2026 EXPERIENTIAL SPEAKERS

  • Dr. Pat PATARANUTAPORN

    ASST. PROFESSOR/CO-DIRECTOR

    MIT Media Lab / Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) / Cyborg Psychology

  • Dr. Y. Jenny WANG

    DIRECTOR OF INNOVATION / fmr. LECTURER / ORGANIZER

    medVR / MIT / Reality Hack

  • Dr. Scott GREENWALD

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER / fmr. RESEARCH SCIENTIST / EXEC. CHAIR
    Three Space Lab / MIT Media Lab / Reality Hack

  • Parth ARORA

    SOFTWARE INTERACTION LEAD
    Raven Resonance / Reality Hack

  • Ziad ASGHAR

    SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF XR, WEARABLES & PERSONAL AI
    Qualcomm

  • Marcello MAJONCHI

    CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER
    Arduino

  • Yiqi ZHAO

    PRODUCT DESIGN ARCHITECT
    Meta

  • Thorsten SCHAEFF

    DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE ENGINEER
    Google DeepMind

  • Anuj GOSALIA

    SERIAL ENGINEERING DIRECTOR
    OpenAI/Magic Leap/Google/Microsoft/Oculus

  • Anshel SAG

    PRINCIPAL ANALYST
    Moor Insights & Strategy

  • Ori INBAR

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER / FOUNDER
    AWE / Super Ventures

  • Robert Hughes III

    CO-FOUNDER
    Koo Capital

  • Tristan Elizabeth GRIBBIN

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
    Flow

  • Ivan VARKO

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
    DeoVR

  • Thomas SUAREZ

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
    Raven Resonance

  • Randolph WARNAAR

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
    FabStation

  • Jon Snoddy

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
    Operative Games / fmr. Disney Imagineering

  • 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

  • Mark ZHANG, DO, MMSc, FAMIA

    PRESIDENT
    American Medical Extended Reality Association (AMXRA)

  • Dr. Kate DONOVAN

    DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL INNOVATION AND EDUCATION
    Boston Children’s Hospital

  • Chen CAO

    PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIST
    Mass General Brigham

  • 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

  • Dr. Karen ALEXANDER

    CO-FOUNDER
    XR Women Global / Academy of Immersive Arts and Sciences

  • Vinny DA SILVA

    DEVELOPER RELATIONS LEAD
    Google AndroidXR

  • Jimmy VAINSTEIN

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

  • Robert HUPP

    RESEARCH AFFILIATE
    MIT.nano Immersion Lab

  • Anna VALUTKEVICH

    PUBLISHING EDITOR
    Journal of the AMXRA / SagePUB

  • Dan CUI

    FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL
    Shiloh Strategic Marketing

  • Chi Sophia and Blu June

    GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING ARTIST
    Nova Wav

  • Courtney HARDING

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

  • Ben ERWIN

    PRESIDENT / CO-FOUNDER
    Academy of Immersive Arts and Sciences.

  • John WOLFF

    DIRECTOR OF LOCATION-BASED ENTERTAINMENT
    Urban Electronics, Inc.

  • Bernard FRANÇOIS

    FOUNDER
    Preview Labs

  • Maria Laura RUGGIERO

    NARRATIVE EXPERIENCE
    SeirenFilms / StoryHackers Lab / The World Bank

  • Erin BECKS

    STRATEGIC ADVISOR
    Airlite

  • Jonathan JENNINGS

    GAMEPLAY ENGINEER
    Owlchemy Labs

  • Zeo ZHANG

    Half League

  • Jeffrey BERTHIAUME

    SENIOR INNOVATOR
    Southwest Airlines

  • Keisha HOWARD

    FOUNDER
    Sugar Gamers

  • Fermin GOITIA, PMP

    PROJECT EXECUTIVE
    Building Envelope Systems