Thank you for an amazing 2025 event.

  • See the conference recap on Forbes.

  • EXPERIENTIAL 2026 will take place at MIT on January 23-24, 2026. Contact us for programming and sponsorship inquiries.

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January 25, 2025

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

MEDIA SPONSOR

INDUSTRY SPONSOR

REALITY HACK STARTUPS-IN-RESIDENCE

PARTNERS

LAB COLLABS

2025 TECHNOLOGY THEME

PROGRAM STRUCTURE

2025 SESSIONS

3pm Green Bldg. [2nd ANNUAL REALITY FORUM]
Hacking Reality: Global Initiatives in Experiential Technology for a Sustainable Future

  • Ziad Asghar

    QUALCOMM

    Senior Vice President & GM, XR

    KEYNOTE SPEAKER

  • Ken Zolot

    MIT

    Senior Lecturer in Brain and Cognitive Sciences

    Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

    MODERATOR

  • Anusha Dandapandi

    UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL COMPUTING CENTRE

    Chief Data & AI Services Officer

  • Alvin Graylin

    HTC

    Global VP

    OUR NEXT REALITY

    Bestselling Author

    VIRTUAL WORLD SOCIETY

    Chairman

  • Kiran Vinod Bhatia

    INCLUSIVE AI LAB

    Research Lead

  • Jimmy Vainstein

    WORLD BANK GROUP

    Interactive Media Sr. Program Manager

9:30 Salon I.
Opening Kickoff / State of the Industry

  • Anshel Sag

    MOOR INSIGHTS & STRATEGY

    Principal Analyst

  • Tim Bajarin

    CREATIVE STRATEGIES

    President

10:35 Salon M.
Little Hands, Big Worlds: XR for Kids at the Yale Center for Immersive Technologies in Pediatrics

  • Asher Marks, MD

    YALE UNIVERSITY

    Associate Professor of Pediatrics

    Yale Center for Immersive Technologies in Pediatrics

    Co-Director

  • Kimberly Hieftje, PhD

    YALE UNIVERSITY

    Associate Professor of Pediatrics

    Yale Center for Immersive Technologies in Pediatrics

    Co-Director

10:35 Salon T.
Startup Talk: Haptikos Product Launch

11:20 Salon M.
From Cockpits to the Cosmos: How Extended Reality Is Shaping Aerospace Innovations

  • Joe Rolfe

    BAE SYSTEMS, INC.

    Head of Visualization Strategies

    MODERATOR

  • Alex Goldberg

    BLUE ORIGIN

    Administrator XR Systems III

  • Mollie Johnson

    MIT AeroAstro

    Engineering Systems Laboratory Researcher

11:20 Salon T.
Startup Talk: Maradin

11:55 Salon M.
Our Neuroadaptive Future

  • Joseph Artuso

    OPEN BCI (Galea)

    President & Chief Commercial Officer

11:55 Salon T.
Startup Talk: Hyperspeak by Meta Intelligence

12:20 Salon M.
The Power of Play: Experiential Technology as a Catalyst for Learning and Co-Creation

  • Kelly McNeil

    DIGITAL PROMISE

    Sr. Learning Experience Designer

  • Scott Greenwald

    MIT Reality Hack

    Board Chair

  • Mollie Johnson

    MIT AeroAstro

    Engineering Systems Laboratory Researcher

  • Rafiq Abdus-Sabur

    HXROIC

    Founder & CEO

  • Kachina Studer

    MIT

    XR & Virtual Production Lead, LEAP

12:20 Salon T.
Unblocking the future of VR: What’s holding us back?

  • Haseeb Musa

    META REALITY LABS

    Business Strategist

    MODERATOR

  • Anuj Gosalia

    OpenAI

    Inference Engineering Manager

  • Ziad Asghar

    QUALCOMM

    Senior Vice President & GM, XR

  • Jesse Joudrey

    VR CHAT

    CTO

  • Bert Nepveu

    TRIPTYQ CAPITAL


    Geek-in-Chief

  • DJ Manny FlyiSo

    ROYALTY RADIO MEDIA

    Founder

  • Tipatat Chennavasin

    THE VENTURE REALITY FUND

    Co-founder

1:15 Salon M.
Designers Lead, AI Follows: Creating Harmonious and Innovative Human-Machine-Centered Experiences at Scale