NexTech AR Solutions Corp (OTCQB:NEXCF) (NEO:NTAR.NE) (CSE:NTAR) (FRA:N29) announced Wednesday that its Virtual Experience Platform (VXP) hosted the Student Veterans of America’s (SVA) 2021 National Conference.
The conference took place February 19-20 and is the largest annual gathering of post-9/11 veterans in the world.
Elevating the academic, professional, and personal lives of American veterans, the SVA has more than 1,500 on-campus chapters in all 50 states and three countries overseas. They represent over 750,000 student veterans and military affiliate students.
READ: NexTech AR beefs up sales team with two top-tier executive hires from Fastly and Salesforce.com
NexTech said its VXP platform gave attendees a super-secure, best-in-class mainstage presentation, with over 40 breakout sessions, as well as live Q&A’s and one-on-one networking opportunities.
SVA NatCon’s 2021 keynote address was delivered by First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, who is the daughter of a veteran herself. Other notable speakers included entrepreneur and author Gary Vaynerchuk, actress, neuroscientist, and author Mayim Bialik, and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough. Event sponsors and exhibitors include well-known companies such as Google, Prudential, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, L’OREAL and more.
“I’m very proud of our NexTech delivery team, who flawlessly pulled off this high-profile event,” said NexTech CEO Evan Gappelberg in a statement.
“It is a great honor for our young company to be selected to work with SVA to build an engaging and secure venue for veterans and high-profile thought-leaders. Seeing everyone coming together on one platform and using our technology at the highest level of business and government in the USA is an amazing accomplishment.”
Gappelberg added: “Our platforms continue to be in high demand, and we look forward to continuing to innovate with new AR technologies pushing the boundaries of what's possible in order to continue to serve up creative, immersive and dynamic events throughout various industries.”
NexTech said its platforms have serviced dozens of Fortune 500 businesses such as Amazon, Viacom, Johnson and Johnson, Bell Canada, UNESCO, Dell Technologies, Luxottica, Vulcan Inc, Boehringer Ingelheim, TEDx, Grundfos, and Arch Insurance.
Security is a core feature of the company, which reported a breakthrough in security with the help of Fastly, an edge computing company. Bringing token authentication to the edge greatly enhances security and performance, which is essential for NexTech to collaborate with additional Fortune 500 companies in the near future.
Contact the author: patrick@proactiveinvestors.com
Follow him on Twitter @PatrickMGraham