VR Pioneer, Andrew Prell Joins Entrepreneurial Delegation to China
Industry: Entertainment & Games
“Entrepreneurship Can Be Taught Silicon Valley Experts China Roadshow” June 12th - June 19th 2016
Santa Clara, USA - Beijing, China (PRUnderground) June 1st, 2016
Convergence 4 Dimensions, LLC (Convergence) announced that Andrew Prell will join the delegation to China to showcase innovation and entrepreneurship resources available in Silicon Valley and in the US. The key theme of this roadshow is Entrepreneurship Can Be Taught. The goal is to build and develop learning & business opportunities for fellow members.
Sponsored by China State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, and organized by People @ SiliconValley (P@SV) which identifies mutual learning opportunities in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship between China and the USA. The planned schedule is to visit the Chinese cities of Kunming, Beijing, Dalian, Hangzhou and Shanghai.
“This is an exciting opportunity to bring Founders and CEOs of notable incubators, experts in technological area and training/education area, professors from prestigious universities and executive directors of entrepreneurs’ associations in Silicon Valley to China. Mr. Prell was requested for this delegation due to his vast experience and successes with Virtual Reality over the last 25 years” Wendy Xue, Founder of People @SiliconValley.
“Being invited as a delegate to represent AR & VR entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley is both an honor and a privilege.” said Andrew Prell, CEO of Convergence. “Having been an entrepreneur pioneering new VR and AR ventures since the early ‘90’s, I look forward to the discussions around Entrepreneurship Can Be Taught even as we’re launching our own ambitious new project neXus Station.”
Other members of the delegation include: Paul Marca, Executive Director, Stanford Center for Professional Development; Naomi Kokubo is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and cofounder of Founders Space; Jesse Anderson is a CEO of Smoking Hand and GSVlabs partner; Ajay Ramachandran is General Partner at BootUp Capital and BootUp Accelerator in Menlo Park and a co-founder of the SourceN Incubator in Bangalore; Talia Cohen, Executive Director at California Israel Chamber of Commerce (CICC); Shaukat Shamim, Board member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE); Dr. Niklas Karlsson is Vice President of Research and Development at AOL/Verizon; Catherine Carlton is a council member and former mayor Menlo Park; Wendy Xue Founder of People @SiliconValley and seasoned HR professional with more than 20 years international experience. Deanne Bryce, Project Manager, China Roadshow, People @ SiliconValley.
About Convergence 4 Dimensions, LLC
Convergence, Convergence of 4 Dimensions, LLC., an independent entertainment company dedicated to delivering AAA experiences. Convergence’s first experience, the neXus Station, is an entertainment center where everyone can enjoy the future of in-home and out-of-home AR/VR entertainment. neXus Station is the first phase of the neXus Project a truly Cross-Platform, Cross-Reality (XR) Virtual Universe (“VU”); integrating smartphones, tablets, consoles, PCs, Macs, Arcades, Location-Based Entertainment systems (LBEs), and Theme Park Attractions into one game virtual universe.
Andrew Prell, Founder and CEO of Convergence, a veteran inventor, director, developer, and serial entrepreneur, is an early pioneer of virtual reality, being one of the first to commercialize the technology in the early 1990s. Andrew was the founder and CEO of Alternate Worlds Technology, Inc. (AWT) which developed and successfully marketed the first US Manufactured Virtual Reality Arcade System, the \”Reality Rocket\”.
