The Khronos Group
Emily Stearns is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in the technical standards and association management sectors. Currently serving as the Executive Director of the Metaverse Standards Forum since March 2023, Emily leads initiatives focused on interoperability standards for the open metaverse. As Managing Director at The Khronos Group since December 2016, Emily contributes to the development of royalty-free open standards for advanced graphics rendering and computing applications. Additionally, as President of Clearspan Consulting, Inc. since August 2014, Emily provides strategic consulting for trade associations. Emily's prior experience includes roles at VTM Group, where significant contributions were made in managing standard-setting organizations, and at Continua Health Alliance as Director of Business Relations. Emily holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Management from the University of Oregon.
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The Khronos Group
The people listed below are not employees of Khronos, but are the volunteers, work group chairs and paid subcontractors that help make the Khronos Group so productive The Khronos® Group was founded in January of 2000 by leading media-centric companies as a not-for-profit, member-funded consortium. Khronos and its members organizations (currently comprised of 110+ organizations ranging across business and academia) are dedicated to the creation of royalty-free, open standards for authoring, accelerating and accessing visual computing on a wide variety of operating systems and devices. Khronos APIs are created by the industry, for the industry with a Board of Promoters that includes some of the biggest companies and institutions in technology. The Khronos Group is recognized as the standard-setter for providing APIs that enable powerful new graphics as well as compute, media authoring and acceleration capabilities on desktop, embedded and mobile platforms. Khronos APIs are utilized not only by operating system vendors, but also in applications ranging from consumer games to scientific visualization--they have become an indispensible enabler for accessing silicon acceleration across devices, developer tools and hardware components. Each API is accompanied by an exhaustive set of conformance tests, which must be passed in order for the API trademark to be utilized by any company implementing a Khronos specification.