In honor of Women’s Equality Day, Verizon 5G Lab and the WXR Fund in partnership with Kaleidoscope and Darragh Dandurand are hosting an interactive, immersive celebration. Join women from across the XR space for an opportunity to connect, learn and discover new opportunities at this virtual event. The core audience is startup founders, creators, corporate partners, investors, and allies who support building a more inclusive ecosystem.
The agenda will include a Creator Showcase of projects submitted to the Femme Futures Grant and exhibits from a variety of consumer and enterprise women-led startups. Attendees will have the chance to meet featured creators and entrepreneurs directly as well as network with fellow attendees in topical conversations. Facilitated discussion topics include fundraising for startups, as well as project, design, storytelling, building partnerships, and more!
The event will take place on PixelCanvas a virtual reality platform but will be desktop accessible (laptops, PC and Macs). We also recommend using Google Chrome, Mozilla or Firefox browsers. For the best sound experience please use headphones when you join the event.The platform does not recommend iphones or ipads devices for this event.
Please use this url link to join the event:
womeninxrsummit.event.pixelcanvas.com
Password: wxr5glab
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvHElgdmEyc&feature=youtu.be
Doors open at 4:00 PM ET
During the event we will have a live helpline if anyone has trouble logging in: https://meet.google.com/tgu-hqsk-ocd
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