Amber Allen, CEO and Founder of Double A Labs is a leading expert on the metaverse and hybrid events. Forever a "gamer girl" at heart, Amber is passionate about creating experiences and tools that promote human connection and help companies train and engage with employees. Double A Labs was founded nearly a decade ago to create innovative, data-driven, immersive technologies to help brands stay connected with current customers and new audiences. Today, Double A Labs is a global leader in creating digital worlds and has developed a proprietary online virtual platform to connect, learn, and play.​

Brittan Heller works at the intersection of technology, human rights, and the law. She is currently a fellow at the Atlantic Council, with the Digital Forensics Research Lab, examining XR's connection to society, human rights and privacy, and commerce. As former counsel in Foley Hoag LLP's Global Business and Human Rights practice, Heller advised companies, investors, NGOs, and governments on integrating public safety and human rights. Heller was an inaugural AI and Technology Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, studying content moderation and security risks in VR/AR/XR and emergent media. Heller previously founded ADL’s Center for Technology and Society. Her key projects included creating AI to study hate speech and analyzing disinformation that targeted minority communities. Additionally, Heller prosecuted grave human rights violations at the U.S. Department of Justice and the International Criminal Court and initiated landmark anti-cyber harassment litigation. She is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School.​

Edgar Auslander is Senior Director, Head of Strategic Partnerships and Intelligence at Meta, (fka. Facebook), where he develops and executes partnership and acquisition strategies for Metaverse, VR, AR, and wearables. He initiated and led a partnership with EssilorLuxottica that redefined Facebook’s AR roadmap with e.g. RayBan Stories. He was one of the founders of Texas Instruments' Wireless Business Unit, bringing it from no product no revenue to $5B/year. He has more than 30 years of experience, serving on company Boards and working in product planning and management, marketing, licensing, business development, general management of business, marketing and engineering teams, venture capital, consulting, and M&A, at startups, Fortune 100 companies, and a VC firm. He combines deep business and technical knowledge of mobile systems et ecosystems, from semiconductors to consumer devices, application software, and services. A former Faculty Member at Stanford University and the EDHEC Business School, he is a frequent guest lecturer at engineering and business schools in Europe and the USA and started his career while studying for his MBA by licensing inventions from Columbia University.​

Edgar Auslander is Senior Director, Head of Strategic Partnerships and Intelligence at Meta, (fka. Facebook), where he develops and executes partnership and acquisition strategies for Metaverse, VR, AR, and wearables. He initiated and led a partnership with EssilorLuxottica that redefined Facebook’s AR roadmap with e.g. RayBan Stories. He was one of the founders of Texas Instruments' Wireless Business Unit, bringing it from no product no revenue to $5B/year. He has more than 30 years of experience, serving on company Boards and working in product planning and management, marketing, licensing, business development, general management of business, marketing and engineering teams, venture capital, consulting, and M&A, at startups, Fortune 100 companies, and a VC firm. He combines deep business and technical knowledge of mobile systems et ecosystems, from semiconductors to consumer devices, application software, and services. A former Faculty Member at Stanford University and the EDHEC Business School, he is a frequent guest lecturer at engineering and business schools in Europe and the USA and started his career while studying for his MBA by licensing inventions from Columbia University.​

Pearly Chen is a VP at HTC with a unique operator-investor role at the forefront of immersive technologies. She has held several leadership positions for HTC’s early-stage venture investment program, VR content platform, and other strategic and operational roles as Chief of Staff to Chairwoman/CEO. She led the launch of HTC’s VR for Impact and serves on the WEF’s Global Future Council and AIXR’s Advisory Council. A dynamic, high-energy, multilingual global citizen and mother of 3 girls, Pearly now lives in Florida with her family.​

RIO KUROKAWA Director, IBM Power & Metaverse lead, Technology Sales, IBM Japan Ltd. Rio has over 7 years of experience as a Hybrid & AI product leader, experience in launching new products and services, including Metaverse business launch with HW / SW / IaaS / SaaS marketing, experience in facing media interviews, and publishing corporate brand blogs and magazines (Power9, 10, Cloud Pak for Data, WKC, z15) and in collaboration with business partners. He enables translation of company strategy from technology strength to client value point of view and has had over 19 years of client-facing experience in Sales, with 3,000 clients including CxOs, Insurance Actuary community, 4 years of certified IBM Executive experience, 10 years of Thought Leader experience in Financial Markets industry. Rio holds a B. A. in Mandarin, Chinese society, and culture from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan, and an MBA from the London Business School Short MBA program – London, United Kingdom.

Ajit Pai, a former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), is a partner at Searchlight Capital Partners, a global investment firm, where he focuses on investments in the telecommunications, media, and technology sectors. Concurrently, he is a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he addresses issues about technology and innovation, communications policy, and market-based incentives for investment in broadband deployment. Ajit’s distinguished career at the FCC includes two leadership roles following presidential appointments. He was appointed commissioner by President Barack Obama in 2012, designated chairman by President Donald Trump in 2017, and twice confirmed by the US Senate. While at the helm of the FCC, Ajit had a transformative impact on the future of US technology and communications policy, implementing major initiatives to help close the digital divide; advance US leadership in 5G and other wireless technologies; promote innovation; protect consumers, public safety, and national security; and make the agency itself more open, transparent, and data-driven.

Dr. Derek Peterson, CTO, Boingo Wireless Derek Peterson, Ph.D., is chief technology officer at Boingo Wireless, a global leader in connectivity. At Boingo, he is responsible for the company’s technical vision and strategy. Under his leadership, Boingo is pioneering the adoption and deployment of the latest wireless network technologies including 5G, CBRS, Passpoint, edge computing, network virtualization, and convergence. He is directly responsible for building and operating Boingo's core technologies and systems, including web applications, client software, networks, authentication, billing, advertising, IPTV, business intelligence, and IT infrastructure.

Maryam Rofougaran is the founder and CEO of Movandi, a leader in new 5G RF and millimeter wave technology that is commercializing multi-gigabit, 5G millimeter wave networks. Movandi is breaking through the coverage and network challenges of 5G millimeter wave networks. Their BeamXR active repeater and system solutions solve today’s real-world 5G deployment challenges – by increasing 5G coverage and capacity, while reducing infrastructure costs by 50%, and accelerating large-scale 5G commercialization. Before co-founding Movandi, Maryam was instrumental in starting and building the wireless business at Broadcom and in growing it to annual revenues of more than $3 billion. She is an Inventor and co-inventor on 280 U.S.-issued patents, 85 U.S.-filed patents

Nada Golmie received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park. Since 1993, she has been a research engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. She is an IEEE and a NIST Fellow in the Communications Technology Laboratory. Her research in media access control and protocols for wireless networks led to over 200 technical papers presented at professional conferences, and journals, and contributed to international standard organizations and industry-led consortia. She is the author of “Coexistence in Wireless Networks: Challenges and System-level Solutions in the Unlicensed Bands," published by Cambridge University Press (2006). She leads several projects related to the modeling and evaluation of future-generation wireless systems and protocols and serves as a chair for the Next5G Channel Model Alliance.

Sanyogita Shamsunder Head of Global Edge Networking Sanyogita Shamsunder heads Global Edge Networking at Google, where her team is responsible for various cloud networking products, solutions, and systems supporting Google’s Global Network. Previously, she was the VP of Product Strategy and Operations at Verizon where she was responsible for incubating enterprise and consumer products driven by emerging technologies. Previously, she led the industry-leading 5G network and technology development. Sanyogita’s work experience spans all areas of the wireless business, including silicon, network technology development, and spectrum strategy. Earlier in her career, she held various R&D and development roles at Lucent-Bell Labs, Sandbridge Technologies, and Stanford Telecom.

Chris Bergey is the senior vice president and general manager of the Infrastructure Line of Business at Arm. Chris’ organization is responsible for the proliferation of Arm-based solutions throughout the data infrastructure of today and tomorrow, from cloud computing to the network edge. Before joining Arm, Chris served as senior vice president of Devices Products at Western Digital Corporation and was responsible for product management and product marketing across the company’s $10B+ portfolio of hard drive and flash-based products for data center, client, mobile, automotive, and IoT. Previously, Chris was the vice president of Marketing at Luxtera, a silicon photonics startup that revolutionized datacenter interconnect, after spending over nine years at Broadcom. Chris holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Drexel University and an MBA degree from the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.​

Dean Brenner is a leading expert on the allocation of spectrum for wireless technologies and on wireless public policy issues in the United States and around the world. In January 2022, the Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) appointed him to be Chairman of the FCC’s Technological Advisory Council to lead a new initiative to advise the FCC on 6G, as well as leading ongoing work on spectrum sharing, emerging technologies, and machine learning/artificial intelligence. Mr. Brenner holds one patent on spectrum sharing. He was the co-chair of the US Policy Task Force of the 5G Automotive Association, an industry group working on connected car policy, and he was a member of many wireless industry groups. Mr. Brenner joined Qualcomm in November 2003, after working at a large Washington DC law firm and founding his law firm. He received his J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University in 1985 and his A.B., magna cum laude, with distinction in public policy studies, from Duke University in 1982.​

Elana Lian is an Investment Director for Intel Capital located in the Bay Area. Elana focuses on investments in Commerce, IoTG, SaaS/Enterprise digitization and DeepTech. Companies. Elana believes there is a tremendous opportunity for disruption in legacy industries by unlocking insights into their data and creating new consumer experiences. Elana currently serves as board director or observer at Teikametrics and Fictiv. Before Intel Capital, Elana began her career working in Engineering, Product Development, and Business Development roles across the high-tech industry. She is a Kauffman Fellow and received her MBA from Kellogg School of Management, has a BS & MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto and Tufts University. In her spare time, she loves traveling to five continents, skiing, scuba diving, and spending time with her son.​

Mike Vildibill leads Qualcomm’s Cloud Edge AI business unit responsible for AI cloud computing in cloud edge servers, datacenters, and enterprise end-to-end solutions. Products include a family of Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 accelerators and software that accelerate AI/ML inferencing applications. These systems are deployed worldwide in environments ranging from edge to cloud. Mike has extensive experience in high-performance and data-intensive computing and has held executive positions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Data Direct storage systems, Sun Microsystems, and the University of California, San Diego. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Open Scalable File Systems open-source project. His varied executive responsibilities have included Product Management, Server and software Product Development, Sales leadership, Marketing, Advanced Development, and Academic Research.​

Pete Warden was the founder of the TensorFlow Lite Micro open-source project at Google, and previously CTO of Jetpac, a machine-learning startup acquired in 2014. He's an author of the TinyML book from O'Reilly, has taught embedded machine learning at Stanford and Harvard, and has an EdX online course. He occasionally blogs at petewarden.com [petewarden.com], and is on Twitter as @petewarden.​

Vinay Ravuri, CEO of EdgeQ, has 25+ years of experience as a distinguished industry executive and general manager for high-tech corporations in computing, communications, and networking. As an executive, he has navigated companies to key strategic inflections in areas of cloud computing, machine learning, and 5G. As Vice President at Qualcomm, Vinay played an integral part in the establishment of its Data Center server and Machine-Learning technology and drove their advanced mobile software product management. He obtained a Master of Science from Georgia Institute of Technology, a Bachelor of Engineering at the City University of New York, and holds 12 US patents.​

Xiaolin is a Fellow and Director of Texas Instruments Kilby Labs Sensing & Processing Group. She is responsible for R&D on connected sensors, embedded AI, timing, and clocking technologies for industrial internet and automobile applications. She has worked on various embedded processing and communication system programs, including Smart Sensing with edge computing, Intelligent Industrial Internet Sensor Network systems, embedded AI hardware acceleration, etc. She is the author/co-author of more than 60 U.S.-issued patents and the recipient of the special recognition awards: 2016 Asian American Engineer of the Year, Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and National Women of Color award in the Technical Innovation – Industry category.

Yasser joined Amazon Web Services as a VP of IoT coming from Qualcomm where he was Vice President. He held a variety of leadership roles that included managing teams that released Qualcomm’s first WLAN chip for mobile phones, and leading the formation and launch of QuIC (Qualcomm Innovation Center) and CAF (Code Aurora Foundation) to solve legal and operational issues around the open source software release. Yasser also led the Qualcomm Reference Design (QRD) program, to expand Qualcomm’s business in China which grew the market share by helping the Chinese manufacturers produce phones based on Qualcomm technologies. For the past four years, Yasser managed Qualcomm’s IoT ecosystem. He directly managed the critical part of the strategy to scale IoT chipsets, including key technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision drones, robotics, and 5G. Yasser attended numerous trade shows, customer meetings, and other marketing events in the United States, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Maha is a senior leader with more than 25 years of experience in both public, defense, and startup companies in semiconductor and wireless RF and optical communication and sensing systems. She was recently recognized in the Forbes 50 Vision list for founding Metawave. Maha is also Glass Dynamics Chairwoman of the board. Her strong technology background combined with leadership, business, and marketing skills. Previously, Maha served as co-founder and CTO of Rayspan, Dir of Adv Technology at SDRC (Boeing), and Dir of Adv Technology of Optical access where she pioneered the first broadcast HDTV system over satellite, mm-wave/Free-Space Optical systems for last mile connectivity, and led various DARPA projects in wireless MIMO and Optical devices. She holds a doctorate in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), authored over 35 publications, and holds more than 75 granted patents and over 150 pending applications.