This document provides an agenda and details for a global metaverse innovators roadshow event. The agenda includes two presentation parts with 10-15 minute slots for 13 presenters to discuss their metaverse projects. The presentations will cover topics like immersive learning platforms, metaverse-based social and gaming applications, virtual reality platforms for businesses, and the first commercial metaverse project in Saudi Arabia. The document also provides links to the presenters and one paragraph descriptions of their companies and the metaverse solutions they will be presenting.
2. Schedule
12:00 – 12:05 ET: Welcome, Laura Degiovanni (Founder of TiiQu)
12:05 – 12:10 ET: Scheduling, Alex G. Lee (Co-Organizer)
Presentation Part I: Alex G. Lee (Moderator)
12:10 – 12:25 ET: Alexander Landa, CEO & Co-Founder at AKIVA Metaverse
Presentation: AKIVA Metaverse: An immersive learning platform
12:25 – 12:40 ET: William B. Choi, CEO and Co-Founder at Vinoverse Inc.
Presentation: Vinoverse Ecosystem : The first Web3 Metaverse-based social-fi & game-fi wine discovery App
12:40 – 12:55 ET: Husam Yaghi, Group VP at Mawarid Media & Communications Group
Presentation: Orbit World Metaverse: The first commercial metaverse project in Saudi Arabia
12:55 – 13:10 ET: Antonio Squeo, CIO at Hevolus Innovation
Presentation: hVERSE: The first global level platform for generating metaverses autonomously
13:10 – 13:25 ET: Rolf Illenberger, CEO at VRdirect GmbH
Presentation: VRdirect Platform: An enterprise-grade, no-code Virtual Reality platform
13:25 – 13:30 ET: Overview of Part II, Alex G. Lee (Co-Organizer)
3. Presentation Part II: Isabella Wang (Moderator)
13:30 – 13:45 ET: Alexandr Boronin, CEO and Co-Founder at CollectiveWeb
Presentation: CollectiveWeb: Metaverse Collaboration Platform For Business
13:45 – 14:00 ET: Lydia Scherr, Web3 Research Lead at SolidBlock
Presentation: Innovation At The Intersection Of Metaverse And Reality: Web3 NFT Applications
14:00 – 14:15 ET: Nick Cherukuri, CEO & Founder at ThirdEye
Presentation: AR/AI Platform for Sustainable & End-to-End Metaverse Applications
14:15 – 14:30 ET: Jake (Jakob) Soderberg, CRO at SynergyXR
Presentation: Corporate Metaverse No-code Platform
14:30 – 14:45 ET: Additional Q&A
4. Innovator Details
Antonio Squeo, CIO at Hevolus Innovation
https://www.linkedin.com/in/%F0%9F%94%A5antonio-squeo-62257925/
Presentation: hVERSE: The first global level platform for generating metaverses autonomously
Antonio will present hVERSE (The Metaverse is ready for you! (valuelead.com)), the ready-to-go metaverse. hVERSE is the 1st
global level platform for generating metaverses autonomously by accessing the web 4.0 in a low-code key. It is a solution that
creates phygital contents and spaces on any touch point of the company, recreating access and human interaction experiences,
enhancing them, personalizing them and measuring every aspect of them. It is accessible through any device and it can be
used to organize meetings, display products, set up training sessions, offer after sale support and many other hybrid scenarios.
Hevolus (https://hevolus.com/#lang=en) is an international B2B company specialised in the research and development of
innovative business models intended to transform processes and its customers experiences. It addresses the Retail sector of
the furniture industry and of any company with an important B2B and B2C retail network. Hevolus deals with Corporate Open
Innovation for the multinational company Würth. All Hevolus business models are Ready to Go and are based on the use of
disruptive technologies, such as Mixed Reality and Azure, Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Dynamics and cognitive services.
Hevolus is one of the first Italian companies to achieve Microsoft international accreditation for Mixed Reality.
5. Alexandr Boronin, CEO and Co-Founder at CollectiveWeb
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-boronin-0b0719211/
Presentation: CollectiveWeb: Metaverse Collaboration Platform For Business
Alex will present Collectiveweb metaverse by focusing on 2 main topics: 1. High quality interactive web experience for
enterprise meetings, education & presentations. 2. Metaverse as an utility NFT for web3 market.
CollectiveWeb (https://www.collectiveweb.com/) is cloud based and high quality graphic metaverse for
web3 & corporate use. We use our stream-based technology to run high-quality graphic metaverse on any user device. We're
web3 & blockchain ready and provide our clients with a high-level immersive interactive web experience by implementing
spatial asynchronous video face-to-face group communication and other features.
6. Lydia Scherr, Web3 Research Lead at SolidBlock
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sustainablelydia/
Presentation: Innovation At The Intersection Of Metaverse And Reality: Web3 NFT Applications
Innovation is at the intersection of metaverse and reality. SolidBlock has launched the first NFT that is a redeemable,
transferable, prepaid hotel stay. Hotels can market their vacation packages via NFT, host virtual events in a metaverse setting
and also airdrop perks to customers.
Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Israel, SolidBlock (https://solidblock.co/home/) is a leader in Tokenization as a Service
(TaaS) for real estate. All of SolidBlock’s products, including our NFT / metaverse products, act as a bridge to a decentralized
financial (DeFi) ecosystem and the Web3 blockchain economy.
7. Rolf Illenberger, CEO at VRdirect GmbH
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rolf-illenberger/
Presentation: VRdirect Platform: An enterprise-grade, no-code Virtual Reality platform
Rolf will present the VRdirect platform and customer use cases.
VRdirect (https://www.vrdirect.com/) is an enterprise-grade, no-code Virtual Reality platform that helps large companies like
Siemens, Nestle, and Porsche easily create, manage, and share immersive VR content for internal training and
communications as well as external sales, marketing, and customer support use cases. VRdirect's platform facilitates seamless
VR content sharing and consumption across environments and devices and hence mitigates the challenges for enterprises who
want to take advantage of the Metaverse but are faced with a fragmented and incompatible hardware and ecosystem market.
VRdirect enables enterprises to create VR projects without prior skills or training (think “Powerpoint for VR”) and share VR
projects across a wide range of ecosystems ranging from web-browser to iOS and Android smartphones and tablets as well as
VR headsets from Oculus/Meta, Pico and HTC. VRdirect also develops and operates custom white label VR products for
partners like Deutsche Telekom and offers reselling options for strategic partners, who want to offer VR to their customer base
without any development or operational risk. VRdirect supports enterprise customers along the entire process of developing
and implementing global-scale VR strategies and roll-out.
8. William B. Choi, CEO and Co-Founder at Vinoverse Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamchoi/
Presentation:
William will present the Vinoverse ecosystem by focusing on the state of the wine industry and how Web3 will change the way
we market, buy, and sell wines in the tokenized economy. How wineries and retailers engage consumers in the virtual economy
through gamification. And finally, how the merger of both the physical and virtual wine worlds truly creates long lasting retention,
increasing value and scale.
Vinoverse (www.vinoverse.co) is the first Web3 metaverse-based social-fi & game-fi wine discovery app. It is the sommelier in
your pocket and your wine-themed adventure game. You are the main character in the physical and virtual world, where you
earn tokens for discovering wines you love and unlock special perks and benefits.
9. Alexander Landa, CEO & Co-Founder at AKIVA Metaverse
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderlanda/
Presentation: AKIVA Metaverse: An immersive learning platform
Alex will present AKIVA Metaverse an immersive learning platform by focusing on 3 main topics:
Who are Neurodivergent individuals? Can Metaverse help autistic and neurodivergent individuals learn, self-explore, and thrive?
Introducing AKIVA Metaverse demo
Akiva (https://www.akiva.ai/) enables children with special needs to develop their unique abilities with Akiva, a virtual reality
education service.
10. Jake (Jakob) Soderberg, CRO at SynergyXR
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakobsoderberg/
Presentation: Corporate Metaverse No-code Platform
Jake will briefly introduce the SynergyXR platform and his definition of the Corporate Metaverse. As CRO (Chief Revenue
Officer) he is keen on talking about the value the technology delivers to a wide range of companies in different industries. With
more than 25 years of experience within international complex B2B sales he has a strong focus on the value proposition and
tends to focus more on this than the technology.
SynergyXR (https://synergyxr.com/) is a no-code platform that enables companies to utilize VR, AR and MR technology out of
the box. The company was founded in 2008 as a spinout of Unity Technologies. Have created custom made VR training and
simulations for more than 250 customers and some of the biggest brands in the Nordics. With the introduction of the
SynergyXR platform in 2020 SynergyXR is bringing XR to the people (and not just Fortune 500 companies).
11. Husam Yaghi, Group VP at Mawarid Media & Communications Group
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaghi/
Presentation: Orbit World Metaverse: The first commercial metaverse project in Saudi Arabia
Dr. Yaghi will present an overview of the first commercial metaverse project (Orbit World Metaverse) in Saudi Arabia to support
brick-and-mortal businesses of the group. The Orbit World Metaverse provides virtual services in: healthcare, connectivity,
entertainment, education, smart home, icommerce, and fintech. It also uses a utility token (www.comet.online) for loyalty,
rewards, and payment. Assets are managed through an in-app NFT marketplace. Blockchain is used to enhance security and
to manage identity. The OWM makes use of available government API’s to verify users and to offer popular government
services to its user community. Further, OWM has vacant land for interested companies to establish presence or rent office
space in one of the ready made buildings.
The Mawarid Media & Communications Group (http://mmcgholding.com/) consists of several companies operating in
complementary sectors: telecommunication, security, media, information technology, and fintech. MMCG is a part of the
conglomerate Mawarid Holding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawarid_Holding); which was established in 1968.
12. Nick Cherukuri, CEO & Founder at ThirdEye
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickcherukuri/
Presentation: AR/AI Platform for Sustainable & End-to-End Metaverse Applications
Nick will present about ThirdEye's background and applications in the Metaverse space.
ThirdEye (www.thirdeyegen.com) is a leader in providing a complete digital end-to-end eco-system of products in the
Augmented Reality (AR) smart glasses & Artificial Intelligence (AI) software Metaverse. ThirdEye creates apps ranging from
games to entertainment to enterprise applications with worldwide applications. AR has the potential to change the way the
world operates, and ThirdEye's vision is to help generate the future. ThirdEye’s teams history is over 20 years of advanced
technology development for the United States Government. ThirdEye is a US based company with state of the art labs and
patents in the AR/MR space. ThirdEye's AR/AI platforms are also contributing to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and
the global goal of 1 billion tons reduction in emissions per year due to the elimination of unnecessary workforce travel, reduced
machine downtimes, the use of virtual 3D holograms and many other benefits. Augmented / Mixed Reality (AR/MR) is widely
viewed to be the next major technological platform and will replace the mobile phone over the next decade. AR enables users
to be hands-free while viewing any relevant digital, holographic information in front of their face. AR has software use cases in
nearly every enterprise and consumer space from telehealth for hospitals to remote assistance for field services to visualizing
3D CAD models overlaid on the real world for construction to 5G immersive gaming. Smart Glasses brings