Gloria Touchard is an ICT executive with more than 20 years of experience in the sector. In her current role, Gloria ensures a strong voice of customer in Nokia’s technology strategy and vision to support the broader goal of helping Nokia’s customers realize their ambitions. Gloria is leading Nokia internal coordination team on XR activities across the company while supporting the Nokia Standards organization with thought leadership, new market incubation, and customer technology strategies.

Diego Gutiérrez, a Full Professor with a PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Zaragoza, focuses on Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, and Computational Imaging. He founded the Graphics and Imaging Lab in 2008, recognized by the Government of Aragon. He collaborates with top research groups (Stanford, NASA, MIT, Max Planck, Cornell, Yale, ETH Zurich) and companies (Disney, Adobe, Facebook/Meta, Nvidia). He has been a visiting researcher or professor at several prestigious institutions. His group is globally recognized, earning awards like the Innovation Award from the Association of Executives of Aragon (2019), Scientific Aragon Award (2017), Research and Future Award (2015), Google Faculty Research Award (2015), and the Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award (2022). In 2020, he was named one of the top 100 scientists in his field worldwide.

Manuela Chessa is Associate Professor in Computer Science at University of Genoa, Italy, where she is the Principal Investigator of the Perception&Interaction Lab@DIBRIS. She has a PhD in Bioengineering, and since 2005, her research activities have focused on the study of biological and artificial vision systems, the development of bioinspired models, natural human-machine interfaces based on virtual, augmented, and extended reality, and the perceptual and cognitive aspects of interaction in VR, AR, and XR. She is involved in several national and international research projects addressing the development and use of XR technologies in health care, rehabilitation, and training. She is teaching the CAIVARS and HealthXR Tutorials at IEEE ISMAR and IEEE VR.

Pablo Pérez is lead scientist at Nokia Extended Reality Lab in Madrid, Spain. He is currently leading the scientific activities of Nokia XR Lab, addressing the end-to-end technological chain of the use of Extended Reality for human communication: networking, system architecture, processing algorithms, quality of experience and human-computer interaction. He is also Nokia delegate in ITU-T SG12 and member of the board of VQEG.

Sandra Malpica is a postdoc researcher at the visualization, virtual reality and graphical interaction (ViRVIG) group at Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC). She is currently working within the european Simulation and visualization of Erosion and Nature Degradation due to Anthropogenic activities (SENDA) project under the supervision of Nuria Pelechano and Oscar Argudo. Sandra obtained her PhD in Computer Science in 2023 at Universidad de Zaragoza, under the supervision of Belen Masiá and Diego Gutiérrez at the Graphics and Imaging Lab. Her research interests include human visual and audiovisual perception in immersive environments, as well as human perception and attentional behavior in general.

Narciso García is a Professor of Signal Theory and Communications at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain), where he leads the Grupo de Tratamiento de Imágenes (Image Processing Group). He has been actively involved in Spanish and European research projects, also serving as an evaluator, a reviewer, an auditor, and an observer of several research and development programs of the European Union. His current research interests include digital video compression, computer vision, and quality of experience.

Ana Tajadura-Jiménez is an Associate Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M, Spain) and Honorary Research associate at the University College London Interaction Centre (UCLIC, UK). She leads the i_mBODY lab, in which research focuses on understanding how sensory-based interaction technologies could be used to alter people’s perceptions of their own body, their emotional state and their motor behaviour patterns. In this sense, she is Principal Investigator of the projects Magic OutFit and BODYinTRANSIT (funded by an European Research Council Consolidator Grant).

 Esther Madejón is a technician in the Image Processing Group (GTI) of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain. She coordinates the dissemination and communication activities of the research group and, in turn, she manages GTI's Dem-3DTV, an environment for innovation, experimentation and co-creation, where researchers, companies, standardization bodies and public institutions work together, looking for new solutions, products or services, involving real users in the whole research process, fostering cooperation.