James Schmachtenberger is a successful serial entrepreneur, with a lifelong focus on using business and innovation to effect large-scale change for the benefit of humanity. James is the co-founder and the CEO of Neurohacker Collective, a company focused on making groundbreaking products for health and well-being through complex systems science. His areas of expertise include nootropics, anti-aging and regenerative medicine, sleep and fast-paced entrepreneurialism.

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Daniel Dyboski-Bryant specializes in making XR positive and meaningful to communities, educators, learners and families around the globe. He's a passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion and his mission lies in harnessing people, communities, technologies and resources to inspire collaboration, common purpose and creative solutions to global and local challenges. As Executive Director at Virtual World Society he leads the mission for a global XR for Good community and ecosystem. He's working hard to democratize the next paradigm of impact, community development, learning and education. As Founder Director of Educators in VR he empowers a global community of educators, trainers and learners who meet, share and collaborate in and with VR to integrate XR immersive technology into education, training, business, and beyond.

Ryan is recognized globally as a pioneer and leader in the XR, gaming and crypto industries.

In 2020, Ryan co-founded Zebra Labs, a web3 company dedicated to bringing celebrities to the metaverse by creating virtual celebrities and digital collectibles.

In 2015, Ryan co-founded Outpost Capital, a cross-border early stage venture fund based in San Francisco and China, focusing on Metaverse, AI, VR/AR, Blockchain, Gaming/Esports, Transmedia and Digital Entertainment. Outpost Capital has been rated multiple times as one of the top XR investment brands in silicon valley and the world.

Having a multicultural background and proven track records, Ryan oversees companies in the US and greater China with solid insights and strong connections in both markets. Ryan has been frequently featured by international media, and invited to deliver keynotes at numerous conferences globally.

In 2017, Ryan took the role of Chief Business Officer at MOAC Blockchain - a high performance Multi-Layered public blockchain, and took the company to top 100 on CoinMarketCap.

Prior to Outpost, Ryan was a Venture Partner at CLI Ventures managing its TMT investment arm with over $200M AUM.

Early in his career, Ryan has compiled a comprehensive and successful career as an investment banker at Citigroup and Societe Generale in New York City.

Ryan is passionate about education and social impact. In 2021 and 2022 he was an industry speaker and contributed to the Metaverse program at University of Washington. In 2018 and 2019 he was a guest lecturer at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts for the Gaming and Entrepreneur program, and in 2017 he was a coach at Nanyang Technology University Startup Case Challenge program. Outside work, Ryan is a snowboarder, world explorer and collector of stylish hats.

When it comes to accomplishing unreasonable results, Mike is like a dog on a pant leg. Since realizing his childhood dream of graduating from the University of Notre Dame, the relentless pursuit of achievement was instilled, ensuring success in anything he take on.

Whether dominating sales quotas, starting and selling businesses, getting an MBA over 40, or completing marathons, Mike applies this tenacity to all facets of life. Masterful at heading into fear, he lives by a run-to-the-roar tenet. When faced with the challenges of the pandemic, Mike uniquely pivoted and took his family on an epic nine-month, 48-state RV trip. Shortly thereafter, they moved to a canal house in the heart of Amsterdam to begin another adventure.

Currently, the entrepreneur, podcast host, and keynote speaker helps others push past their comfort zones to take the next big step toward their ambitions. His vulnerability and willingness to share his mistakes allow others to see themselves in their journey. Mike's no-­nonsense style is equally energetic and fun-loving, leaving an imprint on how one views life. Audiences are captivated by his candid storytelling and inspired to pursue their wildest dreams revealing the obstacles before them.

Aaron You Mastny is the Founder of New Earth YOUniversity and has been in the personal development and transformational training space for over a decade. With over 18 years of real estate development and broker experience, Aaron is passionate about collaborating with mission-driven entrepreneurs to create a new reality based on who we truly are. Aaron’s deep commitment to supporting people by overcoming their subconscious beliefs with the 4 step "Inner Alchemy" process allows people to cut through the layers of societal conditioning and reveal their authentic selves. 

Darryl is one of the world’s leading experts on trust with over twenty years experience. His Ph.D. ¨Building Trust in Hostile Environments¨ from Duke University established him as a global leader for governments, businesses and NGOs on practical approaches to building trust.

Darryl has worked for Mckinsey & Company in their Toronto office, as well as advised the Canadian Military on trust building in Afghanistan. He has served as faculty for the Luxembourg School of Business and the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California and recently completed his book Building Trust: Exceptional Leadership in an Uncertain World.

Alexander Brazie is a global design director and gamification consultant. For over sixteen years, Alex has been working within the game industry as a designer, project leader, and head of learning & development for game designers who want to master their craft. His game combat and game systems design experience includes work on World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Ori & the Will of the Wisps and two unannounced AAA Projects for major studios.

Traveling the globe, Alex visits start-ups and established game teams to provide the valuable consultancy needed to design and apply gamification architecture that will deliver optimal results and creative solutions for business challenges. As a dedicated industry expert, Alex has consistently identified the true source of many development problems and disagreements for a number of companies, and assisted them through to resolution. Through his work helping game design and development teams, Alex is able to fix organizational and morale problems, while providing precise and accurate problem solving for complex or unique design problems.

Over the years, Alex has been a speaker at Game Development conferences on teaching and mentoring in game design, as well as how to develop game design teams.

Matthew Lee has always had an entrepreneurial spirit since he could remember. He is currently a business coach and advisor to small and medium-sized founder-led companies.

He leverages 20 plus years of in-the-trenches experience in B2B Sales, Real Estate Investing, and Mortgages to help his clients achieve success inside and outside their businesses.

Dr. Jacquelyn Ford Morie is an early Virtual Reality creator, developing techniques in this medium to deliver meaningful and emotional experiences. She has advanced degrees in both Fine Art and Computer Science, and serves on the boards of several future-oriented immersive media companies. She is a senior technical advisor to the recently awarded ANA Avatar XPRIZE, which challenged teams to build a physical robot avatar people could inhabit from a distance. Her company, All These Worlds, consults and builds immersive environments for a wide variety of clients. She enjoys sharing her expertise in the classes she teaches at the Otis College of Art and Design and at UCLA.

Nathan Sudds is a consultant, coach. entrepreneur. husband. food lover. writer. traveler + life long learner. He is a digital nomad living and working around the world and in the Metaverse. Nathan is the Founder of the Horizon Workrooms Community Facebook Group helping people connect inside VR. He is also a top coach on Coach.me, helping busy entrepreneurs & professionals with ADHD or focus challenges.

Joe De Pinto was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. After spending 4 years playing professional baseball in the Chicago White Sox farm system, he co-founded his first venture, Barpay, in 2015 with Daniel Wagner. In January 2021, along with Wagner, he co-founded Haste, the world’s first Instant Leaderboard Payout arcade. De Pinto’s vision for Haste is to have the platform serve as a fun and entertaining visual representation of micro transactions, and how they can empower new business models.

Eileen Greene is a 93 year old empowered and fearless woman who strongly believes that there's no age-limit to achieving your goals and dreams. After raising her three sons, Eileen went on an unrelenting campaign to educate herself and experience life to the fullest; earning her bachelor’s degree from California State University, Northridge at 50 years young.

For Eileen, it’s never too late, even today, she is an active Life Coach using Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapeutic methods to help her clients. Her Ted Talk (at the age of 87) focused on how it’s never too late to do anything your heart wants you to do in this lifetime. Her biggest message is that we are all going to go, some of us sooner rather than later, but while you are still here, you have an opportunity to contribute. What are your “coulda, shoulda, wouldas”? No matter your age, make your list, pick one and do it now.

Ryan Holmes is the Founder and CEO of SpaceVR. Experienced in design and software engineering, he founded several companies including Sphr, a software and design agency; and Tampa Hackerspace, a means for people to self-learn without college. He has built multiple apps featured on the top positions of Product Hunt. An experienced speaker, speaking at many conferences in the US and to 1,000 plus audiences in every major city in China. Experience in partnerships, he has led successful partnerships in Japan, China, and Europe. He studied Electrical Engineering at the University of South Florida.

With experience and exceptional skill, Michael Dyer has worked with all clients ranging from inner-city youth, private schools, universities, corporate companies, foster children, drug & alcohol rehabilitation centers, juvenile delinquents, staff development workshops as well as implementing and facilitating relationship coaching. Regardless of the client, Michael’s presence is always magnetic. He has a profound effect on all of our participants and because of these magnetic and empowering qualities he is by far one of the most highly requested facilitator.

Caitlin Krause is a globally-recognized experience designer, learning expert, author, and keynote speaker. She teaches at Stanford University about technology and wellbeing. In her books Mindful by Design (2019) and Designing Wonder (2020) and through her organizational consulting, Caitlin helps individual leaders and teams leverage mindfulness, storytelling, and design to form better human-centered relationships with mindful technology.

As founder of the MindWise consultancy, co-founder of the Center of Wise Leadership, and a virtual reality, XR and AI specialist, Caitlin contributes to building products and experiences that promote humanity, innovation and emotional intelligence. She speaks worldwide, delivering keynotes and leading professional development and learning workshops.

Caitlin actively guides leaders about effective uses of virtual reality and immersive storytelling to allow imagination and creativity to flourish. Caitlin has more than a decade of experience as an educator, promoting mindful leadership and learning models throughout organizations. She holds a BA from Duke University and an MFA from Lesley University, and believes in embracing creative constraints, living a life filled with moments of wonder, and connecting with passion, purpose and presence.

Passionate about music, harmony and beauty… Patrick Hilsbos has deep experience in applying advanced neuroscience technology for transformative experiences with a proven successful track record serving Fortune 500 companies, leading universities and high-growth startups. He is the CEO and Founder of neuromore which empowers leading companies to integrate and optimize neurotechnology and AI – resulting in smarter experiences, applications and ecosystems. He is also a Neuroscience Advisor to BrainMind, a private community of top brain scientists, entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and academic institutions collaborating to accelerate impactful innovation in brain science.

Eesmyal is an entrepreneur with a mission to invent solutions to wicked problems through technology and social innovation. He has cofounded 8 ventures in a variety of areas including: sustainable architecture, coworking, civic engagement, carbon analytics, education, and research. He’s the board chair of MAPS Canada, the cofounder and director of the Psychedelic Data Society, and the cofounder and CEO of Quantified Citizen, a mobile health research platform working to disrupt and democratize health research, starting with psychedelic science.

Agnieszka Sekula is a researcher at Swinburne University and a co-founder of Enosis Therapeutics Pty Ltd. Her research focuses on investigating therapeutic mechanisms in psychedelic treatment that can be strengthened through experience design and translating findings of this research into real life application, by developing virtual reality scenarios. She recently conducted the World’s first ever case study with the use of VR and psychedelics. Enosis native VR scenarios use an innovative, patent pending mechanism, AnchoringVR™, which preserves the profound but elusive psychological insights that emerge during the psychedelic experience.

Agnieszka is a scientist with a background in biomedical science and psychology. She used cutting edge biotech tools, including customized imaging robots, 3D modelling and VR, to innovate medical research all over the world, including forensic medicine in Switzerland, space medicine in Austria and translational science in Singapore. Her work has been displayed worldwide, including Shanghai EXPO, Florence Biennale or Sounds of Space Exhibition in Austria. For her outreach efforts, Agnieszka won the best speaker award at 3D MED Australia and the MiLabs Image of the Year award, among others.

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.

Jon Hale focuses on ESG thought leadership and product strategy for Morningstar. Prior to 2021, Jon was Morningstar’s head of sustainable investing research. He directed the company’s research initiatives on sustainable investing, beginning with the launch of the Morningstar Sustainability Rating™ for funds in 2016.