PM – Roundtable: Developing an XR Business Case in Manufacturing – Matthew Wren

01:15 PM - 02:15 PM – Nexus Builders & Creators Lightning Round

01:30 PM - 01:55 PM – Egocentric AI: Advancing Human-Like Interaction Through User-Centric Data – Johannes Peeters

01:30 PM - 01:55 PM – From Storytelling to StoryLIVING: Our New Reality – Vicki Dobbs Beck

01:30 PM - 01:55 PM – Building with Niantic Spatial: Enterprise Solutions for Today's Real World Challenges – Hugh Hayden

01:30 PM - 01:55 PM – The Future of Training is Conversational: Roleplay with AI-Powered Avatars – Purnendu Mukherjee

01:30 PM - 01:55 PM – Unlocking the Potential of AI-generated Content for XR Creators – Ellysse Dick, Brandon Egolf

01:30 PM - 01:55 PM – Augmented Manifest Destiny: Reclaiming Ownership in the Mirrorworld – Alex Ronalds

01:50 PM - 02:15 PM – Gamers in VR: What Can The Stats Tell Us? – Neil Barbour

02:00 PM - 02:25 PM – Evolving Bystander Signaling Norms and Industry Standards in the Era of AI – Dena Feldman

02:00 PM - 02:25 PM – Superhuman: How XR and AI Are Rewriting the Human Experience – Jason McGuigan

02:00 PM - 02:55 PM – The Next Revolution in Graphics: How 3DGS Changes Everything – Rachael Newport, Navjeet Chhina, Josette Seitz, Mary Matheson, Kevin Ang

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM – Speed Networking Session #1: Investors/Publishers <> Game Devs

02:20 PM - 03:20 PM – XR Sports: Unlocking Growth, Monetization & Adoption – Lucy Trang Nguyen

02:25 PM - 03:25 PM – MIT Reality Hack x Snap LiveAR Hack at AWE - Judging – David De Cristofaro

02:30 PM - 02:55 PM – XR Policy Discussion with Virtual World Society – Alvin Graylin, Tom Furness

02:30 PM - 02:55 PM – Unlocking the Potential of LBE: Scaling with PICO’s XR Solutions – Leland Hedges

02:30 PM - 02:55 PM – AR, Mapping, and AI: The Future of Enterprise Collaboration is Spatial – Trista Pierce

02:30 PM - 03:30 PM – Roundtable: Requirements for XR in the Aerospace & Defense Industry – Marc Bringuier

03:30 PM - 03:55 PM – Why VR Learning Works (and Why It Fails) – Antonia Forster

03:30 PM - 03:55 PM – 3 XR Apps in 3 Months?! – Rylan Pozniak Daniels

03:30 PM - 04:15 PM – AWE Wellness Walk with Caitlin Krause: A Somatic & Spatial Journey into Digital Wellbeing – Caitlin Krause

03:30 PM - 04:25 PM – How Spatial Computing is Reshaping Heavy Manufacturing – Lynn Welch, Paul Davies, Dr. Sandhya Santhosh, Alex Goldberg

03:30 PM - 04:25 PM – Stronger Together: Accessibility & Diversity in a Post-DEIA XR Landscape – Dylan Fox, Stephanie Montgomery, Leona Edegbe, Devin Baldwin, Dr. Ruth Diaz

03:30 PM - 04:25 PM – Strategies for Turning Creativity Into Income – Alex Meland, Naysy, Andrei Becher, Bridger Smith

03:30 PM - 04:30 PM – Roundtable: Implementing AI into XR Projects – Pratik Suketu

04:00 PM - 04:25 PM – AI + XR: Building a Multiplayer, Cross-platform XR Game in One Week – Preston Platt

04:00 PM - 04:25 PM – Future of Design Leveraging Immersive Engineering and Generative AI – Ben Widdowson

04:00 PM - 04:55 PM – CAD to Commerce: Building a 3D Experience – Ashley Crowder, Daniel Frith, Eric Chadwick, Paul Connelly

04:00 PM - 05:00 PM – VR Game Spotlight with host Callum Hurley – Callum Hurley

04:00 PM - 05:00 PM – Speed Networking Session #2: Investors <> Builders

04:15 PM - 05:10 PM – AR Alliance with Insights for Mass Market Adoption of AR Products – Bharath Rajagopalan

04:30 PM - 04:55 PM – For XR/AI Makers, the Secret Sauce is Ethics – Aysu Unal, Avi Bar-Zeev

04:30 PM - 04:55 PM – The Quest Landscape: Strategies for Victory – JP Minetos

05:00 PM - 05:25 PM – Lenovo Session - Enterprise – John Iaia

05:00 PM - 05:25 PM – Empower Developers and Bring Web and AI to Spatial – Ruoya Sheng

05:00 PM - 05:55 PM – Navigating XR Policy: Building Amid Uncertainty – Finn Staber, Elizabeth Rothman, Kavya Pearlman

05:00 PM - 05:55 PM – Igniting Cultural Institutions: AfroFuturism & Lincoln Center – Nona Hendryx, Sutu, Mengtong Guan, Kathleen Cohen

05:00 PM - 05:55 PM – T-Mobile F1 XR Story – How T-Mobile’s Retail Store Deployed XR to Enhance the Customer Experience – Courtney Tononi, Ian Dawson, Athena Demos, Philippe Lewicki

05:00 PM - 05:55 PM – How Businesses are Using VR Training to Drive Measurable Business Results – Barton Goldenberg, Johan Cruse, Cortney Harding

05:30 PM - 05:55 PM – The Emperor Has No Presence — or Rigid Body: Why AR Feels Broken, and What We Can Do About It – Jasmine Roberts

05:30 PM - 05:55 PM – Shaping and Scaling the Future of Industrial XR — Lessons from Bosch’s Front Lines – Yousof Alsatom, Mads Troelsgaard

05:30 PM - 07:00 PM – Virtual World Society Charity Auction – Room 204

09:00 AM - 09:25 AM – Niantic Spatial: Transforming How We Understand the World Through Geospatial Intelligence – Brian McClendon

09:30 AM - 09:55 AM – The Great Reversal – Nils Pihl

10:00 AM - 10:25 AM – Android XR: A New Reality Powering Headset and Glasses – Juston Payne

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM – Expo Tour - Defense & Aerospace – Yohan Baillot, Shelley Peterson

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM – Expo Tour - Pharmaceutical, Healthcare & Life Sciences – Jessica Maslin

10:30 AM - 10:55 AM – Reality Modding: Shaping Immersive Worlds with AI – Dr. Helen Papagiannis

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM – Speed Networking Session #3: Investors <> Builders

11:00 AM - 01:00 PM – LUNCH

11:00 AM - 05:30 PM – Expo, Playground, Gaming Hub and Builders Nexus

11:10 AM - 12:10 PM – Hackathon Winners: XRAI Hack Winners Lightning Round – Ashley Blake

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM – Roundtable: Designing XR to Improve Patient Outcomes – Jessica Maslin

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM – Nobody Cares About Your Game (yet) – Eric Chevalier, Zane Parker, Sam Yu

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM – The Pitch: Patient Safety's Next Generation (Documentary Film Screening)

12:05 PM - 01:00 PM – Investor Q&A - Ask Us Anything! – Amy LaMeyer, Jonathan Carmel, Petri Rajahalme

12:15 PM - 01:15 PM – LIVE - The AI/XR's Podcast's 245th episode -LIVE – Charlie Fink, Ted Schilowitz

12:20 PM - 12:45 PM – Promoting Your Game Inside the Development Cycle – Elliott Tate, Jasmine Uniza, Eric Masher

01:00 PM - 01:25 PM – Fireside Chat with Gaming Visionary Jason Rubin – Jason Rubin, Sonya Haskins

01:00 PM - 01:25 PM – Behind 'The Pitch': Healthcare Experts Weigh In on Innovation and Impact – Suzan Kardong-Edgren, Devin Marble

01:00 PM - 01:25 PM – AI and Emerging Formats – Yelena Rachitsky

01:00 PM - 01:25 PM – Epic Realities: Revolutionizing Theme Parks with AR Magic at Universal Epic Universe – Lynn Welch, Stephanie Dominguez Dominguez, Derek Reece

01:00 PM - 01:55 PM – Creative Potential of Immersive AI – Eric Oldrin, Kaz Maurice-O'Leary, Eric Shamlin, Bob Bjarke

01:00 PM - 01:55 PM – Requirements for XR in the Aerospace & Defense Industry – Tim Ventura, Shelley Peterson, James Cooper, Alejandro Mendoza, Christopher Colaw

01:00 PM - 02:00 PM – Roundtable: Getting XR out of the Lab and into the Enterprise: Best Practices in Scaling XR in Large Organizations – John Cunningham

01:20 PM - 02:20 PM – Hackathon Winners: Stanford XR Hackathon Winners Lightning Round – David Oh

01:30 PM - 01:55 PM – Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future – Albert Skip Rizzo

01:30 PM - 01:55 PM – AR You Sweating Yet? Hot Wings & Hotter Takes on Geospatial Tech – Joe Gabriel

01:30 PM - 02:25 PM – Bringing Barbie to Mixed Reality! A Case Study in How to Successfully Bring a Brand to XR – Jenna Seiden, Julia (Phelps) Kyle, Arturo Perez, Chary Keijzer, Casandra Vuong

01:50 PM - 02:15 PM – Bootstrapping Your XR Studio – Ryan Canuel

02:00 PM - 02:25 PM – The Importance of the Immersive Dream: Will We Ever Reach It? – Jacquelyn Morie

02:00 PM - 02:25 PM – From Code to Conduct: Building Healthy Communities in VR Games – David Neubelt

02:00 PM - 02:25 PM – Pixels to Places: Building Immersive Futures in AEC – David Gillespie, Paris Nikitidis

02:00 PM - 02:30 PM – Fireside Chat with Palmer Luckey on Groundbreaking Advancements with XR in Military and Defense – Palmer Luckey, Stephanie Riggs

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM – Speed Networking Session #4: Investors <> Builders

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM – Roundtable: Unlocking Meaningful Innovation with Generative AI – Pratik Suketu

02:25 PM - 02:50 PM – Bringing Tabletop Games to Life on Android XR – Grant Anderson, Tripp Wood

02:25 PM - 03:25 PM – TechMagic with Cathy Hackl (Live Podcast) – Cathy Hackl, Lee Kebler

02:30 PM - 03:25 PM – Start-Up Pitch Competition: Part 1 – Tipatat Chennavasin, Perrin Kaplan, Brian Takemasa, Michael Agustin, Eduardo Neeter, Christine Schwarz, Vasilapostolos Ouranis, Haven Vu

03:00 PM - 03:25 PM – Copy That! Proxies of Virtual and Real Objects in XR – Steve Feiner

03:00 PM - 03:25 PM – Understanding the VR Generation: Insights from Consumer Behavior – Jake Zim

03:00 PM - 03:25 PM – From Behind the Camera to Inside the World: How Emerging Tech Is Transforming Production – AJ Sciutto

03:00 PM - 03:50 PM – Building Profitable Mass-Scale Shared Immersive Experiences – Amy Jupiter, Neville Spiteri, Dana Ware

03:00 PM - 03:55 PM – AI NPCs in Embodied Forums: Humans & NPCs in Social, Education and Business 3D Worlds – Robin White Owen, Paige Dansinger, Eugy Han, Monica Arés, Will Cherry

03:00 PM - 03:55 PM – 360º DOMES - Fulldome Storytelling & Immersive Entertainment – Ed Lantz, Jenni Ogden, Katy Yudin

03:00 PM - 04:00 PM – From Atari to XR: Gaming Through the Generations with the Bushnell Family – Nolan Bushnell, Alissa Bushnell, Brent Bushnell, Tyler Bushnell, Dylan Bushnell, Wyatt Bushnell

03:00 PM - 04:00 PM – Roundtable: Requirements for XR in the Aerospace & Defense Industry – Shelley Peterson, Tim Ventura

03:30 PM - 03:55 PM – XR in Enterprise: The Role of Augmented Reality in Industry – Going “Operational” – Elizabeth Hyman, Rana Dalbah

03:30 PM - 03:55 PM – Beyond the Booth: How Immersive and Interactive Activations Are Transforming Events – Omead Sinai

03:30 PM - 03:55 PM – Roadmap for AAA Games in VR – Shawn Kittelsen, Ryan Payton

03:45 PM - 04:30 PM – Start-Up Pitch Competition: Part 2 – Tipatat Chennavasin, Perrin Kaplan, Brian Takemasa, Raymond Kallmeyer, Nicole Day, Malcolm Lee, Jennifer Anne Ipsen, Mike Nichols

04:00 PM - 04:25 PM – AI and Immersive Avatars: Advances, Trends, and Live Demos – Gregory Panos

04:00 PM - 04:25 PM – OpenXR and the Future of XR: Interoperability in a 5G/Edge-Driven World – Frédéric Plourde, Mauricio Kovacevic

04:00 PM - 04:25 PM – Out of the Lab, Across the Digital Thread: Scaling Enterprise XR – Jay Wright

04:00 PM - 04:25 PM – Using Augmented Reality to Enhance Cultural Relevance – Jason Steinberg

04:00 PM - 04:25 PM – Music & Mixed Reality: Geo-Located Experiences and Artist World Building – Jacqui Bransky, Daniel Kelly, Reed Matthews

04:00 PM - 05:00 PM – XR Women Awards – Julie Smithson, Karen Alexander, Sophia Moshasha

04:00 PM - 05:00 PM – AWE Gaming Hub Comedy Happy Hour with Failed to Render!! – Kyle Render, Kirsten Hudson, Alex Ansel (Koolaid), Chino LaForge, Clay Newman

04:30 PM - 04:55 PM – Revolutionizing Customer Engagement through AI Experiences – Dan Ferguson

04:30 PM - 04:55 PM – How to Leverage XR as the Next Era of Sports Fan Engagement – Will Misselbrook, Andrew Merkin, James Giglio

04:30 PM - 04:55 PM – Crafting Immersive Stories on Vision Pro – Victor Agulhon

04:30 PM - 05:25 PM – Material Matters: Seeking glTF/USD Interoperability with Procedural Textures, MaterialX, and OpenPBR – Leonard Daly, Max Bickley, Daniel Iborra, Amra Tareen, Henrik Edstrom

04:30 PM - 05:25 PM – Mission-Driven Gameplay with AAA IP Brings History to Life with Full City-Scale XR LBE – Louisa Spring, Joe Gabriel, Will Humphrey, Miro Lima

05:00 PM - 05:25 PM – Immersive Tech That’s Redefining the Fan Experience – Christian Lau, Natascha French

05:00 PM - 05:25 PM – UI/UX for the World: XR Design that’s Natural to Everyone – Pia Behmuaras, Louise Royer

05:00 PM - 05:25 PM – Innovative Pitches from South Korean Start-Up Founders

06:00 PM - 07:30 PM – 16th Annual Auggie Awards and Hall of Fame Ceremony – Ori Inbar

09:00 AM - 09:25 AM – Niantic Spatial: Transforming How We Understand the World Through Geospatial Intelligence – Brian McClendon

09:30 AM - 09:55 AM – The Great Reversal – Nils Pihl

10:00 AM - 10:25 AM – Android XR: A New Reality Powering Headset and Glasses – Juston Payne

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM – Expo Tour - Defense & Aerospace – Yohan Baillot, Shelley Peterson

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM – Expo Tour - Pharmaceutical, Healthcare & Life Sciences – Jessica Maslin

10:30 AM - 10:55 AM – Reality Modding: Shaping Immersive Worlds with AI – Dr. Helen Papagiannis

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM – Speed Networking Session #3: Investors <> Builders

11:00 AM - 01:00 PM – LUNCH

11:00 AM - 05:30 PM – Expo, Playground, Gaming Hub and Builders Nexus

11:10 AM - 12:10 PM – Hackathon Winners: XRAI Hack Winners Lightning Round – Ashley Blake

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM – Roundtable: Designing XR to Improve Patient Outcomes – Jessica Maslin

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM – Nobody Cares About Your Game (yet) – Eric Chevalier, Zane Parker, Sam Yu

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM – The Pitch: Patient Safety's Next Generation (Documentary Film Screening)

12:05 PM - 01:00 PM – Investor Q&A - Ask Us Anything! – Amy LaMeyer, Jonathan Carmel, Petri Rajahalme

12:15 PM - 01:15 PM – LIVE - The AI/XR's Podcast's 245th episode. LIVE – Charlie Fink, Ted Schilowitz