NY XR Dinner Guests

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PBS

Storyteller. Media Executive. Investor.

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Beam Center

Instagram: @beamcenter

Co-Founder and Executive DIrector of Beam Center, a non-profit that builds ambitious collaborative projects with young people to transform their learning and early work experiences. We serve 4000+ students in 60 Public Schools and train and employ 500+ teens annually.

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Harmony Labs

Brian is Executive Director @Harmony Labs, a media research lab researching and reshaping society's relationship to media.

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IRIS

A life long advocate of visual storytellers as social change makers.

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Tribeca Immersive & Games

@kcbaltes (Twitter)

Casey heads the Immersive & Games divisions for Tribeca. She has worked across film, games & XR for 20 years, with a focus on promoting a cross-disciplinary approach to creation.

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NJ Office of Innovation

Proactive leader of positive change with extensive project management success due to organized, results-focused approach

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Columbia University

@courtneycogburn (X)

Associate Professor at Columbia who studies racism and health and is exploring ways emerging technologies can support our arch towards justice and liberation

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New_ Public

Co-director, New_ Public, a R&D lab for digital public spaces; author, The Filter Bubble; co-founder, Upworthy?

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Perception Strategies

Instagram: jasonjusticenow

LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-craige-harris-93298574/

Jason is the Managing Partner of Perception Strategies, a consulting firm working on issues related to leadership, strategy, culture, and conflict transformation. Empathic awareness is integral to our methodology.

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Meta

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessieva/

Lead marketing team at Meta looking after government, social impact and immersive learning. Live in Brooklyn.

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TIME Studios

@thecinematic

Currently Head of Documentary at TIME Studios, Loren was formerly the VP of Immersive Programming at Tribeca Festival, curating breakthrough experiences encompassing all of the places where storytelling and technology meet.

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Sensorium + Onassis ONX Studio

Matthew Niederhauser is an artist and educator. His work pushes the limits of emerging AI and XR technologies within a wide range of mediums. He also teaches at NYU Tisch and Tandon and recently became the Technical Director at Onassis ONX Studio in New York.