John SanGiovanni has more than two decades of experience as an entrepreneur and inventor. John has authored more than 20 patents in the areas of augmented reality, wearable hardware systems, and UI, many of which have subsequently been licensed or purchased by Apple, Microsoft, and others. In addition, John has led product teams which have shipped more than 30 top-tier Apps for iOS/Android, 10 of which achieved top-5 in their respective App Store category, and have won major digital/interactive awards. Between ventures, John served as a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft Research, where he led external research funding in the areas of mobile technology and AR, and co-invented several UI metaphors now used on more than a billion devices worldwide. John currently serves as CEO of Visual Vocal, a powerful platform for multi-user VR/AR productivity and communication. Visual Vocal is currently in use by some of the world’s largest engineering/architecture/construction companies.

Nick Fajt is the CEO and co-founder of Against Gravity, the company behind Rec Room, an online world made up of hundreds of thousands of different Rooms, where each Room is a unique experience. There are Rooms for competitive Shooter games, Adventure Quests, Talk Shows, Escape Rooms, Art Installations and Clubhouses. You can explore them with friends from around the world and even build your own. Before Against Gravity, Nick worked at Microsoft on both the Hololens and Xbox teams.