Series Hosted by XR business and innovation expert Marcus Shingles (former CEO of XPRIZE, Bain Consulting executive, Deloitte Consulting Partner, Board of Stanford University’s Disruptive Technology & Digital Cities Program). Marcus is joined by a co-host; a young VR entrepreneur from "Exponential Destiny" - Kevin Vega (see bio below)

Each monthly series features a business and strategy discussion with a CXX level executive regarding their experiences and ROI using Virtual and/or Augmented Reality. August 4th features Thomas Mandry. Thomas is a passionate technology entrepreneur and investor with more than 25 years of experience. He is the founder and CEO of Mandry Technology Solutions, one of the top 100 managed services companies in the world, which specializes in IT management, security & compliance, cloud, and telecommunications. Thomas is also a founding partner at Quext, an organization that is revolutionizing the real estate industry through game-changing apartment and residential innovative technologies. www.onequext.com

Additional Context:

This event is part of a monthly executive discussion series that focuses on the CXX leadership agenda, while addressing how XR may and has been used to achieve their strategic business and/or social impact imperatives. This series focuses on actual implemented strategic use-cases, not “in theory” speculation, but candid reflection from executive teams - across industries - that as to what worked vs what didn’t work - reality vs the hype, and how to move this capability from a good to great ROI.

In recent years there has been a significant advancement and convergence of exponentially emerging technologies – XR (virtual reality/augmented reality), spatial web computing, LiDAR, blockchain, NFTs, artificial intelligence – that has recently resulted in the development of new capabilities related to the “Spatial Web”, also referred to as Web 3.0, which similar to the original internet, will transform how government, society, businesses, and individuals all experience and share nearly every aspect of their lives, brand, product, and service.

This is an executive discussion focused around the strategic and operational business application, use-cases, and benefits (even risks or issues) as it pertains to XR, Spatial web, and this new digital medium and collaboration channel. This discussion is intended to be less focused on “feature and functions” or IT project management, and more focused on the higher order of enterprise strategic capability building, how companies can and are pursuing an unfair advantage using XR, Spatial Web, and NFTs, as well as other CEO/CXX level strategic imperatives.

This monthly series is hosted by the “Exponential Destiny” leadership team, which includes its founder Marcus Shingles and his team of young entrepreneurs who mentor their peers from underserved and low-income communities, providing reskilling/upskilling opportunities on XR and Spatial web, while designing and delivering XR projects to organizations (from Startups to Fortune 500) in both the commercial sector and non-profit/government sector.

Marcus is joined by his co-host, and young aspiring entrepreneur, Kevin Vega from Exponential Destiny: Kevin Vega is an Entrepreneur, current Chief Executive Officer of LopesEat, he is skilled in Sales, Public Speaking, Social Media, Marketing and Videography. Kevin Vega was born in Los Angeles California and attended Nava College Preparatory Academy in south la, he took part in the exponential entrepreneurship course where he says his passion for entrepreneurship was born. He then took this passion and attended Grand Canyon University majoring in Business Entrepreneurship while attending university alongside with a partner Kevin founded LopesEat a food delivery service for private Universities. Kevin peaked the interest of Sodexo, a multi billion dollar organization and was able to form a partnership assuring the success of LopesEat. Grand Canyon University caught wind of what was going on and offered Kevin a space at the Canyon Ventures Center, Arizona’s leading business incubator, where on a daily basis he is offered mentor ship from business professionals who have been very successful in there field and is able to work along people such as Curt Jones, the founder of dippin dots.

Kevin is now running his business full time and loves sharing his story and inspiring others to find and reach their goals. Kevin mentors several high school students in the Arizona area but would love to be able to give back and focus on the community who made him who he is.

https://news.gcu.edu/2020/03/a-first-freshmen-pair-delivers-canyon-challenge-title/