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Learn novel approaches, emerging practice, and cutting-edge tools in the Art,
Science, Business, Tech & Impact of Experience from all experience sectors. Then
bring them back to your world to innovate, differentiate from competiors, and
make stand-out experiences.
Who’s this for?
You, and people in all experience sectors, because the "breakthroughs
of cross-pollination are frequently of unusually high value" — Harvard
Business Review
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L B E
(LOCATION
B A S E D E N T )
T H E M E D
ATTRACTIONS
I M M E R S I V E
( C I N E M A ,
T H E A T R E , A R T )
S T A D I U M S &
F A N
E X P E R I E N C E
S O C I A L
E N T E R T A I N M E N T
T R A V E L &
T O U R I S M
E X P E R I E N C E
MANAGEMENT
EDUCATION C X
E X P E R I E N T I A L
MARKETING
E X &
WORKPLACE
A R . V R , M R
METAVERSE
B U I L T
ENVIRONMENT
EVENTS
(FESTIVALS,
M U S I C , B 2 B )
R E T A I L
LUXURY HEALTHCARE W E L L B E I N G &
HUMAN
P O T E N T I A L
FOOD,
B E V E R A G E &
H O S P I T A L I T Y
U X &
PRODUCT
GAMING FILM & TV
M U S E U M S ,
ATTRACTION,
Z O O S &
AQUARIA
S P O R T S &
R E C R E A T I O N
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Who’s in?
Operators, creators, producers, tech, brands, agencies, real
estate, venues are coming. Here’s a few of the brands
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Questions
Key questions our attendees are asking include:
“What are the key
experience
trends?”
What’s the
commercial value
of immersive
experiences?”
“How do you sell your idea
– to the client – to the
public?”
How can we make
more sustainable
experiences?”
“Do hybrid
experiences
work?”
“How / where can I
connect with
like-minded
experience
people?”
“How will AI transform
immersive experiences
– what will this look like inside
organisations vs for consumer
experiences?”
“Can you be
truly
immersive in
virtual
worlds?”
“What are the
top 10 do-or-
dies when it
comes to
creating a
moving and
memorable
experience?”
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Overview
6.30PM - 9PM
Opening Social & WXO Experience Awards
Connect and celebrate at the House of Yes
Wednesday
June 12
Thursday
June 13
1PM - 2PM
Doors Open
Registration at the House of Yes
2PM - 6.30PM
Workshops. Talks and Experiences
9.30AM - 10AM
Doors Open
Registration at the House of Yes
10AM - 12.45PM
Opening & The Unconference
2PM - 5PM
Talks, Workshops and Experiences
12.45PM - 2PM
Lunch
At the House of Yes
6PM - LATE
WXO New York Experience Safari
A curated selection of experiences across the city
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Overview cont’d
Friday
June 14
7PM - 10PM
Closing Social at Secret Location
Venue and theme TBA
9.30AM - 10AM
Doors Open
Registration at the House of Yes
10AM - 12.45PM
WXO Campfire & The Unconference
2PM - 5PM
Talks, workshops and experiences
12.45PM - 2PM
Local Lunch
Free roam the food trucks and eateries of Bushwick
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The State Of
The
Experience
Economy
James Wallman
& guests
F**k The
Hero’s
Journey! New
Story Shapes
Christopher
Morrison
Neuroscience
To Make
Impactful
Experiences
Katherine
Templar-Lewis
XQ & XD =
Thriving
Humans:
Mat Duerden
Placemaking
To Redefine A
Region
Josh Heuser
Open
Networking
Open
Networking
Open
Networking
Open
Networking
Open
Networking
The Hidden
Secrets Of
Everything
Everywhere
Enrique Enriquez
What’s Your
X-Stack?
Maria Redin
Lou Pizante
Bursts of
Experience
Science
Brian Hill
Mat Duerden
Camilla Hodge
Ida Benedetto
The ERY
Method: 3
Simple
Letters To
Kickstart
Creativity
Kevin Dulle
The
Transformation
Toolkit
Workshop
Joe Pine
FREE
How To Use
Gaming Tech
For Live
Immersive
Experiences
James
Gwertzman
Adventures
In AI
Tristan Hupe-
Guimarães, Pim
Schachtschabel
How To Win
Pitches And
Influence
People
Nancy Duncan
Speed Dating & Match Making
How To
Bring The
Dead To Life
Miguel Melgarejo
Main Room Onyx Room Front Room Ruby Room Emerald
Lounge Garden
The Hidden
Secrets Of
Everything
Everywhere
Enrique Enriquez
The Hidden
Secrets Of
Everything
Everywhere
Enrique Enriquez
Programme: Wednesday 06.12
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Neuroscience To Make More Impactful Experiences
Katherine Templar-Lewis, Director, Kinda Studios
Creative neuroscientist, podcaster, future author and TV star (Netflix series on its way), and
creator of the spellbinding, life-changing ‘Uncertainty Experts’ immersive docu-series / human
potent therapy experience, Katherine’s interactive workshop will show you how to use the latest
discoveries in neuroaesthetics to craft better experiences.
Wednesday June 12
Remember...
Yes, this is a sign of our brighter future: ‘We Believe In Emotional Bureaucracy’ by April Soeterman
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Bursts Of
Experience Science
Brian Hill, XD Professor, Marriott
School Of Business, BYU, with Ida
Benedetto, Camilla Hodge, & Mat
Duerden
Experience design professor Brian has
handpicked a group of researchers to
share their findings in lightning-fast
presentations. They’ll skip the (important
but boring) details and focus instead on
the key takeaways for experience
designers. Plus, hear the first outcomes of
Brian’s conversations with legendary
transformation / experience designer Ida
Benedetto. When science meets art - we
can’t wait to hear this.
Introducing a brand new concept -
experience intelligence (XQ) - and a
new framework for experience
design (XD). Mat will share the 4
pillars of XQ + tools and strategies
that leverage XQ to create
transformational experiences and
help the people you design for thrive.
XQ + XD = Thriving
Humans
Mat Duerden, XD
Professor, BYU & co-
author, Designing
Experiences
The Transformation Toolkit Workshop
Joe Pine, Author, The Experience Economy
Best known for his keynotes on the Experience Economy – the term he coined in the 1999
bestselling book – Joe, now also the trailblazer of the Transformation Economy, will lead an
interactive workshop to co-create new tools for transformation.
Wednesday June 12
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Don’t Want To Miss A
Thing: The Hidden
Secrets Of Everything
Everywhere
Enrique Enriquez
The State Of The
Experience Economy: The
Present & Future Of
Experiences 2024-2034
James Wallman, CEO,
The World Experience
Organization, and guests
The Summit will open with a brief, dynamic
overview of the Experience Economy today,
with highlights / insights from 8 months’ work
on a report by the WXO team and our
members. Presented by the WXO’s Founder,
futurist and author, James Wallman.
A philosopher-provocateur in the style of
Socrates or Osho, Venezuelan-born New
Yorker Enrique is – in his own words – a
rumour whose work explores the
magical value of language, birdsong,
dreams, and the Tarot de Marseilles. He
is the author of Tarology, En Terex It &
Ex Itent Er, and Linguistick, and his ideas
are the central theme of the feature film
Tarology, the Poetics of Tarot. He
believes we should pay attention more –
and we agree. In partnership with
Google Xi.
Wednesday June 12
Want to win 80% of your pitches? Nancy, based in London and New York, wins 80% of hers.
She’ll share the secrets of her structured yet flexible approach to help you win more often and
make more money. (And, if you’re pitching in Experience Shark Tank on Friday, it’s great prep!)
How To Win Pitches And Influence People
Nancy Duncan, Experience Designer & Creative Consultant
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How To Use Gaming
Tech For Live Immersive
Experiences
James Gwertzman, Lead
Artist, Moonlight Collective
Discover how Heuser carefully balanced art
and business to create a new shared
experience, BLINK festival, that brought light
to Cincinnati and helped redefine the identity
of a region, generating $126 million of
economic impact in the hospitality, retail, and
regional government/tourism sectors.
The ERY Method: 3 Simple Letters To Kickstart Creativity
Kevin Dulle, experience design guide
A key collaborator of Joe Pine’s, Kevin’s ERY Method is deceptively simple, but incredibly
effective. Originally designed to transform services into experiences, learn a great way to skip past
the blank page and open the doors to experiential creativity in this very fun workshop.
A workshop to explore how
LiveOps, a key technique from the
world of billion-dollar online games,
can be applied to immersive
experiences, led by a leading expert
from the scene. Learn the key
techniques and how you can apply
them to your own projects.
From Darkness To Light:
Placemaking To Redefine
A Region
Josh Heuser, Co-Founder,
BLINK
Wednesday June 12
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What’s Your X-Stack?
Maria Redin, COO, & Lou
Pizante, CEO, Non Plus
Ultra Morrison’s incendiary take on story shapes will
help us all move beyond the over-used and
now formulaic-feeling Hero’s Journey — and
consider new story structures that are more
relevant for today and tomorrow’s media, and
even have the potential to change the world.
That might sound like ridiculous over-reach.
But it isn’t: stories inform every person’s view
of the world. If we change the internal
narrative people have, we can make better
societies and, perhaps, even prevent wars.
Similar to a tech stack, or perhaps a
Business Model Canvas, the X-Stack
is a new conceptual framework to
help creators and operators increase
their experience’s chances of
success, raise money and generate
revenue. In this participatory
workshop, you’ll use the 5 layers of
the X-Stack to map out your
experience. Pizante is a pioneer in
LBE, immersive experiences,
investing & real estate. Redin is ex-
IDEO, Two Bit Circus, MIT &
Wharton Business School.
F**k The Hero’s Journey!
New Story Shapes Will
Save The World
Christopher Morrison, story
iconoclast & Founder, Reality+
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announcements
incoming...
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next iteration of the
programme...
Wednesday June 12
10.00 - 10.15
16.35 - 17.05
10.15 - 11.20
11.20 - 11.35
09:30 - 10.00
CHANGE
REGISTRATION & ARRIVALS
EXPERIENTIAL LUNCH WITH EMILIE BALTZ
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Evening
Opening
Ceremony
Closing Ceremony
Experience
Design
For All Beings
Paul Bulencea in
partnership with
Google Xi
Unconference
Session 1
Unconference
Session 2
Unconference
Session 1
Unconference
Session 2
Interact Like
A Hollywood
Star
Fiona Rene
Open
Networking
Open
Networking
Open
Networking
Darkfield
The Dance Of
The Deal
Mishawn Nolan
New Media,
New Ways Of
Telling Stories
Leigh Sachwitz
Alex Luthwaite
Louis Alfieri
Experience
Anchors
Heather Gallagher
Michael Phillips
Dan Pelson
Lanné Bennett
Experience
Design
Hackathon
For The Planet
Abraham
Burickson
Darkfield
Darkfield
New
Narrative
Forms
Christopher
Morrison
Stephanie Riggs
Gwen Loeb
Edmond Chang
Experience As
Medicine
Ramy Elnagar
We Believe In
Emotional
Bureaucracy
April Soetarman
A Tarot Guide
To Immersive
Narrative
Design
Jamie Ruddy
If You Can
Make It Here...
NYC Experience
Creators
Justin Bolognino
The Evolution
Of Fandom
Nasya Kamrat
Make Your
Audience The
Main Character
With RFID
Brett Bagenstose
Main Room Onyx Room Front Room Ruby Room Emerald
Lounge Garden
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Programme: Thursday 06.13
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Experience Design Hackathon For The Planet
Abraham Burickson, Director, Odyssey Works
Experience Design
For All Beings
Paul Bulencea, Co-
Founder, College of
Extraordinary Experiences,
+ collective
Any creative who wants to commercialise their
work needs to understand dealmaking. What
better way to learn this than through a dance
workshop led by one of LA’s leading
immersive IP lawyers?
A mini hackathon run by one of the pioneers of immersive experiences, in which we’ll apply the
tools of experience design to address climate change. If you’d like to prep beforehand, Abe’s
brilliant book Experience Design was recently published by Yale University.
Our relationship with the more-
than-human world — plants, other
animals, ecosystems — is the
backbone of experience design.
This mesmerizing audio-visual
experience has been co-created by
a multi-disciplinary collective that
travelled the Kalahari, on foot, to
cultivate & explore this deep truth.
In partnership with Google Xi.
The Dance Of The Deal
Mishawn Nolan, Co-Founder,
Nolan Heimann LLP
Thursday June 13
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Experience Anchors: What
Real Estate Really Wants
From Experiences
Michael Phillips, President,
Jamestown; Lanné Bennett,
EVP for commercial real
estate; & Dan Pelson, COO,
AREA15. Hosted by Heather
Gallagher
A fortune teller reading someone’s cards is a
great example of immersive storytelling. The
narrative is co-created by the fortune teller,
the person whose fortune is being read and
the luck of the cards. In this workshop, we’ll
use tarot cards and fortune-telling as a jumping
off point to co-creating immersive, interactive
and emotionally resonating stories.
In an age where immersive
experiences are reshaping our
engagement with spaces, this un-
panel-slash-game show will offer
multiple perspectives on possible
collaborations between visionary
landlords and creative experience
designers.
I Can Make Your Fortune:
A Tarot Guide To
Immersive Narrative
Design
Jamie Ruddy, Co-Founder,
Sideways Kitty
Stand Up! Interact Like A Hollywood Star
Fiona Rene, Actor
Interactive performance masterclass with Fiona Rene, pioneering immersive, video game & TV
actor from Diablo, Stumptown, The Lincoln Lawyer, and I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Thursday June 13
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Make Your Audience The
Main Character With RFID
Brett Bagenstose, Baron of
Pixels, NeoPangea
Narrative thought leaders from the realms of
traditional and non-traditional media – books!
XR! AR! – will run a workshop to help you step
away from the old Hero’s Journey cliché and
boldly go to waves, wavelets, radials and other
new story shapes that make more engaging
experiences and build a better world.
How To Make Fans And Influence People
Nasya Kamrat, CXO
A participatory keynote from the former Chief Experience Officer & Co-Founder of Faculty, on
how to build fan communities based on a strong sense of belonging.
Get hands on with RFID technology
and learn how it can help make the
visitor the main character in your
own personalised, localised, and
interactive story. Play with a live
prototype, then construct your own
prototype RFID experience.
NeoPangea’s Emmy-nominated
work for clients including Disney,
National Geographic, Paramount,
McCormick & Company, NBCU,
Smithsonian, Hershey’s and many
more make it one to watch in the
immersive space.
Let’s Play With New
Shapes: New Narrative
Forms Workshop
Christopher Morrison, story
iconoclast & Founder,
Reality+, with Stephanie
Riggs, immersive innovator;
Gwen Loeb, Founder, World
Builders Institute; & Dr
Edmond Chang, Associate
Professor, Ohio University
Thursday June 13
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Experiential Lunch
Emilie Baltz, Multisensory Artist
New Media, New Ways Of
Telling Stories
Leigh Sachwitz, Founder and
Creative Director,
flora&faunavisions, Alex
Luthwaite, SVP Show
Systems at Sphere Studios,
with Louis Alfieri
Learn about the technical aspects of
creating immersive digital
experiences from true trailblazers in
the space, including VR, augmented
reality, and interactive media, as
well as how these tools can be
leveraged to create transformative
collective experiences.
What does it take to make an experience that
works in the city that never sleeps – and is
never satisfied with just ordinary? Join the
experience creators behind some of New
York’s hottest tickets as they reveal how to
design an experience that resonates with a city
of seriously hard-to-impress critics.
Best known for her delightful, innovative work in combining the senses, art & technology, Baltz is
one of the leading international voices pioneering the field of Multisensory Arts, Entertainment &
Food Experience. She’ll bring her creativity to life during our group lunch.
If You Can Make It Here...
Panel of New York
experience creators, with
Justin Bolognino
Thursday June 13
+ more
announcements
incoming...
Watch out for the
next iteration of the
programme...
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We Believe In Emotional Bureaucracy
April Soetarman, Creative Director
Explore how you can subvert audience expectations to create
emotionally affecting experiences, as demonstrated through a series
of fictional infrastructures. Learn how to play with the language of
everyday objects and familiar institutions to explore complex human
emotions.
Thursday June 13
+ more
announcements
incoming...
Watch out for the
next iteration of the
programme...
10.00 - 10.15
16.35 - 17.05
10.15 - 10.50
10.50 - 11.20
11.20 - 11.35
09:30 - 10.00
CHANGE
REGISTRATION & ARRIVALS
LOCAL LUNCH
CHANGE
CHANGE
11.35 - 12.05
12.15 - 12.45
12.45 - 14.00
14.00 - 14.25
14.25 - 14.35
14.35 - 15.45
15.55 - 16.25
16.25 - 16.35
Evening
Opening
Ceremony
Closing Ceremony
Life, Death &
Sound Healing
Steve Boyle
Andrew Hoepfner
Taran Gong
Campfire
Experience Safari
Unconference
Session 1
Unconference
Session 2
Unconference
Session 1
Unconference
Session 1
Unconference
Session 2
Unconference
Session 2
Body-Mind
Tricks To
Make Better
Connections
Marissa Nielsen-
Pincus
Open
Networking
Open
Networking
Darkfield
The
Transformative
Power Of
Burning Man
Heather Gallagher
Experience
Shark Tank
Erica Boeke
Lou Pizante
Tom Gabbard
Dan Pelson
Creative, Meet
Commercial:
How To Make
The Work, Work
Didi Bethurum
Nick Moran
Mikhael Tara
Garvey
Jamie Reilly
Designing for
Community
Lizzy Martin
Risa Pino
Aziz Isham
Laura Hess
The
Transformation
Toolkit
Workshop
Joe Pine
The Joy Of
Fear
Michael Badelt
From
Storytelling to
Story-Doing:
A Masterclass
& Workshop
Brad Shelton
Maya Guice
Graphic
Novels As
Creative
Collisions:
Anthony DeRita
Reese Patillo
Main Room Onyx Room Front Room Ruby Room Emerald
Lounge Garden
FREE
10.00 - 10.15
10.15 - 10.50
10.50 - 11.20
11.35 - 12.05
14.00 - 14.25
14.35 - 15.45 14.35 - 16.25 14.35 - 16.25
15.55 - 16.25
14.35 - 15.45 14.35 - 15.45
15.55 - 16.25
15.55 - 16.25
11.35 - 12.05 11.35 - 12.05 11.35 - 12.45 ALL DAY
ALL DAY
12.15 - 12.45 12.15 - 12.45 12.15 - 12.45
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Darkfield
11.35 - 12.45
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From Storytelling to
Story-Doing: A
Masterclass & Workshop
Brad Shelton, VP of Creative
& Story, and Maya Guice,
Director of Strategy, BRC
Imagination Arts
A live workshop, co-created from Joe’s work
on his next book, The Transformation
Economy (working title!) and the workshop
he’ll have conducted on Wednesday. Come to
this and you’ll leave with new frameworks and
tools to guide better transformations.
What Burning Man Taught Me About Transformation Design
Heather Gallagher, Executive Unicorn & ex-Head of Tech, Burning Man
Dazzling experience and community creator Heather will share the paths of transformation
experienced by Burners – and how they provide a blueprint for designing experiences that
challenge, engage, and transform.
A creative extravaganzathon where
Brad and Maya tackle our shared
responsibility as storytellers: to tell
stories that remind of us who we are
together, as a collective whole.
Teams will be guided by linear and
non-linear storytelling techniques,
learning how BRC drops consumers
directly into the story.
The Transformation
Toolkit Workshop
Joe Pine, Author, The
Experience Economy
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Creative, Meet Commercial:
How To Make The Work, Work
Didi Bethurum, CCO, Meow
Wolf; Mikhael Tara Garver,
experiential entertainment
pioneer; Nick Moran, Founder,
Phantom Peak
Why do we love to be scared? Why do we
remember moments of fear so vividly? Are
scare attractions the original immersive
experiences? And how can you use fear to
design all kinds of experiences that not only
entertain, but are also memorable and foster
personal growth? A brilliant unconference
session at last year’s World Experience
Summit, scare attraction designer Michael will
now lead a workshop that’ll help you make
people scared, and teach you how to use
these techniques in your own work.
Body-Mind Tricks To Make Better Connections
Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Artistic Director, Third Rail Projects
Learn how to use neuroscience-inspired techniques, specifially embodiment, to connect with your
audience in a more profound way, with somatic practitioner Marissa Nielsen-Pincus.
Galactic Starcruiser, Meow Wolf, Phantom
Peak... Just what is it that makes an
experience not only meaningful and
memorable, but also succeed over the
long-term, too? Come ask our all-star
panel!
Make People Fear You
Michael Badelt, Owner,
INTYA Creative
Friday June 14
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Experience Shark Tank
Erica Boeke, founder, XP
Land; Lou Pizante, CEO,
Non Plus Ultra; Tom
Gabbard, President,
Blumenthal Arts; Dan
Pelson, COO, AREA15
Graphic Novels As Creative Collisions
Anthony De Rita, Creative Producer, & Reese Patillo, Senior Creative
Designer, Blue Telescope
A collaborative workshop where participants will co-author comic books, playing writer and
illustrator interchangeably as they experience hands-on how many voices come together to create
a graphic novel.
Designing For Community
Lizzy Martin, CEO,
Whistling Finch; Risa Puno,
interactive artist; & Aziz
Isham, Executive Director,
Museum of the Moving
Image. Moderated by Laura
Hess
Social impact experiences are needed for
social wellbeing. But how do we ensure we
keep community at the centre of our
experiences, and also connect to new
communities through them? Learn how to
design multicultural and community-driven
experiences from innovators in the space.
Shark Tank (Dragons’ Den for the
Brits), but for experiences! Pitch
your experience idea to our panel of
sharks to receive golden feedback –
or sit back and learn from other
pioneers’ ideas.
Friday June 14
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WXO Campfire: An Empire State
Of Mind
Hosted by James Wallman, Olivia
Squire & Fabien Vlems, CEO, Head
of Content & Head of Ops, The
World Experience Organization
Life, Death & Sound Healing
Steve Boyle, Founder, Epic Immersive; Andrew Hoepfner, Founder, House
Immersive; Taran Gong, Conscious Immersive Wellness Curator
An experience of death, life, and collective connection, from the creators of pioneering works like
the Immersive World Adventure and Bottom Of The Ocean.
We’ll analyse the good and the bad of what
you saw in Thursday’s Experience Safari – and
which techniques you might use in your own
work – in a live Campfire. We've run more
than 200 of our online WXO Campfires since
2021. They’re ideal IRL: a great way to
connect, learn and share with like-minded
experience professionals.
Friday June 14
+ more
announcements
incoming...
Watch out for the
next iteration of the
programme...
In an emerging sector like experience design, we believe more in emerging
practice than best practice (that’s for already established industries).
And we know from building a thriving community of 650+ members in 38
countries there’s a lot of surprising innovation and creativity across the experience
ecosystem.
So while we’ve tried to represent as many sectors, ideas and people as possible in
our programme, we want to make sure everyone who attends has a platform to
share their ideas.
Enter the Unconference: casual, collaborative, and creative conversations where
everyone is an active participant.
There are no keynotes: everyone has a say.
There is no audience: everyone has a part to play.
And there are no set themes: you decide what you want to talk about and hear.
Unconference sessions are on Thursday and Friday morning. All attendees will
have the chance to sign up via the Unconference board on the day before. Slots
are first-come, first-served, so be quick!
These sessions are low-tech, high-impact. Ideal for connections and
conversations, and sparking new collaborations and ideas.
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The Unconference
Experience Socials
Connections and collaborations often begin over a coffee or a beer or in the
middle of an experience – so each evening you’ll get to hang out with old friends
and meet your future partners at our simple Experience Socials...
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Fri, June 14: Closing Social at Secret Location
Endings matter, so we'll see out the Summit in style. Venue - and theme! - to be
announced.
Thurs, June 13: New York Experience Safari
Go high, low, backstage and beyond at a curated selection of New York’s best
experiences, with your new experience colleagues.
Weds, June 12: Opening Social at The House of Yes
After the Closing Ceremony ends (and our highly recommended unprofessional
networking event shipped in from LA), an evening at this legendary New York
venue.
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For last year’s London Experience Safari, we sent groups of experience experts
to 16 different experiences.
The New York Experience Safari on Thursday, June 13 will include a
handpicked selection of the city’s most exciting experiences to explore with
your new experience friends.
These group visits will be exclusive for attendees of the World Experience
Summit, will be strictly limited in number, and will be sold as an add-on
beforehand – so you can guarantee you’ll be going to an experience you’re
interested in. Some will even feature backstage tours.
On the morning of Friday June 14, we’ll analyse the good and the bad of what
you saw – and which techniques you might use in your own work – in a live
Campfire. We've run more than 200 of our online WXO Campfires since 2021.
They’re ideal IRL, a great way to connect, learn and share with like-minded
experience professionals.
Experience Safari
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The Summit Scholarship 2024
Because a community only really works if everyone who’s in the community is
invited and able to come, we are offering a limited number of scholarships for
those who want to attend the World Experience Summit, but can’t afford the
full cost. (Not all who apply can come. We were significantly oversubscribed
last year.)
Find out more and apply here.
Local Lunch
Our venue is located in bustling Bushwick, home to many (very good) food
trucks and independent eateries. So to support the local economy, on Friday
we’ll provide a local map and encourage attendees to head out for lunch with
their new experience colleagues.
Community Matters
