Samantha G. Wolfe
 

EMERGING TECH ADOPTION CATALYST

Samantha G.  Wolfe

 
 

ABOUT

Samantha G. Wolfe is a strategic business consultant driven to accelerate the consumer and enterprise adoption of emerging technologies. Sam has the unique ability to explain the most complicated, cutting-edge new technologies in a way that inspires and resonates with everyone from undergraduate students to seasoned executives. That superpower has translated into her work with PitchFWD (her emerging tech consultancy), her unique classes at NYU, her inspiring books, her keynote talks, and podcast and TV appearances. Sam brings her infectious enthusiasm around emerging tech and innovative executives wherever she goes. Her active outreach has led to multiple advisory, mentorship, and judging roles, and her crowning title as the metaverse’s Networker-In-Chief.

 

PITCHFWD

Identifying a need in the emerging technology industries, Sam launched PitchFWD, an award-winning strategic consultancy focused on business, brand, marketing strategies as well as product and developer marketing for innovative products and services across the entire sales cycle. It focuses on targeting innovators, early adopters, developers, and crossing-the-chasm into mainstream. For more information about PitchFWD, please go to wearepitchfwd.com.

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Sam has presented worldwide to teams across various industries, including PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Guggenheim Partners. She is represented non-exclusively by the Global Speakers Bureau. Her talks include ‘Innovation vs Invention,’ ‘Marketing Innovation,’ ‘The Metaverse and Your Industry,’ and ‘Understanding the Metaverse.’ Each topic is customized to the client and the audience, for non-technical and highly technical groups, with any industry that spatial computing, VR, AR, and the metaverse applies (hint: all of them). Her talks often are called “insightful” and “inspiring.”

 

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR

Sam creates and teaches classes she created and developed focused on business and marketing of innovative tech at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Each address the newest innovations and the emerging tech marketplace as it evolves. The classes have focused on ”The Marketing of Emerging Technologies,” “The Business of the Metaverse,” “Avatars and Virtual Beings,” and “The Business of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality.” She has brought over 200 emerging tech industry leaders to speak in her classes, from the top companies in the tech industry to the CEOs of innovative start-ups to watch. Students have called Sam’s classes one of the best they have had at NYU, and they find their professor to be “inspirational,” “enthusiastic,” “very passionate,” and “extremely knowledgable.”

 

PODCAST HOST

‘Sight’ Host for the Internet of Senses

In mid-2024, Sam joined as the newest host for the Internet of Senses Podcast. She joins 3 other hosts who are focused on Smell, Touch, and Sound. Check out some of Sam’s interviews here: Judith Okonkwo, Casey Sapp.

 

MEDIUM

EMERGING TECH MARKETING TRENDS & PREDICTIONS

Sam publishes her thoughts and predictions as well as emerging tech and marketing trends she’s identified - from augmented reality to wearables and whatever else is on the cutting-edge.

 

Samantha G. Wolfe keynote speaking in Calgary (2023)

 

EXPERTISE

BrandING & MARKETING STRATEGY

DEVELOPER MARKETING

Sales & Partnership Marketing

AI AGENTS & CONVERSATIONAL AI

AVATARS & VIRTUAL BEINGS

SPATIAL COMPUTING & METAVERSE

AUGMENTED REALITY & VIRTUAL REALITY

Thought Leadership

 

BOOKS

CO-AUTHOR OF ‘METAVERSED: SEE BEYOND THE HYPE

 
 

HONORS

TOP 23 WOMEN IN VR (BRIO VR)

TOP 101+ WOMEN LEADING THE VIRTUAL REALITY INDUSTRY (VU DREAM)

TOP 10 INFLUENTIAL LEADERS (ASPIONEER)

 

JUDGE

Rally (2023)

CES Innovation Awards (2021)

Games for Change (2018, 2019, 2022)

MIT Reality Hackathon (2020)

SXSW Pitch Awards (2019, 2020)

MEDIA

INTERVIEWS & APPEARANCES

  • At the 2019 Augmented World Expo, Sam helped curate and hosted the inaugural Marketing and Sales track. She also led the ‘Best in Class Branded Content’ panel and had the honor of judging the 2019 Auggie Awards.

  • XR Marketing & Advertising (NYVR MeetUp, the 2nd largest worldwide): Sam developed the initial concept, curated, and hosted in 2018 and in 2019.

  • “Women in VR/AR - Content is Queen” panel (VR FEST): Moderated by Sandra Cannon. Sam was joined by Nikki Roth from Google, Dulce Baerga of Dulce.com, Leila Amirsadeghi from One Dome, and Jenna Seiden of Beat Games.

  • “Virtual Advertising” panel (NYVR Expo): Curated and moderated panel with Michael Rucker the co-founder of OmniVirt, Samuel Huber the Founder of Admix, Tracy Quitasol the Managing Director of OMD, Create part of Omnicom Media Group, and Jerrod Goodman, Google’s AR/VR Commercialization lead.



PROFILES

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

  • Sam launched and built the XR Marketing community on Facebook to over 3.1k members. Sam handed over the reigns in mid-2021 to a new team to manage and run the group.

 


Education

NYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

M.B.A., MARKETING, FINANCE, and MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

YALE UNIVERSITY

B.A. PSYCHOLOGY

Contact       

LINKEDIN: linkedin.com/in/samanthawolfe/

TWITTER: @samanthagwolfe

Address: New York, NY