Heroes of Reality

Jez Cajiao was born 1980 in Hartlepool UK and raised in Washington UK by his Mum and Step Dad, along with his two brothers and sister. Jez began working at the family catering business at age 11, but truly found his joy in welding. Due to welder's lung, he was forced to switch careers, but only truly found love in his work when he became an author in 2020. Jez is best known for his series UnderVer...

Aleron Kong is an African-American physician turned WSJ Best Selling Author. His comedic fantasy opera, The Land, has eight novels and a main character that is an everyday kind of guy. The series has over 100,000 five-star reviews and has sold over 1,000,000 copies. Chosen as Audible’s Customer Favorite of the Year, it has wide appeal whether you are reading or listening. He has recently converted...

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...

Laura Inserra is a sound alchemist. She lives and creates at the confluence of music from around the globe, wisdom practices, and cutting edge technology. In the last decade, Laura has been focusing her work on the the universal, transformative, and healing power of sound. Combining her intimate knowledge of music with her studies of ancient schools of wisdom, she developed Resonant Healing, her o...

For over 15 years Jeffery has conducted the largest international study on persistent non-symbolic experience (PNSE), which includes the types of consciousness commonly known as: enlightenment, nonduality, the peace that passeth understanding, unitive experience, and hundreds of other terms. This resulted in the first reliable, cross-cultural and pan-tradition classification system for these types...

In 2018, Jason started building worlds based on VR games to change the way things were done, interviewing developers within their own VR games within VR itself. He also brought people ways to get together during the pandemic for game release parties they could not do without risk, and gave creative ways for them to do meetings virtually. Jason is also a disabled player that works closely with deve...

Mayank Mehta did his PhD in quantum physics of space-time. Since then, his research has focused on understanding how our brain creates intelligence and abstract ideas such as space-time. They measure the activities of many individual neurons while rats navigate a virtual world. Theirs is the only lab in the world to directly measure how neurons respond to the virtual world and the real world. Usin...

SteveKnows is a VR Youtuber. He likes to make fun videos that are full of laughs cause its a gaming channel. It should be fun! His favorite games in VR are action horror titles, like Lies Beneath and Resident Evil. He looks forward to the future where he can live in the Metaverse.. it's sooner than he could have hoped. He's a Dev by Day and a VR enthusiast by LIFE!

Nichole co-founded and built Transformative Tech.org, a global ecosystem dedicated to educating, gathering, and activating wellbeing tech founders, investors, and innovators. Today, Transformative Tech has members in 72 countries and 450 cities and their tentpole events online or in person attract 1K+ attendees. They help founders leveraging exponential tech for mental and emotional wellbeing, soc...

Founder of rumii - award-winning VR platform for education & training. Highlighted in the PBS documentary Good All Over for donating rumii in frontier economies and emerging markets for immersive education. Author of the The First Person, a book on the Metaverse. Actively serves on the Human Dimensions Support Services Think Tank advising the U.S. government on spatial computing technologies. Co-i...

Dr. Phelps is an international speaker, mindfulness instructor, and founder of InnerAlly, a company building tools, courses, and mobile apps to improve mental wellness based on the science of self-compassion. She has extensive experience in learning and behavior change and has been developing mental health tools since 2009. Her background in pharmacology and neuroscience helps her create programs...

Terry Real is a nationally recognized family therapist, author, and teacher. He is particularly known for his groundbreaking work on men and male psychology as well as his work on gender and couples; he has been in private practice for over thirty years. Terry has appeared often as the relationship expert for Good Morning America and ABC News. His work has been featured in numerous academic articl...

Craig Frehlich has been teaching Design/Technology and Science for over 27 years. He is an author, podcaster and passionate enthusiast of immersive technology. Craig believes that critical analysis of the power that technology might yield in our daily lives is essential. When used effectively, these tools can spark awe, wonder and leverage powerful engagements that support lifelong learning and fo...

As an environmental consultant, biologist, and marine scientist, Garrett Stuart uses his diverse background and love of story-telling to drive a change in our future generations. His passions lie in bridging the gap between Nature and our youth to teach families sustainability and safe farming and gardening techniques.

Approaching 30 years of obsession in the wellness and performance space! Fueled by a love of playing sports, Dr. Dave was the kid who dove deep into the science behind performance. This translated into a career focused on coaching mindset, habits and routines, fitness, nutrition, epigenetics, functional medicine, and physiology. From pro athletes to high performing CEO’s, Dr. Dave has been there t...

RC Leander is a global executive with a track record of building businesses, innovating products, and transforming the way businesses are run. He leverages his financial services acumen and entrepreneurial spirit and combines them with behavioral science to help companies enhance their go-to-market strategy with a specific focus on improving connections with members, customers, and employees. RC t...

During the Iranian Revolution of 1978, Shahin’s family had to escape to survive and ended up finally migrating to Los Angeles, Ca . At 15 years old Shaahin left home with nothing but the clothes on his back and created over a BILLION dollars in revenue by inventing the legendary smart drug known as HERBAL ECSTACY. These childhood experiences had a major impact on his perspective of freedom, hard w...

Alvaro Lacouture is a creative technologist and anthropologist with a passion for interactive design and new media experiments. Based in New York and born in Bogota Colombia, he is interested in the research and development of interactive communication experiences with a focus in Human-Computer Interaction, Speculative design, and emerging technologies such as AR and VR, physical computing, machin...

Simeone creates meaningful businesses for the conscious and sustainable evolutionary journey of all planetary ecosystems and communities. He writes, produces, and directs transformative, immersive mixed reality Universes centered around human connection and participation by dissolving boundaries between ancient wisdom and exponential technology (sensor, affective computing, spatial awareness, and...

Jay Vidyarthi is an attention activist and the founder of Still Ape - the world's first UX design studio focused exclusively on mindfulness, compassion, and wellbeing. He is working toward a society where access points to self-care and collective transformation are as diverse as the people who need them. He also teaches mindfulness to individuals and groups, where he inspires people to reclaim the...

Alon Braun is a modern-day renaissance man. Early in life, he was an elite member of Israel’s cyber special forces unit while simultaneously the founder of a startup funded by Apple Israel. He then went on to become a marine biologist with a Master’s in Oceanography and published research on the cell biology of coral, with his research appearing in Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Alon...

Dan Brown is the Founder of The Positive Transformation Group, whose aim is to positively impact the lives of a Billion people. Dan crated Positive Transformation as a mindset in himself to challenge fear, doubt and insecurity while dealing with extreme life situations having come from being homeless, to now leading PTG as a philanthropist creating commercially sustainable opportunities globally.

Founder & President of the World Happiness Foundation and World Happiness Fest. Author of Happytalism and The Exponentials of Happiness. Director of the Gross Global Happiness program at the United Nations University for Peace.

Hannes Bend founded breathing.ai to integrate healthier habits into our everyday screen interactions. He suffered years of anxiety after trauma, and used breathwork, meditation and yoga to live a healthy and happy life. From 2014, he worked with hundreds of data- and neuroscientists, psychologists, Wim "The Iceman" Hof, UX/AI researchers, designers and engineers to develop award-winning (Stanford...

Miri joined as CEO of Joy Ventures in January 2018. Prior to Joy, Miri co-founded and led Israel Brain Technologies (IBT), a non-profit envisioned by late Israeli President Shimon Peres that accelerated brain-related innovation and established Israel as a global brain technology hub. Miri started her business career as a corporate economist at Teva Pharmaceuticals and later held financial manageme...