David Mellor
director | creative director | vfx supervisor
Donald Hyun Kiolbassa
Managing Partner, The Law Offices of Kiolbassa, Holmes & Ansong
Andrea Herran
Principal at Focus HR
Jeff Meador
Founder at JMXR
Scott McCormick
CEO at Emergent Enterprise
Ryan Sizemore
3D Artist / VR & AR Developer
Aaron Sawyer
Artistic Director - Redline VR
Chris Lai
CEO - MassVR
Sonya "Hasko7" Haskins
VR Esports Editor, VR Fitness Insider
Julie Smithson
Co-Founder of MetaVRse & XR Ignite Community Hub & Virtual Accelerator
George Berlin
Creative Genius - George Berlin Studios
Bree McEwan
Associate Professor and Program Coordinator - DePaul University
Matthew Houlihan
Faculty Member - Chicago Jesuit Academy
Kelly Page, Ph.D.
Director of Bennett Labs: Bennett Day School
Ibrahim Jilani
Business Development Director, Consumer Technology: UL
Carla Bond
Founder & CEO: Upskill VR
Thomas Brady
Associate Dean: Homeland Security Training Institute and Public Services Division
Eli M. Galayda
Head of Client Engagement at NVISION
Michael Naughton
Account Executive: Brand Management Solutions at ESKO
João Adeodato
Business Development Manager at Tetra Pak
Jennifer Suerth
Vice President - Technical Services at Pepper Construction
Neil Reindel
Designer at Perkins & Will
Devon Rutkowski
Media Designer at Gilbane Building Company
Matt Petermann
Digital Practice Manager at Perkins & Will
Danielle Dy Buncio
CO-FOUNDER & CEO at VIATechnik
Ilya Zlatkin
Head of Entertainment & Media Practice
Ross A. Hersemann
Attorney. Writer. Gamer.
J.D. Houvener
Patent Attorney/Founder of Bold Patents Law Firm
Mark Persaud
Immersive Reality Practice Lead at Moonshot
Carter Egan
Technical Director at ImmersiveTouch
Jia Luo
Vice President, Engineering at ImmersiveTouch
Erika Gangware
3D Product Designer
Eric Gantwerker MD, MMSc(MedEd), FACS
Vice President, Medical Director at Level Ex
Brian Jensen
Director of Product Design at InContext Solutions
Lewis Gardner
Software Engineer at BUNDLAR
Michael Dreas
Director of Photography and Technology at Snap36
Cathy Grochowski
Owner - Make the Grade Training Solutions
Peter Wittig
Senior Developer & Co-Founder | Motive.io
Mary Ann Thornton
Director of Operations at Avidity Technologies Inc.
Raj Puran
Director of XR Business Development & Strategic Partnerships at Intel
Gordon Montgomery
EVP, Global CMO | Antenna International
Steven Beasley
Director of Digital Media at MSI Chicago
Randy Gress
Director of Business Development at NEXT/NOW
John Martin
Co-Founder & CEO - BUNDLAR
Tom Munz
Owner / Creative Director - Pulse Studio
Thomas Livings
Owner - Studio inHaus
Dijana Mihajlovic
Principal - KNTXT Group
Davinder Kohli
Founder & CEO - XentStudios, LLC
Dave Kohl
Marketing Director - First In Promotions
Ben Azulay
Principal - Bradford Allen
Alexandria Heston
Lead UX Technical Artist at Across Realities
Steve Bowler
President and Co-Founder at CloudGate Studio
Rebecca Rothschild
Narrative Designer at Digital Dreams Entertainment
Alan Reck
Founder of ZoopTEK
Thomas Williams
Founder at Grand Scheme Games
August Wasilowski
Freelance XR Game Developer at AugieTech LLC
Christopher Morrison
Founder & CEO Robo Aerial
Daniel Allen
Director of UX at 3D Results
Mario Jobbe
Chief Brand Officer at Next Story Group
Tracey Wiedmeyer
Chief Technology Officer at InContext Solutions
Sarah Sexton
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Keisha Howard
Founder at The BlazeBreakers and the Sugar Gamers
Ken Waagner
Consultant - Isobar
Paula Weigel
Principal at PWA Marketing Group
Akiva Bergman
Sales & Marketing Director at Ballistic-VR ltd.
Erica Bishaf
Leader of the Pack
Brandon C. Taylor
Sr. Instructional Designer - Columbia College of Chicago
Mfon Akpan
Assistant Professor of Business at National Louis University
Ray Katos
Senior Technical Education Consultant
Alan Hughes
Founder at NEXT/NOW
Farrukh Khan
Co-founder & CEO at Inference Analytics, Inc.
Zach Martin
Project Director at BUNDLAR
Scott Lynch
Creative Director, Voyre
Emma Johansson
Creative Director, RunawayPlay
Alan Beauchamp
CEO at Terminal54
Eric Irving
UX Designer/Visual Communicator/Creator/Mentor
Anthony Mattana
Founder, CEO of Hooke Audio Corp
Meg Miller
VFX/Digital/Virtual Reality Producer
Liuba Khramova
Co-Founder, AR Team by Emily Rise
Alex Paull
Co-CEO, Reality Bytes
Lorne Rodriguez
Co-CEO, Reality Bytes
Patrick O’Shaughnessey
Augmented Reality Developer at Patched Reality
Ron Padzensky
Business Intelligence Professional & Authority on Augmented Reality
Jason Edgecombe Jr
Business Analyst at EX3 Labs
Aaqib Usman
Founder, Interactive Producer - Midwest Immersive
George Vukotich
Founder / Managing Partner FinTank
Gareth Davies
Lead Developer - BUNDLAR
Jake Hamann
Founder & CEO - Content Readiness Institute
Adam Wisniewski
CEO at EX3 Labs
