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XR Immersive Enterprise 2020 May 5-7, 2020|Global Online Edition

The 2020 agenda helping companies unleash the full potential of XR...

The XR Immersive Enterprise: Global Online Edition agenda is coming together! We are working closely with our speakers spanning multiple timezones and remote working situations to bring you the best and most up to date industry insights possible. Stay tuned for updates!

PLEASE NOTE: All timings are listed in Eastern Time (Boston, New York) so please take this into account when planning your personal event schedule.

May 5th 2020 - Day 1

10:00am
 – 
10:15am
XR for Enterprise Market Update: Where Are the Opportunities?
  • Current enterprise market figures and expected growth
  • Core application / industry growth areas for XR
  • VR vs. AR/MR investment forecast
  • Market drivers, accelerators and disruptors: How are new devices and the evolution of software and hardware from key players expected to impact the enterprise market?

SuperData, a Nielsen company Carter Rogers Principal Analyst SuperData, a Nielsen company

10:15am
 – 
10:30am
Remote Collaboration & Virtual Conferences: The Future of Work

Forbes Charlie Fink AR/VR Consultant, Columnist & Author Forbes

10:30am
 – 
10:45am
How Covid-19 is Positively Impacting XR Applications in Healthcare
  • The oncoming wave of XR technology will profoundly impact medicine, clinical care, and personal health and wellness.
  • Covid-19 is positively impacting the growth and acceptance of XR Applications in Healthcare
  • XR technology facilitates the shift of medicine to direct personal care and precision medicine approaches
  • XR technology can provide breakthrough solutions that address the most difficult problems in healthcare (e.g. Anxiety and Depression to PTSD, Addictions, Autism, Cognitive Aging, Stroke Recovery and Physical Rehabilitation)
  • XR technology can also improve clinical measurements and assessments, medical training and procedure planning by applying simulation-based learning principals

Stanford Virtual Human Innovation Lab Walter Greenleaf Medical VR/AR Expert Stanford Virtual Human Innovation Lab

10:45am
 – 
11:00am
Live Q&A:
The New Normal for Immersive Enterprise

SuperData, a Nielsen company Carter Rogers Principal Analyst SuperData, a Nielsen company

Forbes Charlie Fink AR/VR Consultant, Columnist & Author Forbes

Stanford Virtual Human Innovation Lab Walter Greenleaf Medical VR/AR Expert Stanford Virtual Human Innovation Lab


Amy Peck XR Strategist

11:00am
 – 
11:15am
Presentation:
The Benefits and Challenges of Deploying Enterprise Augmented Reality – All you need to know!
  • Learn about how enterprise AR is solving real business problems and the Return On Investment (ROI) being achieved
  • Gain insights to the challenges companies may face to successfully implement enterprise AR
  • Increase your awareness of Augmented Reality Enterprise Alliance (AREA), and its members working together to over the barriers to AR adoption

The AREA Mark Sage Executive Director The AREA

11:15am
 – 
11:45am
Live Panel:
Which Technology and Which Use Case?
  • How have enterprise hardware and software evolved and what are the main types, pros and cons? (e.g. VR/AR/MR devices, tracking, inputs, outputs, un/tethered, web/cloud, etc.)
  • How to find the right solution and its applicability: What are the most compelling uses of VR and AR/MR in training and collaboration, design and visualization, worker guidance and safety or marketing and customer service?
  • Which applications have seen ROI and success, and how have they done it?

HTC Vive Vinay Narayan Vice President Platform Strategy and Developer Community HTC Vive

Unity Technologies Andre Gauthier Studio Head - Unity Montreal / Vice-President Features Unity Technologies

Microsoft Larry Persaud Chief Architect Cross Industry, APAC Microsoft


Moderator: XEODesign, Inc. Nicole Lazzaro President XEODesign, Inc.

11:45am
 – 
12:00pm
Case Study:
Is Mixed Reality Right for You? Consider These Things Before You Decide
  • Understand what resources and costs will be needed to support creation
  • Familiarizing your department with using XR, and how long it should this take to complete?
  • How will your audience use the final deliverable? Ensure their needs are met

Volvo Trucks Amanda Clarida Manager, Learning Design and Development Volvo Trucks

12:00pm
 – 
12:30pm
Live Panel:
What Are the Major Adoption Challenges and How Are Companies Tackling Them?
  • Getting started and immaturity of the tech: Why are some businesses hesitant to adopt, while others are not?
  • Proving the benefit: Why do XR champions, innovation departments, business heads and HR struggle to get budget sign off and how can we help this?
  • Change management, workflow and pipeline planning: What are the steps that need to be taken to build XR into the tech stack and introduce it across the organization?
  • What does the future look like and how will these technologies converge?

Novartis Szczepan Baran Head of Emerging Technologies Novartis

Volvo Trucks Amanda Clarida Manager, Learning Design and Development Volvo Trucks

The Boolean Anne McKinnon VR/AR Consultant The Boolean

HSBC Bank USA Jeremy K. Balkin Head of Innovation HSBC Bank USA

12:30pm
 – 
12:45pm
Presentation:
Macro vs Micro Go/No-Go Analysis of AR/VR Technology Investments
  • Why you need both to make good decisions for enterprise and project level investments, aggregate vs. discrete thinking
  • NPV captures the time value of money and your project’s roll out ramps – Assumptions are key
  • There should be a correlation between investment / return profile and the project plan

Raytheon John Cogliandro Corporate Strategist, IP Technology Roadmaps Raytheon

12:45pm
 – 
1:15pm
Live Panel:
What Are the Different Ways to Measure and Prove ROI?
  • What types of ROI can be shared within businesses to help the business case?
  • How can you measure different types of ROI (e.g. operational costs, learning retention, customer sales and satisfaction, accuracy and speed of tasks, risk) and what’s the greater importance?
  • How to turn XR into a ‘nice to have’ into ‘need to have’ for management

SAP America Alexandra Stephanou Innovation Lead SAP America

Raytheon John Cogliandro Corporate Strategist, IP Technology Roadmaps Raytheon

Thermo Fisher Scientific Earl Sison Sr. Designer, Digital VR & AR Development Thermo Fisher Scientific


XEODesign, Inc. Nicole Lazzaro President XEODesign, Inc.

1:15pm
 – 
1:30pm
Presentation:
Establishing AR as a Product and Not a Project
  • Deciding where to start
  • Creating AR for print products
  • Using a video platform to allow for continuous updates

Thomson Reuters Melanie Crowsey Head of Studio Thomson Reuters

1:30pm
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1:45pm
Presentation:
Toyota Motor North America: Employing AR
  • EXCALIBAR – Hololens AR for recalibrating Blind Side Monitor sensors
  • LARK – Lexus AR Kit to replace Owner Manuals
  • Brief discussion of problems and establishing a cross-company XR working group

Toyota Motor North America David Kleiner Manager Robotic Process Automation and Extended Reality Toyota Motor North America

1:45pm
 – 
2:00pm
Presentation:
Exploring Augmented Reality User Interfaces for Data Visualization
  • Discusses the process of mapping data from a molecular transport analysis for the Europa Clipper Ultraviolet Spectrograph instrument into an AR data visualization simulation
  • Describes the Development Process and Techniques for Decreasing Development Time for Augmented Reality User Interfaces
  • Provides Lessons Learned and Areas for Improvement

Ball Aerospace Kellin Bershinsky Senior Engineer: Immersive Technology Specialist Ball Aerospace

2:00pm
Live Q&A:
Making the Most of AR for Enterprise

Thomson Reuters Melanie Crowsey Head of Studio Thomson Reuters

Toyota Motor North America David Kleiner Manager Robotic Process Automation and Extended Reality Toyota Motor North America

The AREA Mark Sage Executive Director The AREA

Ball Aerospace Kellin Bershinsky Senior Engineer: Immersive Technology Specialist Ball Aerospace

May 6th 2020 - Day 2

10:00am
 – 
10:15am
Presentation:
Decision Making in the Built Environment using XR
  • Using XR to help clients visualize and experience designs for buildings and infrastructure and get early stage feedback to improve design
  • Using XR to assist with building inspections and engineering analyses
  • Using XR to enable cost-effective testing of design options, including social distancing measures

Arup Helen Campbell Director Technical Software Group Arup

10:15am
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10:45am
Live Panel:
Design and visualization: Proven ROI for the AEC industry
  • How XR can boost efficiency, reduce costs and improve sales
  • How does XR-enhanced prototyping compare with traditional methods and 3D printing?
  • How do AEC companies plan to scale and integrate XR into daily workflows and across the wider business?
  • What else is required to further enhance ROI in the AEC sector?

Arup Helen Campbell Director Technical Software Group Arup

BASF Jill Spaeh Global VDC Integration BASF

Jacobs Kurt Maldovan Director of VDC Jacobs


Emergent Enterprise Scott McCormick CEO Emergent Enterprise

10:45am
 – 
11:00am
Presentation:
When Visualization Goes Mainstream

Virtalis will demonstrate how enterprise companies use XR solutions to achieve exponential returns on investment, in a variety of scenarios ranging from training to collaboration on a large scale, complex product designs.

Virtalis has developed a platform to proliferate this technology at scale, finally taking reality from what has previously been used by isolated specialist teams, to becoming a mainstream tool as important to the product design teams as it is to a sales rep in the field.

Virtalis will demonstrate how XR will soon become mainstream.

Virtalis Joni Vincent Vice President, Americas Virtalis

11:00am
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11:30am
Live Panel:
XR for Training – The Most Valuable Use Case Yet?
  • What are the main types of training, education and worker guidance and how does XR help with the different learning styles?
  • Which industries are seeing the biggest adoption of immersive training – and where are the biggest gains?
  • Challenges and limitations with introducing VR or AR/MR into a training system and where immersive technologies might not be worthwhile
  • What are the broader benefits for companies using XR in the long-term and what does the future look like?

Anglo American Jennifer Rogers Head of Learning Anglo American

WestRock Scott Burkey VR/AR Product Lead WestRock

Aggreko Walter Davis Head of Talent and Learning Technology Aggreko


The AREA Mark Sage Executive Director The AREA

Virtalis Joni Vincent Vice President, Americas Virtalis

11:30am
 – 
11:45am
Presentation:
A Manufacture’s Journey into X-Reality to Build Customer Value
  • Learn how and why a material manufacture turned to VR
  • Understand how our pilots were developed and the tools to get you started
  • Hear insights and learnings from the customer’s voice
  • Learn the direction in which we are emerging, future applications and ideas for VR in our company

BASF Jill Spaeh Global VDC Integration BASF

11:45am
 – 
12:15pm
Live Panel:
VR and AR: The next big thing in customer experience?
  • 2020 has seen huge leaps in customer experience development – but how many are adopting XR?
  • Browser, app, location or store-based? What experiences are people engaging with?
  • How is ROI measured and how can vendors prove this for enterprises?

Thomson Reuters Melanie Crowsey Head of Studio Thomson Reuters

Wayfair Sam Brewton Senior Design Manager Wayfair

The Influx Lab Tameka Kee Founder & Creative Director The Influx Lab

GlaxoSmithKline Paulo Amaral Global Zoster MultiChannel Marketing and Digital Lead GlaxoSmithKline

12:15pm
 – 
12:30pm
Presentation:
Using 3D VR to Enhance Customer Engagement in Healthcare
  • Understand the potential to reshape and reimagine physician education with immersive engagement technologies
  • See how a complex scientific concept may be clearly explained using VR and storytelling
  • Get pragmatic about repurposing traditional content into different screen formats to deliver against customers preferences

GlaxoSmithKline Paulo Amaral Global Zoster MultiChannel Marketing and Digital Lead GlaxoSmithKline

12:30pm
 – 
1:00pm
Live Panel:
XR in the Health Tech Revolution Age
  • Key trends in healthcare and how this necessitates a digital revolution
  • What are the applications of VR for healthcare when it comes to global training and education? How can VR improve patient education?
  • What are the challenges and how can vendors provide successful and/or competitive solutions going forwards?
  • Which are the biggest areas of growth for VR/AR within the healthcare and pharma industries?

International Virtual Reality Healthcare Association Bob Fine Executive Director International Virtual Reality Healthcare Association

Stanford Virtual Human Innovation Lab Walter Greenleaf Medical VR/AR Expert Stanford Virtual Human Innovation Lab

Biogen Kyle Lum VR and AR Project Lead Biogen


Boston Children’s Hospital Simulator Program Jeffrey Jacobson SIMEngineering XR Project Manager Boston Children’s Hospital Simulator Program

ImmerseUK Asha Easton Knowledge Transfer Network Manager ImmerseUK

May 7th 2020 - Day 3

10:00am
 – 
10:30am
Live Panel:
Build your XR Capability Through Hiring, Outsourcing and Upskilling
  • Decide on the best people strategy to deliver your XR needs
  • Recruit, train and retain talent by touring schools and universities
  • Foster employee loyalty through a XR work experience development scheme
  • Identify which university courses are available for XR career hopefuls

ImmerseUK Asha Easton Knowledge Transfer Network Manager ImmerseUK

NBC Universal Rafi Nizam Former Vice President Creative NBC Universal

XR Bootcamp Ferhan Özkan Co-founder XR Bootcamp

RLab Adaora Udoji Corporate Innovation & Venture Programs RLab

10:30am
 – 
10:45am
Presentation:
XR Spatial Design: A Paradigm Shift for Creatives & Visual Storytellers
  • Democratised creative tools to upskill your team
  • Enable growth and reduce complexity with transmedia workflows
  • Speed up times to market with immersive prototypes
  • Accelerate digital transformation, enrich business practices

NBC Universal Rafi Nizam Former Vice President Creative NBC Universal

10:45am
 – 
11:15am
Live Panel:
What Are the Best Ways to Integrate, Empower Teams, Deliver and Scale XR?
  • Which factors should enterprises consider when adopting XR and how can you account for these in proposals, pilots and roll out?
  • What security and sustainability measures need to be considered for XR?
  • What are the best change management techniques to get everyone on board with XR?

Toyota Motor North America David Kleiner Manager Robotic Process Automation and Extended Reality Toyota Motor North America

UPS Mark Grob Lead of Immersive Tech Center (Enterprise Innovations) UPS

Verizon Joshua Ness Senior Manager, 5G Labs Verizon


Amy Peck XR Strategist

11:15am
 – 
11:30am
Presentation:
5G and the Development of a Spatial Computing Ecosystem
  • Why 5G and Why Now
  • Connectivity's Role in Spatial Computing
  • Interconnected Advancements in a Spatial Computing Ecosystem
  • The Replacement of Devices and Information Architecture As We Know It

Verizon Joshua Ness Senior Manager, 5G Labs Verizon

11:30am
 – 
12:00pm
Live Panel:
How Should Enterprises Move Forward with XR in 2020 and Beyond?
  • What are the biggest challenges enterprises face now and how can we solve them over the coming year?
  • Edge, cloud computing, 5G, Internet of Things, AI, machine and deep learning… What opportunities and innovations are on the horizon and how will they boost the XR industry?
  • Best tips and tricks for working together to enhance understanding, adoption and scale in your business

Lockheed Martin Shelley Peterson Principal Investigator for Augmented & Mixed Reality Lockheed Martin

Collins Aerospace Ryan Wheeler Technologist and Associate Director Collins Aerospace

Deutsche Telekom Terry Schussler Senior Director, Spatial Computing Deutsche Telekom


Amy Peck XR Strategist

12:00pm
 – 
12:20pm
Presentation:
VR at Lloyds Banking Group: Implementing Immersive Learning
  • Building a strong business case for immersive learning
  • Spotting the right opportunities for deployment in your business
  • Top tips for getting started with VR

Lloyds Banking Group Mark Poole Learning Design Manager Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group Craig Piper Learning Delivery Manager Lloyds Banking Group

12:20pm
 – 
12:40pm
Presentation:
Using AR for Learning & Development
  • Why we are using AR and not VR
  • Challenge and how AR solves this for learning
  • Lessons Learned from using AR
  • COVID 19 how this has brought more use cases
  • Results and were Aggreko is deploying AR for learning

Aggreko Walter Davis Head of Talent and Learning Technology Aggreko

12:40pm
 – 
1:00pm
Presentation:
Scalable Capability Development for the Frontline
  • Scalable XR solutions for frontline workers
  • Multi-modal, multi-channel design and development
  • Measurement/metrics around human performance
  • Adaptive and predictive adjustment to environmental, operational, and individual needs

Anglo American Jennifer Rogers Head of Learning Anglo American

1:00pm
 – 
1:15pm
Live Q&A:
Deploying XR to Turbocharge Your Workforce

Lloyds Banking Group Mark Poole Learning Design Manager Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group Craig Piper Learning Delivery Manager Lloyds Banking Group

Aggreko Walter Davis Head of Talent and Learning Technology Aggreko

Anglo American Jennifer Rogers Head of Learning Anglo American

Amy Peck XR Strategist

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