NGVR #15: Workforce Training & Eliminating Social Bias through VR

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Join us at our next Non-Gaming XR meetup for presentations, discussion, demos, and networking centered around exploring how immersive technologies are being applied to how workforce training.
**Tickets are required for entry. Please purchase tickets here -
SPEAKERS 

Neilda Pacquing

is the Founder & CEO of MindGlow Labs, a company with a mission to increase corporate and retail employees' levels of job confidence and safety levels using Virtual Reality, starting with active shooter preparation training. She is also a Facebook Oculus Launchpad Fellow and XR Studio Fellow (Supported by Mozilla) where she produced EmpowHER VR: Self Defense Training for Women. Previously, Neilda served as VP, Mobile Interaction Designer and Sr. UI/UX Designer for Bank of America and Sephora. There she worked with innovation, UX, and product design teams bring digital products to market. 

Morgan Mercer

is a product-enthusiast and idealist who founded the social VR company Vantage Point in 2017. Vantage Point is a comprehensive sexual assault educational program conducted in virtual reality focusing on the core concepts of identifying sexual assault, sexual assault stigma, and bystander intervention through simulated learning. Prior to founding Vantage Point, she concurrently served as the Head of Digital for an e-commerce startup and an Analyst for a digital agency where she has worked on high-profile contracts focused on attitude change and behavior change within the domain of complex social issues.