Nina Linh is the Founder and President of WonderSeed Foundation. Nina has a wealth of knowledge, experience, and success that spans from television production, real estate, private equity, mergers and acquisition, and now philanthropy.

Logan Stone is a film director, producer, and screen writer. His latest film Exodus will be released on Apple TV March 19th.

Exodus

In a post-rapture world, Connor, an enforcer who prevents defections from the struggling populous, discovers a VHS-tape that proves the existence of a portal to paradise. A chance encounter with a captured AWOL citizen inspires him to reconsider his allegiance to the town. Leaving his sick brother behind, he chooses to defect from his decaying hometown and its authoritarian regime to chase his visions of the door. Relying on a tracker, his prophetic dreams, and his gut, Connor makes it into the lawless countryside before being captured by his hometown's best hunter, The Superior. However, rather than return him to the town like the other defectors, she has her own plans to get to the door. Connor forges a shaky allegiance with The Superior, agreeing to guide her to the Portal if she'll let him live. Always sleeping with one eye open, they embark on the the road to the door, honoring their partnership as long as the other remains useful.

Throughout his 20+ years as a professional inventor, Eric’s passion has been to develop products at the intersection of the physical world and the web. He builds prototypes and turn ideas into businesses. As a long-time entrepreneur, Eric takes a practical approach to finding, adapting, or building solutions to problems fast.

He has applied my skills as a roboticist, software developer, and fabricator to such diverse projects as launching the traveling STEAM Carnival, building one of the first self-driving cars, developing immersive Story Rooms, and building home inventions for families in need as a designer on Extreme Makeover Home Edition.

Mary E. Hewitt is the Executive Director for the Los Angeles County Alliance for Boys & Girls Clubs. The Alliance is an umbrella organization that was created in 1998 to bring resources, marketing and fundraising to all Boys & Girls Clubs in Los Angeles County which serve over 140,000 youth ages 6 to 18. For the past 7 years she has spearheaded innovative programs, special events and service to under-resourced communities in Los Angeles.

With her experience working for the US Government in Washington DC, Mary has led the Alliance on college and career programs through the annual Teen Summit. In 2019, she developed an Alliance Kollab workforce development program to get the Boys & Girls Clubs youth meaningful employment through a comprehensive public/private investment partnership program. The platform integrates college-focused academics, technical skills training from different pathways in the high-demand industries, and intensive support for optimal long term success.

Among many talents, Mary is an award winning driven expert in media, marketing, and communications. She has been a director of communications for several national and international companies, as well as a press secretary and public affairs specialist for the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Department of Treasury, respectively. Mary previously served as Director of Communications for the American Diabetes Association in Los Angeles and as the Senior Public Information Officer for PMC World, a planning, environmental, and municipal services company to public agencies, special districts, and public-oriented organizations.

Mary serves as a board member for the South Bay Business Environmental Coalition as well as being a member of the National Diversity Coalition. She graduated from Central Washington University in Mass Communications in Broadcast Journalism and obtained a Master’s Degree from Georgetown University in International Affairs.

Frances is the founder/Captain Awkward/CEO of Awkward Essentials, a company that makes products that address the unspoken parts of hygiene. She is also the inventor of the dripstick - an after sex cleanup sponge.

With a background ranging from hula dancing to baking to wedding photography, she never intended to build a company around post-sex cleanup. However, after accidentally launching in the UK a month before she got married, Frances built one anyway. She’s also a super cheerleader for fearlessness, trying new hobbies, and ice cream.

Attended the University of Miami and majored in Microbiology and Immunology. Enlisted in the U.S. Army after graduating and was trained in Counterintelligence. Later, was a Special Agent In-Charge at several locations overseas including Latin America and the Middle East. Later, was assigned as the Director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.

Brent Bushnell is the CEO of Two Bit Circus, a Los Angeles–based experiential entertainment company building a network of permanent micro-amusement parks. Most recently the team launched STEAM Carnival, a showcase of high-tech entertainment and workshops to inspire invention. They built a 360 video production pipeline and deployed virtual reality content with haptic feedback for live events with clients including the NFL, the NBA, Indy, the Olympics, Sundance, and more. Previously, Bushnell was a founding member of Syyn Labs, a creative collective creating stunts for brands like Google and Disney that was responsible for the viral “This Too Shall Pass” music video for OK Go, which garnered 50+ million views.

Peter is an entrepreneur who is driven by using technology to make the world a better place.

Peter is also the Founder and CEO of iMotions, fully-integrated, hardware-agnostic software platform that allows researchers to use the power of any neuroscience technology, as well as traditional surveys and focus groups, to gain unparalleled insight into what people actual think and feel. His customers are using iMotions for everything from diagnosis of neurological diseases such as Parkinson, Schizophrenia, Autism and Alzheimers to personnel training, UX testing, advertising and military human research.

In addition, he is actively working to support tomorrow's entrepreneurs and visionaries through educational programs, award competitions and mentorship.

Finally, Peter also acts as a Business Angel Investor in start-ups and is one of the founding members of the ByFounders Fund.

Dane Maxwell is the yoda of SAAS. Author of #1 Best Selling book Start From Zero. Podcast host Start From Zero. He is the founder of Arena Rivals the first of its kind Virtual Reality eSports arena shooter thats focus is to create an uplifting community of highly competitive gamers that want to make friends and build a positive brian.

Jason Ray has spent 30 years as a game producer for companies like 3DO, Konami and Activision. with a track record of successful product launches on multiple platforms ranging from phones, to game consoles and virtual reality. He presently works VIVE Studios, the developer facing arm of HTC.

John Halcyon Styn is a social media pioneer who has been storytelling online for over 20 years through his “Hug Nation” YouTube channel and Facebook Live broadcasts. He is the author of “Love More. Fear less. Float more. Steer less” whose stories have been viewed online over 40 million times. He is the co-founder of the Pink Heart Burning Man camp and the homeless outreach organization “1st Saturdays.” His current passion is daily free online Gratitude Circles at http://zoom.hugnation.com

Victor (“Vic”) has 38 years’ experience in the Human Resources profession and has focused his career on aligning HR programs and processes with the strategic business (operational) plans of his clients and employers. Vic’s experience includes 19 years as an HR Practice Leader for Ernst & Young and Korn Ferry (where he worked with Daniel Goleman on leadership competencies). He implemented HR “best practices” at PepsiCo, Merck, Lilly, Boeing, Johnson & Johnson, Toyota, and Chrysler to name just a few. He successfully managed more than 135 other HR projects with a focus on competency based HR systems integration (integrating leadership competencies with selection, development, promotion and succession planning). Previously he worked for a $350 million venture fund instrumental in funding companies with transformative technologies with an aggregate valuation of $4 billion. He helped launch 7 startups.

Tony is currently a Recruiting Manager at Tesla with a team responsible for Workforce Development and Education Programs. His responsibilities include creating strong pipelines of skilled trades candidates from local Community Colleges and Institutions, while building relationships across multiple educational channels. Tony has spent the last 4 plus years cultivating relationships with schools across the country to insure Tesla finds the best and brightest students in the skilled trades to raise the bar on talent going into their factories and field service organizations across the country. A big part of this is the START Program that, along with the Service Training team, was created to address the skills gap they were seeing with candidates right out of school. START is a 12-week intensive training program that frontloads most the training a technician at Tesla would receive, resulting in a candidate that can make impact on day 1 of their full time career. As a result of all this work, he’s become extremely passionate about promoting Skilled Trades programs at all levels of education. Tony feels there’s a fundamental loss when we don’t give students options to be successful based on their learning styles, capabilities and interests. He has spent 10 plus years on and off with Tesla building various teams with a lot of his experience at the skilled trades level. He’s also been responsible for high-level technical recruiting for various companies including Apple and Facebook. Tony sits on the Board of Directors for the TechForce Foundation to help insure the future technicians of the Transportation Industry. In his spare time, he is cooking for family and friends, being outdoors and hanging out by the beach! Tony and his wife live in Orange County, Ca with their 2 amazing kids!

After graduating from the Information Networking Institute at CMU in 1994 with a Masters of Science in Computer Networking and Virtual Reality, Jesse Schell went on to work for Bell Labs. In 1995 he joined Walt Disney Imagineering, where he worked for seven years in capacity of programmer, manager, designer and Creative Director on several projects. These included rides for theme parks, DisneyQuest, and Toontown Online, a massively multiplayer online game. During his time at Disney, he met Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch, who was taking a sabbatical in the lab where Jesse worked. When Randy founded the Entertainment Technology Center at CMU, he invited Jesse to become a faculty member. Jesse joined the faculty in 2002.

In 2002, Jesse founded Schell Games, a full-service game design and development company with a focus on creating both educational and entertainment games on all platforms for players of all ages. The company is based in Pittsburgh, PA and employs more than 100 people. Currently Jesse serves as CEO. At Tech 50 in 2016, Jesse was awarded CEO of the year, and the year prior, Jesse was named one of Pittsburgh's 50 most powerful people

Expert in Innovation by Design, Immersive Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (XR) technologies, Big Data and Whole-Body Interaction design, operating at the crossroads of emerging tech, academia, and various industry verticals such as healthcare (MedTech and Digital Health), education (EdTech), entertainment (Game Design, World Building, Interactive and Immersive Music), and social enterprise (Games for Change, Serious Games, Diversity & Inclusion apps, Social Justice apps).

As the founder of Enosis, he is leading innovation by design, discovery, specialized R&D, and advisory services on innovation, productization, commercialization, and business strategy.

At Enosis, he works on R&D and innovation projects in partnership with academic institutions such as the London School of Economics, USC, and ASU and industry partners such as HP Labs, Google, Dolby, Experimental Design and many promising startups in the US and internationally. He takes pride in producing the Bohemian Rhapsody VR Experience, one of the first VR experiences that explored the power of immersive music in collaboration with Google and the rock band Queen.

As the Chief Design Officer at Applied VR, he oversaw a series of Medical Virtual Reality therapeutic products from R&D and product design to full productization. The EaseVR platform he designed and supervised for Chronic Pain management has received Breakthrough Device Designation from the FDA in 2020.

Expert in Innovation by Design, Immersive Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (XR) technologies, Big Data and Whole-Body Interaction design, operating at the crossroads of emerging tech, academia, and various industry verticals such as healthcare (MedTech and Digital Health), education (EdTech), entertainment (Game Design, World Building, Interactive and Immersive Music), and social enterprise (Games for Change, Serious Games, Diversity & Inclusion apps, Social Justice apps).

As the founder of Enosis, he is leading innovation by design, discovery, specialized R&D, and advisory services on innovation, productization, commercialization, and business strategy.

At Enosis, he works on R&D and innovation projects in partnership with academic institutions such as the London School of Economics, USC, and ASU and industry partners such as HP Labs, Google, Dolby, Experimental Design and many promising startups in the US and internationally. He takes pride in producing the Bohemian Rhapsody VR Experience, one of the first VR experiences that explored the power of immersive music in collaboration with Google and the rock band Queen.

As the Chief Design Officer at Applied VR, he oversaw a series of Medical Virtual Reality therapeutic products from R&D and product design to full productization. The EaseVR platform he designed and supervised for Chronic Pain management has received Breakthrough Device Designation from the FDA in 2020.

Joel Robinson is the founder, executive director, and head naturalist for Naturalist For You. He has guided thousands of curious individuals on professional wilderness tours since 2001. Many organizations and agencies have utilized his talents, including the US Forest Service, Audubon Society, The Nature Conservancy, The Wildlands Conservancy, the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy, Los Padres Forest Association, Silverado Modjeska Park & Recreation District, Santa Ana Mountains Wild Heritage Project, City of Santa Ana, City of Lake Forest, and Orange County Department of Education. He is a Certified Interpretive Guide with the National Association for Interpretation. His vision is to connect the majority of the public to our local natural areas, so their preservation is guaranteed for future generations.

Abeni Carr began her journey as an activist for homeless youth in high schools throughout Los Angeles and Compton. As an educator, fundraiser, and college counselor, she has spent years working with unaccompanied youth and students experiencing homelessness in order to ensure that they applied and were admitted to college, received access to academic and financial aid, and began their post-secondary endeavors with the skills and supplies they needed for a successful college experience.

Psychologist Skip Rizzo conducts research on the design, development and evaluation of virtual reality (VR) systems targeting the areas of clinical assessment, treatment rehabilitation and resilience. This work spans the domains of psychological, cognitive and motor functioning in both healthy and clinical populations. Rizzo, whose work using virtual reality-based exposure therapy to treat PTSD received the American Psychological Association’s 2010 Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Treatment of Trauma, is the associate director for medical virtual reality at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies.

Founder of SOHMA Integrative Health Center. It's mission is to provide exceptional, patient-centered healthcare services that combine Eastern and Western practices without the use of drugs or surgery.