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14 Distinct Tracks with the Hottest Topics & Companies
Speaking at AWE USA 2025

Main Stage

Highlighting the best use cases, hottest companies, and most important topics for the next year in XR with a focus on social impact.

Track chairs:

Day 1: Joy Reign

Day 2: Malcolm Williams

Day 3: Stefanie Hutka

Featuring sessions from companies including:

Enterprise

Featuring case studies of the different XR applications being used across all industry verticals to help improve safety, security, training, efficiency, reduce errors, and increase the bottom-line.

Track chairs:

Day 1: Nico Fara

Day 2: Ariane Fikki

Featuring sessions from companies including:

Collaboration, Training & Education

Showcasing the ways businesses and educational institutions are deploying XR to improve training, education, and meetings for employees, students, and clients.

Track chairs:

Day 1: Kristin Glushon

Day 3: Nia-Simone Egerton

Featuring sessions from companies including:

Exploring the topics of privacy, safety, security and overall policy in XR and the metaverse, focusing on essential information about legislation, potential areas of concern, and steps companies (and users) can take for better protection related to immersive tech.

Track chair:

Day 1: Kelly Guillory

Featuring sessions from companies including:

Retail & Marketing

Exploring ways brands are leveraging XR for increased engagement, sales, and personalization in both e-commerce and brick-and-mortar operations.

Track chair:

Day 1: María Martínez Perez

Day 2: Steven Christian

Featuring sessions from companies including:

Start-ups & Investors

Helping XR entrepreneurs get to the next level with pitching opportunities, mentoring from investors and advice on best practices and legal topics.

Track chair:

Day 2: Ashley Coffey

Featuring sessions from companies including:

Creator

Examining use cases, best practices, UX design considerations, and ways indie creators can monetize their content.

Track chairs:

Day 1: Tanvi Agrawal

Day 2: Carol Silverman

Day 3: Woody Davis

Featuring sessions from companies including:

Developer

Featuring the work of developers across different platforms, highlighting the use cases, capabilities and shortcomings of today’s SDKs, as well as tutorials on the best platforms for building XR applications.

Track chair:

Day 1: Celeste Lear

Day 2: Tina Korani

Featuring sessions from companies including:

XR Enablement

A comprehensive look at the technologies that are enabling the spatial computing ecosystem to mature. Topics will include: AR cloud, 5G, AI, computer vision, SLAM, motion capture, display technology, semi-conductors, optics, audio, and projection mapping.

Track chair:

Day 3: Cathy Rodriquez

Featuring sessions from companies including:

Gaming, Entertainment & Media

Showcasing how next-gen gaming, film and television, sports, and location-based attractions are leveraging XR in both the digital and physical domains.

Track chair:

Day 2: Wadooah Wali

Featuring sessions from companies including:

AI + XR

Exploring the relationship, importance, and applications of artificial intelligence in XR, including bots, avatars, virtual beings, holograms and digitally-created “humans”.

Track chairs:

Day 2: Chris Chin

Day 3: Yiqi Zhao | Doug Smith

Featuring sessions from companies including:

Healthcare & Wellness

Demonstrating the myriad ways XR is being used to improve physical and mental health and wellness.

Track chairs:

Day 2: Sofía Sánchez-Zárate

Day 3: Chinami Michaels | Peter Oykhman

Featuring sessions from companies including:

Nexus Expo Stage

A new wave of builders - seasoned professionals and fresh talent alike - are creating multi-diverse spatial experiences. Join us at the Nexus stage in the Expo Hall for a variety of curated content, panels, community-driven content, and start-up pitches.

Featuring sessions from companies including: