Sarah Hill is the CEO and Chief Storyteller at Healium, a bio-interactive technology platform for relaxation training. Healium uses real-time biofeedback and neurofeedback stories to help people see what’s happening inside their bodies and gently learn how to shift it.

Before this chapter, she spent 25 years as a TV journalist and news anchor, reporting from Congo, the Amazon, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Guatemala for NBC, ABC, and CBS news affiliates. She deployed with trauma teams in the aftermath of the tsunami and, after years of covering trauma, felt called to tell a different kind of story: one that helps people heal from it.

Her work at Healium supports clinicians in pain, behavioral health, and VA settings, making stress management more visual, intuitive, and human. Ten peer-reviewed journals have published research about Healium, including Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Healium’s immersive VR kits are used in DOD and VA clinics to help people better self-manage stress, anxiety, PTSD, insomnia, pain, and burnout as part of a healthy lifestyle.

After earning a dozen Mid-America Emmy Awards, she realized they were pretty great as toilet paper holders.

These days, she builds biometrically powered stories enabled by a portfolio of system patents and connected to heart rate, EEG, fMRI, breath, skin conductance, and other sensor data. To her, any sensor that captures data can become a story with a very human metaphor. She also speaks frequently at conferences about media as medicine, AI content recommendations, and the future of digital health.

Healium began in 2013 with a project called “Honor Everywhere,” which helped terminally ill and aging veterans visit memorials in VR when they couldn’t get there in person. That idea, making the invisible visible, still guides everything Healium does.

She is also a heart attack survivor, which makes this work deeply personal. She lives in Missouri with her husband, two grown children, and a grandchild who keeps her grounded and on her toes.

Nanea Reeves brings over 15 years experience in digital distribution, video game technologies and mobile application development. Nanea Reeves is the CEO & Co-Founder of TRIPP, a new start-up focused on creating mood altering experiences in VR.

Prior to founding TRIPP, Nanea was President & COO of TextPlus, one of the top mobile communications applications on iOS and Android platforms.

Before joining TextPlus, Nanea was the COO of Machinima, an online video network focused on video games. Nanea has also served as Chief Strategy and Product Officer at Gaikai, a cloud gaming company acquired by Sony Playstation. Previous to Gaikai, Nanea was SVP/COO, Global Online for Electronic Arts, and SVP of Enabling Technologies of JAMDAT Mobile, a mobile games company that EA acquired in 2006.

Nanea is very committed to supporting the evolution of the technology sector in Los Angeles and has worked as an Advisor and Angel Investor with many exciting So-Cal start-ups including Oculus, All Day, Haku, and Saucey.

Ron Richard is a seasoned healthcare innovator with over 35 years of experience in respiratory, pulmonary, and sleep medicine. He has held senior leadership roles across leading medical technology companies and has launched more than 40 major products, generating over $1B in global sales. His background spans hospital care, home care operations, sleep labs, medical device manufacturing, and global commercialization.

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