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Joshua Bankston is a partner at MACE Virtual Labs, a Houston-based provider of turnkey enterprise virtual reality solutions. As an evangelist and community leader in the XR industry, Josh empowers business leaders and innovators to use groundbreaking XR hardware and immersive experiences to explore bold new applications in training, education, medicine and beyond. While volunteering in southern California, he launched his first tech business, before returning to Texas to provide consulting for XR-related businesses. As a partner of MACE, Josh has designed VR labs and turnkey solutions for a variety of industries, including education, enterprise, entertainment, and government. Josh has also been involved in the VR track at SXSW since 2016, from putting together presentations for the Dept. of Defense, to working with organizers to create more engaging interactive exhibits, and as the organizer of the official XR Dev Meetup. Recently, Josh has joined the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of XR, XRA, and supports the XR Women organization.

Follow Josh on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-bankston/
MACE Virtual Labs - https://www.macevl.com/

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Ivan Pavliuchenko, co-founder and Managing Director of AREYES, with +8 years in digital marketing and product management. AREYES is a mixed reality design studio that help global brands such as Meta, Sony Music, Henkel, L'Oreal, Red Bull, Nissan, Ford Motor Company, and Lego gamify their marketing activities by using mixed reality. Prior of AREYES Ivan had lead the marketing efforts in Vintage Agency of the top-100 web studio worldwide according Awwwards.

Follow Ivan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-pavliuchenko/
AREYES Website: https://www.areyes.studio/

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Amir is cofounder and CEO at Virtuleap, a VR startup that unlocks neuroscience with virtual reality to help increase attention levels, and address cognitive illnesses, disorders, and learning challenges. Previous to Virtuleap, Amir founded Gameguise, a mobile games studio based in Dubai, and Time Dirham the first social impact startup to introduce time banking to the Middle East. He is an alumni of York University and THNK School of Creative Leadership. Amir has been a contributing writer to tech blogs like VentureBeat and Tech Crunch on the topics of emerging tech, spatial computing, and startup ecosystems.

Checkout Amir on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirboz/
X - @whiteboxamir
instagram - @virtuleap

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About Sune:

CTO & Co-Founder at SynergyXR. PhD in Computer Science - modelling and simulation of complex systems. Applied research background in military domain, radar systems, and autonomous surveillance systems. 10+ years experience with XR technologies in an industrial/enterprise setting. 

Follow Him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunewolff/ 

About SynergyXR: no-code XR platform for Enterprise companies. Build, operate, and optimize immersive learning programs at scale.

Website: https://synergyxr.com/
Company LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/synergyxr/

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Peter Smulovics, Metaverse and Spatial Computing Development Practices Lead in an Investment Bank 

Executive Director of Software Development Experience. Leading Windows, .NET and Microsoft R&D and Development Practices through platform development projects and framework building in a horizontal team. Responsible for the development and technological side for Spatial Computing and Metaverse Development Practices. Part of the Technical Oversight Committee, and Co-Chair for the Open Source Readiness and Emerging Technologies in Finance Services at the Linux Foundation.

Follow on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/smulovicspeter/ 
Twitter / X - @MountGellert

Dotneteers Blog - https://dotneteers.net/

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Simon Lajboschitz, CEO at Khora VR

Exploring the purpose of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. How will it change our lives and how can we make it into a good thing. BA in Philosophy and Masters in Business. Founded Khora with Peter Fisher. After 8 years of exploring, we have produced +500 VR, AR, 360 productions for B2B partners and facilitated +2500 workshops for businesses seeking to explore the potential with us. On the National Advisory board for the AI pioneer center, On the Tiger Counsel (Danish Commerce Future counsel) and various other boards. Keynote speaker, Futurist and amateur Pingpong player.

Checkout Khora VR: https://khora.com/

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Since 2017, Brooks Filippin has been at the forefront of driving innovation in emerging technologies and enterprise solutions. Joining 3D Robotics, Brooks played a pivotal role in developing and implementing enterprise drone programs for the AEC industry. In 2020, he joined ESRI, where they specialized in leveraging cutting-edge imagery and remote sensing technologies. Currently leading Business Development at ManageXR, Brooks works with enterprises and developers across the globe on the adoption of XR technology for scaled deployments.

Follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooks-filippin/

Checkout ManageXR: https://www.managexr.com/

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Tony Bevilacqua is the Founder and CEO of Cognitive3D, a spatial analytics platform that gathers data from virtual and augmented reality experiences in new ways, and turns them into actionable insights. Specifically, Cognitive3D helps companies measure human behavior within 3D simulations. Prior to founding Cognitive3D, Tony co-founded and exited another startup that focused on revenue optimization and data analytics for enterprise customers.

Website - https://cognitive3d.com/

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LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tbevilacqua/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/tbevilacqua

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Adam is a Sr. Spatial Computing Prototyping Architect at AWS, focused on AR/VR/Digital Twins and emerging technology. Adam previously lead an applied research team that focused on software development for immersive and adjacent emerging technologies at SHoP Architects, within the AEC/Real Estate space. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and universities including MIT, Yale and Columbia. His applications have been nominated for awards, featured in museums, and written about in publications including The New York Times.

Follow him on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamchernick/

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Cofounder and CEO of Agora World. No code, student founder. Solving the very problem he faced: the complexity of creating 3D experiences. Building the solution he wishes he had as a student. He's also taught XR at UPenn and NYU.

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On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoraworld-io/ 
On X: https://twitter.com/agoraworld_io 
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agoraworld_io/

Agora World: 
https://www.agoraworld.io/

Digital twins / photorealistic experiences:
https://youtu.be/n9zo9v-QqhQ?si=3NZLljn3dbNYXl3q
https://youtu.be/olhq_UvxRQE?si=jw642euMGejwLtu8

Vegas:
https://youtu.be/2LTj2VmP5eE?si=NYZYnEtSrZFn2EWn
https://venturebeat.com/virtual/building-a-virtual-vegas-in-honor-of-ces/

#metaverse #spatialcomputing #lowcode #lowcodenocode #virtualreality

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