Clare brings a unique perspective having both private and public sectors experience in international business development and marketing, economic development, attracting Foreign Direct Investment, communications, and place branding and marketing. She has deep business development and marketing expertise cultivated through more than fifteen years with the provincial government focused on Ontario’s economic competitiveness, in addition […]

Hazel is a multidisciplinary artist with an extensive background in the fine art world, who’s primary focus is now creating virtual worlds and spaces in VR, most notably for BRCvr: the virtual burning man. She is the creative director and world builder for Earthworld, the virtual world twinned to the We Are Mother Earth project, […]

Lorne is CEO and Director of the Metaverse Group. Prior to the Metaverse Group, Lorne was previously the CEO of Wellpoint Health Services for 9 years where he grew the business to over 250 employees, completed and integrated seven acquisitions and ultimately was sold to CloudMD (TSX: CMD). Lorne spent over 20 years in advisory […]

With 7 years experience in the VR space Drew has worked through the recent evolutions of the technology including development of 360 videos and creating software for the latest VR headsets and accessories. Drew is working to change the education industry through immersive technologies. This has lead XpertVR to create training solutions in the form […]

As a natural problem-solver, Clark is exceptional at pinpointing opportunities and delivering solutions that bring tangible value and proven results to organizations. Through Motiv, Clark takes a hands-on approach to deliver technology solutions with tremendous business, economic, and social upside. Clark’s extensive technology background started with a foundation in data science and software development. Specifically, […]

As the Founder and CEO of MetaGym, Muqeeth is a 17-year-old fitness enthusiast looking to build an accessible, enjoyable and immersive relationship between fitness and the metaverse. Existing fitness applications in the metaverse use trainers’ voices and simple movements from the controller in a user’s hand to provide workouts. This method leaves out large parts […]

A visionary leader and unrepentant code conjurer, Mr. Michael Pickering CBIP founded CloudConstable to make fun and friendly animated service avatars affordable for venues everywhere. In high demand as a speaker and international expert on human/avatar interaction, he’s led a successful team through multiple rounds of the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE competition, and serves as […]

Chalouhi is the CEO and Founder of Venusverse, Canada’s first female-founded, female-focused educational program, incubator and NFT collection, with the goal of closing the gender gap and removing barriers to entry for women in the Web3 domain. Through educational and networking sessions, a Web3b incubator platform, and their own collection of NFTs, Chalouhi believes that […]

Kate is a trained agronomist and data scientist who studied at the University of Guelph and Michigan State University. She is the co-founder of Functionland, a Web3 project building Blockchain-attached Storage in a consumer grade hardware called FXBLOX; related file and data protocols; and, the $Fula Network, which acts to intencentivize open-source software globally. Kate […]

As a senior vice president, Kader Khan leads the connectivity and industry 4.0 practice at Veltris, a new-age technology company for the next generation digital, cognitive, and industry 4.0 era. He has global responsibility for strategy, business, partnership, engineering and oversees Wavelabs ongoing expansion efforts into the Canadian market.Kader is passionate about next-generation technologies, continuous […]