Ali Hantal

Ali C. Hantal is a serial entrepreneur and passionate advocate for interoperability. He is the Founder of XR Masters, Co-President of the Open AR Cloud Association, and Chief Adoption Officer for the GeoPose Standards Working Group at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). With a deep commitment to education and emerging technologies, he focuses on advancing XR, AI and spatial computing through open standards and global collaboration. His company, XR Masters, is a U.S.-based XR technology firm behind MyGeoVerse—a platform capable of publishing spatial content in compliance with OGC and OSCP standards. Powered by AR Cloud technology and conversational AI avatars, MyGeoVerse bridges the physical and digital worlds to deliver immersive, context-aware experiences across tourism, education, and retail. Ali holds an MBA from the University of Baltimore and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Bosphorus University in Istanbul. He currently resides in Washington, D.C.