Heroes of Reality

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 buildin...

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...

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...

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 challe...

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 entert...

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...

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 au...

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...

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-center...

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 – resul...

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...

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...

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...

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, Kris...

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...

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 2...

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,...

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 b...

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 an...

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...

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, tha...