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9:30am EDT

Opening Remarks Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium

9:45am EDT

Keynote - Augmenting Journalism: Immersive Storytelling at The New York Times (25 min) Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumGraham Roberts

10:10am EDT

Keynote - How Virtual and Augmented Reality Technology Will Impact and Transform Healthcare (25 min) Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumWalter Greenleaf, PhD

10:35am EDT

BREAK Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium

11:00am EDT

Panel - XR for Good - The Creators' Perspective (45 min) Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumLauren Burmaster • Jesse Ayala • Shannon Carroll • Asad J. Malik

11:25am EDT

Science in VR - An immersive future in design for social impact (20 min) Room 105Liridona Sopjani

11:45am EDT

BREAK Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium

12:00pm EDT

The Expanding Role of Libraries in Education (20 min) Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumDan Ayoub Panel - VR is Complicated: The Potential for VR in Education from Student and Teacher Perspectives (45 min) Room 105Lisa Castaneda • Marie Graham • Jessica Ochoa Hendrix • Steve Isaacs

12:25pm EDT

Making A New Reality (20 min) Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumKamal Sinclair

12:45pm EDT

LUNCH BREAK Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium

2:00pm EDT

Exploring Racism in VR (20 min) Room 105Courtney Cogburn Panel - Real Talk: What VC's Look For in XR Startups (45 min) Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumMia Tramz • Tom Emrich • John Spinale • Martina Welkhoff

2:25pm EDT

Building Social and Communication Skills using VR for Children with Autism (20 min) Room 105Vijay Ravindran

2:45pm EDT

BREAK Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium

3:00pm EDT

XR and Science: Immersive technologies as a Blank Canvas to augment our minds (20 min) Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumBoo Aguilar • Adam Horowitz Project Briefs: XR for Change Summit (35 min) Room 105Tamara Patton • Derek Ritzenberg • Sophie Wright

3:20pm EDT

Storyworlds in Virtual Reality (20 min) Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumResham Sidhu

3:45pm EDT

Virtual Reality, Actual Divide. (20 min) Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumChris Szymczak XR4C Speed Networking (45 min) Schwartz Concourse (5th Floor) XR Brain Jam: Project Pitches (45 min) Room 105Dave Culyba

4:10pm EDT

To Mars We Go: Designing the Future of Humanity (20 min) Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumJoanna Popper

4:30pm EDT

BREAK Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium

4:45pm EDT

Show Me The Money - How to Fund VR Projects (20 min) Room 105Dan White Panel - Future of Work: The role of tech and what you should know(45 min) Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumErin Winick • Dan Ayoub • Rori Duboff • Kyle Jackson • Kamal Sinclair

5:10pm EDT

EaseVR - A Mobile VR Application for Chronic Pain Management (20 min) Room 105Vangelis Lympouridis

5:30pm EDT

BREAK Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium

5:45pm EDT

Keynote - Maslow's Hierarchy and the Gifts of XR (25 min) Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumGaia Dempsey

6:10pm EDT

Keynote - XR and Humanity (25 min) Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumTom Furness