2026 EXPERIENTIAL SPEAKERS
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Dr. Pat PATARANUTAPORN
ASST. PROFESSOR/CO-DIRECTOR
MIT Media Lab / Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) / Cyborg Psychology
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Dr. Y. Jenny WANG
DIRECTOR OF INNOVATION / fmr. LECTURER / ORGANIZER
medVR / MIT / Reality Hack
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Dr. Scott GREENWALD
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER / fmr. RESEARCH SCIENTIST / EXEC. CHAIR
Three Space Lab / MIT Media Lab / Reality Hack -

Ori INBAR
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER / FOUNDER
AWE / Super Ventures -

Robert Hughes III
CO-FOUNDER
Koo Capital -

Tristan Elizabeth GRIBBIN
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Flow -

Thomas SUAREZ
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Raven Resonance -

Randolph WARNAAR
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
FabStation -

Mark ZHANG, DO, MMSc, FAMIA
PRESIDENT
American Medical Extended Reality Association (AMXRA) -

Dr. Asher MARKS
DIRECTOR / CO-DIRECTOR
Pediatric Neuro-Oncology / Yale Center for Immersive Technologies in Pediatrics -

Dr. Kimberley HIEFTJE
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PEDIATRICS / CO-DIRECTOR, XRPEDS
Yale School of Medicine / Yale Center for Immersive Technologies in Pediatrics -

Ziad ASGHAR
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF XR, WEARABLES & PERSONAL AI
Qualcomm -

Marcello MAJONCHI
CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER
Arduino -

Yiqi ZHAO
PRODUCT DESIGN ARCHITECT
Meta -

Anuj GOSALIA
SERIAL ENGINEERING DIRECTOR
OpenAI/Magic Leap/Google/Microsoft/Oculus -

Jimmy VAINSTEIN
SR. PROGRAM MANAGER, XR & INTERACTIVE MEDIA
The World Bank -

Dr. Maria Laura RUGGIERO
DIRECTOR / NARRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Seiren Films / StoryHackers Lab / The World Bank -

Robert HUPP
RESEARCH AFFILIATE
MIT.nano Immersion Lab -

Dr. Anna SERRA-LLOBET
RESEARCH SCIENTIST
UC-Berkeley, Center for Catastrophic Risk Management -

Dr. Peter MARTELLI
fmr. CO-DIRECTOR
UC-Berkeley, Center for Catastrophic Risk Management -

Dr. Nili STEINFELD
SENIOR LECTURER
Ariel University -

Thorsten SCHAEFF
DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE ENGINEER
Google DeepMind -

Vinny DA SILVA
DEVELOPER RELATIONS LEAD
Google AndroidXR -

Anshel SAG
PRINCIPAL ANALYST
Moor Insights & Strategy -

Dan CUI
FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL
Shiloh Strategic Marketing -

Courtney HARDING
FOUNDER/AUTHOR/EMMY-NOMINEE
Friends With Holograms/The Spatial Race -

Brittany "Chi" CONEY
GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING ARTIST
Nova Wav -

Bernard FRANÇOIS
FOUNDER
Preview Labs -

John WOLFF
DIRECTOR OF LOCATION-BASED ENTERTAINMENT
Urban Electronics, Inc. -

Ken ZOLOT
SENIOR LECTURER
MIT -

Jonathan JENNINGS
GAMEPLAY ENGINEER
Owlchemy Labs -

Jeffrey BERTHIAUME
SENIOR INNOVATOR
Southwest Airlines -

Erin BANKS
STRATEGIC ADVISOR
Airlite -

Jon Snoddy
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Operative Games / fmr. Disney Imagineering -

Ivan VARKO
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
DeoVR -

Keisha HOWARD
FOUNDER
Sugar Gamers