2019 Games for Change Festival: Full Schedule

3:00pm EDT

Project Briefs: Female Founders

In our Female Founders project briefs, we'll hear from the pioneering entrepreneurs who are working to bring new visions of XR to life. They will share their motivations behind launching their startups and insights gained along the way. Through their experiences, we'll learn how they are using XR to address areas such as education, mindfulness, inclusion, representation, and user-generated content.

Morgan Mercer
Vantage Point

Cortney Harding
Friends With Holograms

Dumeetha Luthra
How a War Correspondent Became an Entrepreneur Around Mindfulness

Skye Von
Decolonizing Storytelling

Vassiliki Khonsari
iNK Stories

Speakers

Morgan Mercer

CEO, Vantage Point

Morgan Mercer is the founder of the immersive enterprise training company, Vantage Point. Vantage Point's immersive training platform leverages standalone Virtual Reality in conjunction with ML and AI, and offers training modules focused around Soft Skills development, including Workplace... Read More →

Cortney Harding

Founder, Friends with Holograms

Cortney Harding is the founder and CEO of Friends With Holograms and a leading expert in creating immersive, impactful VR, AR and MR training experiences. An early leader in the extended reality space, she has created award-winning work for high profile clients like Accenture, Verizon... Read More →

Dumeetha Luthra

Founder, Take-Pause

Imagine a world where we learn social emotional intelligence alongside reading and writing. Dumeetha Luthra was inspired to create that world and established Take-Pause after years as an award-winning BBC war correspondent. She witnessed first hand the worst we can do to ourselves... Read More →

Skye Von

Founder & CEO, Howl For Change & little GIANT Wolf

Skye's passion is to decolonize storytelling and help everyone discover and harness the power of storytelling to create positive impact for themselves. She does this through transmedia story experiences that promote communal storytelling and audience participation with her content... Read More →

Vassiliki Khonsari

Co-Founder / Director / Producer, iNK Stories

Director/Producer/Co-Founder of iNK Stories––the award winning interactive storytelling studio Fast Company calls an “innovation agent”. Known for paving the way for a new wave of cinematic participatory experiences recent titles include the genre defining location based multi-sensory... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Room 105

XR for Change Summit, Project Brief