Maya Georgieva

Maya Georgieva is a futurist and Metaverse strategist, author, and speaker with more than 15 years of experience in higher education, industry consulting, global communities, and human rights policy. Her most recent work focuses on innovation, the metaverse, immersive storytelling, VR/AR experiences, design thinking, and digital strategy. Maya actively writes and speaks on the topics of the metaverse, immersive storytelling, and the future of learning, creativity, and work and consults organizations and startups in this space. She is an XR producer and serves as a judge and coach for several competitions and accelerator programs.

Maya is the Senior Director of the Innovation Center and XR, AI, and Quantum Labs at The New School. She leads a team driving new media and innovation focused on immersive storytelling, spatial computing, future interfaces, and design. Maya teaches the signature Immersive Storytelling course at Parsons School of Design. Maya often speaks about the Metaverse and frontier technologies like AI and Quantum and speculative futures. Her work has been featured at SXSW, the MIT Media Lab, The Atlantic, The Economist, and the Fulbright Program, among others. She is the co-author and principal investigator of the State of XR and Immersive Learning Report. She has authored white papers on the future of education and immersive learning in EDUCAUSE Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, EdSurge, and other publications.