Jordan is the co-founder of Mitchell McClure where they work with fast-growing companies to drive greater profitability through better people development. He’s worked in people development since 2009 helping leaders avoid burnout, become self-aware, and communicate better with their team. His greatest desire is to leave a legacy of love.  He lives in his hometown Greenville, SC with his wife, Kristen, and their son, Luke.

Sam LaCrosse is a nobody. He hasn’t done anything amazing. He is not extraordinary or impressive. He’s just an ordinary guy from Cleveland, Ohio, who now lives an ordinary life in Austin, Texas. But if you want to check him out, he writes blogs on dontreadthisblog.com and hosts Don’t Listen to This Podcast. Sam is the CEO and Founder of Don’t Do This, LLC, a company that makes no money. He is also a board member of Thrive Living Corporation and an ambassador for RallyCap Sports.

Jasmine is a VR content creator primarily on YouTube and TikTok. She started VR content creation at the beginning of the pandemic though she's been interested in XR for over a decade. She focuses on VR tech, product reviews and gameplay. Her goal is to make VR accessible and not intimidating by creating easy to understand videos.

Jeremy D. Nickel thrives at the intersection of spirituality and technology. A lifelong spiritual adventurer and entrepreneur, after Graduate School in Berkeley, CA and jobs in the tech world, Jeremy was Ordained by the Unitarian Universalist Association and served seven years as the Spiritual leader of Mission Peak UU Congregation, an interfaith spiritual community in Silicon Valley. He left in 2016 to launch EvolVR. EvolVR is a secular/spiritual community that is creating personal growth experiences in Virtual and Augmented Reality. In January of 2022 EvolVR was acquired by TRIPP where Jeremy continues to lead the community as the VP of Community and Live Events. When un-plugged from his Ministry Jeremy enjoys spending time exploring the great outdoors of his newly adopted state of Colorado with his wife Nicole, a UCC minister, and daughter Eliza.

Duncan Campbell is currently the Content Acquisition Manager for Roblox on the Community Expansion Team, a division of Developer Relations responsible for the growth of both developer and user communities. He’s been in the games industry for over a decade with experience in partnerships, content, marketing, media, community management and development having worked at companies such as EA, Ubisoft, and HTC Vive, and more.

Now, he’s helping run the Game Fund at Roblox, a program with $25 million in funding to support developers and studios in their quest to build the next generation of experiences on the platform. A direct effort in pushing the boundaries of the metaverse.

Yu-kai Chou is an Author and International Keynote Speaker on Gamification and Behavioral Design. He is the Original Creator of the Octalysis Framework, and the author of Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards. He is currently Founder Partner/Chief Creation Officer of The Octalysis Group, and Chief OP Mentor of Octalysis Prime, a Gamified Mentorship Platform.

Yu-kai has been a regular speaker/lecturer on gamification and motivation worldwide, including at organizations like Google, Stanford/Yale/Oxford, LEGO, Tesla, IDEO, BCG, Turkish Airline, the governments of UK, Singapore, South Korea, Kingdom of Bahrain, and many more. His work has empowered over 1 Billion users’ experiences across the world.

Formerly, he was the Head of Creative Labs & Digital Commerce for HTC, working on pioneering VR technologies. He was also Chief Experience Officer for Decentral, working on blockchain experiences with the Cofounder of Ethereum, Anthony Di Iorio.

Yu-kai was one of the earliest pioneers in Gamification, starting his work in the industry in 2003. In 2015, Yu-kai was rated #1 among the “Gamification Gurus Power 100” by RISE, and was also awarded the “Gamification Guru of the Year” Award in 2014, 2015 and 2017 by the World Gamification Congress and the Gamification Europe Conference. He has helped a variety of companies, from seed stage startups to Fortune 500 companies such as LEGO, Uber, Volkswagen/Porsche, Sberbank, eBay, Fidelity Investments, AIG Japan, Verizon, and more. His work has been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, The World Journal, PBS, NBC, and many more.

Espree is Listed by Inc Magazine as top 30 Women in Tech to follow. Harpers Bazaar says her podcast is the top 10 to listen to and she is one of the faces of Clubhouse app icon, the most influential audio social app.

Creator of WeareLATech.com, Unifying the LA tech eco system via the 1st LA Tech Startups Podcast + a localized Silicon Beach community event calendar + offline Experiences

Producer and Host of #womenintech Podcast (Women in Tech) to share stories of 'actionable empowerment'. Listeners walk away feeling "If she can do it, so can I".

Tom Casano is the Founder of Deep, the easiest way to build a world in the metaverse. Deep is a no-code platform that provides simple tools to build virtual worlds. Tom founded Deep with a vision of billions of user-generated virtual worlds, built by regular people, openly shared and visited by everyone.

President of Grassroots Developer Education, Inc/medVR. Steven is the producer of technical competitions and hackathons at extreme scale focused on discovering the application of new technologies, innovation and mining new ideas in the fields of augmented reality (AR,) virtual reality (VR), machine learning, and quantum computing.

He is best known as the producer of the Reality Virtually Hackathon at the MIT Media Lab and the Creating Reality Hackathon at the University of Southern California.

His newest project is MedVR Symposium & Hackathon for VR/AR in Healthcare which is scheduled for June of 2021 at Northeastern University College of Art, Media, and Design.

Mike Wesolowski, PhD has been leading highly performing teams in science, innovation, and technology development for over a decade. He is an entrepreneur, multidisciplinary researcher and a passionate advocate of the concept of using “tech for good”.

Mike is the co-founder and CEO of Luxsonic Technologies. He leads a growing team of innovators, medical professionals, and healthcare executives, that share a common mission; to improve global access to healthcare through immersive technology. Their goal is to empower the healthcare industry by providing affordable, easily distributed, and immersive tools that improve medical education, hands-on training, and virtual healthcare delivery. In 2020, Luxsonic was named one of the Top 20 most innovative early-stage companies in Canada by the Canadian Innovation Exchange.

In addition to leading Luxsonic, he is also a multidisciplinary scientist and enthusiastic mentor. Mike received his PhD in Physics from the University of Waterloo and holds an Adjunct Professorship in Medical Imaging at the University of Saskatchewan. He has co-authored over 35 academic publications in fields ranging from astrophysics to radiology. His current research group focuses on the development, evaluation, and integration of innovative technologies in medical imaging.

Mike firmly believes that technology, applied with the intent of bettering humanity, can be a dramatic force of positive change in our society. This belief has guided him throughout his career and ultimately led to the creation of Luxsonic.

Maura Welch is VP Marketing for Together Labs, a leader in technologies that empower people to connect, create and earn in the metaverse. Prior, Maura led marketing at TripAdvisor and was on the founding team for WeeWorld, a top 10 tween/teen site and early social metaverse platform. Earlier, Maura helped to found other innovative startups working with top brands, entertainment, and sports organizations. Passionate about mission-driven business practices that strengthen community and connectedness, she has been a Boston Globe tech/innovation columnist, a TEDx curator and served on the National Marine Sanctuaries Business Advisory Council (NOAA).

Terrence Real is an internationally recognized family therapist, speaker, and author. He founded the Relational Life Institute, offering workshops for couples, individuals, and parents along with a professional training program for clinicians to learn his Relational Life Therapy methodology. He is the bestselling author of I Don't Want to Talk About It, How Can I Get Through to You?, and The New Rules of Marriage. His book US: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship will be published by Goop Press June 7, 2022.

Grant Haseley is the Executive Director and Founder of Wagyu Games, creators of Undead Blocks, the world’s first AAA play-to-earn FPS zombie shooter. Grant brings over an unparalleled passion and vision for gamer empowerment and digital asset ownership that relate to his days working in Banking. Grant was most recently a Vice President for M&T Bank specializing in Data Analytics and previously worked at Goldman Sachs as an Analyst in their Securities Lending division. Grant graduated with a BS in Mathematics from the University at Buffalo.

Sonya Haskins is a respected voice in the XR industry and Head of Programming at AWE (Augmented World Expo). She was the first seated player in the Oculus-sponsored VR League and the first female player to advance to regionals in North America. In 2019, Sonya founded VR Community Builders and she actively encourages positive, inclusive communities through engagement and training with "best practices." Sonya has been interviewed by Intel and the Washington Post, among other publications. She's also an avid journalist and has written 8 books.

Scott Albright CEO & Chris Vezina COO of VREL. VREL was established by several talented competitive players from both PC and VR gaming worlds. The VREL team wants to become the Premier E-Sports League by running the league the right way. Through professional administration of the VREL, the players’ community can rest assured that they will receive support, answers to their questions, frequent and timely updates to any rules promoting fair play, equality, and no-harassment environment.

Nanea Reeves is the Co-Founder and CEO of TRIPP, a category-leading global XR Wellness company pioneering innovative and accessible technologies that empower people to take control of their mental and emotional well-being. Nanea brings over 15 years of experience in digital distribution, video game technologies and mobile application development. Prior to co-founding TRIPP, Nanea was President and COO of textPlus, COO of Machinima, and Chief Strategy Officer at Gaikai. Nanea was also the Senior Vice President and COO of Global Online at EA. Through her leadership at these previous companies, she’s facilitated $1.6 billion in exits.

Opening minds to all the worlds and opportunities that are being enabled by XR is what drives the passion of Wouter van den Bijgaart for this upcoming tech wave. Wouter was the first who brought the concept of VR entertainment centres to The Netherlands. Now he’s a VR teacher, business developer and the head of “VRNetherlands.nl” - a full-service VR consulting agency.

From Location Based VR and VR Esports to implementation and development of B2B concepts, Wouter is an expert in bridging the gap between tech and the market through systemic thinking.

His current focus is to offer quality, affordable VR for leisure through a turn-key VR solution. His company VR Netherlands is also engaged in exciting projects such as fully integrating Virtual Reality in the curriculum of schools.

Coming September Wouter and his team are hosting a 3-day event dubbed “Back to Reality” - one of the first VR events that truly focuses on the Early Majority by emphasising the accessibility and feasibility of VR in corporate scenario’s, ranging from healthcare and education to architecture and entertainment.

Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS, is director of Health Services Research for Cedars-Sinai and Director of the Cedars-Sinai Master's Degree Program in Health Delivery Science. He directs the Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CS-CORE), a multidisciplinary team that investigates how digital health technologies; including wearable biosensors, smartphone applications, virtual reality (VR) and social media; can strengthen the patient-doctor bond, improve outcomes and save money. CS-CORE unites clinicians, computer scientists, engineers, statisticians and health services researchers to invent, test and implement digital innovations, always focusing on the value of technology to patients and their providers.

Ori Inbar is founder of Super Ventures, the first early-stage fund dedicated to Augmented Reality (AR).

Ori is also the co-founder and CEO of AWE XR, a global community dedicated to advancing augmented reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). Since 2010, over 5000 companies and 50,000 professionals have trusted AWE to connect, learn and grow their business in the XR ecosystem - via conferences, meetups, classes, award competitions, industry news, and thousands of free videos about everything XR.

In 2009, Ori was the co-founder and CEO of Ogmento, one of the first venture-backed companies conceived from the ground up to develop and publish augmented reality games - games that are played in the real world.

Ori has been an enterprising champion of the augmented reality industry since 2007. He established Games Alfresco - a leading augmented reality blog that helped popularize AR, and in 2010 co-founded the Augmented World Expo (Formerly ARE) - the world's largest and most influential conference for AR - now in its 13th year.

Ori is a recognized speaker in the AR industry, lecturer at NYU, as well as a sought after adviser and board member for augmented reality startups.

Andy from The Meta VR Community, once known as the Oculus VR Community, once known as The Oculus Rift VR Group 😉

Andy was first introduced to VR around 1998 with a travesty of a headset that makes Google Cardboard look state of the art, and makes motor cycle helmets feel light.

As gut wrenching as this monstrosity was, it still planted a seed that would for him, grow to fruition upon the release of the Rift CV 1, which would lead him into the hobby he waited half a lifetime for, and through almost random chance (and not knowing when not to volunteer 😉 ) lead him to be part of a small team running one of the largest Oculus Facebook groups in the world.

You can call it Meta, but just like calling a Marathon A Snickkers, you would be wrong