All of Matt's game handles are “Garreltsy”. He streams VR on twitch, and is the Founder of VR eSports Havoc. He started the team in December of 2020 and now has two Co-owners, Tbgdog15 and FatalX3rror. They are tying to build the foundation of what a VR eSports team should look like. The biggest thing they try to focus on is building a competitive non-toxic environment. Matt is also the host of the VR Jungle podcast along with his VR Avatar Co-host, PickleOstrich.

Lindsay is an explorer of higher truth with a passion for assisting people and groups in making the transition into not just flow-state — but a full-flow life — through a variety of methodologies.

Her work is in assisting leaders access higher stages of personal development and wellbeing as means to positively impact culture by doing so.

As a transformative executive coach, Lindsay has worked with individuals, leaders and groups for over 10 years, applying psychosomatic modalities ranging in the intersections of meditation, mindfulness, positive psychology, family systems psychology and much more through a transpersonal (beyond-ego) lens. She uses her experience-based intuition in combination with a foundational understanding of the brain and behavior.

Rohit has been an Enterprise Software consultant most of his professional life working with Oracle products. He caught on the VR/AR technology bug in 2015 when he participated and won Techweek Kansas City 2015 hackathon. Once bitten by the VR bug there was no looking back. After participating and winning multiple hackathons, it was time to spread the word about this new technology and how it can change lives.

Being passionate about K-12 education helped and along with Joel Stephens Rohit started - VRoKCs - a VR/AR software development program for high school students.

The program introduces students to VR/AR development along with using hackathons as a medium to prototype solutions to real world problems and accelerate learning.

Nico Perony is the founder of OTO.ai, a company recently acquired by Unity to enable safe interactions in online games. Nico is a behavioral scientist and artificial intelligence researcher with a techno-utopian bend – one of his driving passions is to enable a safe and sustainable future for humanity.

Trained as an electrical engineer and behavioral biologist, Nico Perony completed his doctoral and post-doctoral training at ETH Zurich in the study of complex social systems. He has authored highly cited publications, published 2 books, given public talks at venues including TED and TEDx, co-founded 3 companies and an NGO, and secured private and public funding for his research and ventures.

Prior to founding OTO, Nico led the AI team at Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, and held various data-oriented roles in industries ranging from blockchain to sustainability. He is passionate about making technology a force for good, and sees AI-assisted toxicity moderation as a crucial stepping stone block towards enabling safe interactions in the metaverse.

Jake Sally is an Emmy-nominated producer, public speaker and entertainment executive dedicated to building the pipeline, vernacular and stories grounded in technology for audiences worldwide. Jake is the COO of Jadu, the definitive Web3 AR platform. The Mirrorverse, launching this year, is Jadu’s world-scale augmented reality gameworld pushing the boundaries of Metaverse utility by allowing 3D NFT avatars to navigate the physical world.

Previously, he oversaw content development at RYOT, Verizon’s internal content innovation team, focused on creating future-forward content formats and storytelling techniques as 5G networks begin to be widely available to consumers. He collaborates with artists and technologists to alter and improve the way stories are told with next-generation technology including VR, AR, artificial intelligence, projection mapping, physical installations, 5G and motion capture.

His work has led to speaking opportunities both public and private for institutions including MIT, Johns Hopkins, USC, Mobile World Congress, SXSW, Emmy Television Academy Foundation, and the Sundance Institute's New Frontier Story Lab among others. His work has appeared at Super Bowl LII (2018) and is part of textbooks used at USC such as "Crafting Stories for Virtual Reality".

Past projects include working in partnership with TIME Magazine to digitally recreate the historic March on Washington complete with a photoreal Martin Luther King who will deliver the iconic “I Have a Dream Speech” to guests as part of a large scale traveling virtual reality museum exhibition on civil rights.

He was also the creative producer for the United Nation's first use of projection mapping in the General Assembly as part of their Climate Action Summit held to galvanize world leaders to fight climate change like never before.

Dr. Shawna Pandya is a Canadian physician, scientist-astronaut candidate program graduate with the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS) and Project PoSSUM, aquanaut, speaker, martial artist, advanced diver, skydiver, pilot-in-training, VP Immersive Medicine with Luxsonic Technologies and Fellow of the Explorers’ Club. She is also Director of the IIAS/PoSSUM Space Medicine Group, Chief Instructor of the IIAS/PoSSUM Operational Space Medicine course, Director of Medical Research at Orbital Assembly Corporation, clinical lecturer at the University of Alberta, podcast host with the World Extreme Medicine’s WEMCast series, Primary Investigator (PI) for the Shad Canada-Blue Origin student microgravity competition, appointed member of the ASCEND 2021 Guiding Coalition, Life Sciences Team Lead for the Association of Spaceflight Professionals, and sessional lecturer for the “Technology and the Future of Medicine,” course at the University of Alberta. She serves as medical advisor to several space, medical and technology companies, including Mission: Space Food, as well as the Jasper Dark Sky Festival Advisory Committee. Dr. Pandya holds degrees in neuroscience (BSc Hons. Neuroscience, University of Alberta), space (MSc Space Studies, International Space University), and medicine (MD, University of Alberta), and a certification in entrepreneurship (Graduate Studies Program, Singularity University).

John Watts has been a devotee of all-things-technology since getting his first Commodore Amiga as a young boy. Movies like “The Lawnmower Man” spurred a fascination with virtual reality that continues to fuel his imagination, one which he feels lucky to be able to indulge in a modestly professional way with his small Virtual Reality Arcade in Inverness, Scotland. As one of the Admins of several of the largest VR Facebook groups, John feels fortunate to have been a part of influencing the discussion in the industry for the past half-decade.

For 15 years, John has enjoyed success as an entrepreneur in sales and marketing for the LBE & restaurant industry. With theperspective that “life is too short to waste doing anything you don’t love,” John is now working on opening the first LBVR venue in the Highlands of Scotland.

Andrew Kiguel is the co-founder and CEO of Tokens.com, a publicly listed company that invests in Metaverse real estate, DeFi and NFT related digital assets. Andrew also co-founded and is the former CEO of Hut 8 Mining, one of the largest publicly listed bitcoin miners in the world.

Prior to that, Andrew spent 20 years as an investment banker with a focus on technology and real estate. Andrew is an accomplished executive with leadership experience in capital markets, corporate governance and entrepreneurship.

VR has consumed Ben. It feels like pure magic and fills Ben with wonder. So he is devoting as much time as Ben can to playing, reviewing, and curating the best VR experiences.

Christy is the owner and founder of Sano Counseling Center. A mental health facility that works with an array of psychological problems. With over 15 years of experience in clinical psychotherapy, Christy Cosper has poured her expertise and personal discoveries into co-writing a book designed for healing and growth from addictive behaviors.

Transforming the Addictive Mind book contains a variety of voices who have treated and struggled through addiction. The exercises, meditative activities, and narratives are written simply enough to follow while having the elements needed to foster honesty, compassion, and gentleness with one's self and relationship to others.

Nick van Breda actively training makers to become changemakers. His mission is to help 1 million people to change the world for the better. He has helped 220.000 individuals in becoming entrepreneurial between 2014-2021. He focuses on shaping trends with them into business models, from Makers into Changemakers with social impact.

Jamar has been helping businesses prepare for the future and increase their revenue, by getting into cryptocurrency!

He is a Blockchain expert who has been trading for 10+ years with a degree in Computer Science and a consulting background of over 15 years!

He has since established himself as an expert in the cryptocurrency field, hosting monthly training programs such as his Blockchain Bootcamp, where his crypto training curricula is custom-made in such a way that is tailored to ensure that attendees get the most up-to-date information to assist them in reaching their unique goals.

Garage Stories is an innovation Lab for content creators to explore and play with the endless possibilities that XR technologies are bringing into the table and how these are reshaping the way we interact with the world -real & virtual- that surrounds us.

Our goal is to make sure that the quality of the content catches up with the development of the technology and to work together to shape the future we want to live in.

We've celebrated labs in Silicon Valley, Sonar + D, Media Lab MIT, USC LA and some of our projects have been presented at TEDx.

Gavin Masumiya believes that the quality of your life comes from the quality of your communication. As a multiple award winning Toastmasters International speech finalist, Gavin uniquely blends his love for public speaking, transformational coaching, and musical oration to help underdogs access their most powerful voice. Having earned his Psychology degree from UC, Irvine and becoming a Certified Professional Coach from the ICF-Accredited Program iPEC, over the past 6 years he has worked internationally with both men and women from technology, finance, school psychology, engineering, to the US Armed Services.

Gavin is the founder of FlowFam, a nonjudgmental collective space that cultivates confidence, innovation, and healthy communication. Through this methodology, Gavin has united families, inspired new career paths, and has helped individuals with excessive social anxiety become more proficient public speakers. Originally an in-person experience - with the unforeseen blessing of the pandemic - FlowFam has also pivoted into a virtual experience, touching the lives of people from 18 different countries, from children as young as 10 to 71 years of age.

Fred Joyal is an author, speaker, entrepreneur, and business advisor. He co-founded the most successful dentist referral service in the country, 1-800-DENTIST. He has previously written two books on marketing, has dabbled in standup and improv comedy, acted in bad movies and excellent TV commercials. His latest book, Superbold: from Under-confident to Charismatic in 90 days, was just released in October. He once beat Sir Richard Branson in chess and was also a question on Jeopardy. He is an avid cyclist, a below-average tennis player and an even worse golfer. He lives in Los Angeles.

Kevin Clark and Imen Maaroufi are cofounders of Point Motion. A motion-capture software for health and education institutions that allows their clients to engage in music-based experiences where each interaction within the user experience collects data on the performance of cognitive and motor functions over time.

Tiana Laurence is a technologist, an author, pioneer in the blockchain industry, and a true force in the venture capital space. She is currently General Partner at Laurence Innovation, an Austin, Texas-based pre-seed investment fund with a focus on early-stage tech companies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) verticals that are tackling some of the most pressing challenges the world is facing. Another core priority for the fund is having a robust portfolio of companies founded and led by women, under-capitalized entrepreneurs and geographies. Tiana also co-founded Factom (a blockchain innovations company) and is set to release her third book, NFTS For Dummies in Q1 preceded by, Blockchain For Dummies and Introduction to Blockchain Technology.

Jason Weimann is an online educator and Youtuber. The #1 place for Unity3D Tutorials, News, & Tips!

His channel is dedicated to helping game developers be better at game development.

He likes to teach a bit of everything, from the getting, started, and beginner style stuff to advanced techniques and patterns.

Anthony Collova is a heart-centered entrepreneur who has built and exited multiple seven-figure businesses in the online space. His self-given labels include husband, artist, burner, psychonaut, and one hell of a cookie maker.

Steve McCloskey is an Alumni from the first class of Nanoengineering at the University of California, San Diego. Steve’s work is focused on emerging technologies applied to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).

During his time at UC San Diego Steve worked directly with the founding Chair of the Nanoengineering Department, Ken Vecchio helping set the foundation for the Nanoengineering Materials Research Center and developing thermodynamic processing methods for Iron-based Super-elastic alloys.

After graduating from UCSD he founded Nanome Inc to build Virtual Reality solutions for Scientists and Engineers working at the nanoscale, specifically protein engineering and small molecule drug development.