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Maria Consuelo Gónima knows who is listening
Before founding Big Smile Co., Maria Consuelo Gónima booked dance floors and helped explain new ways to watch. Her career keeps returning to the people on the other side of the experience.
Vaibhav Rai and the distance between a poem and a stadium
A Gurgaon software engineer has credits in immersive Olympic broadcasting and a venture built around words. Vaibhav Rai’s work moves between the machinery of entertainment and the stories people tell each other.
Bilawal Sidhu
Bilawal Sidhu is a creative technologist, former senior product manager at Google (AR/VR & 3D Maps), host of The TED AI Show podcast, venture scout for Andreessen Horowitz, and angel investor. After shipping landmark products like Google Maps Immersive View and the ARCore Geospatial API to billions of users, he left Google to become a full-time creator, curator, and investor at the intersection of spatial intelligence, generative AI, and immersive media. His newsletter and YouTube reach over 1.6 million followers, and he made headlines in April 2026 when he built WorldView - a real-time OSINT geospatial platform - in three days.