The Immersive World Summit
Frontiers of Experiential Storytelling
Friday, January 30th to Sunday, February 1st, 2026
created by Epic Immersive
hosted by For the Record Live
at Cinevita Los Angeles
The Immersive World Summit:
Frontiers of experiential StorytellingStep into the future of immersive & experiential entertainment and kick off your 2026 at The Immersive World Summit at Cinevita Los Angeles this January 30th to February 1st, featuring leaders from Secret Cinema, AREA15, Immersive Octopus, and Little Cinema, with many more speakers to be announced!
After creating major industry gatherings like The Immersive Design Summits in San Francisco, The Immersive Industry Homecoming Summits at AREA15 Las Vegas, and The Immersive World Adventure in Mexico’s Mayan Riviera, Epic Immersive is teaming up with For the Record Live for our first-ever major gathering in Los Angeles.
This year’s speakers’ industry-spanning achievements range from Secret Cinema’s grand spectacles to multi-day globe-trotting original adventures, new immersive cinematic experiences at Cosm, full-blown immersive neighborhoods in Las Vegas, pioneering the genre of Alternate Reality Games, and marketing activations for leading brands from Walt Disney Imagineering to Amazon Studios, Netflix, and HBO.
Together, we’ll explore the evolution of experiential storytelling, the future of the industry and the art form, how to get investment and clients from major brands, integrating game design and technology from virtual and augmented reality to projection-mapping and artificial intelligence, how to design for accessibility and diversity, how to build experiential work that shapes our culture and national narratives, the inside scoop behind the biggest projects in the world, the most amazing artists you’ve never heard, how to navigate careers in the industry, and how to create work internationally.
Along the way, we’ll rally together for an entire industry and art form, making connections that lead to new jobs, careers, and breakthrough projects by forging relationships between the most impressive up-and-comers & underground creators and the biggest, brand clients, experiential agencies, real estate developers, funders, investors, and producers. Join us this January 30th to February 1st, 2026, at Cinevita in Los Angeles!
Who You’ll Meet
This year’s speakers at The Immersive World Summit include Creative Directors from Secret Cinema (Grease, Blade Runner, Casino Royale, Romeo + Juliet) and Immersive Everywhere (Peaky Blinders: The Rise, Doctor Who: Time Fracture, The Great Gatsby), the Founder & CEO of Little Cinema (The Matrix & Willy Wonka at Cosm), the Chief Creative Officer of AREA15 (featuring Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart, John Wick Experience, Universal Studios’ Universal Horror Unleashed), one of the inventors of the Alternate Reality Games genre (The Beast, ilovebees, & Year Zero), New York Times best-sellers and Emmy-winners, and the Executive Director of The Joseph Campbell Foundation.
Our speakers have created experiences for clients like HBO, Walt Disney Imagineering, Netflix, Marvel Studios, Amazon Studios & Amazon Prime, ABC, CBS, NBC & Peacock, MGM, Warner Bros, Paramount, Taco Bell, Microsoft & Xbox, TNT, TBS, the Kansas City Chiefs, National Geographic, Audible, Nine Inch Nails, Muse, Lionsgate, Riot Games, Sony, and the BBC.
We will also be featuring crossover panels and conversations with guests from the worlds of city planning, urban place-making, real estate, and media communications, including the Founder & CEO of the new California Forever city being built in the San Francisco Bay Area and politicians and government officials both local and national, including Members of Congress.
Past speakers at Epic Immersive’s summits have included the founders and leaders of Cirque du Soleil, Meow Wolf, Punchdrunk (Sleep No More), Third Rail Projects (Then She Fell), and Les Enfants Terribles (Alice’s Adventures Underground), as well as Creative Directors from Secret Cinema (Blade Runner, Casino Royale, Romeo + Juliet) Walt Disney Imagineering (Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser), and Mycotoo (Westworld & Game of Thrones at SXSW). Many more speakers will be announced in the lead-up to The Immersive World Summit!
Our Creator & Producer:
Epic ImmersiveEpic Immersive is a globe-trotting experiential agency and immersive theatrical experience producer with clients like Apple, Google, Meta, Netflix, and Amazon. Epic’s experiences have included a 14-acre real-world fictional city (with historic buildings, hundreds of actors, World’s Fairs, and 1920’s city festivals in an allegory for Silicon Valley), a subterranean secret society underneath San Francisco (where guests plunged down a slide in a fireplace behind an unmarked door into forbidden speakeasies, tunnels, and wonderlands from the world’s of Dante’s Divine Comedy and Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland), 4-day immersive theatrical adventures in Mexico’s Riviera Maya (where guests joined an Indian wedding, Tulum jungle parties, an immersive-experience-within-an-immersive-experience into Mayan and Aztec civilizations, rituals in the waters of candelit underground lakes and caverns, afterlife journeys through the jungles of the Yucatan, and fiery finales on Mayan ruins, temples, and pyramids in collaboration with a global cast and a hundred local and indigenous Mexican artists), and neighborhood-wide festivals in collaboration with Japanese cultural organizations (including an experience of the jazz and swing dance nights within the hardships of the Japanese-American internment camps, created in collaboration with surviving musicians from the camps). Epic’s past industry-leading gatherings and summits have featured the founders and leaders of Cirque du Soleil, Punchdrunk (Sleep No More, The Burnt City), Third Rail Projects (Then She Fell), Meow Wolf (The House of Eternal Return, Omega Mart), AREA15 Las Vegas, and Creative Directors from Walt Disney Imagineering (Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge & Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser) and Secret Cinema (Blade Runner, Casino Royale, Romeo + Juliet).
Praise for Epic Immersive:
“Legends of the immersive scene.”
- Vince Kadlubek, Founding CEO & Chief Vision Officer of Meow Wolf
"A leader in the immersive entertainment industry across both intimate and epic scale"
- Jenny Weinbloom, VP of Live Entertainment at Disney
“Epic. Once in a lifetime. Transformative. To experience this was life-changing. The bleeding edge of storytelling.”
- John Bucher, Executive Director of the Joseph Campbell Foundation
“Epic Immersive understand this new burgeoning category of entertainment like few others."
- Brent Bushnell, Founder of DreamPark Immersive & Founding CEO of Two Bit Circus
“The ultimate bucket list experience. A chance to travel back to the very roots of storytelling. One of the most ambitious visionary experience designers working in the immersive space.”
- Joanna Garner, Senior Story Creative Director for Meow Wolf
“Epic Immersive’s reputation as an immersive pioneer crosses oceans and borders into every echelon of the profession. They are a galvanizing force for our industry, known as an innovator, a connector, and an ambassador whose work has touched people from Silicon Valley to China by infusing awe-inspiring aesthetics with powerful stories that change lives.”
- Felix Barrett, Founder of Punchdrunk and Creator of Sleep No More
The Venue: Cinevita
The CineVita in Los Angeles, right next to SoFi Stadium, is the world’s largest Spiegeltent, a tradition of old mobile dance halls and circus theaters. Cinevita features hand-carved wood, more than 3,000 hand-beveled mirrors, and rich red and gold accents. Originally named for the Dutch word for mirror, this romantically-vintage venue a was crafted by a family of four generations of Spiegeltent makers. Cinevita hearkens back to the Art Deco glory days of Hollywood and the old-fashioned American political tradition of barnstorming through vaudeville theaters.
Our Host & Marquee Sponsor:
For the Record LiveFOR THE RECORD is a breakthrough, genre-bending form of live entertainment, turning the soundtracks of iconic films into thrilling immersive theatrical experiences. The FTR Live Experience is not your classic movie-based musical, but a new kind of character-driven concert where some of cinema’s most beloved stories and the songs forever linked to those films mix and mash together in inspired and surprising ways.
What began in 2010 in a small bar in East Hollywood and went on to become a “must-see show” in Los Angeles, a hit special event in NYC, Chicago, at SXSW in Austin and the Montreal International Jazz Festival, For The Record has since created BAZ: STAR CROSSED LOVE, “the best spectacular you might ever watch” (Las Vegas Sun) at the Palazzo Theater in Las Vegas, SCORSESE: AMERICAN CRIME REQUIEM at The Wallis in Beverly Hills, which was nominated for 11 Ovation Awards and won the 2016 Broadway World Award for Best Musical in Los Angeles, and THE BRAT PACK, the “overwhelmingly popular” show on the Norwegian Escape voted one of the “best stage shows at sea”.
Most recently, FTR debuted Cinema For The Record, a first-of-its-kind event that combines live orchestra film screenings with immersive musicals to create an altogether new genre of live event. LOVE ACTUALLY LIVE, the first edition of the series, was a box office-record-breaking smash hit at The Wallis in Beverly Hills with Entertainment Weekly calling it “pitch perfect”, and the LA Times recommending everyone “let this superbly mounted musical wash over you with warmth and joy”. FTR has also set a new standard for concert celebrations, including NIGHT DIVINE at The Apollo Theater starring Shoshana Bean & Cynthia Erivo and a new docu-concert film directed by Amy Segal, SING YOUR HALLELUJAH.
The FTR Creative Team includes Emmy award-winning designers working in a hybrid genre between first class Broadway shows and the cutting-edge performances seen on The Grammys, the MTV VMAs, and other massive award shows. Because of this, FTR shows defy easy categorization. They have become the premier theater company for reimagining popular culture - movies, albums, and entire catalogs - as theatrical worlds, immersed in rock ‘n’ roll with a story to tell.
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