Savannah Niles is a multi-disciplinary product and design leader with 9 years experience bringing 0 to 1 products to market. She's currently at Meta Reality Labs on the Quest team, leading design for the core OS experience.

Previously, she led product experience and design at Magnopus, building tools for studios and brands to create AR and Metaverse experiences, as easily as creating a website. She was the Director of Interaction Design and Product Experience at Magic Leap. For 6 years at Magic Leap, Savannah designed, prototyped, and shipped a wide range of hardware and software AR products, with 20+ patent applications and grants. She contributed significantly to the launch of the Magic Leap 1 as a multidisciplinary leader across design and product roles. She spent her last year at Magic Leap as director of design for the ML2 core platform.

Savannah graduated in 2015 with her Master's from the Media Lab at MIT, where she received full funding in Dr. Andy Lippman's Viral Spaces group. There, she researched mobile diagnostics, maternal health technology, and new media in visual journalism. She developed her thesis on techniques for generating expressive and evocative video excerpts for emerging interfaces, such as XR and ambient displays.

Savannah designed interactive experiences for  Walt Disney Imagineering and Twitter. She graduated summa cum laude from SMU in May 2013 with degrees in sculpture (BFA) and creative computation (BA). 

She serves on the board at Filmgate Miami, a not-for-profit production studio, supporting innovative storytellers who craft independent narratives. In that role she supports the annual FilmGate Interactive, the first festival in the U.S. to solely showcase interactive and immersive stories, as well as the technology that supports them. 

She has served as a juror at SIGGRAPH for 4 years, and has been honored to speak at a number of XR-industry events, including the keynotes for MUTEK, Laval Virtual, IEEE VR, and the World Usability Congress. She's a two-time honoree of Time's Invention of the Year.

Savannah is based in LA. 

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