Every stage, panel, and byline he&#x27;s been part of.

Virtual Theatre: Producing Live Theatre on Virtual Stages

SIGGRAPH 2026

Wed Jul 22, 1:00–1:45pm PT · Concourse Hall, Los Angeles

Powered by Gaussian Splats: From World Models to 3D Interactive Worlds

SIGGRAPH 2026 — Hands-on Course

Mon Jul 20, 3:30–5:00pm PT · Concourse Hall, Los Angeles

Judge + Mentor

Worlds in Action Hack [02-LA]

Sensai, with World Labs, PICO, and SIGGRAPH 2026

Jul 18–19, 2026 · MG Studio, Los Angeles

Stage Presence: Design and Testing of a Virtual Rehearsal Room Toolset

SIGGRAPH 2026

Sun Jul 19, 4:25–4:45pm PT · Room 403 B, Los Angeles

NXT BLD 2026 — 10th Anniversary Conference

NXT BLD

May 13, 2026 · QEII Centre, London

Staging the Metaverse: Scaling Virtual Productions & Performances with Unreal Engine

FMX 2026 (with David Gochfeld)

Thu May 7, 2026 · Stuttgart, Germany

Closing Keynote

10 Lessons from 10 Years of Running an XR Enterprise Studio

HarvardXR

Apr 17, 2026 · Cambridge, MA (Harvard University)

▸ 2025

Unreal Fest Stockholm 2025

Unreal Fest

2025 · Stockholm, Sweden

Official Selection

A Christmas Carol VR — Finalist, Best Immersive Theatre

Raindance Immersive

2025 · London, UK / Virtual

Unreal Fest Orlando 2025

Unreal Fest

2025 · Orlando, FL

Paper Author

Seeing Yourself on Stage: Multi-Avatar Performance and the Evolution of Self-Monitoring in VR

SIGGRAPH

Aug 2025 · Vancouver, Canada

▸ 2024

Directing AI Performers: New Methodologies from Human-Non-Human Collaboration

Digital Body Festival

Nov 2024 · New York, NY

From Meta Quest to Apple Vision Pro and Beyond; How to Build a 5000 sq ft UE5 VR Showroom

Unreal Day Belgrade

Oct 2024 · Belgrade, Serbia

Intro to the Variant Manager and Configurator Templates; Mind The Gap: Transitioning from Unity to Unreal Engine; Intro to Augmented Reality

Unreal Fest Seattle

Oct 2024 · Seattle, WA

How to Build a 5000 sq ft VR Showroom

SVVR Connect

Sep 2024 · Santa Clara, CA

Meta Orion Glasses Hands-On: Viewing AR's Future As A VR Developer

UploadVR

Sep 2024

Unreal Fest Prague

Unreal Fest

Jun 18–20, 2024 · Prague, Czech Republic

Unreal Fest Gold Coast

Unreal Fest

May 29–30, 2024 · Gold Coast, Australia

LINE! How Olde Theatre Traditions Make New Innovations

Worlds in Play

Jan 2024 · Chicago, IL

▸ 2023

Limits are Your Medium

School of Visual Arts

Dec 2023 · New York, NY

Guest Speaker

How to Run an XR Creative Studio

University of British Columbia

Nov 2023 · Vancouver, Canada

Diving Deep with MetaHuman Animator, Four Seasons Lake Austin VR Showroom

Unreal Fest

Oct 2023 · Seattle, WA

Unity3D to Unreal Engine

Digital Fashion Week

Sep 2023 · New York, NY

Bringing MetaHumans to Life: Achieving Powerful Impact with Enterprise VR Storytelling

VRTO

Jul 2023 · Toronto, Canada

Is This Really Live? Performance In The Age Of XR

SXSW

Mar 2023 · Austin, TX

VCR: Easily Record and Playback Your VR

NVIDIA

Feb 2023 · Virtual

▸ 2022

Keynote Speaker

Seoul Performing Arts Festival

2022 · Seoul, South Korea

Art Paper Speaker + NVIDIA Featured Speaker

Unreal Fest 2022

Unreal Fest

2022 · New Orleans, LA

SIGGRAPH 2022

SIGGRAPH

2022 · Vancouver, Canada

Broadway Tech Accelerator

2022 · New York, NY

Cornell University

2022 · Ithaca, NY

Korean National University of Arts / Pohang Tech University

Korean National University of Arts

2022 · Seoul, South Korea

NYU Tisch

2022 · New York, NY

Chapman University

2022 · Orange, CA

A Slice of Heavenue

No Proscenium

2022

Unbuilt Interviews #3 — Alex Coulombe

Unbuilt Interviews

2022

Interviewee — John Dower & Pascal Langdale

Performing for Motion Capture (book)

2022

Podcast

Guest

Becoming CG Pro

2022

Workshop

Building a Live Show from Scratch: XR Boot Camp w/ Heavenue

AWE USA 2022

2022 · Santa Clara, CA

Up Close & Virtual: The Power of Live VR Actors — Future Realities Summit

GDC

2022 · San Francisco, CA

Speaker + Panelist

Game Engines in Performance Design, Film Production, and Architecture

USITT

Mar 5, 2022 · Fort Lauderdale, FL

▸ 2021

Co-Presenter + Co-Author

VR Theatre on No Budget

SIGGRAPH

2021 · Virtual

RealTime Architecture Perspectives

SIGGRAPH

2021 · Virtual

An Architect in the Metaverse: Social VR, NFTs, and New Opportunities

NxtBld 2021

2021 · London, UK

Speaker + Panelist

Up Close & Virtual

POWER UP: Exploring the Intersection of Art & Technology — Dance Ireland

2021 · Virtual (Dublin)

Speaker + Panelist

The Rise of Virtual Architecture

Laval Virtual Europe

2021 · Virtual (Laval, France)

Experiential Design: The Future of Architecture

AIA Convention

2021 · Virtual

Host

Going Digital: Pivoting Live Events to Virtual Experiences

AIXR Insights Live

2021 · Virtual

Business of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

NYU Steinhardt

2021 · New York, NY

Co-Host

Reveal

5th Wall Forum

2021 · Virtual

UE4 Instructor

Vienna CIVA Festival

2021 · Vienna, Austria

NYVR Art in VR

NYVR

2021 · New York, NY

Somnium VR Architecture Fireside Chat

Somnium Space

2021 · Virtual

The Next Evolution in Art & Culture

VRAR Chicago

2021 · Chicago, IL

Video Documentary

Jettison

2021

Construction After Covid: What's Next for Performing Arts Buildings?

AEA Consulting

2021

NFTs and Architecture (with Samuel Arsenault-Brassard)

CG Garage

2021

Meet Someone Unreal: Alex Coulombe

Unreal Engine

2021

5th Wall Forum Podcast

5th Wall Forum

2021

Interviewee — Cathy Hackl & John Buzzell

The Augmented Workforce (book)

2021

100 Original Voices in XR

Avi Bar-Zeev (Medium)

2021

Interview with Alex Coulombe

XR Must

2021

Dev-ing Into Vive Focus 3

ViveCon 2021 — Developer Track

2021 · Virtual

Guest Critic

Impending Certainties Studio Final

Syracuse Architecture

2021 · Syracuse, NY

Guest Critic

VR Thesis Finals

NYU ITP

2021 · New York, NY

Guest Critic

Virtual Architecture Studio Final

Columbia Architecture

2021 · New York, NY

Heavenue

NVIDIA GTC

2021 · Virtual

Host + Curator + Speaker

Social VR, NFTs, & Virtual Worlds: Architecture's New Domain? (with Kim Baumann Larsen)

RealTime Conference — Architecture Track

2021 · Virtual

25 People in Social VR, Virtual Worlds, and the Metaverse Whom You Should Be Following

Ryan Schultz

Feb 2021

▸ 2020

Co-Founder + Host

Connector Track

5th Wall Forum

2020 · Virtual

How VR Helped Us Design a Theater from the Inside-Out

NxtBld

2020 · Virtual

Here Fest

2020 · Virtual

VR Live Performance

NYU Tisch — Brendan Bradley Integrative Technology Lab

2020 · New York, NY

XR. Theatre. Architecture.

CURRENTS New Media Festival

2020 · Santa Fe, NM

XR Curator

XR Curator, Speaker, Workshop, Demos

TCG Phoenix

2020 · Phoenix, AZ

Keynote Speaker

Theatre for a Young Audience

TYA/USA

2020 · Virtual

Continuing Professional Development in VR

Live from Dubai

2020 · Virtual (Dubai)

When I Was Little...

ARKit Meetup / MIT Reality Hack

2020 · Cambridge, MA

Theatre and XR using Spatial — NYC to Seoul

Arts Council Korea (ARKO)

2020 · Virtual (Seoul)

Inaugural Speaker

It's Like You're There: Virtual and Augmented Realities in Architecture, Theatre, and Everything In Between

Head Stretcher Society

2020 · Virtual

ARC 682: Media

Syracuse University School of Architecture

2020 · Syracuse, NY

5 Ways XR Makes You a Better Architect

Computational AEC Melbourne

Jun 25, 2020 · Virtual (Melbourne)

New Head Stretchers Society Challenges Us to Learn New Things

Seven Days VT

2020

Video Interview

CURRENTS New Media

2020

Let's Dive Into The Under Presents' Tempest

Alive in Plasticland

2020

XR Curator

TCG National Conference

Theatre Communications Group

Jun 5, 2020 · Virtual

Track Curator + Host

Architecture Track

RealTime Conference

2020 · Virtual

Track Curator + Host

Storytelling Track

RealTime Conference

2020 · Virtual

Presenter

Multi-user Collaboration and VR (with Andreea Ion Cojocaru)

RealTime Conference

2020 · Virtual

RealTime Conference Kicks Off with Free Online Sessions

Yahoo Finance

2020

Alex Coulombe Talks Unreal Engine Workflows

Theia Interactive

Jan 2020

▸ 2019

Featured Panelist

New Works & New Technology

National Alliance for Musical Theatre Conference

2019 · New York, NY

Exhibitor

Ghosted AR — Winner, Audience Choice

NYC Media Lab Summit

2019 · New York, NY

Official Selection

Ghosted AR — Winner, Most Innovative Immersive Experience

North Bend Film Festival

2019 · Bellingham, WA

Official Selection

Loveseat

Venice International Film Festival

2019 · Venice, Italy

Loveseat Gives Us an Innovative Look at Theatre in Virtual Reality

Ryan Schultz

2019

Birds and Bees and Multiple Realities — 'Loveseat' at Venice VR

No Proscenium

2019

Epic Games Featured Speaker

Crafting Meaningful Immersive Environments

3ds New York

Jul 10, 2019 · New York, NY

Virtual and Augmented Reality for Real-time Design Exploration

State of Art ADX

2019 · Mogliano Veneto, Italy

Making of That Kind of Guy, Alive in Plasticland

IEEE GEM

2019 · New Haven, CT (Yale)

XR Curator + Speaker

XR Curator, Speaker, Workshop, Demos

TCG National Theatre Conference

2019 · Miami, FL

A Strange Symbiosis: Interactions between Architecture and VR

Total Chaos

2019 · Sofia, Bulgaria

Speaker + Workshop

XR: Creating the Future

St. Johnsbury Academy

2019 · St. Johnsbury, VT

Immersive Architecture Asia

Im-Arch Asia

2019 · Singapore

Episode 003 — Alex Coulombe: VR Ninja!

TOO HIP

2019

The Future Is Now: SJA Alum Offers Glimpse Into Virtual Reality

Caledonian Record

2019

Avatar Selection for Live Performance in Virtual Reality: A Case Study — Co-Author

IEEE

2019

Film Judge

Tap Into Film

2019

#806 — Interdisciplinary Design at the Intersection of Theater & Architecture + Volumetric Capture Experiments

Voices of VR

2019

Workshop

Producing Live Performance in VR

SXSW

2019 · Austin, TX

▸ 2018

VR in Architecture From Conception To Completion

Propelify Innovation Festival

2018 · Hoboken, NJ

NYVR Expo

NYVR

2018 · New York, NY

Virtual Reality Strategy Conference

VRS Conference

2018 · San Francisco, CA

VR for Design

The Smithsonian

2018 · Washington, DC

UE4 for Enterprise Solutions

Unreal Engine London

2018 · London, UK

Beyond Presentations: Designing Naturally in VR

Autodesk University London

2018 · London, UK

VR in Theater Design

ITEAC

2018 · London, UK

Beyond Representation: Active Design Inside VR

Im-Arch Venice

2018 · Venice, Italy

How to Add VR Sketching to Your Design Workflow

VRARA — VR & AR in Architecture Engineering Construction

2018 · Virtual

Virtual Reality: The Best Marketing Tool You're Not Using Yet

SMPS Northeast Regional Conference (#MERGE)

2018 · Baltimore, MD

Designing VR: Alex Coulombe from Agile Lens

Sketchbox

2018

Intel is funding the future of large-scale VR environments

Engadget

2018

Talking VR with Alex Coulombe

Fabio Palvelli

2018

Talking VR with Alex Coulombe

Im-Arch

2018

Judge

CGarchitect 3D Awards

2018

Taking VR to the Next Level with Alex Coulombe

That BIM Girl

2018

Interview with Chris Nichols

CG Garage

2018

Designing in VR: Agile Lens helps furnish a theater with Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine

2018

What I Learned at LeapCon — In the VR Voice Hot Seat

VR Voice

2018

▸ 2017

From First Line to Final Design: VR as the Ultimate Creative Medium

Autodesk University

2017 · Las Vegas, NV

A Vision for the Future of Virtual Reality in Design Viz: Advice from the Experts

Autodesk University

2017 · Las Vegas, NV

Using VR Art Tools to Design Space

Jump into VR Fest

2017 · New York, NY

Workshop

Virtual Reality Petting Zoo

Theatre Communications Group Conference

Jun 2017 · Portland, OR

Developer Uses Vive Tracker to Battle Ceiling Fan

VR Scout

2017

Contributed chapter

What is VR? (book)

2017

HTC's Vive Tracker Has Brought Out The Best In VR Innovation

UploadVR

2017

Designing like you're there: What I learned using VR for architecture

IBM ThinkLeaders

2017

Theater at the Intersection

Oregon Arts Watch

2017

Sketchfab Hosts WebVR Hackathon — 2nd place finish

Sketchfab

2017

Opening the Door to Virtual Reality

Lighting & Sound America

2017

Alex Coulombe Selects Winner of Big Box Challenge

The Game Crafter

2017

Panel Moderator

Virtual Reality Moves into Real Estate

VR 20/20 Summit

2017 · New York, NY

▸ 2016

VR for Architecture, Fans, & Training

VenueConnect

2016 · Minneapolis, MN

▸ 2015

BIG Picture Talk: VR + Architecture + Theaters

Bjarke Ingels Group

2015 · New York, NY

Designing Theaters with VR

NYVR Meetup

2015 · New York, NY

The New Artist's Medium: Getting Started with Virtual Reality

Fractured Atlas

2015

▸ 2014

Oculus Rift for 3D Modeling

NYIT Intersections Symposium

2014 · New York, NY

Oculus Rift Workflow Demonstration

OPERA America National Conference

Jun 2014 · San Francisco, CA

▸ 2012