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Asha Easton She/Her
Co-Founder
Asha is the co-founder of the XR Diversity Initiative, an organization which has been working to up-skill people from underrepresented backgrounds with XR skills ,and is currently advising on ED&I strategy for the Arts Council & AHRC funded 'Immersive Artists' program. She serves as an advisor to a wide range of startups, organisations, and funders.
Asha Easton also leads the Innovate UK Immersive Tech Network, the UK government's cross-sector network for XR / immersive / spatial computing innovators. She works at the intersection of industry, academia, and government to make the UK's XR ecosystem less fragmented. Asha was recently named in the Tech Women 100, and awarded the 2024 Emerging Tech Champion of the Year award for the work she has done to scale the sector in the UK. Her work spans across all sectors that use XR technology, including but not limited to; creative industries, health, manufacturing, AEC, etc.
Asha is regularly called upon to contribute as an industry expert for policy initiatives both nationally and internationally including the UK parliament's APPG on Metaverse & Web3, and the OECD Global Forum on Technology, and in 2024 won the UK