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Alan, along with his wife Julie, are members of the VR/AR Association, and as such, one of the annual XR gatherings they look forward to most is the VR/AR Global Summit in Vancouver, which is just a few weeks away (Oct 31-Nov 2). Alan has the event\u2019s executive producer, Anne-Marie Enns, on to talk about what attendees can expect on the show floor this year.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlan: Welcome to the XR for\nBusiness Podcast with your host, Alan Smithson. Today\u2019s guest is a\ngreat friend of mine, Anne-Marie Enns, the executive producer of the\nVR/AR Global Summit, coming to Vancouver, Canada, October 31st to\nNovember 2nd. And I am super excited to announce that both my wife\nJulie and myself will be speakers at it, and it\u2019s hosted by the VR/AR\nAssociation, which we are also members. She\u2019s served as the executive\nproducer for the show for two years and previously was the producer\nof the CVR, the Consumer VR Show, also hosted in Vancouver. She\u2019s the\nfounder of Pulled In Productions, a live event production company\nthat specializes in tech events and live productions. You can learn\nmore about the VR/AR Global Summit by visiting vrarglobalsummit.com.\nDuh.\n\n\n\nAnne-Marie: [chuckles] \n\n\n\n\nAlan: We\u2019re here now with\nAnne-Marie. Thanks for joining me.\n\n\n\nAnne-Marie: Thanks so much for\nhaving me, Alan.\n\n\n\nAlan: I\u2019m super excited for two\nthings. One, to come and see everybody in Vancouver and two, to find\nout who else was gonna be there speaking at this. So let\u2019s get into\nit. Tell everybody what is the VR/AR Global Summit, and what can they\nexpect from this?\n\n\n\nAnne-Marie: Well, the VR/AR\nGlobal Summit is going into its second year, and it is two days that\nare jam packed full of amazing industry speakers, workshops, speed\ndating, great events, amazing exhibits and demos. And so it is just\n*the* show to go to if you\u2019re looking for great content, great\nconversations and awesome networking in a beautiful location.\n\n\n\nAlan: I have been a guest\nspeaker at your conference for a couple of years now, and I can tell\nyou \u2014 for the people listening \u2014 there\u2019s two conferences that I \u2014\nor three, I guess \u2014 that I look forward to every year: AWE, which is\nby far the most impactful augmented reality conference, and that\ntakes place every year in San Francisco, and now there\u2019s going to be\none in Munich. But then there\u2019s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO:\nThat one is a small but very powerful group. And the Global Summit is\nkind of like taking both of those. Where you\u2019ve got this small,\nintimate group talking about the future of technology. Then you\u2019ve\ngot AWE, which is very kind of enterprise focused, how to make money?\nAnd you bring those two together and you\u2019ve got this global summit.\nAnd it\u2019s just incredible because it feels like a small conference,\neven though it\u2019s not small, it feels like a small conference because\neverybody there is super passionate. They\u2019re willing to share their\nexperiences. What can we expect from the speakers this year?\n\n\n\nAnne-Marie: Sure. Well, we\u2019ve\ngot so many amazing speakers this year, and we take a lot of time to\ncarefully curate who goes on our stage. So it takes us a while to get\nthat program launched. But we\u2019ve got some amazing people this year,\nboth in the enterprise side \u2014 so talking about training \u2014 we\u2019ve got\na whole defense and government sector that\u2019s happening at the event\nthis year, a couple hours of that. We\u2019ve got beautiful immersive\nartists and people working in immersive storytelling that are coming.\nSo we\u2019ve got Lenovo, Niantic, MasterCard, HP, Forbes, a whole bunch\nof great of the big name companies. But then we\u2019ve also got