Alon Braun is a modern-day renaissance man. Early in life, he was an elite member of Israel’s cyber special forces unit while simultaneously the founder of a startup funded by Apple Israel. He then went on to become a marine biologist with a Master’s in Oceanography and published research on the cell biology of coral, with his research appearing in Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Alon then took a 3-year certification as a Feldenkreis body movement teacher, while working as an online marketing guru and business accelerator strategist, helping identify growth strategies using technology and data.

As an entrepreneur, Alon is the founder of Neurotech Analytics and Riverbank Consulting. He has a passion for scaling enterprises and scientific innovations, especially in the deep tech industry. Articles by or about Alon have been featured in Inc Magazine, Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, and Thrive Global. His new book, The Entrepreneur Journey: 8 Steps from Inspiration to Global Impact, was released in April 2021. Besides Alon’s work in science and technology, his areas of expertise include business growth strategies, agile methodologies development, and decision-making consultation.

Dan Brown is the Founder of The Positive Transformation Group, whose aim is to positively impact the lives of a Billion people. Dan crated Positive Transformation as a mindset in himself to challenge fear, doubt and insecurity while dealing with extreme life situations having come from being homeless, to now leading PTG as a philanthropist creating commercially sustainable opportunities globally.

Founder & President of the World Happiness Foundation and World Happiness Fest. Author of Happytalism and The Exponentials of Happiness. Director of the Gross Global Happiness program at the United Nations University for Peace.

Hannes Bend founded breathing.ai to integrate healthier habits into our everyday screen interactions. He suffered years of anxiety after trauma, and used breathwork, meditation and yoga to live a healthy and happy life. From 2014, he worked with hundreds of data- and neuroscientists, psychologists, Wim "The Iceman" Hof, UX/AI researchers, designers and engineers to develop award-winning (Stanford 2016) XR biofeedback technologies. Since 2019, Hannes and breathing.ai’s team have been developing patented technology using webcam and AI to detect stress, to offer simple short personalized breaks and adaptive screen experiences. Hannes recommends a deep breath and a letting go exhale to get an immediate energy boost.

Miri joined as CEO of Joy Ventures in January 2018. Prior to Joy, Miri co-founded and led Israel Brain Technologies (IBT), a non-profit envisioned by late Israeli President Shimon Peres that accelerated brain-related innovation and established Israel as a global brain technology hub. Miri started her business career as a corporate economist at Teva Pharmaceuticals and later held financial management positions at Pfizer in New York. She also served as VP Finance at IntegraMed, a specialty healthcare services firm. Miri holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Mathematics and a Master of Arts in Health Economics, from Boston University, as well as an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business.

Lyle Maxson is a pioneer of Transformative Entertainment, beginning his career as a creative director impacting thousands of people at the world's largest music festivals. His immersive design agency, The Courtiers, and passion for biohacking led to co-founding Andromeda Entertainment, a VR publisher bringing to market "Games for Good".

Birthed out of the pandemic, GeniusX, a VR education platform is Lyle’s next horizon for creating a metaverse that "upgrades the real world avatar that is you" with a goal to better humanity's relationship with technology along the way. In addition, he is addressing the world's mental health crisis with the creation of Entheo Digital - a digital therapeutics company pursuing FDA clearance and the creation of a wellness technology marketplace at the intersection of psychedelic therapy and experiential medicine.

Angela’s dedication to giving back to the community and increasing access to neurofeedback is what led her to co-found the Bay Area Brain Spa. The community neurofeedback offering allows people to brain train at a lower cost in a group setting. The Brain Spa also offers some of her favorite biohacking tools that she has discovered over the years for a curated approach to wellness. She is currently finishing a program to become a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition practitioner which will allow her to dive deeper assisting clients with functional medicine testing and protocols.

Can is a software engineer and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Chimpy, a power bank sharing company, and Yeti, a plant-based cheese company. Furthemore, Can was the co-founder of Kosmos School, where the goal was to build a K-12 school that existed only in VR.

Dr. Dave is inspired to enrich the human experience. His background is in mental health counseling, wellbeing engineering, behavioral research, executive coaching, and curating new technology for improving wellbeing. In addition, he is the Guides director at LifeGuides.com, an employee benefits company using Peer - Peer support for everyday challenges.

Silja Litvin is the psychologist, founder, and CEO of PsycApps, developer of the multi-award-winning eQuoo – the Emotional Fitness Game. Her Techstars portfolio company uses gamification and psychology to help people help themselves.

Giuseppe Riva, Ph.D., is Full Professor of General and Cognitive Psychology. at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, where he is also the Director of Humane Technology Lab. (HTLab.).

Riva is also the Founder and Director of the Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology (ATN-P) Lab. at the Istituto Auxologico Italiano (a leading Italian private hospital) where in the last 20 years he tested many of the current clinical applications of VR: from stress management to eating and weighting disorders. In the lab he also authored the COVID Feel Good Virtual Therapeutic experience (www.covidfeelgood.com): the only free, validated and multilanguage (13 different languages, from English to Farsi and Japanese) VR experience for coping with the negative psychological effects – anxiety and depression – of Coronavirus.

According to the scientific databases Scopus and ISI Web of Science, Riva is the scholar who authored the highest number of peer-reviewed scientific publications in the fields of “Virtual Reality” in the world. He is also the current President of the International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, and Rehabilitation (http://iactor.ning.com/) whose yearly conference will be held online in September (https://www.interactivemediainstitute.com/cypsy25/).

Julie Smithson’s personal mission is to ‘inspire and educate people to think and act in a socially, economically and environmentally responsible way’. It is through this lens as co-founder at MetaVRse, one of the world’s leading virtual, augmented and mixed reality (XR) consulting & product development companies. Julie is leading her teams through project development for multiple industries changing the way we educate and design spatially through implementation of immersive technology with the MetaVRse game engine. Also inspired to promote gender equality, advocacy & inspiration, Julie is the Board Chair for XR Women, a global community of women working in XR.

Edric is the Founder of Warmspace, a platform that scales deep human connection through guided video conversations. His mission is to make every single person feel seen and create a world that is filled with love, belonging, and authenticity. He's passionate about mindfulness, human potential and the use of technology for the flourishing of humanity. He led the Singapore Chapter of Consciousness Hacking and worked on innovative well-being experiments to enable well-being at a city-scale level with Audacity.world. Prior to that, Edric was a digital marketing expert at Twitter and Google and ran multiple tech startups of his own. In his personal life, Edric's a self-development junkie, often found doing self-experiments such as reading 50 books in a year, doing a 5-day water fast, and completing twelve 30-day challenges in 2020.

Denise Silber is a digital health pioneer, communicator, and social media influencer, on a mission to improve the quality of care. Denise is founder of Basil Strategies digital health content and event hosting and co-founder of VRforHealth, VR platform for curated videos and tech for good initiatives. A New Yorker in Paris, Denise Silber has worked on three continents and is fluent in French. In 2011, Denise was awarded the French Legion of Honor, France’s highest civilian honor, for her contribution to eHealth and patient engagement, and in 2018, was named to the #InspiringFifty women in tech. A Harvard MBA, Denise hosts podcasts for Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs and is vice-president for the Harvard Club of France.

Gary Moon works and plays at the intersection of capitalism, consciousness and social impact. As Managing Partner, Gary led the formation of Nfluence Partners, a Technology Boutique Investment Bank. Previously Gary ran the Tech, Media & Telecom practice for Headwaters MB which Gary and his partners grew into a top 5 Technology & Boutique by number of transactions before forming Nfluence in 2018. At Nfluence, Gary focuses on managing the firm’s institutional investor network, as well as working with mission-aligned businesses.

In 2018 in partnership with Conscious Capitalism, Gary launched the Mission-Aligned Growth Summit , an annual banking conference, and now a monthly salon series focused at the intersection of conscious business and capital markets. Gary serves on the San Francisco Bay Area board of Build.org, a non-profit teaching entrepreneurship to high school students in under-resourced communities. Gary and his partner Maria have 5 kids between them, ranging in age from 7 to 25. You can most often find them traveling somewhere in the world on various internal and external adventures.

Jay leads a nonprofit advocacy campaign, EQuip Our Kids!, whose focus is raising the emotional intelligence of humanity, starting with children and youth. EQuip promotes getting what educators call Social-Emotional Learning curriculum into every pre-K to 12 school. Motivated by the reality that 90% of the public is unaware of the remarkable child, school, family, workplace and society outcomes of this learning, Jay argues it is actually the most likely social movement in the world to raise human consciousness on a mass level out of the paradigm of conflict, pain, inequity and misery – which is inevitable in the historic child development and human relationship training we have inherited.

Jay Levin has led six media companies and launched six nonprofits dedicated to social change. He is best known as the founder and former editor-in-chief and CEO of the multiple-award winning Los Angeles Weekly, which under his editorial, business and sales/marketing leadership became the largest circulation and most advertising-rich weekly newspaper in the country. Jay is also trained in depth psychology and has part- time worked with hundreds of individuals and groups in transforming their lives.

My name is Zach Winfield and I'm currently based out of Boulder, CO. My educational background is in Nutritional Science and Biochemistry. I specialize in metabolic health and functional nutrition, natural movement, sports-related training, and functional fitness. With more than a decade of experience in nutrition, wellness, longevity, and exercise, I create highly specialized personal programs to help people achieve their greatest health aspirations. In addition to personal consulting, I've joined the Wearable Challenge team to provide content and consulting services about metabolic optimization to a broader community. Today, I love to share my knowledge and passion with others through consulting, educating, and training. Through my work with hundreds of clients, I’ve come to believe that there is an operable solution for every problem, no matter how big or small.

PHIA is a YouTuber and streamer that treads the line between real life and virtual reality by using a virtual avatar to create content. She hosts a series on her YouTube channel titled "The Virtual Reality Show" where she talks about a variety of topics involving VR from inside VR itself. In the past year, she has managed to gain over 100k subscribers and dedicated viewers from all across the world who share her passion for all things VR. Her series has become popular among social VR users and serves as an insight into the growing phenomenon that is virtual reality.

Christopher Stapleton is an award-winning creative developer of innovative guest experiences that define global brands using next generation talent, technology and techniques. Projects include product and venue development for theme parks, education centers, conventions, attractions, rides, shows, events, health services, food & retail venues. His influence crosses over commercial, civic and academic sectors to rapidly transform ideas into real-world innovations leveraging his pioneering work in XR (Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality)

Debi Stack retired from IBM as one of the first female AI Consultants. Along with colleagues from EDS and HP, she co-authored the book, “NextGen Smart Cities”.  Currently, Debi is the founder of Digital Ascension, with a mission to become a trust fund for an ecosystem of transformative wellness tech companies with roots in New Orleans, collaborating around the world to solve the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals.

Debi continues to honor the mission she accepted at IBM; "Save lives among U.S.Veterans", where she joined a fin-tech intrapreneurship team to develop the Trust platform. Essentially, we derived from our research that veterans need more than talk therapy and medicine to heal from PTSD. They need an AI-driven, Blockchain secured, personal privacy platform to address all of their needs from finance, to healthcare, education, and housing, career, shopping, travel, and all vertical solutions. Also, the value of their personal data, transaction fees and interest would be returned to a digital, community bank.

As a woman in tech, Debi started her career at AT&T, rotated through 5 Fortune 100 companies, founded 3 start-ups, and consulted on full-stack technology from deep network architecture and security through innovative applications in AI, AR, VR, and Blockchain. She serves on the Board of Advisors for several stealth startups.