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XR/AR/VR event calendar 2020

News posted on 7th Nov 2019 7:31am by Sarah Redohl

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Editor’s Note: The dates of some of the events below have yet to be announced. We’re including them here under the month they are usually held so they’re at least on your radar. Have an event to add to the list? Email Sarah at sarah@immersiveshooter.com.


January

CES (Consumer Electronics Show)
January 7-10
Las Vegas, Nevada
https://www.ces.tech

Sundance Film Festival
January 23-February 2
Park City, Utah
https://www.sundance.org/festivals/sundance-film-festival


February

International Conference on Virtual Reality
February 8-10
Singapore
http://www.icvr.org/

Mobile World Congress
February 24-27
Barcelona, Spain
https://www.mwcbarcelona.com/


March

Virtual Reality 2020
March 11
Oulu, Finland
http://www.virtualrealitynordic.com/

SXSW (South by Southwest)
March 13-22
Austin, Texas
https://www.sxsw.com/

VRDC (Virtual Reality Developers Conference)
March 16-17
San Francisco, California
https://www.gdconf.com/vrdc

GDC (Game Developers Conference)
March 16-20
San Francisco, California
https://www.gdconf.com/

IEEE Virtual Reality
March 22-26
Atlanta, Georgia
http://ieeevr.org/

Augmented World Expo
March 28-29
Shenzhen, China
https://www.aweasia.com/

Realities 360
March 31-April 2
Orlando, Florida
https://www.realities360.com/


April

F8 (Facebook Developer Conference)
Dates TBD
San Jose, California
https://www.f8.com/

Tribeca Film Festival
April 15-26
New York, New York
https://www.tribecafilm.com/

NAB Show
April 18-22
Las Vegas, Nevada
https://www.nabshow.com/

Laval Virtual
April 22-24
Laval, France
https://www.laval-virtual.com/

Seoul VR/AR Expo 2020
April 23-25
Seoul, South Korea
http://seoulvrar.com/

XRAll of immersive media encompassing VR, AR, MR and beyond. Europe 2020–CANCELLED
April 28-29
London, UK
https://events.vr-intelligence.com/europe/


May

Vive Ecosystem Conference
Dates TBD
Shenzhen, China

Google I/O
Dates TBD
Mountain View, California
https://events.google.com/io/

VR World
Dates TBD
London, UK
http://www.vrworldevent.com/

XRAll of immersive media encompassing VR, AR, MR and beyond. Immersive Enterprise 2020 (ONLINE ONLY)
May 5-6
Boston, Massachusetts
https://events.vr-intelligence.com

Asia VR&AR Fair & Summit
May 10-12
Guangzhou, China
http://www.vrarfair.com/

Cannes Film Festival
May 12-23
Cannes, France
https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/

Digital Hollywood Spring
May 19-21
Los Angeles, California
http://www.digitalhollywood.com/

Augmented World Expo
May 27-29
Santa Clara, California
https://www.awexr.com/usa-2020/

Photokina
May 27-30
Cologne, Germany
http://www.photokina.com


June

WWDC (Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference)
Dates TBD
San Jose, California
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/

Mojofest
Dates TBD
Galway, Ireland
https://ti.to/mojofest/mojofest-2019-galway/en

IVRPA (International Conference for Virtual Reality Professionals)
Dates TBD
Location TBD
http://ivrpa.org/

FoST (Future of Storytelling)
June 3-4
New York, New York
https://futureofstorytelling.org/summit

Cinegear Expo
June 4-7
Los Angeles, California
http://www.cinegearexpo.com/

VRTO
June 6-8
Toronto, Canada
https://conference.virtualreality.to/

E3
June 9-11
Los Angeles, California
https://www.e3expo.com/

VR & AR World
June 10-11
London, UK
https://10times.com/ar-vr-world-summit

CES Asia
June 10-12
Shanghai, China
http://www.cesasia.cn/

Digital Transformation Conference
June 10-13
Boston, Massachusetts
http://digitaltransformationconf.com/

Mobile World Congress Shanghai
June 30-July 2
Shanghai, China
https://www.mwcshanghai.com/


July

Journalism 360 Unconference
Dates TBD
New York, New York
https://medium.com/journalism360/journalism-360-unconference-2018-challenge-498b333c98b9

SIGGRAPH
July 19-23
Washington, D.C.
https://www.siggraph.org/


August

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September

World XRAll of immersive media encompassing VR, AR, MR and beyond. Forum
Dates TBD
Geneva, Switzerland
https://worldxr.org/ 

FIVARS (Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality)
September 25 – 27, 2020
Toronto, Canada
https://fivars.net/

IFA
September 4-9
Berlin, Germany
https://www.ifa-berlin.com/

IBC (International Broadcasting Conference)
September 11-15
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
https://show.ibc.org

Oculus Connect 6
September 25-26
San Jose, California
https://www.oculusconnect.com/

Online News Association Conference
September 30-October 3
Atlanta, Georgia
https://journalists.org/conference/


October

Unity Unite Los Angeles
Dates TBD
Los Angeles, California
https://unite.unity.com/

Digital Transformation Conference
October 3
Amsterdam, Netherlands
http://digitaltransformationeurope.com/

Augmented World Expo
October 15-16
Munich, Germany
https://www.awexr.com/eu-2020/

The Enterprise Wearable Technology Summit
October 20-22
San Diego, California
https://brainxchange.com/events/ewts-2020/

XRDC
Dates TBD
San Francisco, California
https://www.xrdconf.com


November

Augmented World Expo
Dates TBD
Tel Aviv, Israel
https://www.awexr.com/tlv-2019/

Samsung Developer Conference
Dates TBD
San Francisco, California
https://www.samsungdeveloperconference.com

Adobe MAX
Dates TBD
Los Angeles, California
https://max.adobe.com/

SIGGRAPH Asia
November 17-20
Daegu, South Korea
https://sa2019.siggraph.org/about-us/sa2020

AVRA Days–Moscow
Dates TBD
Moscow, Russia
https://avradays.com/2019en


December

VRX Conference & Expo
Dates TBD
San Francisco, California
https://events.vr-intelligence.com/vrx/

AWS re:Invent
Dates TBD
Las Vegas, Nevada
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/


Additional festivals (and submission deadlines) are available in this Medium post from Georgy Molodtsov.

Have an event to add to the list? Email Sarah at sarah@immersiveshooter.com.

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Sarah Redohl is an award-winning new media journalist focusing on mobile and 360 experiences. Her work has been featured on the Travel Channel and National Public Radio, among others. She has also been recognized as one of Folio: Magazine’s 15 Under 30 young professionals driving media’s next-gen innovation.

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