Heroes of Reality

Lyle Maxson is a pioneer of Transformative Entertainment, beginning his career as a creative director impacting thousands of people at the world's largest music festivals. His immersive design agency, The Courtiers, and passion for biohacking led to co-founding Andromeda Entertainment, a VR publisher bringing to market "Games for Good". Birthed out of the pandemic, GeniusX, a VR education platform...

Angela’s dedication to giving back to the community and increasing access to neurofeedback is what led her to co-found the Bay Area Brain Spa. The community neurofeedback offering allows people to brain train at a lower cost in a group setting. The Brain Spa also offers some of her favorite biohacking tools that she has discovered over the years for a curated approach to wellness. She is currently...

Can is a software engineer and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Chimpy, a power bank sharing company, and Yeti, a plant-based cheese company. Furthemore, Can was the co-founder of Kosmos School, where the goal was to build a K-12 school that existed only in VR.

Dr. Dave is inspired to enrich the human experience. His background is in mental health counseling, wellbeing engineering, behavioral research, executive coaching, and curating new technology for improving wellbeing. In addition, he is the Guides director at LifeGuides.com, an employee benefits company using Peer - Peer support for everyday challenges.

Silja Litvin is the psychologist, founder, and CEO of PsycApps, developer of the multi-award-winning eQuoo – the Emotional Fitness Game. Her Techstars portfolio company uses gamification and psychology to help people help themselves.

Giuseppe Riva, Ph. D., is Full Professor of General and Cognitive Psychology. at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, where he is also the Director of Humane Technology Lab. (HTLab.). Riva is also the Founder and Director of the Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology (ATN-P) Lab. at the Istituto Auxologico Italiano (a leading Italian private hospital) where in the last 20 years he tested many...

Julie Smithson’s personal mission is to ‘inspire and educate people to think and act in a socially, economically and environmentally responsible way’. It is through this lens as co-founder at MetaVRse, one of the world’s leading virtual, augmented and mixed reality (XR) consulting & product development companies. Julie is leading her teams through project development for multiple industries changi...

Edric is the Founder of Warmspace, a platform that scales deep human connection through guided video conversations. His mission is to make every single person feel seen and create a world that is filled with love, belonging, and authenticity. He's passionate about mindfulness, human potential and the use of technology for the flourishing of humanity. He led the Singapore Chapter of Consciousness H...

Denise Silber is a digital health pioneer, communicator, and social media influencer, on a mission to improve the quality of care. Denise is founder of Basil Strategies digital health content and event hosting and co-founder of VRforHealth, VR platform for curated videos and tech for good initiatives. A New Yorker in Paris, Denise Silber has worked on three continents and is fluent in French. In 2...

Gary Moon works and plays at the intersection of capitalism, consciousness and social impact. As Managing Partner, Gary led the formation of Nfluence Partners, a Technology Boutique Investment Bank. Previously Gary ran the Tech, Media & Telecom practice for Headwaters MB which Gary and his partners grew into a top 5 Technology M&A Boutique by number of transactions before forming Nfluence...

Jay leads a nonprofit advocacy campaign, EQuip Our Kids!, whose focus is raising the emotional intelligence of humanity, starting with children and youth. EQuip promotes getting what educators call Social-Emotional Learning curriculum into every pre-K to 12 school. Motivated by the reality that 90% of the public is unaware of the remarkable child, school, family, workplace and society outcomes of...

My name is Zach Winfield and I'm currently based out of Boulder, CO. My educational background is in Nutritional Science and Biochemistry. I specialize in metabolic health and functional nutrition, natural movement, sports-related training, and functional fitness. With more than a decade of experience in nutrition, wellness, longevity, and exercise, I create highly specialized personal programs to...

PHIA is a YouTuber and streamer that treads the line between real life and virtual reality by using a virtual avatar to create content. She hosts a series on her YouTube channel titled "The Virtual Reality Show" where she talks about a variety of topics involving VR from inside VR itself. In the past year, she has managed to gain over 100k subscribers and dedicated viewers from all across the worl...

Christopher Stapleton is an award-winning creative developer of innovative guest experiences that define global brands using next generation talent, technology and techniques. Projects include product and venue development for theme parks, education centers, conventions, attractions, rides, shows, events, health services, food & retail venues. His influence crosses over commercial, civic and acade...

Debi Stack retired from IBM as one of the first female AI Consultants. Along with colleagues from EDS and HP, she co-authored the book, “NextGen Smart Cities”.  Currently, Debi is the founder of Digital Ascension, with a mission to become a trust fund for an ecosystem of transformative wellness tech companies with roots in New Orleans, collaborating around the world to solve the United Nation Sust...

Dr. Patrick K. Porter, PhD, is an award-winning author/speaker and the founder of BrainTap®, the leader in technology-enhanced meditation. Dr. Porter pioneered the use of brainwave entrainment to improve clarity, sleep & energy, and remains at the forefront of scientific research. He founded BrainTap with the goal of making this technology accessible to everyone. BrainTap offers over 1000 orig...

Sarah Turner has a post graduate degree in Clinical Neuroscience from Roehampton University, London. She also has BSc degrees in Psychological Sciences, and Nutritional Medicine from Westminster University and Thames Valley University, respectively. Sarah spent the first 10 years of her career as a research scientist in the pharmaceutical industry planning and executing experiments looking at the...

Wesley King supports technologies squarely aimed to better humanity and the planet. Alongside a team of cross-functional experts, he focuses on personalized wellness, wearables, biohacking, digital health and consciousness technologies. His life goals are to pursue a constant expansion of his knowledge - across industries, continents, and decades - in order to improve any environment he works or l...

Dr. Gil Blander is internationally recognized for his research in the basic biology of aging and for translating his discoveries into new ways of detecting and preventing age-related conditions. He received a PhD in biology from the Weizmann Institute of Science and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at MIT. He’s been featured in CNN Money, The New York Times, Forbes, The Financial Times, and T...

Michal Lovecky is a creative director and XR technologist. He is the founder and CEO of Cyan Planet, on a mission to connect people with the ocean, evoke empathy for marine life, and spark action for marine conservation. Since 2015, he has delivered over 60 immersive media projects, pioneering the first-ever 8K VR live streaming over a 5G network in Germany, and developed 360° video monitoring tec...

Dr. Evie Powell is a games researcher and developer specializing in immersive interactions and prototype design. She is the lead virtual reality engineer at Proprio Vision, a surgical imaging company fusing human and computer vision into a powerful new system for surgical performance and training. She founded Verge of Brilliance LLC, an independent experimental games studio in Seattle, and previou...

Troy is an Entrepreneur, Investor, Biohacker, Consciousness Hacker, and Chair Transformative Technologies Austria. Through iAMconnected is bringing together a unique set of Transformative Technologies to help Entrepreneurs and Executives (and their teams) measure and improve their day to day performance, health & well being.

From Melbourne, Australia, now calling Seattle home, Ian Anderson has spent his entire career focusing on helping other people become healthier, happier and more successful. Helping them to unlock their human potential and get more out of life. As the Founder of Zoetic, a well-being and human performance specialist, an educator, coach, and consultant, he has empowered hundreds of people, athletes,...

Noah Falstein is a game designer and producer who has been in the video game industry since 1980.He was one of the first 10 employees at Lucasfilm Games (which became LucasArts Entertainment), DreamWorks Interactive (which became EA Los Angeles), and The 3DO Company (which became defunct). He runs The Inspiracy and writes the "Better by Design" column for Game Developer magazine. He was hired by G...

Dr. Graham Norris is an organizational psychologist focusing on foresight and futures thinking. He spent 20 years living in Asia, including a decade as a journalist in Taiwan, Singapore and Japan. More recently, he worked in marketing consulting and communications in Beijing, China, before moving back to the UK. He holds an MBA from Heriot-Watt University and studied the impact of rapid change on...