RAVÉ MEHTA

Ravé Mehta is an engineer, entrepreneur, and founder of Mehta Labs with a focus on science and technology that supports increasing human potential. He’s known as a VR pioneer with over 18 years experience where his first company Modis Technologies developed advanced VR simulation and training systems for the DoD and specialized in accelerated learning.

Ravé is also an award-winning pianist, producer and bestselling author. His book ‘The Inventor’ is a bestselling graphic novel based on the true story of Nikola Tesla. ‘The Inventor’ is now being used by schools across the country to help engage kids to read and learn while inspiring STEAM learning as discussed in his TED talk “Education for a Hyper-Visual Culture.” Ravé has performed around the world and his music has been licensed to over 30 shows across major television networks. He created and produced award-winning live stages shows such as FLOW, which was best described as yoga meets Cirque du Soleil to his live piano concert, inspired by the science behind flow states.

Ravé is the founder of The Great Silence, a global synchronized meditation series that takes place quarterly over 5 years focused on creating a global group flow state and finding ways to scientifically measure the impact of group meditation states and single focused group intentions on our health, the environment and real world events. The first global synchronized meditation took place on September 24, 2016 with over 1200 cities/events participating and well over 50,000 people around the world meditating at the same time and same intention.

Ravé is the recipient of the Tesla Vision Award by the Tesla Science Foundation and a former board member for the Florida Space Agency and also serves as an advisor/mentor to Singularity University and XPrize Foundation.

JO KRASEVICH

Jo learned to play guitar by ear, listening to Neil Young albums, and devouring her older brother’s record collection. She bought her first guitar from another girl when she was 16. As Jo tells it, “The girl needed the cash. I needed the guitar. Two years later I sold it for a plane ticket to Lake Louise. I had heard that Neil Young worked there. I wanted the whole experience.”

Born in Detroit to a French Canadian mother and a Yugoslavian father, Jo spent much of her youth traveling the world, soaking up the diverse characters and emotions that would go on to form her unique musical voice. She now calls Los Angeles home.

Her first album, Merry-Go-Round, is a carousel of euphoric and melancholic songs – at times deep, often dreamy, but always profoundly moving. Two great musicians accompany her on the album: Doug Pettitbone (Tracy Chapman, Jewel, Ray Lamontange, Lucinda Williams) and Daniel Lanois (Bob Dylan, U2).

Raw, understated, and from the heart, Jo is an astoundingly honest, ethereal singer in the tradition of Norah Jones and Elliott Smith. She touches that sacred spot in her audience – where unexpressed feelings and truths live – and sets those emotions free.