2026 Speaker

Casey Jolley

Geoscience Technology Advisor

ExxonMobil

About

Casey Jolley has been mixing geology, technology, and curiosity at ExxonMobil since 2012. He currently serves as the Geoscience Technology Advisor, where he champions emerging tools related to subsurface prediction. Casey pushes the geoscience community toward what’s next—from automation and agentic AI to VR, AR, and 3D scanning. His commitment to XR started early, selling his motorcycle to buy his first headsets. Something his kids still tease him about today. Prior to joining ExxonMobil, Casey earned an accounting degree from Brigham Young University before discovering that rocks were just as exciting as spreadsheets. He then went on to earn a master’s degree in geology from Texas A&M. Since joining ExxonMobil, Casey has helped identify and characterize hydrocarbon prospects and driven geoscience teams in maximize the value they get from technology. Outside work, Casey enjoys reading, 3D printing, pickleball, ultimate frisbee, and life as a dad to five awesome kids.

2026 Sessions

Oct 142:25 PM2:50 PM

Green BreakoutCase Study

Case Study - Enterprise VR: Can We Stop Being Alone Together? (ExxonMobil)

Atrium Ballroom A

VR can put us in the same virtual world while pulling us out of the same real room. That “alone together” effect has plagued many of our VIP demos and may be one of the quiet reasons enterprise XR struggles to move beyond pilots. This talk explores how to design XR experiences people actually want to adopt. Recently we utilized Augmented Reality solutions that are once again bringing people together because they create connection, have data pipelines that are secure, and are experiences that are easy enough for novices to pass on.

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