Bio

Emily Olman is CEO & Chief Media Officer at Hopscotch Interactive, a Real Estate media services agency and consultancy headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area for commercial and residential properties. Emily founded Hopscotch Interactive to accelerate the adoption of immersive media for property marketing including 3D and 360° photography, and has spent her career monetizing new media and developing new business models for frontier technology. Emily is a regular speaker on immersive technology both in the U.S. and abroad at AWE, VRX, Realcomm, CoRETech, and was the VR/AR Association SF Chapter Co-President from 2016-2019. She regularly hosts XR industry events, and has negotiated partnerships with numerous media partners and sponsors. She is also a seasoned start-up founder, and as the CEO & Co-Founder of Spatial First, Inc. she worked on building a spatial mobile interface using augmented reality. SpatialFirst was a Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator HotDesk company for Spring & Fall 2019, in the WXR Accelerator Fall 2019 Cohort, and her pitch at AWE EU won the Auggie Award for “Start-up to Watch” at AWE EU in Munich, Germany. She was honored by the Virtual Worlds Society with a Nextant Medallion for ''unlocking hearts and linking minds'' through VR, served as a Jury Member for Mack Media's inaugural AUREA Awards in Rust, Germany, is a member of the SF Commercial Real Estate Professionals Network (CRePN), and is currently the AUREA Ambassador & Community Chair for the AUREA Award hosted annually by Europapark and Mack Media. She volunteers her time as both a member of the XR Marin Leadership Council, and the AWE Advisory Council.