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.

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.