Paige Dansinger founded the Better World Museum, the Horizon Art Museum and Women in Horizon, and has created hundreds of multi-platform XR spaces to empower global communities. Her community-centric approach treats metaverse environments as tools for inclusion, wellness, creativity and leadership training. She mentors teens, amplifies marginalized voices, and demonstrates how XR community can translate into real-world resilience.

Fused live performance, cinematic world-building, and social presence into a kaleidoscopic journey through Norman Cook’s music. From a Mad Max-style convoy to riding on cockroaches on a diner countertop and alien rapture over Mount Rushmore, the experience turned classic rave anthems into surreal, participatory theater. It showed how VR concerts can transcend stagecraft, merging narrative, music, and impossible architecture into shared cultural memory.

An IP and tech-policy attorney, TED Fellow, and self-described “abogamer,” Micaela Mantegna advances ethical guardrails for the metaverse—spanning neurorights, creator rights, and AI’s impact on culture. Her work with global fora translates complex doctrine into actionable guidance, keeping user agency and creative ecosystems at the center of XR’s next chapter.

“…the breadth and depth of his direct impact—and also the second-to-none scope of his indirect impact on so many standards—and also his significant and sustained contributions for decades.” — Patrick Cozzi
As president of Khronos Group, Neil Trevett has championed OpenGL ES, WebGL, Vulkan, and glTF—core standards that power nearly every 3D platform today. His vision fuels the interoperable future of XR.