Kavya Pearlman is Well known as the “Cyber Guardian,” founder & CEO of the XR Safety Initiative (XRSI). Kavya Pearlman is an award-winning cybersecurity professional with a deep interest in immersive and emerging technologies. Kavya is a pioneer of the novel XRSI Privacy and Safety Framework for the Immersive Technologies Domain, Security awareness in the Metaverse, and various baseline security and privacy standards for Emerging Technologies. She has won several awards for her work and has been named one of the Top twenty Cybersecurity influencers for four years, 2018-2019-2020-2022, and again for the year 2022 by IFSEC Global. Kavya serves as the key member of the Global Coalition for Digital Safety at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and is part of the new Metaverse Initiative at WEF. Kavya currently advises over 20 global governments on global policies for emerging technologies and human rights considerations and provides oversight to several key open source efforts on Metaverse-related technologies, including The Metaverse Standard Forum and Responsible Metaverse Alliance.

Kavya has previously advised Facebook on third-party security risks during the 2016 US presidential elections and worked as the head of security for the oldest virtual world, “Second Life” by Linden Lab. Kavya is the leading voice in cybersecurity, privacy, and Ethics for Emerging technologies including AR, VR, and XR, exploring cross-sections of 5G, AI, and BCI - leading Standards development and promoting Diversity and Inclusion in Immersive Technologies. Kavya has founded The CyberXR Coalition, which focuses on diversity and inclusion and the cross-section of Cybersecurity and XR, helped launch a trustworthy XR news platform, ReadyHackerOne, established a Medical XR Advisory Council and Metaverse Reality Check (The MRC). Kavya is constantly exploring new technologies to solve current cybersecurity challenges and currently advises several governments and big tech corporations on technology policy making and program development globally. Kavya is a category Queen who has pioneered XR Safety Domain and won many awards for her work and contribution to the security community