AGENDA
Morning session
9:00 am – 9:30 am Welcome ceremony
9:30 am – 10:15 am Panel: Advocating for XR in your Organization
• Hedrick Ellis – Senior Instructional Technologist, Endicott College
• Brooke Morrill – Director of Education, Schell Games
• Chris Madsen – Business Development, Immersive VR Education
• Jeffrey Jacobson – Simulation Engineering Project Manager, Boston Children’s Hospital
10:15 am – 11:00 am Panel: Teaching the Value of XR to your Colleagues
• Phil Vahey – Director of Strategic Research & Innovation, SRI International
• Becky Lane – Instructional Designer & AR/VR/XR Specialist, Ithaca College
• John MacLeod – Director, XR Libraries
• Craig Vezina – Executive Director, ZSchool
• Adam Blumenthal – Professor of the Practise of Computer Science & Virtual Reality Artist-in-Residence, Brown University
11:15 am – 12:00 pm Panel: Selecting the First use Case of your School
• Mike McCready – President’s Applied Research Chair in VR/AR, Lethbridge College
• Rosario B. Casas – Co-founder & CEO, VR AMERICAS – XR AMERICAS
• Ned Sahin – Founder & CEO, Brain Power
• Mark Andersen – Co-founder & President, Lifeliqe
• Dan Phillips – Assistive Technology Specialist, Technology Resource Center of Marin
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm Panel: Selecting the First use Case of your Organization
• Kate Donovan – Clinical Director of Innovation, Boston Children’s Hospital
• Chris Chin – Vice President & General Manager, HTC VIVE
• Matthew Cooney – Product Manager, Emerging Technology, Fidelity Investment
• Kyle Lum – Virtual & Augmented Reality Project Lead, Biogen
12:45 pm – 1:45 pm Lunch break
Afternoon session
1:45 pm – 2:00 pm Keynote: Virtual Reality Meets Real Accessibility for Learners of all Ages
• Larry Goldberg – Head of Accessibility, Verizon Media
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm Keynote: Developing the ROI to Expand XR in the Enterprise
• Mike Campbell – Executive Vice President, Augmented Reality Products, PTC
2:15 pm – 2:45 pm Panel: The XR Investment Landscape for Enterprise and Education
• Troy Williams – Managing Director, University Ventures
• Amy LaMeyer – Managing Partner, WXR Fund
• Mike Festa – Founder & CEO, 3XR
2:45 pm – 3:30 pm Panel: Building a Content Infrastructure to Scale XR Across Education
• Anson Ho – Product Manager, Microsoft
• Ulla Maaria Koivula – Founder & CEO, ThingLink
• Stuart E. Trafford – Education Lead, Magic Leap
• Chris Dede – Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Benny Arbel – Founder & CEO, Inception XR
3:45 pm – 4:00 pm Live showcase:
• Takashi Yamada – Vice President, Market Data/ Alternative, Nikkei America, Inc.
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm Panel: The Role of XR in Creating Sustainable Regional Economies
• Anthony Owen – State Director of Computer Science, Arkansas Department of Education
• Ulla Maaria Koivula – Founder & CEO, ThingLink
• Ivonne Gonzales – General Director Department of Foreign Languages & Cultures, Universidad de La Sabana
• Fernando Valenzuela Migoya – Managing Partner, Global Impact EdTech Alliance
• Norihisa Wada – Chief Marketing Officer, Edulab
4:45 pm – 5:00 pm Keynote: Enterprise Scaling with VR Safety Training Platform
• Olivier Pierre – Co-founder & CEO, Immersive Factory
5:00 pm – 5:15 pm Keynote: How to deploy Unity-based VR Training at Global Scale
• Daniel Seidl – Founder & CEO, Innoactive GmbH
5:15 pm – 5:45 pm The XR InLearning Awards
5:45 pm – 6:00 pm Closing Keynote: Welcome to your International Space Station
• Dan Barstow – Senior Education Manager, International Space Station National Lab
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm XR Innovators Playground
*Please be aware that this agenda is subject to change
**Please note that each panel is 40 minutes but includes a 5 minute transition time
