Heroes of Reality

Kyle Riesenbeck is Operations Manager at UploadVR, the #1 virtual reality news outlet. In his previous lives, he has been a VR developer, a training consultant, and host of the "Rev VR Podcast".

Celia Schauble is equal parts hot coffee and Irish whiskey. She is a straight shot aimed at the heart of healing humanity, integrating, and building a bridge between the life you have and the one your soul desires to live. Celia is enthusiastic about beauty, nurturing, and the art of Self-care. A nearly 20 year veteran of marriage and design, Celia is a Spiritual Psychologist, somatic healer, coac...

Sarah Hill is the CEO of Healium, an award-winning mental fitness channel that's touched more than a half million lives around the world. A former TV broadcaster, Healium is positive fiber for your media diet that allows you to improve your human performance.

President of Grassroots Developer Education, Inc. 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 at th...

Dave D. Taylor is an American game programmer, best known as a former id Software employee and noted for his work promoting Linux gaming. In 1993 he graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering. Taylor worked for id Software between 1993 and 1996, and was during the time involved with the development of Doom and Quake. He created port...

Nina Linh is the Founder and President of WonderSeed Foundation. Nina has a wealth of knowledge, experience, and success that spans from television production, real estate, private equity, mergers and acquisition, and now philanthropy.

Logan Stone is a film director, producer, and screen writer. His latest film Exodus will be released on Apple TV March 19th. Exodus In a post-rapture world, Connor, an enforcer who prevents defections from the struggling populous, discovers a VHS-tape that proves the existence of a portal to paradise. A chance encounter with a captured AWOL citizen inspires him to reconsider his allegiance to the...

Throughout his 20+ years as a professional inventor, Eric’s passion has been to develop products at the intersection of the physical world and the web. He builds prototypes and turn ideas into businesses. As a long-time entrepreneur, Eric takes a practical approach to finding, adapting, or building solutions to problems fast. He has applied my skills as a roboticist, software developer, and fabric...

Mary E. Hewitt is the Executive Director for the Los Angeles County Alliance for Boys & Girls Clubs. The Alliance is an umbrella organization that was created in 1998 to bring resources, marketing and fundraising to all Boys & Girls Clubs in Los Angeles County which serve over 140,000 youth ages 6 to 18. For the past 7 years she has spearheaded innovative programs, special events and service to un...

Frances is the founder/Captain Awkward/CEO of Awkward Essentials, a company that makes products that address the unspoken parts of hygiene. She is also the inventor of the dripstick - an after sex cleanup sponge. With a background ranging from hula dancing to baking to wedding photography, she never intended to build a company around post-sex cleanup. However, after accidentally launching in the U...

Attended the University of Miami and majored in Microbiology and Immunology. Enlisted in the U.S. Army after graduating and was trained in Counterintelligence. Later, was a Special Agent In-Charge at several locations overseas including Latin America and the Middle East. Later, was assigned as the Director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.

Brent Bushnell is the CEO of Two Bit Circus, a Los Angeles–based experiential entertainment company building a network of permanent micro-amusement parks. Most recently the team launched STEAM Carnival, a showcase of high-tech entertainment and workshops to inspire invention. They built a 360 video production pipeline and deployed virtual reality content with haptic feedback for live events with c...

Peter is an entrepreneur who is driven by using technology to make the world a better place. Peter is also the Founder and CEO of iMotions, fully-integrated, hardware-agnostic software platform that allows researchers to use the power of any neuroscience technology, as well as traditional surveys and focus groups, to gain unparalleled insight into what people actual think and feel. His customers a...

Dane Maxwell is the yoda of SAAS. Author of #1 Best Selling book Start From Zero. Podcast host Start From Zero. He is the founder of Arena Rivals the first of its kind Virtual Reality eSports arena shooter thats focus is to create an uplifting community of highly competitive gamers that want to make friends and build a positive brian.

Jason Ray has spent 30 years as a game producer for companies like 3DO, Konami and Activision. with a track record of successful product launches on multiple platforms ranging from phones, to game consoles and virtual reality. He presently works VIVE Studios, the developer facing arm of HTC.

John Halcyon Styn is a social media pioneer who has been storytelling online for over 20 years through his “Hug Nation” YouTube channel and Facebook Live broadcasts. He is the author of “Love More. Fear less. Float more. Steer less” whose stories have been viewed online over 40 million times. He is the co-founder of the Pink Heart Burning Man camp and the homeless outreach organization “1st Saturd...

Victor (“Vic”) has 38 years’ experience in the Human Resources profession and has focused his career on aligning HR programs and processes with the strategic business (operational) plans of his clients and employers. Vic’s experience includes 19 years as an HR Practice Leader for Ernst & Young and Korn Ferry (where he worked with Daniel Goleman on leadership competencies). He implemented HR “b...

Tony is currently a Recruiting Manager at Tesla with a team responsible for Workforce Development and Education Programs. His responsibilities include creating strong pipelines of skilled trades candidates from local Community Colleges and Institutions, while building relationships across multiple educational channels. Tony has spent the last 4 plus years cultivating relationships with schools acr...

After graduating from the Information Networking Institute at CMU in 1994 with a Masters of Science in Computer Networking and Virtual Reality, Jesse Schell went on to work for Bell Labs. In 1995 he joined Walt Disney Imagineering, where he worked for seven years in capacity of programmer, manager, designer and Creative Director on several projects. These included rides for theme parks, DisneyQues...

Michael Lovitch M.A., a former special education teacher, has co-founded four multi-million dollar companies since 2004. This includes a physician oriented nutraceutical company that reached over $40M in annual sales with over 350k customers. All four of these companies were bootstrapped. Currently, Michael has three companies he is working on. He is the co-founder of The Baby Bathwater Institute;...

Expert in Innovation by Design, Immersive Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (XR) technologies, Big Data and Whole-Body Interaction design, operating at the crossroads of emerging tech, academia, and various industry verticals such as healthcare (MedTech and Digital Health), education (EdTech), entertainment (Game Design, World Building, Interactive and Immersive Music), and social enterprise (...

Joel Robinson is the founder, executive director, and head naturalist for Naturalist For You. He has guided thousands of curious individuals on professional wilderness tours since 2001. Many organizations and agencies have utilized his talents, including the US Forest Service, Audubon Society, The Nature Conservancy, The Wildlands Conservancy, the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy, Los Padres Forest As...

Abeni Carr began her journey as an activist for homeless youth in high schools throughout Los Angeles and Compton. As an educator, fundraiser, and college counselor, she has spent years working with unaccompanied youth and students experiencing homelessness in order to ensure that they applied and were admitted to college, received access to academic and financial aid, and began their post-seconda...

Psychologist Skip Rizzo conducts research on the design, development and evaluation of virtual reality (VR) systems targeting the areas of clinical assessment, treatment rehabilitation and resilience. This work spans the domains of psychological, cognitive and motor functioning in both healthy and clinical populations. Rizzo, whose work using virtual reality-based exposure therapy to treat PTSD re...

Founder of SOHMA Integrative Health Center. It's mission is to provide exceptional, patient-centered healthcare services that combine Eastern and Western practices without the use of drugs or surgery. At the core of SOHMA is a school of Healing Martial Arts that helps patients get out of pain and into balance. Their providers utilize an evidence-based practice approach while treating patients in a...