Jez Cajiao was born 1980 in Hartlepool UK and raised in Washington UK by his Mum and Step Dad, along with his two brothers and sister. Jez began working at the family catering business at age 11, but truly found his joy in welding. Due to welder's lung, he was forced to switch careers, but only truly found love in his work when he became an author in 2020. Jez is best known for his series UnderVerse and his new release, Age of Stone. Jez lives with his wife, 2 kids, dog and cats in South Shields.

Aleron Kong is an African-American physician turned WSJ Best Selling Author. His comedic fantasy opera, The Land, has eight novels and a main character that is an everyday kind of guy. The series has over 100,000 five-star reviews and has sold over 1,000,000 copies. Chosen as Audible’s Customer Favorite of the Year, it has wide appeal whether you are reading or listening. He has recently converted his novels into a webcomic. The author is also extremely proud of his fandom, which has raised over $150,000 for various charities over the past few years. Thirty-five of his fans have also gotten tattoos of his artwork, and three babies have been named after his characters. His fans are united by the words, “Through Service, Ascendance. Through Dedication, Transcendence.”

Travis Deverell was startled to discover that writing an internet story about an inter-dimensional kung fu wizard had somehow become a marketable skill when accidentally found himself to be a successful author. He's now quietly getting on with it while hoping that no-one notices the entire thing is ridiculous. Under the pen name Shirtaloon he has released several books in the ongoing He Who Fights With Monsters series.

Laura Inserra is a sound alchemist. She lives and creates at the confluence of music from around the globe, wisdom practices, and cutting edge technology. In the last decade, Laura has been focusing her work on the the universal, transformative, and healing power of sound. Combining her intimate knowledge of music with her studies of ancient schools of wisdom, she developed Resonant Healing, her own multifunctional method for self-inquiry and wellbeing. In person and online, she uses this method in one-on-one sessions as well as in group work, public gatherings, and art installations. Laura is the co-founder of Seeds of Gold Institute, whose mission is to research and integrate ancient technology and schools of wisdom into modern life. The Institute is dedicated to helping individuals, groups, and the global community in the journey of personal growth and collective evolution.

For over 15 years Jeffery has conducted the largest international study on persistent non-symbolic experience (PNSE), which includes the types of consciousness commonly known as: enlightenment, nonduality, the peace that passeth understanding, unitive experience, and hundreds of other terms. This resulted in the first reliable, cross-cultural and pan-tradition classification system for these types of experience. It also led to the fundamental discovery that these were psychological states that had been identified and adopted for thousands of years by many cultures and belief systems.

In 2007, Jeffery conceived of and created the Transformative Technology space. Since that time he has worked to catalyze the space by bringing together makers, scientists and other researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs, companies, educational institutions, non-profits and NGO’s, public policy experts, and investors. He is a co-founder of the first academic lab dedicated to TransTech, its first conference, taught the first university-level course and established the first graduate program in TransTech, and many other firsts.Jeffery is a successful serial and parallel entrepreneur with a 25+ year background at various intersections of wellbeing, media, advertising, and technology.

In 2018, Jason started building worlds based on VR games to change the way things were done, interviewing developers within their own VR games within VR itself. He also brought people ways to get together during the pandemic for game release parties they could not do without risk, and gave creative ways for them to do meetings virtually.

Jason is also a disabled player that works closely with developers to test for seated play, and upper mobility issues. He also work with many VR YouTubers to bring the community together, and help them out with creative ideas. Jason believes that content creators, the VR community, and developers, have to work in symbiosis to help build the future of VR together.

Mayank Mehta did his PhD in quantum physics of space-time. Since then, his research has focused on understanding how our brain creates intelligence and abstract ideas such as space-time. They measure the activities of many individual neurons while rats navigate a virtual world. Theirs is the only lab in the world to directly measure how neurons respond to the virtual world and the real world. Using this and sophisticated mathematical techniques, they were able to ask many fundamental questions including: How does our brain determine what is real? Their research has a wide range of applications, from education to AI and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders.

SteveKnows is a VR Youtuber. He likes to make fun videos that are full of laughs cause its a gaming channel. It should be fun! His favorite games in VR are action horror titles, like Lies Beneath and Resident Evil. He looks forward to the future where he can live in the Metaverse.. it's sooner than he could have hoped. He's a Dev by Day and a VR enthusiast by LIFE!

Nichol co-founded and built Transformative Tech.org, a global ecosystem dedicated to educating, gathering, and activating wellbeing tech founders, investors, and innovators. Today, Transformative Tech has members in 72 countries and 450 cities and their tentpole events online or in person attract 1K+ attendees. They help founders leveraging exponential tech for mental and emotional wellbeing, social and emotional wellness, and human potential and performance find feedback, funding, and friends. They help investors find the best wellbeing tech founders and companies. Nichol helps corporate innovators understand and apply these powerful tools. Nichol curates the Transformative Tech Conference -- the most important event at the intersection of tech and wellbeing (www.ttconf.org).

Dr. Phelps is an international speaker, mindfulness instructor, and founder of InnerAlly, a company building tools, courses, and mobile apps to improve mental wellness based on the science of self-compassion. She has extensive experience in learning and behavior change and has been developing mental health tools since 2009. Her background in pharmacology and neuroscience helps her create programs and products for effective health behavior change. Cynthia started InnerAlly after having a profound recovery experience with implementing self-compassion in her own life, and now she teaches and does personal coaching to help others to make their own breakthroughs. InnerAlly celebrates the power of creating a kind and supportive inner voice to change your life for the better.

Terry Real is a nationally recognized family therapist, author, and teacher. He is particularly known for his groundbreaking work on men and male psychology as well as his work on gender and couples; he has been in private practice for over thirty years. Terry has appeared often as the relationship expert for Good Morning America and ABC News. His work has been featured in numerous academic articles as well as media venues such as Oprah, 20/20, The Today Show, CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today and many others.

In 1997 he published the national bestseller: I Don't Want To Talk About It, the first book ever written on the topic of male depression. That was followed by How Can I Get Through To You? an exploration of the role of patriarchy in relationships and most recently, The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love Work, a practical guide for couples and couples therapists.

Terry founded The Relational Life Institute, in Arlington, Massachusetts, dedicated to working with the general population to help women reclaim their voices and men open their hearts. The Institute offers a training program for therapists as well as workshops and trainings throughout the US and Canada.

Craig Frehlich has been teaching Design/Technology and Science for over 27 years. He is an author, podcaster and passionate enthusiast of immersive technology. Craig believes that critical analysis of the power that technology might yield in our daily lives is essential. When used effectively, these tools can spark awe, wonder and leverage powerful engagements that support lifelong learning and force users to "lean-in" to the content. Craig enjoys teaching everyday to help students innovate and adapt to an ever-changing world.

As an environmental consultant, biologist, and marine scientist, Garrett Stuart uses his diverse background and love of story-telling to drive a change in our future generations. His passions lie in bridging the gap between Nature and our youth to teach families sustainability and safe farming and gardening techniques.

Approaching 30 years of obsession in the wellness and performance space! Fueled by a love of playing sports, Dr. Dave was the kid who dove deep into the science behind performance. This translated into a career focused on coaching mindset, habits and routines, fitness, nutrition, epigenetics, functional medicine, and physiology. From pro athletes to high performing CEO’s, Dr. Dave has been there to help guide people through their tough spots. He’s been a speaker, author, CEO, researcher, and board member. Through all these vast experiences, he’s now putting it all together in a technology platform to help millions of people through digital health.

RC Leander is a global executive with a track record of building businesses, innovating products, and transforming the way businesses are run.He leverages his financial services acumen and entrepreneurial spirit and combines them with behavioral science to help companies enhance their go-to-market strategy with a specific focus on improving connections with members, customers, and employees.

RC thrives on working with smart people doing interesting work and solving big issues. He loves the feeling of leading or being part of a group that is passionate about the work they are doing, focusing ethically on improving the financial well-being of others. He is equally enthusiastic about solving tough business strategy and client experience issues while helping to drive technology changes.

During the Iranian Revolution of 1978, Shahin’s family had to escape to survive and ended up finally migrating to Los Angeles, Ca . At 15 years old Shaahin left home with nothing but the clothes on his back and created over a BILLION dollars in revenue by inventing the legendary smart drug known as HERBAL ECSTACY. These childhood experiences had a major impact on his perspective of freedom, hard work and entrepreneurship. Later Shaahin went on to invent Digital Vaporization (the forerunner to today’s vapes) and start a number of successful businesses with a couple notable failures. Today, he is the Founder and CEO of Accelerated Intelligence, Inc. a major Amazon FBA seller with millions in sales, the lead coach at Amazon Mastery where he teaches entrepreneurs how to CRUSH IT! on the Amazon platform and an active YouTube creator.

Alvaro Lacouture is a creative technologist and anthropologist with a passion for interactive design and new media experiments. Based in New York and born in Bogota Colombia, he is interested in the research and development of interactive communication experiences with a focus in Human-Computer Interaction, Speculative design, and emerging technologies such as AR and VR, physical computing, machine learning, and web development.

Simeone creates meaningful businesses for the conscious and sustainable evolutionary journey of all planetary ecosystems and communities. He writes, produces, and directs transformative, immersive mixed reality Universes centered around human connection and participation by dissolving boundaries between ancient wisdom and exponential technology (sensor, affective computing, spatial awareness, and perception tech) for enhanced cognitive and neurological states, amplified human experiences, heightened spiritual awareness, abundant physical and mental health, and emotional wellbeing.

Yoga, meditation, breathwork, shamanism, radio hosting, public speaking, and writing help him bring transformation into the world, where hyper-tech isn’t available. He also creates and produces the Virtual Temple Immersive Experiences for Burning Man and is a Chapter Leader of Transformative Tech, a global community creating new tools for exponential wellbeing and human flourishing.

Jay Vidyarthi is an attention activist and the founder of Still Ape - the world's first UX design studio focused exclusively on mindfulness, compassion, and wellbeing. He is working toward a society where access points to self-care and collective transformation are as diverse as the people who need them. He also teaches mindfulness to individuals and groups, where he inspires people to reclaim their freedom of attention in our culture of influence.

As a human-centered designer, Jay's been involved in creating Muse: the brain sensing headband, Sonic Cradle, the Healthy Minds Program, Brightmind, and 10+ more mindful technologies. He helped start the Mindful Society Global Institute and serves on its advisory council. He’s taught design at major institutions and his work and ideas have been recognized and featured internationally (Harvard, MIT, CHI, UToronto, Mindful.org, Forbes, Vice, World Happiness Week, Fast Company, TED, TransTech200, UX Awards, etc).