Panel – 16 July 2022 – Expert Stage

Panel – 17 July 2022 – Master Stage

Head of Technology & Product at Open Meta

Aleissia Laidacker is a Creative Technology Director with over 20 years of experience in the Immersive Technology space.

She is a leader in AR/XR, where she was Head of Developer Experience at Magic Leap. Working with numerous partners to find creative and technically innovative ways of pushing the boundaries of interactions and storytelling using Augmented Reality.

She led as the Global Director of Creative Technology at The Mill working with teams to build world-class Experiences and Branded-Content for AR, XR, Virtual Worlds and LBEs.

She advises and consults on a number of startups, focused on building the future Open Metaverse through technologies such as Web3, Blockchain and XR. She currently leads as Head of Product and Technology with the Open Metaverse Association.

Previous to working in the XR space, she worked in Game Development for over 10 years. Having led the Technology, Gameplay and AI Direction on some large game franchises such as Assassin’s Creed at Ubisoft.

As a technology evangelist, she often speaks at conferences, about XR, Interaction Design, Immersive Experiences, The Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence.

She was voted as Top 30 People to Watch in Augmented Reality by Next Reality.