The Guest

Hugo Swart is a senior director of product management and serves as the Head of XR for Qualcomm Technologies. He is responsible for overseeing all of the AR & VR-related business, including product planning, roadmap, strategy, partnerships, and customer development. He’s helped to spearhead standalone VR devices - those that aren’t attached to a PC - by creating the industry’s first reference design in 2016 at Qualcomm. He’s really built Qualcomm’s XR business from ground-up.

He joined the company back in 2003 as a technical marketing manager in charge of promoting wireless data technologies to operators worldwide, and he has led several successful R&D projects over the years.

Prior to joining Qualcomm, Swart served as sales engineer for Lucent Technologies and Telecom Italia. Swart received his bachelor’s (1999) and Master of Science (2004) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Campinas, Brazil. In addition, he received a Master of Business Administration (2008) from San Diego State University.